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24) ghoulish – disgusting or repugnant;
to change to alter to make changes to reform to modify
25) porcelain – ( articles made of ) a hard white substance made by baking a
special sort of fine clay at a high temperature.
I. Transcribe and translate the words below into Russian:
assiduity, ivory, violet, heretofore, judicial, indomitable, purchase, bankrupt,
transaction, threshold, league, suicide, custodian, anxiety.
Passage for good reading and written literary translation. If you don’t know
how to pronounce the words, consult the dictionary: Ch. VII “June had waited
for her chance…. for if she failed no one could help”.
her.
II. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with the words from the active
vocabulary:
1. Inspired by what she had said, he attacked the problem with renewed ……
2. He …….his claim to the land.
3. Some people take a …….delight in visiting the scenes of road accidents.
4. She ……the list of names to see if hers was on it.
5. The newspapers gave a ……account of what had happened.
6. I feel …….about having to disappoint her.
7. In her ……she was one of the highest paid actresses in the country.
8. I like her and I hope the feeling is ……..
9. She kept an all-night ………by the sick woman’s bedside.
10. The village hasn’t really ……much since the last time I was there.
III. Arrange these words into pairs of synonyms:
mournful, shaking, ghoulish, vitality, pale, hideous, mutual, lugubrious, tremulous,
wan, vigour, reciprocal.
IV. Fill in the gaps with the verbs from the box. Give your reasons:
Many people think that the abortion laws should be ……..
Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do to …….. the situation.
How much would it cost to ……the existing equipment ?
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The manufacturer has agreed to ……one or two ……to the computer’s design.
A
B
his lonely
on her face
a collection of
voice
a mournful expression
power
the piteous cries of
vigil
a tremulous
alert
to relinquish
medieval pottery
a wan
the starving children
a nuclear
smile
The border was closed, and they were forced to ……. Their plans.
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.
VI. Write these words (numbering 1-10) in the same order as the definitions
that follow:
mournful, to snuggle, mutual, sapling, cedar, wan, vigour, ghoulish, to relinquish,
to alter.
– active strength or force of mind or body;
– appearing weak and tired;
– to change something so that it is better or more suitable;
– a young tree;
– to give up;
– a tall evergreen tree;
– feeling or expressing sorrow;
– to settle into a warm comfortable position;
– disgusting or repugnant;
– based on the same relationship of one toward the other.
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VII. Prepare 2 sentences in Russian with the words from the active
vocabulary for your groupmates to translate.
After you read
VIII. Complete the sentences the way the author puts it in the text:
“Her eyes grew steady with anger; she waited for Irene to speak; and thus……”
“If June had known those words but reincarnated that tender love for little children,
for the young and weak, which……”
“The feeling of being beaten, of the reins having slipped, of being …….”
“But secretly, the idea of wrestling the house from……”
“For no one so madly in love committed suicide for want of …..”
“And as he wandered, he thought of him who had finished his…..”
“She had come back like an animal wounded to death, not knowing where to …”
IX. Who is speaking to whom, and what are they talking about?
“Don’t! I don’t want to hear anything – I don’t want to know anything. It’s
impossible to fight with you! What makes you stand like that? Why don’t you go?”
“Where should I go?”
“And if, by any chance, my darling you found you didn’t get on with them, why, I
could make that all right”.
“Ah!, you will get yourself into a mess one of these days, I can see. You want your
own way in everything”.
“But you needn’t; you can go to Uncle James”.
“Death was instantaneous. He lay all yesterday at the hospital. There was nothing
to tell them who he was.”
“Found in his breast pocket, the name has been cut away!”
“So you’ve come back? Why are you sitting here in the dark?”
“Take your hated body that I love out of my house! Take away that pitiful white
face, so cruel and soft – before I crush it”.
“This is my house, I manage my own affairs. I’ve told you once – I tell you again;
we are not at home”.
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X. What are the effects of Bosinney’s death on the family? Looking at the
relationship that developed between Irene and old Jolyon, how does it differ
from other relationships in the book?
XI. What does Galsworthy want the reader to know and understand about
Irene? Discuss women’s rights and roles in The Forsytes Saga era. How is
Irene perceived in the book? What do you think about the roles of the other
women in the book?
XII. What do you think makes the characters in The Forsyte Saga seem so
real?
XIII. How do you think Galsworthy’s writing stands the test of time?
Style analyses
1. Speak on the function of the descriptive of Bosinney’s rooms.
2. Speak on the means and devices the author uses in the chapter.
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2 Daphne du Maurier
“I was born on May 13
th
, 1907, into a world of make-believe and
imagination,” wrote Daphne du Maurier. Her father was Sir Gerald du Maurier, the
leading actor and manager at Wyndham’s Theatre in London. Her mother, Muriel,
was an actress and her grandfather, George du Maurier, was an artist and writer. So
Daphne and her two sisters grew up on a world of writers and actors. She was
educated at home, apart from six months spent in France when she was eighteen,
and she read widely in English and French. Her first poems and stories were
written while she was still a child. “Books became b life … from the start I was
always pretending to be someone else in a story”.
In 1926 Daphne travelled with her mother and sisters to Fowey in Cornwall,
and this visit seems to have been an important turning point in her life. She fell in
love with the place and its people, and was moved to write her full-length work of
fiction, The Loving Spirit. This romantic story was read by Frederick Browning,
who was then a young officer in the Guards. It touched him so deeply that he
travelled to Fowey in his boat to meet the person who had written it. In 1932
Browning and Daphne du Maurier were married. Du Marier spent most of her
adult life in the Cornwall which she loved so much and where her most popular
books are set. She died there in 1989.
Du Maurier’s books can be divided into two main groups. The first consists
of historical fiction set in seventeenth – and eighteenth century Cornwall; this
includes Jamaica Inn (1936), Frenchman’s Creek (1941), Hungry Hill (1943) and
The King’s General (1946). These are romantic stories of adventure, violence and
love. They show a strong longing for the past, but also a sense of how our present
lives are affected by past events. The second group are modern mystery stories,
including Rebecca (1938), My Cousin Rachel (1951) and The Scapegoat (1957). In
addition, du Maurier wrote many books of short stories. Two short stories, “The
Birds” and “Don’t Look Now”, were made into very successful films of the same
names. She also wrote non-fiction, including a book about her father’s life, the
story of her own life, books about Cornwall, and a study of Branwell Bronte.
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The work for which she is undoubtedly best known, though, is Rebecca. The
book has always been extremely popular, and has always appeared in over twenty
languages. In 1940 it was made into a film starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan
Fontaine, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. At the heart of the story is a woman’s
desire to please her husband and her feelings of hopelessness as she compares
herself with his beautiful and highly educated first wife, in comparison with whom
she feels plain and dull. The dead wife seems to be always there in the background
and to show a dark shadow over her relationship with her new husband. The
second wife, who tells the story, is never given a name, this adds to the feeling that
she is in the first wife’s rightful place.
Maxim’s de Winter is the owner of Manderley, a lovely country house by
the sea. His beautiful wife Rebecca has died there, and Maxim goes by the sea. His
beautiful wife Rebecca has died there, and Maxim goes to Monte Carlo after her
death because he needs to get away. In Monte Carlo he meets an ordinary, unspoilt
young woman, who is immediately attracted to him, and marries her. The weeks
they spend in Monte Carlo together are extremely happy for the young woman,
since she is very much in love. It is when she returns to Manderley with her
husband that her problems begin. For some reasons Mrs. Danvers, the
housekeeper, takes an immediate dislike to the young wife. The young woman’s
confidence is further shaken when Frank Crawley, who manages Mr. de Winter’s
business affairs, describes Rebecca as having been “the most beautiful creature I
ever saw in my life”. Her dream of a happy life with her husband turns to horror as
she begins to realize just how much influence the dead woman still has.
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2.1 Assignment I (chapters I – III)
Active vocabulary:
1) driveway – a road for vehicles that connects a private house or garage with the
street;
2) to play tricks – to deceive;
3) curtain – a piece of hanging cloth that can be pulled across to cover a window;
4) bush – a low woody plant, smaller than a tree and with many stems;
5) to delay – to cause to be late;
6) self – conscious – nervous and uncomfortable about oneself as seen by others;
7) to make a reduction – to make less in size, amount, price, etc.;
8) to stare – to look directly at someone or something for a long time, without
moving tour eyes;
9) to drown – to cause to die by being under water and unable to breath;
10) courage – the quality that makes a person able to control fear in the fact of
danger, pain, misfortune etc.; bravery;
11) to disagree with – to have different opinions; quarrel slightly;
12) to make up one’s mind – to decide;
13) to be stiff with smb. – to be severe with smb., not friendly;
14) confusion – the state of being mixed up or mistaken;
15) scorn – strong and sometimes angry disrespect toward a person or thing that is
regarded as worthless;
16) hatred – extreme dislike, hate;
17) to get on with smb. – to have friendly relationship;
18) slope – a piece of ground going up or down;
19) to wander – to move about or away from an area, usually on foot without a
fixed course, aim, or purpose etc.;
20) string – a narrow cord made of threads twisted together and used to tie, fasten
etc.;
21) fault – a mistake or imperfection; something wrong or incorrect;
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22) memory – an event or experience that one remembers from the past.
II. Transcribe and translate the words below into Russian:
jewel, hollow, furniture, hatred, harbour, awkwardness, honest, sincere,
sympathetic, neighbour, collar, fever, suit, steep, muddy, tide.
III. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with words from the active
vocabulary:
1) One of my earliest …. is of playing in the garden
2) Nomadic tribes …. these deserts
3) Our plane …. by fog
4) It’s getting dark. I’d better draw the ….
5) She is full of …. for the man who killed her husband
6) He showed remarkable …. when he heard the bad news
7) He …. in the river last year
8) A small electrical …. in the motor caused it to stop
9) To avoid …. the teams wore different colours
10) Do you …. well with your boss?
IV. Find these words in your dictionary. They are all in the story.
bay cottage disturb misery scorn weed
Which word can refer to:
1) great unhappiness
2) negative opinion of other people
3) a wild plant
4) an area of the sea
5) to interrupt or annoy someone
6) a small house
Make up 6 sentences of your own with these words
V. Complete these sentences with the new words from Exercise II:
1. No one looked after the garden. There were …. everywhere.
2. The boat sailed into the beautiful….. of Naples.
3. The sound of thunder …. the baby’s sleep.
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4. The old man’s …. was deep and painful after his wife died.
5. Her look of …. told me everything. She was secretly laughing at me.
6. The young couple’s dream was to live in a little …. in a northern village.
VI. Translate in written form the extract:
Ch.I. p.1 “Then a cloud came over….Manderley was no more”.
VII. Fill in the gaps with the following verbs and give your reasons:
To stare –to look directly at someone or something for a long time without moving
your eyes
To gaze – to look at someone or something for a long time, especially with a
feeling of love or great pleasure
To glare - to look angrily at someone
To peep – to look at something quickly and secretly, esp. from a place where you
cannot be seen
To glance – to look quickly at something or someone and then look away
1. We….through a crack in the fence, and saw her talking to a strange –
looking man;
2. I lay back on the sand and …. at the stars above;
3. She …. at the page for several minutes, trying to understand;
4. Sarah …. at her father, “ How dare you say that”;
5. I saw them ….at each other as if they shared a secret.
VIII. Who or what is being described?
1. Light came from the window, the curtains blew softly in the night air.
2. …short straight hair and young, unpowered face.
3. Her interest in other people was like a disease.
4. ….it is a fever and a misery too, whatever the poets may say.
5. …. someone tall and thin dressed in black, with great dark eyes in a white
face.
6. There was blue paper on the walls and there were different curtains.
7. You never know what’s going on in that funny mind of his.
8. He knows his own way back.
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IX. Translate the sentences below into Russian remembering the text of the
chapters you’ve read
1. I saw a little smile of scorn on her lips.
2. The house has been in my charge now for more than a year and Mr. De Winter
has never complained.
3. She seemed sympathetic but distant as though she were thinking of something
else.
4. She’s very honest. If she doesn’t like you she will tell you so to your face.
5. There’s no need to be frightened of her and don’t let her see it, whatever you
do.
6. Politeness never was my strong point, as Maxim will tell you.
7. If you had my memories you would not want to go there either or talk about it
or even think about it.
X. Discussion
1. What is Manderley? Describe it in detail.
2. Who is the owner of Manderley?
3. Who is the housekeeper at Manderley?
4. Where does the owner of Manderley meet his new wife?
5. Who is Rebecca? What has happened to her?
6. Discuss what you know about Rebecca.
7. Speak about Beatrice and her brother. Do they like each other?
8. What possible reasons are there for these words of Maxim’s:
- “We ought never to have come back to Manderley. Oh God, what a fool I was to
come back!”
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