- •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:
How did Dexter make money? What was his business?
Where did he find money to start his business?
Why did he go to the Sherry Island Golf Club once?
What enormous thing happened there?
What was the attitude of golf-players to young Judy Jones?
Whom did Dexter see standing at the wheel of a motor-boat?
What did young lady ask Dexter to do?
Where did she invite him the next day?
What disappointed and disturbed Dexter at dinner?
What were Dexter and Judy speaking about in the dark sun-porch after dinner?
2. Discuss the following:
“Dexter wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people – he wanted the glittering things themselves. Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it…” Do you have any ideas why he behaved like this?
How did young Dexter manage to make his first big success in laundry business?
Part IV
Exercises
Pre-reading Tasks
1. Practise the pronunciation of the words from the story. When in doubt refer to the dictionary:
denouement, divergence, justify, exquisite, decently, solace, malice, nourish, opiate, alcove, yawn, beau, eligible, stout, coupe, rustle, pugilistic, consumptive, issue, embarrassing, contemporaneous, idiotic, girder, mischievous.
Vocabulary Tasks
1. Find in the story the English for:
розпусна особа; найвищий ступінь фізичної краси; бути закоханим у кого-небудь; бути ледь спроможним чемно поводитися з іншими людьми; потурбуватися збрехати; задоволення бажань; темна веранда; кришталевість початку дня; пішли чутки про їх заручини; нестямно обшукувати клуб у пошуках кого-небудь; виглядати засмученим; бути популярним у кого-небудь; зміцнювати положення; заручитися з ким-небудь; бути трошки повним; мати залицяльника; сиплий голос; загартуватися проти ревнощів; нереально, казково успішний; почуття солідності; страшенний головний біль; обійтися без кого-, чого-небудь; верхня губа; мільйон фраз рвався з його губ; взаємний потяг; місцевий франт; дзвін склянок; хвиля емоцій обрушилася на нього; володар власного часу; спертися на одвірок.
2. Fill in the sentences with the words from the box.
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mischievous relinquished surrendered irresistibly devotion mournful mutual civil engaged cure |
Dexter … a part of himself to the most direct and unprincipled personality with which he had ever come in contact.
Dexter became enormously upset and was scarcely able to be decently … to the other people present.
Judy made these forays upon the helpless and defeated without malice indeed half unconscious that there was anything … in what she did.
Early in their acquaintance it had seemed for a while that there was a deep and spontaneous … attraction.
To Dexter’s agony, rumor … them.
She was seen with him at the station, and it was reported that he looked very … indeed.
His confessed … to Judy Jones had rather solidified his position.
No disillusion as to the world in which she had grown up could … his illusion as to her desirability.
Irene had two suitors whom she pleasantly … when Dexter formally asked her to marry him.
He sat perfectly quiet, his nerves in wild clamor afraid that if he moved he would find her … in his arms.