- •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.
III.Answer the following questions:
Do you know of anybody suffering from any kind of phobia?
What are the symptoms of this indisposition?
Do people suffering from some phobia try to coceal the symptoms? What kind of help do they need?
Who is the main character of the story?
When did it happen that he feel the first symptoms of phobia?
Why did he try to conceal it?
Who else of his family had phobia? In what situations was it revealed?
Did they consult psychiayrists or analysts? Why did they think it was of no use?
Where did the protagonist try to find the reason of his phobia?
What conclusion did he arrive at?
Did the protagonist think that his life was over and done with, that he would finish it in the psychiatric ward of the country hospital when he couldn’t overcome his phobia when taking his daughter to school?
Who helped the protagonist forget about his bridge-phobia and return to normal life? What did she look like? What made him well again?
IV.Retell the story. Concentrate on the 3 phobias.
“The Swimmer”
I.Read the story.
II.Give the Russian and illustrate the usage of the following:
to take a dogled, to reach one’s destination, to feel a passing affection for, to delay, to collide with, to be confined to, to take off for some place, a breach in smth, to cloear away one’s apprehension, to be exposed to, to cover some destance, to vow smth, to pledfe smth, zealous, to warn smb of smth, to break in on smb, to have a do, to suffer an injury, to pur the spring back into one’s step, to break smth off, to take the upper hand, to stagger with fatigue, to be stupefied with exhaustion.
II.Answer the following questions.
Why do you think Ned Merrill decided to take a swim round the country? When did he start off?
Where did his route lie?
Had he a family?
When did he notice the first signs of the approaching change of season? What were the signs?
Why would he ask for a drink at every party he encounted on his way? Were all the people polite? Why were some of them pitiful and some rude?
Did it trouble him when Mrs Halloran was sorry for his girls? (p.276).
Why did he think that he was losing his memory when he was rejected to be given a drink at the Sachses’?
Why was it that at Biswangers’ the part-time bartender wasn’t polite with him? Did he realize that he suffered loss of social esteem?
Why did Shirley Adams, his former mistress, tell that she wouldn’t give him another cent when he hoped for the better?
Was the water in the pools warm or has it turned cold? Did he see Andromeda, Cepheus and Cassiopeia instead of the constellations of midsummer?
What made him cry for the 1-st time in his adult life?
What did he find in his house?
What do you think could have happened to his family?
The change of saesons, the change of water into cold one, the change of people’s attitude towards the swimmer are dismal omes of some disaster. What was the disaster? Did it concern only Nell’s family or the society he lived in on the whole?