Monkey Brand

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Tasks

1. Find the sentences in which the following word-combinations are used. Translate the sentences into Russian.

   1. to serve sb right

   2. to turn sb’s head with flattery

   3. to have a good ear

   4. to walk over sb

   5. to be a confirmed old bachelor

   6. to give vent to one’s feelings

   7. to have the audacity to do sth

   8. to take sb in hand

   9. not to have the heart to do sth

2. Use the above expressions in situations based on the book.

3. Paraphrase the following OR comment and explain it in English:

   1. [Higgins] I'm quite done up for this morning.

   2. [Higgins] I'll take it down first in Bell's visible Speech; then in broad Romic; and then we'll get her on the phonograph so that you can turn her on as often as you like with the written transcript before you.

   3. [Higgins to Eliza] Remember: thats your handkerchief; and thats your sleeve. Dont mistake the one for the other if you wish to become a lady in a shop.

   4. [Higgins] I shall make a duchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe.

   5. [Higgins instructing Mrs Pearce] Take her away and clean her, Mrs. Pearce. Monkey Brand, if it wont come off any other way.

   6. [Higgins about Eliza] Dont you know that a woman of that class looks a worn out drudge of fifty a year after shes married.

   7. [Eliza about her father] He's off his chump, he is.

   8. [Eliza to Higgins] Ive heard of girls being drugged by the like of you.

   9. [Higgins to Eliza] If you are not found out, you shall have a present of seven-and-sixpence to start life with as a lady in a shop.

   10. [Higgins about his experience] Ive taught scores of American millionairesses how to speak English: the best looking women in the world. I'm seasoned.

   11. [Higgins, indignantly] What the devil do you mean?

   12. [Doolittle to Higgins] Have I asked you for a brass farthing?

   13. [author’s comments about Higgins] [He goes back to the piano, with an air of washing his hands of the whole affair.]

   14. [Higgins to Pickering] Pickering: if we were to take this man in hand for three months, he could choose between a seat in the Cabinet and a popular pulpit in Wales.

   15. [Higgins about Doolittle] I suppose we must give him a fiver.

   16. [author’s comments about Doolittle] [He hurries to the door, anxious to get away with his booty.]

   17. [Eliza about her father] Talking money out of other people's pockets into his own.

4. Answer the teacher’s questions on Act II.

5. Make a summary of Act II. Keep in mind the guidelines given in Task 3 of your previous home assignment. Here you see a suggested plan with key-words, i. e. you do not have to do points 1 – 4 of the guidelines. You may add other key-words of yours. Use of the words given in Task 1 is beneficial.

   1. Eliza arrives (common girl, interesting accent, not to be interested in sth, to come in a taxi);

   2. Eliza’s business offer (to pay for the lessons, percentage of one’s income, to figure out, to be able to afford to pay);

   3. The plan of teaching (to turn one’s head with flattery, do encourage sb to do sth, to have a good ear, to pass sb off as sb);

   4. Eliza’s and Higgins’s whims (to walk over sb, a confirmed old bachelor, to be able to buy sth oneself, to be paid, to be one’s own business, to be tempted);

   5. Teaching Higgins not to swear (to charge sb with sth, to hear sth from one’s lips);

   6. Doolittle comes with his offer (to give vent to one’s feelings, to ask for a brass farthing, to rescue sb from worse than death, to talk money out of one’s pockets);

   7. Eliza and Doolittle meet (to recognize sb, to cut one’s old friends);

   8. Entering a new life (to take a stiff job).

6. Express your agreement or disagreement with the following ideas:

   1. [author’s comments] But as to Higgins, the only distinction he makes between men and women is that when he is neither bullying nor exclaiming to the heavens against some featherweight cross, he coaxes women as a child coaxes its nurse when it wants to get anything out of her.

   2. [Higgins about Eliza] At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.

   3. [Higgins] Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

   4. [Higgins to Pickering about training] As a military man you ought to know that. Give her her orders: thats what she wants.

   5. [Higgins about women] Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

   6. [Higgins about his relations with women] I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and youre driving at another.

   7. [Higgins about the source of all troubles] Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life; and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on to the wrong track. One wants to go north and the other south; and the result is that both have to go east, though they both hate the east wind.

   8. [Higgins about money] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.

   9. [Pickering] I think you ought to know, Doolittle, that Mr. Higgins's intentions are entirely honorable. [Doolittle] Course they are, Governor. If I thought they wasnt, Id ask fifty.

   10. [Pickering] Have you no morals, man? [Pickering] [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. Not that I mean any harm, you know.