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ACTIVE VOCABULARY
| 1. to do smth for wager 2. to break the news to smb 3. in the nick of time 4. to fill up the gap 5. to have a knack of doing smth 6. to take the only way 7. to let smb down | 8. to face smth 9. to run the risk of doing smth 10.to abandon smb or smth 11.to have a mercy on smb 12.to take one's precaution(s) 13.to confide in smb |
I. Get ready to reproduce the episodes in which the given word combinations are used.
II. Give Russian equivalents of the following AN collocations.
| ill-timed revelation(s) unigue opportunity candid opinion fatal evening vital fact real menace | dead silence stumbling block lucky coincidence slight yawn pig-headed chap |
III. Explain the meanings of the words given below in English:
reticence, trap, bait, inmate, apologia.
IV. Find the English equivalents of the following phrases in the given chapters:
придержать язык, как гром среди ясного неба, быть на неверном пути, ходить вокруг да около, начать что-то сначала, ухватиться за возможность.
V. Insert prepositions or adverbs in the blank spaces.
1. Once a month Mr. Brown was ... the habit ... taking the children to the Zoo.
2. My son has been begging me for a new bicycle for a year already and I am afraid I'll give ... in the end.
3. I don't advise you to touch ... this topic when you have a talk with her.
4. Can you make anything ... this strange letter.
5. Mum often finds fault... the way I do things.
6. "But I wasn't there", Ann broke ... . I was at my aunt's".
7. A man came running round the corner, cannoned ... me and knocked me over.
8. I am leaving. I don't want to run the risk ... missing the train.
9. I trusted him but he let me ....
10.Tom saw the baby was about to fall off and caught it ... the nick... time.
11.The picture must be restored ... all costs.
12.Don't beat... the bush. Tell us the truth.
VI. Translate into English.
1. Она не могла удержаться от слез, когда они расставались. 2. Вам следует избавиться от ваших комплексов. 3. Пожалуйста, не ворошите их прошлое. 4. Вы не убедили меня; я буду придерживаться своего решения. 5. Мэри чувствовала вину за то, что так редко писала письма своей матери. 6. Я надеюсь, что ничто не помешает нашим планам на воскресенье. 7. Артур не имел ни малейшего представления, что делать. 8. Я не верю, что он мог мошенничать. 9. У моей сестры привычка действовать экспромтом (под влиянием минуты). 10. Если ты опять коснешься этой темы, я боюсь, это вызовет ее раздражение. 11. Один к десяти мы опоздаем.
QUESTIONS AND TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
1. Ursula Bourne's story. Her background. How did she happen to become a parlourmaid at Fernly Park? The cause of her quarrel with her husband. Ursula's interview with Mr. Ackroyd and its outcome. How did she interpret her husband's disappearance? How did Caroline try to calm her down?
2. Who was invited to H. Poirot's little reunion? How did he explain to Caroline why she could not be present at that meeting?What do you think was the real reason? What does his phrase "I do everything possible to render your service" could mean, in your opinion?
3. List the main points of H. Poirot's speech at the "reunion" and write a brief summary of it.
4. Ralph Paton comes forward. His story.
5. The murderer. What made H. Poirot suspect Dr. Sheppard?Did Dr. Sheppard plead guilty? What other way out did H. Poirot mean and why was he willing to give Dr. Sheppard such a chance?
6. Get ready to describe in detail what actually happened on the fatal night.
7. What was Dr. Sheppard's motive in writing down his impressions of the case?
8. Account for Doctor Sheppard's final words.
Assignment 10
Write either a summary of this story or of a detective story you have recently read using as many words and word combinations from your list of the topic vocabulary on crime as possible.
TOPICS FOR FINAL DISCUSSION
1. Give character sketches of:
1.1 Caroline
1.2. Mrs. Ackroyd
1.3. Major Blunt
1.4. Ralph Paton
2. Mrs. Ferrar's story
3. Compare Flora and Ursula Bourne.
4. Why was Mr. Ackroyd murdered?
5. Was H. Poirot's portrait of the murderer true to the characterof the actual murderer?
6. H. Poirot's methods of investigation.
7. H. Poirot and the police.
GERALD GORDON
LET THE DAY PERISH*
* See the biography of the author in the book: Gordon G. Let the Day Perish. M., 1961.
Part I
Assignment 1
(pp.25-42)
I. Find the following words and phrases, recollect the situations in which they were used by the author:
to point to (p.25), to despise (p.26), to give birth to smb (p.27), to frighten everybody away (p.27), to make money (p.27), you are not cut out to run a pub (p.27), to fetch an armful of smth (p.29), to make out (p.30), fortunately (p.30), to dust the furniture (p.33), the "Cape Coloureds" (p.34), can afford (p.35), I now belong to neither class (p.37), on the other hand (p.37), a respected European (p.37), I am ambitious for my child (p.37), he could even pass for a German child (p.39), time is getting on and he ought to be starting school at the beginning of the year (p 40), the Chairman of the School Committee (p.41),to tear (p.42).
II. Answer the following questions:
1. Where and when did the action of the novel take place?
2. Who was the owner of the bar and who was his assistant?
3. Why wasn't George at work on that day?
4. Why didn't Hundt love his wife?
5. What do we come to know about Mary?
6. In what district did Coloured people live in Stormhoek? Under what conditions did they live?
7. Why did George make up his mind to go to Kloppies after his talk with Mary?
8. What did Mary think of Anthony's fate? Why was she worried about him?
9. How did it happen that Mary became Hundt's mistress.
III. Comment on the phrase:
"In this country a man who marries a Coloured woman marries trouble" (p.28).
IV. Translate into Russian in writing:
a) the description of Mary (p.28), b) the description of George (p.33), c) "Over the vast lakes of dunes... the pepper trees" (p.29), d) "To him the wind was the breath of Africa... he had long ceased to care" (p.31).
V. Paraphrase the italicized parts of the sentences using the phrases from the box:
1. "How many times have I asked you", said George, "not to bring that up again?" (p.31).
2. But he had the charm that many self-indulgent men possess(p.33).
3. And if they even think you have only a drop of Coloured blood in your veins - you're shunned (p.37).
4. And there I am, between and betwixt (p.37).
5. Can I go by myself to the hotel, Mummy? (p.39).
6. He is the dead spit of a European child (p.39).
7. You are a total loss. An ugly woman, a barren woman,... (p.40).
unable to have children; alone; to mention it; looks like; neither one thing nor the other; people avoid you; people who give themselves everything they want
VI. Correct the wrong statements:
1. The action of the novel takes place after the Second World War.
2. Otto Hundt was an Englishman of good family, he had three grown-up sons.
3. Hundt's wife was a pretty young woman, she went in for sport.
4. Hundtrs wife said that her husband was just cut out for running a hotel.
5. George Graham had a restaurant of his own.
6. George was a coloured man, he came from a very poor family.
7. Mary was a European woman, she had a lot of friends in the town. But unfortunately she was childless.
8. Anthony was a coloured child. He always played alone as other children did not wish to be with him.
9. Anthony was still very small, he wasn't going to start school yet.
10. George was the Chairman of the School Committee.
11. The majority of the members of the School Committee were independent of Hundt.
12. Hundt never tried to blackmail Mary.
13. Mary wasn't ambitious for Anthony.
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