Answer the following questions using the words mentioned above.

1) Who are the main characters of the chapter?

2) Where does the place of the action take place?

3) What do the characters argue about?

4) What kind of family relation do they have?

5) How many children are there in the family? Where are they?

6) Whom do the children resemble in their appearance?

 

Remember the situations where the following phrases were used and express your opinion to them.

“Mor had been brought up as a Methodist. He believed profoundly in complete truthfulness as the basis and condition of all virtue”.

“You always pretend people don’t know what they want when they don’t want what you want”.

“You live in a dream world... Neither of your children are clever, and you’ve already caused them both enough unhappiness by pretending that they are”.

Translate the following extract in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“Mor hated Nan’s moocher... – Her strength was endless”

 

Chapter 2

Find the following words and word combinations in the text. Be ready to represent the situations where they occur and give synonyms to them.

- to console

- a desultory conversation

- to extend the tenure of power

- remorse of conscience

- to mitigate the tyranny

- to regard sth as affectation

- to endeavor to bring the friendship to an end

- to have a vague curiosity about smb

- to stand stately and pensive

- to be littered with the discarded paraphernalia of subjects

- to blend into a nity

- to be invariably an efficient ally

- the sense of vocation

- to be a connoisseur of books

- to be a bit intimidating

- to find sth hard to interpret

Answer the following questions using the words mentioned above.

1) Who was Demoyte? Why did Mor respect him greatly?

2) What position did Mor occupy when Demoyte was the headmaster? What was peculiar about that?

3) What were the reasons for Nan to dislike Demoyte?

4) Why did Mor have a vague curiosity about Miss Carter?

5) Who watch Mor’s arrival and why?

6) How did the first meting of Mor and Miss Carter happen? What was peculiar about their behavior?

7) Who were present at the dinner? What was it like?

8) How did Mor like to read? Why?

3. Remember the situations where the following phrases were used and express your opinion to them.

“Demoyte had not been easy to live with and he had not been easy to get rid of”.

“He had mitigated the tyranny; but he had also been to a large extent its instrument and had not infrequently enjoyed its fruits”.

“As for morality and such things Demoyte took the view that if a boy could look after his Latin prose, his character would look after itself”.

“I think fundamentally Mr Everard is a fool and if someone is a fool, especially if he’s in a position of authority, this spoils his other good qualities”.

“Mor knew that she was not interested in roses. Nan thought on the whole that flowers were rather messy and insanitary things”.

Translate the following extract in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“Demoyte lived at a distance of three miles from the school... – when Demoyte wanted something to occur it was usually not long before that thing occurred.

 

Chapter 3

Translate the following words and word combinations and explain their meanings in English. Reproduce the situations where they occur. Make up your own sentences with them.

- to be on sick leave

- to be a gift of nature

- to be far absent from

- an immediate clatter

- fringe

- to make a violent impact with smb

- the mode of existence

- to retreat rapidly

- to be bent at work

- to have a sense of vocation

- to speak with a cool peremptory air

- to be flurried and apologetic

- to look with a little awe

2. Answer the following questions using the vocabulary mentioned above.

 

1) What thoughts was Mor’s mind occupied with while taking the class?

2) What activities were children busy/occupied with? Why did Mor fell discomfort?

3) How did the school look like?

4) What was going on the playground when Mor looked at it? Did Mor avoid to speak to his son at school? Why?

5) How did Miss Carter look like? What annoyed Mor?

6) What is the technique of drawing a portrait?

7) Why did Miss Carter have impression that Demoyte deceived her?

8) What attracted Miss Carter’s attention at the studio? Why?

Consult the dictionary on the right pronunciation of these words and give synonyms to them.

wretchedly, a pigeon-hole, a confluence, asphalt, indiscriminate, conspicuous, melancholy, pullulating, jaggedly, warily.

4. Translate the following extract in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“The chief buildings of St Bride’s were grouped... This ended the domain”.

Explain and develop the following idea from the text.

“As you realize, painting a portrait is not just a matter of sitting down and painting what you see”.

Be ready to speak on the following topics.

1) Mor and his manner of taking the class.

2) School and its premises.

3) The accident in the studio.

Retell the chapter as if you were Mor or Miss Carter.

Make up a short summary of the chapter in writing.

Make up sketches of the main characters.

Chapter 4

Find the following words and word combinations in the text. Reproduce the situations where they occur. Make up your own sentences with them.

- to be on easy terms with sb

- to have a special dispensation from

- to parade a certain view-point

- to put up a show

- adjacent hostelry

- to be spared a private interview with sb

- to be surrounded by inferiors

- to be agitated and restless

- to blot out sb’s words

- intimation of joy

- to tell the Party and the Press

 

2. a) Answer the following questions. Use the vocabulary mentioned above.

1) How did Nan manage to look like?

2) What is WEA class? Who attended these meetings?

3) Why didn’t Mor like Tim Burke?

4) What did customary happen after meetings for Tim? How did Tim’s shop look like?

5) What kind of business did Mor want to discuss with Tim about? How did Tim encourage Mor?

b) Who is characterized by the following phrases:

“She could look handsome and well got-up at an evening party – but her coats and hats never looked quite right”.

“He came for the sake of Tim Burke, whom he adored, and from him he scarcely took his eyes throughout the evening”.

“He stood up and leaned confidentially forward across the table in the manner to be a public speaker”.

“He was a lean pale man with a pock-marked face and large white hands”.

“She behaved as one surrounded by her inferiors”.

“In Tim’s shop they were always agitated and restless”.

Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

“Freedom... is not exactly what I would call a virtue. Freedom might be called a benefit of a sort of grace – though of course to seek it or to grain it might be a proof of merit”.

“Whereas the real teacher cares only for one thing, that the matter should be understood”.

4. Translate the following extract in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“’’I’m afraid’’, said Tim Burke,…-... express your grateful thanks to Mr Mor in the customary manner”.

Be ready to speak on the following topics.

1) The Meeting and people visiting it.

2) Nan’s behavior at the meeting.

3) Tim’s shop.

1. Retell the chapter and make up a short summary of the events.

 

Chapter 5

Find the following word combinations in the text. Remember the situations where they occur and give synonyms of them.

- to communicate to sb

- general benevolence

- to summon up affection to sb

- to put guests at the ease

- to go up a point

- to live social existence

- to look with reverence

- to drop with exhaustion

- a curious apparition

 

1. Answer the following questions.

1) Why did Mor feel extremely light-hearted next morning?

2) What did Mor think about while he was cycling for Mr Everard’s luncheon party?

3) How did Mor introduce Mr Everard? Why? What was the party like?

4) Why did Miss Carter remember a Mediterranean beach and her childhood?

5) What ideas did Bledyard express about sense of painting? Why? Who shared his ideas?

6) What caused a shock of surprise to Mor? Why?

7) Why did Mor consider Bledyard as a droll fellow?