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What sort of people were the owners of the villa?
4.
What did the parents discover in the peasant's youngest child?
5.
What made Guido so responsible and precocious?
6.
What gap was there between Guido and Robin?
7.
Did Guido take advantage of his superior intelligence and strength?
8.
How did Guido treat Robin?
9.
What was Robin's attitude to Guido?
10. What kind of child was Guido?
11. What did Guido look like? What was strange about his eyes?
12. What was Guido immensely interested in once?
13. What piece of music stirred him more than anything?
14. Did Guido make slow progress in playing the piano?
15. What did he start doing on his own account?
16. Did he show himself fertile in the invention of all kinds of music?
17. What word surprised the author in Guide's comment on the music?
18. Why were Robin's parents almost aggrieved?
19. What interrupted the author's work one morning?
20. What did the author see when he looked over the balustrade?
21. What sort of discovery did the author make one morning?
22. What kind of ideas came to the author's mind?
Phonetic Text Drills
0 Exercise 1
Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.
Signora, comedian, cogent, precocious, undue, untyrannical, to tease, to bully, to regard, to frown, to
stare, luminous, to droop, concerto, gesture, to pluck, forefinger, thenceforward, succession, to loose, to
enchant, to confess, to aggrieve, extraordinary, mischief, balustrade, to dabble, bonfire, hypotenuse, right-
angled, triangle, to implore, theorem, predilection.
0 Exercise 2
Pronounce the words and phases where the foolowing clusters occur.
1. s+t+r
Strength, instruction, extraordinary, balustrade, demonstrating, extreme;
2. plosive + r
Proprietors, grey, brothers, brooding, break, grave, gramophone, preliminary, progress, agreed,
prolonged;
3. plosive/n +
Take the place, at that age, at the ground, sat there, like the subtle curve; in these, on the turn-table, stood
there, again the word, made the discovery.
0 Exercise 3
Pronounce after the announcer and say what kind of false assimilation should be avoided.
Was the view, was the peasant, was that, as the children, months, his small companion, as the model, was
strange, was straight, was the disc, was somebody, was sitting.
0 Exercise 4
I. Pronounce correctly the second form of regular verbs.
Lived, used, discovered, crammed, explained, imitated, looked, pointed, drooped, arrived, interested,
opened, plucked, asked, cocked, hummed, enchanted, surprised, aggrieved, watched.
II. Pick out compound nouns from the text, transcribe them, and put primary and secondary stresses.
0 Exercise 5
Transcribe and intone the bit starting with 'I don't tffink I want to hear...' and ending with '... a queer word
to apply to Bach.'
EXERCISES
Exercise 1
Match the words on the left with the meaning on the right.
Adjectives:
1.
curious A. thinking deeply about something
2.
listless B. having no energy or enthusiasm