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Cultural Background
Explain the following realia and give the context in which they are used in the book:
♦ Honore de Balzac ;
♦ Kant;
♦ Chancery Lane;
♦ South Kensington;
♦ Campagna;
♦ Villa Medici;
♦ Monet;
♦ Manet;
♦ Michael Angelo.
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Reading and Translation
Read and translate the following extracts:
1) (p. 62–63) – “There was real passion in his voice…………. No; I could not have placed him.”
2) (p. 65–66) – “During the journey back to England I thought much of Strickland.………… Strickland had the
directness of the fanatic and the ferocity of the apostle.”
3) (p. 68) – “Nor with such a man could you expect the appeal to conscience to be effective. ……… When I saw
that Strickland was really indifferent to the blame his conduct must excite, I could only draw back in horror as from a
monster of hardly human shape..”
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Questions and Tasks for Discussion
I. Answer the questions:
1. Did Strickland know Paris well? (p. 57)
2. How many letters did Strickland receive from Amy? What did he do with them? (p. 57)
3. Did Strickland like his children? (p. 59)
4. What did Strickland answer to the narrator’s question: “Won't it mean anything to you to know that people loathe
and despise you?” (p. 59)
5. Was Strickland well-off? How much money did he have? (p. 60)
6. Why had Strickland’s father made him go into business? (p. 61)
7. When did Strickland begin to paint? (p. 61)
8. Where did Strickland try to learn to paint? (p. 61)
9. Why did Strickland come to Paris? (p. 61)
10. Why did the narrator think it was unreasonable to start painting at the age of forty? (p. 61–62)
11. Was Strickland a fluent talker? (p. 64)
12. What did Strickland’s brother-students at the night classes he had attended in London think of his painting? (p.
67)
13. What story about Charles Strickland circulated among Mrs. Strickland’s friends? (p. 75)
14. What did Mrs. Strickland decide to do to earn her living? (p. 75)
15. Why did the narrator decide to live in Paris for a while? (p. 76)
16. Who bought Dirk Stroeve’s pictures and why? (p. 78)
17. Did Dirk Stroeve consider himself to be a great painter? (p. 78)
II. Explain the following:
1. His cordial agreement with all I said cut the ground from under my feet. It made my position complicated, not to
say ludicrous. (p. 58)
2. The matter was immensely serious for all the parties concerned, but there was in the manner of his answer such a
cheerful effrontery that I had to bite my lips in order not to laugh. (p. 58)
3. I looked at him for quite a long time. I did not understand. I thought he was mad. It must be remembered that I was
very young, and I looked upon him as a middle-aged man. (p. 61)
4. Looking back, I think now that he was blind to everything but to some disturbing vision in his soul. (p. 64)
5. "That sort of thing makes me sick," he said roughly.
I looked at him curiously. There was a real distaste in his face, and yet it was the face of a coarse and sensual man. I
suppose the girl had been attracted by a certain brutality in it. (p. 65)
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6. I do not believe the people who tell me they do not care a row of pins for the opinion of their fellows. It is the
bravado of ignorance. (p. 67)
7. I remember saying to him: "Look here, if everyone acted like you, the world couldn't go on." (p. 67)
8. "As long as I thought he'd run away with some woman I thought there was a chance. I don't believe that sort of
thing ever answers. He'd have got sick to death of her in three months. But if he hasn't gone because he's in love, then
it's finished." (p. 72)
9. I do not think he is himself. He seems to me to be possessed by some power which is using him for its own ends,
and in whose hold he is as helpless as a fly in a spider's web. It's as though someone had cast a spell over him. (p. 74)
10. What followed showed that Mrs. Strickland was a woman of character. (p. 74)
11. She was a little ashamed of her courage and business capacity, but delighted that she was going to dine the next
night with a K.C. who lived in South Kensington. (p. 76)
12. To take money from him was like robbing a child, and you despised him because he was so foolish. (p. 79)
III. Describe:
1. Mrs. Strickland's sister (ch. XV)
2. Dirk Stroeve and his pictures. (ch. XVIII)
Lesson 5. Vocabulary Revision (Lessons 1–4)
1) detestation
2) superciliously
3) reminiscences
4) unanimity
5) to be concerned with smb
6) to take a fancy to smb
7) disconcerting
8) frivolous
9) facetiousness
10) infatuation
11) sumptuous place
12) bedraggled
a) беспринципный, бессовестный
b) несерьёзный, легкомысленный; ветреный
c) забава, весёлость; курьёзность
d) приводящий в замешательство, сбивающий с толку
e) оскорбительный; бранный, ругательный
f) роскошный; дорогостоящий
g) страстная влюбленность; безрассудная страсть
h) сильное отвращение, омерзение; ненависть
i) единодушие
j) высокомерно, надменно, презрительно
k) воспоминания
l) интересоваться (кем-л.)
I. Give corresponding nouns:
- ridiculous –
- perversive –
- docile –
- notorious –
- avid –
- ascetic –
- copious –
- detractive –
- detestable –
- callous –
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- admonitory –
- solemn –
- vituperative –
- scornful –
II. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents:
13) thick-witted
14) improbable
15) austerity
16) solemnity
17) callousness
18) admonitory
19) vituperative
20) unscrupulous
m) полюбить, привязаться
n) глупый
o) строгость, самоограничение
p) всклокоченный, растрёпанный
q) невероятный, немыслимый
r) уговаривающий, наставляющий, предостерегающий
s) церемониал; соблюдение ритуала
t) бессердечие, грубость, чёрствость
III. Give synonyms or synonymous expressions:
- obstinacy, stubbornness –
- greed, avarice –
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- loathing –
- sympathy –
- calumniator, slanderer –
- to extenuate –
- regardless of circumstances; in any case –
- at the appropriate time –
- saying , proverb –
- timid, shy –
- incorrectness, indecorum –
- to agree to forget past quarrels –
- to keep silent –
- severity, sternness –
- to achieve the intended effect –
- heartlessness , hard-heartedness –
- absurd, foolish –
- revengeful –
- unprincipled, dishonest –
- contemptuous –
IV. Make up word-combinations matching the given adjectives with the nouns
adjectives
nouns
word-combinations
bereaved
irrevocable
maternal
domestic
elaborate
sumptuous
furtive
sullen
earthy
eloquent
irksome
rhymed
despicable
formidable
stinging
admirable
mother
tea-parties
decision
condition
eyes
place
phrases
humour
couplets
motive
skin
look
calamity
answer
solicitude
ties
bereaved condition
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V. Fill in the blanks with the words and expressions given below. Read and translate the sentences.
Disconcerting; fanatical belief; innate; avidity; eccentricity; disparagement; an object of ridicule;
perversity; superciliously; discredit; tribute; adulation; complement; a by-word; come to smb.’s rescue.
1) It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the _________ of your interest. He
disturbs and arrests. The time has passed when he was _________________, and it is no longer a mark of
_______________ to defend or of perversity to extol him. His faults are accepted as the necessary
____________________ to his merits.
2) It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the _____________of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious
than the _____________of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius.
3) I cannot agree with the painters who claim _______________ that the layman can understand nothing of painting.
4) The faculty for myth is ________________ in the human race. It seizes with _____________ upon any incidents,
surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents
a legend to which it then attaches a______________.
the narrator
Mrs. Strickland
Mr. Strickland
Miss Waterford
Dirk Stroeve
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5) There is a singular fascination in watching the eagerness with which the learned author ferrets out every
circumstance which may throw __________________ on his hero.
6) Rose Waterford combined a masculine intelligence with a feminine ____________________, and the novels she
wrote were original and ______________________.
7) George Road, conscious that he need not exhibit a brilliancy which was almost____________, opened his mouth
only to put food into it.
8) I felt so shy that I could think of nothing to say, but Mrs. Strickland__________________.
VI. Fill in the table with the words and word-combinations from the list that may characterize the
narrator, Mrs. Strickland, Mr. Strickland, Miss Waterford, Dirk Stroeve.
Bashful; timid; dull; an object of ridicule; very quiet; naïve; a philistine; a cynic; generous; sympathetic; an
excellent housekeeper; very emotional; foolish; was constantly wounded; callous; unscrupulous; had a
pleasant voice; combined a masculine intelligence with a feminine perversity; shy; not a fluent talker;
possessed by some power; hospitable; good-natured; spruce; untidy; ill-kempt; hefty; buffoon; unmitigated
cad; romantic; has the directness of the fanatic and the ferocity of the apostle; independent of the opinion of
others; a heartless beast; efficient; a woman of character; had a very delicate feeling for art; was older,
thinner, and more lined; had a genuine enthusiasm for the commonplace; had acquired a reputation for
neatness and accuracy.
VII. Review vocabulary lists 1-4 for a test.
Lesson 6 (ch. XIX–XXV)
Vocabulary
Cultural Background
Reading and Translation
Questions and Tasks for Discussion
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Vocabulary
I. Study the words and phrases from the vocabulary list. Reproduce the situations in which they are used
in the book.
1) not without reason p. 82 – не без причин,
2) now and then p. 88 – время от времени,
3) to still the pangs of hunger p. 89 – заглушить острое чувство голода,
4) to walk with one’s head among the stars p. 93 – быть на седьмом небе,
5) to put smb. out of countenance p. 94 – приводить в замешательство,
6) to lead a sedentary life p. 94 – вести сидячий образ жизни,
7) to be under obligation to smb p. 96 – быть обязанным кому-л.,
8) to be hard up p. 97 – сильно нуждаться (в деньгах), быть в стеснённых
обстоятельствах,
9) to be beyond smb’s comprehension. p. 98 – быть выше ч-л. понимания,
10) not to sleep a wink p. 103 – не сомкнуть глаз.
II. Give Russian equivalents:
- comeliness (81) – ['kʌmlɪnəs]
- hackneyed (82) –
- urchin (82) –
- a sluggishness of habit (85) –
- emaciation (86) – [ɪˌmeɪsɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n]
- exasperation (88) –
- privation (89) – [praɪ'veɪʃ(ə)n]
- dismay (89) –
- disreputable (89) – [disˈrepjʊtəbəl]
- despicable character (92) –
- sombre (92) – ['sɔmbə]
- anchorite (92) – ['æŋk(ə)raɪt]
- rejoice (93) –
- quay (93) – [kiː]
- philistine (95) – ['fɪlɪstaɪn]
- banter (97) –
- poignancy (98) –
- panic-stricken (100) –
- squalid (101) –
- lassitude (105) –