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Classroom activities (8)

GIVE IT ANOTHER BRUSH

52. Paraphrase using a Complex Subject.

Model 1: T – While at school, everybody considered Guy to be a

promising actor.

St – While at school, Guy was considered to be a promising

actor.

1. Guy expected his friends to envy his career as a mime. 2. After the show Guy’s friends saw a beautiful girl ask him for his autograph. 3. Everybody believed Carol to be over the moon when Guy proposed to her. 4. Everybody knew that Carol had always stood by her husband. 5. Neal and Richard thought them to get on well. 6. When Guy got far into debt Carol made him take some action. 7. Women considered Carol to be strange because she didn’t have a nanny and a car. 8. Everybody in the town considered Guy to be a complete failure.

Model 2: T – It seemed that Guy did not envy his more affluent

friends.

St – Guy didn’t seem to envy his more affluent friends.

1. One day it happened that Guy heard about the famous Jacques Lecoq school of miming in Paris. 2. The Dorking News reported that Guy had performed at the Edinburgh Festival and was going to take part in the local folk festival. 3. It seemed that there was no work in Dorking for Guy. 4. Eventually it turned out that that Guy and Carol didn’t see eye to eye on the responsibilities of family life. 5. It turned out that a steady job for a mime artist was difficult to find. 6. It appeared that Guy had always had his head in the clouds. 7. It seemed that Neal and Richard had their feet firm on the ground. 8. It seemed to Richard that Guy had been doing nothing for years.

53. Speak about the characters of the story Walking Into the Wind. Use the table below.

It was

natural

kind

nice

generous

mean

typical

reasonable

unreasonable

of

Guy

Carol

Neal

Richard

Guy’s parents

to boast...

to engineer...

to keep away from...

to enjoy...

to doubt...

to support...

to avoid...

to be worried...

54. Express your opinion and support it using the suggested words and word combinations.

Who do you side with?

  • Guy’s mother: Guy is a true artist. His commitment to miming can be only admired. He tried to find self-fulfillment in raising social issues to the height of art. It was not his fault that the audiences did not appreciate his service to art and society.

Carol’s father: Guy is an irresponsible and immature, self-centred man who has always neglected his duties. He has never been able to keep his feet firmly on the ground. That’s why it is only natural that in Dorking he is considered to be almost a social outcast.

  • Guy’s mother: Carol is too mercenary and money-oriented to appreciate Guy’s talent. She seems to be over-concerned with her social status and does not want to stand out from the crowd. I have always expected her to stand by Guy. A devoted wife will never let her husband down!

Carol’s mother: Carol may sometimes have her head in the clouds but she is a devoted wife and mother. She puts her family first and has sacrificed the dreams she had when she was young and carefree. She is a saint to have put up with Guy’s eccentricities so long!

  • Guy: I wonder why Carol is always picking on me. True, we’ve had our ups and downs, but we have always seen eye to eye on so many things. Why should she envy my friends now? I am sure that Neal’s and Richard’s life has been dull and uneventful. Imagine going to the same office for over twenty years! No freedom, no choice, no challenge. Poor office workers! They are real robots in the deadly machine of the Friends Provident Insurance.

Carol: I was over the moon when Guy proposed to me. He had a great future of him as an actor. But now I can only envy Neal’s and Richard’s wives. To start with so little and finally to have such a helluva lot! A converted farmhouse for the summer with a swimming pool for the kids and everything. I was green with envy when I heard it from Sally the other day. It’s most depressing, especially now that the boys are in their teens and are unlikely to get a decent college education. Not with a father like that!

I find sb/sth... (selfish/strange)

I have the impression that...

In my opinion, ...

Personally, I...

I feel that...

I think that...

Frankly, ...

To be frank, ...

To be honest, ...

good-natured

easy-going

pragmatic

tolerant

broad-minded

mature

sociable

trustworthy

practical

reliable

unreasonable

obstinate

unreliable

immature

ambitious

irresponsible

selfish

self-centred

adventurous

grumbling

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