Unit 5 (chapters 17– 20)

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

-a

false-and-exalted feeling

-to grow tense with indignation

-to be recalcitrant

-to promenade insouciantly upon sth

-a hangover of fatigue

-the primary assumption

-to be apathetic to sth

-echoes of violence

-the ground-swell of imagination

-to play some tribute to

Make up your own sentences with these phrases.

2. Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“They stood in an uncomfortable little group…- … a vague racial dusk that hindered and blinded both them and their observers”.

3. Who is characterized by the following statements?

1) “The three cobra women noticed her; they long necks darted towards and fixed critical eyes upon her”.

2) “Organizer of private gaiety, curator of a richly incrusted happiness. His step was alert as if he had just come from some great doing and was hurrying on towards others”.

3) “She was frowning, thinking of her children, less gloating over hem than merely animally counting them – a cat checking her cubs with a paw”.

4)”Unlike lovers, they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future”.

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

1) “When people have so much for outsiders didn’t I indicate a lack of inner intensity?”.

2) “Tell a secret over the radio, publish it in a tabloid, but never tell it to a man who drinks more than three or four a day”.

3) “Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child”.

4) “I am a woman and my business is to hold things together”.

5) “Trouble is when you’re sober you don’t want to see anybody, and when you’re tight nobody wants to see you

6) “It was often easier to give a show than to watch one”.

5. Retell the events as if you were one of the participants of the action. Pay attention to the description of the party and give all necessary details.

6. Make up a short summary of the chapters.

Unit 6 (chapters 21-25)

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

-to be involved in human contact

-a formidable manner

-to flag

-to confront sb’s courteously

-a garbled telephone call

-overtone of earth-bound determination

-to prolong the state of irresponsibility

-a more robust sense of humor

-to turn swift

-to have the preposterous idea

-to be on a private line

2. Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“ Nicole shook her head right and left…-…Certainly it was more of a unit than any conceivable tourist party.”

3. Express your attitude to the following ideas.

“We are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity – we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise – the abstract function of pity.”

“When a child can disturb a middle-aged gent thing get difficult.”

“She knew little of leisure but she had the respect for it of those who have never had it.”

“Smart men play close to the line because they have to – some of them can’t stand it, so they quit.”

4. Find some peculiar characteristics of the heroes and present them.

5. Retell the most important events of these chapters as if you were one of the participant of the action.

6. Write down a summary of the chapters.

Revision 1

1. Make up sketches of the personages (characteristics of speech, appearance and philosophy of life).

2. Think of the stylistic value of the first book (find, present and explain stylistic devices and expressive means used by the author).

3. Outline the most vital problems revealed in the first book( point the item, find the setting in the book and make your own analyses).

Tender is the night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Book 2

Unit 7 (chapters 1-4)

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

-a shell-shock

-the contagious glory

-the price of sb’s intactness

-to smile enigmatically

-to be a sissy

-to enlighten sb

-to be sacrificed to the consequent fatigue

-to be in predicament

-to make a pet of

-to be frantic to do sth

-on the edge of grounds

Make up your own sentences with these phrases.

2. Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“ It was a damp April Day… - Franz would without doubts become a fine clinician”.

3. Adapt the following extract.

“ Then we knew where we stood… - I’ll drive her to cover”.

4.Retell the events of the chapters as if you were Franz or Dick.

5.Make up a reports on the following topics: The post war situation in Europe and introduce it; The prominent people of that time.

6.Choose some phrases to think over and introduce them for a discussion