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8) staff The repeating of sounds in words that are close together, es p. for literary eff ect
9) reference The time during the year when there is teaching at
schools, colleges, and universities
10) exami ner A series of lessons or lectures in an academic subject
or a practical skill
3. Provide synonyms for the following words:
to dismiss, to pursue, appraisal, a clue, to constitute, fantastic,
to devour, thick, fi lthy, an urge, appalling, output, facile.
4. Provide antonyms for the following words:
embarrassing, to impress, relevant, sentimental, well-read, a vote
of confi dence, to waste, to improve, to demolish, enormously, sober.
5. Fill in the gaps with the words and expressions given in the brack-
ets below:
(fault, beyond, lodge, borrow, urge, metaphysical, stuck, rhyme,
geriatric, adult)
1) In dealing with this, Dr Bryant, do you think it’s wise to
pursue the _____ nature of Blake’s poetry?
2) Why should I mind? What do you want to be ___ in here for
anyway?
3) Open University, very late. Though why a grown ___ should
want to come to this place after putting in a hard day’s labour is
____ me.
4) It’s not their___ but sometimes I hate them.
5) Forster.
—
What’s it like? — Read it. Would you like to ___ it?
—
Oh, yeah.
6) Erm, assonance, it’s a form of __. Erm, what’s an example?
Do you know Yeats?
—
The wine ___? — No, WB Yeats, the poet.
7) I don’t often consider it. I sometimes get the __ to throw
something through it.
8)You wanna walk round looking like that?
—
Like what?| — Like
a ___ hippy.
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5. Match the phrasal verbs with their meaning and use them in your
own examples:
1) to pack up 4) to pack in
2) to split up 5) work up
3) to take down 6) deal with
A) to divide a group into smaller groups; to divide or break
something into several parts;
B) to take action to do something, especially to solve a problem;
C) to fi nish work for the day by putting work or equipment away;
stop doing something, especially a job;
D) to develop a particular feeling; to make oneself feel upset,
excited or nervous;
E) to write down information or a statement;
F) to stop doing something.
6. Fill in the gaps with the suitable particles where necessary:
1) I was asking, Doctor, if you think that in approaching ___Blake
we should pursue ___the metaphysical aspect of his poetry.
—
Most
defi nitely. Blake. They all get so worked ___ about him.
2) Though why a grown adult should want to come to this place
after putting ___ a hard day’s labour is _____ me.
3) No good meaning to, you wanna get __ ___ it. One day you’ll
be shouting, “Come in,” and it’ll go on forever cos the poor sod
won’t be able to get __and you won’t be able to get ___.
4) But I’m not a Susan any more, I’ve changed me name__ Rita.You know, __ Rita Mae Brown?- No.
5) Tell me, what made you suddenly ___decide to do this? It’s
not sudden. I’ve been realizing for ages that I’m ___ __step.
6) Yeah, all right. I’ll look ___ it for you. If I pack the course
__, I’ll post it back.
7) I haven’t seen her in a long time, we split__.
—
Sorry. — Why
are you sorry?
—
Sorry ___ asking, being nosy.
8) Now, let’s get __ to Howards End.
own?
—
Rita!
—
So do you live __ your
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8. Paraphrase the following sentences paying special attention to
the italicized words and expressions:
1) I live with a girl, her name is Julia, she’s a young tutor here.
She’s very caring, very tolerant, and she admires me enormously.
2) The thing is, Rita, how the hell can you write an essay on
EM Forster with almost total reference to Harold Robbins? Oh, well...
Well, you said to bring in other authors. “Reference to other works
will impress the examiners,” you said.
3) Devouring pulp fi ction is not being well-read. I thought read-
ing was supposed to be good for one.
—
It is but you have to be
selective.
4) In your favour here you’ve mentioned Sons and Lovers but
this is all over the place.
—
Oh. — It’s very subjective and senti-
mental.
5) If you’re going to learn criticism, Rita, you have to discipline
that mind of yours.
6) Between you and me and the walls, actually I am an appall-
ing teacher.
That’s all right most of the time
—
appalling teaching is quite in
order for my appalling students but it is not good enough for you,
young woman.
7) You’re great!
—
Aha! A vote of confi dence. Thank you. No,
you’ll fi nd there is less to me than meets the eye. See? You can say
dead clever things!
8) Now, listen, you asked me to teach you, you want to learn.
That’s going to take a lot of work. You’ve barely had any schooling,
you have never been in an examination.
Possessing a hungry mind is not in itself a guarantee of success.
9. Translate from Russian using the vocabulary of this episode:
1) Я спрашивал, Доктор, когда мы пытаемся понять Блейка,
следует ли нам делать акцент на метафизической природе его
поэзии?
2) Вы хороший парикмахер, Рита?
—
Да, хороший. Но они
слишком многого ожидают, понимаете? Женщины приходят в парикмахерскую и надеются, что через полчаса выйдут другими
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людьми. Но если Вы хотите измениться, Вам следует делать это
изнутри, как я пытаюсь это сделать.
3) Френк, я хотел упомянуть об этом до обеда. Несколько
неловко. Дело в том, что на тебя поступила жалоба
Брайн?
семинара.
—
Видимо, ты был слегка пьян во время сегодняшнего
—
Нет! — Нет? — Я был оочень пьян.
—
Жалоба,
4) Да, я сказал, что следует ссылаться на другие произведения,
но я сомневаюсь, что экзаменатор прочтет «Куда ушла любовь».
Что ж, это его невезуха.
—
И это будет уже твое невезенье, когда
—
он тебя завалит на экзамене, а так и произойдет, напиши ты,
что ты написала на данный момент.
5) Денни, пойдем со мной в театр.
—
Что? Зачем это? — Если
бы мы пошли в театр, мы бы посмотрели пьесу и это помогло
бы мне написать эссе.
—
Я тебе уже говорил, что мне не нра-
вится, что ты этим занимаешься. Избавь меня от этого.
6) Поглощать пачками дешевое чтиво
читанным. Я думала, что чтение приносит нам пользу.
—
не значит быть на-
—
Это
так, но следует быть разборчивым.
7) Послушай, ты просила меня тебя обучить, ты жаждешь
учиться. Это потребует большой работы
—
ты едва ли когда-либо училась систематически, никогда не сдавала экзаменов. Иметь
пытливый ум
EPISODE 2
—
это совсем еще не гарантия успеха.
1. Comprehension check. While watching the second part of the
lm, try to answer the following questions:
1) Why does Frank ask Julia whether Brian has a phone?
2) How does Frank describe Rita’s essay on Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt”?
3) How long is the essay and how does Rita improve it?
4) What does Denny discover under the fl oor boards and what’s
his reaction to his discovery?
5) How does Rita explain Denny’s anger to Frank?
6) Why does Rita come running to Frank’s class? What made
her feel so excited?
7) What is the subject of Frank’s tutorial?
8) Where does Frank invite Rita on Saturday night? Does she
come?
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9) What kind of person does Rita want to become? What does
she feel about her family and friends?
10) What news does Rita learn at her sister’s wedding and how
does it aff ect her?
11) What kind of ultimatum does she face?
12) Why is the essay on Macbeth so vitally important for Rita?
13) How does Frank assess the essay?
14) Why is Frank not sure he wants to change Rita?
2. Match the words and word combinations in Column Awith their
de nitions in Column B:
1) ess ay A machine that plays music when you put money in it;
2) don A play for the theatr e, television, or radio;
3) narrati ve Not ha rmed, dam aged, or lacking any parts as a result
of something that has happened;
4) tragedy A quality or an ability that you have always had;
5) jukebox Someone who teaches at a university, especi ally at Ox-
ford or Cambridge;
6) Court jest-erA play in which people suff er or die, esp. one in which
the main c haracter dies at the end;
7) unique-
ness
8) drama A story or an account of something that has ha ppened;
9) intact Someone in the past wh ose job was to entertain noble
10) innate The quality of b eing very special, unusual, or good;
3. Provide synonyms for the following words:
A short piece of writing by a student on a partic ular
subject;
peopl e by saying and doing funny things;
crass, evidence, to resolve, wearisome, to break in, fl aw, invincible, inevitable, doom, funny, to insult, worthless, to quote, mate,
to fi gure.
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4. Provide antonyms for the following words:
to abandon, passionate, to value, pity, delightful, to confuse, grace,
to suppress, boring, confi dently, sensitivity.
5. Fill in the gaps with the words and expressions given in the brack-
ets below:
(inherent, considered, whilst, room, fl aw, quote, edge, fall)
1) In reply to the question, “Suggest how you would resolve the
staging diffi culties “____ in a production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt” you
have written,___, “Do it on the radio.” Unquote.
2) Well, I know it’s probably quite naive of me but I did think
you might let me have a ____ essay.
3) Don’t tell me
—
it’s been stolen. ___ you were sleeping,
a group of Cambridge dons broke in and stole your essay on Chekhov.
4) What?
—
Oh, well, I’ve tried to explain to him how you give
me ___ to breathe.
5) Therefore, the tragic hero will __ from grace because of this
fl aw in his character.
6) And that bit where he meets Macduff and thinks he’s all in-
vincible. I was on the __ of me seat because I knew!
7) Let’s a take a tragic hero, Macbeth for instance. We see that
the __ in his character forces him to take the inevitable step towards
his own doom.
6. Match the phrasal verbs with their meaning and use them in your
own examples:
1) to break in; 5) to seize up;
2) get on; 6) to take in;
3) to shout out; 7) breeze in;
4) to dress up;
A) to go somewhere in a confi dent way, esp. when you don’t
seem to care what other people say;
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B) to put on clothes that are more formal than you usually wear;
C) to enter a building by force, esp. in order to steal things;
D) to continue doing something, esp. with more eff ort and more
quickly than before;
E) to understand and remember something that you hear or read;
F) to say something suddenly in a very loud voice;
G) to suddenly stop moving or working properly;
7. Fill in the gaps with the suitable particles where necessary:
1) Denny found out I was ___ the pill, he’s burnt all me books.
2) Oh, sod the books. I wasn’t referring __the books. Why can’t
he just let me get __ with me learning?
3) Therefore, the tragic hero will fall ___ grace because of this
fl aw __ his character.
4) This is Mrs. White, she comes to me once a week ___ an
Open University course, and she’ll be joining ___ us for the rest of
this tutorial. You sit there.
5) What are you laughing __?
—
It’s tragic, yes, absolutely trag-
ic, but it is not a tragedy __ the way that Macbeth is a tragedy.
6) Julia’s organized a few people to come round __ dinner.
7) Are you gonna pack it ___, Susan?
8) It doesn’t matter. ___ the circumstances I need to do this.
8. Paraphrase the following sentences paying special attention to
the italicized words and expressions:
1) I sort of encapsulated all me ideas into one line. It’s the
basis for an argument but a single line is not an essay.
2) It might sound selfi sh but all I want for now is what I’m
fi nding inside me.
Certainly don’t wanna go rushing off with some fella.
3) Oh, well, I’ve tried to explain to him how you give me room
to breathe.
You, like, feed me without expecting anything in return.
4) And that bit where he meets Macduff and thinks he’s all in-
vincible. I was on the edge of me seat because I knew! I wanted
to shout out and warn Macbeth!
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5) Let’s take a tragic hero, Macbeth, for instance. We see that
the fl aw in his character forces him to take the inevitable step to-
wards his own doom.
6) It wasn’t fancy dress, you could’ve come as yourself. Don’t
you realize what all those people would’ve seen had you just come
breezing in?
7) I’m all right with you, here in this room, but when I saw
those people you were with, I couldn’t come in. I just seized up,
cos I’m a freak.
8) You think because you pass a pub doorway and hear them all
singing, you think we’re all OK, that we’re surviving with the spir-
it intact.
9. Translate from Russian using the vocabulary of this episode:
1) В ответ на вопрос «Предложите пути разрешения трудностей, неминуемо возникающих при постановке «Пер Гюнта» Ибсена, вы написали, цитирую, «Сделайте радиопостановку», конец
цитаты.
2) Да, я знаю, наивно с моей стороны ожидать, что вы можете приготовить для меня обдуманное эссе.
—
Да, это все, что
я успела сделать за это время. Мы были жутко заняты в парикмахерской.
3) Мое эссе. «Пытаясь разрешить сложности, связанные с постановкой ибсеновского «Пер Гюнта», я бы сделала из него радиопостановку, поскольку, как писал Ибсен, «он создал пьесу
для восприятия голосов, не рассчитывая поставить ее в театре.
Если бы в те времена было радио, там бы он ее и поставил»
4) Вы не написали эссе?
—
У меня его нет. — Только не говорите мне, его украли. Группа кембриджских профессоров вломились к Вам в дом ночью и похитили эссе о Чехове.
—
Оно
сгорело. Так же, как и книги Чехова, которые Вы мне одолжили.
5) Они бы увидели кого-то очень забавного, очаровательного,
восхитительного. Я не хочу быть забавной. Я хочу серьезно разговаривать со всеми Вами. Я не хочу выступать у Вас в роли
придворного шута.
6) Нет ничего страшного в том, чтобы забеременеть до свадьбы.
Твоя мама была на четвертом месяце, когда я женился на ней.
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7) Все очень просто, Сьюзен: ты перестаешь ходить на занятия и принимать противозачаточные таблетки,
Но почему, Денни? Все, что я делаю,
—
—
или я ухожу. —
это получаю образование. Пытаюсь учиться и обожаю это. Это совсем не просто.
Большую часть времени я все делаю не так, очень часто надо
мной смеются, но я люблю учиться, потому что чувствую себя
по настоящему живой. А ты стараешься набросить мне на шею
веревку и привязать к земле.
8) То, что есть в тебе, слишком ценно.
—
Ценно? Единственное, что я действительно ценю, это мой приход сюда раз в неделю.
—
Но разве Вы не понимаете? Если Вы будете писать
такие эссе, как все, сдавать экзамены, Вам придется подавить
или даже совсем отказаться от своей уникальности. Мне придется заставить Вас измениться.
EPISODE 3
1. Comprehension check. While watching the third part of the lm,
try to answer the following questions:
1) Where is Rita going in summer? What does she feel about
the trip?
2) Whose quotation does Rita suddenly remember on the train?
3) In her letter to Frank what does Rita describe as something
that will make Frank proud of her?
4) What does Rita ask the lecturer in summer school?
5) How does Frank characterize Rita when she arrives at the
railway station?
6) What is Rita’s mood like? What does she look like?
7) What present has Rita prepared for Frank?
8) Whom does Frank want Rita to study and what does he fi nd
out? Which cycles of poems do they refer to?
9) Where does Frank leave Rita? Can you characterize her fl at-
mate?
10) Why does Rita change her manner of speaking? Who has
infl uenced her?
11) Why has Rita hoped Frank has given up drinking? What does
she learn?
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12) What’s Rita’s new job? How does she cope with it?
13) What kind of change can we see in Rita? How does she talk
with other students? Do they know her as Rita?
14) Why is Frank reprimanded by the University Board? What
has he done?
15) Why does Frank come and talk to Rita in the bistro? What
essay does he ask her to write for the next tutorial?
2. Match the words and word combinations in Column Awith their
de nitions in Column B:
1) The Bursar Someone you share a fl at with
2) Vice
Chancellor
3) misdemeanour
4) Summer
school
5) To reform To recognize that you have done something wr ong and
6) fl atmate Someone who is in charge of a university
7) dismissal Someone who is i n charge of fi nancial matters in
8) irrelevant To chang e your own or someone else’s behaviour
9) assessment An action that is bad or wrong, but not in a serious way
10) To repent A course of studies held at a college or university dur-
An act of making someone leave their job
The process of making a judgement or forming an
opinion, af ter considering something or someone carefully
Not importan t for what you are doing or discussing
feel a shamed and sorry about it
a school or college
ing the summer holiday
3. Provide synonyms for the following words:
to sack, to overcomplicate, unpretentious, misery, sensational, to
presume, to beckon, to idle, hint, frantic, a load of, to settle, in vain.
4. Provide antonyms for the following words:
wary, to crumble, to burble, pissed, grand, passionate, to spare,
odd, to turn up, an expert, benefi t, oath, to slur.
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