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Vocabulary work
I. Learn the following words and expressions:
- doughnut - pastry - cracker - to itch - to put up with smth. - to snub - parcel - mischief - handy - hospitality - appalled - New Year’s Eve - unruly (hair) | - unreciprocated - to rely on smth. - witty - bouncer - opportunity - inevitable - to exaggerate - get the hang of smth. - understatement - glacier - woe - desperation - ambiguity |
II. Answer the questions:
III. State who these words belong to. Translate and reproduce the situations in which they are used:
IV. Translate into English:
- довольно скучно;
- сердиться на кого-л.;
- подозревать что-л.;
- покраснеть;
- свободный стул;
- притворяться;
- не общаться с гостями и не пожимать рук;
- поддерживать связь с кем-л.;
- усмехнуться с любовью.
Oral practice
V. Comment on the following:
1. It was good having a mum and dad who didn’t decide things together. (p. 164)
2. Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was unreciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out. These were people who could not control themselves, or protect themselves… (p. 171)
3. The most interesting thing about his life, he realized, was Marcus. (p. 174)
VI. Give a good literary translation of the following:
1. “The row changed the atmosphere, though. Clive and Fiona agreed to have a proper conversation about the dope thing some other time, Fiona and Lindsey snapped at each other a couple of times, and even Will seemed different, although none of it had had anything to do with him. Marcus reckoned Will had been having a good time up until then, but afterwards he seemed apart from it all, whereas before he’d been one of the family. It was almost like he was laughing at them for rowing, for reasons Marcus couldn’t understand.” (p. 166)
2. “If there was a disadvantage to the life he had chosen for himself, a life without work and care and difficulty and detail, a life without context and texture, then he had finally found it: when he met an intelligent, cultured, ambitious, beautiful, witty and single woman at a New Year’s Eve party, he felt like a blank twit, a cypher, someone who had done nothing with his whole life apart from watch Countdown and drive around listening to Nirvana records. That had to be a bad thing, he reckoned. If you were falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and all the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.” (p. 171-172)
3. “Will raised his eyes skywards and chuckled fondly, and the misapprehension was cast in concrete. It wasn’t his fault, this conversation. He hadn’t lied once in the entire minute and a half. OK, he had been speaking more figuratively than the expression usually implied when he had said that Marcus would kill her. And OK, the rolling eyes and the fond chuckle did suggest a certain amount of parental indulgence. But he hadn’t actually said that Marcus was his son. That was one hundred per cent her interpretation.” (p. 175)
VII. Agree or disagree with the following statements:
VIII. Retell the 23rd Chapter as if you were:
1) Marcus
2) Will
3) Lindsey’s mother
Retell the 24th Chapter as if you were:
1) Will
2) Rachel.
Writing
IX. Write a one-page summary of the Chapters 23,24.
X. Make up your own story (8-10 sentences) using your active vocabulary.
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