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Ernest Hemingway soldier’s home Exercises

Pre-reading Tasks

1. What facts from Hemingway’s biography do you know?

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

height, hysteria, apocryphal, acquire, nausea, exaggeration, clarinet, intrigue, consequence, boast, beau, maple syrup, resentful, kneel, honourable.

Vocabulary Tasks

1. Find in the story the English for:

рідне місто; жахливі історії; знайомий; практикуватися в грі на кларнеті; прогулюватися містом; її увага завжди десь блукала; торгівля нерухомим майном; вивозити клієнтів за місто; черевики без каблуків; коротко підстрижене волосся; залицятися; інший бік вулиці; дуже хотіти, бажати; пригладжувати фартух; не зовсім прокинутися; сонько; зняти обгортку; відкрити газету на спортивній сторінці; стояти у дверному отворі; глечик для води; тарілка з гречаними коржиками; у бога для кожного є робота; спокуса; молитися за когось; ставати гордістю суспільства; перешкоджати свободі; стати навколішки.

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

hardening ridiculous courting wandered settling elaborately steady honourable strolled bobbed

  1. The men from the town who had been drafted had all been welcomed … on their return.

  2. People seemed to think it was rather … for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was open.

  3. In the evening he practised on his clarinet, … down town, read and went to bed.

  4. She often asked him to tell her about the war, but her attention always … .

  5. He liked their … hair and the way they walked.

  6. He didn’t want to do any … .

  7. He folded The Star open and propped it against the water pitcher with his cereal dish to … it, so he could read while he ate.

  8. Krebs looked at the bacon … on his plate.

  9. The boys are … down; they’re all determined to get somewhere.

  10. All work is … as he says.

3. Match the words with the definitions.

1) a corporal

a) understand fully and completely

2) ridiculous

b) say that something is larger, better, more important, etc. than it really is; go beyond the truth

3) atrocity

c) a piece of cloth, rubber, leather or other material, worn in front to keep the clothes clean

4) comprehend

d) a non-commissioned officer in the army, higher than a private and lower than a sergeant

5) nausea

e) make dirty

6) exaggerate

f) a cruel, wicked or savage act

7) stroll

g) the act of persuading to do wrong

8) muss up

h) absurd; unreasonable, causing indignation

9) an apron

i) walk quietly and without haste

10) temptation

j) a feeling of sickness

Grammar Tasks

1. Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense.

  1. At first Krebs, who _____ (to be) at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel and in the Argonne _____ (not to want) to talk about the war at all.

  2. His town _____ (to hear) too many atrocity stories ________(to thrill) by actualities.

  3. His lies _____ (to be) quite unimportant lies and _____ (to consist) in attributing to himself things other men _____ (to see, to do) or _____ (to hear) of.

  4. Before Krebs _____ (to go) away to the war he never _________(to be) allowed to drive the family motor car.

  5. It _____ (to be) a history and he _____ (to read) about all the engagements he _____ (to be) in.

  6. It _____ (to be) the most interesting reading he ever _____ (to do).

  7. One morning after he _____ (to be) home about a month his mother _____ (to come) into his bedroom and _____ (to sit) on the bed.

  8. You _____ (to decide) what you are going to do yet, Harold?

  9. If you _____ (to love) me, you _____(to want) to come over and watch me play indoor.

  10. She _____ (to cry) with her head in her hands.