Discussion

Discuss the events of the extract you have read:

1. You have known that Judy got a scholarship for marked proficiency in English with general excellency in other lines. But Daddy–Long–Legs forbade her to accept this scholarship. Why?

2. Pay attention to the tone of the letter in which Jerusha informed Daddy that she would accept her scholarship. How does it characterize Judy?

3. Why did Judy call Daddy a stranger?

4. Is it good or bad to have two coats? Remember the episode where Judy said that it was a dreadful thing to have two coats! Is it really so? What for did she mention it?

5. How did Judy understand that Daddy allowed her to visit Julia?

6. Judy described in detail what dresses she and her friends had for the Founder’s dance. Do you agree with the following Judy’s words: “One can’t help thinking, Daddy, what a colorless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman, whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge – is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”?

7. “I love the furs and the necklace and the Liberty scarf and the gloves

and handkerchiefs and books and purse – and most of all I love you!” – Was she sincere when she said she loved him? Or maybe she loved him for his presents? What’s your opinion?

8. What impressed Judy most of all at Julia’s?

9. What secret of happiness did Judy discover?

10. Why did Judy decide to become a Fabian?

11. What was Judy’s attitude to sports? Maybe she followed the motto: Healthy mind in healthy body? Is it popular nowadays to take care of your health?

12. Why did Judy refuse to go to Europe?

13. What did Master Jervie advice Judy to do this summer? Why did they quarrel?

14. Was Judy spending three weeks on Lock Willow Farm after Magnolia? Why did she choose to go to the Adirondacks? Did she get the permission from her Daddy to go there? How did she explain her choice to Daddy?

Unit 8. (3rd October – Thursday morning)

Vocabulary work

Exercise 1.

1. Consult a dictionary and translate the following words from the extract. Practice their pronunciation paying attention to stresses.

Frontispiece, abstruse, pious, exuberant, purgatory, abolish, obedient, resentful, ordeal, incorrigible, alliterative, conducive, limp, sniffy, scold, dingy, peddle, apathetic, gratitude, companionable, a tangible flesh-and-blood person, bewildered, precious, somber.

b) Listen to your partners’ reading of the above exercise. Correct their mistakes.

Exercise 2. A suggested list of useful expressions. Learn them and recall the situations from the extract in which they are used. Use them in your own examples.

to accept an invitation

to live to see smth

to be in the best of taste

to sit with hands folded

to put smth in one’s mind

to turn one’s nose up

to faint upon the step

to earn for oneself

to give up smth

to be dazed

to put smb on his/her feet

Exercise 3. Make these sentences complete, recalling the situations they are used in the extract.

1. I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just ….

2. And suppose you could only read it on this condition: that you would never forget it, but …

3. I suppose I could keep on being a writer even if I did marry. The two professions are not necessarily ….

4. You men ought to leave intrigue to women; you haven't …

5. Don't be nervous, Daddy – I haven't lost my mind; I'm merely quoting…

6. This is the first love-letter I ever wrote. Isn't it funny that I …?

Exercise 4. Here are some sentences from the text. Explain what the words in bold type mean.