- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни
- •Contents
- •Передмова
- •F. Scott Fitzgerald winter dreams
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match up the synonyms. Consult the dictionary.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Put questions to the italicized words.
- •2. Decide why the italicized nouns are used with a, the, ø.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Choose the right word:
- •3. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Use the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple or the Past Perfect.
- •2. Complete the sentences with prepositions.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Fill in the sentences with the words from the box.
- •3. Match the words with the definitions.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Change the following sentences from the story:
- •2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive form.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Fill in the sentences with the words from the box.
- •3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Use the proper article: a (an), the, ø.
- •2. Complete these sentences with prepositions.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match the words with the definitions.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense.
- •2. Complete these sentences with prepositions.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •2. Choose the correct pronoun.
- •3. Change the following sentences from the story into indirect speech:
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •Parts III-IV
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian. Pay attention to the phrasal verbs.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Put questions to the italicized words.
- •2. Decide why the italicized nouns are used with a, the, ø.
- •3. Complete the sentences with prepositions.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match the words with the definitions.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Complete the sentences with the appropriate modal verb.
- •2. Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •2. Put the right form of the adjectives and adverbs in brackets.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match up the synonyms. Consult the dictionary.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Decide why the italicized nouns are used with a, the, ø.
- •2. Translate the sentences below into Ukrainian. Pay attention to the word in bold.
- •3. Change the following sentences from the story:
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match up the antonyms. Consult the dictionary.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •2. Put the correct reflexive pronoun.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Fill in the correct word derived from the words in bold.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Choose the correct word.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Change the following sentences from the story into direct speech.
- •2. Complete these sentences with prepositions.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
1. Answer the questions:
What did Lance understand when he came back from Paris?
What did he think about his studying in Paris?
What vow did Peter take from Lance?
Why did Lance’s father come down on his son?
What did Mrs. Mallow tell her son one day?
2. Discuss the following:
How can you explain the title of the story?
James Joyce THE BOARDING HOUSE
Exercises
Pre-reading Tasks
1. Practise the pronunciation of the words from the story. When in doubt refer to the dictionary:
butcher, priest, drunkard, excuse, vulgar, perfume, connive, awkward, pudding, traverse, honour, moustache, flirt, isle, stern, stout, obscenity, oblige, waltz, perverse, shrewd, intervene, straw, divine, weight, rakish, jaw, fringe, acute, diligence, urge, ascend, discomfiture, profile, amiable, sashes, bulldog, parlour.
Vocabulary Tasks
1. Find in the story the English for:
не ділитися ні з ким своїми думками; розкрадати касу; великий ніж м’ясника; нарізне життя подружжя; судовий пристав; п’яничка з білими вусами; нестабільна популярність; повний пансіон (проживання з харчуванням); вправно та твердо керувати будинком; суворий тип; солдафонські непристойності, грубощі; приходити додому на сході сонця; імпровізувати акомпанемент; втручатися у щось; зробити брудний натяк; позолочений годинник; зловживати гостинністю; відшкодування; витримувати головний удар; уважно обдивитися себе у трюмо; гріх; розказати геть усе кому-небудь про що-небудь; дев’ять десятих; з сумнівною репутацією; легенько постукати у двері; утішати; запалити свічку від іншої свічки; бокал без ніжки; ходити навшпиньках; холодно привітатися; задня частина шиї; намочити кінчик рушника.
2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
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business perverse abused cleaver shrewd pass pledge affair unsteady stout stern complicity sure desist publicity lodgings through |
It was no use making him take the … : he was … to break out again a few days after.
One night he went for his wife with the … and she had to sleep in a neighbour’s house.
She governed the house cunningly and firmly, knew when to give credit, when to be … and when let things … .
Mrs. Mooney’s young men paid fifteen shillings a week for board and … (beer or … at dinner excluded).
Her eyes, which were grey with a shade of green … them, had a habit of glancing upwards when she spoke with anyone, which made her look like a little … madonna.
Mrs. Mooney, who was a … judge, knew that the young men were only passing the time away: none of them meant … .
There had been no open … between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the …, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.
She had allowed him to live beneath her roof, assuming that he was a man of honour, and he had simply … her hospitality.
He had been employed for thirteen years in a great Catholic wine-merchant’s office and … would mean for him, perhaps, the loss of his job.
He had made two attempts to shave but his hand had been so … that he had been obliged to … .