3. Translate in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“Sitting now in the chapel … - …His anger blazed up, terminating the reverie”

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

“Sometimes, it is unavoidably our duty to attempt some sort of judgment and then the suspension of judgment is not charity but the fear of being judged in return”

“Happiness? … Do you imagine that you, or anyone, has some sort of right to happiness? … There is such a thing as respect for reality. You are living on dreams now, dreams of happiness, dreams of freedom. But in all this you consider only yourself”.

“You imagine that live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue”.

“The gifts of the spirit do not appeal to the imagination”.

5. Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1. Religious upbringing at the school.

2. Why do married people hate each other after having been together for 20 years?

3. A right to happiness. What is the happiness?

6. Retell the chapter. Act out the dialogue between Mor and Bledyard.

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

Chapter 14

1. Find the following words and word combinations in the text. Be ready to represent the situations where they occur and give synonyms to them.

• an issue of importance

• the pattern of argument

• to plague sb

• to speculate about smth

• to be stranded on the rock

• to fumble with smth

• to be brave enough to

• to weep without restraint

2.a) Answer the following questions.

1. Where was Nan standing thinking over her family life?

2. What deeply hurt her? Why?

3. Did Nan control the situation? Why?

4. What was not Nan able to forget?

5. Why did Nan want more and more Felicity’s company?

6. Why was Nan appalled by the loose rocks?

7. Where did Nan find Felicity? Why did they cry?

b) Make up a list of true and false statements and be ready to introduce them.

3. Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“During these days Nan spoke to no one except Felicity …-… she had got sufficiently round the headland to be able to see into the next bay”.

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

“She had never reflected so much in her life. Her normal existence had not demanded, had even excluded, reflection. It had contained her firmly like a shell with every cranny filled”.

“These loose rocks …, random, detachable, they were strewn at the foot of the cliff and the sea moved them little every time it come to cover them. They were terrible without sense”.

5. Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1. The sea, the moon and rocks as symbols of both misery and hope in the chapter.

2. Mothers and daughters: family relations.

3. A woman of character in despair.

5. Retell the chapter as if you were Nan, Felicity.

Chapter 15

1. Find the following phrases in the text. Remember the situations where they occur and introduce them. Translate these phrases and give synonyms to them.

• to be under an intolerable physical strain

• to reduce sb to the frenzy

• lingering Puritanism

• to summon up good qualities

• to envelope sb in a great embrace

• a mixture of revulsion

• to pale into triviality

• to be made in sb’s image

• to pelt down with spitting violence

2. Answer the following questions.

1. How did Mor feel? What helped him to find the means of continuing to exist?

2. What was Mor afraid of in love affairs with Rain?

3. Where did a pair go to when they met? What did Mor feel about the city?

4. What did Mor feel like in Rain’s word? Why?

5. How did Rain look like?

6. What were pictures like? Did Mor look at them? Why?

2. Translate in a proper manner the following extract.

“During those days Mor learnt … - …that he was in himself”.

2. Fill in the gaps with necessary prepositions.

- in the direction …

- to walk … the wilderness

- to look up … sb

- to go … the stairs

- the roaring traffic … the door

- to make the way … to somewhere

- to provide sb … smth

- to move … picture … picture

- a movement … sympathy … sb

- to read … the terrace … evening

- to stop … … of a portrait

- to exchange news … sb

2. Say if the following sentences are true or false.

1. Mor didn’t want Rain to come.

2. Mor and Rain had to meet in London.

3. Mor was happy with the present situation.

4. Rain asked Mor to accompany her to her father’s house.

5. The weather was marvelous.

6. Mor liked exhibitions a lot.

7. All pictures were painted by Rain.

8. Nobody knows Rain at the gallery.

9. Mor told Rain about his political ambitions.

10. Mor and Rain decided to go to Majorca.