- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни
- •Contents
- •Передмова
- •F. Scott Fitzgerald winter dreams
- •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.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Put questions to the italicized words.
- •2. Decide why the italicized nouns are used with a, the, ø.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •2. Choose the right word:
- •3. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Use the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple or the Past Perfect.
- •2. Complete the sentences with prepositions.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Fill in the sentences with the words from the box.
- •3. Match the words with the definitions.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Change the following sentences from the story:
- •2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive form.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
- •2. Fill in the sentences with the words from the box.
- •3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Use the proper article: a (an), the, ø.
- •2. Complete these sentences with prepositions.
- •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 the words with the definitions.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense.
- •2. Complete these sentences with prepositions.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •2. Choose the correct pronoun.
- •3. Change the following sentences from the story into indirect speech:
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •Parts III-IV
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian. Pay attention to the phrasal verbs.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Put questions to the italicized words.
- •2. Decide why the italicized nouns are used with a, the, ø.
- •3. Complete the sentences with prepositions.
- •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 the words with the definitions.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Complete the sentences with the appropriate modal verb.
- •2. Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate tense.
- •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. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •2. Put the right form of the adjectives and adverbs in brackets.
- •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.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Decide why the italicized nouns are used with a, the, ø.
- •2. Translate the sentences below into Ukrainian. Pay attention to the word in bold.
- •3. Change the following sentences from the story:
- •2. Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
- •3. Match up the antonyms. Consult the dictionary.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •2. Put the correct reflexive pronoun.
- •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. Fill in the correct word derived from the words in bold.
- •Grammar Tasks
- •1. Choose the correct word.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •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 into direct speech.
- •2. Complete these sentences with prepositions.
- •Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Discuss the following:
3. Translate the underlined words and explain the meaning of prefixes and suffixes in them.
“So you’re from the Middle West,” said the man Devlin with careless curiosity.
Devlin looked at him helplessly.
Dexter looked closely at Devlin, thinking wildly that there must be a reason for this, some insensitivity in the man or some private malice.
He had thought that having nothing else to lose he was invulnerable at last.
And her mouth damp to his kisses and her eyes plaintive with melancholy and her freshness like new fine linen in the morning.
“Awfully nice girl,” brooded Devlin meaninglessly, “I’m sort of sorry for her”.
A dull impatience spread over him.
A sort of dullness settled down upon Dexter.
Grammar Tasks
1. Use the proper article: a (an), the, ø.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for … strong.
… man named Devlin from … Detroit came into his office to see him in … business way.
I was … usher at … wedding.
He was possessed with … wild notion of rushing out into … streets and taking … train to … Detroit.
“I’m not trying to start … row,” he said. “I think Judy’s … nice girl and I like her. I can’t understand how … man like Lud Simms could fall madly in … love with her, but he did”.
When, in … few minutes, Devlin went he lay down on his lounge and looked out … window at … New York sky-line into which … sun was sinking in … dull lovely shades of pink and gold.
In … sort of panic he pushed … palms of his hands into his eyes and tried to bring up … picture of … waters lapping on … Sherry Island and … moonlight veranda, and gingham on … golf-links and … dry sun and … gold colour of her neck’s soft down.
Even … grief he could have borne was left behind in … country of … illusion, of … youth, of … richness of … life, where his winter dreams had flourished.
He went to … East in … February with … intention of selling out his laundries and settling in … New York – but … war came to … America in … March and changed his plans.
For … first time in … years … tears were streaming down his … face.
2. Complete these sentences with prepositions.
He was completely indifferent … popular opinion.
This story is not his biography, remember, although things creep … it which have nothing to do … those dreams he had when he was young.
“Oh, Lud Simms has gone … pieces in a way”.
He knew that he was laughing loudly … something Devlin had said.
And her mouth damp … his kisses and her eyes plaintive … melancholy and her freshness like new fine linen … the morning.
Looking … it … the perspective … ten years, the fact that Judy’s flare … him endured just one month seemed … little importance.
Nor did it matter that by his yielding he subjected himself … a deeper agony … the end and gave serious hurt … Irene Scheerer and … Irene’s parents, who had befriended him.
Even the ultimate falsity … the grounds upon which Judy terminated the engagement that she did not want to “take him away” … Irene – Judy who had wanted nothing else – did not revolt him.
It took place … New York, where he had done well – so well that there were no barriers too high … him.
“Awfully nice girl,” brooded Devlin meaninglessly, “I’m sort … sorry … her”.