Vocabulary notes
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 464.
| to take (smth) to pieces | (not formal) to find fault with(smth) |
| to devour smb (v.) | eat hungrily or greedily; take in greedily with eyes or ears; absorb attention of |
| to go off (v.) | to faint |
| to ply smb with smth | to supply continuously with food or drink etc. |
| to be bowled over | to be knocked down, (colloq.) to be disobedient, amazed, exhausted |
· Explain the meaning of the following words and word combinaions .Recall the situations from the story.
| 1. | to be well/ill read in ( new books, etc.) |
| 2. | to be well off |
| 3. | to keep smth for smb |
| 4. | to draw back |
| 5. | to skim through smth |
| 6. | to long smth/ to do smth |
| 7. | to help smb off with smth |
| 8. | to do away with smb/ smth |
| 9. | to keep smb against one's will |
· Questions (when possible make use of the words and word combinations given above).
1. Where did Rosemary meet a poor girl?
2. Why did she invite a complete stranger to her house?
3. What was the reaction of Rosemary's husband to the fact that there was some poor young lady in the house?
4. Do you remember what Rosemary did afterwards? What made her do so?
5. Why do you think Rosemary asked her husband if she was pretty?
· Comment on the following:
1. “Hungry people are easily led.”
Do you agree with this statement? Justify your point of view.
2. “The police station! Rosemary laughed out. “Why should I be so cruel? No, I only want to make you warm and to hear anything toy care to tell me.”
a) What would have been more cruel: to take the girl to the police station or the way Rosemary treated the girl?
b) What is more human to your mind: to pass by without noticing or to set hopes and abandon?
c) What would you do if you were: Rosemary; Philip. Explain why.
3. “Good Lord! ... She's absolutely lovely. Look again, my child, I was bowled over when I came into your room just now. However ... I think you're making a mistake. Sorry darling, if I'm crude and all that. But let me know if Miss Smith is going to dine with us.”
a)Why did Philip say it? How does it characterize him?
4. “... Rosemary said dreamingly: “I saw a fascinating little box today. It cost twenty-eight guineas. May I have it?” - “You may, little wasted one,” said he....”
a) Were Rosemary and Philip equal in their marriage or was Rosemary regarded more as a child? Why?
d) What type of relationship to your mind makes a marriage work?
· Characters :
a) Which of the adjectives and word combinations characterize the main heroes of the story? (Your choice should be illustrated by the facts from the story)
romantic; practical; naive; unsophisticated; dreamy; egoistic; heartless; sensitive; alienated from life; kind-hearted; child-like; sympathetic; light-minded
b) Give character sketches of the main heroes of the story.
· Talking points
1. What are the relations between different levels of society?
Is there a gap between social groups in modern society? Justify
your point of view.
· Prepositions
1. The shopman had been keeping it ... her.
2. She always took ... her gloves to examine such things.
3. She was ... ... the step gazing ... the winter afternoon.
4. But ... the very instant a young girl, thin, dark, shadowy (Where had she come ...?) - was standing ... Rosemary's elbow and a voice like a sigh, almost like a sob, breathed:”Madam, may I speak ... you a moment?”
5. It wasn't ... the least the voice ... a beggar.
6. It was like something ... ... the novel ... Dostoevsky, this meeting ... the dusk.
7. The big eyes were raised ... him, but Rosemary answered ... her.
8. I picked her ... ... Curzon Street. She's a real pick ... . She asked me ... a cup ... tea, and I brought her home....
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