Part IV Chapters 14-15

Pre-text Discussion

1. Answer the following questions:

1. What is Julia going to do about the watch Tom pawned?

2. How will the relations between Tom and Julia get along?

3. How will Michael treat Tom in the next chapters?

2. Read Part IV and check your answers. General Comprehension

1. Who said it?

1) “I who thought I could never be in love again? Of course it can’t last. But why shouldn’t I get what fun out of it I can?”

2) “He’ll be a nice friend for Roger”.

3) “Of course he’s young … Perhaps he’ll improve as he grows older.”

4) “Well, I’ll cook his goose all right.”

5) “I ought never to have let you make me those presents. I should never have let you lend me money.”

6) “I’m so lonely and your friendship meant a great deal to me.”

2. Who did it?

1) Who accepted valuable presents and borrowed money?

2) Who suggested inviting Tom to Taplow?

3) Who came up with the idea of letting the flat in the mews to Tom?

4) Who enjoyed parties very much?

5) Who was jealous and put out?

6) Who wrote a humiliating letter?

7) Who gave a performance to Tom?

3. Mark the following statements as true (T), false (F), not stated (NS). Correct the false statements.

1. Julia was shrewd and knew very well that Tom was infatuated with her.

2. Tom had backed a horse hoping to make some money but the horse was beaten.

3. Julia was disappointed in Roger because he was too intelligent and sophisticated.

4. Julia was as successful on the stage as on the screen.

5. At parties Roger didn’t seem to accept Julia’s guests, he coolly judged them.

6. Tom gave people of the world some advice about paying taxes.

7. As Tom read Julia’s letter he got pale.

8. Enclosing the money for the tips Julia didn’t think of hurting Tom’s feeling. She treated him as she would have treated Roger.

4. Answer the questions:

1) When did Julia confess to herself that she had fallen in love with Tom? Was he in love with her?

2) Did Julia try to bind Tom to her? What exactly did she do?

3) What made Tom so popular with women?

4) When did Tom first borrow money from Julia?

5) Why did Julia want Tom to change his lodgings?

6) Julia looked forward to Tom’s visit to Taplow with excitement. Did her dreams come true?

7) How did she estimate her son?

8) What were Roger’s plans for the future?

9) How did Julia revenge on Tom? What was the result?

10) What was the scheme of getting him back? Did it work?

Working with the Vocabulary

1. Read Part IV, find the following words and word combinations in the text and give their Russian equivalents:

Chapter 14

to lay claims on smb/smth

to set one’s face against smth

to make a fuss over smb/smth

to put smb out (to be put out)

to cross one’s t’s (and dot one’s i’s)

to be the last straw

to turn smb out bag and baggage

to get smb on the raw

Chapter 15

to reassure smb

to call it a day

to get back on/at smb

to make a song and dance about smth

a mug

2. Remember the contexts in which Word List IV items are used, say who or what they referred to.

3. Find the English equivalents for these:

Chapter 14

сохранять спокойствие (2 variants)

угрызение совести

создать образ

расквитаться с кем-либо, свести счеты

ломать голову

Chapter 15

ничего в этом не понимаю

обдумывать что-либо, перебирать в уме

в гневе

4. Explain what it means:

Chapter 14

a chartered accountant

a bed-sitting room

fee

to eat an enormous tea

to be a tremendous lark

to rise with the lark

Chapter 15

I’m not all milk and honey

a kept boy

to care two hoots (for smb)

a hanger-on

5. Fill in prepositions where necessary:

А.

1. … last Julia confessed … herself that she had fallen … love … Tom. (Ch. 14)

2. Sometimes she could not understand why people made so much fuss … her. (Ch.14)

3. The critics praised especially Julia’s capacity … insinuating herself … a part. (Ch. 14)

4. Julia turned her beautiful eyes … him and … a while gazed … him … silence. (Ch.15)

5. You were angry … me and you wanted to get back … me. And you did. You couldn’t have shown your contempt … me more clearly. (Ch. 15)

6. But somewhere, … the back of her mind or … the bottom of her heart, was a feeling of ever so slight contempt …Tom because he was such a simple fool. (Ch. 15)

at(3), over, to, in (3), into, for (4), with (2), on (2)

В.

1. It’s nothing to make a song and dance … Keep quiet.

2. He called me a mug but I’ll get back … him. I’m not all milk and butter.

3. She never gets put … even … the most difficult matters. I’ve never seen her … a rage.

4. Ann makes a fuss … her son every time he comes to see her.

5. She seems to think she can lay claims … my time.

6. Benjamin turned his son … bag and baggage … any money.

about, in, out(2), on (2), by, without, over