12. Give a detailed description

a) of Mrs Tower’s house; b) of Jane Fowler as seen by the narrator for the first time c) of Marion’s and Jane’s states of mind at the dinner with Gilbert Napier; d) of Marion’s and Jane’s states of mind during their conversation after the dinner; e) of Jane’s outfit, which she’d put on for the dinner; f) of Gilbert Napier; g) of Jane Fowler as “created” by Gilbert Napier.

Keep the original wording of the story!

13. Answer the questions and do the following tasks:

1. What do you know about the author of the story?

2. How do you feel about Jane and Marion?

3. What was the secret of Jane’s popularity, as you see it?

4. What’s the message of the story?

The secret life of walter mitty

by J. Thurber

1. Transcribe and practise reading the given words, learn their Russian equivalents.

attorney, automatic, bedlam, biscuit, bomber, commander, cylinder, distraught, garage, gloves, hurricane, insolent, lieutenant, Pandemonium, sergeant, tousled, to unwind

2. Vocabulary

1) rakish(ly); 2) remote; 3) to be tensed up (cf: to tense up); 4) to take over; 5) to thrust at sb; 6) insinuating(ly), to insinuate (cf: to insinuate oneself into sth); 7) to break loose (cf: to cut loose, to keep/stay loose); 8) near thing (cf: the done thing, a thing of the past, sure thing, the whole thing, the real thing); 9) to close in; 10) derisive (derision, derisory).

3. Find in the story the English for:

1) парадная форма; 2) лихо заломленная фуражка; 3) экипаж; 4) проехать на красный свет; 5) на пути к автомобильной стоянке; 6) операционный стол;

7) белый халат; 8) поправить маску; 9) натянуть перчатки; 10) спешно нажать на тормоза; 11) ключ зажигания; 12) носить руку на перевязи; 13) талый снег, слякоть; 14) еженедельные поездки в город; 15) судебный процесс;

16) освежить в памяти; 17) окружной прокурор; 18) огнестрельное оружие;

19) произвести выстрел; 20) лучший в мире стрелок; 21) вестибюль отеля;

22) старый номер «Либерти»; 23) взъерошенные волосы; 24) двум смертям не бывать; 25) измерить ч-л температуру; 26) вращающиеся двери; 27) закурить 28) мокрый снег (снег с дождем); 29) расправить плечи; 30) затянуться сигаретой в последний раз.

Make up 1 sentence with any of the items for oral translation in class.

4.Find words and phrases in the story with the following meanings:

1) careworn, looking tired; 2) defective, malfunctioning; 3) cowardly; 4) to leap, to spring; 5) galoshes; 6) to sit down into a chair with a thump; 7) to sing a tune with one’s lips closed; 8) mysterious about what one is really thinking.

5. Give Russian equivalents of the words and phrases below:

1) the huge, hurtling eight-engined Navy Hydroplane; 2) to seem grossly unfamiliar; 3) to race the engine a little; 4) to look distraught and haggard; 5) Mitty … lurched ahead; 6) the craven figure of Benbow; 7) the attendant vaulted into the car; 8) the witness stand; 9) the bickering attorneys were stilled; 10) any known make of gun; 11) he said evenly; 12) ammunition dump; 13) dugout; 14) (he poured another brandy and) tossed it off; 15) flamethrower; 16) erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last