Exercise 1: Translate from English into Russian.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you.
He leapt out of bed.
His wet shirt clung to his body.
The horse reared and threw (throw) me off.
She brushed her long hair into a shining mane and arranged it carefully around her shoulders.
He opened the carton of milk and sniffed it.
Tom sprung out of bed and ran downstairs.
No sooner had he sat down than the phone rang.
Exercise 2: Translate from Russian into English.
Простите, я не хотел вас испугать.
Он вскочил из кровати.
Рубашка прилипла к его телу.
Лошадь встала на дыбы и сбросила меня.
Она причесала свои волосы в сверкающую прядь волос и аккуратно уложила их на плечи.
Он открыл упаковку молока и понюхал его.
Том вскочил с кровати и побежал вниз.
Как только он сел, телефон зазвонил.
Exercise 3. Explain the meaning of the words in English.
- to leap to the feet (leapt, leapt; leaped, leaped)
- to cling (clung, clung) onto something
- to startle
- to rear
- a long mane
- to sniff the air
- to spring (sprang, sprung)
- to have no sooner than
Exercise 4. Guess what word of the list above is described.
- if an animal does that, it rises up to stand on its back legs
- the long hair on the back of a horse’s neck, or around the face and neck of a lion
- to smell the air
- to jump,
- as soon as
- to jump onto the feet
- to hold someone or something tightly, especially because you do not feel safe
- to get scared