Past and future

1.

look into – 1)заглядывать; 2)заглянуть
Look into one`s face – заглядывать в
лицо
look out – 1) выглядывать; 2)осторожно! He looked out of the room - он выглянул
из комнаты. Look out – осторожно!
look back – оглядываться (назад, в
прошлое, на то, что случилось)
Look back at the past – вспомни свое
прошлое.
look down – смотреть вниз
Don`t look down – не смотри вниз.
look around – 1) оглядываться
(смотреть, что вокруг), осматривать
(дом, достопримечательности)
I`m going to look around – Я собираюсь
все здесь осмотреть.
look for - искать
I have been looking for you all day long –
Я искал тебя весь день.
look over – просмотреть, тщательно
изучить
to look over a plan – просматривать
план
look ahead – смотреть вперед (в том
числе в будущее)
She always tried to look ahead - она
всегда старалась все спланировать.

2.

look through – пролистать, просмотреть
(книгу)
He looked through a newspaper – он
просмотрел журнал.
look up – 1) искать (в книге); 2)
навещать
tried to look up it in the dictionary – Я
попытался найти это в словаре. He
looked up his old teacher – он навестил
своего старого учителя.
look after – заботиться, приглядывать
To look after children – заботиться о
детях
look forward to – ожидать с
нетерпением
I`m looking forward to some cold weather
– Я жду с нетерпением, когда придут
холода.
look down on – презирать, относиться с
пренебрежением
She is always looking down on us – Она
всегда относится к нам
пренебрежительно.
look up to – уважать
I try to find someone I can look up to – я
пытаюсь найти того, кого смогу
уважать.
look in on – навещать
I will look in on you tomorrow – завтра я
тебя навещу.

3. The book and its author

The Life of Pi is about a teenage boy from India,
called Pi, who travels across the Pacific Ocean
in a lifeboat. His companion in the lifeboat is
an enormous tiger. It was written by the
Canadian author Yann Martel, and has sold
seven million copies worldwide.

4. The story

At the start of the book, we learn about Pi’s
childhood in India. His father is a zookeeper
and the family live in a house in the zoo. Pi
and his brother help their father in the zoo
and learn to look after the animals.

5.

• When Pi is 16, his family decide to close the zoo and move to
Canada. They sell some of the animals to zoos in North America and
the family take the animals with them on a ship to Canada. On the
way, there is a terrible storm and the ship sinks. Pi finds himself in a
lifeboat with a hyena, zebra, orang-utan and a tiger. When he sees
the animals, Pi is scared and he jumps into the ocean. Then he
remembers there are sharks in the ocean and he climbs back into
the lifeboat. Sadly, Pi’s family and the ship’s sailors die in the storm.
One by one, the animals in the lifeboat kill and eat each other, till
only Pi and the tiger are left alive. Luckily for Pi, there is some food
and water on the lifeboat, but he soon needs to start catching fish.
He feeds the fish to the tiger to stop it killing and eating him. He
also uses a whistle and his knowledge of animals from the zoo to
control the tiger.

6.

• Pi and the tiger spend 227 days in the lifeboat.
They live through terrible storms and are
burnt by the Pacific sun. They are often
hungry and ill. Sometimes, Pi is happy and
hopeful, but sometimes he feels sad and
lonely. Finally, they arrive at the coast of
Mexico, but you will have to read the book to
find out what happens in the end!

7. What do you think?

• Three teenagers give their opinions on The Life of Pi.
• I think it’s an excellent book and I couldn’t stop reading it. In one
chapter, Pi is in the lifeboat and he sings 'Happy Birthday' to his
mother on the day of her birthday, even though he thinks she is
dead. It was a very sad moment and I wanted to cry.
Alex, 15
• I didn’t like this book because it’s very slow and boring. In some
chapters, there isn’t any action and we only read about what Pi is
thinking.
Danny, 16
• What a fascinating book! I enjoyed the story, but I also learnt so
much about animals and surviving at sea. It’s a book for everyone
to enjoy, old and young, men and women.
Paula, 18