2. Give a summary of the text.

3. Use the Topical Vocabulary in answering the questions:

1. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of a hiking tour? 2. What must you take with you if you are

going on a week's walking tour? 3. What's your daily routine when on a hike? 4. How would you plan your day in

hot stuffy weather? 5. What would you do in cold and rainy weather? 6. Do you take the weather forecast into

account when going hiking? 7. What do you like for breakfast, dinner and supper when on a hike? 8. What must

you do to make a fire, to cook scrambled eggs,' to cook fish soup, to cook porridge? 9. Do you like sleeping out?

10. Which would you prefer: sleeping out or being put up at the village? Give reasons for your choice. 11. Do you make a

point of having a swim every day no matter what the weather is? 12. Which would you rather choose: a hiking trip or a river

trip? Why? 13. Have you or your friends ever gone fishing? What is characteristic of an experienced angler? 14. What do you

do of an evening during a hiking tour?

4. Read the poem, comment on it and answer the questions.

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care.

We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this is if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

W.H.Davis (1871—1940)

What do you consider to be the author's message of the poem? 2. What is the author's attitude towards the life

full of care? 3. Show how the reader is constantly reminded of the poor life he lives. 4. In view of the contents of the

poem, what is hinted at in the title "Leisure"? 5. Observe whether irony enters into the author's treatment of the

subject. 6. Choose two words or phrases which you find particularly vivid. Comment on each of them so as to con -

vey the reasons why you find them effective. 7. The poet treats his subject in a very lovely and interesting manner.

One way in which he sustains interest is by using expressions which suggest that there is something "human" about

nature. Find in the poem what is often used with reference to human beings. 8. What do the images of the poem

suggest are the poet's feelings about nature? 9. Bring out the effectiveness of the repetition in the poem. 10. Would

you recommend the poem to a friend? Give your brief reasons. 11. Suppose that you had some reasons to get up an

hour before dawn. Describe the signs and stages by which the rest of the world "wakes up". 12. As a teacher you

propose to introduce this poem to your pupils. Prepare your introductory talk.

5. Work in pairs or in small groups. Use the phrase list of the Topical Vocabulary:

1.

You've been chatting to a friendly fellow-hiker on your way to the meeting place about your last year experience