Let's have fun, shall we?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 426.

On the importance of learning English properly:

From a Japanese information booklet about using the hotel air conditioner: "Cooles and heates. If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself."

How to drive a rented car in Tokyo: "When passenger on foot have in sight, tootle the horn. /сигналити/. Trumpet him melodiously at first, please, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor, please."

In the office of a doctor in Rome: "Specialist in women and other diseases."

Advertisements: "Wanted - a folding table by a woman with detachable legs."

"Wanted - a boy to take care of horses who can speak German."

"Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty job."

"Just one bottle gets rid of all aunts about the house."

"Sale - 25 Men's Suits: $ 18.50. - They won't last an hour."

At the examination : Trigonometry is when a lady marries three men at the same time."

Lesson nine.

Exercise 1.I suggest you start the lesson with the story of Joseph Turner. One or two students are to tell it. Those students, who chose the description of the pictures interrupt the person and add their description as an illustration. Thank you!

Exercise 2. John Galsworthy, an outstanding English writer of the 19th-20th

centuries created a bright description of the history of one family in "The Forsyte Saga", which to some extent may be considered the history of a middle class family as a whole. The heroes who we are going to meet in the 19th century have their roots in the 18th (!) century, in the family which through hard work, trade and business managed to raise its income so as to give the next generation education and wealth. The main character of the trilogy is Soames Forsyte, a solicitor /a lawyer, who prepares documents for businessmen/, the notorious /горезвісний/ 'man of property',

the first book of the trilogy being entitled "The Man of Property". In his middle age Soames took an interest in arts, and began to collect pictures by famous painters, being sure that it would be a good and profitable investment of his money.

In the following scene Soames comes to visit his daughter Fleur, who lives in a fashionable place of London with her husband , Michael Mont, a representative of an aristocratic family.

a/ At first get acquainted with new words:

List of vocabulary:

to murmur/ed/ - to mutter, to mumble, to speak indistinctly;

to startle/d/ - to surprise, to shock, to disturb suddenly;

to grunt/ed/ - to make a short hoarse sound; pigs grunt;

Ruhr - an industrial area in Germany, along the Ruhr river;

jolly - cheerful, merry, delightful, funny;

to strip/ped/ - to undress, to remove the clothes or cover, to unwrap;

jade - a semiprecious green stone - нефрит;

a settee - a small sofa;

to haunt/ed/ - to trouble, to worry, to torment, to terrify; - не давати спокою;

to wrest/ed/ - to take, to jerk, to tear;

crisped - hairy, covered with curly hair;

rinds [raındz] - the skin of any fruit, an orange;

ghostliness (of ghost) - indefinite, vague colour;

a masterpiece - a superb work of art, a chef-d'oeuvre [ʃeı'dɜ:vr];

the Chinese - a book about the painters of the Chinese School;

to be worth of any amount - to be very expensive;

to glide/d/ - to move smoothly, to soar, to slide, to flow;

to glow/ed/ - to shine, to glitter, to gleam; -світитися, блискати;

gem - jewel , a precious stone or thing;

to cease/d/ - to stop, to quit, to finish;

flippant - disrespectful. rude, saucy; - зyхвалий;

reverential (of to revere/d/ - шанувати, вклонятися/ - honourable, respectful;

aghast [ǝ'gɑ:st] - amazed, astonished, thunderstruck;

to stare/d/ - to gaze, to look attentively and steadily;

to appall/ed/ - to terrify, to shock, to frighten, to horrify;

pungent ['pʌnʤǝnt]- strong, acid, sharp-smelling;

to cop/ped/ - to notice, to catch;

incarnate - emphasized, embodied; - втіленний;

b/ While reading the scene, please, stop to discuss the ideas written in brackets:

"Have you come for the night, dad?", asked Fleur kissing him.

"If I may." murmured Soames. "Business."

"Anything unpleasant, ducky?"

Soames looked up as if startled.

"Unpleasant? Why should it be unpleasant?" he asked.

"I only thought from your face."

Soames grunted. "This Ruhr!" he said. "I've brought you a picture. Chinese!"

"Oh, dad! How jolly!"

"It isn't," said Soames, "it's a monkey eating fruit."

"But that's perfect! Where is it- in the hall?"

Soames nodded.

Stripping the covering off the picture, Fleur brought it in, and setting it up on the jade-green settee, stood away and looked at it...

(We are going to make a pause in reading and I wish you would try and imagine the picture, using the information about it, you've just read. Compare your descriptions)

On we go:

The large white monkey with its brown haunting eyes, as if she had suddenly wrested its interest from the orange-like fruit in its crisped paw, the gray background, the empty rinds all around - bright splashes in a general ghostliness of colour, impressed Fleur at once.

"But, dad, it's a masterpiece - I'm sure it's of a frightfully good period."

"I don't know," said Soames. "I must look up the Chinese."

"But you oughtn't to give it to me, it must be worth any amount. You ought to have it in your collection."

"They didn't know its value," said Soames, and a faint smile illuminated his features.

"I gave three hundred for it. It'll be safer here. Where are you going to hang it?"

"There, I think; but I must wait for Michael. Oh, here's Ting! Well, darling?"

The Chinese dog, let in, seeing Soames, sat suddenly with snub upturned and eyes brilliant.

"Funny little chap," said Soames; "he always knows me."

"Mr. Aubrey Greene, ma'am!" announced the servant.

"H'm!" said Soames.

The painter came gliding and glowing; his bright hair slipping back, his green eyes

sliding off.

"Ah!" he said pointing to the dog. "That's what I've come about."

Fleur followed his finger in amazement.

"Ting!" she said severely, "stop it! He will lick the copper, Aubrey."

"But how perfectly Chinese! They do everything we don't," exclaimed Aubrey.

(Chinese ... Fleur had a Pekinese dog. Soames bought a Chinese picture. How can you explain this interest in the Orient, China in particular, at the beginning of the 20th century? Are you interested in the Oriental culture, traditions, religions, arts?)

"Dad - Aubrey Greene. My father has just brought me this picture, Aubrey, isn't it a gem?"

The painter stood quite still, his eyes ceased sliding off, his hair ceased slipping back.

"Phew!" he said.

Soames rose. He had waited for the flippant; but he recognized in the tone something reverential, if not aghast.

"By George," said Aubrey Greene, "those eyes. Where did you pick it up, sir?"

"It belonged to a cousin of mine - a racing man. It was his only picture."

"Good for him. He must have had taste."

Soames stared. The idea that George should have had taste almost appalled him.

"No," he said, with a flash of inspiration: "What he liked about it was that it makes you feel uncomfortable."

(The picture makes you feel uncomfortable ... Have you seen such a picture which made you feel uncomfortable? What was it? What other emotions can a picture arouse in people: admiration, horror, surprise, shock, inspiration, joy...? Why is it great, when a picture arouses any kind of emotions?)

"Same thing! I don't know where I have seen a more pungent satire on human life."

"I don't follow," said Soames dryly.

"Why, it's perfect allegory, sir! Eat the fruit of life, scatter the rinds, and get copped doing it. When they are still, a monkey's eyes are the human tragedy incarnate. Look at them! He thinks there is something beyond, and he's sad or angry, because he can't get at it. That picture ought to be in the British Museum, sir, with the label: 'Civilization, caught out'."

"Well, it won't be there," said Fleur. "It will be here, labelled "The White Monkey."

Home assignment: could you read the scene again? It'd be good if you try to comment on some of the phrases in italics.

Lesson ten.

Exercise 1. We're going to come back to the text; would you dramatize it? Split into groups of three and off you go!

Exercise 2. Look again through the words and expressions worth remembering,

Ex. 2, les. 9

Exercise 3. Change the verbs in the sentences into the Passive Voice; add all other necessary changes:

1. Soames murmured something, being uncertain what to say.

2. Fleur's concern startled him, but he grunted his thanks with pleasure.

3. When she stripped the paper which wrapped up the picture, the picture amazed her.

4. It seemed that some vague thought haunted the monkey.

5. The monkey was peeling the orange, and suddenly some idea wrested her interest from the fruit. She stared at the orange in surprise.

6. Ting was looking at Soames with his brilliant eyes.

7. The picture astonished Aubrey Greene so mush, that he became quite serious, and his attitude showed his reverence towards the picture.

8. The idea that George should have had taste almost appalled Soames.

9. When monkeys are still , their eyes seem to express all the human tragedy.

10. The picture will stay at Fleur's, and she will label it "The White Monkey".

Exercise 3. Please read the text of the exercise; while reading open the brackets using the Passive Voice or Participles:

When he entered the room he /startle/ to see something lying on the floor. Murmuring he bent down and picked up a parcel which /wrap/ in a newspaper. The covering /strip/, he grunted aghastly. The book /write/ by one of the authors who /forbid/ a few years ago. The worth of the book /discover/ only lately. When he saw it he /cop/ with a kind of fear. His nostrils /tickle/ with the pungent smell of the newly-bound book that /deliver/ so unexpectedly, and he was happy now. In a minute the scraps of the wrapping /scatter/ on the table and the book /attend/ to with care. He /appall/ with the very first phrase, so flippant it seemed.

Exercise 4. Soames was held up by his business in London, so he decided to spend the night at Fleur's. Have you understood the meaning? Try and make up your own situations or sentences speaking about the occasions when you had :

1/ to stay at your granny's;

2/ to spend holidays at your aunt's/ uncle's;

3/ to wait until the rain stops at your friend's;

4/ to celebrate Christmas at your neighbours';

5/ to leave the keys at your neighbour's;

6/ to spend a few days at your god-mother's;

7/ to have a good time at your great grandmother's.

Home assignment: reproduce the story in the Indirect Speech for Soames or Fleur

in writing. Avoid 'said', 'asked', 'told', will you? Try and use: explain, complain of (!), deny, apologise for, accuse of, wonder, inquire, suggest, please.

Lesson eleven.

Exercise 1. We've already mentioned William Blake, an English painter, poet, and philosopher. He is said to have been trying for a long time to paint the tiger, he had seen in the Zoo, but every attempt of his failed. Finally he wrote a poem:

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright