Check your knowledge – 2

Ex.1 Match the words with their English equivalents.

to settle down to smth	быть кому-л. обузой
blasphemous	командовать кем-л.
to hold one’s breath	множество чего-л., огромное количество чего-л.
oceans of smth	возносить благодарственную молитву
to chatter away (in some language)	погрузиться в какое-л. занятие
to say grace	заняться чем-л.
to keep one’s eyes glued to detail	богохульствующий
to be plunged into smth	задержать дыхание
to be a burden to smb	бегло говорить на каком-л. языке
to boss smb	быть внимательным к деталям

Ex.2 Explain the given phrases in English using the context of the chapter.

not to do smth for the world	to wait over a train
to be the cream of	to stamp out a flicker of smth
to do smth on sufferance	to speak smb’s language

Ex.3 Say what you know about

Thanksgiving Day	Christopher Columbus
Princeton	Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”
Marie Bashkirtseff's journal	James Moriarty
William the Conqueror	R.L. Stevenson

Lesson 10 (pp.136 – 155). September 26th- March 5th

Ex.1 a) Find the English equivalents of these words and phrases in the text. Read and translate into Russian the sentences in which they are used.

gorgeous	to bring smb into line
a comprehensible reason	to be awed
to put a neat period	at the prospect of smth
to set out (to do smth)	to go without doing smth
to live up to smb	a witticism
to harp on smth	flippant and superficial

b) Find the English equivalents of these words and phrases in the text. Read and translate into Russian the sentences in which they are used.

старшекурсница	дерзкий
робкий, застенчивый	выход
быть обязанным кому-л. за что-л.	ни за какие сокровища, ни за что на свете
пренебрегать кем-л., чем-л.	тщеславный
презирать, считать для себя унизительным	транжирить деньги
дождь льёт как из ведра	принять окончательное и бесповоротное решение

c) Give your variant of translation of the following sentences:

1. Our study is better than ever this year - faces the South with two huge windows and oh! so furnished. Julia, with an unlimited allowance, arrived two days early and was attacked with a fever for settling.

2. Will you kindly convey to me a comprehensible reason why I should not accept that scholarship? But anyway, it won't do the slightest good for you to object, for I've already accepted it and I am not going to change!

3. It requires an allowance to live up to Julia and her furniture! I wish that she had been reared to simpler tastes, or else that she were not my room-mate.

4. Daddy dear, don't be annoyed because your chick is wanting to scratch for herself. She's growing up into an awfully energetic little hen - with a very determined cluck and lots of beautiful feathers (all due to you).

5. Are you still harping on that scholarship? I never knew a man so obstinate, and stubborn and unreasonable, and tenacious, and bull-doggish, and unable-to-see-other-people's-point-of-view, as you.

6. You prefer that I should not be accepting favours from strangers. Strangers!And what are you, pray?..

7. But what's the use of arguing with a man? You belong, Mr. Smith, to a sex devoid of a sense of logic. To bring a man into line, there are just two methods: one must either coax or be disagreeable.

8. Such a social whirl as we've been having!

9. One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words.

10. It's the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin. (That isn't original. I got it out of one of Shakespeare's plays).

11. Julia's mother says he's unbalanced. She can't imagine where he picked up his queer ideas; the family have been Church of England for generations.

12. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

Ex.2 Listen to the tape (Judy’s letter to Daddy-Long-Legs written on January 11^th - pp.148-149) and say if the statements below are true or false.Correct the false statements.

1. Judy had an interesting and illuminating time in New York.

2. Judy wishes she belonged to the Pendletons.

3. The furniture in the Pendletons’ house was carved and upholstered and gorgeous, and the people were beautifully dressed and low-voiced and well-bred.

4. Judy considers the Pendletons boring and dull-witted and shallow.

5. In Judy’s opinion, Mrs. Pendleton never thinks of anything but jewels and dressmakers and social engagements.

6. During the holidays Judy got completely disappointed in all the Pendletons including Master Jervie.

7. Master Jervie is a Socialist, and his family is pleased with him for that.

8. Judy thinks she will never like the way of life that the Pendletons are used to lead.

Ex.3 Discuss the following points:

1. “Will you kindly convey to me a comprehensible reason why I should not accept that scholarship?” Why didn’t Judy refuse to accept the scholarship as she was asked to? How did she explain it to her guardian? Does she really seem “a little impertinent”?

2. “Opening day is a joyous occasion!” Do you consider this statement of Judy’s to be true? Prove your point of view with the quotations from the text.

3. “You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith”. There exists an English proverb: “Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones”. Explain the proverb Judy refers to, and comment on the appropriateness of this remark.

4. Speak about Judy’s attitude to Julia Pendleton: do you think it has changed since their first year in college? Does Judy still think that they “were born to be enemies”? And what can you say about Julia’s attitude to Judy? For what reason did Julia invite Judy to spend Christmas holidays at her place?

5. Do you think Judy is becoming more self-confident than she used to be? To what and whom does she owe this change in her character?

6. How did Judy spend Christmas? What was her impression of the Pendletons like? Give quotations from the text to illustrate your answer.

7. “I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant”. Comment on this statement of Judy’s. Do you share her opinion, or disagree with it?

8. How does Judy spend her free time? Does she lead an active way of life? What can you say about her personality out of her pastime? Can we somehow judge about a person by the way he or she spends his/her spare time?

Ex.4 “I know now what people mean when they say they are weighed down by Things. The material atmosphere of that house was crushing; the people I met were beautifully dressed and low-voiced and well-bred, but it's the truth, Daddy, I never heard one word of real talk from the time we arrived until we left. I don't think an idea ever entered the front door”.

Make up a dialogue or a scene illustrating Judy’s visit to the Pendletons and play it using the vocabulary from the book.