4. Discussion.

Give the précis of the part. Answer the questions and motivate your answer:

1. What did the Strickland’s flat look like?

2. What did Mrs. Strickland like in her husband?

3. What kinds of people were invited to a dinner party?

4. What impression did the Strickland’s children produce on the narrator?

5. What did Miss Waterford think of Strickland’s leaving the family?

6. What did Amy feel while she was talking to the narrator in the drawing room?

7. Do you approve of Strickland’s behavior? Why?

5. Enact a conversation between:

1. Rose Waterford and the narrator (in Jermyn Street);

2. The narrator and Mrs. Strickland.

Unit III

Chapters IX-XIV

1. Study the following words and word combinations, explain their meaning in English, give the context in which they are used:

1. to see no harm in doing smth

2. to draw in one’s horns

3. to be innocently astonished

4. to make things worse

5. to fly into a passion

6. to hold one’s tongue

7. to struggle for self-control

8. let bygones be bygones

9. to flush darkly

10. to feel indignant at smth.

11. the extraordinary callousness

12. a position of respectability

13. to be sized by an intolerable boredom

14. not to care a row of pins for the opinion of smb.

15. to place the good of society before one’s own.

2. Say whether the following statements are true or false:

1. The Strickland’s had never had a quarrel in the whole of their married life.

2. Mrs. Strickland had a great many interest that her husband didn’t share.

3. When Amy met Charles he was thirty.

4. Charles decision to live apart from his wife was irrevocable.

5. Mrs. Strickland never said a word to her children about their father’s decision.

6. Charles Strickland was a great bridge-player and he had been seen in the card-room three or four nights a week.

7. Amy was going to divorce Charles, she didn’t want him to come back.

8. The narrator was deeply touched and promised to do all he could to bring Charles back.

9. Strickland was unable or unwilling to tell the narrator what first gave him the idea of being a painter.

3. Fill in prepositions:

1. He acme back … town … September to let his partner go away, and Amy stayed … … the country.

2. She was immersed … thought.

3. She struggled … self-control, and I saw her hands clench and unclench spasmodically.

4. I felt that I had been made a fool …, and I nearly turned away … making an inquiry.

5. I glanced … him … surprise.

6. I worked myself … into a state … moral indignation.

7. Strickland wanted to be a painter when he was a boy, but his father made him go … business because he said there was no money … art.

8. He didn’t seem to care much … the Paris he was now seeing … the first time.

9. When people say they do not care what others think … them, … the most part they deceive themselves.

4. Discussion.

Give the précis of the part. Answer the questions and motivate your answer:

1. What did Amy feel after receiving Strickland’s letter?

2. Why did Mrs. Strickland ask the narrator to go to Paris?

3. What impression did Strickland produce on the narrator in Paris?

4. What absurd incident took place in the tavern?

5. Why couldn’t the narrator understand Strickland’s motives?

6. What can you say about Strickland’s desire to take up painting at his age?

7. What made Strickland think he had any talent?