- •VII.Retell the story and express your opinion of the events that took place and the way the author manages to create the armosphere and show the feelings of his characters.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian for the following words and word combinations and illustrate their usage:
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Think of the idea of the story. What is the author message to the reader?
- •V.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the Story.
- •II.Look up the words in the dictionary, memorize them and illustrate their usage:
- •IV.Comment on the title of the story.
- •V.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Look up the words in a dictionary, learn them and illustrate their usage by examples from the story:
- •III.Explain the meaning, use in sentences of your own:
- •V.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian and illustrate the usage of the following words and word-combinations:
- •IV.Retell the story on Mr.Coolidge’s behalf.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian, illustrate the meaning and usage of the following words and word combinations, learn them.
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the first part of the story.
- •II.Illustrate the meaning of the following words and word combinations by the examples from the story:
- •II.Make a plan of this part of the story.
- •IV.Describe the characters and the events they participated in:
- •V.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Answer the following questions.
- •V.Retell this part of the story, trying to touch on the questions given.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian and illustrate the meaning and usage of the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Explain themeaning of the following:
- •IV.Make a plan of the story.
- •V.Retell the story according to your plan. Make use of the above-given words and word combinations.
- •VI.Answer the following questions:
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian and illustrate the meaning and usage of the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Explain what is meant by:
- •IV.Answer the following questions:
- •V.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian, illustrate the usage of the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Retell the story.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian, illustrate the usage and learn the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Retell the story on behalf of:
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian, illustrate the usage and learn the following words and word combinations:
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Retell the story. Concentrate on the 3 phobias.
- •I.Read the story.
- •II.Give the Russian and illustrate the usage of the following:
- •II.Answer the following questions.
- •IV.Retell the story.
Учебно-методические материалы
к сборнику избранных рассказов
Джона Чивера
Пособие направлено на пополнение словарного запаса студентов, а также умения понимать и обсуждать прочитанное.
“Frere Jacques”
I.Read the story.
II.Learn the following words:
hurricane, bundle, swindle, hostile, defenseless, hornet, gull, cradle, reassure, confidence, crron, estrangement.
III.Illustrate the usage and meaning of the following word combinations:
to distinguish smth from smth
a forwarding address
facetious
to have the time of one’s life
to be short of
to be out of smb’s reach
IV.Ask 15 questions to cover the contents of the story. Make a gist of the story.
V.Find words which are constantly being repeated throughout the whole story. What are they? How do these words help to create the atmosphere of the story? Is the atmosphere tragic? What helps you feel that?
VI.Answer the following questions:
What does the author call his protagonists? Do they have names? Why don’t they?
Why does the bundle of fresh laundry have a name?
How does the man behave?
Why does the woman sing a song “Frere Jacques”?
What is the weather like?
What is the conflict in the story?
What does the woman long for?
Does the man support her in her longing?
What is the point of the story?
VII.Retell the story and express your opinion of the events that took place and the way the author manages to create the armosphere and show the feelings of his characters.
“I’m going to Asia”
I.Read the story.
II.Give the Russian for the following words and word combinations and illustrate their usage:
to admire, admirable
fiancee
new broadcast
to hold smb’s interest
ingenuous
to be in the first draft
to take smth hard /easy
to starve
a sissy
to giggle
to be through with smth
Transcribe the ubderlined words.
III.Answer the following questions:
How many people did the Towle family consist of? Who and what were they?
Where were all of them that evening?
What was the topic of their conversation?
What did you know about Bill and Carole?
What was Freddy interested in?
What disturbed old Mrs Towle during the whole evening? What was she busy with?
What contribution did the Towles make to the English speaking Union and why?
Why was Freddy displeased when Mrs Towle suggested that both her sons should marry?
What was Mr Towle’s only reply throughout the whole story?
Why was Towle going to remodel their old barn?
Why is the story called “I’m going to Asia”? What are the rules of the game?
Do you think that the family was friendly? What united the family? Motivate your answer.
IV.Think of the idea of the story. What is the author message to the reader?
V.Retell the story.
“The Pleasure of Solitude”
I.Read the Story.
II.Look up the words in the dictionary, memorize them and illustrate their usage:
slum, squalor, encounter, suffer from, (un)merciful with, hardship, to put money by, to attach significance to smth, tenant, purse, to feel at ease, to be missing, in the back of one’s mind, to threaten, to come down with a cold, desperate, to move from place to place, to engage a place.
III.
Describe the way Ellen Goodrick led her life.
Describe the boys’ appearance, behaviour and character.
Do you think that Ellen was right when at their final meeting she struck the boys with an unmbrella? What made her do such a thing?
IV.Comment on the title of the story.
V.Retell the story.
“The Sutton Place Story”
I.Read the story.
II.Look up the words in a dictionary, learn them and illustrate their usage by examples from the story:
adults, nursery, elaborate, avaricious, vulgar, innocence, a sleep-in nurse, ignorant, amiable, enchanting, frailty, tacitum, succinct, obediently, frequently, conventional, unsavory, obsequious, exhilarate, gragrant, suffocate, vigorously, perilous, feeble, furtively, imprudence, hazards, vulnerable, abandi=on, squalid, tenement.
III.Explain the meaning, use in sentences of your own:
to have a hangover
to understand the evil importance of appearances
to be taciturn about smth
to share a secret
with one’s hands folded
feel possessive towards smb, smth
to lack the sense of security
to have a date
to beat fiercely
to slam the door open
to avert one’s eyes from
IV.
Describe Deborah Tennyson.
Describe her parents. What life did they lead?
Describe Deborah’s nurse. Was she a proper person to look after the child?
Describe Renee Hall. What attracted deborah to her?
Why do you think Deborah was last? How did it happen?
Give the gist of her parents’ scouring for Deborah.
Why do you think Debarah didn’t say a word about her whereabout in the city?
What is the message of the story?