Checking Your Progress:

Exercise 2.6. Using your acquired skills, formulate the ideas of the given passages and explain how you did it:

1. The center of the house was one-sixty foot stretch of dark-paneled space, filled with groupings of green and brown couches, ceramic lamps, heavy, carved tabled full of souvenir-shop porcelain and crystal. Clown paintings and Rodeo Drive oils of rainy Paris street scenes said all talent should not be encouraged. /Jonathan Kellerman The Clinic/

2. The Judge smiled with great assurance and waved at the chair in the witness box. Stella shot wild looks in all directions as she sat down. /John Grisham The Runaway Jury/

3. Her eyes watered, and the poor woman was about to lose control. She bit her lip and clenched her teeth. /John Grisham The Runaway Jury/

4. It was good to get back out in the sunlight. Pretending the warmth could melt the bitterness I'd absorbed up in his office. /Jonathan Kellerman The Clinic/

5. Mrs. Gladys Card and Millie were trying their best to disappear into the walls and would not under any circumstances look the Judge in the eyes. /John Grisham The Runaway Jury/

6. Later, they sat in the sand, at the edge of the water, splashing in the foam as the gentle waves broke across their feet. A few boats with dim lights inched along the horizon. The hotels and condos stood quiet behind them. They owned the beach for the moment. /John Grisham The Runaway Jury/

7. All humanity drank from the same river of emotion; and by drinking, every race, religion, and nationality became one indivisible species. /Dean Koontz The Key to Midnight/

8. I walked halfway down the block to the club, bent over against the whistling wind, holding my hat on my head with one gloved hand. /Stephen King The Breathing Method/ (from Different Seasons by Stephen King/

9. I was struck by his diction – a slow methodical rhythm with no hurry and each syllable getting equal treatment. He as a street bum at the moment, but there had been better days. /John Grisham Street Lawyer/

10. Taking the risk that her hands might shake, and her guardian notice it, but determined on her next course anyway, very deliberately Bobbie opened her chic leather handbag and took out a cigarette which she fitted slowly, oh so slowly, into a holder, lit and inhaled. /Charlotte Bingham The Blue Note/

Revision

Exercise 2.7. Read the following passages from The Deceiver by Frederick Forsyth. Formulate the idea of each passage the way you see it, giving the suggestive phrases:

1. Bruno Morenz knocked on the door and entered in response to the jovial, “Herein.” His superior was alone in the office, in his important revolving leather chair behind his important desk. He was delicately stirring his first cup of real coffee of the day in the bona-china cup, deposited by the attentive Fräulein Keppel, the neat spinster who waited upon his every legitimate need.

2. „Could you come to his surgery at six?“

His wife looked up and returned to her absorption in the evening game show on television. Bruno hoped she had got the message exactly right.

3. „He really thinks you‘re going to marry him?“

„Head over heels, besotted. Stupid.“

4. When she spoke it was not in the tones he knew, but the speech of a fishwife.

5. Her face was quite contorted. She spat the words. „You are a fool. A fat old fool.“

6. „My trip with Herr Direktor has been postponed,“ he said. „Oh, that‘s nice,“ she said.

He sometimes thought he could come in from the office of an evening and say: „Today I popped down to Bonn and shot Chancellor Kohl,“ and she would still say, „Oh, that‘s nice.“

7. it was a large brown stain, quite dry and hard. She tut-tutted at the extra work she would have to scrub it off, and went to get a bucket of water and a brush.

8. At two minutes to eleven McCready purred the black BMW forward into the corridor.

9. „Enjoy your visit to the German Democratic Republic,“ said the senoir border guard. He didn‘t look as if he menat it.

10. „Thank you, guv,“ said the newsvendor. He gestured towards his placard. „All over, then, eh? All them international crises, Things of the past.“