Labour VII The Creatan Bull

Assignment Eight (pp. 59-68)

1. Answer the questions using the words given below.

   1. Make up a dialogue between Diana Maberly and Poirot. What was the reason for her visit?

to be engaged

to break off an engagement

on the contrary

to go mad

to leave the Navy

to give a reason

to manage an estate

a pretext

a godfather

an unusual occurrence

in the neighborhood

to give rise to

local talk and rumours

a fuss

a fiancé

to consult a doctor

to believe in

to approve of smth

to be pleased

to fix smth up

at least

2. What impression did Hugh Chandler make on Poirot?

magnificent physique

well-proportioned

a mass of hair

a specimen of healthy manhood

on smb’s arrival

to speak in a low voice

to involve smb in smth

to give in

all the same

3. What information did Poirot get about the Chandlers through Colonel Frobisher?

to look old and tired

to drop one’s voice

insanity

to become violent

to take to an asylum

to be afraid of

to be fond of

to be drowned

to be devoted to

at the end of

to bring up

to be married to

to be aware

the reason for

heredity

find out

4. Why did Admiral Chandler force his son to leave the Navy?

to do with

to investigate

to be full of

to question smb

to leave the service

to have a scandal

the only thing

5. Why was Admiral Chandler against Hugh’s being examined by the doctor and against Poirot’s investigation?

a study

can’t help doing smth

an outsider

a trace of abnormality about smb

to roar

to shut smb up between four walls

a wild beast

6. What information did Poirot get about Frobisher and Hugh through Admiral Chandler?

a friend of smb

to be in love

to be lucky

to marry smb

to be out in the boat

to stay at home

to overturn

to hold smb up

as long as

7. What happened to Hugh when he was all wrong?

to sit on a bench

to turn one’s face towards smb

to be sane/insane

to get worse

to take a long breath

for one think … for the other

to dream

for instance

to race about

to taste smth in one’s mouth

to have hydrophobia

to be thirsty

to swallow

to escape

to hand on smth to smb

to be frightened of

to lock smb in

at night

to turn smb from a man into …

8. How did Hugh happen to cut his chin?

to spend much of one’s life in

to be keen on smth

to reflect on smth

to remark

to startle smb

to be nervous

to have a rash over

to do one’s best for smb

to keep away from smb

2. Comment on Colonel Frobisher’s words:

“All the same, you know, there are some things that you can’t fight…”

Assignment Nine (pp. 69-77)

1. Answer the questions using the words given below.

1. What was Poirot’s conversation with Diana about? What was he afraid of?

to have courage

to make smb afraid

to catch a murderer

to prevent a murder

to pass the night at

2. What arrangements did Poirot and Diana make before spending the night at Hugh’s house?

there is no time to lose

an experiment

to make no questions about smth

to follow smb into

on the upper floor

to find smth easily enough

a washbasin with hot and cold water

to take smb some time to do smth

3. Where did Poirot call at on the way back? Why did it strike Diana?

to call out

to be back in time for dinner

It struck her

to mind doing

in the middle of

outside

to be away

4. What happened towards early morning?

to draw back the bolt

stern-faced

grim

a huddled figure

here and there

to be dead white

unconscious

to catch one’s breath

to regain consciousness

unwillingly

5. What did Hugh decide to do in the morning? Was it the only way out?

to get a hare

to take smth off

to load a gun

the only way out

6. Could Hugh believe that he was sane and hadn’t killed animals? How did Poirot make Hugh believe it?

neither of us

entirely

to prove

to be insane

on each occasion

to give a strong sleeping-pill

to put a blood-stained knife into smb’s hand

to be just about to do

to come across

deliberately

to drive smb mad by the administration of drugs

to be prescribed freely

for eye treatment

to obtain

to arouse suspicion

to extract from

to apply externally

to cause a rash

to lead to

to produce symptoms

dryness of the mouth and throat

a hallucination

to test

7. What was the motive for murder Poirot had been looking for? Who and when did he suspect?

to look for a motive for murder

the eternal triangle

to inherit smth from smb

to plan a revenge

to turn one’s hatred against smb

to put smth into smb’s head

to pay the penalty

to object to smth/doing smth

8. What did the two men see and hear Admiral Chandler do?

to pick up a gun

nonsense

the last of

2. Comment on Poirot’s words:

“I thought of a possible motive, the eternal triangle: two men and a woman.”

Revise the words from Labour IV and VI for a test.

Test

Translate into English

1. Политическая карьера Харольда складывалась хорошо. Он был привлекателен и свободен от романтических привязанностей.

2. Миссис Клейтон по старомодному была прелестной. Миссис Райс была женщиной с характером, уверенная в себе, но у нее было чувство юмора и она была интересным собеседником.

3. Миссис Райс была очень привязана к своей дочери, которая была связана с жестоким, грубым человеком, ее мужем. Он жутко ревновал ее и устраивал ей ужасные сцены, если она только поговорит с другим мужчиной. Всему виной был алкоголь.

4. Диана была помолвлена с Хью и очень его любила, но он расторг помолвку по причине того, что сходит с ума, но Диана была борцом и не хотела сдаваться.

5. Хью не был безумен. Адмирал Чендлер внушил ему это. Он спланировал месть. Он хотел свести Хью с ума приемом лекарств. Он знал, что атропин свободно прописывают для лечения глаз и его можно добыть не вызывая подозрения: При наружном применении он вызывает сыпь и определенные симптомы, которые Адмирал сам испытал.