6. Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1. Artists and their pictures.

2. The torment of love.

7. Make up a short summary of the chapter in writing. Chapter 16

1. Find the following word combinations in the text of the chapter. Remember the situations where they occur. Give synonyms to them.

• to feel an intense benevolence

• to fade into a sense of shame

• to take charge of sb

• to be placed higgledy-piggledy

• a representation of a pilgrim

• a ripple of mirth

• blood turns to ice

• to be shaking with violent tremors

• an evidence of the climb

• to get entangled in the textiles

• to say soothing things to sb

1. Answer the following questions. Use your active vocabulary.

1. Who was to give an art lecture? What was the topic of it?

2. What kinds of letters did Mor draft?

3. Why did the school come to Bledyard’s lecture as to a festival or orgy?

4. How did the room look like?

5. Who was the first man in the Gym on the evening of the lecture? Why?

6. What event disturbed the lecture?

7. How worse was the position of the boys?

8. What was the plan of the rescuer? Did it work?

3. Translate the following extract in a proper manner:

“ ’’There they are, sir’’ … -…He could see better now”.

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

“The human face has been described as the most interesting surface in the world”.

“Why do painters represent in pictures the faces of their fellow men? To this may be the answered that painters represent things that are to be found in the world, and human faces are things that are to be found in the world”.

5. Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1. Portraits: why the painters create them.

2. Teenagers: what they want to prove.

2. Sum all events up. Pay attention to the climbing scene (describe in details this event)

Chapter 17

1. Translate the following phrases in the text. Remember the situations where they occur. Give synonyms to them.

• the waste land

• to have a miraculous escape

• to be grave

• to generate the atmosphere of homely ennui

• to be annihilated by smth

• a draughty place

• to be a traitor

• a temporary deprivation

• to feel the pain of smth

1. Answer the following questions.

1. How many days passed since the climbing of the tower?

2. Why did the author say that Jimmy Carde had a miraculous escape from death?

3. What law did Mr Everard invoke? Why was he so apologetic to Mor?

4. How did Nan behave? Why?

5. What did Nan and Mor see when they reached the gravel path behind the Library?

6. Why had Felicity’s eyes grown big and bloodshot?

7. Did Mor go to the library? Why did he lie?

8. What did Rain insist on? Why?

9. Why did Mor think that he was the one to be pitied?

3. Translate the following extract in a proper manner.

“As they reached the gravel path … if the latter arrived to fetch him in the latest Bantley or the oldest Rolls”.

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

“There would be a new life and a new world. But that which he was about to break would never mend, and he knew he would never cease to feel the pain would remain always intact until his life’s end”.

1. Say if the following statements are true or false.

1. Nan and Mor went to the School together.

2. Nan was rude to Mor.

3. Felicity was happy that parents were together.

4. Rain didn’t want to see Mor at the dinner.

5)Nan was to have a speech at the dinner