Task. Finish the story. Write 200-250 words.




THE APRIL WITCH (by R. Bradbury)

Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew. She soared in doves as soft as white er­mine, stopped in trees and lived in blossoms, showering away in petals when the breeze blew. She perched in a limegreen frog, cool as mint by a shining pool. She trotted in a brambly dog and barked to hear echoes from the sides of distant barns. She lived in new April grasses, in sweet clear liquids rising from the musky earth.

It's spring, thought Cecy. I'll be in every living thing in the world tonight.

Now she inhabited neat crickets on the tar-pool roads, now prickled in dew on an iron gate. Hers was an adaptably quick mind flowing unseen upon Illinois winds on this one evening of her life when she was just seventeen.

"I want to be in love," she said.

If I can’t be in love myself because I’m plain and odd, then I’ll be in love through somebody else.

Outside a farmhouse in the spring night a dark-haired girl, no more than seventeen, drew up water from a deed stone well.

Cecy fell – a green leaf – into the well, now quickened in fluttering invisible amoeba, now in a water droplet. At last within a cold cup she felt herself lifted to the girl’s warm lips. There was a soft sound of drinking.

Cecy looked out from the girl’s eyes.

“Ann, you are going to be in love!”

As if answer to this, a great roar sprang from the road, a clatter and a ring of wheels on the gravel. A tall man drove up, his smile glowing across the yard…

Vocabulary

To trot = toperch =toprickle = to get in(to)

a well - колодец

a farm - ферма

a farmhouse – фермерскийдом

Note:

A) Synonyms

to fly – to soar

strange – odd

under – below - beneath

countryside, village – rural (area)

still – calm

stillness – calmness

moist – damp

moisture – dampness

not to notice – to have no eye for

a quarrel – a feud

reluctantly – without a wish

hasty – in a hurry

a tide – a flow

Father Frost – Santa Claus

quick – fast

bleak – cold

to descend – to come down

to ascend – to come up

to commence – to appear

to recommence – to appear again

ebb – end

bare – naked

 

 

B) Antonyms

pale – bright

quiet – loud

below – above

thing – thick

slow – fast

dark – fair

cool – warm

to comfort – to disturb

 

 

Review the words.

a frog, a pool, fields, a petal, dew, clover, fields, ermine, gale, a larch, a herald, to herald, a beech, a midge, to bite, a gnat, to glow, a pine, swamp, to fade, twilight, serene, an oak, scents, sounds, heat, azure, balmy, shadow, shadowy, an elm, to ripple, slush, frost, frosty,frosted, a lake, a flash, ash (ashes), to glimmer, a plain, a ray, rayless, earth, unearthly, dark,darkness, to float (across the sky), pepper, to bathe (a bath), to breathe (breath), to blow (……………., ………………), frozen (to………………, ………………,frozen), a hill

Guess the meaning of the words.

to lift, a droplet, to adapt, quick-adapted, echo (Pl. echoes), invisible, amoeba, distant, a barn, musky, to spray (up), triumphant, companionship, gradually, pastel (sky), acre, brilliant,brilliantly, to stream, crinolines, jessamine, gravel, graveled, driveway, sarcastic, a passer-by an omnibus, a barge, a league, fiery, sleepy-head, comfort, to comfort

Recall the words.

mint, a stone, limegreen, curious, soft, a crown, tocrown, alarm-clock, alarm, human, to surround, disturb, chimney, to disappoint, to be / getdisappointed, patient, patienceimpatient, impatience, casual,casually, quiet, to influence, measure, a line, a twin (twins), modest, a bridge, hay, silk, silken, scarf, to spread, widespread, a tongue, a language, to mark, road, to burn (……………, …………...) alone, foam, journey, broad, abroad,blood, orange

 

Additional vocabulary

to flutter (about leaves. petals), a dove, a trunk, a bough (a branch),moor, transparent,

a yaffle, a jay, a magpie, a level, slanting, level-slanting sun, a pasture, a stable, dim, dimness, serene, hedge, fence, tangible, intangible, border, to mock, a mocking-bird, to be engaged (in), a beak, tobeak, deep, depth, temple, the Temple, a rod, a ribbon, a stump, a mistletoe, a holly, a marsh, to kindle, reindeer, to explore,a candle

 

IN SPRING: lightning, flashes of lightning, an orchard, scent = fragrance, balmy = fragrant, azure, а bud, а petal, leaf (Pl. leaves), to burst, to burst into leaf, shower, a brook, a stream, to ripple, an icicle, thunder, blossom(s), claps(peals) of thunder, to bloom = to blossom = to flower, thunderstorm, descants (poetic), to float across the sky (about clouds), thaw, the thaw sets in, sleet, to melt, a blackbird, a lark, a birch, sunshine, sunlight

Autumn expressions

Quiet music of rustling leaves

Golden shimmer of autumn foliage

Melancholy autumn rains

Scarlet fires melting in the morning fog

Autumn sadness of gay-coloured leaves

Bright colourful carpet of autumn leaves

Aching tenderness of the falling leaves touching the surface of the lakes and rivers

Striking freshness of autumn air

Sorrowful gray autumn sky

Nostalgic hues and shadows of the passed away summer

Whispering autumn parks and gardens

Silver nets flying in the autumn air

Beautiful songs of autumn showers

Yellow leaves impressed upon the wet from rains pavements reminding a lid of a gigantic casket



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