Vocabulary notes
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 360.
| collier (n.) | coal-miner; coal ship, member of its crew |
| subtle (a.) | hard to detect or describe, fine or delicate; ingenious, clever |
| to play truant | miss lessons |
| armistice (n.) | stopping of hostilities; truce |
| mortification(n.) | humiliation, wounded feelings |
| crony (n.) | close friend |
| clairvoyant (a.) | a person who has faculty of seeing mentally things or events in the future or out of sight |
| at bay | unable to escape, cornered |
| to rave (v.) | talk wildly or furiously (as) in delirium; speak with rapturous admiration |
| avail (n.) | use, profit |
| despised | regarded as inferior or worthless |
· Explain the meaning of the following words and word combinations. Recall the situations from the story.
| 1. | to sneeze at smb / smth |
| 2. | to adopt smb |
| 3. | to regard smb with (indifference) |
| 4. | to keep touch with |
| 5. | a flutter; to make a flutter |
| 6. | to be aloof |
| 7. | to talk away |
| 8. | to be on a level |
| 9. | to confide in smb |
| 10. | to persecute |
| 11. | to take notice of smb / smth |
| 12. | to be at one's mercy |
· Questions (when possible make use of the words and word combinations given above).
1. What kind of place did the Rockley family live in?
2. What do you know about the Rockley family?
3. Why did Mr. Rockley adopt the boy? How did Mr. Rockley's daughters take Hardrian? And why?
4. What did Hadrian do at the age of 15?
5. Had he changed since he left the Rockleys?
What were his prospects?
6. How did he come to marry Matilda?
7. How can you explain Mr. Rockley's actions?
8. Do you think the young couple will stay at the Pottery House?
Justify your point of view.
· 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)
ambitious; dexterous; business - like; a man short of speech; shrewd; independent; consistent; strong - natured; sneering; prudent; restrained; arrogant; refined; competent; exquisite; self-controlled; judicious; hair-trigger
b) Give character sketches of the main heroes of the story.
· Talking points
1. Can love and money be combined?
What about Hadrian: did he have such a choice?
Was his feeling sincere?
2. Adopted children
a) ... is it a problem of taking and treatment? Give reasons.
b) Which problems do parents face when they adopt a child?
· Prepositions
1. He had a passion ... music. As his girls grew, he felt angry ... finding himself always ... a household ... women.
2. ... last he departed, going ... Canada .. the protection ... the institution ... which he had belonged.
3. Cousin Matilda blushed deep ... mortification when the self - possessed young man walked ... .
4. “You don't want to be prejudiced ... him,” said Matilda.
5. … the second day ... Hadrian's arrival, Matilda sat ... her father ... the evening. She was drawing a picture which she wanted to copy. It was very still.
6. I haven't put his name ... the will.
7. He turned his back ... her, to think. It had not occurred ... him that they would think he was ... the money. He did want the money - badly. But he knew, ... his subtle, calculating way, that it was not ... the money he wanted Matilda.
8. Emmie seemed like a fighter ready to fight ... the death.
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