Answer the following questions:

1. What do you know about William Somerset Maugham? What works is he known for?

2. What was odd about Mrs. Sutcliffe’s first name?

3. Who of the three ladies was a spinster/ divorced two husbands?

4. Why were Miss Hickson and Mrs. Richman inclined to treat Arrow as a little young thing?

5. Where is Antibes / Carlsbad / Riviera situated?

6. When and how did the three women get acquainted with each other?

7. Why were Miss Hickson, Mrs. Richman and Arrow Sutcliffe great friends?

8. Who of the three women suspected that Dr. Hudebert wasn’t very clever? Why did she think so?

9. Whose relative is Lena Finch?

10. Why did Miss Hickson invite Lena Finch to Antibes?

11. How long was Lena going to stay with three friends?

12. What foods did Lena’s first luncheon consist of?

13. Why were Beatrice and Arrow upset after luncheon?

Exercise 13

Are these statements True or False?

1. Miss Hickson was going to make a third man happy._________

1. Dr. Hudebert was unsympathetic towards his patients.________

2. The three women went to Antibes on Mrs. Richman suggestion._________

3. Beatrice was weak because she couldn’t lift heavy things._________

4. According to the text, there were four people living at Antibes before Lena’s

arrival._________

5. Frank envied Lena’s figure.________

6. At luncheon Lena said a grossest indecency which shocked the three women. ______

7. The butter served at luncheon was excellently prepared.__________

8. It was difficult to find cream on the Riviera._________

9. Lena had problems with teeth. __________

Word Power Exercises

Exercise 14

Answer the questions using words from the Word Power. Explain your point of view:

1. When did you have great time last?

2. What great state occasions do you know?

3. When do you feel great before or after classes?

4. Can you call yourself a great talker? Who in your group do you consider to be a great talker?

5. Are you a great admirer of anything?

6. How many great friends can a person have? How many do you have?

7. Can women be great friends? a man and a woman?

8. What clothes would you call plain?

9. What things do you have good taste for?

10. Can you give any synonymic expressions to the proverb “tastes differ”?

11. What kind of people do you treat with respect? contempt?

12. In what situations you are likely to say ‘It’s my treat’?

13. Did you ever get special treatment from your teachers at school? How do students usually treat such people?

14. What do you treat yourself to on your birthday?

15. Do you think University rooms have enough furniture? What is not enough here?

16. Have you got enough time to do everything? For what things you haven’t got enough time?

17. What is your favorite food? What food can’t you stand?

Exercise 15

Quiz on Word Power. Answer the questions as quick as possible:

1. What is the difference between great and big? Write three nouns that can be big, three nouns that can be great, and three nouns that can be both big and great.

2. Write five word combinations with the adjective plain and five word combinations with the adverb plainly.

3. What is the other way to say it is clear?

4. What is a more polite way to say an ugly girl?

5. How can you call simple and understandable language?

6. How will you call a room without decorations and much furniture?

7. How do we call food with a good taste?

8. When different people like different things, what do you say?

9. What is the difference between words taste, try and sample?

10. How do you call soup that you forgot to add salt in?

11. What does a lemon taste like? Chocolate? Coffee without sugar? Sea water?

12. What do you say when you invite somebody to the restaurant and pay for their meals?

13. If somebody treats you better than others, what do you get?

14. What are the rules of using the word enough with different parts of speech?

15. What food is not good for your health?

16. What do we serve at different public meetings?

17. What is food in general as an object of producing and selling?

18. What piece of equipment helps us prepare food by cutting/mixing/slicing?

Exercise 16

Choose the most suitable word in the sentence:

1. He kept all his secret papers in a big / great box.

1. There is a big / great difference between liking someone and wanting to marry them.

2. It was only later Harry realized that they could be in big / great danger.

3. She had big / great difficulty in summing up numbers in mind.

4. The big / great thing about this dictionary is that it shows the frequency of words.

5. Come on, you are a big / great girl now, you can do it!

6. Marrying him was the biggest / greatest mistake of her life.

7. The boy is getting too big / great for his boots.

8. Roger chewed and swallowed so fast that he could hardly taste / sample the meat.

9. At the opening of our restaurant guests will be able to taste / sample any dish or beverage on the menu.

10. Traveling to other countries is a great opportunity to try / taste national dishes.

11. Lena tried / tasted the pear and asked the butler to bring some sugar.

12. He married her only because she was good at cooking tasty / tasteful dishes.

13. Wow! I see a really tasty / tasteful choice of books here!

14. As a special treat / treatment, we were allowed to stay up until midnight.

15. No wonder she was promoted, she gets special treat / treatment from the boss.

16. His father owns a company that produces sugar and other basic refreshments / foodstuffs.

17. We’ll continue our workshop in 20 minutes. During the break you’ll be offered refreshments / foodstuffs in the hall.

18. The patient has recovered enough to take some nourishment / diet.

19. The Kremlin food / diet has become famous throughout the country due to ‘Komsomolka’.

Exercise 17

Translate the sentences into Russian. Define the meaning of the words from the Word Power:

1. My answering machine was blinking, but I didn’t expect any great messages at this hour. 2. She is a great reader. It’s always a pleasure to talk to her. 3. Mr. Perkins took this part of his work with great seriousness. 4. He had heard that statement so often, and he couldn’t see why it was true; they didn’t know the conditions as he did, why should they accept it as self-evident that their greater age gave them greater wisdom? 5. They liked plain food, plainly prepared - roast beef and broiled chicken and burgers. 6. Plain girls marry earlier, statistically, then pretty ones. 7. His hair was as black and as long as ever, and he had plainly never learned to brush it; it fell over his forehead with every gesture, and he had a quick movement of the hand with which he pushed it back from his eyes. 8. But after a while the fish started to smell good and Vix discovered it didn’t taste that bad except for the bones. 9. Lemon drops taste like betrayal. 10. Once Victoria gets a taste of another way of life, once she spends summer with a girl like Caitlin Somers, she’ll be lost to them. 11. He was wearing a tasteful and expensive-looking gray suit, a crisp white shirt, and a necktie. 12. For most good girls, the whole idea of prenuptial agreement is tremendously distasteful. 13. We were treated to a good dinner at their house. 14. Lamb managed to make his way to the hospital, where he was treated for a broken arm. 15. When Caitlin introduced Vix to Sharkey she said, “You’d better treat her right”. “I treat all your friends right,” Sharkey said. 16. Legally, you have a right to a clear explanation of any proposed medical treatment, including any risks and any alternatives. 17. Having your husband, sister, or best friend standing by also reminds your doctor, that you’re a real human being, not just another disease to be treated. 18. The biggest boy in the dormitory took a dislike to him, and Phillip, small for his age, had to put up with a good deal of bad treatment. 19. If she had treated him with civility he would have been perfectly indifferent to her; but it was obvious that she disliked him, and his pride was wounded. 20. I knew I shouldn’t think this, but my daughter had never struck me as very appealing. She had all her life been a few pounds overweight, with a dish-shaped face and colorless hair and a soft, pink, half-open mouth, the upper lip short enough to expose her top front teeth. 21. If the lawyer was young enough to be her grandson, he could be Sophia’s age. 22. “Jessica and Nick dine at five-thirty” I said, “and what’s good enough for them is good enough for me.” 23. I’ve had enough of him. I don’t want to see him again. 24 Most of it was palatable, though the cod was not to his liking: tough, more like an old piece of rope than food. 25. It is an unwritten law that people who don’t cook and who do not savor food own the finest and most fabulously equipped kitchens, and Mike was no exception. 26. Dogs shouldn’t eat just anything, they should eat a properly balanced diet. 27. The diet the Romans introduced into Britain was appetizing indeed: pheasant and fallow deer; figs and mulberries; walnuts and chestnuts, parsley, mint and thyme; onions, radishes, turnips, lentils and cabbage. 28. On further inspection, the girl wasn’t merely thin, some of her ribs were visible: she was undernourished.

Exercise 18