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Комарова Арина

Данный проект представляет собой сборник лексических упражнений к тексту произведения Беатрикс Поттер «Сказка о кроликах Флопси», целью которых является пополнение лексического запаса учащихся средней школы на основе изучения аутентичной английской литературы.

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Beatrix Potter / The Beatrix Potter Collection, Volume 2. - GB.: WORDSWORTH CLASSIC, 2014. - 430 p.

The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific”. I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!

When Benjamine Bunny grew up, he married his Cousin Flopsy. They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful. I do not remember the separate names of their children; they were generally called “The Flopsy Bunnies”.

As there was not always quite enough to eat, Benjamine used to borrow cabbages from Flopsy’s brother, Peter Rabbit, who kept a nursery garden. Sometimes Peter Pabbit had no cabbages to spare. When this happened, the Flopsy Bunnies went across the field to a rubbish heap, in the ditch outside Mr McGregor’s garden.

Mr McGregor’s rubbish heap was a mixture. There were jam pots and paper bags, and mountains of chopped grass from the mowing machine (which always tasted oily), and some rotten vegetable marrows and an old boot or two. One day - oh, joy! - there was a quantity of overgrown lettuces, which had ‘shot’ into flower.

The Flopsy Bunnies simply stuffed themselves with lettuces. By degrees, one after another, they were overcome with slumber and lay down in the mown grass.

Benjamine was not so much overcome as his children. Before going to sleep he was sufficiently wide awake to put a paper bag over his head to keep off the flies.

The liitle Flopsy Bunnies slept delightfully in the warm sun. From the lawn beyond the garden came the distant clacketty sound of the mowing machine. The bluebottles buzzed about the wall, and a little old mouse picked over the rubbish among the jam pots. (I can tell you her name - she was called Thomasina Tittlemouse, and she was a woodmouse with a long tale.) She rustled across the paper bag, and awakened Benjamine Bunny. The mouse apologised profusely, and said that she knew Peter Rabbit.

While she and Benjamine were talking, close under the wall, they heard a heavy tread above their heads; and suddenly Mr McGregor emptied out a sackful of lawn mowings right upon the top of the sleeping Flopsy Bunnies! Benjamine shrank down under his paper bag. The mouse hid in a jam pot.

The little rabbits smiled sweetly in their sleep under the shower of grass; they did not awake because lettuces had been so soporific. They dreamt that their mother Flopsy was tucking them up in a hay bed.

Mr McGregor looked down after emptying his sack. He saw some funny little brown tips of ears sticking up through the lawn mowings. He stared at them for some time. Presently a fly settled on one of them and it moved. Mr McGregor climbed down on to rubbish heap -

‘One, two, three, four, five, six leetle rabbits!’ said he as he dropped them into his sack. The Flopsy Bunnies dreamt that their mother was turning them over in bed. They stirred a little in their sleep, but still they did not wake up. Mr McGregor tied up the sack and left it on the wall. He went to put away the mowing machine.

While he was gone, Mrs Flopsy Bunny (who had remained at home) came across the field. She looked suspiciously at the sack and wondered where everybody was? Then the mouse came out of her jam pot, and Benjamine took the paper bag off his head, and they told the doleful tale.

Benjamine and Flopsy were in despair, they could not undo the string. But Mrs Tittlemouse was a resourceful person. She nibbled a hole in the bottom corner of the sack. The little rabbits were pulled out and pinched to wake them. Their parents stuffed the empty sack with three rotten vegetable marrows, an old blacking brush and two decayed turnips. Then they all hid under a bush and watched for Mr McGregor.

Mr McGregor came back and picked up the sack and carried it off. He carried it hanging down, as if it were rather heavy. The Flopsy Bunnies followed at a safe distance. They watched him go into his house. And then they crept up to the window to listen.

Mr McGregor threw down the sack on the stone floor in a way that would have been extremely painful to the Flopsy Bunnies if they had happened to be inside it. They could hear him drag his chair on the flags, and chuckle. ‘One, two, three, four, five, six leetle rabbits!’ said Mr McGregor. ‘Er? What’s that? What have they been spoiling now?’ enquired Mrs McGregor. ‘One, two, three, four, five, six leetle fat rabbits!’ repeated Mr McGregor, counting on his fingers - ‘One, two, three -’

‘Don’t be silly: what do you mean, you silly old man?’

‘In the sack! One, two, three, four, five, six!’ replied Mr McGregor.

(The youngest Flopsy Bunny got up on the windowsill.)

Mrs McGregor took hold of the sack and felt it. She said she could feel six, but they must be old rabbits, because they were so hard and all different shapes.

‘Not fit to eat; but the skins will do fine to line my old cloak.’

‘Line your old cloak?’ shouted Mr McGregor - ‘I shall sell them and buy myself baccy!’

‘Rabbit tobacco! I shall skin them and cut off their heads.’

Mrs McGregor untied the sack and put her hand inside. When she felt the vegetables she became very, very angry. She said that Mr McGregor had ‘done it a purpose’. And Mr McGregor was very angry too. One of the rotten marrows came flying through the kitchen window, and hit the youngest Flopsy Bunny. He was rather hurt.

Then Benjamine and Flopsy thought that it was time to go home. So Mr McGregor did not get his tobacco, and Mrs McGregor did not get the rabbit skins.

But next Christmas Thomasina Tittlemouse got a present of enough rabbit wool to make herself a cloak and a hood, and a handsome muff and a pair of warm mittens.

Vocabulary

Baccy = tobacco - табак

Blacking brush - вощильная щетка

Cabbage - капуста

Cheerful - веселый

Chopped grass - резанная трава

Cloack - плащ

Decayed - гнилой

Ditch - ров

Field - поле

Flags - (зд) плитка

Hay bed - постилка из сена

Heap - куча

Improvident - расточительный

Jam pots - банки из-под варенья

Lawn - лужайка

Lettuce - листовой салат

Marrow - кабачок

Mittens - рукавицы

Mowing machine - косилка

Mown grass - скошенна трава

Muff - муфта

Paper bags - пакеты из бумаги

Resourceful - находчивый

Rubbish - мусор

Sack - мешок

Soporific - снотворный

Turnip - репа

Vegetable - овощ

Exercises

Find nouns in the tale that match

- soporific

- large

- separate

- nursery

- rubbish

- jam

- paper

- chopped

- mowing

- rotten

- overgrown

- heavy

- brown

- doleful

- resourceful

- decayed

- safe

- stone

- different

- handsome

- warm

Who are they? Match:

Benjamine Bunny Benjamine’s cousine

Flopsy Peter Rabbit’s friend

Flopsy Bunnies Flopsy’s husband

Peter Rabbit owners of the garden

Mr and Mrs McGregor Flopsy and Benjamine’s sons and daughters

Thomasina Tittlemouse Flopsy’s brother

Which of the characters was

- improvident?

- resourceful?

- angry?

- cheerful?

Answer the questions:

What vegetable had a soporific effect on rabbits?

Who were Flopsy Bunnies?

What were their parents like?

Who helped the family when they had nothing to eat?

What did their uncle use to give them?

What did they do if Uncle Peter could not help them?

What was there in Mr McGregor’s rubbish heap?

What were the Bunnies lucky to find there one day?

Why did they fall asleep on the heap?

Who was in the rubbish heap except the rabbits?

Why did Mr McGregor come to the heap that day?

What did he notice in the heap?

What did he do with the little rabbits?

Why were Benjamine and Flopsy in despair?

How did Thamasina help them?

What trick did the rabbits play on Mr McGregor?

What did Mr McGregor want to do with the little rabbits?

What did Mrs McGregor want to do with the little rabbits?

Why were Mr and Mrs McGregor angry?

How did the rabbits thank Thamasina for her help?

Put the following into the correct order according to the tale:

Disappointment

Tricky lettuce

Old friend’s help

The Rabbits’ family

Evil intentions

A helpful source of food

Generouse gift

Trapped in the sack

Draw pictures to the titles in ex. 5.

Retell the tale by the pictures.

Translate the following into English:

- резаная трава

- отдельные имена

- коричневые уши

- гнилая репка

- находчивый человек

- каменный пол

- мусорная куча

- снотворный эффект

- гнилые кабачки

- безопасное расстояние

- печальная история

- переросший листовой салат

- банки для варенья

- большая семья

- теплые рукавицы

- красивая муфта

- косилка

- небольшой садик

- разные формы

- бумажные пакеты

- тяжелая поступь

- расточительное семейство

- веселые кролики

Keys

- soporific effect

- large family

- separate names

- nursery garden

- rubbish heap

- jam pots

- paper bags

- chopped grass

- mowing machine

- rotten marrows

- overgrown lettuces

- heavy tread

- brown ears

- doleful tale

- resourceful person

- decayed turnips

- safe distance

- stone floor

- different shapes

- handsome muff

- warm mittens

Benjamine Bunny - Flopsy’s husband

Flopsy - Benjamine’s cousine

Flopsy Bunnies - Flopsy and Benjamine’s sons and daughters

Peter Rabbit - Flopsy’s brother

Mr and Mrs McGregor - owners of the garden

Thomasina Tittlemouse - Peter Rabbit’s friend

Benjamine and Flopsy were improvident.

Thomasina Tittlemouse was resourceful.

Mr and Mrs McGregor were angry.

Benjamine and Flopsy were cheerful.

Lettuce had a soporific effect on rabbits.

Flopsy Bunnies were Benjamine and Flopsy’s children.

Their parents were improvident and cheerful.

Peter Rabbit helped the family when they had nothing to eat.

Their uncle used to give them cabbages?

They went across the field to a rubbish heap in the ditch outside Mr McGregor’s garden.

There were jam pots, paper bags and mountains of chopped grass from the mowing machine.

The Bunnies were lucky to find there a quantity of overgrown lettuces which had ‘shot’ into flower.

They fell asleep on the heap because they had stuffed themselves with lettuces.

Thamasina Tittlemouse was.

Mr McGregor came to the heap that day to emty a sackful of lawn mowings.

He notice some funny brown tips of ears sticking up through the lawn mowings in the heap.

He dropped the little rabbits into his sack.

Benjamine and Flopsy were in despair because the could not undo the string.

Thamasina helped them by nibbling a hole in the bottom corner of the sack to pull the rabbits out.

The rabbits played a trick on Mr McGregor by replacing the little rabbits with three rotten marrows, an old blacking brush and two decayed turnips.

17) Mr McGregor wanted to sell the little rabbits and buy himself some tobacco.

18) Mrs McGregor wanted to skin the little rabbits and line her old cloak with their fur.

19) Mr and Mrs McGregor were angry because they found some vegetables in the sack instead of the rabbits.

20) The rabbits thanked Thamasina for her help by giving her a Christmas present of rabbit wool enough to make herself a cloak and a hood, and a hansome muff and a pair of warm mittens.