B. Give the opposite of the following adjectives.

Careful - careless; helpful - unhelpful; cheerful - cheerless; lucky - unlucky; fair - unfair; friendly - unfriendly; sincere - insincere; tolerant - intolerant; capable - incapable; patient - impatient; polite - impolite; responsible - irresponsible; resolute - irresolute; hard-working - lazy; quiet - noisy; cruel - kind; strong - weak; scruffy - neat; broad-minded - narrow-minded; strong-willed – ill-willed; good-mannered ill-mannered; good-natured – ill-natured.

C. Make adjectives from the following words. Add or remove suffixes. Sometimes you can form two adjectives. Make sure you understand all the words. Consult a dictionary if you are not sure.

Attend (посещать, внимать) – attentive (внимательный),

prevent - preventive, defend - defensive, width - wide, help – helpful/helpless, care – careful/careless, possibility - possible, history - historic, interest - interesting, thickness - thick, cheer - cheerful, remove - remote, affect - affective, effect - effective, steel - steely, justice - just, freedom - free, depend - dependent, rely - reliable, accept - acceptable, character - characteristic, experience - experienced, express - expressive, fame - famous, fate - fateful, stone - stony, guilt - guilty, patience - patient, differ - different, delight - delightful, anxiety - anxious, respect - respectable, jealousy - jealous, luck - lucky, kindness - kind, mistake - mistaken, optimist - optimistic, prefer - preferable, popularity - popular, instance - instant, darkness - dark, accident - accidental, meaning - meaningful, addition - additional, agree - agreeable, favour - favourable, silk – silken/silky, confidence - confident, conclusion - conclusive, change - changeable, time - timely, honour - honorable, fashion - fashionable, enlarge - large, proficiency - proficient, recognize - recognizable, response - responsible, sadness - sad, sense – sensitive/sensible, use – useful/useless, fun - funny, act - active, length - long, wisdom - wise, probability - probable, strength - strong, success - successful, ground – grounded/groundless, automat - automatic, nation - national, develop - developed, satisfy - satisfactory, safety - safe, product - productive, vary - various, finish - final, hardship - hard, mystery - mysterious, glory - glorious, peace - peaceful, comfort - comfortable, know - known, compare - comparative, nature - natural, educate - educated, warmth - warm, wave - wavy, wool – wooly/woolen, certainty - certain, necessity - necessary, species - special, ease - easy, wind - windy, trust - trustful, live – lively/ alive, profession - professional, simplicity - simple, wonder - wonderful.

D. Read this short story by W. Somerset Maugham and fill in the blanks with the appropriate articles. Retell the story.

This happened in Vienna at …the beginning of 1922. I was slowly walking along one of …the main streets of …the city and though …the day was warm and sunny everything seemed gloomy to me as I was out of … work.

I had no … idea whom to ask for … help. Suddenly I remembered that …a friend of mine, John Smith by name, had been working as …an editor in Vienna for …the last few months. I got in touch with him and we made …an appointment for that evening.

When I told him my story he smiled and said happily, “I can help you. Listen – ” …the matter was that his boss wishing to get … greater profits had decided to publish …a number of … detective novels which were to be translated from Spanish. They needed …a man who could do it for them.

“So you will do it,” he finished.

“How can I do it? I don’t know Spanish.”

“It doesn’t matter,” answered he. “I dislike … detective stories. Any translation will do.” I protested, he insisted, I protested, he insisted and at last he got me to agree to do it.

“Here is …the novel, and some money in … advance. …the rest you’ll get after you have finished it. I guarantee … good money,” he added. “I give you four days. Not more.” With these words he went away.

I was at …a loss what to do. Then I went to …a cheap restaurant where I knew I would meet my friends. There I found Hans. We all believed he knew at least five or six languages including … Spanish. I asked him to translate …the novel. After some time he said, “You see I’ve been out of … practice lately. But I’ll help you. I’ll take …the novel, read it and then tell you …the contents.” I liked …the plan.

In some two or three days I wrote down …the contents of …the book and went to …the editor. Smith was too busy to listen to what I wanted to tell him. “Here is your money. You earned it honestly. See you one of these days,” he said and went out. Later on I met Hans and gave him half …the money.

“I think I ought to study Spanish,” he said taking …the money.

“But don’t you know it?” I asked him in … great surprise.

“Certainly, I don’t,” he said. “I told you …the contents of …an English detective novel, I only changed …the English names for Spanish.”

I immediately phoned Smith but couldn’t get him on …the phone. Some weeks later I met him and told him …the truth. I expected him to get angry. Nothing of …the kind. He said laughing. “I’m glad I asked you to translate … the book. It’s so terrible that … people will never touch another detective story after they have read yours.”

ГЛАВА 4. СКОЛЬКО-СКОЛЬКО? HOW MUCH DID YOU SAY?

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