Reading modern British literature. Part 2. Учебное пособие

8)I love it, carry on! (122)

9)Tell Mr Farris you want a rise. It’s ridiculous what she pays you, Louise. (122)

10)Can I have my wages? (125)

4. Explain or paraphrase the following sentences.

1)Mac feels a spasm of anger.

2)There`s the remains of a burnt-out car pushed into a lay-by. Its blackened hulk dripping with black rain. (101)

3)The tree waits for them, a personality now, adorned with shoes. (106)

4)Work is scarce. (107)

5)…he had increased his days. (109)

6)When the settee first arrive it seemed immense and powerful; a symbol of their marriage. (110)

7)Mac touches Louise’s clothes, hoping to catch a glimpse of his marriage in their folds. (110)

8)It feels like a power surge revving through his veins. (112)

9)It`s early evening and the house is an empty box. (110)

10)It became a sport, like a computer game, or kind of quest. (115)

5. Translate the passages:

- p. 109 “I`m never going to get out of this… / I want a divorce...”

-p. 104 “When Caris was younger…/ …with the brains?”

6.Write a letter to Louise as if you were Caris.

Focus on culture

1.What did Nana Price do “at the bingo” (104)?

2.What is MOT?

3.What is road rage? (117) Is there such a phenomenon in our country?

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Part 6

Pp. 127-149

Focus on vocabulary

1. Glossary. Note down the words and word combinations, memorize them. Transcribe the following words.

Nouns: mankind (127), gum (128), spaceship (133), Alsatian (134), tea break (135), common room (135), hair band (136), lighthouse (136), aubergine (136), clove (138), fag (138), duvet (139), adultery (140), underarm (143), garment (145), nook (146), pout (146), mongrel (144).

Verbs: to sharpen (127), to lumber (127), to pat (127), to nuzzle (128), to lounge about (128), to limp (136), to permeate (136), to persevere (137), to take over (137), to draw up (138), to salute (138), to feast on (141).

Adjectives: bony (128), rheumy (128), giddy (129), lighthearted (131), illfitting (132), thunderous (135), upholstered (136), thoroughbred (144), out-of-tune (145), marble (145), posh (145), amplified (145), red-handed (148).

Adverbs: vaguely(128).

Phrases: what’s that up there (127), to get into trouble (129), to behave oneself (129), to get lost (129), to turn out right (129), to hold out for (130),to take control of (131), to breath in and out (133), to bring oneself to do (135), to get on one’s nerves (136), to know smth. inside out (137), out of the blue (139), to go off with (140), in public (144).

2. Guess the word by its definition:

1)all people thought of as one group;

2)to ache sharply from time to time;

3)causing dizziness;

4)a person who works or studies too much;

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5)a room or space that is just below the roof of a building and that is often used to store things;

6)something (as an animal) much smaller than usual;

7)a person whose job is to carry out treatments to improve a person’s

appearance, such as facials, manicures, removal of unwanted hair, etc;

8)a strip of cloth or curved plastic strip worn in the hair, that fits closely over the top of the head and behind the ears;

9)a medium-sized sofa with arms and a back;

10)to cut a plant or dead animal into separate parts in order to study it.

3.Define the following words: bud, portraiture, to stink, to stride, faithful, to fancy, to glower, to bump into, to recite, vain.

4.Find the situations where the following words or expressions were used and reproduce them orally: what’s that up there(127), to get into trouble (129), to

behave oneself (129), to get lost(129), to turn out right (129), to hold out for(130),to take control of (131), to breath in and out (133), to bring oneself to do(135), to get on one’s nerves (136), to know smth. inside out (137), out of the blue (139), to go off with(140), in public (144).

5. Fill in the gaps in the sentences from the text with words.

1)Things _____, she wants to say to Caris, without you realizing that they are beginning to disappear.

2)The bag he carries is full of books. Caris would call him ____, she

thinks.

3)Mac has a horrible image of himself as a big red boy in ____ trousers, standing outside the school gates thinking the same thing.

4)Caris was chewing sandwiches, ____, sheep-like.

5)And she shuts her eyes, listening to a_____ rumble of chairs being moved in another classroom.

6)The smells of food have ______ her skin.

7)He would ____ his actions as he drove, but she didn’t seem to hear.

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8)Frankly he was horrified when she passed her test for the third time.

He hadn’t expected her to be so ____ .

9)She had strutted round Edinburgh like a _____ mare.

10)“What if we get caught?” she asks, thinking of her mother,

_____standing in Northumberland Street.

7.Find in the text, read and translate sentences containing nouns from the glossary list.

8.Give 10 words meaning dog breeds.

Focus on the contents

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

1)Caris prefers going to school to meeting with George.

2)Nana Price has a life experience to give Caris a piece of advice.

3)Mac knows how to make Caris go to school.

4)Caris is glad to see Margaret and Layla.

5)Mr Fortoba reckons that Caris has got potential.

6)Louise adores being in prison.

7)Louise was a very good driver.

8)George shows his love to Caris.

9)Caris is afraid of being seen by Mac.

10)Caris thinks that her life is nothing without George.

2.Answer the following questions.

1)How does Nana Price react to Caris’s hicky?

2)Why does Carry stay too long in Mac’s car?

3)Why does Mr Fortoba want Caris to be a diligent student?

4)What trait of Louis’s character astonished Mac and why?

5)Are Degna and Louise complete opposites and why?

6)What plan has Mac got about Degna?

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7)What does Miss Moss say about Caris?

8)Why isn’t Caris satisfied with the photos?

9)Does George support Caris’s decision not to steal shoes and why?

10)Why does Caris want to be invisible?

3. Say who these phrases belong to and explain the reason of the conversation. Transform them into indirect speech.

1)It’s only kissing. (128)

2)Why do I have to go? (132)

3)When are you going to start working? (134)

4)Why did she steal, then, your wife? (138)

5)Don’t change the subject. What else does she do? (139)

6)Have you seen the tree, that’s filled with shoes? (142)

7)I can’t keep a half-dissected rat for ever. (146)

8)We’ll have to do it again now. (146)

9)Have you robbed anyone, Caris? (147)

10)I just don’t want to. (148)

4.Explain or paraphrase the following sentences.

1)Everyone at school is shrinking (133)

2)…Louise has been a heap of duvet in bed when he comes in. (139)

3)Mac doesn’t miss his wife as much as he misses not to think of her.

(140)

4)He would lie with Degna on a king-size double bed, in a dimly lit room with closed blinds and an en suite bathroom. (140)

5)Mac reaches out, across the abyss of table and glasses and beer mats,

and puts his large hand over Degna’s. (140)

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6)The bottom margins of these letters are filled with kisses and hugs, and Louise reads them out loud to Carol and pins them to the notice board in her tiny cell. (143)

7)Clothes hang easily on George and wherever he goes he stands out.

(145)

8)But the city is a garment that won’t fit him. (145)

9)Behind him a shop dummy in a tailored suit looks affronted.(147)

10)George has endless supplies of money. (149)

11)The machine is burping away like a stomach, digesting their young

faces. (147)

5.Translate the passage p.147-148 “We’ll go and break somewhere...but George doesn’t turn round.”

6.Retell the events of this part as if you were a) Stella; b) Caris; c) Nana Price; d) Degna.

Focus on culture

1.What kind of food is ginger nut? (130)

2.Why do you think Brownie uniform was so important to Stella? (143)

3.What is special about Northumberland street? (145)

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Part 7.

pp. 150-174

Focus on vocabulary

1. Glossary. Note down the words and word combinations, memorize them. Transcribe the following words.

Nouns: tarmac (150), dandelion (150), zip-up (150), nettles (150), scraping (151), lad (153), suspicious (156), lampshade (156), partition (159), tray (156), swelling (161), tracksuit (163), interior (173), translucence (173), upholstery (174).

Verbs: to emerge (150), to snatch (159), to squash (159), to pull back (160), to force (164), to sprint down (165), to stride on (166), to squabble (166).

Adjectives: embarrassed (150), dictatorial (158), glossy (166), cavernous (172), frantic (174).

Adverbs: spotlessly. (160)

Phrases: to be embarrassed to (150), to push into smth (151), to wag off (153), to get a headache (155), to phone smb. (155), to leave one’s problems (157), to pack into (157), to turn smth. on (158), to get downstairs (160), to put up with smth. (162), to feel out of place (163), to sprint down the hills (165), to try to do smth. (169), to be dismayed (171).

2.Guess the word by its definition:

1)it’s time in the evening when you last see the sun in the sky;

4)to crush something into a flat shape;

5)a flat object, usually with raised edges, used for carrying food and

drinks;

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6)if an object or a substance is translucent, it is almosttransparent, allowing some light through it in an attractive way;

7)a piece of furniture that is sold in pieces inside a flat box, ready for the buyer to put them together;

8)to take hold of something suddenly and roughly;

9)liking to give orders;

10)a plant with large, green leaves, eaten uncooked in salads.

3.Define the following words: lettuce, upholstery, redbrick, zip-up, flatpack, spotlessly, tracksuit, glossy, urgent, frantic.

4.Find the situations where the following words or expressions were used and reproduce them orally: to be embarrassed to 150), to push into smth. (151), to get a headache (155), to leave one’s problems (157), to turn smth. on (158), to get downstairs (160), to sprint down the hills (165), to try to do smth. (169), to be dismayed (171).

5.Translate the following sentences.

1)Занавески были немного приоткрыты, и в саду, который был спереди дома, виднелись колокольчики и крапива среди грязных кустов роз.

2)Она выглядит словно молодой бычок, который в любой момент может начать топтаться на ковре.

3)Мак схватил деньги из ее рук и наблюдал, как она с трудом выбиралась из такси.

4)Он полагал, что поводом было спасение Кэрис, но он был смущен

осознанием того, что он так же пытается спасти и себя.

5)Стелла сказала Мистеру Фортоба, что у Кэрис болит голова.

6)Маку хотелось, чтобы его дети были словно мебель из Икеи. У

него было желание сложить их по коробкам и поставить под кровать, в эту минуту он рассмеялся от этой мысли.

7)Как же он мечтал о том, чтобы все его пассажиры не рассказывали о своих бедах и ненароком не оставили их в такси.

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8)Кэрис спустилась вниз и обнаружила своих родителей,

ругающихся на кухне.

9)От переполняющей ее злобы она бросилась бежать вниз по склону, но вдруг споткнулась и покатилась кубарем.

10)Он был в ужасе от увиденного.

6.Find synonyms for the following words: lad, nana, tipple, particularly,

divorce.

7.Find in the text, read and translate sentences containing adverbs from the glossary list.

8.Make up a story of your own with the words from the glossary list.

Focus on the contents

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

1)Mr. Fortoba worried about Caris.

2)Mac thought about sending Caris to a place for troublesome teenagers.

3)Mac wanted to shake Caris.

4)Caris hated her father.

5)Louise worried about Caris.

6)Caris didn’t talk about her mother with other members of her family.

7)Louise was known in prison as ‘the arty one’.

8)Mac wanted to divorce his incarcerated wife.

9)George likes Caris.

10)Marina doesn’t like Caris.

2.Answer the following question.

1)Why didn’t Caris answer her mother’s letter?

2)Why did Mac want to divorce Caris’s mother?

3)Why did Caris play truant?

4)Caris and George want to be together, don’t they?

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5)Why didn’t Marina like her son’s new girlfriend?

6)What was the attitude of Mac to George?

7)What annoyed Mac at home?

8)Why was Mac irritated sitting in the taxi cab going away from Ikea?

9)Mr. Fortoba wanted to help Caris, didn’t he? How?

10)What did Louise think about lying on the prison’s bed?

3. Say who these phrases belong to and explain the reason of the

conversation. Transform them into indirect speech.

1)She is like a young bull, like a bull that might start stamping on the carpet. (154)

2)That’s what she needs, bloody discipline. (158)

3)He tried to do a course, an evening course, in computers. (163)

4)Piss off! (161)

5)I’m sick of everything. (170)

6)I’m not putting up with it any more. (162)

7)I’ll have to give her name to the truancy officer. (154)

8)You’ve wrecked everything. (171)

9)Baby’s due in a month. (157)

4.Explain or paraphrase the following sentences.

1)She smiles her grey-toothed smile at Mr. Fortoba (151)

2)He wishes his passengers wouldn’t leave their problems in his taxis.

(157)

3)He is filled with a dictatorial rage. (158)

4)She knows that whatever love is, neither of them (Mac and Louise)

have attended to it very much lately. (164)

5) Stella waits for her, standing with her hands on her hips, like a caricature of nagging wife. (165)

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