3. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian. Pay attention to the phrasal verbs.

1. His father, it appeared, had come down on him for having, after so long, nothing to show.

2. These studies had so waked him up that a new light was in his eyes.

3. Poor Peter stared – it was a stagger, but even after they had had, on the subject, a longish talk in which the boy brought out to the full the hard truth of his lesson, his friend betrayed less pleasure than usually breaks into a face to the happy tune of “I told you so!”

4. This he had soon arranged and he then broke straight out.

5. “Do you know your conundrum has been keeping me awake? But in the watches of the night the answer came over me – so that, upon my honour, I quite laughed out.”

6. “Then why did you never tell me - ?” “That I hadn’t, after all” – the boy took him up – “remained such an idiot?”

7. The number’s at any rate small enough for any individual dropping out to be too dreadfully missed.

8. Lance for a moment seemed to stare at the blaze. “She’d throw me over?” “She’d throw him over.” “And come round to us?”

9. The day arrived when he warned his companion that he could hold out – or hold in – no longer.

10. “What I don’t see is, upon my honour, how you, as things are going, can keep the game up.”

Grammar Tasks

1. Put questions to the italicized words.

1. Peter’s young friend had to laugh afresh (2).

2. I want a promise from you (2).

3. It wasn’t so easy to continue humbugging (1).

4. There was now in his young friend a strange, an adopted insistence (2).

5. I haven’t ceased to like her (2).

2. Decide why the italicized nouns are used with a, the, ø.

1. These remarks were exchanged in Peter’s … den, and … young man, smoking … cigarettes, stood before … fire with his back against … mantel .

2. … Paris was really … last place for me.

3. “I’m … hopeless muff – that I had to have rubbed in. – But I’m not such … muff as … Master!”

4. Peter had … approach to … impatience.

5. “Why this … certainty: that … moment your mother, who feels so strongly, should suspect your secret – well,” said Peter desperately, “… fat would be on … fire.”

6. … Lance for … moment seemed to stare at … blaze.

7. The closest if not quite the gayest relation they had yet known together was thus ushered in.

8. Lance had … tears in his eyes when it came thus to letting his … old friend know how great … strain might be on … “sacrifice” asked of him.

9. There was now, however, in his … young friend … strange, … adopted insistence.

10. … young man continued for … moment to muse – then stopped again in front of him.

3. Complete the sentences with prepositions.

1. This, however, Peter refused to tell him – … the ground that if he hadn’t yet guessed perhaps he never would, and that … any case nothing … all … either … them was to be gained … giving the thing a name.

2. When they parted afresh it was … some show … impatience … the side … the boy.

3. “The number’s … any rate small enough … any individual dropping … to be too dreadfully missed.”

4. “It’s just to warn you … the danger … your failing … that that I’ve seized this opportunity.”

5. Lance had returned … Paris … another trial.

6. The difficulty … poor Lance was a tension … home – begotten … the fact that his father wished him to be … least the sort … success he himself had been.

7. Carrara Lodge had had to listen … another lecture delivered … a great height – an infliction really heavier … last than, … striking back or … some way letting the Master have the truth, flesh and blood could bear.

8. “She cares only … my father,” said Lance the Parisian.

9. Lance took a turn … the room, but … his eyes still … his host.

10. … the time he spoke … last he had taken everything … .

Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks

1. Answer the questions:

1. What did Lance understand when he came back from Paris?

2. What did he think about his studying in Paris?

3. What vow did Peter take from Lance?

4. Why did Lance’s father come down on his son?

5. What did Mrs. Mallow tell her son one day?

2. Discuss the following:

How can you explain the title of the story?

James Joyce THE BOARDING HOUSE

Exercises

Pre-reading Tasks

1. Practise the pronunciation of the words from the story. When in doubt refer to the dictionary:

butcher, priest, drunkard, excuse, vulgar, perfume, connive, awkward, pudding, traverse, honour, moustache, flirt, isle, stern, stout, obscenity, oblige, waltz, perverse, shrewd, intervene, straw, divine, weight, rakish, jaw, fringe, acute, diligence, urge, ascend, discomfiture, profile, amiable, sashes, bulldog, parlour.

Vocabulary Tasks

1. Find in the story the English for:

не ділитися ні з ким своїми думками; розкрадати касу; великий ніж м’ясника; нарізне життя подружжя; судовий пристав; п’яничка з білими вусами; нестабільна популярність; повний пансіон (проживання з харчуванням); вправно та твердо керувати будинком; суворий тип; солдафонські непристойності, грубощі; приходити додому на сході сонця; імпровізувати акомпанемент; втручатися у щось; зробити брудний натяк; позолочений годинник; зловживати гостинністю; відшкодування; витримувати головний удар; уважно обдивитися себе у трюмо; гріх; розказати геть усе кому-небудь про що-небудь; дев’ять десятих; з сумнівною репутацією; легенько постукати у двері; утішати; запалити свічку від іншої свічки; бокал без ніжки; ходити навшпиньках; холодно привітатися; задня частина шиї; намочити кінчик рушника.

2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.

business perverse abused cleaver shrewd pass pledge affair unsteady stout stern complicity sure desist publicity lodgings through

1. It was no use making him take the … : he was … to break out again a few days after.

2. One night he went for his wife with the … and she had to sleep in a neighbour’s house.

3. She governed the house cunningly and firmly, knew when to give credit, when to be … and when let things … .

4. Mrs. Mooney’s young men paid fifteen shillings a week for board and … (beer or … at dinner excluded).

5. Her eyes, which were grey with a shade of green … them, had a habit of glancing upwards when she spoke with anyone, which made her look like a little … madonna.

6. Mrs. Mooney, who was a … judge, knew that the young men were only passing the time away: none of them meant … .

7. There had been no open … between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the …, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.

8. She had allowed him to live beneath her roof, assuming that he was a man of honour, and he had simply … her hospitality.

9. He had been employed for thirteen years in a great Catholic wine-merchant’s office and … would mean for him, perhaps, the loss of his job.

10. He had made two attempts to shave but his hand had been so … that he had been obliged to … .

3. Match the words with the definitions.

1) gilt	a) make known (what is secret or hidden)
2) waistcoat	b) a small piece (of food, etc.)
3) sin	c) covered with gold-leaf or painted to look like gold
4) plunder	d) the act of restoring, making good, atoning or compensating for
5) intervene	e) the breaking of God’s laws; wickedness; wrong-doing of any kind
6) reveal	f) rob, take by force, steal
7) morsel	g) a close-fitting garment without sleeves, worn under a coat
8) reparation	h) (colloq.) the amount received as wages or salary
9) screw	i) take part; interfere
10) despise	j) look down upon; consider as worthless feel; feel contempt for