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9)Seychelles’ economy depends heavily on a fishing industry and … tourism; the latter is vulnerable to downturns in the global travel market.

10)Using the rotten spring weather as an excuse, I walked less frequently and … myself in too much comfort eating.

11)Her hobbies include golf, bridge, English folk and American square dancing, … , gardening and learning French.

12)The mother of 11 September suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, who admitted conspiracy charges in the US, says her son has been made a … .

13)Sarah … when her boyfriend told her he had found a new girlfriend.

14)We had to … the inconvenience.

15)That's the good thing about helping other people – it … your own problems.

6 Translate the sentences into English using words and expressions from Vocabulary Practice Section. Pay attention to the underlined words and expressions.

1. Для вечеринки нам понадобиться около сотни тарелок и столько же стаканчиков. 2. В муниципалитете обсуждается ини- циатива введения в больницах палат совместного пребывания мужчин и женщин. 3. Бывший владелец сети дорогих рестора- нов Belgo признал себя виновным в использовании информации из правительственных источников. 4. Шатаясь и бормоча что-то нечленораздельное, Бен подошел к креслу и упал в него. 5. Об- щепринятое мнение об индийских фильмов тех, кто их не смот- рит, что они ужасны, безвкусны и однотипны. 6. Ее брат отно- сился к их матери с большим состраданием, он утешал и успо- каивал ее, уверяя, что всегда будет рядом. 7. За долгие годы брака их мать смирилась с тяжелым характером отца, и, кажет- ся, даже была счастлива. 8. Чтобы снизить уровень стресса вам необходимо отвлечься от работы – уехать в отпуск, заняться лю- бимым делом и пообщаться с друзьями. 9. Очень часто, когда я пишу стихи к своим песням, я обращаюсь к словарю синонимов и антонимов. 10. Люди, постоянно разгадывающие кроссворды, дольше сохраняют живость ума. 11. Она считает, что из нее сде- лали козла отпущения. 12. После объявления о том, что ей при- дется уволиться, она совсем потеряла присутствие духа. 13. Пре- ступник, организовавший самое громкое ограбление 20 века, бесследно исчез, также как и украденные 13 миллионов.

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7Make up your own sentences or a story using the vocabulary from the exercises above.

Comprehension and Discussion 8 Answer the questions below.

1)Why did Michael take Fiona’s case so closely? Is there anything else behind it besides sympathy and compassion towards Fiona?

2)What was the role of Dr Gillam in the chapter?

3)Michael blamed the Winshaw family for all his misfortunes, the misfortunes of his family and Fiona. What were his reasons? Was he right?

4)What role did television play in Michael’s life in this period?

5)What happened between Michael and his mother at the Mandarin several years ago? Were your predictions right? Do we find an explanation to one of the dreams Michael had?

6)What are the links of this chapter to previous ones?

9Make a detailed timeline of what happened to Fiona since she first found a lump on the back of her neck. Pay special attention to her visits to doctors and the New Year night. You may use any timeline generators (e.g. http://www. teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timeсlines/) or programmes. Useful links: http://www.microsoft.com/education/CreateTimeline.aspx http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelArticles/create-a-timeline.html

10Comment on the following quotations and explain their meaning. Do you agree with them?

1)All my life I’d been trying to find my way to the other side of the screen; ever since my visit to the cinema in Weston-super- mare. Did this mean that I’d made it at last? (p. 411)

2)It turns out that I was right all along. (p. 412)

3)You’re here because of Henry Winshaw. (p. 413)

4)I had a strange dream in which the hospital became a film set and I was sitting in the darkened auditorium of a cinema, watching myself on the screen … (p. 413)

5)As for me, I stayed right there in my seat. I wasn’t going to move until Fiona did. There seemed no point in leaving the cinema, this time. (p. 419)

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Creating a Commentary

11Comment on the meaning and usage of the following references and allusions, give the context they are used in.

Bank Holiday (p. 408)

Language and Style 12 Translate the following passage.

I said: ‘You don’t have to worry about a thing ... It becomes so hard to remember. (pp. 412–413)

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

13Discuss the following questions.

1)Are doctors and nurses responsible for their patients? What punishment is appropriate for medical malpractice?

2)Is there anybody or anything else to blame for medical malpractice?

An Organisation of Deaths

PRE-READING

Focus Activity

1 Discuss the following questions.

1)Look at the title of the chapter. What would the chapter be about?

2)What kind of ending would be logical? Satisfactory? Could you make any predictions?

ACTIVE READING

Vocabulary Practice

2 Find the following words in the text, give their definitions, derivatives and translations. Give the context they are used in.

reconciliation; devastating; revelation; prophecy; confinement; tease; contemplate; macabre; spell

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3 Find the English equivalents to the following words and expressions. Give the context they are used in.

рассчитывать на ч-л. / к-л. (ph.v.); исключать; разобраться, по- нять; отвлекающий манёвр

4 Match the words (1–10) to their synonyms (a-j).

5Fill the gaps in these sentences with a suitable word or expression from the box below. Put it in an appropriate form. Some words and expressions are used more than once.

1)To mark the 60th anniversary of the Blood Transfusion Service in Britain, Philip Dodd explores the … history of passing blood from body to body.

2)A 12-year-old boy from Stockport who became anorexic after being … about his weight has told the BBC about how he starved himself down to four stone.

3)Rwandan President Paul Kagame has put great emphasis on promoting … between the main ethnic groups following the 1994 genocide.

4)Of all the … in former Prime Minister Tony Blair's autobiography, his admission to habitually drinking wine and spirits each night was perhaps the most surprising.

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5)It will be a … blow for the town if the factory closes.

6)The … that David would become king was fulfilled.

7)She had been held in solitary … for four months.

8)The lady of Lawers, who had second sight, lived in the seventeenth century. She planted a tree beside the church in Lawers and she made a … regarding it.

9)He visited prisoners at their place of … .

10)Acid rain has a … effect on the forest.

11)It was in the year 610 that the Prophet Muhammad received the first … of what was to become the Koran, the holy book of Islam.

12)The meeting achieved a … between the groups.

13)Jack went on vacation to … his future.

14)Other local objects include the … mask known as a Scotch Cap which prisoners in Ruthin Gaol were forced to wear to stop them communicating with other inmates.

15)"I Put a … on You" is a 1956 song written by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, whose recording was selected as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

16)With luck, you might cover your costs, but don't … it.

17)They will want to … any more serious underlying causes, and then may consider treatment with one of several possible medicines, which might help.

18)The Children's Commissioner for Wales says he thinks a target to cut child poverty in half by 2010 was a "…" and "unrealistic".

19)I know his name; I just can't … my … it.

6 Translate the sentences into English using words and expressions from Vocabulary Practice Section. Pay attention to the underlined words and expressions.

1. Разлив нефти в Мексиканском заливе привел к ужасающим последствиям для флоры и фауны океана и побережья. 2. Пред- сказание ведьм, что Макбет станет королем, очень важная часть сюжета пьесы. 3. На границе Мексики и США была задержана группа нелегальных иммигрантов, из-за проблем с оформлени- ем их продержали в заключении 2 недели. 4. Он как раз был в Ницце, когда до него дошли печальные вести о гибели его биз- нес-партнера. 5. Эндрю Паркинсон был вынужден уйти в отстав- ку, после того, как были разоблачены его многолетние махинации

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с деньгами компании. 6. Ты думал об уходе на пенсию? 7. Ее бывший муж еще очень долго после развода надеялся на при- мирение. 8. По данным недавнего опроса подростки настолько озабочены своим внешним видом, что 20 % прогуливают школу, чтобы избежать издевательств одноклассников. 9. Люблю погу- лять на природе, поразмышлять о прекрасном. 10. Я не исклю- чаю возможности выйти замуж за иностранца. 11. Говорят, она стала совсем другим человеком после того, как на нее было на- ложено заклятие. 12. После того, как пожарники потушили огонь, они сделали ужасающее открытие – кроме обгоревшего тела на водительском месте в багажнике было найдено еще одно тело. 13. Ты мой лучший друг, ты всегда можешь на меня рассчиты- вать. 14. Некоторые эксперты считают, что переименование ми- лиции в полицию всего лишь отвлекающий маневр, позволяю- щий спокойно провести реформу МВД. 15. Они похожи как две капли воды, но в чем-то все-таки они отличаются, не могу по- нять в чем.

7Make up your own sentences or a story using the vocabulary from the exercises above.

Comprehension and Discussion

8 Answer the questions below.

1)Did Michael reconcile with his mother? Why? What was the real reason for his 3-year withdrawal from the world?

2)How did Michael feel after Fiona’s death?

3)Why was he invited to Winshaw Towers?

4)What was the official reason for the Winshaws to gather at Winshaw Towers? The real one?

5)Did anything look suspicious from the beginning?

6)What do you learn about Michael’s involvement in the Winshaw case?

7)What was peculiar about the murder of each of the Winshaws? Was there any pattern?

8)What do you learn about Tabitha and Mortimer? Were they as monstrous as the rest of the family? Why? Why not?

9)Could the book have another ending? Why? (Then, what could it be?) Why not?

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9Give a summary of the chapter using words and expressions from Vocabulary Practice Section.

10The title of each chapter in this part is the title of some old British film. Find some information about these films. What are the connections between these films and the events in the corresponding chapters?

•Where There's a Will (1936)

•Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961)

•Don't Panic Chaps! (1959)

•Carry on Screaming! (1966)

•A Lady Mislaid (1958)

•The Crowning Touch (1959)

•Five Golden Hours (1961)

•Back-Room Boy (1942)

•With Gagarin to the Stars (1961)

11Comment on the following quotations and explain their meaning. Do you agree with them?

1)… they will be propelled by the same very force which has always – and solely – driven them throughout the entire conduct of their professional careers. I refer, of course, to greed: naked, clawing, brutish greed. (p. 438)

2)‘We’re not in a film now, you know.’ (p. 445)

3)‘I’ve known it all along.’ (p. 461)

4)… I wasn’t just watching it … I was living it … (p. 462)

5)And now that it’s actually happened, it’s almost as if … a spell’s been broken. (p. 471)

6)Fate delivered you into my hands, at last … (p. 476)

7)A mirror was a doorway to the underworld … (p. 480)

8)‘there comes a point, where greed and madness become practically indistinguishable. (p. 485)

9)If you sleep, if you dream, you must accept your dreams. It’s the role of the dreamer. (p. 487)

10)Don’t look back. (p. 488)

11)It’s delicate blue, and this transition from the blue to the black is very gradual and lovely. (p. 493)

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Creating a Commentary

12 Comment on the meaning and usage of the following references and allusions, give the context they are used in.

President G. Bush Senior; January 16, 1991 (United Nation’s deadline for Iraq’ withdrawal from Kuwait); M15, M16 (p. 426); Not exactly a holiday camp, is it? (p. 430); Esma Connon (p. 431); Shirly Eaton; Bloomsbury Group; Winifred Holtby; T.S. Eliot The Waste Land / George Eliot Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss (pp. 440–441); Norman Bates (p. 443); The Cat and the Canary (p. 444); Jeremy Paxman (p. 445); Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (p. 449); play sardines (p. 449); Theatre of Blood (1973) (p. 452); Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Niggers (p. 452); Colonel Mustard (p. 454); Alice and the Red King’s dream (Alice Through the Looking Glass) (p. 462); POW (p. 472); Colonel Gadaffi (p. 478); Goldfinger (p. 479); The Red Baron (p. 489);

Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream. (pp. 492–493)

Language and Style

13Suspense is masterfully created in this part. Find and analyse the means creating it.

14This part is full of macabre jokes and puns. Find examples in the text.

15Translate the following passage.

Michael dreamed about Fiona … But it didn’t end. (p. 470)

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

16Write a police officer’s report about the events at Winshaw Tower. You may use the report below as an example.

Notice the following points about it.

•It is written in clear, simple English.

•Dates, times and other details are recorded as precisely as possible.

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•The "register" is formal.

•The report is impersonal. The writer focuses on the events and the evidence, not on his /her own thoughts or feelings.

Case Number: VT 05/04/01/3462

Incident: Vehicle Theft

Reporting Officer: Constable Ranjit Singh

Date of Report: 05 April 2001

At about 1040 hours on 5th April 2001, I met with Ms. Vanessa Price at 61 South Chorley Drive regarding a vehicle theft. Ms. Price said she parked her car by a parking meter outside Chorley Leisure Centre at about 0945 hours and went into a nearby shop to return a faulty torch she had purchased the previous day. She said that when she returned to the leisure centre at about 1000 hours, she discovered her car was missing.

Ms. Price described her car as a maroon, 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse with a black convertible roof. The car registration number is GTL-682- P. She estimated the value of the car at ₤8,500 and said there were no distinguishing marks or items.

Ms. Price told me she locked the car, but she does not have the keys. She now believes she may have left the keys in the boot lock after removing the faulty torch from the boot. Ms. Price said she gave no one permission to take her car, and she is up to date with her loan repayments.

I conducted a survey of the crime scene but found no items of evidence. I saw no broken glass in the area, and there were no items to retrieve or photograph.

I obtained a sworn statement from Ms. Price and provided her with the case number and Information Leaflet 99/07 ("What to do when your car is stolen"). I entered the vehicle into the station database as a stolen vehicle. I also searched the area but was unable to find the vehicle.

17Create a timeline of Michael’s life. List all the important events and dates. You may use any timeline generators

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(e.g. http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/ timelines/) or programmes. There is an example of George Washington’s timeline below.

Useful links: http://www.microsoft.com/education/CreateTimeline.aspx http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelArticles/create-a-timeline.html

Timeline of George Washington's Life

President of the USA

1732 George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia

1759 Washington marries Martha Custis

1775 Revolutionary War begins (the 13 Colonies against Britain)

1783 Revolutionary War ends

1787 Washington presides over the Constitutional Convention (the US Constitution is written)

1789 Washington is elected President

1792 Washington is elected President for a second term

1797 Washington's second term as President is over – John Adams becomes President

1799 George Washington dies at his home called Mt. Vernon, located in Fairfax County, Virginia.

(From http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/pres/ washington/timeline.shtml)

More timelines at:

http://www.timetoast.com/

http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/

18 PROJECT: Writing an obituary

If you were a journalist you could be asked to write an obituary for one of the members of the Winshaw family or Michael Owen.

In this project you are going to learn how to write an obituary.

1)First find a partner to work with on this project.

2)Choose one of the characters from the list below.

• Michael Owen

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