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4.Why was Julia in despair (though it was such a good chance for Michael)?

5.How did Jimmie try to calm her down?

6.Was Jimmie against Michael as her would-be husband? Why?

7.Why did Julia sign a new contract with Jimmie?

8.How did Michael take the fact that he was a flop?

9.Why was Julia surprised when Michael proposed to her?

10.Were they lucky in London?

11.What was Michael’s participation in the war like?

12.Why was he so popular with officers?

13.Where and when did they move?

14.How did they manage to start their business?

15.Why didn’t Julia want to ask Dolly de Vries for money?

16.Did Michael understand her fears?

17.Was their new theatre a success?

18.Why didn’t Dolly sell out her share of business?

19.Was Michael a good director?

2.Describe:

1.Michael’s performance in the USA;

2.Michael’s military career.

3.Develop the situations checking your knowledge of the con-

text:

1. ... by his manner, friendly but casual, you might have thought they had been married for years.

2.Julia sat in a great leather armchair willing with all her might theAmerican manager to offer a part that Michael would refuse ...

3.I’m not going to hold it up against you because for once you’ve let me down.

4.He’ll be back at the end of the season and back for good.

5.Extravagant little thing, aren’t you?

6.He said they could not afford to let sentiment stand in the way of business.

7.It was just before the end of the war that she fell out of love with him.

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8. He sought out actors who had never been given a chance and whose salaries were small.

4. Discuss the following quotations in pairs:

1. ... I said to him he could have anyone in the company he liked with the one exception of Michael Gosselyn. (Chapter 5)

2.He knew what he was doing all right when he landed me with that stick. (Chapter 6)

3.Now she could deal with him on equal terms. (Chapter 7)

4.She continued to flatter him... She got a little private amusement by seeing how much he could swallow. (Chapter 8)

5.For once his cunning found its match. (Chapter 9)

6.Even Dolly, who did not like him, acknowledged his unselfishness. (Chapter 9)

7.God knows what they see in him. (Chapter 9)

8.Because her love had died, she felt that life had cheated her. (Chapter 9)

5.Act out the conversations between:

1.Julia and Jimmie when she accused him of Michael’s depar-

ture;

2.Julia and Michael in the hotel when Michael came back from the USA.

6.Make up the dialogues between:

1.Julia and Dolly about Michael;

2.Michael and Julia over a new play.

7.Speak your mind on:

1.the relationship between Julia and Michael and how it changed throughout the years;

2.Mrs de Vries;

3.The Siddons Theatre.

8.Entitle each chapter and prove your point of view.

Consolidating the Material

1. Do the quiz to test how well you remember the details of Chapters 5–9.

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1.AmericanmanagerofferedMichaelajobintheUSAbecause….

a)he found Michael a great actor

b)Jimmie Langton told him Michael was a great actor

c)Jimmie Langton told him he could have anyone in the company except Michael

2. When Michael told Julia about the American manager’s preposition Julia was rather … .

3.When Julia and Michael were separated Michael used to send her letters which were… .

a)more informative than passionate

b)very passionate

c)contained a lot of useless details

4.During the first years of marriage Julia made Michael frantic scenes because… .

a)she found out he was unfaithful

b)he was simply indifferent

c)he started drinking

5.Julia thought one night that now she could deal with Michael on equal terms because … .

a)they earned equally

b)they both got leading parts

c)she didn’t love him any longer

6.With years Julia’s passion and frantic emotions towards Michael turned into … .

8. Julia refused to ask Dolly for money to start up the business because … .

a)Dolly was rather selfish and wouldn’t give it to them

b)Dolly had a weird feeling towards Julia

c)it would be very humiliating if she refused

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9. Michael was very satisfied with his marriage because he found his wife very… .

a) emotional b) passionate c) clever 10. Michael and Julia called their own theatre … .

a) the GlobusTheatre b) the SiddonsTheatre c) the KembleTheatre

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

“After a fortnight of rehearsals…Julia knew that he had not made good.” (Chapter 6)

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

1.The basic elements of a happy marriage.

2.Theatre business: where to start and how to make it last long.

4.Write a letter as if:

1.you were Jimmie Langton. Tell your old chaps about the new great actress you have found and what you think about her relationship with one of the actors from your company.

2.you were Julia.Write to a girlfriend of your youth to share your feelings about the fact that life has cheated you.

3.you were Dolly de Vries. Write to your husband’s sister about your new friends.

Culture Corner

1.DoyouknowthatToscaisoneofthemostfamousanddramatic operas by Puccini? Do some research and tell your groupmates about the composer and his opera. You may find the following links helpful:

http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Tosca/Opera http://www.suite101.com/content/tosca-giacomo-puccini-opera- a79075

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini http://www.ranker.com/list/giacomo-puccini-operas/reference

2. Find some information about the plays Julia and Michael acted in(for example, ‘Candida’). What type of plays were they (a tragedy, a comedy, a problem play, a costume play, a drawing room comedy, etc.)? find examples of the types mentioned, present your information to the class.

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You may find the following links helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_(play) http://www.curtainup.com/candida.html http://renierdrama.wordpress.com/category/types-of-drama- plays-comedy/ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/477588/problem-play

Part III (Chapters 10–13)

Pre-text Discussion

1.Do you think Julia will try to change her life?

2.Was Dolly deVries a loyal friend? Do you think Julia had many good friends?

3.What actresses do you think her contemporaries compared her

with?

4.Read part III and check your answers.

General Comprehension

1. Who said it?

1.“Oh, well, it’s no good crying over spilt milk”.

2.“We’re getting on, you know. We’re not so young as we were”.

3.“What a place to live. Who the hell d’you suppose he is?”

4.“Oh,MissLambert,IthinkIusedtoknowyourfatherinJersey.

5.“It’s only common sense that we shouldn’t see one another any

more”.

6.“I only wanted to thank you for writing to me. You know you needn’t have troubled”.

7.“When you came in just now, like a whirlwind, I thought you looked twenty years younger”.

8.“Hulloa, Julia, what’s the matter with you tonight? Why you don’t look a day more than twenty-five”.

9.“You couldn’t possibly have slept in that carriage. There’s a man there who’s a heavy breather”.

10.“I’m sorry, some tiresome people came round after the play and I couldn’t get rid of them”.

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2. Who did it?

1.Who decided they would tour SouthAfrica andAustralia when Julia was fifty eight?

2.Who sent Julia some wonderful fresh flowers?

3.Who was convinced that she was Charles Tamerley’s mis-

tress?

4.Who was exceedingly well-read?

5.Who taught Julia to make the gesture with the outflung arm and the index extended in the same line to point to the door?

6.Who helped Julia with a sleeper on her way to Cannes?

7.Who was ready to stay quietly at the villa in Cannes instead of going out?

8.Who criticized Julia for her attempt to look younger?

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

1.Julia never bothered about her age as there were quite a number of first-rate parts for a woman of five-and-forty.

2.For Julia theatre was a tonic, the world of reality in which life acquired significance.

3.As Julia appreciated publicity her photos were published in all the papers regularly.

4.The life of an actress was absolutely nonromantic as it entailed hard work, constant care and regular monotonous habits.

5.Some great ladies including Lady Charles tried to humiliate Julia on certain occasions but failed because of her sharp tongue.

6.The Tamerleys were about to divorce as Charles wanted to marry Julia.

7.Julia refused to go to tea with the duchess but accepted Tom’s offer out of sheer curiosity.

8.Tom was really thrilled to meet grand people with whom Julia was well acquainted.

4.Answer the questions:

1.What was Julia’s routine day?

2.Did Julia like publicity?

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3.What was Julia’s attitude to the upper society?

4.Did Charles Tamerly and his wife separate because of Julia?

5.What was the gossip like?

6.Why did Charles want to part with Julia?

7.Why was Julia nervous when Lady Charles left her husband?

8.Why did Julia go to tea with Tom?

9.Did she want to have an affair with him?

10.Do you believe that Tom was in love with Julia?

11.Why did he start the affair?

Working with the vocabulary

1.ReadpartIIIandfindthefollowingwordsandwordcombinations in the text and give their Russian equivalents.

Chapter 10

to clear up the mess to give smb a thrill

Chapter 11

to inherit a considerable fortune to laugh at smb. up one’s sleeve to humiliate smb.

to go out of the way to do smth. to be tongue-tied

in any emergency

to have the cheek to do smth. to be taken aback

Chapter 12 for a tip

to resist smb.

Chapter 13 good resolutions

the man of the world across the footlights

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

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3. Find the English equivalents for these:

Chapter 10

стареть быть в гриме

Chapter 11

ведущие актрисы хорошо ладить

поставить кого-либо на место передавать (делиться) информацию здравый смысл вызов на бис

Chapter 12

шантажировать кого-либо

Chapter 13

проявлять интерес к кому-либо увидеть кого-либо «живьем»

4. Explain what it means:

Chapter 10

as blue as the devil Beginners, please

Chapter 11 diamonds or only paste to elope with smb

Chapter 12

Madame

in for a penny, in for a pound a put-up job

in a flash

Chapter 13

a lump came into her throat

5. Fill in prepositions where necessary:

A. at (3), for (3), on (3) to (2), with (1), up (2)

1. Two of her front teeth were missing but notwithstanding Julia’s offer, repeated for years, to provide her … new ones she would not have them replaced. (Chapter 10)

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2.Butwhenshewasmade…hersatisfaction,andEviehadput… her stockings and her shoes, having a few minutes still to spare she sat down … her desk and in her straggling bold hand wrote to Thomas Fennell. (Chapter 10)

3.…the bottom of her heart she had a profound contempt … the great ladies and noble lords she met there. (Chapter 11)

4.Even Michael, fondly thinking she got her clothes … nothing did not know how much she really spent … them. (Chapter 11)

5.She was inclined, especially among the great, to insist … the fact that her father was a vet. (Chapter 11)

6.She persuaded him that she had a duty … Michael, and then there was the baby. (Chapter 11)

7.Every sleeper was engaged. The only chance was that someone should not turn … at the last moment. (Chapter 12)

8.If only I knew beforehand that they were going to take liberties … me I’d … least ask … their cards. (Chapter 12)

B. at, for, on , to, with, up

1.The boss … least insisted … being present at all the interviews.

2.Richard turned … on Christmas Eve with Tony.

3.The government was not in a position to provide them … food.

4.Businessmen spend enormous amounts … advertisements of their products.

5.Small wonder that many voters have contempt … their politicians.

6.You had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing, without taking liberties … the truth.

7.She never could seem to do anything right or … his satisfaction.

6.Match the synonyms:

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

1.say or do smth which makes others feel ashamed or stupid

2.intend to finish doing smth. that has been started

3.to go away secretly to get married

4.an event or situation that has been secretly planned in order to trick smb.

5.feeling very sad, in a bad mood

6.to make someone give money or obey you by threatening to tell people embarrassing information about them

7.the feeling when a person is going to cry

8.the ability to use judgement and make sensible decisions

8.Translate into Russian:

1.On the contrary, they all looked rather taken aback at being addressed as though they were five years old.

2.Whoever wrote the screenplay for the film took great liberties with the original text of the novel.

3.That’s really phony; a put-up job if I ever saw one. No put-up job is clever enough to fool me.

4.This not only defies the logic of what we are taught about spirits in Church, it defies common sense.

5.What does it mean to say that some diseases are ‘genetically inherited?

6.Strange how that name sent a thrillthrough him, stirred his blood!

7.Cantherebeanymoredefeated,disgracedandutterlyhumiliated political position in recent history than support for the invasion of Iraq?

8.Yet, visiting Strasbourg yesterday to address the European Parliament for the first time, he became somewhat tongue-tied.

9.In the calendar of criminal offences blackmail was one of the

ugliest and most vicious because it involved what one found so often, attempted murder of the soul.

10.Unfortunately, the Faculty cannot help unless the difficulties are produced by an unforeseen emergency or change of circumstances.

9. Translate into English:

1. Рут Барлоу из кожи вон лезла, чтобы женить Роджера на себе.Мысль,чтоонабудетженойсветскогочеловека,приводилаее

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