Study the key phrases. Work in pairs. Talk about the body decoration words
in exercise 1. Use the key phrases.
KEY PHRASES O Appearance
look(s) cool / painful / colourful.
I'd never have / wear ...
| (quite / really) like ...
I'm not mad about ...
I don't like ... (much / at all).
|(don't) think ... would suit me.
Tuzik, as usual, was skiing downhill at that time and frightened away the chickens. The snow sparkled, its language developed in the wind, it was good and fun. Then going down again he saw Fedot and driving past him, out of habit, jerked in his direction and fell.
Waking up, Tuzik saw a bowl of flies, stalking hens and cat Fedot, who looked at him with obvious curiosity. Tuzik barked for a long time, the hens scattered, Fedot hissed and another normal day began.
Глаголы стоят в время
The book was published on 30 June 1997 by Bloomsbury in London, and in the USA under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Scholastic Corporation in 1998. It won most of the UK book awards that were judged by children, and other awards in the USA, reached the top of the New York Times list of best-selling fiction in August 1999, and stayed near the top of that list for much of 1999 and 2000. It has been translated in to several other languages, including Ancient Greek, and has been made into a feature-length film of the same name.
Most reviews were very favourable, commenting on Rowling's imagination, humour, simple, direct style and clever plot construction, although a few complained that the final chapters looked rushed. The writing has been compared to that of Jane Austen, one of Rowling's favourite authors, of Roald Dahl, whose works dominated children's stories before the appearance of Harry Potter, and of the Ancient Greek story-teller Homer. While some commentators thought the book looked backwards to Victorian and Edwardian boarding school stories, others thought it placed the genre firmly in the modern world by featuring contemporary ethical and social issues.