3. Answer the questions.

• What kind of company (group of people) gathered to see the film?

• What feelings did Grimes experience while watching the film?

• What is Paris famous for?

• What argument took place after watching the film?

• Why did Grimes think he would have to “rethink” his wardrobe?

• What brought the whole company to Nice?

• Why did Grimes change his attitude to Fabian?

• Why did Grimes avoid those film-shooters?

• What worried Fabian about their company of three and why?

• Why did Grimes consider Pat and Evelyn to be unsuitable companions for their travelling? (the clash of interests and habits)

• Do you think Fabian would also give his unhealthy brother 25.000 dollars?

• Why did Grimes speculate on the problem of whether love of money was a vice or not?

• Why didn’t Grimes want to return the stolen money to the owner?

• Why wasn’t Grimes impressed after visiting a museum in Nice?

• What was Grimes’s conception of money? And what was that of Fabian? Compare;

• How do you account for Fabian’s outlook of the world?

4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.

• Grimes was a shy and decent person (rather timid);

• Fabian was a real connoisseur of art;

• Fabian didn’t care much about his clothes;

• Fabian was really interested in and enthusiastic about everything he took up;

• Fabian was sensitive to beauty;

• Lily had an aristocratic disregard for the machinery behind events. She was the sort of woman you could never imagine in a kitchen or an office;

• Fabian was accustomed to leading a high style of living;

• Fabian was cold-blooded;

• Fabian had an abiding fondness for money;

• Grimes couldn’t fully trust Fabian;

• Fabian was suspicious and careful;

• Fabian was well-read and educated;

• Fabian wasn’t as lazy as he showed himself;

• Grimes really lacked direction in his life;

• Fabian was a good psychologist;

• Grimes wasn’t really ready to accept the consequences of his actions;

• Fabian was sick and tired of deceiving people;

• Fabian was practical;

• The difference in doing business between them (Fabian prefers a candid manly handshake while Grimes cold legal language)

5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.

• Why do art and politics often become subjects for arguing among people?

• The role of art in our life/ types of art/ prove that literature is also art;

• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – H.W. Beecher

• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Author unknown.

• Must there be any limits set to the subjects depicted in canvases or on screens? To which extent are moral issues relevant in art (for an artist);

• The social responsibility of artists (CSR – corporate social responsibility) in its application to art;

• Why are we sometimes charmed by people that seemed real villains at first?

• Men’s friendship is based on common activities and lucky business matters. What else can bring people together?

• A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world. – L. Buscaglia

• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. – A. Glasow

• Is there any connection? The richer you are, the more unemotional (cold-hearted) you become;

• Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there is no such thing as exactly enough. – M.McLaughlin

• Art has to be learned;

• Money brings freedom. The more you can afford the wider is your horizon;

• To get the most pleasure out of money, it is best not to have to think about it most of the time;

• Modesty and money don’t go well together;

• Hesitation is the mother of being unlucky.