IIListening Activities

1.Find a word, a word combination or a sentence which has the similar meaning.

1.1“The fact is I’ve got some news for Mr. De Winter and I hardly know how to tell it to him.”

1.2“It’s very troublesome for you both that we can’t forget the past.”

1.3It was the little boat belonging to the dead Mrs. De Winter.

1.4Our marriage was all pretence from the very first.

1.5“But all the time I felt some doubt at the back of my mind.”

1.6“It doesn’t result in sanity – living with the devil.”

2.Complete the sentences.

2.1The horror of my morning…

2.2For the first time I saw how thin his face was…

2.3We never loved each other…

2.4No one would guess meeting her…

2.5She’s got the three things…

III Post-Listening Activities Speak on.

1.Captain Searle brings the news: in the course of inspecting wreckage Rebecca’s boat was found.

2.“We’ve lost our little chance of happiness.” Maxim tells the truth to his wife.

3.The bargain between Maxim and Rebecca. The reasons he accepted it.

4.The romantic note of the end of the section. The narrator declares her love for Maxim.

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