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Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks

1. Answer the questions:

  1. Were Mabel’s parents alive?

  2. Who helped her to keep the big house?

  3. Did the girl have friends?

  4. Did she suffer from poverty?

  5. Where did she feel infinite security?

  6. What happened to Mabel one evening?

  7. How did the doctor act in this situation?

2. Discuss the following:

  1. The doctor couldn’t swim, he was ill, he was so afraid of dark water in the pond. What helped him to have the courage to rescue Mabel?

  2. “Fergusson being a mere hired assistant, was slave to the country.” Why did the author call the doctor a slave?

P. 133-143

Exercises

Pre-reading Tasks

1. Practise the pronunciation of the words from the story. When in doubt refer to the dictionary:

clayey, towel, gulp, instantaneous, conscious, divest, dive, cushion, extricate, convulsive, thighs, triumphant, murmur, issue, yearning, passion, knee, tangled, patient, honour, violation, stubborn, rhapsodic, effort, inevitable, assurance, steady, ached, doubt, fountain, breast, falter, jeer, alter, vibrating, release, wrap, scullery, voile, blindly.

Vocabulary Tasks

1. Find in the story the English for:

великий ковток; пильно подивитися в очі; знімати одяг з кого-небудь; смертельно боятися; пірнати у ставок; вагатися; промоклий одяг; диванна подушка; визволятися; кінцівка; розкиданий одяг; приводити до тями; танути; прошепотіти у дивному захопленні; сплутане вологе волосся; бути огидним комусь; обнімати коліна; оголені плечі; відчути запах стоячої води; болісне зусилля; глузувати; змінений голос; загорнутися в ковдру; волочитися; побачити на мить; схлипувати.

2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.

extricate clayey unfathomable groan dimly gulp lap stagnant mortally scattered muffled drooped

  1. He drank a … himself, and put some into her mouth.

  2. He could not bear the smell of the dead, … water, and he was … afraid of his own health.

  3. He was afraid now, because he felt dazed, and felt … that her power was stronger than his, in this issue.

  4. It was as if she had the life of his body in her hands, and he could not … himself.

  5. She saw her clothing lying … .

  6. With an inward … he gave way, and let his heart yield towards her.

  7. Then, as it were suddenly, he smelt the horrid … smell of that water.

  8. He wanted her eyes not to have that terrible, wistful, … look.

  9. She sat still, away from him, with her face … aside, and her hands folded in her … .

  10. A tumbling, … noise from within the dark house startled him.

3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.

  1. Then he removed her saturated, earthy-smelling clothing, rubbed her dry with a towel, and wrapped her naked in the blankets.

  2. Her eyes remained full on him, he seemed to be going dark in his mind, looking back at her helplessly.

  3. “No,” he answered truthfully.

  4. “I walked in [the pond]. But I went in overhead as well.”

  5. And she was passionately kissing his knees through the wet clothing, passionately and indiscriminately kissing his knees, his legs, as if unaware of everything.

  6. This introduction of the personal element was very distasteful to him, a violation of his professional honour.

  7. In view of the delicate flame which seemed to come from her face like a light, he was powerless.

  8. Her eyes were now wide with fear, with doubt, the light was dying from her face, a shadow of terrible greyness was returning.

  9. Her eyes were wistful and unfathomable.

  10. He watched her relentlessly, as she knew.

  11. He went and bent to kiss her, gently, passionately, with his heart’s painful kiss.