The ice palace

1. Recall the situations in which you come across the following expressions translate them and make your own sentences:

to go into business to be inclined to do smth. to gaze down sleepily to be mournful to extort enthusiasm from smb. a kissable climate to while away to snatch a sleep to keep one’s balance to indulge in smth. to feel indignant to bury the face to be righteous suicide rate to halt a car to be perilous to be humored to feel hostility to precipitate smth. to be traversed

2. Paraphrase the sentences, using expressions and word combinations:

1. The careless driver was warned about the place of parking by the police inspector. 2. My little sister has often no desire to do her household duties. 3. Why do you think my father’s brother hasn’t started his business yet? 4. My elder sister was a lonely girl and so she always spent her time reading love-stories, watching some feature films or sitting beside the window and doing nothing. 5. In this party he felt ill at ease because there were no familiar faces, and besides he hated loud music and talks about nothing. 6. The teacher advised parents not to get excited because everything would be in vain. 7. The castle was situated deep in the forest and without any guide it would be impossible to find it. 8. The quantity of self murders among men between the ages of 16 and 25 has risen alarmingly. 9. Only rarely will she let a glass of wine.

3. Transcribe the words and pronounce them:

Rigor, stodgy, languor, ominous, pall, dilapidate, savory, indecipherable, somnolent, exultantly, vainly, chivalry, opiate, coppice, instantaneous.

4. Translate the extract, give your own commentaries:

Up in her bedroom window Sally Carrol Happer rested her nineteen-year-old chin on a fifty-two-year-old sill and watched Clark Darrow’s ancient Ford turn the corner. The car was hot—being partly metallic it retained all the heat it absorbed or evolved—and Clark Darrow sitting bolt upright at the wheel wore a pained, strained expression as though he considered himself a spare part, and rather likely to break. He laboriously crossed two dust ruts, the wheels squeaking indignantly at the encounter, and then with a terrifying expression he gave the steering-gear a final wrench and deposited self and car approximately in front of the Happer steps. There was a plaintive heaving sound, a death-rattle, followed by a short silence; and then the air was rent by a startling whistle.

5. Answer the following questions:

1. What kind of girl was Sally Carrol? Comment on her town, her friends, her lineage. 2. Why did Sally decide to go to the North? What was her first perception from the trip? 3. What was her attitude to Harry’s family? What impression did they produce on her? 4. What did Harry feel with respect to Southern people? Why didn’t he like them? 5. Why did Sally start talking about changing the date of their marriage? 6. Who suggested to visit the Ice Palace and why? What did we get to know of the history of it? 7. What did happen with Sally in the Ice Palace? Why did she get lost? Why couldn’t she find the way out? 8. What happened at the end of the story? Why did Sally decide to go home? 9. What do you think the title of the story symbolize? Give your comments.

6. Give the character sketch of Harry Bellamy. Why do you think Sally preferred him to any other young men from her native town?

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