Match the words in these columns. Check the answers in the text
sweet conscience
helping beauty
bereaved ties
disarming material
lumpy glimpse
brocaded hand
guilty smile
earthly mother
raw dress
raving figure
brief
7. Translate into Russian:
1) A sudden smile of recognition flashed across his face.
2) The conversation centred on a much doted-upon first baby.
3) I hope you don’t mind if we get down to brass tacks straight away, as I’ve got to catch the four o’clock train.
4) We had a real get-together at week-ends. Everybody standing up and giving a song. I used to bring the house down with this.
5) Swimming was his only accomplishment; he felt at home in the water.
6) He had a sense of humour, he thought he had a knack of saying bitter things, which caught people on the raw......
7) I have a mind to manage my life in my own way without interference from anybody.
8) Savour the flavour of each mouthful, and chew you food well.
9) There you will finds solitude and an air so pure that it goes to your head like wine and you feel like a million dollars.
10) The president as was customary delivered the opening address.
11) The results of the experiment were faked.
8. Match the synonyms:
Faked, to have half a mind to do smth, to dote on smb, to come suddenly into smb’s mind, to taste, to be ignorant, to get even, false, to settle a score, to be not aware, to be excessively fond of smb, to flash across smb’s mind, to be inclined to do smth, to savour.
9. Translate into English:
1) Джулии пришла в голову мысль, что она находится в неведении относительно планов Роджера.
2) У Джулии появилось смутное чувство вины, когда Роджер сказал, что все ее эмоции поддельные.
3) Джулия сообщила Эви, что спектакль имел успех, и она себя превосходно чувствует.
4) Джулия хотела свести счеты с Эвис. Она была уверена, что той не удастся вставить ей спицы в колеса.
5) Однажды Роджер за кулисами наблюдал, как Джулия играет. Сцена была очень трогательная и обычно вызывала оглушительные аплодисменты.
6) Джулия не чувствовала себя легко и просто со своим сыном, хотя со стороны казалось, что она души в нем не чает.
7) Джулия была на верху блаженства. Она расплатилась по долгам и теперь могла забыть обо всем. Она сидела за столиком и смаковала каждый кусочек.
8) Давай покончим с этим. Что было, то прошло.
Detailed Comprehension
1. Answer the questions:
1) Why did Julia want to keep Avice in the cast?
2) How did Julia come to know Roger’s opinion of Tom? How does Roger’s attitude to Tom characterize Roger?
3) How did Julia create the characters she played? Do you think Julia’s affair with Tom can help her in this respect?
4) How did Julia’s attitude towards Tom change?
5) What conclusion about love did Julia make when she left Tom’s place? Did she change her opinion?
6) How did Julia account for the tricks she had played on Avice?
7) Why did Julia have supper alone?
8) What did she think about at dinner? What theory did she work out?
9) What answer could she have given to Roger?
10) Was she happy alone?
2. Develop the situations checking your knowledge of the context:
1) They both of them thought the play would make her. Fools. It would kill her.
2) She must play the part, and fail; and Tom must see with his own eyes what a bad actress she was.
3) …it suddenly struck her that she had been talking entirely of herself and her own interests.
4) “I’ve lived all my life in an atmosphere of make-believe”.
5) “It may be that he’ll find what he’s looking for, if not in God, then in art.”
6) The love that had consumed her, the jealousy she had stifled…
7) “If anyone deliberately killed a performance you killed Avice’s”.
8) They were acting a play for her and she was the audience.
3. Discuss the following quotations in pairs:
1) …art is something you create. If an actress felt the emotions she represented she’d tear herself to pieces.
2) Real grief is ugly; the business of the actor is to represent it not only with truth but with beauty.
3) Love isn’t worth all the fuss they make about it.
4) …the origin of poetry was emotion recollected in tranquility…it was certainly true about acting.
5) You go to those museums and galleries and think what a damned bore they are and then, when you least expect it, you find that something you’ve seen comes in useful.
6) We take their silly emotions and turn them into art.
4. Look through Chapters 26-29 again and:
1) prove that Julia was not at home with her son;
2) compare Julia’s and Roger’s views on acting, love, life.
5. Describe:
1) the first night;
2) the restaurant.
6. Speak about:
1) Roger and his views on life;
2) Tom;
3) Julia as an actress;
4) Julia as a mother;
5) Julia’s understanding of the role of art/theatre.
7. Act out the conversations between:
1) Julia and Michael (about Avice’s acting, Chapter 26);
2) Julia and Roger;
3) Julia and Charles (about Roger);
4) Julia and Charles (after the first night).
8. Make up the dialogues:
1) between the author of the play and Michael (after the first night);
2) between Julia and Jimmy Langton (about acting).
9. Speak your mind on the first night as if you were Julia/Michael/the author of the play/Dolly/ Tom/Avice Chrichton.