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Assignment to Chapter 29: Badger’s Story

1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. What does Bobby tell Dr. Nicholson/Roger about the glass?
2. Where was Badger?
3. What do they plan to do?
4. How did Badger arrive at the Tudor Cottage?

2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
 Acrobatic (p. 135): flexible or nimble
 Houdini (p. 135): magician who was an escape artist
 Thunderstruck (p. 137): shocked, impressed
 Predicament (p. 137): quandary, dilemma
 Malicious (p. 138): hateful, cruel, nasty

3. Make sure to know the following items:
to crawl, a rope, to bound, a suspicion, to extract, a pipe, a funeral,
crude.

4. Find the English equivalents. Use them in your own sentences or in their
context:
скляний дах, накинутись, килим, скрутне становище,
підкрадатись, в’язень.

5. Reproduce the situations where the following is used:
p. 135 to stare in amazement
to shrug one’s shoulders
bad hat (egg)
p. 136 to hush up
to take into confidence
nick of time
to get into a mess
p. 137 to be thunderstruck