5. Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1. Remorse of the traitor. Mor’s inner conflict.

2. The school’s departure for holidays.

6. Make up a short summary in writing. Chapter 18

1. Find the following word combinations in the text. Be ready to introduce the situations with them. Give synonyms to them.

• to provide the clue

• to be in a state of increasing disquiet about smth

• to materialize with smth

• to be in a party array

• to be boorish

• to be an ancestral ghost

• a bunch of simple-minded provincial schoolmates

• to be moved by sb’s words

• a masquerade

1. Answer the following questions.

1. What day is described in this chapter?

2. Where was the dinner to take place? What was it like?

3. Who was invited to the dinner? Why was Mor shocked when he saw his wife?

4. Who was making speeches? What was the most exciting one (speech)?

5. What was Mor’s reaction to Nan’s statement about his political ambitions like?

6. Why were guests puzzled by Rain’s departure?

7. Why couldn’t Mor Rain even if he had to? What did he finally do?

3. Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“Nan and Mrs Prewett came in … - …Her eyes flamed towards her husband”.

“Demoyte looked splendid…- … the old man and the girl”.

4. Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

“The words were empty. The future in which Nan would enjoy the benefit of her during did not belong to him”.

“… to give a palpable body to the sad truth that we can enjoy immortality only in the thoughts of others”.

“How well we know the faces and how little we are concerned with the obscure careers of so many of the men and women whom the great painters of the past have made to live forever, among us”.

6. Fill in the gaps with necessary prepositions.

to be … vain, to pause … breath, to pin … smth, to turn … from sb,

a lifetime … conformity, a look … surprise, to be amazed …,

to lean … sb,

… cheeks … a neck, to be anxious … smth.

7. Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1. The School Master’s party.

2. Nan’s speech.

3. Mor’s thinking over the situation.

8.Retell the chapter as if you were the participants of the dinner. Make up your own speeches appropriate to the situation.

Chapters 19-20

1. Find the following word combinations in the text. Give synonyms to them and remember the situations where they occur.

• to tear the wall down

• to hurl sb to the ground

• to complicate things

• to take sb in a strong grip

• to sweep away

• to force sb to do smth

• to issue forth

• to explain the desperation

• a sense of great urgency

• an apparition

• an agony of apprehension

1. a) Answer the following questions.

1. Where did Mor find Rain? What was she busy with?

2. How did Mor explain Nan’s words to Rain? What did she say about their love?

3. Do Mor and Rain have the same vision of their future life?

4. What did Mor feel leaving Rain at school? Why did he say good-bye to her?

5. When did Mor wake up next day? Why?

6. How did Mor explain Nan’s making such a dramatic sacrifice of her own wishes?

7. How did Demoyte explain Rain’s fast departure? Why was he angry with Mor?

8. What present did Rain leave for Mor?

9. How did Rain change the portrait? Why?

10. What did Demoyte offer to Mor? Did he agree to settle their arrangement?

11. Who brought Don home? How did Don feel?

12. What is the atmosphere of the last scene? Why?

a) Make up your own true or false sentences and introduce them.

3. Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“He saw at once what it was … - They both went back to sit at the table”.