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Оглавление| Pre-reading | |
| 1. | Have you heard the expression “no time to talk”? When do people use it? What does it suggest about “talk”? |
| During reading | |
| 2. | Look at the illustration. Why does he have to “plod” (walk slowly and heavily)? |
A time to talk
Robert Frost
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, “What is it?”
No, not as there is time to talk.
I thrust my hoe up in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
visit – chat (American)
| Post-reading | |
| 3. | The friend slows his horse to a “meaning walk”. What does this action signal? |
| 4. | Look at the illustration. |
| a) | How far has the speaker got in his task? |
| b) | What makes his task so challenging? |
| 5. a) | What choice does the speaker make? |
| b) | Why does he choose this option? |
| 6. | Suggest a reason why he plants the hoe with its handle in the ground so that it is “blade end up”. |
| 7. | What does the word “mellow” tell us about the soil? |
| 8. | What does the way the speaker uses language tell us about the kind of man he is and what he thinks is important? |
