Неадаптированное чтение на примере романа «Великий Гэтсби» Ф.С. Фицджеральда = An educational and practical aid for unadapted reading of «The Great Ga
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An educational and practical aid for unadapted reading of “The Great Gatsby”, a novel by F.S. Fitzgerald
8.slender
9.wistfully
10.twilight
11.to blur / to be blurred
12.haste
13.to attire / to be attired
14.elaborate
15.audibly / a
16.to entangle / to be entangled
3.Paraphrase the following (express in as few words as possible):
1.to be carried along by circumstance
2.to cause a feeling of dislike
3.the use of unnatural manners
4.allowing no refusal (denial)
5.worldly wise
6.having nothing to do with the point
7.to keep back one’s opinion for later use
8.reluctance to interfere with the freedom of thought or actions of others
4.Recall the situations in which these sentences were used:
1.…after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the conclusion that it has a limit.
2.…Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man with …a supercilious manner.
3.“SophisticatedGod, I’m sophisticated!”
4.“Did you give Nick a heart-to-heart talk…?”
5.… there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her…
6.Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected…
7.“I knew he was below me”
8.I was …enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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Неадаптированное чтение на примере романа «Великий Гэтсби» Ф.С. Фицджеральда
5.Answer the following questions:
1.When is the scene laid?
2.What do we learn about the narrator’s (Nick’s) background and current life?
3.Did Nick take part in World War I?
4.Was Jordan Baker’s fame nation-wide?
5.Did Nick think fascist ideas were new or old?
6.What disappointed Nick in the Buchanans?
7.What caused Myrtle’s disappointed in her husband?
8.Did Myrtle hope to marry Tom?
9.What did Tom think of Myrtle?
6.Discussion:
1.Note how many times Fitzgerald uses the words hope and dream. Why do you think he does so?
2.Pay attention to time-references. What is the day and year of Nick’s first visit to Daisy’s house?
3.Describe the Valley of Ashes. What does it look like and what does it represent?
4.Describe the Wilsons. Do you think they fit into the Valley of Ashes?
5.Give Tom’s social background and his character sketch.
6.Give a summary of Nick’s visit to the Bauchanans.
7.Nick’s meeting with Myrtle Wilson at the party.
8.Give a character sketch of Daisy.
9.Give a character sketch of Myrtle.
10. Sum up all the references to Gatsby.
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Chapters III–IV
Active vocabulary:
1.to toil
2.to know smb from smb / to know smth from smth
3.in full swing
4.on the spot
5.prodigality
6.embarrassment (verb: to embarrass)
7.in the same breath
8.to give ear to somebody
9.on the tip of smb’s / one’s tongue
10. to ramble
11. to do stunts
12. to wash one’s hands off smth
13. to elude
14. to account for smth
15. to haunt
16. haunting
17. to loiter
18. to promote smb
19. ro pocket smth
20. a bootlegger
21. to lurch up
22. elemental
23. to stagger (e.g. an idea staggered me)
24. by far
25. to be engrossed in something
26. to retrain one’s laughter
27. to retract one’s statement
28. to impose upon smb / smth
29. to move with a fast crowd
30. to be at a disadvantage
Use the active vocabulary in your own situations or recall the situation in which each of the vocabulary units is used in the book.
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Неадаптированное чтение на примере романа «Великий Гэтсби» Ф.С. Фицджеральда
Exercises
1.Translate the following sentences in Russian:
Chapter III
1.Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
2.Instead of rambling, the party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside…
3.I wonder if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set
him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased.
Chapter IV
4.He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with the resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American — that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.
5.We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded-gilt nineteen hundreds.
6.I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, gnawings of his broken heart.
7.They moved with a fast crowd, all of them, young and rich and wild, but she came out with an absolutely perfect reputation.
2.Paraphrase the following words and expressions or explain their meaning in English:
1.to call on smb
2.to elude
3.to back out
4.to abandon
5.whereabouts
6.to saunter about
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7.to impose upon smb
8.to gamble
9.to pull one’s leg
10. to alter / to be altered
11. threadbare phrases
12. sinister
13. to skim
14. to deal in subterfuges
15. to pick one’s words with care
3.Recall the situations in which these sentences were used:
1.The bar is in full swing…
2.…the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, profound.
3.… he was picking his words with care.
4.I could see nothing sinister about him.
5.A caddy retracted his statement…
6.…she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young…
7.“He’s a bootlegger.”
8.“They were so engrossed in each other that she didn’t see me…”
9.They moved with a fast crowd.
4.Answer the questions:
1.What makes it possible for anyone to move with a fast crowd? (one’s money, up-bringing, etc.)
2.What cardinal virtues would you insist on?
3.What sort of people deal in subterfuges?
4.DEo all people hate being at a disadvantage?
5.Is prodigality a cardinal virtue?
5.Discussion:
1.Describe Gatsby the first time Nick sees him.
2.What rumors have been told about Gatsby? Why do you think
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Неадаптированное чтение на примере романа «Великий Гэтсби» Ф.С. Фицджеральда
3.Fitzgerald reveals rumors rather than facts?
4.Gatsby’s party (description of the host’s wealth and prodigality).
5.Gatsby’s guests (what layers of society did they represent?) Why do you think Fitzgerald lists all of Gatsby’s guests?
6.Is Gastby different from his guests? If so, in what way is he different?
7.Gatsby’s talk about himself with Nick. Why do you think Gatsby told Nick about his life? Do you believe Gatsby? Does Nick?
8.Lunch with Gatsby and Wolfsheim.
9.What roles do you think Wolfsheim plays in the novel? Why does there seem to be so much focus on his nose?
10. The story of Gatsby’s love (Daisy’s background, her characteristics, your attitude toward her).
11. Sum up all the references to Jordan Baker (relying on Nick’s direct characterization, her behaviour at the parties). Pay attention to Nick’s judgements. What do they reveal about his character?
12. Nick says, “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” What do you think Nick means? How do you see each character in the novel fit into this schema?
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Chapters V–VI
Active vocabulary:
1.to make money on the side
2.to take up time
3.matter-of-fact
4.to render a service
5.to be consumed with a feeling
6.to scrutinise
7.distraught eyes
8.to smear / smeared (e.g. a face smeared with tears)
9.to make one’s nervous circuit of smth
10. to harrow — to be harrowed
11. to cut smb off (e.g. to cut smb off a place) 12. to store smth up
13. short of smth (e.g. to tumble short of smth) 14. a random shot
15. an outlet for smth
16. notoriety / notorious
17. to ingratiate oneself with smb
18. to turn up
19. to loaf
20. in oblivion
21. against smb’s shoulder (e.g. to slump against smb’s shoulder)
22. to be employed in a capacity
23. to make a point of doing smth
24. to appall / to be appalled by smth
25. to take shape
Use the active vocabulary in your own situations or recall the situation in which each of the vocabulary units is used in the book.
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Неадаптированное чтение на примере романа «Великий Гэтсби» Ф.С. Фицджеральда
Exercises
1.Translate the following sentences in Russian:
Chapter V
1.He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
2.There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.
3.I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverfish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed-that voice was a deathless song.
Chapter VI
4.Gatsby’s notoriety, spread about the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities upon his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.
5.… a grey florid man with a hard empty face — the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.
6.For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man’s, as though there was more straggling upon them than a wisp of startled air.
2.Find synonyms to the following words and expressions or explain their meaning in English:
1.overwhelming surprise
2.to glare
3.enchanted objects
4.ineffable
5.to repose smth
6.to attain smth
7.a stir and bustle
8.lights were extinguished
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3.Paraphrase the following:
1.to plunge / to take a plunge
2.to fumble with smth
3.I’ve got my hands full
4.to become contemptuous of somebody
5.to mount a horse
6.tipsy
4.Recall the situations in which these sentences were used:
1.The evening had made me light-headed and happy.
2.We both jumped up, and, a little harrowed myself, I went out into the yard.
3.“Gatsby was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.
4.Daisy’s face was smeared with tears…
5.His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.
6.It was a random shot…
7.… a grey florid man with a hard, empty face…
8.She was appalled by West Egg…
5.Answer the questions:
1.What is the result of Nick’s talk with Miss Baker?
2.Why does Nick refuse Gatsby’s offer to “pick up a nice bit of money”?
3.How does Gatsby prepare for the meeting with Daisy?
4.How does Gatsby behave when he sees Daisy?
5.Why does Gatsby invite Nick and Daisy to his house?
6.Whose photo does Nick see in Gatsby’s bedroom?
7.What are the aims of Gatsby’s buying that house and giving parties?
8.Why does Gatsby receive so many phone calls? What does this say about him?
9.Why has the significance of the green light disappeared?
10.What makes Gatsby so enchanted by Daisy’s voice according to Nick?
11.Who is Dan Cody and what is his relation to Gatsby?
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12. What is Tom’s opinion of Gatsby? What does Tom think of Gatsby’s guests?
13. How is this party different?
14. How does Gatsby measure the success of his party? 15. Why doesn’t Daisy like West Egg?
16. What does Gatsby desire of Daisy?
6.Discussion:
1.Gatsby’s meeting with Daisy
2.Describe Gatsby’s house.
3.Mr. Dan Cody in Gatsby’s house.
4.Give Gatsby’s social background and describe his character.
5.Do you agree that “you can’t repeat the past”? What does this statement refer to?
6.Dwell on the effect of rain on the plot.
7.Explain the significance of the green light.
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