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- •2. Explain why Julia hadn't been very good as Beatrice.
- •Assignment III
- •I. Prove that Julia's playing in Middlepoolwas a success:
- •II,Retell how Julia and Michael got acquainted with each other:
- •III. Speak on Michael's views on marriage and love affairs:
- •IV. Read and translate the following passage p. 39 «She did everything to seduce him . , . , , , but he was pleased and touched to see her tears»
- •V. What were Michael's engaging traits?
- •VI. Speak on Michael's plans for the future:
- •Assignment IV.
- •I. Tell about Julia's impressions of Michael's family and house:
- •II. Prove that Julia did her best to make a good impression:
- •IV. Paraphrase or explain the following:
- •III. Tell about Michael's plans for the future:
- •V. Speak on their private life:
- •Assignment IX
- •I. Speak on Michael's successes and failures in management:
- •II. Retell about Michael's attempts to take to directing and the way he sacrificed himself for Julia's sake:
- •Assignment XI
- •II. Prove that Julia was sorry for what had happened:
- •Assignment XII
- •V. What did Julia think about genius? (p 129)
- •VI. Comment on the following sentence:
- •Assignment XIII
- •I. Reproduce the conversation between Julia and. Tom in indirect speech:
- •III. Retell about Dolly's suspicions and her conversation with MichaeI:
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THEATRE
Assignment I
Chapter I
I. Reproduce the conversation between Michael and Julia(p.13-14) using the words and word-combinations given below:
- to look up
- an account, accounts
- an articled clerk
- to get over smth.
- to smile at
- complacency
- a spot of lunch
- a sufficient reason
- faint irony
- to be a treat for smb.
- merely
- to admire smb. tremendously
II. Describe Michael Gosselyn's office:
- to listen with half an ear
- to look idly about her
- a proper room
- at costprice
- engravings of theatrical pictures
- a heavily carved Chippendale chair
- to be immensely solid
- a rack in red morocco
• a magnificent silver ink-stand
-to give a reflective glance
- cropped peroxide hair
- heavily-painted lips
III. Prove that the young man was confused when introduced to Miss Lambert:
- to smile stiffly
- to be wet with sweat
- to grasp smth. cordially
- his confusion was touching
- to ask smb. to luncheon
- to look straight into smb's eyes
- to suggest a faintly amused,friendly tenderness
- to persuade smb. to do smth.
- to blush
- to give a troubled look
- to be absolutely filthy
- to have a wash; to brush up
IV. Why did Julia decide to invite the young man to luncheon. Comment on her attempts to put him at ease.
- distinguished people
- to put smb. at ease
- to pour smth out
- to strike a match (struck)
- to be shy
- racy language
- to inhale the whiff of the cigarette with delight
- a slightly hoarse voice
- a delightful smile
- a slight lift of the eyebrows
- a scrubby little circle
V. Describe the house of Michael and Julia.
- a stunning room
- to give a complacent glance
- to have a good deal of experience
- to do the rough work
- to put smth. into the hands of smb.
- to go on tour
-- to import tedious details to smb.
- to be furnished in extremely good taste
- a judicious mixture of the antique and the modern
- to bring smth. over bodily
- to be upholstered in pink silk
- gilt cherubs
VI. Reproduce the passage concerning the luncheon close to the text:
- small appetites
- grilled sole,cutlets and spinach
- stewed fruit
- legitimate hunger
- to give a wistful look
-to give smb. a significant glance
- to shake one's head in refusal
- a refectory table
- to help smb. to a glass of dry white wine
- to break oneself of smth.
- as thin as a rail
- to see no point in smth. to get fat
VII. Describe Michael's appearance:
- a great mass of curling chestnut hair .
- to have a gallant bearing
- to go on the stage
- to wear one's hair short(long)
- to adopt a military bearing
- to take smb. for an officer of high rank.
VIII. How did the young man look like?
- to be not particularly good looking
- to be rather sweet
- a frank face
- to smooth out the wave
- well-shaped teeth
- to wear clothes well
IX. Reproduce the conversation at the luncheon. Mind the vocabulary pertaining to the topic "Theatre":
- to call a rehearsal
- to put on a new play
- to play to capacity
- to get a bit ragged
- a star part
- to be dished
- to take smb. too seriously
to be keen about acting
to play young lovers
a reisonneur
-to turn people round one's little finger
-to write good lines
X. Explain why Julia made up her mind to present the young clerk with her
photograph?
-a trifle roguish
-to low one's eyelids
-to gaze at smb.
a velvet look
-to show smb. at one's best
-a melting look
-to look delicate
-to mar the smoothness of the skin
ASSIGNMENT II.
Chapter 2
1. Revision Section :
Translate from Russian into English: 1.Анна подняла глаза и задумчиво взглянула на новую секретаршу. Ей не понравились осветленные волосы и густо накрашенные губы, но ее привлекло открытое лицо девушки.
2.Молодой человек покраснел и смущенно улыбнулся. Его смущение было так трогательно,что Джулия решила пригласить его на ланч.
3. Хозяйка делала все возможное, чтобы гости почувствовали себя легко и свободно.
4. Он был достаточно опытен,чтобы не принимать эти проблемы всерьез.
5. Это была чудесная комната,обставленная с большим вкусом.
6. Она слушала своего мужа невнимательно,стараясь не смотреть ему в глаза, и только время от времени она бросала на него обеспокоенный взгляд.
7.Он никогда не делал сам грязную работу и всегда предпочитал, чтобы ее выполняли другие.
Read and translate the following passage p. 24-25 «She had an impulse to look at some of her old photographs. “. . . But he was obstinate'.
Study the new vocabulary:
-to look through smth.
-there's no denying that
-to be chronologically arranged
-laudable object
-to be incredibly handsome
-to look down at smb.
-with maternal feeling
-to be an enormous success
-to be a bore
-to go to a First night
-to get one's eyes on smb.