Learning to read and discuss fiction. Учебное пособие

Ex. 4 (to be done orally in class) Suggest the Russian for the following.

1. The next day the Mansons offered Mrs Foy six hundred pounds instead of the seven hundred and fifty she wanted to get. That was all they had. 2. We’ll have to live on what we earn. 3. His heart was beating with expectation. 4. The fact that Hampton was prosperous and he was still unsuccessful kept Andrew from ringing up Freddie. 5. After they had come home, Christine said it had been a hateful evening. 6. His prosperous friends had even none of his qualifications. 7. There was a struggle in him between all that he believed in and all that he wanted to have. 8. A ready-made suit had always served him excellently. 9. Mrs Laurence said she admired the new method of treatment and told Andrew not to give it up because it would be a great success.

Ex. 5 (to be done in writing at home) Suggest the English for the following.

1) Эндрю был расстроен, так как должен был делать доклад по теме, котораябыламенееважна, чемегоисследование. Онбоялся, чтоникогда не будет иметь возможность продолжить научную работу. 2) Кристина сказала, что когда-то они были счастливы, живя на то, что он зарабатывал. 3) он несколько раз хотел позвонить Фредди, но его удерживала мысль о том, что он не добился успеха, а Фредди ,вероятно, преуспевает. 4) Весь разговор в компании Хэмптона был о том, как делать деньги и одурачивать пациентов. И слова не было сказано о настоящем лечении и о науке, и Эндрю не хотел с ними спорить. В то время, как такие люди преуспевали, многие хорошие врачи были безработными. 5) Эндрю не оставалось ничего делать, как попросить Эбби об одолжении, и тот обещал помочь. Эндрю знал, что Эбби сдержит слово, если он сможет найти ему работу. Когда миссис Крэм сказала, что у девушки только что был припадок, Мэнсон решил воспользоваться случаем, хотя и понимал, что не было ничего серьезного. 6) Счастливые моменты взаимного понимания теперь были не часты, и Кристина не хотела испортить все и согласилась с мужем. 7) Популярность Мэнсона росла, теперь самые преуспевающе люди останавливались, чтобы поприветствовать его. 8) ЭндрювиделбольвглазахКристиныибылтронут еесамоотверженностью и любовью, и ему стало стыдно за то, что он последнее времяпричинялейболь. 9) Мэнсоннедолго лечилМиссКрэм, преждечем вылечил ее от заболевания.

Ex. 6 (to be prepared orally at home and reproduced in class)

Speak on the following. Make use of the vocabulary suggested in brackets. 1. Why is the first chapter of book 3 entitled “The Stone Wall Again” (to be held in September; an honest scientist; to be of some importance; scientific

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research; useless work; to have a chance to continue the scientific research; to look for a practice; to succeed).

2.What kept Manson from ringing up Freddie Hampton? What were Freddie’s friends like? What did Christine think of them? (to hunger for medical friendship; to prosper; to be unsuccessful; to keep smb from doing smth; not to like the idea; to introduce smb to smb; to make money; to fool the patients; real treatment; to argue; hateful; to have no surgical qualifications; degree; unemployed).

3.What quality was showing in Manson? Compare his Blaenely principles to his new ones. What struggle took place in his heart when the first rich patient came? How did the relations with his wife change? (to ask a favour; to be ashamed; to get rid of smth; to be grateful to smb for smth; to cure smb of smth; to miss the chance; to be a success; to approve of smth.)

Ex. 7 (to be thought over at home and reproduced in class) Comment on the following (for most inquisitive-minded).

Andrew said nothing but thought a little angrily that in six months they would say something else. (p.68)

Ex. 8 Suggest a short summary of the extract.

Assignment 5 (p.p.89-108)

Ex. 1 (to be done at home)

Learn the words and word-combina ons which will prompt you to understand the text. Write out at home and reproduce in class the situa ons in which you came across those underlined. (Here and further on: the words and wordcombina ons suggested in brackets are not to be found in the text. They are to be found in your vocabulary notes or looked up in the dic onary).

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Ex. 2 (to be done at home and reproduced in class)

(SEE HOW MUCH YOU KNOW!) Point out some of the words (German- or Russian-English cognates) which you didn’t have to look up in the dictionary.

Ex. 3 (to be done orally in class)

Paraphrase the following. Convey the same idea in a simpler way.

1. Denny didn’t think much of Andrew’s success. 2. Andrew was going to use his new consulting-room for better-class patients. 3. By the way, you might care to know, I have one more consulting room. 4. That is all that matters to me in the world.

Ex. 4 (to be done orally in class) Suggest the Russian for the following.

1. Together they attacked Andrew with their jokes. 2. Christine had always thought that Hope’s and Denny’s progressive ideas influenced her husband. 3. “What have I done?” – he protested. “Do I beat you? Do I get drunk? Do I kill anybody? Give me one example of my crimes.” – “It’s not this. It’s your whole attitude. It’s dishonest. Can’t you see?” She cried hysterically: “Oh, darling, don’t sell yourself”.

Ex. 5 (to be done in writing at home) Suggest the English for the following.

1. Эндрю гордился тем, что был консультантом одной из самых лучших больниц города. 2. Он старался убедить себя, что прав. 3. В письме Денни писал, чтоскороприезжает. ИКристина, иЭндрюбылиобарадыэтому, но поразнымпричинам: Эндрюпростобылрадвидетьстарогодруга, аКристина имела свои планы: она надеялась, что Денни сможет повлиять на ее мужа, заставитегоизменитьсяистатьтаким, какимонбылпрежде. 4. КогдаДенни, ЭндрюиХоупвстретились, разговорбылонауке, омедицинской системе в стране. Они были слишком увлечены разговором, чтобы замечать, чтопроисходитвокруг. 5. Кристинеказалось, чтоегоотношениекней хуже, чем прежде. 6. Эндрю подумал, что последнее время часто обижал

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Кристину и решил сделать ей дорогой подарок. Он купил ей первоклассныймехиподумал, чтовсемженщинамнравится, когдананихобращают внимание. Онспрашивалсебя, почемуэтаидеяникогданеприходилаему в голову прежде. Эндрю настоял на том, чтобы Кристина надела этот мех, когдаонипойдутвресторан. 7. Эндрюпонимал, чтоМэритяжелобольнаи сказал, чтонебудетспускатьснееглаз, когдаонабудетвбольнице. 8. Практика Мэнсона росла, а с ней и доход. 9. Больной объяснил, что последнее времяунегоболивживоте. 10. Айворисказал, чторасследованиянебудет, т.к. больной умер не на столе. Эндрю посмотрел на него. Он не мог поверить своим ушам. Айвори попросил Эндрю не говорить так громко, т.к. их моглиуслышать. НоЭндрюэтобылобезразлично. Оннепомнил, какдолго он оставался в той пустой комнате. К его великому удивлению и ужасу Айвориоставалсясовершенноспокоен. ВсеэтопроизвелоужасноевпечатлениенаМэнсона. Этозаставилоегозадуматьсянадегоотношениемкработе, к пациентам, к деньгам и к Кристине. Он понял, что тоже может стать убийцейиприступником, еслибудетпродолжатьвтомжедухе. Вотпочему операцияАйвориоказалатакоевлияниенаЭндрю, вотпочемуизменилось егоотношениекработе, клюдям.

Ex. 6 (to be prepared orally at home and reproduced in class)

Speak on the following. Make use of the vocabulary suggested in brackets.

1.Andrew’s work at the Victoria Hospital. His meeting with Denny and Hope. Why was Christine glad that Denny was coming? What worried Christine and what were their relations? (to be proud of smth; to investigate; attitude to the work; to love money; to be glad to see; for different reasons; progressive ideas; to influence; to talk about science; to be carried away by the conservation; to become richer; to talk of money; attitude; to sell oneself; a consulting-room for better-class patients).

2.How did Andrew try to make up the quarrel with Christine and how did the evening end? (from bad to worse; to hurt smb; to quarrel; to matter; to make a present for smb; to pay attention to smb; to be richly dressed; to be in a bad humour; to be hardly able to eat anything; to end in dead silence; pain in the heart).

3.How did it happen that Richard Stillman had no diploma of a doctor? What kind of doctor was he? (to be well-known all over America; excellent results; the treatment of tuberculosis; to be recognized; to bring triumph and a lot of enemies; to be published).

4.Andrew’s meeting with Con Bolland. (to look older; to be seriously ill; in smb’s presence; to believe in smb; to be delighted to see smb; to miss smb; to get smb into hospital; to keep an eye on smb; to be grateful to smb for smth).

5.The role of Ivory’s operation in Andrew’s life. (to increase; income; a patient; a pain in the stomach; nothing dangerous; to do an operation; to want a

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private doctor; to want no public hospital for smb; a simple operation for a surgeon; to have never done an operation like that; to make an attempt; to be paralysed with horror; not to be able to move; to remain calm; to tell a lie; to be worried about oneself; to be a criminal; murder; to suffer greatly; to begin thinking; to understand; to become a criminal).

Ex. 7 (to be thought over at home and reproduced in class) Comment on the following. The words in brackets are to prompt you.

Is this smart gentleman Doctor Manson? If I had known, I would have brought him a canary. (to understand; to change greatly; to recognize; to sympathize with smb; to be the symbol of…; to be a success).

Ex. 8 (to be thought over at home and reproduced in class (For most inquisitive-minded).

What words gave you the first hint Ivory was a bad surgeon? (Prepare a thorough translation of the last three paragraphs of page 104).

Ex. 9 Suggest a short summary of the extract.

Assignment 6 (p.p.108-126)

Ex. 1 (to be done at home)

Learn the words and word-combina ons which will prompt you to understand the text. Write out at home and reproduce in class the situa ons in which you came across those underlined. (Here and further on: the words and wordcombina ons suggested in brackets are not to be found in the text. They are to be found in your vocabulary notes or looked up in the dic onary).

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Ex. 2 (to be done at home and reproduced in class)

(SEE HOW MUCH YOU KNOW!) Point out some of the words (German- or Russian-English cognates) which you didn’t have to look up in the dictionary.

Ex. 3 (to be done orally in class)

Paraphrase the following. Convey the same idea in a simpler way.

1. You know, the girl means a lot to me. 2. The thought that he had lost his thirst for money comforted him. 3. I want you to throw them over and come on with me. 4. Very many doctors are after their patients’ money. 5. He said he would assist Stillman during the operation. 6. Manson kept his eyes upon the floor. 7. All the lawyer said produced no effect on the Committee.

Ex. 4 (to be done orally in class) Suggest the Russian for the following.

1. He spent a long time over the case, carefully talking about the details of the treatment. 2. And why should a man try to make money out of suffering people? 3. He hardly remembered the funeral. 4. If we go on thinking that everything is wrong outside our profession and everything is right within, it means the death of scientific progress. 5. I know I have made many mistakes, and bad mistakes, in my practice. But I made no mistake with Richard Stillman.

Ex. 5 (to be done in writing at home) Suggest the English for the following.

1. Эндрю понимал, что бесполезно убеждать Сорогуда, что это лучший метод лечения туберкулеза. Сорогуд не верил в него и не хотел применять его. 2. Мысль о том, что он потерял жажду к деньгам и снова может презирать их, как-то странно успокаивала его.3. Стилман мастерски провелоперацию, иЭндрюнемогневосхищатьсяегомастерством. 4. Эндрю почтинепомнилпохороныКристины. Онговорилсебе, чтоэтонаказание за преступление, которое он совершил. 5. Против Эндрю был начат судебный процесс. Но Эндрю понимал, что он ни в чем не виноват. Это было самое большое и полезное дело, которое он сделал за всю свою жизнь. Он вылечил Мэри Болланд от туберкулеза. А они хотят наказать

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егозаэто. Ониговорят, чтоонопозорилмедицинскуюпрофессию. Эндрю немогпонятьпочемутотфакт, чтоМэрисноваздорова, неимеетдляних никакого значения. Лицо у него горело от негодования, когда он начал говорить о гнилой медицинской системе в стране. Он говорил правду. Когда Эндрю закончил говорить, он почти ничего и никого не видел и не слышал. Вдруг он увидел людей, которых он почти не знал. Они стояли около него, пожимали ему руки и поздравляли с успехом. Только тогда Эндрю понял, что он победил.

Ex. 6 (to be prepared orally at home and reproduced in class)

Speak on the following. Make use of the vocabulary suggested in brackets.

1.What made Andrew so upset? What was the new method of treating TB? Why was Thoroughood against it? (could hardly sleep; it hurt him to think; to be apart; a new method; the results; to convince; useless; necessary).

2.How did his attitude to the patients change? Illustrate it with some examples. (to be poorly dressed; to have a heart disease; to spend a lot of time over the case; to examine the patient thoroughly; to pay; to send the bill; to feel ashamed; to lose the thirst for money; to despise money; to comfort smb; a rich patient; to be nothing wrong with; not to believe one’s ears; to be happy to have a rich patient).

3.What were Hampton and Manson speaking about? What can you say about them both in this respect? (high time; surgeon; to fool smb; to throw over smb; business; to get sick and tired of smth; honest; to be after the patients’ money; to make money; material success).

4.Was it natural that reconciliation between Andrew and Christine took place at that very period? What was Andrew’s plan and how did Christine like it? (to be cruel to smb; fault; to calm down; to sell the practice; a wonderful idea; growing industrial towns; hospital; laboratory).

5.Why did Andrew think it necessary to send Mary to Stillman’s hospital? Speak about the operation. (private hospital; to listen to smb attentively; a serious case; to cure; to promise; to do one’s best; to examine a patient; to assist smb during the operation; skillfully; to dmire smb; calm).

6.What terrible thing happened to Christine? Do you think Andrew deserved the punishment? (happy; to go to the shop; a crowd; a policeman; to be run over by a car; to lay down; to be dead; to be cut of one’s mind; funeral; crime and punishment; to suffer; to deserve; sleepless nights; to pay no attention to smth; to fall asleep).

7.What process was raised against Manson? How did Andrew justify himself? How did it all end? (to complain; to be interested in the details; chance; to raise a process against Manson; to investigate the case; to answer the charge laid against him; to assist smb during the operation; to be very much excited; to mean; to realize; to be guilty of smth; to tell the truth; to be questioned; to

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disgrace the medical profession; to treat smth like criminal; to be cured of the disease; to be of no importance; to compare smb with smb; science; a rotten medical system; to make mistakes; to punish smb; to be sure; to shake smb by the hand; to congratulate smb on the victory).

Ex. 7 (to be thought over at home and reproduced in class) Think and explain the difference between the two statements: He is not a surgeon. He is no surgeon.

Ex. 8 Suggest a short summary of the extract.

QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS FOR DISCUSSION

1.Andrew as a person and doctor (How did his relations with Christine change with the change of his principles?)

2.Christine’s role in Andrew’s life and work. (Was she guilty of her unhappiness?)

3.The role of Ivory’s operation in Manson’s life?

4.The medical system in England as shown in the novel (Comment on the title).

5.Crime and punishment (Do you think Andrew deserved the punishment?)

6.Denny, Hope, Stillman in Manson’s life.

7.Freddie Hampton and the like.

8.What qualities should a real doctor possess? Why do people say the professions of doctors and teachers are the most noble? What is there in common between these two professions?

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Jean Webster “Daddy-Long-Legs”

Москва “Высшая школа”, 1968 г.

Assignment 1 (p. p. 3-12)

Ex. 1 (to be done at home)

Learn the words and word-combina ons below. Write out at home and reproduce in class the situa ons in which you came across those underlined. (Here and further on: the words and word-combina ons suggested in brackets are not to be found in the text. They are to be found in your vocabulary notes or looked up in the dic onary).

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 (to have an opportunity/chance, to miss an opportunity/  chance, to use, to take, etc.)

Ex. 2 (to be thought over at home and reproduced in class) Paraphrase the following conveying the same idea in simpler words.

Model: I am not at liberty to mention his name – I can’t (have no right to) tell you his name.

1. It was a day awaited with dread, endured with courage, and forgotten with haste. 2. Jerusha escaped from the pantry where she had been making sandwiches for the asylum guests, and turned upstairs to accomplish her regular work. 3. Jerusha had an imagination, but strong as it was it could not carry her beyond the front porch of the houses she would enter. 4. Jerusha caught only a slight impression of the man – and the impression consisted entirely of tallness.

Ex. 3 (to be thought over at home and reproduced in class) Suggest the Russian for the following

1. The trustees and the visiting committee had made their rounds … standing along the hill-side (p.p. 4-5) 2. Poor, eager, adventurous little Jerusha … by orphans (p. 5) 3. The shadow pictured grotesquely … she used for the visitors (p.p. 6-7) 4. Mrs Lippett overlooked the fact … at home to scrub (p. 8)

Ex. 4 (to be done in writing at home)

Suggest the English for the following

1.В этот ужасный день детям напоминали о манерах и велели говорить «да, сэр», «нет, сэр» каждый раз, когда с ними разговаривал опекун.

2.ДажееслиДжерушахорошоделаласвоюработу, хозяйкаприюта, Миссис Липпетт все время ругала и поторапливала ее. 3. Она наблюдала за машинами, выезжающими из ворот приюта. 4. На попечении Джеруши было11 детей. 5. Джерушанепривыкла, чтобыеезваливкабинетобсуждать какие-нибудь вопросы с хозяйкой приюта. 6. Она привыкла, что ее всевремяругают, поэтомуонабылаудивлена, чтонасейразснейхотели обсудить вопрос о ее будущем. 7. Джеруша не могла решиться сказать своимновымподругам, чтоона воспитываласьвсиротскомприюте. Она страстнохотелаиметьчто-товродесемьиипоэтомулюбилавсех, ктобыл добркней. 8. МиссисЛиппетговорила, чтоДжерушадолжнабытьблагодарна человеку, который хочет послать ее учиться. 9. М-с Липпетт сказа-

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