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- •«Goodbye, my brother»
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- •Replace Russian words by their English equivalents. Ask 8-10 special questions to cover the contents.
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- •«The seaside houses»
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- •«A call loan»
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- •«My first car»
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- •A dollar on the conscience
- •Customer, store, note, conscience, storekeeper, purse, coin, bundle, counter, bargain.
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- •«The purple dress»
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- •«A flutter in eggs»
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- •Автор-составитель: Хлызова Наталья Юрьевна
Speak about the characters of the story:
Describe Jeffrey Curtain.
Describe Roxanne Milbank.
Describe Harry Cromwell.
Describe Kitty Cromwell.
Make a summary of the story.
Discuss the following questions:
Are Jeffrey and Roxanne a happy match? Harry and Kitty?
What do biscuits mean in the story? Are they symbolic?
Is Roxanne a one-man woman?
Will Roxanne and Harry end up together? Will they be apart?
Which character do you like more? Why?
What stylistic devices does the author use?
What is the author's position towards the things described?
What is your attitude towards the story?
What proverbs can you give to describe the story?
Correct the mistakes if necessary:
A young actor (Jeffrey) marries a young writer (Roxanne). They are a happy couple.
A friend (Harry) comes to visit them in a hotel. Roxanne tries to make pancakes. They are beautiful, but inedible. They decide to nail the pancakes to the wall. Harry has a stroke. He never recovers. His wife takes care of him. Harry continues to visit them. His wife leaves him and their son. Harry eats the biscuits off the wall. After eight years Jeffry dies. Roxanne and Harry continue their long love affair.
Replace Russian words by their English equivalents. Ask 8-10 special questions to cover the contents.
After five minutes a little boy (идти, неуверенно держась на ножках) into the parlor--a dirty little boy (одетый) in dirty pink rompers. His face was (чумазый). Roxanne wanted to (взять к себе на колени) and (вытирать нос); other parts in the of his head needed attention, his tiny shoes were kicked out at the (пальцы). (нет слов)! "What a darling (малыш)!" exclaimed Roxanne, smiling (лучезарно). "Come here to me." Mrs. Cromwell looked coldly at her son. "He will (пачкаться). Look at that face!" She held her head on one side and regarded it critically. "Look at his (ползунки)," (нахмуриться) Mrs. Cromwell.
Retell the story in the name of Roxanne Milbank.
Title the main parts of the story:
It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together. Yet had Jeffrey Curtain kept at scrivening for twoscore years he could not have put a quirk into one of his stories weirder than the quirk that came into his own life. Had Roxanne Milbank played three dozen parts and filled five thousand houses she could never have had a role with more happiness and more despair than were in the fate prepared for Roxanne Curtain.
They moved out in April. In July Jeffrey's closest friend, Harry Cromwell same to spend a week--they met him at the end of the long lawn and hurried him proudly to the house. "I'm making biscuits," chattered Roxanne gravely. "Can you wife make biscuits? The cook is showing me how. I think every woman should know how to make biscuits. "Taste one. I couldn't bear to touch them before you'd seen them all and I can't bear to take them back until I find what they taste like. Absolutely bum!" Roxanne roared. He rushed to the kitchen and returned with a hammer and a handful of nails.
Five days later, in the first cool of late afternoon, Jeffrey picked up an oak chair and sent it crashing through his own front window. Then he lay down on the couch like a child, weeping piteously and begging to die. A blood clot the size of a marble had broken his brain. He could not move; he was stone blind, dumb and totally unconscious. All day he lay in his bed, except for a shift to his wheel-chair every morning while she straightened the room. His paralysis was creeping slowly toward his heart. At first-for the first year--Roxanne had received the faintest answering pressure sometimes when she held his hand--then it had gone, ceased one evening and never come back, and through two nights Roxanne lay wide-eyed, staring into the dark and wondering what had gone, what fraction of his soul had taken flight, what last grain of comprehension those shattered broken nerves still carried to the brain.
With her husband's death had come a great physical restlessness. She missed having to care for him in the morning, she missed her rush to town, and the brief and therefore accentuated neighborly meetings in the butcher's and grocer's; she missed the cooking for two, the preparation of delicate liquid food for him. One day, consumed with energy, she went out and spaded up the whole garden, a thing that had not been done for years.
They lingered for a moment just below the stoop, watching a moon that seemed full of snow float out of the distance where the lake lay. Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain. There was already enough moonlight when they shook hands for each to see the gathered kindness in the other's eyes.
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