- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни
- •Contents
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match the missed affixes with negative meaning. Consult the dictionary or the text.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Decide why the italicized nouns are used with a, the, ø.
- •2. Identify if the words in bold are forms of the Participle or the Gerund.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match the words with the definitions.
- •4. Choose the right word:
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.
- •4. Translate the word-combinations with complex words:
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Determine if the words in bold are forms of the Participle or the Gerund.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with appropriate reflexive pronouns.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match the words with the definitions.
- •4. Sort out the personality qualities and features of appearance from the text into corresponding column according to your opinion.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- •2. Complete these sentences with prepositions and particles.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Fill in the correct word derived from the words in bold.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense and voice.
- •2. Complete the sentences with the appropriate modal verb.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match up the synonyms. Consult the dictionary.
- •4. Match up the antonyms. Consult the dictionary.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •2. Choose the correct word.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Use the words given in brackets to form words that fit in the spaces.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Complete the sentences with the appropriate modal verb.
- •2. Complete these sentences with prepositions.
- •3. Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense and voice forms.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Change the following sentences from the story:
- •2. Choose the right word.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Complete the sentences with correct prepositions or particles.
- •2. Decide why the italicized nouns are used with a, the, ø.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Complete the sentences with the appropriate word.
- •2. Find mistakes in the sentences below.
- •3. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of adjectives and adverbs.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match the words with the definitions.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Use the verbs in brackets in the correct form.
- •2. Choose the correct word.
- •3. Complete the sentences with correct prepositions or particles.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
3. Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense and voice forms.
Once a solid understanding … (to reach), there … (to follow) a short intermission of ritual bashfulness, in which both parties awkwardly … (to participate), and then … (to come) the Announcement.
Lunches and teas, which … (to be) time-killers, matters of routine, now … (to become) perilous and dramatic adventures.
These endearments of hers … (to be) sanctioned by law, usage, and habit; they … (to belong) to her role of wife and could … (not to condemn) or … (to parallel) by a young man who … (to be) himself unmarried.
The possibilities of the subterranean courtship … (to exhaust); it … (to be) time for the Announcement.
She … (to relieve) but faintly … (to disappoint) when it … (to become) clear that he … (to ascribe) her sharpness to the tension of the situation and … (to decide) to stick it out.
She … (to woo) him all over again, but … (to woo) him to a deeper attachment than he previously … (to experience), to an unconditional surrender.
When at last he … (to answer) her repeated and agonized I-love-you’s by grasping her hand more tightly and saying gently, “I know,” she … (to see) that she … (to win) him over.
The Young Man had … (to telephone) and … (to summon) to a conference à trois, a conference, she … (to say), of civilized, intelligent people.
Though she … (to leave) her husband’s apartment and … (to offer) shelter by a confidante, it … (to be) still necessary for her … (to see) him every day.
When she … (to learn) from her husband that he … (to receive) invitations from members of her own circle, invitations in which she and the Young Man unaccountably … (not to include), she … (to go) at once to the station and … (to buy) her ticket.
Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
1. Answer the questions:
Why did the main heroine think that “being a potential divorcee was deeply pleasurable in somewhat the same way that being an engaged girl had been”?
Did she like to play Young Man and her Husband’s feelings in public? In what way did she do that?
Were the members of “love triangle” ashamed of the situation?
Did the heroine really love her husband? And the Young Man? Why did she begin to “look for dark spots in his character and drill away at them as relentlessly as a dentist at a cavity”?
In your opinion was she capable of loving anybody deeply?
Why did she decide that “it was time for the Announcement”?
Where and when did she tell the truth to her husband?
How was “a conference à trois” held?
How were the relationships developed after the shoot-out?
Did the friends change their attitude to the situation?
Where and why did the main female character decide to go?
2. Discuss the following:
Why was scarcely any name mentioned in the story?
Do you believe that the main female character was really “designed for the role of femme fatale”?
Carson McCullers THE SOJOURNER
Exercises
Pre-reading Tasks
1. Practise the pronunciation of the words from the story. When in doubt refer to the dictionary:
sojourner, twilight, fountains, dawn, wounded, transience, quiver, anodyne, candid, bourbon, luggage, impulsive, marquee, awkwardly, acknowledged, scientist, amenities, wreckage, rouged, jealousy, knobby, knees, prelude, fugue, intermingling, chorded, riot, tumultuous, trilingual, minor, anxieties, equanimity, succession, transitory, squatting, pulse.
Vocabulary Tasks
1. Find in the story the English for:
присмеркова межа між сном і пробудженням; вигнуті вузькі вулички; напівсвідомість; щось неприємне чекало на нього; безхмарний осінній день; тьмяне сонячне світло; хмарочоси пастельного кольору; зайти у сусідню аптекарську крамницю; сісти в кінці кабінки поруч із вітриною; вітрина виходить на тротуар; яєчня-бовтанка з ковбасою; приїхати на батьківській похорон; у нього випадало волосся; його тіло було худорлявим за винятком опуклого живота; роки дещо послабили цю синівську відданість; непередбачене збентеження; випадкове кохання; відчуття небезпеки; шалене тремтіння його серця; вона мала прекрасну поставу; вогкість його рук; його захмарене серце дивно не відповідало сонячному чистому осінньому дневі; витягнутися у кріслі; мати цілий день попереду; імпульсивне рішення; суперечка із самим собою; знайомий голос; портьє; рудоволоса дитина у веснянках; вайлуватий рудоволосий чоловік із повільними рухами; красиве волосся каштанового кольору; зіщулитися від непроханих спогадів; таця з напоями; бути „зайцем”, пасажиром без квитка; додати з раптовою впевненістю; посадити дитину на коліна; торкатися пальцями окулярів у роговій оправі; відчувати себе спостерігачем, людиною, що втручається у чужі справи; емігрант, експатріант; витягнуте тіло на стьобаному шовку у труні; хлопчик семи років із засмученим маленьким обличчям і опуклими колінками; основна мелодія була сплетена з двох голосів; сидіти за столом між господарем і господинею; бути трохи п’яним; білошкірий російській міняйло; який володіє трьома мовами; кататися на поні; задувати свічки; пильно вдивлятися у нічне місто; схожий на іграшку; м’яка заздрість; незрозумілий жаль; мокрий тротуар; сидіти навпочіпки; відчувати м’які вії; внутрішній розпач.