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6.In our bed?

7.But I like who I am now.

8.Fifteen is supposed to be a boring age.

9.He’s not absurd. He’s good, loyal, handsome, prosperous.

10.He protects you from me, you mean.

2. Who did it?

1.Who picked Joan from the station?

2.Who decided to kick Richard out of town?

3.Who moved to Boston?

4.Who was used to Joan’s cooking?

5.Who wore charcoal eyebrows?

6.Who talked to Richard about the apartment in Boston first?

7.Who usually produced blank words?

8.Who was a neat and thrifty housekeeper?

9.Who stubbed out cigarettes still so long?

10.Who found the building of Richard’s apartment amazing?

3. Mark the following statements as true (T), false (F), not stated (NS). Correct the false statements.

1.Joan was married to Richard.

2.Ruth was married toAndy.

3.Richard and Joan still had friendly relationship.

4.Both the women visited Richard in Boston.

5.Richard had three children with Joan.

6.Everyone wanted Richard to move to Boston.

7.Joan wanted to find an apartment for Richard.

8.The real-estate agent wore too much make-up.

9.The children felt bored when visiting the father.

10.Richard had knownAndy for a long time already.

4.Answer the questions:

1.What were the relations between the characters in the story?

2.Who used gestures all the time?

3.How did Richard find his separate life in Boston?

4.What happened to Ruth once in the hotel?

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5.How did Richard and Ruth spend time together in Boston?

6.How did the children find their visit to the father?

7.What do we know about the past of the characters?

8.Who suggested going out to have dinner?

9.Who did the Maples meet at dinner?

10.What did Richard and Joan speak about at dinner?

Working with the vocabulary

1. Read the story, and find the following words and word combinations in the text and give their Russian equivalents.

convertible gear skimming mischievous reprieve homebound lover babying

stub out a cigarette assumption

illicit docile adolescent

maladjustment wary

weary withdraw immaculate diffident

2.Remember the contexts in whichWord List items are used, say who or what they are referred to.

3.Find the English equivalents for these:

придираться к кому-то, цепляться с трудом делать домашнее задание

растрогаться до слез, слезливое настроение

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недоделанное состояние, незавершенное холодная хибара

4. Explain what it means:

1.I feel I’ve given birth to a black hole.

2.He hated the city already, its crowding, its hunger.

3.… she was right, better other-destructive than self-destructive.

4.‘Things are stagnant’, she explained, ‘stuck; we’re not going anywhere’.

5.I seem to be feeding you all the time.

6.His smile was a gesture without an audience.

7.‘…she is not real to me, the way — you are.’

8.… perhaps had been more attracted to Joan’s surface glaze, her smooth New England ice, than to mischievous demons underneath.

9.He tithes.

10.…her gestures would endure…

5.Fill in prepositions where necessary:

1.Joan had called … the station, having lunched…

2.… the time he had reached … the center of town, she had walked … the main street and up the hill … the green.

3.I’ve decided to kick you ….

4.He glanced … her rosy, alert face to see if she meant … it.

5.Richard had been sleeping, most nights, … the weeks … their summer … separated vacations, … a borrowed seaside shack two miles … their home…

6.Dinner would lead … a post dinner drink, while the children plodded … their home work or stared … television…

7.When he chastised Ruth … stubbing … cigarettes still so long, she pointed …, with her beautiful unblinking assumption … her own primary worth, how much better it was … her, to kill the cigarette early…

8.Taking Joan … to dinner felt illicit. She suggested it, … fun, … the end of one of the children’s Sundays.

9.…they ate in this restaurant three or four times … a year, and were … schedule.

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10. Another couple, older than the Maples — the husband once worked with Richard … a town committee — came … … their booth beaming, jollying, loving, … that obligatoryAmerican way.

6. Match the synonyms:

7. Guess the word or word combination by its definition.

1.read (something) quickly so as to note only the important

points

2.causing or showing a fondness for causing trouble

3.unable to leave one’s house, typically due to illness or old age

4.forbidden by law, rules, or custom

5.ready to accept control or instruction; submissive

6.in the process of developing from a child into an adult

7.feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems

8.feeling or showing extreme tiredness, especially as a result of excessive exertion

9.free from flaws or mistakes; perfect

10.modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence

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8. Translate into Russian:

1.She told him with a little gesture he had never seen her use before.

2.It was September, leafy and warm, yet with a crystal chill on things, an uncanny clarity.

3.Richard found reverse, backed up, completed the turn, and they headed home, skimming.

4.‘Easy,’ Joan said. He knew it was a bluff, a brave gesture; she was begging for reprieve.

5.He was used to her cooking; indeed, his body, every cell, was composed of her cooking.

6.The floor was neither wall-to-wall shag nor splinter wood, but black-and-white tile, like the floor in a Vermeer.

7.Neither woman, it somehow pleased him to observe, ever made more than a gesture toward cleaning up — the bed a wreck, the dishes dirty, each of his three ashtrays (one glass, one pottery, and one a tin cookie-jar lid) systematically touched, like the bases in baseball.

9.Translate into English:

1.Перестань к нему придираться.

2.Дети с трудом делали домашнее задание или пялились в телевизор.

3.Послетакогожалостливогорассказанельзябылонезаплакать.

4.Все его сделки были не завершены.

5.Он всю жизнь прожил в жалкой холодной хибаре.

6.Старший сын был самым послушным.

7.К концу дня он был настолько утомлен, что у него не было сил утешать свою подругу.

8.Просматривая газету, он пытался найти квартиру.

9.Все считали ее детей проблемными, в округе у них не было друзей.

10.У вашего соседа безупречная надежная репутация.

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Detailed Comprehension

1. Answer the questions:

1.What kind of relations were there between the Maples? When do we understand what the problem in the family was?

2.How did Richard analyze people through their gestures? What gestures were new of his wife’s behaviour?

3.How did he find Boston?Was he happy living there?What feelings did he have towards his new life there?

4.Why does Richard choose the very house to live? What role does it have in the story?

5.How did he describe the visits of his women? Did he try to make them feel jealous to each other? Why did he do it?

6.How did his children find the situation in the family? Who suffered most?

7.What was the fun of inviting Joan to dinner?

8.What feelings did Richard speak about towards the two women in his life?

9.Did Joan still love Richard?Why did she still wear the wedding

ring?

10.Why did Joan keepAndy as a lover? What did her psychiatrist say about it?

2.Describe:

1.the building where Richard found an apartment

2.Richard and Joan’s dinner

3.Developthesituationscheckingyourknowledgeofthecontext:

1.‘Darley,’she said…

2.‘I found one. I signed the lease…’

3.With the ring I thee wed…

4.…she was rarely was allowed to clean more than one square…

5.‘Should I order another bottle?..

6.Once he walked to the base of the blue skyscraper…

4. Discuss the following quotations in pairs:

1. Did they know? It didn’t matter, in this country of temporary arrangements.

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2.Time, so careful and regular for him, sped for them, and van-

ished.

3.Fifteen is supposed to be a boring age.

4.… the face of even of a loved one looks unfamiliar and ugly when seen in a mirror…

5.What a transparent wealth of previous overlay a city’s present joy!

6.It could not last, such happiness. It was an interim, a holi-

day.

7.‘I love this building.And it loves me.’

8.The old pattern was still one visible to the world.

5.Act out the conversations between:

1.Joan and Richard

2.Richard and Ruth

6. Make up the dialogues:

1.between Richard and his son

2.between Richard and the real-estate agent

7.Speak your mind on:

1.the life of the main character

2.the two women in the story

3.gestures in the story

4.the plot arrangement

Consolidating the Material

1. Do the quiz to test how well you remember the details of the

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5. When Richard found the apartment his first call was to …

a) with the sun in it b) with the sunset in it c) with the sky in it 9. Richard took Joan out to dinner …

a) for fun b) for pleasurec) for the children

2. Prepare the passage for artistic reading and translate it into Russian:

“Blue, it showed greener than the sky. … With this ring I thee wed.”

3. Arrange a round-table discussion on the following:

1.Keeping love and family together is a life-long business.

2.Children in a split family.

3.Marriage ruins love.

4.Write a letter as if:

1.you were Richard looking for an apartment in Boston.

2.you were Joan’s psychiatrist giving her advice on her fami­

ly life.

3.you are Richard’s friend describing his family situation.

Culture Corner

1.Do you know anything about Boston? What kind of city is it?

Where is it situated? Are there any places of interest? What can really attract people to the city?

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3.Remember the lines: ‘coolness from Bogart, debonair recklessness from Errol Flynn, duality and deceit from Superman.’ What can you recollect about these film characters? Which are known to you?

4.Do you know these names from the quotation: ‘…as the radio fed Bach or Bechet into his ears…’? If not find what these people are and speak about them.

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Содержание

Часть I. “Theatre” byW.S. Maugham Задания

к роману С. Моэма «Театр». . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Part I (Chapters 1–4) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Part II (Chapters 5–9).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Part III (Chapters 10–13).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Part IV (Chapters 14–15).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Part V (Chapters 16–20).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Part VI (Сhapters 21–25).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Part VII (Chapters 26–29).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Final Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Часть II. Рассказы английских и американских писателей и задания к ним. . . . . . . . . . . . 79

The Great Automatic Grammatizator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

The Rocking Horse Winner.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Love is a Fallacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Skin.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Gesturing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

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