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Chapters 1–2
To cost (someone) an arm and a leg
To pay through the nose
The phrase (UK) daylight robbery/ (US) highway robbery
To be in the money:
Now he’s sold his company he’s in the money.
Money is no object
A person has more money than sense
Easy money
Rolling in money.
Pour money down the drain
Task 14. Match the idioms from the list to the explanation.
1. You spend a lot of money on a particular activity.
2. You spend a lot of money on a celebration in order to make it special.
3. To spend a lot of money in a rather careless way.
4. To try to solve the problem quickly by spending a lot of money.
5. When someone is charging too much money for something.
6. You earn money with very little work or effort.
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Task 15. Say if you agree or disagree with the following idioms about
money:
chapter and which ones could be said by the characters?
1. Money doesn’t grow on trees.
2. Put your money where your mouth is.
3. Time is money.
4. Money talks.
Which idiom/idioms can illustrate some scenes in the
Grammar
Task 16. Study the information below and make your own examples.
To be supposed to (Marriam-Webster dictionary) Meaning
1) to be expected to do something
They are supposed to do everything today.
2) to be intended or expected to be something
The celebration was supposed to be on Monday.
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3) used to show that one is angry or offended by something
Do you think that Was supposed to be so funny? It’s really impolite
4) used to say what someone should do
You are supposed to do housework every week.
5) used to refer to what someone is allowed to do
We were not supposed to speak loudly
6) used to indicate what people say about someone or something
She is supposed to be the best IT specialist. The phrase is supposed to
be derived from Latin.
Task 17. Complete the sentences with “to be supposed” choosing the
right tense.
1. The girl ______________ to be wearing a white dress at the wedding.
2. The football match _____________________ to end soon.
3. He ______________________ to be arrested by the police.
4. She ________________________ work 40 hours a week.
5. They ______________________ to do the task orally.
6. The bus ____________________ to arrive at 3pm. Why is it so late?
7. You can’t go to the party. You ________________________ to be ill
and in your bed.
8.
My dad is going to wash the car. He ___________________________
to do it yesterday but didn’t feel like doing it.
9.
I’d better hurry up as I __________________________ to meet Henry
at the station.
10.
Why are you playing with your friends? You _______________________
to do your homework.
Task 18. Find more examples in the chapter.
Task 19. Make three questions using the grammar and active vocabulary
to ask your groupmates.
Chapter 3
Study active vocabulary and do the tasks below.
1) a passer-by
2) a testimony
3) to bother
4) durable
5) hilarity
6) reassurance
7) to vanish
8) corpulent
9) to fade away
10) sinister
11) to be in full swing
12) to take the sun
13) to scamper
14) to toil
15) prodigality
16) bond
17) contemptuous
18) to attach oneself to some one
19) to give ear
20) testimony
21) to spread around
22) make smb uneasy.
23) important-looking
24) finger-bowl
25) elemental
26) an old sport
27) roughneck
28) jauntiness
29) mellow
30) subterfuge
Task 1. Reproduce the situations in the book where the vocabulary of the
list is used.
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Task 2. Vocabulary. Match the words to make phrases.
Make up 5 sentences, using any of these word-combinations.
1) the air is
2) a peculiar combination
3) a majestic
4) cordial
5) liable
6) on the tip
7) to pick words
8) a dim
9) sober
10) to shrug
a) hand
b) to collapse
c) background
d) remarks
e) with care
f) men
g) alive with chatter and laughter
h) of my tongue
i) one’s shoulders
j) of circumstances and tasks
Task 3. Give definitions of the contextual meaning of the words;
give the synonyms of the words below.
To vanish, to bother, contemptuous, to scamper, liable.
Task 4. Complete the following table by inserting the missing forms.
Noun Adjective Verb
durable
toil
reassurance
hilarity
Task 5. Give the English equivalents of the following.
1. Загорать
2. В разгаре
3. Ценные бумаги
4. Свидетельство чего-либо
5. Распространиться
6. Мне неловко
7. Внушительного вида дверь
8. Две полоскательницы шампанского
9. Вечер был погожий
spread
Chapter 3
Task 6. Give back translation of the following, using your active
vocabulary.
1. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all
day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears,
repairing the ravages of the night before.
2.
Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped
out at a cheerful word.
3.
Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble
steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest
down into the garden.
4. I found it necessary to attach myself to some one.
5. I had never met him, and it was making me uneasy.
6. I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne.
7. I was looking at an elegant young roughneck, a year or two over thirty.
8. There was a jauntiness about her movements.
9.
I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young.
Task 7. Paraphrase the following, using your active vocabulary.
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1. His witness will weigh heavily against you.
2. My forbears came to America during the 1800s.
3. Wood is a strong material.
4.
My excitement for working with the government began to decrease pretty
quickly.
5.
After this ominous tragedy Elizabeth Feodorovna considered that she
had finished with the world.
6.
The sunny weather is almost all year round, and allows you to sunbathe
on the beach, from April to October.
7. But you were arrogant and cynical.
8. The presidential campaign in France is now in full flow.
9. News of the tragedy went out into every place of the town.
10. The picture reflects the soft light of the summer evening.
Task 8. Read the part of the chapter, describing the usual preparations
for the parties. Why were the following numbers and time
phrases used?
Six, eight, a hundred, half an hour, a fortnight, 7 o’clock.
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Discussion
Task 9.
a) Discuss the following questions using active vocabulary.
1.
Describe the preparations for Gatsby’s parties. What rumours about
Gatsby are widely spread among his guests?
2. What were the parties like?
3. How was the narrator invited to the party? What was his impression of
Gatsby?
4. How did the party end?
b) Do the tasks below using active vocabulary of the chapter. Speak on the
following topics.
1. Describe Nick’s feeling for Jordan.
2. Dwell on narrator’s lifestyle (routine).
Chapter 3
Task 10. Characters’ words.
Match the lines from the chapter with the characters’ names. Explain why
they are said.
“He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive”. George Wilson
“I want to get one of those dogs”. Catherine
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“Well, they say he’s a nephew or a cousin
of Kaiser Wilhelm’s. That’s where all his
money comes from”.
…
Work in pairs and continue the task.
Tom
…
Task 11. Imagination.
1. What image or pictures can you draw after reading the chapter?
2. Describe the events of the chapter through one of the characters’ eyes.
(Tom, George Wilson, Doctor Ercleberg, Mrs Wilson) or make a
dialogue.
Idioms. Party
Task 12. Critical thinking. Analyze the situation of the chapter.
How is the idea of “party” represented in the chapter? Why is it an essential
part of that social life?
Task 13. Read the following money idioms, explain and illustrate them
with your own examples, try to use active vocabulary and say
how they can be used to describe the events and characters
of the chapter.
Have a whale of a time
The life of the party
Throw a party
Billy-no-mates / Norma no-mates
A social butterfly
Get the party started
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The life and soul of the party
Party hearty (also party hardy)
Party animal
Let your hair down
Paint the town red
Task 14. Match the idioms from the list to the explanation.
1. To enjoy yourself very much
Someone who is energetic and funny and at the centre of activity during
2.
social occasions
3. Someone who is capable of partying for a long time and having fun
4. To begin doing really fun, entertaining things at or as at a party
5. A person known for frequent often wild partying
6. To go out and enjoy oneself flamboyantly
7. Someone with no friends
Task 15. Say if you agree or disagree with the following idioms about
parties. Which idiom/idioms can illustrate some scenes in the
chapter and which ones could be said by the characters?
1. Parties are great for making friends.
2. Everyone is a party animal but they keep it in secret.
3. At the party let your hair down and have a whale of a time.
Grammar. To wonder (Verb)
Task 16. Study the explanation and examples below.
Meaning
to want to know something or to try to understand the reason for something
1)
[+ question word] I wonder what he’s making for lunch.
2) to politely ask someone for something or to suggest something
I/we wonder if/whether...
I wonder if you could help me?
We were wondering if you’d like to come over for a meeting.
Wonder (noun)
1) surprise and admiration
The boys gazed in wonder at the shiny, red Ferrari.
Chapter 3
2) something that makes you feel surprise or admiration
[usually plural] the wonders of modern medicine
no wonder – used to say that you are not surprised about something
No wonder she passed the test as she had worked really hard.
it’s a wonder (that) – used to say that you are surprised about something
It’s a wonder he’s still alive.
Task 17. Complete the sentences with “wonder / no wonder / it’s
a wonder” choosing the right form. Answer the questions or say
if you agree or disagree.
1. The ________________________ lasts but three days.
There were days in my childhood when I _________________________
2.
why my parents didn’t understand me.
Do you know “The seven ____________________________” of the
3.
world? What are they?
A strong positive mental attitude can create more miracles than any __
4.
_________________________________drug.
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_________________________________ that nowadays there are so
5.
many global dangers on the planet but we are still alive.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of _______________
6.
___________________ and mystery. There is always more mystery.
It’s ________________________________ that truth is stranger than
7.
fiction. Fiction has to make sense. (Mark Twain).
8. There is no beauty without _____________________________ and
_________________________ without a little madness. (Becca Lee)
9.
Some years ago I ____________________________ how many people
didn’t get the one they wanted, but ended up with the one they were
supposed to be with.
Philosophy begins in ____________________. And, at the end, when
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philosophic thought has done its best, the ______________ remains.
Task 18. Find more examples in the chapter.
Task 19. Make three questions using the grammar and active vocabulary
to ask your groupmates.
Chapter 4
Study active vocabulary and do the tasks below.
1) a bootlegger
2) gray names
3) theatrical people
4) to gamble
5) a fiancée
6) a horn
7) restlessness
8) divine
9) an ancestor
10) delicacy
11) incredibility
12) benediction
13) to pick one’s words with care
14) undefined consequence
15) to look at smb sideways
16) to pull smb’s leg
17) to restrain laughter
18) to accept a commission
19) a hearse
20) flat-nosed
21) a man of fine breeding
22) Armistice
23) spirits of ammonia
24) threadbare
25) knickerbockers
Task 1. Reproduce the situations in the book where the vocabulary of the
list is used.
Task 2. Give definitions of the contextual meaning of the words below
A fiancée, benediction, flat-nosed, restlessness, delicacy.
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