III. Activities

1. While reading activities (p. 47, chapters 7,8)

2. Say if the statements are true or false:

1. Raoul was very afraid for Meg.

2. The tenth floor of the Opera House was a pleasant place'.

3. The ghost of the opera was so handsome that Christine wanted to put her arms around him and kiss him.

4. Young men from families like de Chagny always marry opera singers.

5. Christine ran away with Raoul that's why nobody could find her.

3. Describe Eric as if you were Christine (ch. 7)

4. Describe the incident (ch. 8) as if you were Meg Giry.

5. Use some parenthesis you know when answering the following question: What would you do if you were Raoul? Christine? The ghost?

* Задание на усмотрение преподавателя

The Phantom of the Opera

(chapters IX-X)

I. Before reading (p. 47, ch-s IX-X)

II. Language Focus:

1. Active Vocabulary

Torture (n,v)

To feel smth with one's hands

In the dark

To be thirsty//to be hungry

Poor; ant - 1) happy; 2) rich; the poor

For a time

Inside; ant - outside

wc. in the outside world

Find the words in the text, translate them and give examples of your own to illustrate their mearning.

2. Insert prepositions if necessary. Explain your choice.

1) When the lights came . Raoul ran. He ran stairs and passages. the Opera

House the back the stage.

2. We're not going the lake. No we go the lake and get Erik's house the back.

3. The wall moved his hands and a small door opened. Very quietly, they went . and then.

the door closed them.

4) a mirror the wall Christine watched her lover the torture room. her Erik

stood, his hands her arms.

5) Erik put his ugly face his hands and cried. Then he went on the

floor Christine's feet.

3. Find in the text appropriate phrases for the following: Когда свет зaгорелся;

Куда ты так быстро бежишь?

Эрик похитил ее;

Помнишь Жозефа Буке с веревкой на шее?

Потайные двери;

Мы погибли;

Я хотел помочь тебе, а теперь я умираю;

Она отворачивалась всякий раз, как я подходил к ней;

Но в конце концов он был человеком.

4. Give your variant of translation:

a) In the passage outside Christine's dressing-room, a hand took his arm.

b) Erik is a clever man with ropes in the dark.

c) The room was all mirrors - walls, mirror, ceiling.

4. She wanted to scream but no words came. Then she found her voice again.

5. That was my first kiss from a woman.

6. My friend, you know the answers. Please, tell me. Are they alive or dead?

7. He didn't want to live any longer.

h) People screamed when they saw his face.

i) He wanted a woman's love.

j) So the Phantom was really a man?

k) And so he lived this strange life - half-man, half-phantom.

5. Write out all the words denoting:

1. parts of a human body:

2. pieces of furniture and parts of a room.

(use the materials of other chapters, if necessary).

Using these words describe a) person; b) a room.

Word formation

Conversion: crash, dance, kiss, laugh, torture, scream, whisper, joke.

Find the words in the text of the novel. Say what part of speech they belong to. Translate the sentences. Try to recollect some other words formed by means of conversation.