Never Count Your Chickens Before They Are Hatched

to take part in a sports competition; to be anxious to win; to have no doubt whatever as to...; to admit no possibility of failure; to be sure of one's success; to commit a mistake; not to take into account that...;

the competing team; to be well trained; to be no denying the fact that...;

to practise in bursts; to lack necessary skill; not to be equal to smb; to stand no chance; to have a guilty feeling; to admit one's failure.

 

Ex. 36. Tell the story of the pictures.

So far so good. Now, let's see what the book says on page 65...

 

 

Many happy returns of the day! And this is our little surprise...

something we've knitted with our own hands.

 

an inmate; a striped prison suit; to be just the right kind of present for smb; a warden; to play a joke on smb; to lack a sense of humour.

 

Ex. 37. Subjects for oral and written composition.

1. Tell the story as if you were a) one of the four witnesses for the pros­ecution; b) one of the jury; c) one of the public in court; d) a relative of Mrs Parker.

2. Write up the story as for a newspaper article.

3. Give an outline of the statements made by: a) Counsel for the Pros­ecution; b) Counsel for Defence.

4. Explain how it could have happened that the prisoner got away with murder.

5. Say whether you think the guilty or the innocent man was killed in the accident.

6. The class nature of justice in capitalist countries.

7. The Soviet court system.

8. The main principles of Soviet justice.

9. The role of people's assessors in Soviet courts.

 

 

 

Lesson Nine

 

 

Text: From "The Hotel" by Arthur Hailey.¹

Grammar: Tenses. Voice. Subjunctive Mood. General Review.