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Assignment to Chapter 32: Evans

1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. Why didn’t Evans witness the signing of Savage’s will?
2. Who disguised themselves as Savage?
3. What information did the postmistress give them?

2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
 Inquisitive (p. 150): curious, probing, questioning
 P.c. (p. 150): a postcard
 Rummage (p. 150): to look or search thoroughly

3. Make sure to know the following items:
fishy, shrewd, a flicker, a tip, to bet.

4. Find the English equivalents. Use them in your own sentences or in their
context:
дурень, успішно завершена справа, полетіти стрілою.

5. Reproduce the situations where the following is used:
p. 148 to nose round
p. 149 to catch a glimpse; to raise a question;
p. 150 now and again

6. Transcribe the following word:
to rummage.

7. Dramatize the conversation between:
a) Frankie and Bobby;
b) Frankie and the postmistress.

8. Sum up the information about Gladys Evans.

9. Do the expressive reading and give the literary translation of the extract
(p. 149 ):” Bassington-ffrench,of course!... But can we prove it?”