Reading modern British literature. Part 1. Учебное пособие

5. Using the vocabulary under study (ex. 1,2) make up and act out the

conversation between:

1)Maureen and Clare;

2)Clare and the doctor;

3)Clare and Mrs. Hedges;

4)Clare and Mrs. Cramp.

6. Retell the chapter as if you were:

1) Clare; 2) Mrs. Hedges; 3) Aunt Susan; 4) Maureen.

Chapter 5

Comprehension exercises

1. Say if the following statements are true or false according to the text.

1.The man with a painted face from New Guinea came to Clare when she had a conversation with Maureen in the morning.

2.Liz wanted to become eighteen.

3.Aunt Anne felt better that day, but stayed in bed.

4.The scientists of the Pitt Rivers Museum worked in the subterranean

laboratories.

5.Clare thought that visiting the Pitt Rivers Museum was rather boring.

6.John Sempebwa was confused by the underground when he came to London.

2. Say who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert them

into indirect speech.

1.“I’ve sometimes thought I’d fancy a winter sports holiday.”

2.“My mum’ s always going on about how time flies.”

3.“We used to sit in the schoolroom watching the hands of the clock, screaming

silently.”

4.“I am doing my thesis on witchcraft practice among the Baganda.”

5.“Here it is the young who are admired”.

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Vocabulary exercises

1. Translate and transcribe the following words from the text: matey; to

endorse; well-thumbed; copious; unquenchable; connoisseur; assignation; attendant;

baffled; windcheater.

Explain the words in English (give their definitions). Read and translate the sentences, containing them.

2. Find Russian equivalents to the following word-combinations from the text: to be up to smth.; to stare into something; to insist on smth.; to fight one’s way through smth.; to look up smth.; to get out of control; to commit oneself to smth.; up to the eyes; a contagious laugh; to bawl at smb.

Say in what situations they were used in the text.

3. Say in one word. Choose a word from ex.1, 2 to match the following definitions:

1)an appointment to meet someone in secret, typically one made by lovers;

2)to support or approve of smb. publicly;

3)unable to be extinguished or quenched;

4)to be so confused that you cannot understand something or decide what you

should do;

5)having been read often and bearing marks of frequent usage;

6)If someone is ..., they behave in a very friendly way, usually without sincerity;

7)to shout or call out noisily and loudly;

8)a wind-resistant jacket with a close-fitting neck, waistband, and cuffs;

9)abundant in supply or quantity;

10)an expert judge in matters of taste.

4. Fill in necessary words and word-combinations (using the vocabulary

under study).

1.The boys had been quiet for so long that we began to wonder if they ___ ___

___ something.

2.His laugh was so ___ that I couldn’t help smiling.

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3.He didn’t know the meaning of that word so he decided to ___ it ___ in the

dictionary.

4.Jack can’t help you, he won’t lend you money. He is ___ ___ his ___ in debt.

5.Sometimes teenagers don’t obey their parents and they easily __ ___ ___ __.

6.The explorers ___ ___ ___ ___ the impenetrable forest, trying to reach the farthest river.

7.Throughout the trial, the prisoner __ __ his lack of guilt. But the jury didn’t

believe him.

8.Ann ___ ___ the distance without paying attention to his words.

5. Insert necessary prepositions and other functional words. Translate the

sentences.

1.He was standing ____ the top step, looking straight ___ him, so their eyes met as soon as the door was opened.

2.Outside the wind got ___ and made the telegraph wires sing ___ the odd noise.

3.She sat __ the library fire ___ her chair and the room was once more properly furnished ___ aunts.

4.They must have been overlooked. Perhaps they were not ___ great interest.

5.I wish I could come ___ you, but my tiresome leg has been playing ___ again.

6.The patterns represent different tribes but more that that they are concerned __ magical belief.

7.Snow drove ___ their faces, lay unmelting, ___ huge flakes, ___ John’s black hair.

Discussion

1.Answer the questions:

1.How does children’s life in New Guinea differ from the children’s one in the

civilized world?

2.What people did Clare see in the great-grandfather’s photos? Describe them.

3.Who were the aunts brought up by?

4.Why did Clare decide to visit the Pitt Rivers Museum?

5.Did Clare like the architecture in the University Parks? Why?

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6.Was the Natural History Museum or the Pitt Rivers Museum busy with people? Prove your ideas.

7.What exhibits did Clare find in the Pitt Rivers Museum?

8.Whom did Clare get acquainted with in the Pitt Rivers Museum? What have you learnt about this person?

2.Comment upon the following quotations from the text.

1.“...that desperate boredom of youth. The everlasting afternoons. Almost a physical pain. One forgets what it felt like.”

2.Going into the room, it was you who became displaced in time: the room was quite at home.

3.If the Victorians can be said to have rampaged, they did so to greatest effect in the few acres of Oxford beside and immediately south of the University Park.

4.She went into the museum with a feeling of coming home.

3. Make a literary translation of the extract (in writing):p. 55 from “The first thing you noticed, going in there...” up to p. 56 “He must be dead now, like great-grandfather”.

4. Using the vocabulary under the study (ex. 1,2) make up and act out the talk between:

1)Clare and Liz;

2)Aunts and Clare;

3)Clare and John Sempebwa.

5. Retell the chapter as if you were:

1) Clare; 2) John Sempebwa; 3) in the third person singular.

Chapter 6

Comprehension exercises

1. Say if the following statements are true or false according to the text.

1.John Sempebwa liked Clare’s aunts.

2.Maureen had a conversation with John Sempebwa.

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3.Clare showed John her room and their library.

4.Clare had other relatives except her aunts.

5.Clare felt at home when she came to her cousin Margaret’s house.

6.Clare was embarrassed by the butcher.

2. Make the right choice:

a)Uncle Edwin;

b)Cousin Margaret;

c)Bumpy and Sue-Sue.

2.Clare bought ... at the butcher’s.

a)chops;

b)pink sausages;

c)rosy pork.

3.Margaret was surprised by:

a)Clare’s success at school;

b)Clare’s being sensible ;

c)Clare’s interest in New Guinea.

4.Sanderson was interested in...

a)tribal superstition;

b)birds-of-paradise;

c)botanical specimen.

Vocabulary exercises

1. Translate and transcribe the following words from the text: to astonish;

rush; condescension; courtesy; docile; bundle; anticipation; swot.

Explain the words in English (give their definitions). Read and translate the sentences, containing them.

2. Find Russian equivalents to the following word-combinations from the

text: for ages; to pick up with smb.; to dwell on smth.; to make a sortie from; beyond the confines of smth.; to be conscious of smth.; to glow with smth.; to have an eye for smth.;

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to fall over smth.; to be out of touch; to give smb. a hand; with gusto; to get in touch with

smb.

Say in what situations they were used in the text.

3.Make up 10 sentences in English using the vocabulary under study (ex. 1,

2)for your fellow-students to translate.

4.Translate the sentences from Russian into English (using the vocabulary under study).

1.Я не видела свою двоюродную сестру целую вечность и теперь ожидаю нашей встречи с предвкушением.

2.Меня удивила любезность этого незнакомца, однако я не решилась с ним

познакомиться поближе.

3.Ты не мог бы помочь мне с экзаменом? – С удовольствием, я хорошо разбираюсь в химии.

4.Я так торопился на встречу с партнерами, что не заметил большого камня под ногами. Я споткнулся о камень, и пачка писем, которую я нес на встречу,

рассыпалась.

5.Ты просто светишься от счастья! Расскажи, что произошло. – Вчера я гулял в парке, как вдруг неожиданно ко мне подошла очень красивая девушка и предложила сходить в кино. – Так, пожалуйста, с этого места поподробнее.

6.Джон странный парень, некоторые говорят, что он живет в другом мире. – Они преувеличивают, думаю, он просто очень застенчивый.

7.В университете мне приходилось зубрить латинские слова, пословицы и склонения существительных.

5. Insert necessary prepositions and other functional words. Translate the

sentences.

1.He swamped his head and shoulders __ a huge striped scarf, and got __ __ the

bike.

2.One was forever tripping __ one’s own mistakes – not knowing the code word

___ areas ___ house or garden.

3.Aunt Susan was pleased ___ the idea ___ a visitor.

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4.Clare banked ___ the fire, cleared bundles ___ letters and papers __ one __ the chairs, ___ anticipation __ cousin Margaret.

5.Cousin Margaret stripped herself ___ a hat and coat and vanished ___ the

bathroom.

6.You could do ___ a proper spring-clean ___ here.

7.It’s a part ___ the diary father kept ___ New Guinea ___ expedition.

Discussion

1.Answer the questions:

1.How do people from the tribe deal with strangers?

2.What things astonished John in Clare’s house?

3.What did Maureen think about getting to know with foreign people and about the visit of a new friend of Clare? Was she surprised by the aunt’s reaction?

4.Who sent the letters to Clare and her aunts? What did Clare do with them?

5.When did cousin Margaret usually visit the Norham Gardens and why?

6.How did Margaret’s family differ from Clare’s?

7.Why did Clare go to the butcher’s?

8.Why was the butcher so noisy in Aunt Susan’s opinion?

9.What did Aunt Susan find during the tidy-up?

10.What news did Margaret bring to the Norham Gardens?

11.What did Margaret think about Clare’s living with the aunts? Did Clare have

the same feelings?

12.What dream did Clare see at night?

2.Explain or paraphrase the following quotations from the text.

1.Tea had gone on for ages.

2.“I’m a detribalized school girl.”

3.Tongues of the snow licked up the sides of fences: each sill and gutter was laden.

4.The customers were sheep, only one rung up from the meat.

5.“I am having a tidy-up.”

6.“It doesn’t do you justice.”

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3.Describe the following characters:

1)John Sempebwa;

2)the butcher;

3)Margaret.

Make a literary translation of the extracts (in writing):

1.P. 68 from “The spare room would needed to be tidied out for cousin Margaret.” up to p. 68 “... with amiable condescension, for visitors”.

2.P. 68 “One was forever tripping over one’s own mistakes...” up to p. 68 “as integral as the smell of cooking, children and dogs.”

4. Using the vocabulary under the study (ex. 1,2) make up and act out the

talk between:

1)Clare and John Sempebwa;

2)Clare and Margaret;

3)Clare and her great-grandfather.

6.Speak about:

1)John Sempebwa’s visit to Clare’s house;

2)Margaret’s visit to the Norham Gardens;

3)The expedition of Clare’s great-grandfather in 1905. Dwell upon:

the place, its climate and nature;

people they met; their culture and occupation;

the first contact with the tribe in the mountains.

7. Retell the chapter as if you were:

1) Clare; 2) Margaret; 3) in the third person singular.

Chapter 7

Comprehension exercises

1.Say if the following statements are true or false according to the text.

1.Margaret stayed a week in the house of Norham Gardens.

2.Cousin Margaret was an incurable optimist.

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3.Clare didn’t like history, she preferred geography to it.

4.The ceremonial shield that Clare had in her house was the last one left in the

world.

5.Mrs. Hedges was against a new lodger.

6.Clare and her aunts celebrated Maureen’s birthday.

2. Say who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert

them into indirect speech.

1.“Plenty of fresh air.”

2.“Could he come and live here?”

3.“It’s getting to be a proper guest-house, isn’t it?”

4.“Dancing! Surely not!”

5.“Have you no sense of delicacy?”

Vocabulary exercises

1.Translate and transcribe the following words from the text: shelter; benevolent; homely; buffet; flimsy; still-life; reproach; to persevere in / with; desolation.

Explain the words in English (give their definitions). Read and translate the sentences, containing them.

2.Find Russian equivalents to the following word-combinations from the text: to press on; to be keen on smth.; to cope with smth.; to be room-hunting; to be appalled at / by smth.; to come in handy; to migrate from room to room; to marry smb. off; to get on well with smb.

Say in what situations they were used in the text.

3. Say in one word. Choose a word from ex.1, 2 to match the following definitions:

1)If you ..., you continue with a task or activity in a determined way, and do not allow any problems or difficulties to delay you;

2)a meal consisting of several dishes from which guests serve themselves;

3)a place giving temporary protection from bad weather or danger;

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4)to continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no indication of success;

5)a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects such as flowers or fruit;

6)a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness;

7)simple but cosy and comfortable, as in one’s own home;

8)insubstantial and easily damaged.

4.Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

1.Не выбрасывай свое старое платье, оно еще может пригодиться.

2.Поторопись, иначе ты не попадешь на премьеру.

3.Миссис Беннет мечтала выдать своих дочерей замуж, поэтому устроила

ужин а-ля фуршет, пригласив всех состоятельных женихов города.

4.Это и есть твое маленькое убежище? А у тебя здесь вполне уютно.

5.Мне не везет с квартирами, которые я снимаю. Хозяйки постоянно ворчат, и мне приходится переезжать с одной квартиры на другую. Сейчас я снова

вактивном поиске нового жилья.

6.Мне кажется, вы должны поладить с моим племянником, он тоже

увлекается происхождением жизни на Земле.

7.В который раз я слышу ее упрек: «Ты снова не справился с моим заданием, а я же говорила, что нужно все тщательно обдумать, прежде чем что-то решить».

8.Когда я вошла в комнату, меня поразило то, что я там увидела.

Натюрморты, которые еще три часа назад висели на стенах моей спальни, лежали на полу, а ваза превратилась в груду осколков.

9.Будь осторожен с посудой, бокалы сделаны из хрупкого стекла.

10.Несмотря на все препятствия на его пути, он упорно добивался своей

цели.

5. Insert necessary prepositions and other functional words. Translate the

sentences.

1.Clare got __ ___ her bike and headed north.

2.He pulled a chair __ __ the table and sat ____.

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