Upp-Int U56

Upper-intermediate U55

Funny story.

No less than thirty years ago, I was going along briskly running column of people, when somebody hissed rapidly by a hedge and jostled with me:

-         Are you blended!?

And I answered:

-         Excuse me, but you have just bumped into me and moreover you are going on to stay on my feet! Don't be so military-looking and get off from my shoe!

He looked at me pensively and said something very crude:

-         If you were continue to speak so gravely with me I would cut off your head!

I was momentary taken aback. Why did he smile a faintly twisted smile? Why didn't he suffer me? My head got a large piece of pallor on the face. He stared at me:

-         Do you know this scent?

And he gave me a piece of fur collar. I sniffed and imbibed sulphur smell. And I heard his stentorian voice again:

-         Do you know this scent!?

Next moment stout woman came from the corner and stranger with collar instantly jumped off and walked briskly along the street…

Ex.3 Picture of a city

1.       A city on this picture isn't drab-looking, is it?

2.       It spreads from small shanties in a dingy setting to a prosperous skyscraper.

3.       A variety of buildings, houses and towers squeeze up forming a kind of a mountain-tower.

4.       Near the upper level are placed a semi-ring of vague trees reminiscent of a hedge.

5.       The sky above the city looks dreary and pensively (as it appears to me).

6.       Nobody hisses and fusses here. It's only calmness everywhere.

7.       You could even imbibe the scent of freedom and magic filling raw air of that city.

8.         Do you feel it? Just sniff!

Wocabulary in use, upper-intermediate, U53