A DAY IN THE COUNTRY

BY: ANTON CHEKHOV

Prepared by: Montilla, Kurt Kubain

Cellona, Andrew John
DIFFICULT WORDS:
Rumbling
 A low, heavy, continuous sound or series
of sounds
Frolics
 Full of fun
Spurt
 To gush forth
 To expel in a stream
Cobbler
 A person who makes or repairs shoes
Bosom
A person’s chest when it is thought of as the
place where secret thoughts and feelings are
kept
Staggering
 Very large, shocking, or surprising
Drowsy
 Tired and ready to fall asleep
Grim
 Unpleasant or shocking to see or think about
Absurd
 Extremely silly, foolish, or unreasonable
Lisping
 To speak flatteringly, childishly, or with a lisp
Tugging
 Topull something with a quick, forceful
movement
Lapel
 Eitherone of the two folds of fabric that are
below thw collar on the front of a coat or jacket
Copes
A long enveloping ecclesiastical vestment
Gobble
 To swallow or eat greedily
Striding
 To walk with very long steps
Shoved
 To push (something) with force
Parched
 Very dry especially because of hot weather and
no rain
Rye
 A hardly annual grass that is widely grown for
grain and as cover crop
Gust
A sensation of taste
Slacken
 To become slower or less active
Ochre
 An earthly usually red or yellow and often impure
iron ore used as a pigment
Shabby
 In a poor condition especially because of age or use
Abates
 To become weaker, to decrease in strength
Wringing
 To twist and squeeze, to remove water
Grinning
 To smile widely
Ant-heap
a mound of soil, leaves, etc, near the entrance of
an ants' nest, carried and deposited there by
the ants while constructing the nest
Rogues
A man who dishonest or immoral
Downpour
 Sudden heavy rain
Scurrying
A person’s chest when it is thought of as the
place where secret thoughts and feelings are
kept
Monotonous
 Very large, shocking, or surprising
Commune
 Tired and ready to fall asleep
Tavern
 Unpleasant or shocking to see or think about
Characters of the Story
 Fyokla
 A six year old beggar girl
 Terenty
 The tall old man with a thin, pock-marked
face, very long legs, and bare feet, dressed in
a woman’s tattered jacket
 Silantly Silitch
 A sacristan
 Danilka
 Brother of Fyokla
 Moral Lesson

The moral lesson in the story is that we need

to value what God had created for us and
understand the nature. Because life on earth is
the greatest gift of nature, and it can be found
in several hues and shapes. The beauty of
nature mesmerizes all of us, for without
nature, we would not know the greatest gift of
our existence.