AFTER-READING ACTIVITIES

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7. Answer the following questions.

· Why was Dave so eager to get home?

· What things aggravated the young man's strain and irritation?

· Were Brian and Kenny deliberately disturbing the passengers or just having fun?

· Why was Dave trying not to pay attention to the boys` jokes?

· What can the readers guess about the boys` probable background?

· How can the boys` disbelief concerning Dave profession be explained?

· What was the boys` attitude to their teachers and school?

· What lay behind Dave's anger and disillusionment?

· What was the reason for his professional failure?

· Why was it hard for Dave to say something to the boys when they were getting off the bus?

8.Find all the words with the help of which the author describes Dave's state of mind. Pay special attention to the character's inner speech and ponder over the role it plays.

9.Let us describe the characters of the story with the help of their remarks.

· “Boys, you are a hard bunch”.

· “Your mother makes a slippery sandwich”.

· “I could teach her a few things”.

· “Tell me now what would you boys do if you had me for a teacher?”

· “Every one of the teachers at our school are crabs, except maybe for Mrs. Lewis”.

· “But he wasn't tough on you, you should have given him a chance”.

· “Sorry, we didn't mean it that way”.

10.Study Kenny and Brian's behavior, speech and gestures. In what ways are they typical kids?

11.Let us focus on style. Read the definition of a stylistic device and find its examples in the story.

The epithet is a stylistic device based on the interplay of emotive and logical meaning in an attributive word, phrase or even sentence used to characterize an object. The epithet is markedly subjective and evaluative. The logical attribute is purely objective, non-evaluating.

12.Describe the feelings of a young teacher who has come to school with the best intentions but finds teaching and coping much harder than she/he has expected.