Vocabulary practice

/. Write in transcription and read the following words and phrases:

garage, leather, seat, horrible, cough, a buttoned tunic, to weigh, a chart, height, carpet, scarf, ignore, cloakroom, jewellery, font, an elbow, lemonade, a bowl, crossness, Irish stew, mould, mattress, wistful, innocent, stare, vestibule, ditch, smooth, whisper, in the convent, enchantment, odd expression, precious, deathless, pale marble, squeeze, extravagant.

//. Translate into English:

остановить машину для заправки; опустить стекло в машине; кожаное сиденье, сигаретный окурок, припарковать машину, делать покупки, плата за проезд в автобусе; весы; перочинный нож, крем для рук, ювелирный магазин; духи; освященная вода; быть в раю, накрасить губы губной помадой, подшучивать над к.-либо; стыдиться ч.-либо или к.-либо; сердиться; зеленые полоски плесени; зрачок; шелковое платье с цветочками, вдали, канава, руль управления; крутые повороты; наполовину прямой; женский монастырь; очарование, странное выражение лица; драгоценный камень.

///. Reproduce the situations from the text where the active vocabulary is used. Think of your own sentences with the words from the list.

IV. Suggest words and word-combinations for the following

1. to stop for taking in gas

2. to open the window in the car

3. to beat quickly (about the heart)

4. a shy inhalation

5. a table (таблица)

6. to mention or to speak about

7. to put on lipstick

8. to make jokes about

9. to be angry

10. a light conversation on unimportant subjects

11. to wander

V. Choose the correct statement:

1. I came to the hotel a half an hour before the time so that...

1. I would see my friend

2. I would order a holiday dinner

3. I wouldn't miss him

2. It was my first time in a city hotel. I decided to have...

1. the most expensive dish on the menu

2. the cheapest thing on the menu

3. a three-course dinner

3. I didn't know whether Mr. Gentleman was shy or whether it was that he was just too lazy to talk.. Or bored. He was no good...

1. for a holiday dinner

2. for small talk

3. for the company of a young girl

4. Going away to America? Too bad we'll never...

1. meet one another again

2. have dinner at a hotel restaurant

3. go to the cinema together

5. The next time we have lunch, don't...

1. put on this dress

2. order Irish stew

3. wear lipstick

6. We drove home while ...

1. it was still bright

2. it was already dark

3. it was raining

VI. Answer the following questions:

1. Who is the main character of the story?

2. Who took the girl to Limerick?

3. What did Caithleen buy in the shop? What did she wish in the church?

4. Where did the girl spend the rest of the day?

5. What made Caithleen cry in the cinema?

6. What did the girl and her friend see on their way home?

7. What made Caithleen happy?

VII. Topics for general discussion

1. What kind of story is it?

2. What kind of a girl was Caithleen? (appearance, character)

3. Who was Mr. Gentleman? What was his attitude to Caithleen?

4. Do you think that the relationship between Caithleen and Mr. Gentleman will grow into more serious?

Alan Marshall (2 May 1902, Noorat, Victoria — 21 January 1984, Melbourne) was an Australian writer, story teller and social documenter. His best known book, I Can Jump Puddles (1955) is the first of a three-part autobiography. The other two books are This is the Grass (1962) and In Mine Own Heart (1963).

When Marshall was six years old he contracted polio leaving him with a physical disability that grew worse as he grew older. From an early age, he resolved to be a writer, and in I Can Jump Puddles he demonstrated an almost total recall of his childhood in Noorat. The characters and places of his book are thinly disguised from real life: Mount Turalla is Mount Noorat, Lake Turalla is Lake Keilambete, the Curruthers are the Blacks, and his best friend, Joe from the books, is Leo Carmody.

Australian poet and contemporary, Hal Porter wrote in 1965 that Alan Marshall is:

... the warmest and most centralized human being ... To walk with ease and nonchalance the straight, straight line between appearing tragic and appearing willfully brave is a feat so complex I should not like to have to rake in the dark for the super-bravery to accomplish it.

Alan Marshall wrote numerous short stories, mainly set in the bush. He also wrote newspaper columns and magazine articles. He travelled widely in Australia and overseas. He also collected and published Indigenous Australian stories and legends.