Разработка урока "Последний лист (О. Генри)"

THE LAST LEAF by O. Henry

Емельянова Наталия Ивановна

МБОУ Видновская СОШ №5 с УИОП, г. Видное, Московская область

Task type: filling the gaps with the correct grammar form.

Read the extract from the story “The Last Leaf’ by O. Henry and put the verbs (1-14) into the correct grammar form. Write your answers on the lines after the text.

Old Mr. Behrman was a painter who lived on the first floor beneath Johnsy and Sue. He was more than sixty years old. Behrman was a failure in art. He had always wanted to paint a masterpiece, but he 1.... (never, begin) to paint it. For many years he 2.... (paint) nothing, except now and then a piece of commercial or advertising work. He 3.... (earn) a little money by serving as a model for those young artists who could not pay the price for a regular model. He drank a great deal of whiskey and, when he was drunk, always talked about the great masterpiece he 4.... (be going to) paint. He was a fierce, intense little man who considered himself as a watchdog and protector for the two young artists 5.... (live) above him, of whom he was very fond.

Sue found Behrman in his poorly lighted studio. In one corner of the room stood a blank
canvas which 6.... (wait) for twenty-five years 7.... (receive) the first line of the promised masterpiece. Sue told him of the strange idea which Johnsy had concerning the last leaf, and said that she feared that Johnsy 8.... (really, die) when the last leaf 9.... (fall).

Old Behrman shouted, “Are there people in the world who are foolish enough 10.... (die) simply because leaves fall from an old vine? 11.... (never, hear) of such a thing. Why 12.... (permit) such silly ideas to come into her mind? Oh, that poor little Miss Johnsy!”

“She is very ill and very weak,” 13.... (explain) Sue, “and the fever 14.... (leave) her mind full of strange ideas.”

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KEY:

1. had never begun; 2. had painted; 3. earned; 4. was going to; 5. living; 6. had been waiting/had waited; 7. to receive; 8. would really die; 9. fell; 10. to die; 11. have never heard; 12. do you permit; 13. explained; 14. has left.