THE MOON AND SIXPENCE

(Chapt. I-XII)

Challenging Vocabulary

Define or explain the following words, word combinations and collocations:

to pay tribute to smb.; to rescue from oblivion; to saunter; to blush a little; an irrevocable decision; a thick-witted man; to tackle a case; to confirm one’s estimate; misapprehension; prudish manners; to cultivate, to whet the appetite, to be vilified, convictions, to shed tears, trim and comely, to do smth at one’s ease; a look of fatigue, to look commonplace; to rack one’s brains; to be overwhelmed with embarrassment; to hold one’s tongue; let bygones be bygones

Paraphrase the following sentences using the vocabulary of the text:

to puzzle; arrival; to shepherd; now and then; a touch; to adore; to observe; to exhaust; to take notice of; authentic; disconcerting; embarrassment; sumptuous; obscure; to reflect; to remark; to desert; disgusting; invent; amazement.

1. From time to time she invited members of it to her house if they showed an appreciation of her talent and entertained with proper lavishness.

2. Miss Waterford was a good hostess, and seeing my shyness came up to me.

3. They love one another.

4. I wanted no one to pay attention to me, so that I could look at these famous creatures at my ease and listen to the clever things they said.

5. The subject was settled, and we began to talk of other things.

6. Painters, who had met him in the cafes of Montmartre, discovered to their surprise that where they had seen but an unsuccessful artist, like another, genuine genius had rubbed shoulders with them

7. Charles Strickland lived dully.

8. She had a real passion for reading and she created a world of the imagination

9. I thought it was the kind of party which makes you wonder why the hostess has troubled to bid her guests, and why the guests have troubled to come.

10. New guests claimed my host’s attention, and I was left to myself.

11. At last she rose and took the ladies out of one room.

12. “You said that if I wanted you to do anything you wouldn’t mind doing it,” she noted.

13. I gathered that the left partner was very angry

14. I was a little surprised, but at all events I understood that I might now take my leave.

15. I thought it awful that a man of his age should concern himself with affairs of the heart.

16. I had understood from Mrs. Strickland that it was a large and elegant place.

17. And this news was slightly confusing to me personally

18. I was perhaps a little lonely, and it was with a tinge of envy that I thought of the pleasant family life

Fill in the blanks:

a hazard; stinging; to take aback; sympathy; to tear; to appear; sedate; an advantage; alert; to

wander; infrequently

1. The instinct of the literary woman was all _______ .

2. I was _________ by her assumption that I knew all about her

domestic misfortune.

3. It ________that when everything was settled he would be four or five

hundred pounds out of pocket.

4. “I think it’s rather ________that he doesn’t know you.

5. During the summer I met Mrs. Strickland not _______.

6. Mrs. Strickland had the gift of _________.

7. She had the same kindly expression and _______, untroubled eyes

8. In my timidity I _________up and down the street while I screwed up my courage to ring the bell.

9. I do not suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the _______of the war had not taken me to Tahiti.

10. I used to listen with astonishment to the ________ humour with which they would ______ a brother-author to pieces the moment that his back was turned.

Insert prepositions or adverbs where necessary:

1. The ironic philosopher reflects with a smile that Sir Walter Raleigh is more safely inshrined [ ] the memory of mankind

2. Mr. Strickland has drawn the portrait of an excellent husband and father, a man [ ] kindly temper, industrious habits, and moral disposition.

3. I marvel [ ] the felicity of their style

4. It must have been bad for the furniture, but I suppose the hostess took her revenge [ ] the furniture of her friends when, in turn, she visited them.

5. I was too shy to break into any of the groups that seemed absorbed [ ] their own affairs.

6. Their moral eccentricities, like their oddities of dress, their wild theories and paradoxes, were an entertainment which amused her, but had not the slightest influence [ ] her convictions.

7. Once or twice Mrs. Strickland’s eyes rested [ ] him somewhat anxiously.

8. I had to call [ ] all my strength of mind not to bolt.

9. I imagined that my arrival had taken them [ ] surprise.

10. The Colonel gulped [ ] his whisky.

11. I worked myself [ ] into a state of moral indignation.

12. I saw that she wished me to appeal [ ] his sympathies by every means in my power.

Translate the sentences:

1. Відтак Місіс Стрвкленд повела розмову навмання, – то згадуючи своє щасливе недавнє, то перші дні їхнього знайомства.

2. Пішовши на пенсію, він оселився в сільській глушині, але щоліта для зміни клімату приїздив з сім’єю на місяць в курортний Істборн.

3. Не можу повірити, що йому вистарчило духу залишити дітей

4. Вона хотіла, щоб я будь-що розчулив його.

5. Дивували суперечності в її поведінці; справді нещасна вона будила моє співчуття,

виставляючи на показ своє нещастя

6. Адміністратор стенув плечима і мені спало на думку, що Стрікленд таки приховує свою адресу.

7. Черговий провів мене підозрілим оком погляд коли я піднімався вгору по сходовій клітці.

8. Щиросердно підтвердивши мої закиди, він вибив мені грунт з –під ніг та й ускладнив моє становище, зробивши його комічним.

THE MOON AND SIXPENCE

(Chapter XIII-XVI)

Challenging Vocabulary

Paraphrase or define the following words, word combinations and collocations:

treacherous; hackneyed phrases; to remain placid; to stay vigilant, irksome; an inordinate amount of smth.; a reproach for smth.; to frown; to get the better of smb.; incongruous; to strike home; to have a fling at smth (make an attempt); to hazard a remark; to use smb. for one’s own ends; to ease the sense of humiliation; to provide for oneself; state of mind; unscrupulous

Fill in the gaps with a word or word combination from the box in an appropriate form:

to seize good breeding to perplex to decline nothing a hold a pin

to fawn to catch an urgent request zest to evolve a boot to fade

1. When I reached London I found waiting for me ___________.

2. I dare say it would have been more seemly________ this proposal.

3. But here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no _______ on him

4. Strickland ________me. I could not understand his motives.

5. It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated ________.

6. When I had asked him what first gave him the idea of being a painter, he was unable or unwilling to tell me. I could make_________ of it.

7. “You can bet your ________ I’d have routed her out fast enough”.

8. I do not believe the people who tell me they do not care a row of ________ for the opinion of their fellows.

9. ________by an intolerable boredom, he resolved to be a painter.

10. He _______ on his rich uncle, hoping to gain some of his money.

11. I take it that conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has _______ for its own preservation.

12. Mrs. Strickland’s sister was older than she, not unlike her, but more _______.

13. When she _______ Strickland’s eye she smiled.

14. Her manner was brisk, and her ________scarcely concealed her conviction that if you

were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.