Unit 3 (chapters 9 – 12)

1. Find the following word combinations in the text. Remember the situations where they occur and give synonyms to them.

-to be acute beyond sb’s experience

-an umbilical cord

-to scrawled

-to mount the confidence

-a casualty of sth

-to confront sb with sth

-a smile of radiant appreciation

-personal exigencies

-to give a tithe to sb

-to be hard on sb

-an infrequent outbursts of speech

Make up your own sentences with these phrases.

2. Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“With Nicole’s help Rosemary bought…- … Rosemary would try to imitate in…”.

3. Who is characterized by the following statements?

1) “Actually he was one of those for whom the sensual world does not exist and faced with a concrete fact he brought to it a vast surprise”.

2) “He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized”.

3) “She was the product of much ingenuity and tail”.

4. Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

1) “You were brought up to work – not especially to marry. Now you’ve found your first nut to crack and it’s a good nut – go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience”.

2) “When you’re older you’ll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It’s better to be cold and young than to love”.

3) “It was good to be hard, then; all nice people were hard on themselves”.

5. Retell the events as if you were one of the participants of the action.

6. Make up a short summary of the chapters.

Unit 4 (chapters 13 – 16)

1. Find the following word combinations in the text. Remember the situations where they occur and give synonyms to them.

-to strain with sadness

-a gust of sth

-to be incalculable force

-to implant in sb sth

-the ethics of the matter

-the frank implication

-a sap of emotions

-the card to be at fault

-immaturity of the race

-the vulgarity of the world

2. Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“Amiens was an echoing purple town…- …a faint resemblance to one of his own parties”.

3. Make an adaptation of the following extract.

“…of all the narrow-minded excuses…-…he presently found himself”.

4. Who is characterized by the following statements?

1) “She was a rave, hopeful woman and she was following her husband”.

Find some characteristics in the text and perform them .

5. Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

1) “Later she remembered all the hours f the afternoon as happy-one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself”.

2) “Things are not arranged so that this could b as you want”.

3) “Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do – they think other people’s onions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval”.

6. Retell the events as if you were one of the participants of the action.

7. Make up a short summary of the chapters.