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Chapter 5
Task 10. Imagination.
1. What image or pictures can you draw after reading the chapter?
2. What idioms or quotes could characterize the events in the chapter?
3. What would you do if you were any of the characters?
4. Describe the events of the chapter through one of the characters’ eyes.
(Gatsby, Daisy, Mr. Klipspringer) or make a dialogue.
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Idioms. House and Home
Task 11. Critical thinking. Analyze the situation of the chapter.
How is the aspect of “home or house” represented in the chapter? What
does it symbolize in the society?
Task 12. Read the following idioms “House and Home”, 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.
Halfway house
A house of cards
As safe as houses
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Eat out of house and home
Get your own house in order
House of correction
A house divided against itself cannot stand
Get on like a house on fire
Go round the houses
Wear the pants in the house
Basket house
Throw in the towel
Throw money down the drain
Skeleton in the closet
Hit the roof
Smoke like a chimney
Go out the window
Build castles in the air
Lead (someone) up the garden path
Everything but the kitchen sink
There’s no place like home
Home sweet home
Home away from house
Make yourself at home
Close to home
Be home and dry
Ram (something) home
Home in on
Task 13. Choose five idioms and say if you agree or disagree. Which
idiom/idioms can illustrate some scenes in the chapter and
which ones could be said by the characters?
Task 14. Which idioms can you use talking about your home/house. Why?
Grammar
As if / As though (Cambridge dictionary)
Chapter 5
Task 15. Study the information below.
As if and as though are conjunctions.
Meaning
1) to make comparisons, a similar meaning.
It looks as if they’ve had a surprise;
2)
we use as if and as though to talk about an imaginary situation or a
situation that may not be true but that is likely or possible. As if is more
common than as though:
The floods were rising and it was as if it was global flooding.
We can use both as if and as though followed by a non-finite clause or a
prepositional phrase:
The kid moved her lips as if to smile.
The crowd at the station were shouting as though in panic.
As if and as though commonly follow the verbs feel and look:
I felt as if/though all my worries had gone.
In informal English, like can be used in a similar way to as if, though it is not
always considered correct in formal contexts:
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It felt like it could rain at any minute.
Task 16. Finish the sentences with “as if/as though” choosing the right
form:
1. You look so happy…
2. He is moving…
3. I felt yesterday evening…
4. The global situation makes me feel…
5. It looks…
Task 17. Find the examples in the chapter.
Task 18. Make three questions using the grammar and active vocabulary
to ask your groupmates.
Chapter 6
Study active vocabulary and do the tasks below.
1) to transpire
2) laudable
3) notoriety
4) an anchor
5) shiftless
6) conceit
7) to be in a riot
8) to trot around
9) meretricious
10) tipsy
11) euphemisms
12) pebbles
13) fur collar
14) to loaf
15) a clam-digger
16) reverie
17) ferocious
18) in the shallows
19) At any rate
20) to mount
21) profoundly
22) to beat one’s way
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. Меховой воротник
2. Подвыпивший
3. Садиться на лошадь
4. Сильно взволнован
5. Как бы то ни было
Chapter 6
6. Неистовое равнодушие
7. Быть в смятении
8. Мишурная красота
9. Праздно слоняться
10. Похвальный
Task 3. Give definitions of the contextual meaning of the words; give the
synonyms and antonyms of the words below.
Ferocious, laudable, shiftless, meretricious.
Task 4. Match the words to make phrases. Make up 5 sentences, using
any of these word-combinations.
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1) laudable
2) random
3) to take
4) ferocious
5) shallows
6) gruffly
7) a pervading
8) powers
9) to roam
10) the recognition of a
11) to slump against
12) to attain
13) obtrusive
a) alongshore
b) indifference
c) polite
d) of adjustment
e) initiative
f) hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies
g) shot
h) my shoulder
i) for granted
j) the crowd
k) harshness
l) fate
m) this proximity
Task 5. Complete the following table by inserting the missing forms.
Noun Adjective Verb
laud
trot
recognition
mounted
pervade
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Task 6. Give back translation of the following, using your active
vocabulary.
1. It transpired after a confused five minutes.
Gatsby’s notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted
2.
his hospitality.
3. Нe saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop anchor.
4. Canvas pants.
For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake
5.
Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher.
6. Grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him.
7. In the shallows.
8. I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan.
She was appalled by West Egg, by its raw vigor that chafed under the
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old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants
along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.
Task 7. Translate into English, using your active vocabulary.
1. Улучшение ситуации в школах – это похвальная цель.
2. С листвы деревьев вода испаряется довольно быстро.
Она с ног валилась от усталости после беготни по магазинам в те-
3.
чение целого дня.
4. Наш дядя слишком много выпил и был немного навеселе.
5. По характеру собаки яростны, агрессивны и свирепы.
6. Из задумчивости её вывел внезапный грохот.
Среди других пагубных последствий тщеславия – подозритель-
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ность и пессимизм.
8. Он сел на свою лошадь и поехал дальше.
Discussion
Task 8. Answer the questions:
1. What was Gatsby’s story?
2. How did Gatsby meet Tom?
3. What did Gatsby, Daisy and Tom do at the party?
4. What was the atmosphere at the party?
5. What kind of people were at the party?
What are the key scenes of the chapter do you remember? How do they
6.
make you feel?
Chapter 6
Task 9. Characters’ words.
Match the lines from the chapter with the characters’ names. Explain why
they are said.
“I’m delighted that you dropped in”. Daisy
“I’ve never met so many celebrities!” Gatsby
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“I’d like to know who he is and what he
does… And I think I’ll make a point of
finding out”.
…
Work in pairs and continue the task.
Tom
…
Task 10. Imagination.
1. What image or pictures can you draw after reading the chapter?
2. What idioms or quotes could characterize the events in the chapter?
3. What would you do if you were any of the characters?
4. Describe the events of the chapter through one of the characters’ eyes.
(Gatsby, Tom, Daisy) or make a dialogue.
Idioms. Happiness
Task 11. Critical thinking. Analyze the situation of the chapter.
How is the aspect of “happiness” represented in the chapter and the whole
sory? How do the characters interpret it?
Task 12. Read the following idioms about happiness, 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.
Happy-go-lucky
Happy camper
Happy as a Lark
Happy Bunny
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On top of the world
On cloud nine
In seventh heaven
Over the moon
Walking on air
As happy as a clam
Like a dog with two tails
Grin from ear to ear
Tickled pink
Music to your ears
Have a ball
With bells on
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Task 13. Match the idioms from the list to the explanation.
1.
This idiom describes a person’s broad smile that shows extreme
happiness.
2. A person who is extremely happy.
3.
The situation when the information you come to know of makes you
very happy.
4. Have an enjoyable and exciting experience.
5.
To tell someone that you are looking forward to something happily and
are enthusiastic about it.
Task 14. Say if you agree or disagree with the following quotes.
1. “Happiness depends upon ourselves”. (Aristotle)
2. “To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by
those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness”. (Mary Stuart)
3. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own
actions”. (Dalai Lama)
4. “If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness
for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else”. (Chinese Proverb)
Which idiom/idioms can illustrate some scenes in the chapter and which ones
could be said by the characters?
Task 15. Which idioms can you use discussing your idea of happiness. Why?
Grammar. Would rather (Cambridge dictionary)
Task 16. Study the information below.
Meaning
We use would rather or ’d rather to talk about preferring one thing to another.
Would rather has two different constructions.
1) same subject (+ base form)
I’d rather stay at the hotel than go out tonight.
2) different subject (+ past simple clause)
I’d rather you stayed at the hotel today.
In negative sentences with a different subject, the negative comes on the
clause that follows, not on would rather:
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She’d rather you didn’t come after 8 o’clock.
When the subject is the same person in both clauses, we use would rather
(not) followed by the base form of the verb:
We’d rather leave next week.
I’d rather not fly. I hate planes.
When we want to refer to the past we use would rather + have + -ed form
(perfect infinitive without to):
She would rather have spent the time at home.
I’d rather have ordered meat than fish.
When the subjects of the two clauses are different, we often use the past
simple to talk about the present or future, and the past perfect to talk about
the past:
I would rather they did something about it instead of just talking about it. (past
simple to talk about the present or future)
We can use much with would rather to make the preference stronger. In
speaking, we stress much:
I’d much rather watch a western than a horror film.
I’d rather not
We often use I’d rather not as a short response to say no to a suggestion or
request:
A: Do you want to go to the cinema?
B: I’d rather not, if you don’t mind.
Task 17. Finish the sentences choosing the right form.
1. I’d rather…
2. I’d much rather…
3. I’d rather not…
4. I’d rather you…
5. I’d rather you didn’t…
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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