- •1.1 Study these words if they are new to you:
- •1.2 Read these questions before you hear the recording. Then listen to the recording once and answer the questions.
- •1.3 Listen to the recording a second time and say whether these statements are true or false. Use the following conversational formulas of:
- •1.4 In the class ask one another about the episodes you didn't understand.
- •1.5 Answer the following questions:
- •1.6 Study the following sentences and try to guess under what circumstances they might have been said:
- •1.7 Complete the sentences:
- •1.8 Suggest solutions, contradict or give advice to someone who tells you that:
- •1.9 Exchange your opinions on the following problems. Make use of the words given in 1.8
- •1.10 Explain the meaning of these proverbs; speak of your personal experiences proving that:
- •1.11 Suppose you find yourself in the following situations:
- •1.12 Choose a partner and act out one of the situations below:
- •1.13 Write a letter to your friend (or parents) describing your impressions of the city shortly after your arrival.
- •Part 2.
- •Intensive reading
- •2.1 Points to consider
- •2.2 Read the text
- •2.3 Answer the following questions:
- •2.9 To make sure that you understand the story answer these detailed questions:
- •2.10 Transcribe, mark the stress and read the following words and word combinations:
- •2.11 Explain the meaning of these words and word combinations to your groupmates. When speaking use:
- •2.12 Match the synonyms in the right and left columns:
- •2.13 Find in the text synonyms for the following:
- •2.14 A) Study the difference between the verbs. If necessary use an explanatory dictionary.
- •2.25 Look at this sentence:
- •2.26 Express the same idea in other words substituting for the italicized words and expressions:
- •2.27 Review the following structures:
- •2.28 Study these sentences and say under what circumstances they might have been said.
- •2.29 Complete the sentences given below:
- •2.30 Say whether these statements are true or false When giving your arguments use sentences of unreal condition like this:
- •2.35 Make up the summary of the text.
- •2.36 Get into groups of 2 or 3 and discuss the text. Use conversational formulas and the expressions given below:
- •2.37 Imagine you are a detective following a man (it might be Sonny) that aroused your suspicion. Write a short description of the physical layout of the place/town. These words may help you:
2.25 Look at this sentence:
"She is dying to see you."
Here the author resorts to a stylistic device called hyperbole.
— For Your Information —
Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement made for effect and not intended to be taken literally.
Write out from the text two more cases of hyperbole and say what effect it produces there.
2.26 Express the same idea in other words substituting for the italicized words and expressions:
1. He hadn't ever turned hard or disrespectful.
2. He was smiling all over his face.
3. How have you been keeping?
4. I was remembering and it made it hard to catch my breath.
5. She is dying to see you.
6. They found themselves encircled by disaster.
7. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitably new.
8. The difference in our age lay between us like a chasm.
9. So we drove along, between the green of the park, and the stony lifeless elegance of hotels and apartment buildings, toward the vivid killing streets of our childhood.
10. As I covertly studied Sonny's face it came to me that what we were both seeking through our separate cab windows was that part of ourselves which had been left behind.
11. We hit 110th Street and started rolling up Lennox Avenue.
12.She got Sonny past his first, faint stiffness.
Grammar Points
2.27 Review the following structures:
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To make somebody do something
To have somebody do something
Can't help doing something
Find the sentences in which they are used in the text. Make up three sentences of your own with each structure. Read your sentences to each other in class.
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Thinking the Unthinkable
When we want to talk about things that did not happen in the past, imagining what would have happened if things had been different, we use the past conditional in the principal clause (would have passed) and subjunctive II past (homonymous to past perfect) in the subordinate clause (had worked).
E.g. |
If you had worked harder last year, you would have passed your exam. If you had asked me I would have told you the whole story. |
2.28 Study these sentences and say under what circumstances they might have been said.
1. If I had any sense I would have married a Malay girl.
2. If I had only my chance I know I would have made good.
3. Perhaps he was right, perhaps it would have eased my mind. I wonder what he would have said.
4. She would have scratched my eyes if she could.
5. If you had had any pride, if you had had any sense of decency, you would have thrown his presents in his face.
6. Of course all this wouldn't have happened if the girl hadn't been a fool.
7. Would she have said that if it hadn't meant something to her?
2.29 Complete the sentences given below:
1. If Sonny's brother hadn't read in the paper that Sonny had been arrested...
2. If Sonny hadn't used and peddled heroin...
3. If the circumstances had been different...
4. If Sonny hadn't been homesick...
5. If Sonny's brother hadn't been anxious for Sonny...
6. If it hadn't been for Isabel's open and easy manner...
7. If Isabel hadn't been genuinely glad to see Sonny...