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Нажимая кнопку "Продолжить", я принимаю политику конфиденциальности

 

1. Why did Jack call himself Ernest in town?

2. Why did Algernon invent Mr. Bunbury?

3. Why did Jack Worthing have no parents?

4. What qualities must an eligible young man possess according to Lady Bracknell?

5. Why did Gwendolen take fancy to Jack Worthing?

IV. Perform the cigarette case scene and the "interrogation" scene,(pair work)

V. Speak of the structure of Act One. Into how many parts does it logically fall? Entitle each part.

VI. Translate into Russian the following passages.

 

pp. 288-289 Algernon: "I haven't the smallest intention ... to tell you the rules".

p. 289 Algernon: "My dear fellow ... at Willis's?"

pp. 298-299 Lady Bracknell: "The line is immaterial... the season is quite over."

VII. Write out a few puns and paradoxes from Act One and discuss them.

VIII. Comment on the following utterances.

 

pp. 288-289 Algernon: "... The amount of women in London ... washing one's clean linen in public."

p. 294 Gwendolen: "...And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John."

p. 296 Lady Bracknell: "I'm pleased to hear it ... What is your income?"

IX. Find the instances of the author's ironic attitude to High Society.

X. Give a brief summary of Act One.

Second Act

I. Find Russian equivalents of the following phrases.

 

To be in favour of (p. 306); to complain of smth (p. 307); to turn into (p. 306); at a moment's notice (p. 306); to keep a diary (p. 306); to enter smth (notes, one's secrets) into a diary (p. 306); to lead a double life (p. 309); to have faults (p. 312); to be taken aback (p. 319); to break off the engagement (p. 321); to object to smth (p. 322); to be on good terms with smb (p. 325); to bore smb to death (p. 328); a matter of importance (p. 330); to be in trouble (p. 332).

II. Answer the following questions.

 

1. How did it happen that Algernon came to Jack's country house under the assumed name of Ernest?

2. Why did Jack decide to announce the death of "cousin Ernest" ?

3. Why did Jack make up his mind to be rechristened?

4. Why did Jack call Algernon a scoundrel?

5. How did it happen that Cecily fell in love with her guardian's "brother"?

6. How did Gwendolen and Cecily get acquainted? Why was there some hostility between the two girls at first?

III. Perform any dialogue scene you like best.

IV. Complete the character sketches of the two girls.

 

Gwendolen is rich and rather spoilt, full of silly romantic notions...

Cecily, less worldly-wise than Gwendolen, is nevertheless nobody's fool...

V. Comment on the following.

 

1. Miss Prism's conclusion "As a man sows, so shall he reap". (p. 313)

2. Canon Chasuble's revelations about carrying his duties in the parish. (p. 313)

3. Cecily's lines: "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time." (p. 318)

4. Algernon's statement: "Science is always making wonderful improvements in things." (p. 334)

VI. Search Act Two for stylistic devices and say what effect the author achieves.

VII. Give a summary of Act Two.

Third Act

I. a) Find Russian equivalents of the following phrases.

 

To inspire confidence (p. 339); to produce an effect (p. 335); not to care twopence about smth (p. 341); to stand in one's way (p. 341); to give smb the opportunity of doing smth (p. 341); to be out of practice (p. 348); to be on speaking terms (p. 349).

b) Recall the situations in which the phrases are used.

II. Answer the following questions.

 

1. Why did both Jack and Algernon pretend to have a brother?

2. What was Lady Bracknell's opinion of Cecily as a probable party for her nephew?

3. Why did Jack refuse outright to give his consent to Algernon's marriage to Cecily?

4. What was Miss Prism's story about the child she once was in charge of?

5. How did Jack prove that he was the very child placed by mistake in the handbag?

6. What relationship was discovered between Jack and Algernon?

III. Choose a dialogue from Act Three, perform it in class and make your comments on the scene.

IV. Summarize all the circumstances and coincidences that made the plot complicated and deadlocked.