thinker wrote:Lay Away - система оплаты покупки в супермакетах
Hint hint - намёк
Cheap Chat - болтовня
Мне кажется, что правильно будет "chit-chat".[/quote]
Я тоже так думаю.
Chit-chat - болтовня.
А как вам нравится такой текст, составленный из слов-рифм.
Предлагайте их переводы, если есть желание.
Hurray! Hurray! For 'Double Trouble in Walla Walla'
Kids will have a rootin'-tootin' good time reading the helter-skelter chit-chat that floods the air in this super-duper new book from Millbrook Press!
"It was an ordinary Monday morning in Walla Walla until Lulu walked up to her English teacher's desk," begins the setup for a unique story of great fun. "'Mrs. Bell. I feel like a nit-wit. My homework is all higgledy-pigggledy. Last night it was in tip-top shape, but now it's a big mish-mash.'"
With those few words, Lulu's itsy-bitsy problem turns into a topsy-turvy tale that spins out of control. Soon Lulu has Mrs. Bell, the principal, and the school nurse talking jibber-jabber. The unrelenting cuckoo chit-chat continues until -- finally -- the school nurse has an idea that might bring the blah-blah under control. And so goes the story. Yada, yada, yada....
This new book by Andrew Clements should come with a smile guarantee! Kids will howl at the frustrated adults and the ridiculous language. Truly, Walla Walla is more fun that a week's worth of Hew-Haw reruns!
Millbrook Press might have been wise to add a warning to Double Trouble in Walla Walla. Reading aloud this tale is sure to provoke similar "trouble" in the classroom. But a wise teacher can turn that talk into valuable follow-up activities that'll spice up any hum-drum day! Teachers might invite students to
write their own creative sing-song chit-chat stories!
talk about quotation marks and how they're used to identify a person's yak-yak!
sort out the phrases that rhyme (such as herky-jerky, handy-dandy and nitty-gritty) from those that don't (wishy-washy, flim-flam, and howdy-doody)!
identify repetitive phrases in the story that are used as nouns ("What's all the hubbub?"), verbs ("If you chit-chat with the big-wig..."), and adjectives ("Enough of this phoney-baloney hocus-pocus!").
And that's just the tip-top of the iceberg!
For a rootin'-tootin', slam-bam, wowie-zowie time in any grade, grab hold of Double Trouble in Walla Walla!
If your local bookstore doesn't have a copy of Double Trouble in Walla Walla, ask your bookseller to order one for you chop-chop!
Полный текст здесь:
http://www.education-world.com/a_books/books022.shtml
но это словo также уместно в этом топике