- •W.S. Maugham. ( 1874 - 1965 )
- •Read Chapters 1 - 7. Learn the active words and word-combinations, reproduce the situations in which they are used in the text:
- •7. Speak on the flg. Points:
- •Read Chapters 8-13 paying attention to the usage of the active vocabulary; learn the active words and word-combinations; give situations from the text:
- •Translate the flg. Word-combinations and sentences into Russian:
- •Translate into English:
- •Speak on the flg. Points:
- •Read Ch. 14 - 20 paying attention to the usage of the active words and word-combinations; learn them; reproduce the situations from the text:
- •Correct the flg. Statements:
- •1.Read Chapters 21 - 24 paying attention to the usage of the active words and word-combinations. Reproduce the situations from the text:
- •Transcribe the flg. Words; read the aloud:
- •The flg. Statements are not true. Correct them:
- •Convert the flg. Sentences from direct into indirect speech. Make all the necessary changes:
- •Find the active vocabulary in the text; Make up your own sentences with the active words and word-combinations:
- •I. Learn the active vocabulary. Reproduce the situations it was used in the text. Make up sentences of your own with it:
- •Translate the flg. Sentences:
- •5. Complete the flg. Sentences:
- •6. Dramatize the dialogue between Kitty and Dorothy ( ch. Lxxi )
- •7. Speak on:
- •Choose a passage (10 - 12 lines ), mark stresses and tunes and learn it by heart; reason your choice.
- •1. Read the chapters. Learn the Act. Voc. Reproduce the situations from the text and make up those of your own:
- •6. Speak on:
- •Use the flg. Words and word-combinations in your report:
- •Use the flg. Plan:
Read Chapters 1 - 7. Learn the active words and word-combinations, reproduce the situations in which they are used in the text:
notwithstanding 11/
to give a startled cry 11/
to catch one’s breath 12/ ; with the catch in her voice; to catch one’s finger in the door;
to faint 12/ ; fainting-fit; a dead faint;
to pull oneself together 12/ ; to pull the devil by the tail;
to stand smth. 13/ ; to stand the heat (strain); to stand the test of time;
to be conscious of smth. 13/ ; to lose / regain / recover consciousness;
to count on smb. 15/ ; It’s not the words that count but deeds.
to put on airs / ; He put on an air of innocence.
to put on weight ( flesh );
to reconcile oneself to / ;
to be of no consequence / ; to take the consequences of smth.
in consequence of;
to kick up a row / ;
He could have kicked himself for saying it.
to hold oneself erect / ;
to despise smb / ;
odds and ends /
2.Copy out the sentences with the active words and word-combinations from the chapters. Translate them into Russian.
Write down the flg. words in transcription. Read them aloud:
distraught, parsimonious, obsequious, pusillanimous, verandah, caress(ing), eligible, wisened.
4. Give synonyms for the flg. words ( as many as possible ):
to tremble, faint, glance, bare, pain.
5. Give antonyms for the flg. words: tight, sweet, to submit, to deny.
6. Complete the sentences using your active vocabulary:
She slipped into a dressing-gown and in her bare feet went over to the window, but suddenly ...
She leaned a little towards him, her dark and shining eyes gazing passionately into his and ...
Oh, how hateful it was that ...
Of course, no one could deny that ...
He was a stranger to them, but ...
The strange thing was that ...
The girl looked at all those ...
Her heart beat a little faster as she ...
7. Speak on the flg. Points:
The interrupted date.
Kitty’s meditations on her life and love after Charlie’s departure.
The appearance of Kitty’s mother.
The atmosphere ( of hypocrisy and deception ) that reigned in Kitty’s family.
Kitty’s father - a stranger in the family, a tired, dejected man.
Section 2. W.S. Maugham. The Painted Veil. Ch. 8 - 13.
Read Chapters 8-13 paying attention to the usage of the active vocabulary; learn the active words and word-combinations; give situations from the text:
to be at a loss
to set hopes on smb.
to depend on smb./ smth.
to give a catch at the heart
to suspect smb. of smth. ( murder, deceit, treachery)
suspicion; above suspicion
under suspicious circumstances
to accord with
to propose to smb.
to inspire smb. with confidence
heirs to a title
to be on leave
to be bored to death
for smb’s sake
to speak with the tongue in the cheek
an odd creature
to confide in smb.
to enjoy smb’s confidence
anxiety; to be ( feel ) anxious about smth
Transcribe the flg. words; read them aloud: admirable, exquisite, mobile, impenetrable, strenuous, tremulously, inexplicably, boudoir, antecedent.