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2. Scanning:
2.1. Put the following events in the chronological order.
1. William Keough was appointed acting consul in Coralio.
2. The sellers in the market couldn’t understand why no customers
came.
3. Atwood decided to play a joke on the postmaster.
4. The friends decided to create a necessity for a demand.
5. The stock of cockleburrs was exhausted.
6. Mr. Hemstetter arrived with a big stock of footwear.
7. A fruit steamer brought a big mysterious brown bale of unknown
commodity.
8. Atwood always told Keough the story of his ended romance with
Rosine.
9. John had to see that the cases of shoes were safely stored in the
customs warehouse.
10. Keough advised John to send Mr. Hemstetter and his daughter home.
11. The demand followed and Mr. Hemstetter sold three hundred pairs
of shoes.
12. Atwood wrote to his government to accept his resignation.
13. Pick Dawson hired two schooners to deliver cockleburrs to Coralio.
14. John received a letter from his own town.
15. John repeated his success and earned a bag of money.
16. Atwood wired a telegram asking to send him dry cockleburrs.
17. Atwood succeeded in destroying Hemstetter’s order for $ 1,500
worth of shoes from Nothern firms.

3.Get ready to transcribe and give equivalents to the following words.
1. porch 5. habour 9. booze 13. swarm
2. consulate 6. warehouse 10. cockleburr 14. exhaust
3. hammock 7. foot-gear 11. bale 15. invoice
4. deserted 8. centipede 12. immune 16. caricature

4.Reproduce the situations in which the following is used.
- to plunge into smth; - to create a demand;
- to dust oneself; - lords of the earth;
- to save the situation; - to straighten out;
- to ruin the chance; - to destroy the order;
- to work out smth; - to accept a resignation