Working with the Vocabulary

1. Read Part IV, find the following words and word combinations in the text and give their Russian equivalents:

Chapter 14

to lay claims on smb/smth

to set one’s face against smth

to make a fuss over smb/smth

to put smb out (to be put out)

to cross one’s t’s (and dot one’s i’s)

to be the last straw

to turn smb out bag and baggage

to get smb on the raw

Chapter 15

to reassure smb

to call it a day

to get back on/at smb

to make a song and dance about smth

a mug

Remember the contexts in which Word List IV items are used, say who or what they referred to.

3. Find the English equivalents for these:

Chapter 14

сохранять спокойствие (2 variants)

угрызение совести

создать образ

расквитаться с кем-либо, свести счеты

ломать голову

Chapter 15

ничего в этом не понимаю

обдумывать что-либо, перебирать в уме

в гневе

4. Explain what it means:

Chapter 14

a chartered accountant

a bed-sitting room

fee

to eat an enormous tea

to be a tremendous lark

to rise with the lark

Chapter 15

I’m not all milk and honey

a kept boy

to care two hoots (for smb)

a hanger-on

5. Fill in prepositions where necessary:

А.

1) … last Julia confessed … herself that she had fallen … love … Tom. (Ch. 14)

2) Sometimes she could not understand why people made so much fuss … her. (Ch.14)

3) The critics praised especially Julia’s capacity … insinuating herself … a part. (Ch. 14)

4) Julia turned her beautiful eyes … him and … a while gazed … him … silence. (Ch.15)

5) You were angry … me and you wanted to get back … me. And you did. You couldn’t have shown your contempt … me more clearly. (Ch. 15)

6) But somewhere, … the back of her mind or … the bottom of her heart, was a feeling of ever so slight contempt …Tom because he was such a simple fool. (Ch. 15)

at(3), over, to, in (3), into, for (4), with (2), on (2)

В.

1) It’s nothing to make a song and dance … Keep quiet.

2) He called me a mug but I’ll get back … him. I’m not all milk and butter.

3) She never gets put … even … the most difficult matters. I’ve never seen her … a rage.

4) Ann makes a fuss … her son every time he comes to see her.

5) She seems to think she can lay claims … my time.

6) Benjamin turned his son … bag and baggage … any money.

about, in, out(2), on (2), by, without, over

6. Translate into Russian:

1) I am an honest man, seeking to do my duty, and setting my face against all vice and treachery.

2) She was very much put out by your rudeness.

3) His behaviour got me on the raw.

4) It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. (proverb)

5) We reassured them that we would not make a song and dance about the whole thing.

6) "I'm engaged to her." - "So what? This isn't the reason we've got to call it a day".

7) The shopkeeper refused to change the faulty radio, saying that it was all right when I bought it, so I decided to get back on him by writing to the local paper about it.

8) Well, we haven’t dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s, but the contract is nearly ready.

7. Guess the word or word combination by its definition:

to stop work or other activity;

to pay a lot of attention to smb;

the last problem in a series of problems that finally makes you give up;

to make smb feel calmer and less worried or frightened about a problem or situation;

smb who is silly and easy to deceive;

to pay careful attention to all the details;

to say or do smth that upsets someone.

8. Match the synonyms:

to assert one’s rights to smth, to make a song and dance about smth, to get back on smb, to put smb out, to oppose smth with determination, to turn smb out bag and baggage, to lay claims on smth, to set one’s face against smth, to upset smb, to force smb to leave your home with all the things that he/she owns, to complain a lot about smth, to get even with smb.

9. Translate into English:

1) Перестань унижать его. Твои слова задевают его за живое.

2) Обычно ничто не могло вывести его из себя. Но сегодня у него ужасное настроение.

3) Это – последняя капля. Я выставлю его со всеми пожитками, если он будет продолжать говорить о своих претензиях.

4) На твоем месте я бы не поднимала шум вокруг маленькой царапины на машине.

5) Жаль, что он не чувствует угрызений совести. Если расставить все точки над “и”, то именно он решительно выступил против моего предложения участвовать в конкурсе, а мы могли бы победить.

6) Джек назвал меня простофилей, но я ему отомщу, рано или поздно.

Detailed Comprehension

1. Answer the questions:

1. Why did Julia consider Tom a snob? Do you think so too?

2. Julia didn't find Tom amusing. Tom never said a funny thing. Why did Julia love him?

3. Why do you think Roger spent so much time with Tom?

4. Why was Julia bitterly disappointed about Tom’s staying at Taplow?

5. Why did Tom decide to break up with Julia?

6. Do you think Evie was suspicious of Tom’s visits to Julia?

7. Why did Tom take back the presents he had returned to Julia?

8. What conclusion about men did Julia make after the performance she had given to Tom? What made her do it?

2. Develop the situations checking your knowledge of the context:

1. It thrilled her to give him presents.

2. To have an affair with her flattered his vanity.

3. She had an impression that he took none of them very seriously.

4. It gave him a real satisfaction, so long as it did not cost money, to make other people happy.

5. She could step into a part, not a very good one perhaps … and by her personality, by the dexterity which she had at her finger-tips, infuse it with life.

6. She was jealous of Roger, madly jealous.

7. The fact is I can’t afford to run around with people who are much richer than I am.

8. …another self within her knew what she was doing, a self that shared in her unhappiness and yet watched its expression.

3. Discuss the following quotations in pairs:

1. Charles Tamerley always said that what an actress needed was not intelligence, but sensibility…

2. “People don’t want reasons to do what they’d like to do. They want excuses.”

3. “A woman attracts men by her charm and holds them by their vices.”

4. “All the same, what mugs men are”.

4. Look through Chapters 14, 15 again and prove that:

b) Julia was a great actress.

c) Julia wasn’t on good terms with her son.

5. Speak about: