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Unit 2. Education: The World of Learning. Reading for Discussion: «Hogwarts» (After J.K. Rowling) - номер 54, страница 70.

Условие.

READING FOR DISCUSSION

54 Read the text "Hogwarts" ['hɒgwəts] and say who was the only pupil that was a success at the first Transfiguration lesson.

Hogwarts

(After Joanne K. Rowling)

Harry Potter is the main character in the series of books by Joanne K. Rowling. We first meet him in the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. At the beginning Harry thinks he is an ordinary boy until he finds out that he is a wizard. Being a wizard, he is enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The text below describes Harry’s arrival at the school. He and his new friend Ron meet their new teachers and get to know their new surroundings. He also realizes that he is quite a legendary figure among the pupils and the staff who heard about him before.

"There, look."

"Where?"

"Next to the tall kid with the red hair."

"Wearing the glasses?"

"Did you see his face?"

"Did you see his scar?"

Whispers followed Harry from the moment he left his dormitory next day. People queuing outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to get a look at him. Harry wished they wouldn’t because he was trying to concentrate on finding his way to classes.

There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide ones; narrow ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldn’t open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren’t really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending. It was also very hard to remember where anything led, because it all seemed to move around a lot. The people in the portraits kept going to visit each other, and Harry was sure the coats of armour could walk.

The caretaker of the school was called Argus Filch. Harry and Ron managed to get on the wrong side of him on their very first morning. Filch found them trying to force their way through a door which unluckily turned out to be the entrance to a corridor where pupils were not allowed. He wouldn’t believe they were lost, was sure they were trying to break into it on purpose and was threatening to lock them in the dungeons¹ when they were rescued by Professor Quirrell, who was passing.

And then, once you had managed to find them, there were the lessons themselves. There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with an elderly little witch called Professor Sprout, where they learnt how to take care of all the strange plants and fungi ['fʌŋgi:] and found out what they were used for.

1 a dungeon ['dʌndʒən] — подземелье, темница

Easily the most boring lesson was History of Magic, which was the only class taught by a ghost. Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staff-room fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him. Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates.

Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. At the start of their first lesson he took the register, and when he reached Harry’s name, he gave an excited squeak and fell off his pile of books.

Professor McGonagall was again different. Harry had been quite right to think she wasn’t a teacher to cross. Strict and clever, she gave them a talking-to the moment they had sat down in her first class.

“Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts,” she said. “Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned.”

Then she changed her desk into a pig and back again. They were all very impressed and couldn’t wait to get started, but soon realized they were not going to be changing the furniture into animals for a long time. After making a lot of complicated notes, they were all given a match and started trying to turn it into a needle. By the end of the lesson, only Hermione Granger made any difference to her match; Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave Hermione a rare smile.

Harry was very relieved to find out that he wasn’t miles behind everyone else. Lots of people had come from ordinary families and, like him, hadn’t had any idea that they were witches and wizards. There was so much to learn that even people like Ron, whose mother was a witch, didn’t have much of a head start.

Решение.

Решение 2.

54 Прочитайте текст "Хогвартс" и скажите, кто был единственным учеником, который добился успеха на первом уроке Трансфигурации.

Ответ:

The only pupil who was a success at the first Transfiguration lesson was Hermione Granger.

Единственной ученицей, которая добилась успеха на первом уроке Трансфигурации, была Гермиона Грейнджер.