V. Speak on their private life:

to arouse a frenzy of passion

to nauseate smb.

to be relieved

to resume marital relations

he couldn't help seeing

to have an inkling

to swallow

she laid it on with a trowel

to account for every penny

hearty/affable manner

the devil-may-care creatures

to be too deeply moved to speak

Assignment IX

CHAPTER 9

I. Speak on Michael's successes and failures in management:

- to lose smth. ( little) over the failures

- to make every possible penny out of smth

- ingenuity

- to gain the reputation

- to give smb. a trial

- to seek out (past p. p. sought)

- to make profitable discoveries

- to buy the lease of smth

- to get sick of smb.

- to show oneself at one's best

- to be unperturbed

- to take the rough with the smooth

- a couple of duds (colloq.)

- a packet into the bargain

- persuasion

- to find one's match

- to have a high blood pressure

- to give smb up as a bad job

• to take smb down a peg or two (colloq.) -

a percentage on the gross

II. Retell about Michael's attempts to take to directing and the way he sacrificed himself for Julia's sake:

- to be commonplace

- to let smo try

- to be conciliatory and exacting

- to smooth things over

- to share the expenses

- to pay one's whack (colloq.)

- self-abnegation

- for smb ' s sake

• to foster smb's career

III. Work with a partner and make a list of reasons which made Julia think of her husband as a "monster of vanity":

- shrewdness

- to exasperate smb intensely

- complacency

- to be a crashing bore

- to be vain of smth

- business acumen

- to spare no pains to do smth

- to become an obsession

- to have one's face lifted

- to keep one's belly from sagging

- to beam with delight

• to be prudent

Chapter 10

I. Give a summary of chapter 10.

It's no good crying over spilt milk

to be as blue as the devil

matinée

to sleep soundly

massage

masseuse

to be in touch with smb

to give smb a thrill

II. Paraphrase or explain the following in English:

It's no use crying over split milk

to pay one's whack

a couple of duds

to take the rough and the smooth in business

to take smb a peg or two

to be as blue as the devil

ASSIGNMENT X

Chapter 11

I. Speak on Julie's reputation among aristocratic persons:

to inherit a considerable fortune

a profound contempt t

o pass for smb.

a gift of mimiсry

to acquire the reputation of a wit

to laugh at. smb up one's sleeve

conjugal fidelity - супружеская верность

on smb' account

to turn smth to good account

to set the trap

to put smb in one's place

to go out of one's waу

II. Describe Lord Charles and his relations with Julia:

to be well-bred

a bubbling vitality

to be struck with shyness

to play the outraged heroine on smb

to be tongue -tied

to dawn on smb

to cry at will

to be hoarse

to bite a nail

flesh and blood couldn't stand it to be Jittery

out of the question

to have scruples about smth

to elope with smb

to grow up with a. burden

to queer one's pitch

to earn a living

to entertain smb

to slacken one's pace

III. Describe the young man, his room and the events that followed the lunch. What was Julia's attitude to what had happened?

to remind smb of smth

to be a trifle out of breath

as	poor as a church mouse
a	pew
a	gas-ring
to	be overcome
to	be taken aback
to	have no sequel
to	gurgle with laughter
to	treat, smb like tart
to	have a chat
to	be startled
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IV. Paraphrase or explain the following:

1) … she took care to queer her pitch (p.94)

2) she slackened her- pace a little(p. 95)

3) ... she laughed at them up her sleeve-. . . ( p. 87)

4) The nerve of it! (p.96 )

5. He'd laugh and say that of course if he hadn't been such a kid he'd never have had the cheek to ask her (p.97)

6)... but he wanted to be his own master and now in the last year of his articles he had broken away and taken this tiny flat (p. 98)

7. Gosh, you look swell! (p. 91 )

5. Reproduce the dialogue on p. 91-92 by heart.