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20) morbid – connected with or caused by disease of body or mind;
21) wench – a girl or young woman, esp. in a country area;
22) twig – a small very thin woody stem branching off from a branch on a tree
or bush;
23) contemplation – the act of thinking deeply and quietly, or the act of looking
at something quietly and solemnly;
24) to fritter away – to waste ( time, money, etc. ) on small unimportant things;
25) revenge (for, on) – punishment given to someone in return for harm done to
oneself.
I. Transcribe and translate the words below into Russian:
circumspect, phraseology, borough, advocate, interrogatory, subterranean,
mortgage, vagabond, ozone, termini, hymn, irretrievable, balustrade, soubriquet,
myriad, staccato, laurel, easel, affidavit, contingency, vistas.
Passage for good reading and written literary translation. If you don’t know
how to pronounce the words, consult the dictionary: Ch. III “He discovered
therefore one morning…. And what doing there, alone?”
II. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with the words from the active
vocabulary:
1. So what if I did get the answer wrong ? I am not ……., you know!
2. He got no advantage out of it, he did it from pure ……
3. The ghost of a headless man …… the castle.
4. I can’t …… with your rudeness anymore, leave the room!
5. The bird built a nest from ……
6. Our club …… to a national organization.
7. The street lights go on at ……
8. She is …… about getting fat!
9. The miserable ……..that she receives doesn’t even cover the necessities of
life.
10. The judge showed an unfortunate ……. against my client.
III. Make a sentence out of the two parts:
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1. His admission that he was the thief
a) for their attacks on ours
2. They accused him of having a prejudice
b) in her present job
3. The photographer lurked behind a tree,
c) surprised everyone
4. I know you didn’t like him, but at least
d) waiting for her to come past
5. She gets paid a mere pittance
e) on clothes and trips to the cinema
6. We bombed their cities in revenge
f) against his women employees
7. She fritters away all her money
g) have the decency to go to his
funeral
A
B
to propound
memory
an admission of
decency
a reek of
a problem
an infallible
attack
a breach of
guilt
a revenge
tobacco and beer
IV. Arrange these words into pairs of synonyms:
admission, twilight, prejudice, revenge, pittance, access, dusk, mite, retaliation,
stink, neurotic, preconception, morbid, reek, irrational, unhealthy.
V. a) make phrases by joining together a word from column A with word
from column B:
b) write a short story of your own using these phrases and words from the
active vocabulary.
VI. Find in the text the English equivalents for the following Russian words
and phrases:
агрессивная жестокость;
адвокат, подающий большие надежды;
вникать в суть дела;
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образец сдержанности;
принимать меры;
завзятый остряк;
вызывать чувство антипатии;
болтушка;
отсутствие смекалки;
испытывать ужас;
раздражение;
окрепнуть и телом и духом;
заводить знакомства;
забыть собственные невзгоды;
делать подарки
Recall the situations in which these phrases are used in the text.
After you read
VII. Complete the sentences the way the author puts it in the text:
“ It was not pleasant to be disturbed; he desired too passionately to …….”
“ It was a habit with him to tell her all these matters, and he continued to do ……”
“ Who knows what he expected to find …….”
“ Perhaps nothing in this life was more stimulating to him than…….”
“ In extremely practical form, he thought of travel, of his wife’s costume,
the children’s education, a pony for Jolly, a thousand things; but in the midst of all
he …….”
VIII. Who is speaking to whom, and what are they talking about?
“ I want to know how long this state of things between us is to last ? I have put up
with it long enough”.
“ Then, I shall take steps to make you”.
“ Oh! And whom do you think I passed today in Richmond park ? You’ll never
guess”.
“ My dear, it is a subject we do not talk about!”
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“ I can’t tell, he would say; it worries me out of my life. There’ll be a scandal, and
that’ll do him no good”.
“ Oh, yes, they were in town, they had not been away at all”.
“ And whatever he’ll do I can’t think, it’s very dreadful for him, you know – he’s
got no money –he’s very hard up”.
“ I don’t know what Soames is about,” he said, “ to make a fuss over a few
hundred pounds. I thought he was a man of property”.
“ I don’t know where you get your information from”.
“ Yours won’t come short of a hundred thousand, my boy”.
IX. Speak about Mrs. Macander’s evidence.
X. Describe Soames’s walking in the park. What did he think and seek in his
night stroll ?
XI. Who did young Jolyon meet at the botanical park? Who was she? Whom
was she waiting there, alone?
Style analyses
1. Discuss the devices the author uses to describe a) Soames’ state of mind; his
character; b) the bracken grove; c) MacAnder’s character (lexical repetition,
irony, metaphors).
2. Retell the description of the park and say what messages it has.
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1.3.2 Assignment XI (chapters IV-VI)
Active vocabulary:
1) reconciliation – bringing back of friendly relations;
2) to con – to trick ( a trusting person ), usually in order to make money;
3) to flinch ( from ) – to move back when shocked by pain, or in fear of something
unpleasant;
4) to heave – to lift and pull or push with great effort;
5) anguish – very great pain and suffering, esp. of the mind;
6) to intrude ( into, on, upon ) – to enter unwanted or unasked;
7) paternal – natural to a father;
8) to compel – to make ( a person or thing 0 do something, by force, moral
persuasion or orders that must be obeyed;
9) to stagger – to walk or move unsteadily and with great difficulty, almost falling;
10) perilous – very dangerous; risky;
11) proceedings – an action taken in law;
12) astray – away from the right path or way;
13) sallow – ( of a skin ) rather yellow and unhealthy- looking;
14) furtive – quiet and secret, trying to escape notice or hide one’s intentions;
15) to heckle – to interrupt ( a speaker or speech ) with disapproving or
unfriendly remarks, esp. at a political meeting;
16) contradiction – a statement, action or fact that contradicts another or itself;
17) fastidious – ( typical of a person who is ) extremely difficult to please or
satisfy, esp. disliking anything at all dirty, unpleasant or rough;
18) defendant – a person against whom a charge is brought in a court of law;
19) to defray – to provide for the payment of; to pay;
20) plaintiff – a person who brings a charge against someone ( defendant ) on a
court of law;
21) to refund ( to ) – to give ( money ) in repayment, in return for loss or
damage, in order to balance accounts etc.;
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22) to repudiate – to refuse to accept; reject;
23) uncanny – very strange and mysterious, not natural or usual;
24) contemptuous – showing a total lack of respect;
25) to loathe – to feel hatred or great dislike for.
I. Transcribe and translate the words below into Russian:
lawful, inferno, journal, colliery, parole, thoroughfare, quarry, sphinx, connoisseur,
maniac, hereditary, giant, embrasure, draught, plateau, acquiesce, sapphire.
Passage for good reading and written literary translation. If you don’t know
how to pronounce the words, consult the dictionary: Ch. V “He could not but
fear….. at the last moment have found himself able to be present”.
II. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with the words from the active
vocabulary:
1. His conscience ……him to admit his part in the affair.
2. There was no hope of a …… between the two families.
3. It would be very insensitive to ……upon their private grief.
4. He …… by most of his staff because of his unfairness and ruthlessness.
5. Jean is too ……. to eat with her fingers.
6. She cast a …….. glance down the hotel corridor before leaving her room.
7. She didn’t ……. once when the doctor was cleaning the wound.
8. The company will ……..the cost of all your expenses.
9. He bore an …… resemblance to my dead brother.
10. The prosecution quickly pointed out the ……. In the defendant’s testimony.
III. Fill in the gaps with the following verbs and give your reasons
to limp, to stagger, to trudge
1. The car broke down and we had to ……back home through the snow.
2. She ……painfully over to a chair and sat down.
3. A man came …….into the building, bleeding from his chest.
IV. Arrange these words into pairs of synonyms:
sallow, to liquidate, furtive, dreadful, unhealthy, fastidious, to loathe, secret, to
annoy, to despise, fussy, uncanny, to heckle, to defray.
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V. Make phrases by joining together a word from column A with word from
A
B
a contemptuous
across the mountains
a perilous journey
complexion
a sallow
reconciliation
paternal
laugh
a spirit of
love
column B. Use them in sentences of your own.
VI. A) find in the text the English equivalents for the following Russian words
and phrases:
суд присяжных;
показания;
тревожные мысли;
долгие часы ожидания;
встревоженный до глубины души;
душевный покой;
клевета;
немногословие;
давать показания;
собраться с мыслями
B) recall the situations in which these phrases are used in the text.
VII. Prepare a short story (70–80 words) with the words from the active
vocabulary.
After you read
VIII. Translate the sentences below into Russian remembering the text of the
chapters you’ve read:
“ A hardened case, accustomed to long trysts, to anxiety, and fog, and cold, if only
his mistress came at last”.
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“ He kept his head admirably, in spite of some excitement, for in addition to
compassion, the instincts of the chase were roused within him”.
“ Yes, it’s a bit thick! I don’t wonder the poor fellow is half-cracked!”
“ George understood from those mutterings that Soames had exercised his rights
over an estranged and unwilling wife in the greatest – the supreme act of property”.
“ In that moment of emotion he betrayed the Forsyte in him – forgot himself, his
interests, his property – was capable of almost anything; was lifted into the pure
ether of the selfless and unpractical.”
IX. Complete the sentences the way the author puts it in the text:
“ Their kind hearts beat a stroke faster for that poor, waiting, anxious lover in the
fog; but they ……”
“ And he wondered what on earth Mrs. Soames had been saying, what on earth
she…..”
“ He could not but feel that in similar circumstances he himself would have been
tempted to enlarge his replies, but ……”
“ His client not being a rich man, the matter was ……”
“ In my judgment the plaintiff is entitled to ……”
“ If she could not or would not love him, as was her duty and his right – she should
not ……”
“ He could not get used to the thought that she had really left him, and as
though……”
“ If only that were so, as he had done that fatal night before last, never again run
that risk – though…..”
X. Soames asserted his rights and acted like a man. Had he been right to
break down the resistance which he had suffered too long from his wife who
was his lawful and solemnly constituted helpmate ?
XI. Bosinney seemed to be acting under the stress of violent emotion. What
was the reason?
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XII. What makes George pursue Bosinney so closely? Support your opinion.
XIII. What was the result of the inquiry? Do you agree or disagree with it?
XIV. Mrs. Forsyte had left the house. What was the meaning of that? Where
do you suppose she’s gone?
XV. Represent the dialogue between Soames, James and Emily about Irene’s
escape.
Style analyses
1. Describe Irene’s room. Speak on the function of the description in the novel.
2. Describe the weather in the chapter. Speak of the function of the descriptive
abstracts.
3. Say what you know about Turner. How does J. Galsworthy uses in the
chapter to characterize Soames, James, Soames’ mother.
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1.3.3 Assignment XII (chapters VII-IX)
Active vocabulary:
1) to scan – to look at quickly without careful reading, often looking for a
particular thing;
2) vigil – ( an act of ) remaining watchful for some purpose, esp. while staying
awake during the night;
3) pottery – ( pots and other objects made out of ) baked clay;
4) to distort – to give a false or dishonest account of; twist of the true meaning;
5) mournful – sad; feeling or expressing sorrow;
6) let bygones be bygones – to forget and forgive past quarrels;
7) piteous – expressing suffering in a sad way, so that one feels pity;
8) to snuggle ( up ) – to settle into a warm comfortable position;
9) alert – a warning to be ready for danger;
10) wretched – very unhappy; in very low spirits;
11) to relinquish – to give up (power, position, a claim etc.);
12) to alter – to make or become different, but without changing into something
else;
13) dudgeon – angry and bitter because of bad treatment;
14) to run over – to hit forcefully with one’s vehicle;
15) mutual – having or based on the same relationship of one towards the other;
16) mortuary – a building or room where a dead body is kept until the time of
the funeral;
17) tremulous – slightly shaking, esp. because of nervousness;
18) sapling – a young tree;
19) vigour – active strength or force of mind or body; energy;
20) heyday – the time of greatest power; influence; success or popularity;
21) wan – appearing ill, weak, and tired;
22) amok – to go or run out of control, esp. with a desire to kill people;
23) cedar – a tall evergreen tree;
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