Ex.5 Discuss the questions with a partner.Compare your ideas with the rest of the class.
1.How do you think the boys at the school feel?
2.What do you think will happen to Smike?

Pushkin is the most important Russian writer of all time, like Shakespeare in England or Dante in Italy. Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799 into an upper-class family. Pushkin is a great Russian writer, dramatist, essayist and critic. His works are widely known throughout the world. The love of his mother tongue was developed by his grandmother, Mary A. Hannibal.
Pushkin wrote such works as: Evginy Onegin, Ruslan and Lyudmila, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, Aleko, The Captain's Daughter, Blizzard and so on.

 [s]                    [z]                    [iz]talks                                      tells,                                     chases
jumps                                    sings                                     
takes                                     readswatches
likes                                      lives
cooks                                    cleans
helps                                     plays
hunts                                     climbs
                                             runs
                                             flies
                                             loves