I. Active vocabulary:

• to cut a lecture

• to know no bounds

• to mend

• to be panic-stricken

• to scare smb. out of one’s wits

• to lose one’s nerve

• fire-brigade

• to lose consciousness

VOCABULARY PRACTICE:

□ Give the situations in which the active vocabulary is used.

□ recount the scene in which the phrase “His blood turned to ice” is used.

II. Exercises:

1) Paraphrase the following using the active vocabulary units, give details.

•Usually Mor did not attend Bledyard’s lectures, but that time, as Rain was coming, of course he

wanted to come.

•Bledyard was a stammerer, and the boys laughed when he repeated some words three times

when he was giving his art lecture.

•Mor thought that Rain did not suffer as much as he.

•The boys in the back rows had got up and were pushing towards the door. Their excited voices

grew louder and louder. Mor was frightened.

•Looking at the boys Mor understood that if Carde fell, Donald would get frightened and try to

move and would fall too.

2) Correct the following:

•Mor was not interested in art and saw no reason, why she should attend Bledyard’s art lecture.

•There was complete silence at the play-ground as everybody was looking at the spire of the

school tower.

•The fire-brigade came in time and rescued the boys who were climbing the school tower.

•After Bledyard’s lecture Mor and Don went home together.

3) Comprehension check. Answer the following questions:

•Why did Mor go to Bledyard’s lecture?

•Why did he feel benevolence towards his colleagues?

•Why did so many boys come to the art lecture?

•Why did Don and Carde decide to climb the tower?

•Why did Don run away after he was rescued?

III. Discussion:

1. Recount the scene of the boy’s climbing the tower and describe the feelings of the people who were standing at the playground and watching them. Say how the news was taken by the boys, Mor. Everard and the teachers.

2. Prove that:

□ Mor’s prestige stood high;

□ Mor loved his children very much.

3. Speak about the result of the climbing. Predict the possible development of events and relations between the main characters of the novel.

Chapter 17, 18

I. Active vocabulary:

• to have a miraculous escape from death

• to refrain from doing smth.

• To provide a clue to smb’s whereabouts

• Dutch courage

• to crawl to smb.

• to cause a stir

• to detest smb.

• to propose a toast to smb.

• to realize one’s lifelong ambition

• to be deprived of smth.

• ingenious

• to corner smb. by smth

• conformity

• to hold smb. prisoner

VOCABULARY PRACTICE:

□ Give the situations in which the active vocabulary is used.

□ Recount the scene in which the phrase “to wear the look of condescension” is used.

□ Use the English-English dictionary and give the contextual meaning of the lexical units:

- to cross, whereabouts, Dutch courage, condescension, ingenious.

II. Exercises:

1. Ask your fellow-students fact finding questions

2. Comprehension check; correct the following and give additional details:

 Nan was sorry that Don did not take his exam in chemistry.

* Though Everard asked Nan to make a speech at the presentation dinner, she refused

point blank.

* Rain Carter was glad that Nan was going to come to the presentation dinner.

* Nan tried to corner Mor by a public gesture, and he answered her in the same way.

* After Nan’s startling announcement Mor got up, took Rain and left the room.

3. Discuss the motives underlying the following actions or utterances, say what they couple with:

* “Nan thrust her arm through Mor’s as they began to walk slowly back up the hill.”

* “he said they are going ahead with the presentation dinner for Demoyte’s picture”, said Nan. “It’s happening on Tuesday.” – ‘Yes, I know it’s Tuesday. Will you come or shall we send an excuse? It’s perfectly easy to get out of it now.”- “I shall come, I think,” said Nan. (p.176)

Comment on the interplay of pronouns “you-we”

Sir Leopold rose to his feel and a serene silence fell. He contrived to say nothing pleasant about Demoyte saying nothing about him.” (p.186)

- “…after a long period of patient work, my husband has now a great happiness of being able to realize his lifelong ambition. The nearby borough of Marsington have decided to adopt him as their Labour candidate…” (p. 190)

4. Discuss the moral aspect of the following actions and utterances:

* Against both Carde and Donald Mor Mr. Everard had reluctantly invoked the law that decreed instant expulsion for climbers. He had been so apologetic to Mor about this that the letter had virtually had to make up his mind for him, pointing out that he had no choice but to expel them both”. (p.175)

* Nan said, - “…What are you going to do Bill?” Mor was going to see Rain at Brayling’s Close. He said, - “I’ll go down to the Public Library on my bike..” (p.178)

* “We have discussed the matter fully, and we are all at last agreed that there is no other bond or tie which can prevent us from adventuring forward together.” (p. 190)

* “To rise now and to go out with Rain would set the seal on all his intentions. But Rain had turned away her eyes—and although Mor struggled in his seat he could not bring himself to get up.” (p.191)

5. Translate the following:

* Мор и Нэн не имели не малейшего представления о том, где бы мог находиться Дональд.

* Многолетняя привычка во всем подчиняться Нэн пригвоздила Мора к стулу, сделала его пленником.

* В течение ряда столетий коренное население США было лишено гражданских прав и своей территории.

* Фредерик Генри знал, что дезертирам грозит смерть, а их родные лишатся имущества и потеряют права.

* Всеми силами, стремясь попасть в высшее общество, Ребекка Шарп пресмыкалась перед имеющими власть и деньги.

6. Comprehension questions:

* Why was Mor so anxious about Donald?

* Why was Felicity still grieving?

* What time of the school term was this? How were the school boys acting? What about Mor? Mark the contrast between the happiness of the boys and Mor’s anxiety.

* How did Rain Carter feel about her situation with Mor?

* What was the presentation dinner all about? Who attended it?

* What did Nan look like that evening? When does it become clear why she was nervous?

* What was Nan’s toast all about?

* What almost made Mor cry aloud?

* What do you think Mor will do next? (p. 27)

7. Translate the paragraph on p. 190 beginning with the words “Amazement, horror…”