2. Develop the situations checking your knowledge of the context:

1. By the time they got in the car he was in a state of cold fury…

2. It was like a knife in her heart. He had never spoken to her in that tone before.

3. She had acted, she had acted marvelously, and now she felt all in.

4. She knew exactly what had happened. She had let her emotions run away with her; she had been feeling, not acting.

5. They had achieved the aloofness from the common ties of men that Julia felt in herself when she stood at the footlights bowing to the applause of an enthusiastic audience.

6. I feel like a queen returning from exile.

7. She looked so deliciously yielding, a ripe peach waiting to be picked.

8. It was really beginning to look like an adventure.

9. Surely I can act sex appeal. I can act anything.

3. Discuss the following quotations in pairs:

1. I always think, if one has talent one can’t help showing it.

2. The theatrical profession’s terribly overcrowded … it seems almost hopeless unless you’ve got influence or something.

3. …I would never let sentiment interfere with business.

4. Her acting was more important than any love affair in the world.

5. Strange world we live in. Actors do their damnednest to look like gentlemen and gentlemen do all they can to look like actors.

6. Success isn’t everything…After all, love is the only thing that matters.

4. Look through Chapters 21-25 again and prove that:

1. Julia acted in real life;

2. theatre was Julia’s refuge;

3. theatre means different things for different people.

5. Describe:

1. Aunt Carrie’s house;

2. Charles’s house.

6. Speak about:

1. Avice Chrichton;

2. Julia’s new traits of character;

3. Tom’s new traits of character;

4. Julia’s mother and aunt.

7. Act out the conversations between:

1. Julia and Tom (after the Sunday night show);

2. Julia and Michhael (in Julia’s dressing room at the end of the play);

3. Julia and Charles (in the bedroom);

4. Julia and the stranger from the Edgware Road.

8. Make up the dialogue:

1. between Mrs Lambert and Madame Falloux (discussing their preparation for Julia’s visit);

2. between Tom and Avice Chrichton (discussing their plans for the future).

9. Speak your mind on Julia as if you were Tom/Avice Chrichton/Michael/Charles.

Consolidating the Material

1. Do the quiz to test how well you remember the details of Chapters 21-25:

1. Michael couldn’t go to the Sunday night show and see Avice acting because …

1. he was going to Sandwich to play golf.

2. he depended only on Julia in such matters.

3. he wanted to please Tom.

2. Tom wanted Julia to go behind and congratulate Avice … .

1. before the performance b) after the second act c)after the first act.

3. The scene to which the play owed its success and which appealed to Julia from the beginning …

1. showed the parting of two lovers.

2. emphasized the idea of eternal love.

3. showed the grief of a bereaved mother.

4. Finally Julia’s acting ceased to be a means by which she gave release to her feelings and …

1. she gave free rein to her anguish.

2. she felt exhausted by all the emotions she had displayed.

3. was again the manifestation of her creative instinct.

5. Madame Falloux lived …

1. in a tall, narrow stone house on a hill.

2. in an ancient mansion with the roof resting on white columns.

3. in a modern house furnished with a Louis XV suite.

6. Julia to her great amazement soon discovered that to her mother and aunt her celebrity was an embarrassment rather than an asset. So …

1. they made her lie on sofas and were solicitous that she should cover her feet.

2. they didn’t offer to take her with them to pay calls.

3. they wrapped up all Julia’s expensive presents and put them away in cupboards.

7. Living in St Malo Julia was able to consider Tom and her feeling for him with a tranquil mind. She …

1. realized that her vanity had been more wounded than her heart.

2. realized that she loved him more than ever.

3. recollected Tom’s slim, youthful body against hers, his smile, the smell of his curly hair.

8. Charles Tamerley wrote to Julia … .

1. every now and then b) every day c) every week.

9. The desire for self-sacrifice with which she left England burnt eager in Julia’s breast with an eager flame and she decided to express her gratitude for … .

1. Michael b) Madame Falloux c) Charles.

10. Charles …

1. was slightly bowed and his clothes looked as though they needed pressing.

2. looked more elegant and refined than usual.

3. looked very elegant, but there was a troubled look in his eyes.

11. Getting ready for her walk along the Edgware Road Julia put on …

1. her best dress and a straw hat.

2. a dress that was neither plain nor obviously expensive and a red straw hat with a wide brim.

3. an ankle-length skirt and a white blouse .

12. Julia’s heart gave an exultant leap when …

1. she saw that a man in a grey suit and a brown soft hat was staring at her.

2. she saw half a dozen persons gazing at a shop window.

3. a man with a blank face passed by.

2. Prepare the passage for artistic reading and translate it into Russian. Comment on the role of theatre in Julia’s life:

Once again the theatre…she felt she had never played so magnificently. (Chapter 22)

3. Arrange a round-table discussion on the following topics:

1. Choosing acting as a career;

2. The role of theatre in present days.

4. Write a letter as if:

1. you were Julia. Explain to your mother why you want to stay with her.

2. you were Julia. Write about your life in St Malo to Michael.

3. you were Julia. Write about your life in St Malo to Charles.