Пособие по домашнему чтению для студентов II курса. Учебное пособие

9. Translate into English:

1.После спектакля Джулия решила, что Эвис совершенно не умела играть, хотя и была красива, как картинка. Этого никак нельзя было отрицать.

2.Небудь строг кнему.Еготак легко обмануть!—Янемогу себе представить, как он мог попасться на эту старую уловку.

3.Джулия не могла доверить свои чувства ни Чарльзу, который преданно ее любил, ни Долли, которая ее боготворила. Она никому не могла чистосердечно признаться во всем. Театр был

ееединственным утешением и убежищем.

4.Интересы двух леди были ограничены приходской церко-

вью и домашними делами, они вовсе не собирались хвастаться Джулией перед своими друзьями, как ожидала Джулия.

5.Джулия старалась не напускать на себя важный вид, что-

бы никто не чувствовал себя неловко.

Detailed Comprehension

1. Answer the questions:

1.Why did Tom and Julia have different opinions ofAvice Crichton as an actress?

2.What qualities did Julia reveal before, during and after the visit to the theatre?

3.What do you think Julia was plotting againstAvice?

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4.What did Julia think of her performance? And Michael? Account for the difference in their opinions.

5.What qualities did Michael display in the conversation with

Julia?

6.Did the house in St.Malo reveal the characters of its owners? In what way?

7.Why did Mrs. Lambert and Madame Falloux prefer not to show Julia off?

8.What tricks did Julia devise to seduce Charles?

9.Did Julia find the scene in the bedroom mortifying or funny? What do you think about it?

10.How can you explain Charles’s behaviour?

11.Was Julia an adventure-seeker? What makes you think so?

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

text:

1.By the time they got in the car he was in a state of cold fury…

2.It was like a knife in her heart. He had never spoken to her in that tone before.

3.She had acted, she had acted marvelously, and now she felt

all in.

4.She knew exactly what had happened. She had let her emotions run away with her; she had been feeling, not acting.

5.They had achieved the aloofness from the common ties of men that Julia felt in herself when she stood at the footlights bowing to the applause of an enthusiastic audience.

6.I feel like a queen returning from exile.

7.She looked so deliciously yielding, a ripe peach waiting to be picked.

8.It was really beginning to look like an adventure.

9.Surely I can act sex appeal. I can act anything.

3.Discuss the following quotations in pairs:

1.I always think, if one has talent one can’t help showing it.

2.The theatrical profession’s terribly overcrowded … it seems almost hopeless unless you’ve got influence or something.

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3.…I would never let sentiment interfere with business.

4.Her acting was more important than any love affair in the

world.

5.Strange world we live in. Actors do their damnednest to look like gentlemen and gentlemen do all they can to look like actors.

6.Success isn’t everything…After all, love is the only thing that matters.

4.Look through Chapters 21–25 again and prove that:

1.Julia acted in real life;

2.theatre was Julia’s refuge;

3.theatre means different things for different people.

5.Describe:

1.Aunt Carrie’s house;

2.Charles’s house.

6.Speak about:

1.Avice Chrichton;

2.Julia’s new traits of character;

3.Tom’s new traits of character;

4.Julia’s mother and aunt.

7.Act out the conversations between:

1.Julia and Tom (after the Sunday night show);

2.Julia and Michhael (in Julia’s dressing room at the end of the

play);

3.Julia and Charles (in the bedroom);

4.Julia and the stranger from the Edgware Road.

8.Make up the dialogues:

1.between Mrs Lambert and Madame Falloux (discussing their preparation for Julia’s visit);

2.between Tom and Avice Chrichton (discussing their plans for the future).

9.Speak your mind on Julia as if you were Tom / Avice Chrichton / Michael / Charles.

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Consolidating the Material

1. Do the quiz to test how well you remember the details of Chapters 21–25:

1.Michael couldn’t go to the Sunday night show and see Avice acting because …

a) he was going to Sandwich to play golf. b) he depended only on Julia in such matters. c) he wanted to please Tom.

2.Tom wanted Julia to go behind and congratulateAvice … .

a)before the performance

b)after the second act

c)after the first act.

3. The scene to which the play owed its success and which appealed to Julia from the beginning …

a)showed the parting of two lovers.

b)emphasized the idea of eternal love.

c)showed the grief of a bereaved mother.

3.Finally Julia’s acting ceased to be a means by which she gave release to her feelings and …

a)she gave free rein to her anguish.

b)she felt exhausted by all the emotions she had displayed.

c)was again the manifestation of her creative instinct.

4.Madame Falloux lived …

a)in a tall, narrow stone house on a hill.

b)in an ancient mansion with the roof resting on white columns.

c)in a modern house furnished with a Louis XV suite.

5.Julia to her great amazement soon discovered that to her mother and aunt her celebrity was an embarrassment rather than an asset. So …

a)they made her lie on sofas and were solicitous that she should cover her feet.

b)they didn’t offer to take her with them to pay calls.

c)they wrapped up all Julia’s expensive presents and put them away in cupboards.

7. Living in St Malo Julia was able to consider Tom and her feeling for him with a tranquil mind. She …

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a)realized that her vanity had been more wounded than her heart.

b)realized that she loved him more than ever.

c)recollected Tom’s slim, youthful body against hers, his smile, the smell of his curly hair.

9. The desire for self-sacrifice with which she left England burnt eager in Julia’s breast with an eager flame and she decided to express her gratitude for … .

a) Michael b) Madame Falloux c) Charles. 10. Charles …

a)was slightly bowed and his clothes looked as though they needed pressing.

b)looked more elegant and refined than usual.

c)looked very elegant, but there was a troubled look in his eyes.

1.GettingreadyforherwalkalongtheEdgwareRoadJuliaputon…

a)her best dress and a straw hat.

b)a dress that was neither plain nor obviously expensive and a red straw hat with a wide brim.

c)an ankle-length skirt and a white blouse.

11. Julia’s heart gave an exultant leap when …

a)she saw that a man in a grey suit and a brown soft hat was staring at her.

b)she saw half a dozen persons gazing at a shop window.

c)a man with a blank face passed by.

2.Prepare the passage for artistic reading and translate it into Russian. Comment on the role of theatre in Julia’s life:

“Once again the theatre…she felt she had never played so magnificently.” (Chapter 22)

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

1.Choosing acting as a career;

2.The role of theatre in present days.

4.Write a letter as if:

1. you were Julia. Explain to your mother why you want to stay with her.

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2.you were Julia. Write about your life in St Malo to Michael.

3.you were Julia. Write about your life in St Malo to Charles.

Culture Corner

1. Avice Chrichton played in a Sunday night show.

Do you know that Sunday night plays are performances given by amateur actors (sometimes with one or two professionals) in a local pub, theatre, church (as a rule theatres in England don’t give evening performances on Sundays)?

2. Do some research and tell your group-mates about:

-theatre life in Great Britain; -theatres in London.

You may find the following links helpful: http: // www.visitbritain.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Theatre_Guide

http: // arts.guardian.co.uk/britishtheatre/0,,748029,00.html

Part VII (Chapters 26–29)

Pre-text Discussion

1.What episode characterizing Julia as an actress struck you most of all? Do you think she will be able to get over her love for Tom and act with the accustomed virtuosity?

2.Julia intended to settle a score with Avice Chrichton. What are the possible variants of doing it?

3.Julia doesn’t feel at home with Roger.Account for it. Can Julia be closer to him?

4.Do you think the ending of the book is going to be optimistic or pessimistic? What does it imply?

5.Read Part VII and check your answers.

General Comprehension

1. Who said it?

1.“She’s so awkward, her gestures are so meaningless”.

2.“Unfortunatelyformeyou’vetakenawaymybeliefineverything”.

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3.“Youdon’texist,you’reonlytheinnumerablepartsyou’veplayed”.

4.“She wants her freedom. She says an engagement would interfere with her career”.

5.“You simply wiped the floor with her. She didn’t even look pretty in the second act”.

6.“I shall never in all my life have another moment like this. I’m not going to share it with anyone”.

2.Who did it?

1.Who insisted on keepingAvice in the cast?

2.Who was once greatly impressed by an episode in the wings?

3.Who advised Julia to leave Roger alone?

4.Who invited Julia to have tea?

5.Who considered Julia to be jealous?

6.Who invited Julia to have supper after the performance?

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

1.Avice Chrichton was madly in love with Michael. She had fallen for his fatal beauty.

2.As Julia saw Tom on the platform she hugged him with affection and started asking him questions about his stay in Vienna.

3.The conversation with Roger was so intolerable that Julia felt relieved when she heard Michael’s car drive up to the house.

4.At Taplow Roger made use of Tom in order to learn something he wanted to know. He considered Tom to be very intellectual.

5.Charles believed that Roger might find what he was looking for, if not in God, then in art.

6.Julia, as usual, was intolerably nervous before the first night.

7.Everything in Tom’s room was so familiar to Julia, everything meant so much to her. It had been the scene of so many emotions. So Julia could hardly keep from crying.

8.Michael rehearsed Avice’s big scene in the second act so as to give it all to the girl. But Julia changed the scene completely.

4.Answer the questions:

1. How well did the parts in the new play suit Julia andAvice?

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2.What helpedAvice hold the part?

3.How did Julia look on the day she met Roger?

4.What subject was she going to discuss with him?

5.Why did Julia have a feeling of acute discomfort?Why was she bitterly hurt?

6.What were Roger’s plans for the future?What did he seek in life?

7.What episode had produced a great impression on Roger?

8.Did Julia love Roger? Did Roger love Julia?

9.What methods did Michael use to rehearse Avice? What was the result?

10.What was Charles’s reaction to Julia’s version of her conversation with Roger?

11.Why was Julia disappointed after it?

12.How did Julia feel on the day of the first night?

13.What change did Tom notice in Julia?

14.What tricks did Julia play onAvice?

15.Why did she play these tricks from Michael’s point of view?

16.Did Julia win a victory over Tom?

17.Where did Julia go after the performance? Why?

18.Why had Julia acted so badly in spring?

Working with the Vocabulary

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

Chapter 26 to settle a score

to be under the delusion that

Chapter 27

to feel at home with smb to flash across smb’s mind to be ignorant about smth to get down to brass tacks to bring down the house faked

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Chapter 28

to have a knack of doing smth to have half a mind to do smth to dote on smb

Chapter 29

to deliver a speech

to feel like a million dollars to put a spoke in smb’s wheel to savour

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

3.Find the English equivalents for these:

Chapter 26

творить, совершать чудеса

Chapter 27

привязанность, любовь быть авторитетом для кого-либо, оказывать влияние

Chapter 28

ускользать из памяти, забыть

Chapter 29

подчеркнуть цвет повернуться спиной к кому-либо служебный вход в театр

4. Explain what it means:

Chapter 26 a revival

to let bygones be bygones

Chapter 27 the Bar

a barrister in the wings

fifty odd years

Chapter 28

you could have knocked me down with a feather (a woman) of hard on fifty

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Chapter 29 denouement lines

5. Fill in prepositions where necessary:

A. from,at(4),to(3),into(2),on(2),up,across,with(2),round,of,in

Michael was afraid that Roger would go … a broker’s office or even … the stage. (Chapter 27)

1.The suspicion flashed … Julia’s mind that Roger had guided the conversation … that direction so that it should be diverted … him and his affairs. (Chapter 27)

2.…the other hand, if you fancy … the Foreign Office you should take … modern languages. (Chapter 27)

3.She was surprised … his going back … that subject so suddenly, but she returned … it … a smile. (Chapter 28)

4.…she did not go … the Park, but sauntered … the neighbouring squares, deserted … that time of year, idly looking … the houses, and thought how much she preferred her own … any of them. (Chapter 28)

5.The corridor was packed now … people who wanted to get … least a glimpse … her. (Chapter 29)

B. on, down, at, with, under, in, about, of

1.The Smiths dote … their younger child, and the older one’s naturally very envious. — You could have knocked me … with a feather. I thought them to be quite impartial.

2.She has a knack … making everyone feel … home. No wonder he has an influence even … Professor Lee.

3.Drivers sometimes pretend that they are ignorant … speed limits. They also say that it has slipped … their memory.

4.Iwasstill…thenaïvedelusionthateveryonewasgoodatheart.

5.She sipped her wine savouring …every drop. A was sure she felt like a million dollars.

6.He came back after five years to settle some old scores. He was sure nobody could put a spoke … his wheel.

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