- •Пять английских рассказов
- •Bernard Mac Laverty
- •B iographical note on the author
- •Learning vocabulary
- •2. As you read the story write out other words and word combinations to add to your active vocabulary.
- •3. In the text find English equivalents for the following words and word combinations and use them when discussing the story.
- •Vocabulary practice
- •3. Provide your own examples (3-4) to practise the following speech pattern:
- •1. Give a broader context and comment on the following.
- •2. Consider the following.
- •4. Imagine Frankie lived; write the last conversation between him and the narrator and act out a dialogue.
- •5. Reflect on the story and retell it in short.
- •Fay weldon
- •B iographical note on the author
- •Learning vocabulary
- •3. Translate into English:
- •Vocabulary practice
- •1. Translate into English using the active vocabulary.
- •2. Act out a dialogue, discussing the idea of feminism in the contemporary society.
- •3. Comment on the title of the story.
- •4. Reflect on the story and share your ideas with the group.
- •B iographical note on the author
- •1. Write out words and expressions to help you talk about the following:
- •3. Read the following passage for detailed comprehension and translate it into Russian in writing.
- •Learning vocabulary
- •2. As you read the story find other words and word combinations to add to your active vocabulary.
- •3. Translate the sentences into Russian focusing on the active vocabulary.
- •5. Explain the meaning of:
- •6. In the story find all complexes with the infinitive, participle, and gerund.
- •Vocabulary practice
- •2. Translate into English using the active vocabulary.
- •1. Consider the following.
- •3. Comment on the title of the story.
- •4. Act out a dialogue discussing the importance of a healthy marriage.
- •5. Reflect on the story and share your ideas with the group.
- •2. Read the following passage for detailed comprehension and translate it into Russian in writing.
- •3. Learn and share the background information (about 4-5 sentences) about:
- •Learning vocabulary
- •2. As you read the story write out other words and word combinations to add to your active vocabulary.
- •3. Translate the sentences into Russian focusing on the active vocabulary.
- •3. In the text find English equivalents for the following words and word combinations and use them when discussing the story.
- •5. Provide your own examples to practise the following speech patterns:
- •Vocabulary practice
- •1. Give a broader context and comment on the following.
- •2. Consider the following.
- •3. Reflect on the story.
- •4. Give a brief summary of the story.
- •B iographical note on the author
- •Learning vocabulary
- •2. Translate the sentences into Russian focusing on the active vocabulary.
- •3. As you read the story write out other words and word combinations to add to your active vocabulary.
- •5. Look in the thesaurus for synonyms for the following words:
- •7. Make up a dialogue using the active vocabulary.
- •Vocabulary practice
- •3. In the story find words of the same root and say how they are formed.
- •Give a broader context and comment on the following.
- •Consider the following.
- •Read the poem by Andrew Marvell ‘The Garden’ to which the author referred and comment on the title of the story.
- •Give a brief summery of the story.
- •Reflect on the story and share your ideas with the group. Корытко Ирина Владимировна Пять английских рассказов
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B iographical note on the author
Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Fay Weldon was born on 22 September 1931. She was brought up in New Zealand and returned to the United Kingdom when she was ten. She read Economics and Psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and worked briefly for the Foreign Office in London, then as a journalist, before beginning a successful career as an advertising copywriter. She gave up her career in advertising, and began to write full-time. Her first novel, ‘The Fat Woman's Joke’, was published in 1967. She was Chair of the Judges for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1983, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 1990. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.
Fay Weldon's work includes over twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children's books, non-fiction books, magazine articles and a number of plays written for television, radio and the stage.
Much of her fiction explores issues surrounding women's relationships with men, children, parents and each other. ‘The Bottom Line and the Sharp End’ is taken from her volume ‘Polaris and other Stories’.
READING TASK
1. Write out words and expressions to help you talk about the following:
Helen's occupation.
Life of Helen as compared to that of Avril's.
2. Learn to pronounce:
ingénue
Bogart
Bacall
3. Learn and share the background information (about 4-5 sentences) about:
Bogart, Bacall, Doris Day, Elizabeth Tailor
4. Search the encyclopedia to learn information about ‘Lady Godiva’.
5. As you read build a vocabulary of the words that describe things that can be done with hair.
6. Read the following passage for detailed comprehension and translate it into Russian in writing.
p. 187, ‘Avril was scraggy …’ – ‘…or money in the bank.’
7. The ‘Bottom Line’ and the ‘Sharp End’ are used metaphorically in the story. But what do they mean or describe in the first place?
Learning vocabulary
1. Learn the following words in situations from the story and interpret their meaning using an English dictionary.
scraggy (187)
brocaded luxury (188)
to work miracles (188)
for good (188)
rapid decline (188)
to develop a fellow-feeling for (189)
to oblige clients (189)
to play safe (189)
renovation (190)
town pageant (190)
to go public (191)
to sue (192)
to get the lead (193)
come to think of it (193)
to go for (194)
to do smb (no) good (194)
to be into (194)
to take risks (195)
freak-out (196)
to be billed (196)
2. In the text find English equivalents for the following words and word combinations and use them when discussing the story.
1. worn out (187); 2. to begin to sell expensive goods (188); 3. for ever (188); 4. to do one's best (189); 5. to be dirty (190); 6. to profit by (192); 7. a drug-addict (192); 8. stylish (193); 9. be ready for (193); 10. to become respectable (194); 11. to strive for (194); 12. an abortion (194); 13. hussy (195); 14. very nearly, almost (196); 15. to show smb. around (196); 16. to be interesting to (197).