4. Translate the following extract in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“Demoyte lived at a distance of three miles from the school ... – when Demoyte wanted something to occur it was usually not long before that thing occurred.

Chapter 3

1. Translate the following words and word combinations and explain their meanings in English. Reproduce the situations where they occur. Make up your own sentences with them.

• to be on sick leave

• to be a gift of nature

• to be far absent from

• an immediate clatter

• fringe

• to make a violent impact with smb

• the mode of existence

• to retreat rapidly

• to be bent at work

• to have a sense of vocation

• to speak with a cool peremptory air

• to be flurried and apologetic

• to look with a little awe

2. Answer the following questions using the vocabulary mentioned above.

1. What thoughts was Mor’s mind occupied with while taking the class?

2. What activities were children busy/occupied with? Why did Mor fell discomfort?

3. How did the school look like?

4. What was going on the playground when Mor looked at it? Did Mor avoid to speak to his son at school? Why?

5. How did Miss Carter look like? What annoyed Mor?

6. What is the technique of drawing a portrait?

7. Why did Miss Carter have impression that Demoyte deceived her?

8. What attracted Miss Carter’s attention at the studio? Why?

2. Consult the dictionary on the right pronunciation of these words and give synonyms to them.

wretchedly, a pigeon-hole, a confluence, asphalt, indiscriminate, conspicuous, melancholy, pullulating, jaggedly, warily.

4. Translate the following extract in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“The chief buildings of St Bride’s were grouped ... This ended the domain”.

5. Explain and develop the following idea from the text.

“As you realize, painting a portrait is not just a matter of sitting down and painting what you see”.

6. Be ready to speak on the following topics.

1. Mor and his manner of taking the class.

2. School and its premises.

3. The accident in the studio.

7. Retell the chapter as if you were Mor or Miss Carter.

8.Make up a short summary of the chapter in writing.

9.Make up sketches of the main characters.

Chapter 4

1. Find the following words and word combinations in the text. Reproduce the situations where they occur. Make up your own sentences with them.

• to be on easy terms with sb

• to have a special dispensation from

• to parade a certain view-point

• to put up a show

• adjacent hostelry

• to be spared a private interview with sb

• to be surrounded by inferiors

• to be agitated and restless

• to blot out sb’s words

• intimation of joy

• to tell the Party and the Press

2. a) Answer the following questions. Use the vocabulary mentioned above.

1. How did Nan manage to look like?

2. What is WEA class? Who attended these meetings?

3. Why didn’t Mor like Tim Burke?

4. What did customary happen after meetings for Tim? How did Tim’s shop look like?

5. What kind of business did Mor want to discuss with Tim about? How did Tim encourage Mor?

b) Who is characterized by the following phrases:

“She could look handsome and well got-up at an evening party – but her coats and hats never looked quite right”.

“He came for the sake of Tim Burke, whom he adored, and from him he scarcely took his eyes throughout the evening”.

“He stood up and leaned confidentially forward across the table in the manner to be a public speaker”.

“He was a lean pale man with a pock-marked face and large white hands”.

“She behaved as one surrounded by her inferiors”.

“In Tim’s shop they were always agitated and restless”.