Стр.79 Модуль 4 ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 8 класс

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4h Curricular: Literature

1 The picture shows some triffids. What is special about them? Listen to find out.

Текст аудирования:

The Day of the Triffids is a science-fiction novel written in 1951 by John Wyndham (1903-1969). He was a British author and this book established him as an important writer and remains his most famous novel. In this book, the triffids are tall plants with legs that seem intelligent, but are aggressive and attack mankind with their poisonous stings. The book has been adapted for TV twice and was also made into a film.

2 Read the text. Use the words in capitals in the correct form so that they fit the text. Fill the gaps with the new words. Every gap corresponds to a different task (1-9).

3 Match the words in bold with: the front part of your foot, hit sharply, invaders, violently, turned quickly.

4 Find the adjectives the author uses to describe the following:

1 slashing stings

2 grey sky

3 complete darkness

4 leathery green leaves

5 thick clothing

6 leather helmet

7 largest carving knife

8 fine spray

5 Think! Listen to and read the text. Imagine you are in a car surrounded by triffids. What can you hear and see? How do you feel? Tell your partner.

The day of the triffids

By John Wyndham

“I wish”, I told Susan, irritably, “you’d not keep on saying ‘they hear’, as if they were animals. They’re not. They 1) (NOT/HEAR), They’re just plants.”

“All the same, they do hear, somehow,” Susan said. “Well – anyway, we’ll do something about 2) (THEY)”, I promised. As time went on the numbers collected along the fence continued to increase in spite of our traps. They didn’t try anything or do anything there. They simply settled down, wriggled their roots into the soil, and remained. At a distance they looked as inactive as any other hedge. But if one doubted their alertness, it was only necessary to take a car down the lane. 3) (DO) so, you had to battle through such viciously slashing stings that it was necessary to stop the car at the main road and wipe the windscreen clear of poison.

Early one morning, Susan came running in to tell us that the things 4) (BREAK IN), and were all around the house. The sky outside her bedroom window was grey, but when she went downstairs, she found everything there in complete darkness. She realised that should not be so, and turned on the light. The moment she saw leathery green leaves pressed against the windows, she guessed what had happened.

I crossed the bedroom on tiptoe, and pulled the window shut sharply. Even as it closed a sting whipped up from below and smacked against the glass. We looked down on a group of triffids 5) (STAND) ten or twelve deep against the wall of the house. The flamethrowers were in one of the outhouses.

I 6) (TAKE) no risks when I went to fetch them. In thick clothing and gloves, with a leather helmet and goggles under a wire mask I hacked my way through the triffids with the largest carving knife I could find. The stings whipped and slapped at the wire mask so frequently that the poison began to come through in a fine spray. It misted the goggles, and the 7) (ONE) thing I did in the outhouse was to wash it off my face. I 8) (NOT/DARE) use a thrower more than once to clear my way back for fear of setting the door and window frames on fire, but it moved them enough for me to get back unharmed.

... Two 9) (MANY) days passed before Susan and I could be sure that we had searched every corner of the enclosure and accounted for the very last of the intruders. ... Four months later they broke in again ...

Check these words

irritably, trap, settle down, hedge, doubt, alertness, lane, slashing sting, wipe, break in, whip up, smack, flamethrower, outhouse, wire, hack, unharmed, enclosure, account (for), mist