Chapter 36.

Answer the following questions:

1. Why did Andrew have peace of mind about Mary? Did other doctors’ opinion matter any longer?

2. What good news did Chris tell Andrew?

3. Why didn’t Chris offer her husband to have dinner? Was she a bad wife?

4. What feelings did Chris experience that evening? Why did she run to buy cheese from Mrs Smith?

5. What was Andrew at once conscious of when he opened the door?

6. What had happened?

Match English words and their definitions:

to mind to represent or express a meaning

violently to make you feel worried or anxious

joyful using great force in your actions or language

shining containing nothing or nobody

to imagine taking, giving, sending, or putting smth back

empty extremely happy

to mean to matter

to trouble to form a picture or idea in your mind

return giving out life

Compose and write down your own sentences using these words.

Give Russian equivalents of the following English expressions:

1) to have peace of mind about smb; 2) to question one’s actions; 3) the remains of one’s supper; 4) to break off; 5) it does not matter / never mind; 6) a bit of smth; 7) to sit beside smb; 8) to start a new life; 9) to lift the lid of the dish; 10) to help oneself to some food; 11) to give a cry of shame; 12) to silence smb; 13) to be away; 14) to hurry up; 15) to be conscious of; 16) to witness the accident; 17) to carry smb in; 18) a parcel of cheese.

Find sentences in the text where the English equivalents are used, be ready to translate them into Russian and back.

Retell the chapter as if you were Denny.

Chapter 37.

Answer the following questions:

1. How did Andrew feel after the death of his wife? Who was to blame from his point of view?

2. What did Andrew find in Christine’s handbag?

3. Who was helping Andrew to get well again?

4. Why didn't Denny stop Andrew from drinking?

5. Why did he take action after a week?

6. Where did Denny take Andrew and what for?

7. What did Andrew and Denny do in the village? Did it work?

8. How many miles could Andrew walk in a week’s time?

9. Why didn’t they talk during the walks?

10. What moment had Denny been waiting for?

11. What was the news?

12. Who arrived a few days later to join in the discussions?

13. Was Andrew looking forward to working with Denny and Hope?

14. What letters did Andrew receive?

Match English words and their definitions:

funeral a short informal letter

punishment feeling or showing thanks to another person

crime a ceremony in which a dead person is buried or burned

to tremble to concern yourself with other people’s affairs

note an action which is punishable by law

grateful the act of making smb suffer for a fault or crime

to attempt to fight or disagree with smb using words

to interfere to shake because you are cold or afraid

to argue to make an effort to do smth which may be difficult

Compose and write down your own sentences using these words.

Give Russian equivalents of the following English expressions:

1) to break down; 2) to be conscious of one’s presence; 3) to creep upstairs; 4) to fall on one’s knees; 5) to take action; 6) to increase; 7) gradually; 8) an occasional remark; 9) to resign a post; 10) to be fit to work again; 11) possible; 12) to one’s surprise; 13) to join in the discussion; 14) to stretch oneself; 15) to feel fit; 16) to send smb one’s sympathy over smb’s death.

Find sentences in the text where the English equivalents are used, be ready to translate them into Russian and back.

Retell the chapter as if you were Denny.