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Файл:Английский язык. Занятия по роману Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда «Великий Гэтсби» The Great Gatsby (домашнее чтение)
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Chapter 4
Task 3. Give the English equivalents of the following.
1. Дали ей понюхать нашатырного спирту
2. За полчаса до свадебного обеда
3. После перемирия
4. Запонки
5. Человек отменного воспитания
6. Мое недоверие растворилось в восторге
7. Он глянул на меня искоса
8. Обветшалый
9. Незаурядная личность
10. Театралы
Task 4. Study the meanings of the following words and look up other
members of their word-building clusters.
Incredible, rest, accept, define, restrain.
Task 5. Match the words to make phrases. Make up 5 sentences of your
own, using any of these word-combinations.
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1) to go to
2) the rocky
3) to give out
4) bizarre
5) look at smbd
6) to choke
7) to come into a
8) to bear
9) to pocket
10) to have the
11) to set foot upon
a) accusations
b) sideways
c) on smth
d) good deal of money
e) the penitentiary
f) one’s souvenirs
g) drive
h) faintest idea
i) a burst of melody
j) an enchanted life
k) one’s overpopulated lawn
Task 6. Give back translation of the following, using your active
vocabulary.
1.
But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression
than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby’s hospitality and
paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
2.
He came only once, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum
named Etty in the garden.
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3. It was the first time he had called on me.
4. And with this doubt, his whole statement fell pieces.
5. I suspected that he was pulling my leg.
6. I accepted a commission as first lieutenant when it began.
7. For Valour Extraordinary.
8. I didn’t want you to think I was just some nobody.
9. A dead man passed us in a hearse
10. I won’t impose myself on you any longer.
Task 7. Translate into English, using your active vocabulary.
1. Он крупнейший бутлегер во всей стране.
2. Мимо проехал покойник на катафалке.
3. Если ты скажешь это кому-нибудь, я задушу тебя.
4.
Он приходил лишь раз, в белых бриджах, и затеял драку в саду
с парнем по имени Этти.
5. Я пытаюсь отбивать ритм ногой.
6. Оно не потрёпанное, но чистое.
7. Мне стоило усилия сдержать смешок.
8. У французского бульдога проблемы с дыханием из-за сплющенной морды.
9. На мгновение мне показалось, что он меня разыгрывает.
10. Я был призван в звании старшего лейтенанта.
11.
Когда я впервые имел честь познакомиться с мистером Гэтсби
прямо после войны, я знал, что передо мной человек изысканного
воспитания.
12. Не хотелось злоупотреблять твоим гостеприимством.
Discussion
Task 8. Do the tasks below using active vocabulary of the chapter.
1. What sort of people were attracted by Gatsby’s parties? What strata did
they belong to?
2.
Dwell on the “speaking” guests’ names the author uses in this Chapter.
Such as “the Beckers”, ”the Leeches”, ”the Dancies”, ”the Smirkes”,
”Beaver”, ”Ferret”, etc.
3.
What connotations do the names Mr Mumble, Katspaugh, Wolfsheim,
Daisy, etc suggest?
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4.
Gatsby gives a talk about himself during the ride. What ware Nick’s
impressions?
Describe Mr. Wolfsheim. What did his story add to the previously learned
5.
information about Gatsby? What surprising fact did Nick learn about
Mr. Wolfsheim from Gatsby?
6. Dwell on the story told by Jordan to Nick.
7. What was Gatsby’s request?
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Task 9. Characters’ words.
Match the lines from the chapter with the characters’ names. Explain why
they are said.
“What’s your opinion of me, anyhow?” Nick
“Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled
with friends gone now forever”.
“Do you mean you’re in love with Miss
Baker?”
…
Work in pairs and continue the task.
Gatsby
Mr. Wolfsheim
…
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Task 10. 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.
(Gatsby, Mr. Wolfsheim) or make a dialogue.
Task 11. Comment on the episodes from the chapter which can be proved
by an idiom from the list.
1. The best things in life are free
2. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
3. Live and learn
4. No pain, no gain
5. The light of my life
6. Bite off more than you can chew
7. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
8. The ball is in your court
9. Time flies when you’re having fun
10. Miss the boat
11. There are other fish in the sea
12. A penny saved is a penny earned
Idioms
Task 12. Critical thinking. Analyze the situation of the chapter.
How is the aspect of “becoming friends” represented in the chapter and the
whole story? What are the reasons to argue in the society?
Task 13. Read the following idioms “Becoming friends after the
arguing”, 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.
To make (your) peace
To bury the hatchet
To wipe the slate clean
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To sink your differences
To extend an olive branch
To pour oil on troubled waters
To keep the peace
To let bygones be bygones
To water under the bridge
Task 14. Match the idioms from the list to the explanation.
1.
You deliberately forget about disagreements you have had with someone
in the past and start your relationship again
2.
Two people or groups agree to stop arguing in order to work together,
often to oppose someone or something else
3.
Someone does or says something to show that they want to end
a disagreement with someone
4. You both accept that your opinions are different
5.
Someone does or says something in order to calm people down and
stop them arguing
6. Someone succeeds in preventing arguments between other people
7.
If you want to suggest to someone that they forget about disagreements
they have had with someone in the past, you might tell them to…
8.
Arguments (or bad experiences generally) that happened in the past
belong in the past and are not important anymore
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Task 15. Say if you agree or disagree with the following idioms about
making friends. Which idiom/idioms can illustrate some
scenes in the chapter and which ones could be said by the
characters?
1.
If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own
fault.
2. Happiness is making up with your best friend after a bad fight.
3.
Every friendship needs one argument just to see how stable it really is.
4. The only way to get the best of the argument is to avoid it.
5. Sometimes silence is the best way to win an argument.
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Grammar
To Mean verb (Cambridge dictionary) (meant, meant)
Task 16. Study the information.
Meaning
1) to have a particular meaning
What does ‘life’ mean?
The red light means stop.
2) to intend to express a fact or opinion
What exactly do you mean by ‘innovated’?
mean to do sth – to intend to do something
I didn’t mean to hurt her.
3) to have a particular result
These improvements will mean better health care for everyone.
4) to be serious about something that you have said
I’ll take the food away if you don’t eat it properly – I mean it!
5) to have an important emotional effect on someone
You don’t know what it means to me to get this letter.
have been meaning to do sth – to have been wanting and planning to do
something
I’ve been meaning to call you for weeks.
be meant to do sth – If you are meant to do something, that is what you
should do in order to behave correctly.
You’re meant to shake the bottle first.
mean well – to intend to behave in a kind way
I know my parents mean well, but I wish they wouldn’t interfere.
I mean:
1) something that people often say before they continue their sentence
(ну, я хочу сказать) I mean, I don’t dislike her;
2) something that you say in order to correct yourself (то есть) We went
there in May – I mean June.
Task 17. Complete the sentences with “mean/to be meant” choosing the
right form.
1. What does this sign _____________________________?
It’s a fact, ___________________________ everybody is aware of it.
2.
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3.
She didn’t ___________________________ to insult her but it
happened.
4.
They ___________________________ to come in advance, but
unfortunately, they were late.
5.
When I was a child I always ___________________________ on social
occasions, my parents were happy.
6.
The reforms next year______________________________ to change
the school education for the better
7.
What did he __________________________ saying good buy in such
a rude manner?
Task 18. Find more examples in the chapter.
Task 19. Make three questions using the grammar and active vocabulary
to ask your groupmates.
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Chapter 5
Study active vocabulary and do the tasks below.
1) to scrutinise
2) a counterfeit
3) to muster up
4) confounding
5) recurrent
6) topple down
7) to be garnished with
8) to sob
9) bewilderment
10) to tumble short of one’s dream
11) to render a service
12) to loaf
13) to appal
14) harrowed
15) ripple of smb’s voice
16) mantelpiece
17) got oneself into a shadow
18) to be full of an idea
19) to be decently clothed
20) to glow full of light.
21) a flow of thunder
22) to tumble short
23) fluctuating
24) to plunge
Task 1. Reproduce the situations in the book where the vocabulary of the
list is used.
Task 2. Give the English equivalents of the following.
1.
Ее голос особенно притягивал его своей переменчивой, лихорадочной теплотой.
2. Где-то над проливом глухо урчал гром.
3. Прилично одет
4. Смутно знакомый
5. Он так долго об этом мечтал
6. Нарцисс
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7. Боярышник
8. Жимолость
9. Забиться в угол
10. Каминная полка
11. Не дурите!
12. Кондитерская
Task 3. Match the words to make phrases. Make up 5 sentences, using
any of these word-combinations.
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1) to take a plunge
2) suppressed
3) under different
4) overwhelming
5) distraught
6) gusts
7) a gesture
8) to topple down
9) to cry
10) foamy
11) decently
a) eyes
b) clothed
c) eagerness
d) of exultation
e) a flight of stairs
f) in the swimming pool
g) of emotion
h) circumstances
i) clouds
j) surprise
k) stormily
Task 4. Give all possible derivatives of the words below.
Current, decent, fluctuate, bewilder, plunge.
Task 5. Give a back translation of the following, using your active
vocabulary.
1. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing.
Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop.
2.
3. Gatsby looked with vacant eyes through a copy of Clay’s Economics.
4. A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek.
5. To my overwhelming surprise the living-room was deserted.
Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the
6.
mantelpiece.
7. Daisy’s face was smeared with tears.
She admired the gardens, the “sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy
8.
odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kissme-at-the-gate”.
9. A disheveled man in pajamas was doing exercises on the floor.
10. He was consumed with wonder at her presence.
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Task 6. Paraphrase the underlined words, using the active vocabulary.
1.
Can they analyse and think critically in order to carefully examine
information given to them?
2. You know there is fake money.
3. People frequently suffer from periodic headaches.
4.
She still causes skepticism among locals and puzzlement among visitors.
5. Otherwise, the castle could collapse.
6. He has a lot of ideas about how the world works.
7. Swimsuits and beachwear are acceptable at the coastal resorts; visitors
entering any mosque should be seemly dressed.
Task 7. What do the proper names stand for?
Coney Island, World’s Fair, The Journal, Clay’s Economics, Chartreuse.
Discussion
Task 8. Do the tasks below using active vocabulary of the chapter.
1. Describe the preparations for the tea-party and the suggestions Gatsby
made.
2.
Dwell on Gatsby’s behavior before and during the tea-party. What
emotions were conveyed through Gatsby’s actions and behavior?
3.
Why it was so important for Gatsby to show Daisy around the house?
Was she impressed by his wealth?
4.
What are the key scenes of the chapter do you remember? How do they
make you feel?
Task 9. Characters’ words.
Match the lines from the chapter with the characters’ names. Explain why
they are said.
“I’ve got my hands full?” Gatsby
“This is a terrible mistake… a terrible,
terrible mistake”.
“Who is ‘Tom’?” Nick
…
Work in pairs and continue the task.
Daisy
…
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