Упр.8 Юнит 4 Step 3 ГДЗ Rainbow English 9 класс
A. Read the text and say why Mr Spencer was unhappy about Holden’s essay.
Holden Comes to See His Teacher Part II
“Your exam paper is over there on top of the others. Bring it here, please,” said old Spencer. It was a very dirty trick, but I went over and brought it over to him — I didn’t have any alternative. At that moment I was sorry that I’d stopped by to say goodbye to him.
“We studied the Egyptians from November 4th to December 2nd,” he said. “You chose to write about them. Would you like to hear what you had to say?”
“No, sir, not very much,” I said.
He read it anyway, though. You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
The Egyptians were an ancient race of Caucasians living in one of the northern sections of Africa. The latter as we all know is the largest continent in the Eastern hemisphere. The Egyptians are extremely interesting to us today for various reasons. Modern science would still like to know what the
A. Mr Spencer was unhappy about Holden’s essay because it was not a proper essay at all. Holden wrote only a few general and confused sentences about the Egyptians and then added a note saying that he was not interested in them and was ready to be flunked.
B.
- Yes, he did. He knew that the essay was no good.
- The essay was too short, careless and not serious. It did not show real knowledge about the Egyptians.
- He didn’t want his teacher to read it out loud because of the note at the bottom of the page. It was too rude and embarrassing.
- He wrote the note to tell Mr Spencer honestly that he was not interested in the topic and that he did not mind failing.
- No, not really. Mr Spencer understood the words, but he did not understand Holden’s feelings and attitude.
- Children and grown-ups often don’t understand each other because they think differently and have different life experience. The best way to understand each other is to listen carefully and be honest and patient.
- The generation gap is the difference in views, habits and values between young people and adults. For example, parents may think one way about clothes or music, while teenagers think differently.
- Yes, I think it can be a big problem, but it can be solved if people respect each other and talk openly.
C. New words in the text may be alternative, sarcastic, flunk, riddle, ingredients, challenge. I understand them from the context: the whole situation, the teacher’s reaction and the meaning of the sentences help to guess the words.
