Пособие по домашнему чтению для студентов II курса. Учебное пособие

втрепет.Онаготовабылаубежатьсним,чтобыобвенчаться,но Роджер не торопился делать предложение. Это унижало ее. Здравый смысл подсказывал ей, что Роджера нельзя шантажировать.

Он только посмеется надней; у него хватит наглости поставить еенаместоидажебросить(dump)ее.Онапонимала,чтонадопод-

строить ситуацию, чтобы он не смог устоять перед ней. Комок подступал к горлу, когда она думала о своей несчастной жизни.

2.У Маргарет было ужасное настроение после разговора

срежиссером. Конечно, она старела, но она ведущая актриса, по-прежнему у нее было много вызовов на бис, толпы людей собирались у театра, чтобы увидеть ее живьем. Это был первый режиссер, с кем она не ладила. Сейчас, вся в гриме, она думала

спечалью, что ей придется оставить театр, вместо того, чтобы повторять роль в ожидании волшебных слов «Ваш выход!»

Detailed Comprehension

1. Answer the questions:

1.What role did Evie play in Julia’s life?Why was she so familiar with Julia?

2.What was theatre to Julia? What did she compare with a tonic?

3.What were her real feelings to Charles Tamerley? How did she manage to remain his friend?

4.Why did Julia accept the offer of tea? How did she find the whole situation?

5.Did Julia change after her date with Tom? In what way?

6.Do you think Julia was an adventure-seeker? How does her behaviour on the way to Cannes characterize her?

7.What did Julia feel when the Spaniard pretended not to recognize her?

8.What was Julia’s reaction to Tom’s phone call? Why did she continue the affair?

2.Describe:

1.The upper society (Charles’s guests)

2.Tom’s visit to the theatre

3.Julia and Tom’s going to the restaurant

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3. Develop the situations checking your knowledge of the context:

1.At fifty-eight South Africa and Australia. Michael says we can clean up there.

2.Diet! When I’m sixty I shall let myself go.

3.She was inclined to insist on the fact that her father had been

a vet.

4.She had a retentive memory and learnt a great deal from him.

5.She saw herself as a young, obscure, struggling actress.

6.There was no part of her busy life that she enjoyed more than those three hours that she spent in her dressing-room.

4.Discuss the following quotations in pairs:

1.Oh, well, it’s no good crying over spilt milk. (Chapter 10)

2.She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.(Chapter 10)

3.Morally she had the best of both worlds. Everyone knew that her marriage with Michael was exemplary. (Chapter 11)

4.The nerve of it! She wouldn’t go to tea with a duchess; he was treating her like a chorus girl. (Chapter 11)

5.Julia thought how disgusting men were. You simply couldn’t trust them for a minute. (Chapter 12)

6.It was fun to think that she could be crazy. (Chapter 13)

5.Act out the conversations between:

1.Julia and Charles (when he came to say his final good-bye)

2.Julia and the Spaniard

6. Make up the dialogues beturen:

1.Julia and Dolly about her adventure on the train;

2.Julia and Evie discussing Tom Fennell.

7. Speak your mind on:

1.the relationship between Julia and her son;

2.Julia’s talent as an actress;

3.Julia’s adventure on the train;

4.Tom Fennell’s feelings.

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

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Consolidating the Material

1. Do the quiz to test how well you remember the details of Chapters 10–13.

1.Evie had been Julia’s dresser and maid since… . a) Julia came to London

b) Middlepool times

c) they opened their own theatre

2.Julia wrote a letter to Tom Fennell because she … . a) was naturally polite

b) knew who he was

c) wanted to have a date with him

3.Julia got the reputation of a wit because she … .

a)was a brilliant conversationalist

b)told anecdotes

c)had a gift of mimicry

4.Julia managed to keep Charles as her admirer because she … . a) promised to elope with him

b) cried at the right moment c) accepted his love

5.Julia accepted Tom’s invitation to have tea because she… .

a)was madly in love with him

b)was doing a good action

c)wanted to have fun

6. Tom Fennell lived in Tavistock Square because… .

a) he was poor b) it was central c) it was close to the theatre

7.Julia found the adventure amusing because … . a) she didn’t know the young man’s name

b) the situation was compromising c) it made her feel younger

8.Julia went to Cannes once because… .

a)her mother had come to live there

b)she was on tour

c)Dolly had rented a house

9. When the Spaniard met Julia in Cannes he … .

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a)started an animated conversation

b)gave a glance in which there was no sign of recognition

c)tried to blackmail her

12.Julia was late to the restaurant where Tom was waiting because… .

a)some tiresome people had delayed her

b)she had been making up too long

c)Evie had kept her busy

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

“Julia was not a brilliant conversationalist... Even Michael fondly thinking she got her clothes for nothing, did not know how much she really spent on them.”(Chapter 11)

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

1.The role of education in a person’s life.

2.The role Charles Tamerley played in Julia’s life.

3.What True love is.

4.Write a letter as if

1.you were Tom Fennell. Tell your parents about your job and new acquaintances in the world of theatre.

2.youwereMichael.Writetoafriendtoshareyourfeelingsabout Julia’s infidelity.

3.you were Dolly de Vries. Write to Julia informing her that you know about her affair with Tom and what you think about it.

Culture Corner

1. Do you know anything about the actresses of the past mentioned by the characters of the novel?

Sarah Kemble, later known as Sarah Siddons, was born on July 5, 1775 at The Shoulder of Mutton Public House in Brecknockshire,

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Wales. Her parents led a group of trave ling actors. The Kembles became the progenitors of a family of actors. The critics called her phenomenal and she reigned supreme as the Queen of Drury Lane. Sarah had many roles that she became known for, the majority of them tragedies. The audience loved her and she would be forever known from that point on as the Queen of Tragedy.

George Bernard Shaw gallantly declared that ‘every famous man of the 19th century – provided he were a playgoer – has been in love with Ellen Terry.’Ellen was born in 1847 in Coventry, Warwickshire, ‘Shakespeare’s own county’as she happily recalled in her 1908 memoirs. Adored by both the public and her colleagues alike Terry was a woman of great charm and generosity who also possessed a fiercely independent spirit allied to a resolute capacity for hard work. Ellen continued to act until 1925. She died on 21 July 1928 aged 81.

Do some research on one of the actresses and present it to the class.

These links can be helpful: http://www.britannica.com/facts/5/124548/Sarah-Siddons-as-dis- cussed-in-Ellen-Terry-British-actress http://www.britainunlimited.com/Biogs/Siddons.htm http://www.nndb.com/people/392/000071179/ http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/her_story/90133 http://www.essortment.com/all/actressellente_rdpq.htm

2. To get more information about the famous London museums and galleries such as the National gallery, the Tate, the British Museum use these links. Present the information to the class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_London http://www.londontourist.org/museums.html http://www.britishmuseum.org/

3. Charles Tamerley took Julia to museums and galleries; he liked to impart information and she was glad to receive it. It was to him she owed it that she could speak about Proust, or Cezanne.

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, (10 July 1871– 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best

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known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).

Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

Use the links to get more information about these people and present it to the class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust http://www.tempsperdu.com/ http://ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/

Part IV (Chapters 14–15)

Pre-text Discussion

1.What is Julia going to do about the watch Tom pawned?

2.How will the relations between Tom and Julia get along?

3.How will Michael treat Tom in the next chapters?

4.Read Part IV and check your answers.

General Comprehension

1. Who said it?

1.“I who thought I could never be in love again? Of course it can’t last. But why shouldn’t I get what fun out of it I can?”

2.“He’ll be a nice friend for Roger”.

3.“Ofcoursehe’syoung…Perhapshe’llimproveashegrowsolder.”

4.“Well, I’ll cook his goose all right.”

5.“I ought never to have let you make me those presents. I should never have let you lend me money.”

6.“I’m so lonely and your friendship meant a great deal to me.”

2.Who did it?

1.Who accepted valuable presents and borrowed money?

2.Who suggested inviting Tom to Taplow?

3.Whocameupwiththeideaoflettingtheflat inthemewstoTom?

4.Who enjoyed parties very much?

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5.Who was jealous and put out?

6.Who wrote a humiliating letter?

7.Who gave a performance to Tom?

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

1.Julia was shrewd and knew very well that Tom was infatuated with her.

2.Tom had backed a horse hoping to make some money but the horse was beaten.

3.Julia was disappointed in Roger because he was too intelligent and sophisticated.

4.Julia was as successful on the stage as on the screen.

5.At parties Roger didn’t seem to accept Julia’s guests, he coolly judged them.

6.Tom gave people of the world some advice about paying taxes.

7.As Tom read Julia’s letter he got pale.

8.Enclosing the money for the tips Julia didn’t think of hurting Tom’s feeling. She treated him as she would have treated Roger.

4.Answer the questions:

1.When did Julia confess to herself that she had fallen in love with Tom? Was he in love with her?

2.Did Julia try to bind Tom to her? What exactly did she do?

3.What made Tom so popular with women?

4.When did Tom first borrow money from Julia?

5.Why did Julia want Tom to change his lodgings?

6.Julia looked forward to Tom’s visit to Taplow with excitement. Did her dreams come true?

7.How did she estimate her son?

8.What were Roger’s plans for the future?

9.How did Julia revenge on Tom? What was the result?

10.What was the scheme of getting him back? Did it work?

Working with the Vocabulary

1.ReadPartIV,findthefollowingwordsandwordcombinations in the text and give their Russian equivalents:

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Chapter 14

to lay claims on smb / smth to set one’s face against smth to make a fuss over smb / smth to put smb out (to be put out)

to cross one’s t’s (and dot one’s i’s) to be the last straw

to turn smb out bag and baggage to get smb on the raw

Chapter 15 to reassure smb to call it a day

to get back on / at smb

to make a song and dance about smth a mug

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

3.Find the English equivalents for these:

Chapter 14

сохранять спокойствие (2 variants) угрызение совести создать образ

расквитаться с кем-либо, свести счеты ломать голову

Chapter 15

ничего в этом не понимаю обдумывать что-либо, перебирать в уме в гневе

4. Explain what it means:

Chapter 14

a chartered accountant a bed-sitting room fee

to eat an enormous tea

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to be a tremendous lark to rise with the lark

Chapter 15

I’m not all milk and honey a kept boy

to care two hoots (for smb) a hanger-on

5. Fill in prepositions where necessary:

А. at(3), over, to, in (3), into, for (4), with (2), on (2)

1.… last Julia confessed … herself that she had fallen … love … Tom. (Chapter 14)

2.Sometimesshecouldnotunderstandwhypeoplemadesomuch fuss … her. (Chapter14)

3.The critics praised especially Julia’s capacity … insinuating herself … a part. (Chapter 14)

4.Julia turned her beautiful eyes … him and … a while gazed … him … silence. (Chapter15)

5.You were angry … me and you wanted to get back … me.And you did. You couldn’t have shown your contempt … me more clearly. (Chapter 15)

6.But somewhere, … the back of her mind or … the bottom of her heart, was a feeling of ever so slight contempt …Tom because he was such a simple fool. (Chapter 15)

В. about, in, out(2), on (2), by, without, over

1.It’s nothing to make a song and dance …. Keep quiet.

2.He called me a mug but I’ll get back … him. I’m not all milk and butter, he’ll see that.

3.She never gets put … even … the most difficult matters. I’ve never seen her … a rage.

4.Ann makes a fuss … her son every time he comes to see her.

5.She seems to think she can lay claims … my time.

6.Benjamin turned his son … bag and baggage … any money. It serves him right!

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6. Translate into Russian:

1.I am an honest man, seeking to do my duty, and setting my face against all vice and treachery.

2.She was very much put out by your rudeness.

3.His behaviour got me on the raw.

4.It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. (proverb)

5.We reassured them that we would not make a song and dance about the whole thing.

6.“I’m engaged to her.” — “So what? This isn’t the reason we’ve got to call it a day”.

7.The shopkeeper refused to change the faulty radio, saying that it was all right when I bought it, so I decided to get back on him by writing to the local paper about it.

8.Well, we haven’t dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s, but the contract is nearly ready.

7.Guess the word or word combination by its definition

1.to stop work or other activity;

2.to pay a lot of attention to smb;

3.the last problem in a series of problems that finally makes you feel you cannot tolerate it any longer and you give up;

4.to make smb feel calmer and less worried or frightened about a problem or situation;

5.smb who is silly and easy to deceive;

6.to pay careful attention to all the details;

7.to say or do smth that upsets someone.

8.Match the synonyms:

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