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W.S. MAUGHAM “THE MOON AND SIXPENCE”

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ДОМАШНЕЕ ЧТЕНИЕ ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ

КНИГИ

W.S. MAUGHAM “THE MOON AND SIXPENCE”

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Коржанова А.А. ст. преподаватель кафедры педагогики НОУ «ГСИ»

Домашнее чтение по английскому языку по книге W.S. Maugham “The moon and sixpence”: Учебное пособие для студентов 3-4 курсов специальности 032800 - «Культурология с дополнительной специальностью иностранного языка» и специальности 033200 – «Иностранный язык». Калмыкова И.И. - Люберцы: НОУ «Гуманитарно-социальный институт», 2009.

Учебное пособие по домашнему чтению представляет собой комплексную поурочную разработку заданий по роману английского писателя W.S. Maugham “The moon and sixpence”(У.С. Моэма «Луна и грош»). Пособие состоит из 20 уроков, каждый из которых предусматривает домашнее прочтение 2-3 глав из романа на языке оригинала. Каждый урок снабжен заданиями по овладению лексикой, грамматическими структурами, оборотами речи оригинального текста. Вопросы и задания по комментированию способствуют развитию навыка говорения, умения выражать свои мысли на английском языке.

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Lesson 1…………………………………………………………………….. 5 Lesson 2…………………………………………………………………….. 6

Lesson 3…………………………………………………………………….. 7

Lesson 4…………………………………………………………………….. 8

Lesson 5…………………………………………………………………….. 9

Lesson 6…………………………………………………………………….. 10

Lesson 7…………………………………………………………………….. 11

Lesson 8…………………………………………………………………….. 12

Lesson 9…………………………………………………………………….. 13

Lesson 10…………………………………………………………………… 14

Lesson 11…………………………………………………………………… 15

Lesson 12…………………………………………………………………… 16

Lesson 13…………………………………………………………………… 17

Lesson 14……………………………………………………………………. 18

Lesson 15……………………………………………………………………. 19

Lesson 16……………………………………………………………………. 20

Lesson 17……………………………………………………………………. 21-22

Lesson 18……………………………………………………………………. 23

Lesson 19…………………………………………………………………….. 24

Lesson 20…………………………………………………………………….. 25-26

Final………………………………………………………………………….. 27

HOME READING

W.S. Maugham “The moon and sixpence”

LESSON 1

Ch. 1-2

Find the following words and phrases, recollect the situations in which they were used by the author:

Ch.1: To be an object of ridicule	romantic scribe
one thing can never be doubtful	a respectable family
if it is singular	a man of kindly temper is called exegesis
to pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story	the highest dignities of the Church
succeeding writers	to brush aside
to confirm smb’s estimate	bad cooking
to claim superciliously	Ch 2: anxious labour of a lifetime
to risk the adventure	imitating the antics of youth
to whet the appetites	human comedy
to be unaware	poor stuff
a succession of articles	as dead as mutton
the faculty for myth

Explain in English:

To be akin, to have genius, to find oneself in a position, I cannot stomach the heartiness, I am on the shelf.

Answer the following questions:

1/ Why can’t you be indifferent to Charles Strickland?

2/ How does the author explain his idea that the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist?

3/ What does the author say about art?

4/ What authors have already written about Strickland? What did they write?

5/ Why did Maugham also write about Ch. Srtickland?

6/ What is Maugham’s ideas of the writer’s work?

Find some stylistic devices in the text an comment upon them (comparison, irony, exaggeration, etc.)
Translate the extract into English and add a few words to the point:

1. «Моэма легко читать, но за этой легкостью кроются кропотливая работа над стилем, высокий профессионализм, культура мысли и слова».

2. “…писатель не упускает случая выявить и припечатать социальный феномен на уровне второго, третьего, десятого плана, и каждый раз ему хватает для моментального портрета пары фраз, неожиданного сравнения, одного-двух штрихов или единственной детали».

LESSON 2

Ch:1-2 Continued

Read the given in formation. Look up and say.

William Somerset Maugham is a very popular writer. His novels and stories are read all over the world. His style is clear and fluent. He shows a hatred and contempt for middle-class moral standards, tastes and way of life. His main aim was to get an answer to the question: “What is man’s real self?” And he came to the conclusion that he didn’t know.

In his novel “Moon and sixpence” the author tries to answer the question “What is life? Is there any sense in it?” He finds the answer justifying the man – in fruit of his activity, that is necessary for the mankind. The perfect form of his activity is creating of Beauty.

Say if you agree with the last sentence. Prove your point of view.
Translate into English Maugham’s words and express your ideas to the point:

«Мне представляется, что на мир, в котором мы живем, можно смотреть без отвращения только потому, что есть красота, которую человек время от времени создает из хаоса… И больше всего красоты заключено в прекрасно прожитой жизни. Это самое высокое произведение искусства».

4.Maugham’s principle point of his esthetics was the following: “Я отказываюсь верить, что красота – это достояние единиц и склонен думать, что искусство, имеющее смысл только для людей прошедших специальную подготовку, столь же незначительно, как те единицы, которым оно что-то говорит. Подлинно великим и значительным искусством могут наслаждаться все».

Translate and prove.

LESSON 3

Ch. 3-5

1. Find the following words and phrases, recollect the situations in which they were used by the author:

Ch.3:To seek smb’s acquaintance	a by-word
the fear of ridicule	wild theories
celebrated person	a stockbroker
to make the most of it	to exhaust the subject
to pass for	Ch.5: formidable tea-parties
to tear pieces	to take a fancy to smb
a neat repartee	hard road of letters
the crackling of thorns under a pot	a gift of sympathy
ch.4:to feel awkward	an oil-well
to rave about	a blistering tongue
to be led up	a tail-coat
in high spirit	to bore smb. to death.

2. Explain in English:

Ch. 3: to wander among recollections, to be absurd; The woman had not yet altogether come into her own; I recall long excursions by bus; They wished to be taken for men of world.

Ch 4: They seemed absorbed in their own affairs; we felt friendly disposed to one another; who dwell between the river and St. James’s Park, we were in good humour, she wants to be in the movement.

Ch.5: a charming faculty, who are conscious of its possession, she managed her surroundings with elegance, he is a perfect philistine.

3. Answer the questions:

1/What recollections does the author have of the time when he was young and started his carrier of a writer?

2/ What were his feelings when he was introduced to the “celebrated person”?

3/ What kind of people were the men of letters? How did they try to look? Why?

4/ What was the author’s attitude to these people? Was it ironic? Prove.

5/ What kind of person was Rose Waterford? What did the author feel to her? What was R. Waterford’s attitude to Mrs. Strickland?

6/ What kid of woman was Mrs. Strickland according to the author’s opinion? Why does the author characterize her as “the most harmless of all the lion-hunters”?

7/ Describe Mrs. Strickland’s apartment. What does it stand for? What do we learn about her family?

8/ Did the author’s attitude to Mrs. Strickland change when he knew her better?

9/ What does the author want to say giving more information about Charles Strickland? Why does he do it gradually?

What stylistic devices are often used by the author? What attitude predominates when describing “the world of letters “, Mrs. Strickland’s tea-parties, people’s appearances?
Write out all the remarks done by different people about Mr. Strickland. What do they have in common?

LESSON 4

Ch. 6-8

1. Find the following words and phrases, recollect the situations in which they were used by the author:

Ch. 6: To be bored to extinction	to lose the pattern
to give smb	a harmless craze
a rather indifferent hand to shake	to reflect on
to claim smb.’s attention	affairs of the heart
a great deal of smth	It was likely enough
to give smb somewhat the idea of smth	to take smb. by surprise
to look commonplace	can’t help doing smth
to make oneself a position in the world of smth	to be startled
to do without smth.,	to live on air
to take smb. out of the common run	brother-in-law
to waste one’s time over smb.	to make up smb’s mind
Ch.7: a touch of envy	to break down
prosperous in their dignified retirement	to refer to matters
Ch. 8: old tapestry	a besetting sin of woman

2. Explain in English:

It was under circumstances, the Stricklands “owed” dinners to a number of persons, she shepherded the ladies out of one room, he was null, I strolled idly to my club, they would sink into the grave, something out of the common, on my part, to put me off, I was a little puzzled.

3. Answer the following questions:

1/ Under what circumstances did the author meet Charles Strickland?

2/ What were the people the Stricklands “owed” dinner to? What was unnatural in their behaviour?

3/ Describe Ch. Strickland’s appearance. Why could Mrs. Strickland feel a certain embarrassment about her husband?

4/ What impression did the meeting with Mrs. Strickland’s family produce on the author?

What news did the author learn after returning to London? Was he shocked? Why?

5/ How did the author find himself at Mrs.Strickland’s place? Describe his visit.

What did he notice there?

LESSON 5

Ch. 9-11

1. Find the following words and phrases, recollect the situations in which they were used by the author:

Ch. 9: to get on	maternal solicitude
to make up smb’s mind	whereabouts
,the affair seemed to grow more complicated	a luxurious suite of rooms
Ch. 10: to be taken aback	Ch. 11: to consider the matter
I felt a brute even to hesitate	to be puzzled by the contradictions
to tackle a case like this	to make a fool of
to steal a glance at smb	to do the best
to grow more prosperous	to assume an airy manner
to have the presence of mind	to look ill at ease

Explain in English:

Ch. 9: sister-in-law, wedlock, tenancy, chap, to have a bob. Ch. 10: notwithstanding, to reflect, to pry into smth, to get infatuated with anyone, to struggle for self-control, elaborate answers. Ch. 11: reprobate, to dismiss, to make an enquiry, to make smb’s way upstairs, on behalf of.

Be ready to answer the following questions:

1/ What was the talk between the author and Colonel Mac Andrew about when they left Mrs Strickland? What was Colonel really indignant about?

2/ What was the author surprised about when he met Mrs Strickland 2 days later? What part did she try to play?

3/ What did she ask him to do for her? How did she explain her choice?

4/ What did the author learn about the Stricklands’ life during their talk?

5/ How did Mrs Strickland explain her husband’s leaving her? Why was it the only possible explanation for her? Why didn’t she say a word to Robert? What does it stand for? Why didn’t she want to divorce Strickland?

6/ How did the author imagine Strickland’s life in Paris?

7/ Why does the author feel indignant at Strickland’s cruelty at the end of his meeting with Mrs Strickland?

8/ On the author’s way to Paris he was puzzled by contradictions which he saw in Mrs Strickland’s behaviour. What were they? Can we trust the author? What makes you think so?

9/ Describe the author’s searching of Strickland in Paris.

10/ Was he frustrated at the end? Why?

Despite being young the author seems to be quite a penetrating /проницательный/ person knowing human nature quite well. Find some facts from the text to prove this.
Make up a discussion to the point: one of you considers Mrs Strickland to be a victim in this situation and tries to justify her, the other thinks that she might be the reason of what had happened in her life and blames her.

LESSON 6

Ch.12-14

Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch. 12: как приступить	кроме тревожных видений его души
с подобающей важностью	на ломаном французском
казались неуместны	непритворное отвращение отразилось на его лице.
выбили почву из под моих ног	Ch. 14: я старался упорядочить
обязательства гласные и негласные	в глубинах его души заложен инстинкт творчества
я старался изо всех сил возгореться благородным негодованием	Ему на погибель
что в лоб, что по лбу; он подскочил	откровения приходят под разными именами
не знаю, почему так уж глупо сказать правду	ничто иное, как условность
теперь, когда вы облегчили душу	преследуемая злобой оскорбленной добродетели
Ch. 13: я чувствовал, что совершил предательство в отношении	клеймит самыми жесткими словами
Стрикленд не отличался разговорчивостью	его прощальные слова были…

Explain in English and give your own examples with the following:

Ch. 12:pretty well; beastly job; it disconcerted me; I was nettled; I reflected for a minute or two; I couldn’t have placed him; Ch. 13-14: you have made a conquest; I could make nothing of it; he was independent of the pinion of his fellows; it’s no good.

Answer the questions:

1/ How did the author set about his mission? What Strickland’s answer cut the ground from under his feet?

2/ Did Strickland care about his family? How did he see his wife’s and children’s future?

3/ What did the author learn about Strickland’s financial position?

4/ What author’s remark made Strickland burst into laughing? Why?

5/ What Strickland’s answer puzzled the author? Why couldn’t he imagine Strickland had a desire to become a painter?

6/ Explain Strickland’s phrase: “I’ve got to paint.” What does he compare his desire to paint with?

7/ How did the author explain his visiting a restaurant with Strickland after he had learned everything about him?

8/ What incident took place there? What did it stand for?

9/ What contradictions were in author’s mind during his journey back to England?

10/ What did he compare his deep-rooted instinct of creation with? Has that instinct in Strickland anything to do with people’s opinion about him?

Explain the author’s ideas and express your point of view.

1/ “When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves.”

2/ “ I take it that conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.”

LESSON 7

Ch.15-17

1. Find the following words and phrases, recollect the situations in which they were used by the author:

Ch. 15: to search among recollections	to be more of a piece
to have got the better	Ch. 16 to bear a demeanour
to look with approval on smb	to elope with smb
to lye doggo	Ch 17: to be growing stale
to get smth. over	to look like watered silk
to share the common opinion	to earn her living
it’s finished	can help doing
I’ve done with him	to get smb a part

run across

2. Explain in English and give your own examples:

She could not make head or tail; to chaff smb; he has got hardly any money; he’d have got sick to death; to take smb for granted; to perplex smb; to profit by smth; to make much use of blue and red inks; to enoble.

Answer the questions:

1/ Who met the author at Mrs. Strickland’s? Describe them.

2/ What author’s remark puzzled them all? Why didn’t Strickland tell his wife about his desire? What did Mac Andrew and his wife think about that? Why didn’t they believe the author?

3/ What explanations of Strickland’s behaviour were suggested? How does it characterize these people?

4/ Explain Mrs. Strickland’s position: “ I could have forgiven it if he’d fallen desperately in love…But this is different. I hate him. I’ll never forgive him now”.

5/ How did the author try to ease the sense of bitter humiliation which tormented Mrs. Strickland?

6/ What proved the fact that Mrs.Strickland was a woman of character? How did she try to justify herself in the eyes of society? What did she ask the author to do for her? How does it characterize her?

7/ How did the author feel himself after 5 years “of doing much the same thing every day”?

8/ What were the changes in Mrs. Strickland the author noticed? How did she adapt herself to the circumstances? What was she ashamed of?

9/ Do you think what had happened to Mrs.Strickland helped her to for better? Why?

How do you understand the words 1/: “… a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does” by Mrs. Mc Andrew and “ Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous” by Mrs. Strickland.

2/ “I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being” by the author.

Do you agree with the author’s conclusion -: “It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty an vindictive”
Find some stylistic devices and explain their meaning.

LESSON 8

Ch.18-20

Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch.18: Казалось, он был влюблен в банальность	оживленно жестикулирующего
убогий, пошлый, затасканный	Ch.19: без конца сокрушался
объект насмешек	нелепейшая внешность
презрение к его мазне	изрядно плешивый
не задумываясь распоряжались его кошельком	Вряд ли мог внушить пламенную любовь
без зазрения совести брали у него взаймы	тихая прелесть
;не лишила его чувствительности	я не назвал бы ее красавицей
но был слишком добродушен чтобы озлобиться	в ее спокойной серьезности
написанная языком вульгарного фарса	избитые, псевдоживописные сюжеты
необыкновенно тонко чувствовал искусство	такое бесконечное удивление
подлинное наслаждение	свидетельствовало об известной верности привычке
захлебывающегося, восторженного	Ch.20: его тело напоминало скелет

разразился беззлобной бранью

2. Explain in English and give your own examples

To rack one’s brain, to fetch smb. on the evening; to reach the café; we threaded our way; he resumed his scrutiny; I had got a gleam of recognition; I might feel inclined to buy one.

Answer the questions:

1/ What did the author do in Paris? Who did he go to see?

2/ What kind of person was Dirk Stroeve? What did he do? What talent did he have?

3/ How did the painter meet the author? What did he feel?

4/ What was the author’s impression of Mrs. Stroeve?

5/ What did the friends talk about? What did the author learn about Strickland? Did the news strike the author? Why? What did he want to see Strickland for?

6/ In what circumstances did they meet? Did they recognize each other? Did Strickland change? In what way?

Comment on the words of Dirk Srtoeve: “ Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world… “

The author’s words about Dirk:“ His life was a tragedy written in the terms of knockabout farce…”

LESSON 9

Ch.21-23

1.Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch. 21: Что вы делали со времени нашей последней встречи	Ch.23: броситься вон
стертая рукопись	подлизываясь, как собака
отличался от	мириться с присутствием
утолить приступы голода	и не подумаю
нужда его не тяготила	мне приходится туго
мрачный юмор	такой наивный
маляр	не признавать обязательств
не производить впечатления находящегося в здравом уме	выгонять из
неописуемое презрение	загрызет совесть
если бы вы могли повернуть время назад	с довольным видом
Ch. 22: я устроился в Париже	наивно взывать к чувствам
прогуливаясь	растрогаться
многословная откровенность	набросился со свирепым добродушием
вышла из себя	однолюб
сморщиться в смятении	делала горше горечь
разобидевшийся ребенок

2. Explain in English and give your own examples:

I took no notice; I meant to force him to conversation; at length; I looked in often on the Stroeves; I grew more intimate with; I make myself bad blood on that account; take my word for it; flung down; they had but the studio.

3. Answer the questions:

1/ How can you explain the author’s manner of communication with Strickland? Was he rewarded at last? What facts did he learn about his life?

2/ In what way was Strickland distinguished from most of Englishmen? What did he always find money for? Did his passion for painting change? Was he serious while speaking about an isolated island?

3/ Explain what Strickland meant: “How can you care for the opinion of the crowd, when you don’t care twopence for the opinion of the individual”; “I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present”.

4/ What did the author do in Paris? Whom did he often look in? What could he notice there?

5/ Where did the friends go to see Strickland’s pictures? Did they manage? Why not? That was the talk about?

6/ How did it happen that Strickland ask the author for money? What was the result? Why? Where did Strickland find the money?

LESSON 10

Ch. 24-26

Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch. 24: to have nothing more to do with smb	to shirk a little trouble
gentle feeling	let smb be
to have a casual acquaintance with smb	to pull smb together
to hunt vaguely about	Ch. 26: to pull through
to keep smb’s whereabouts secret	to put out
to make smb comfortable	to remark on competence
to clatter down	to be delighted with smb.
Ch. 25: to make smb up a bed	he seemed to partake of those obscure forces
to be on the verge of tears	he had no thought for his comfort

2. Explain in English and give your own examples:

Ch. 24: to pass, to have no idea, obscurity, perceive, to look about, to have a rapid glimpse, in which was nothing but a bed, to fancy

Ch. 25: to beg, to consent, to have no objection, you drive me to distraction, to consent in explicable, dread

Ch. 26: a good deal, nothing was too much trouble for him, sublime, weird, abominable, odd, queer, to exasperate

3. Answer the questions:

1/ What made Stroeve invite Strickland to spend Christmas Day at his place? Why was it difficult for him this time?

2/ Did the friends find Strickland in the café? What did they learn? Was Stroeve distressed? Why did he blame himself?

3/ How did they manage to find Strickland?

4/ What decision did Dirk take? What did he ask his wife about? Did she agree? Why was it so difficult to her?

5/ What did the author feel to Strickland after his arriving to Stroeve’s house? Was he a good patient? How did Stroeve and his wife nurse him? What did the author notice in these people’s relations?

6/ Would you do the same to Strickland if you were Dirk? Explain.

7/ How can you explain B. Stroeve’s behaviour when she first denied to help Strickland and then became an excellent nurse for him?

LESSON 11

Ch. 27-29

Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch. 27: тешил свою фантазию чувствами	он был вне себя от горя
неизменно вызывала улыбку	у меня было тяжело на сердце
с несчастным видом уставился на картину	потерял чувство собственного достоинства
не драться же мне с ним	ты строишь из себя шута
я оторопело уставился на	Сh. 29: она знала на что идет
Ch/ 28: неделю спустя все выяснилось	ты начисто лишен самолюбия
всегда очень тщательно одетый	мне легче говорить
он с трудом проговорил эти слова	если держать язык за зубами
я был ошеломлен	может все и обошлось бы
с его удивительной способностью высказываться не к месту	быть под рукой
заварил кашу, теперь ее и расхлебывай

2. Answer the questions and do the assignments:

1./ Why was the author surprised seeing Dirk Stroeve at the Louvre? How did he look like?

2/ What news did Stroeve share with his friend? Translate the following words into English and use them to describe the state of mind of the friends: печальный, неловкая тишина, смущение, несчастный, яростный, негодование.

3/ Do these 3 characters (the author? Stroeve? Strickland) remind you of any personages of a fairy-tale?

4/ Why didn’t Stroeve allow the author to get rid of Strickland?

5/ What happened a week later? What did the author think of Stroeve when he first saw him at the door of his place? How did he look like?

6/ What explanations did the author have first after he heard about Blanch and her behaviour?

7/ What happened in reality? Have you got any other ideas?

8/ Do you feel compassion to Dirk? Would you do the same for the person you love? Can this be an illustration to the words of Jesus: “ And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away, thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also”(New Testament, Lk. 6:29). Explain your point of view.

9/ Can Dirk Stroeve be blamed for what has happened to him? Why do you think so? Who can be blamed?

10/ What can you say to justify Blanch, Strickland?

LESSON 12

Ch. 30-32

Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch. 30: a physical appeal	to inflict the torture
a vague element	the homely stateliness of their time
the daily intimacy	a prosperous bagman
the capable	Ch. 32: self-satisfaction
fashioning fingers of the artist	a sardonic sincerity
to be in the cruel grip of appetite	to run straight into
I racked my brain	readiness for the hand-to-mouth
conception of gratitude	demure appearance
Ch.31: to fetch the things	I was intrigued

2.. Explain in English and give your own examples:

Ch. 30, 31: to pass for, at all events, the love will cease, could never endure a foreign yoke; he bore himself most unbecomingly;

Ch. 32: frequent, to trifle away, to bid smb. good-evening, to be excited by the encounter, the fancy.

3.Answer the questions and do the assignments:

1/ Do you agree with the author that Blanche’s action was “the result of a physical appeal”? Have you got any other explanation?

2/ Do you agree that Strickland didn’ fall in love with Blanche? Why?

3/ Why did Stroeve leave the author on the following day? Did he want to go to the studio himself? What for? While telling everybody about his misfortune what did he expect?

4/ How did he bear himself? What incident happened to him one day?

5/ Did the author have a chance of seeing Mr. Strickland and Blanche? How did it happen? Was he satisfied or disappointed with the meeting? What did he want to see in them?

Comment on the following:

1/ “Love makes a man a little more than himself, and at the same time a little less. He ceases to be himself”

2/ “There is no cruelty greater than a woman’s to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation”.

LESSON 13

Ch. 33-36

Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in, give your own examples:

Ch.33: пожать плечами	быть полными ужаса
покачать головой	в грубоватой манере
быть вне себя	Ch. 35: как мы прожили тот день
что посеешь, то пожнешь	впасть в тревожное забытье
скорбные глаза	не сметь настаивать
она может рассчитывать на меня	чуть слышно вскрикнул в отчаянии
Ch. 34: добром не кончится	меня словно кольнуло в сердце
пошевелить губами	Ch. 36: справляться о ком-либо
не торопись, расскажи все по порядку	от его обычной говорливости не осталось и следа

Answer the questions:

1/ How did Stroeve learn that the author had seen Strickland and Blanche?

2/ What did he want to know? Was he frightened? Why?

3/ What happened one summer morning? How did Stroeve learn about what had happened?

4/ What did Stroeve do for his wife after she was taken to the hospital? Why did he take the author with him?

5/ What did they hear from the doctor?

6/ How did the author try to calm Dirk Stroeve?

7/ Did the nurse calm them down after they came to the hospital again? What did she tell them about?

8/ What was the end of the tragedy?

3. Write an esse: “Blanche’s decision is an act of weakness (or strength)”

LESSON 14

Ch. 37- 39

1. Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch. 37: to dismiss the dead	Ch. 39: to have no look of desertion
a more acute delight in life	to do the marketing
Ch. 38: the deepest mourning	to give the sink a scrub
garb of woe	to get the better of smb
a speck of dust	to be incoherent
like a new pin

Find the synonyms and give your examples with the words:

Ch 37: to necessitate, to put smth. out of mind;

Ch. 38: to fetch, wanly, to have a knack for drawing;

Ch. 39: from day to day, a sudden pang, to rummage about, a work of art, to be dumbfounded, to have other fish to fry, to get smb. in.

Answer the questions:

1/ Speak about the feelings of Dirk Stroeve and the author on their way from the cemetery. Explain Dirk’s wish to return to the studio.

2/ What was ridiculous in Stroeve when the author met him in a week?

3/ Why did Stroeve decide to go to his parent’s house at last? What did the author learn about his family?

4/ Why was the author astonished? What did Dirk tell him about?

5/ Tell us what happened after Stroeve had come to his studio? Why didn’t he destroy the picture?

6/ What did Stroeve come to Strickland for?

4. Comment on and express your point of view: 1) “The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. This is the wisdom of life”

2) “They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognize it.”

LESSON 15

Ch. 40-42

Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch 40: to be bent on some errand	a repartee
to be hard up	to be sore with smb
Ch. 41: on smb’s heels	Ch. 42: treasured possessions
to be at pains	halting symbols
to make smb at home	anguish of soul
to put the facts before smb	to be at sea
ill-assorted pair	eternal pilgrim

Give the synonyms and make up your examples:

Ch. 40: foiled on my purpose, to leave the last purpose word.

Ch. 42: to welcome the opportunity, presumably, to be taken aback.

Answer the questions:

1/ Why didn’t the author want to see Strickland?

2/ What happened after they had met at last?

3/ What made the author speak and invite Strickland at home?

4/ What questions did Strickland give answers to?

5/ Characterize Strickland according to his own words.

6/ Why did Strickland show the author his pictures?

7/ What impression did they produce on the author? What kind of pictures were they?

Comment on the following:

1/ “ A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account”

2/ “Love is a disease. Women are the instruments of my pleasure; I have no patience with their claim to be helpmates, partners, companions”

3/ “ The world went on, and no one was a penny the worse for all that wretchedness”

LESSON 16

Ch. 43-45

Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch. 43: to be ignorant of smth	to have impatient admiration for
an imposing figure	to delight smb
smouldering dimly	to move smb to ecstasy
the glamour of his environment	a confusion of ridiculous
at bay	Ch. 45: but for
to continue a course	I did not altogether believe my eyes
Ch. 44: a man of great intelligence

Give the synonyms and make up your examples:

Ch. 43: seem very unsatisfactory, to come to my knowledge, to seem to be arbitrary, to glean, it matters less, matter of fact, single-minded, at smb’s disposal, to surmise, to be at pains, love is but an episode, poor creatures

Ch. 45: it is thither, to rest on, hackneyed phrase, to wander round, there seemed no chance of breakfast, to saunter down, the wind dropped, aught.

Answer the questions:

1/ Why does the author believe everything he had written about Charles Strickland unsatisfactory? What could he have told us about if he was writing a novel?

2/ What traits of Strickland’s character does the author reveal while talking about what might have influenced Strickland’s life and hadn’t?

3/ What did the author think about Strickland and Blanche’s life together?

4/ Do you agree with the author’s words: “Strickland was an odious man, but I still think he was a great one” Prove.

5/ Why does the author say that Strickland’s views on painting were of no means out of the ordinary? Why did Strickland like Peter Brueghel’s paintings? What did they have in common?

6/ Why did Strickland go to Tahiti?

7/ Why was the author interested in Strickland again?

8/ Was he impressed by the nature of the island? Why? What devices does he use to describe it? Find metaphors, repetition, comparison.

9/ Find similarities between the description of the island and the stile of painting – impressionism and post-impressionism.

LESSON 17

Ch. 46-48

Find the English equivalents:

Ch. 46: любить судачить	они снова сели на мель
придавал изрядно жуликоватый вид	меланхолично пожать плечами
незаслуженно постигшая беда	проникнуть хитростью
жертва несправедливости	никогда не обижаться на что-либо
ухудшать настроение	лететь вверх тормашками
основания роптать	одерживать верх над обстоятельствами
нет ничего более жалкого	честить его на все лады
неумолимая как судьба и беспощадная как совесть	условности цивилизации
торжество духа над материей	пьяный в дым
Ch.47: оригинальная наружность	носиться взад и вперед
свидетельству можно верить	приступ белой горячки
своеобразная дружба	отъявленный лгун
заглушить приступ голода	Ch. 48: дразнить воображение
словарь блатного языка	быть не по карману
наполненный сытой толпой	опять потянуло бродяжничать
не такие формалисты	постараться разыскать ч.-л. из его вещей
без всяких церемоний	быть шокированным

Give the synonyms and make up your examples:

Ch. 46: a very lean man, burned brown, all the better for a wash, to repay small pains, the extent of their experience is pleasantly balanced by the fertility of their imagination, hobo, to frighten to death, to set smth. down.

Ch. 47: pauper and vagabond, to and fro, to be wont to congregate, wedge of bread, the stranded mariner, whither, the bargain, to be bound East, dozing, to tramp, to make a bit of money, to have a stroke of luck, reflectively, to do smb. in, the din, to look for trouble, a great gash, to be anxious.

Ch. 48: To settle comfortably in a groove, a note of hope, to make head or tail of, to have the heat to refuse smth, to fetch large prices.

Answer the questions:

1/ What was Captain Nichols? Describe his appearance and habits. What impression did he produce on the author?

2/ What did the author learn about his life, his family?

3/ What did Captain tell the author about Strickland? How and where did they meet? Did the author believe Captain? Prove.

4/ What life did the two lead in Marseilles? Was it full of hardships? Prove. How does the author characterize the beach-combers?

5/ What was Tough Bill? Does the name tell us anything about this person?

6/ What happened between him and Strickland one day? Why did Strickland have to leave?

7/ Why did the author purpose to end the book?

8/ Did Strickland impress the people who came in contact with him in Tahiti?

9/ What was Cohen? What did the author learn from him?

LESSON 18

Ch. 49-51

Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch.49: to sell by auction	an air of straitened circumstance
to turn smb. out	for old time’s sake
to work smb’s passage	one piece of luck
to scrub the deck	at the waste
to take in cargo	a rotten thing
to take smb’s dying oath	Ch. 51: to praise smb’s prudence
Ch. 50: the leafy lanes	to shell peas
aliens	a torrent of abuse
to create profound astonishment	to get smth over
to step into smb’s shoes	wheezy music

Give the synonyms and make up your examples:

Ch. 49: effects, to fall on adversity, to thrash;

Ch. 50: amid, kindred, to urge, to have no private means, it didn’t generally carry a doctor, on short leave, kink;

Ch. 51: to moon about.

Answer the questions:

1/ Who was Mrs. Johnson? Describe her. What sad story did she share with the author?

2/ How did she get to know Strickland? How did Strickland appear in Tahiti? Did he like the island?

3/ What was the author’s idea that some men are born out of their due place? Who did he tell us about? Do you agree with the author that a man needs a good deal of character to throw up a career for the sake of starting new life in an unknown place?

4/ How did it happen that Strickland had got married? Who was his new wife?

5/ What idea did Mrs. Johnson have of love between husband and wife? Do you think it is rather strange?

6/ Do you have any predictions for this period of Strickland’s life? Do you think it will be happy? Why?

LESSON 19

Ch. 52-54

1. Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch. 52: извилистая тропинка	шорох мириад живых существ
навес циновка	спасаться бегством
изодранная одежда	глухой шум прибоя
сросшиеся деревья	горние страны
кормясь тем, что давала земля	принимать обличье
не любят ходить пешком	без дальнейших церемоний
Ср. 53: придавать слитность	Ch 54: чужак
белоснежный полотняный костюм	мы оба стремились к одному
кроить платье	она гнала его все дальше и дальше
выглядеть убого	по-своему
босиком	отважная женщина
бросить злорадный взгляд	спать, как убитому
с причитаниями	у нас родились дети
что касается насекомых	благодаря труду своих рук
непроницаемая тишина	решительный характер

2. Give the synonyms and make up your examples:

Ch. 52: started things, a host of relatives, a happy-go-lucky way,

Ch. 53: he would come here, varied colour, unmindful of the world, ceaseless like time, he did me an injustice, fish out.

Ch. 54: haunted by, to be deeply wronged, to live in penury, to look back on.

3. Answer the questions:

1/ Do you agree with the author that the following three years were the happiest of Strickland’s life? Describe his house and his life in it.

2/ How did the author know about Capitain Brunot and what did he learn from him about Strickland? Did Capitain visit Strickland? What was his impression? What talk did they have? Comment on Strickland’s “I shall stay here till I die”.

3/ What did Captain mean when he said about Strickland and himself that “ …we were both aiming at the same thing”. What story did he tell the author about his own life?

4. Comment on the following:

1/ “To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish, but they were used to it”

2/ “There are men whose desire for truth is so great to attain it they will shatter the very foundation of their world”

LESSON 20

Ch. 55-58

1. Find the English equivalents in the text and recollect the situations they are used in:

Ch. 55: огромного роста и выдающегося объема	Ch.57: делать визиты
обмен любезностями	неистощимая говорунья
гнать прочь	с удовольствием
стоять в стороне	что изображала роспись
не слишком большое удовольствие	славословие природе
настроение улучшилось	с ужасом осознаешь
перехватило дыхание	ясный и покойный
ноги приросли к полу	взять обещание
это пройдет	тлеющие угли
она была неузнаваемой	болезненная фантазия
на мгновение силы изменили ему	чары были разрушены
приносить пользу	Ch. 58: согласно гостеприимному обычаю
избегать встреч	на душе у меня было печально
что-то зловещее носилось в воздухе	назначать день
обитель страдания	казалось она извиняется за меня перед американцем
сидеть на корточках	ледяное спокойствие
Ch. 56: тропинка заросла	не отставать от времени
потыкаться	я рада и этим копиям
стояла мертвая тишина	подлинное искусство
ему сделалось дурно	давать понять
он вздрогнул	смеяться над кем-то
страшное волнение овладело им	представлять к награде
вырываться из	у нее все повадки «военной» дамы

2. Give the synonyms and make up your examples:

Ch.55: to enquire after, to obese, to thrust, to press smb., to bid smb. lead the way, to be on the look-out for smb., swaim up, to be clad in, to resent the intrusion, to recover oneself, inestimable privilege of life, a faint smile, to flee, to be startled and amazed, to surmise;

Ch. 56: to set out, to tramp, to make out, indescribably, to delve into, unholy, obscene, frightened me out of my wits;

Ch. 57: contrariwise, to roit, to be on the poit of seizing, sightless eyes, to dissuade, fruit-piece, irrevocably;

Ch. 58: trim house, hard on sixty, repair the omission, to be slightly tickled, I took stock of the room, to adorn, to marvell, to have a rattling good time, pal, to cease.

3. Answer the questions:

1/ What did Mr. Coutras look like? Describe his appearance and what impression he produced on the author?

2/ What were the attendant circumstances which lead Dr. Coutras to Strickland’s place?

3/ Why didn’t he want to go with the girl first, and what made him change his mind?

4/ What did the doctor see when he reached the house? Was Strickland surprised to see him? Why was he irritated?

5/ What influence did the doctor produce on Strickland when he told him the truth about the terrible disease he had? What did he care about?

6/ What was Ata’s reaction to that horrible news? What shook Strickland’s fortitude at last? What made him cry?

7/ What happened next according to the doctor’s words? Did Ata send for him? Did he come to see the patient? What did he learn about Strickland and Ata?

8/ Who brought to the doctor the message that Strickland was dying? What did he see when he came? Was Strickland alive? What shocked him greatly? What did it remind him of? What made him conclude “… this is genius”? When he saw the dead body of Strickland what did he notice in dismay?

9/ How did Dr. Coutras explain his impression of Strickland’s painting on the walls of his house? What did he compare it with?

10/ What did Ata have to do with that painting according to Strickland’s last will? What happened to her and her child?

11/ What painting did Dr. Coutras want to show the author? Where did he take it? Describe what the author saw.

12/ Why did the author decide to visit Mrs. Strickland after his returning to England? How was he met? Did Mrs. Strickland change? Did she continue earning money herself? Describe her apartment.

13/ What guest did she have when the author came? What was the conversation about? What role did she try to play this time?

14/ Did the author see her children? Did they change? What impression did the story about Strickland told by the author produce upon the family? Do you think Mrs. Strickland has forgiven her husband? What is your attitude to these people? Explain.

4. Comment and compare the two quotations:

- “The demon which possessed him was exorcised at last, and with the completion of the work, for which all his life had been a painful preparation, rest descended on his remote and tortured soul. He was willing to die, for he had fulfilled his purpose.”

- “Great art is always decorative”.

Final

1. Read the words difficult from the point of view of pronunciation: misery, anguish /`angwish/, futile /`fju:tail/, argument /`a:gju:ment/, genius /`dзi:nias/, embitter /im`bite/, legendary /`ledзenderi/, in`imitable, im`munity, courage /karidз/, catharsis /kaθa:sis/, urgent /`e:dзent/, tomb /tu:m/, cemetery /`semitri/.

2. Learn the words: catharsis - misery - embitter -

anguish - futile – cemetery - urgent -

mental - convincing – afford - indifferent -

3.Read the given information. Look up and say.

Gaugin stayed in Tahiti for seven years. His letters from Tahiti give some idea of his life, of the miseries, the toil, the struggles, the physical and mental anguish, the uncertainty, the futile arguments and his wounded pride. But Gaugin himself believed in his paintings, and he considered himself a genius (“I am a great artist and I know it”).

The last three year of his life were embittered by the worsening of his disease, but he has become a defender of the natives, a humanitarian, and a lover of justice.

What part of the above information did Maugham use when describing Strickland`s life in Tahiti and his relationship with the people there? What did he add to make the story more convincing and the character more logical?
Read the following information. What aspects of it did Maugham make use of to report the attitude of the public to Strickland in the course of his life and after his death?

In one of his letters, Gaugin wrote that he wished he could return to France. In a letter full of admiration for the painter, his friend answered the following: “You have now become an extraordinary, legendary figure among painters, sending your inimitable pictures from those distant islands; your paintings are those of a great man who has disappeared (or so it seems) from the face of the earth. Your enemies (and there are plenty of them, as there always are for those who annoy the bourgeois) do not say anything and do not dare to attack you.

It does not occur to them because you are so far away. You must not come back you enjoy the immunity of the great dead; you have become part of the history of art”.

Gaugin was buried in the mission cemetery. An on his plain tombstone until a few years ago could be found a circle of red clay on which his friend had out the words: “ Paul Gaugin, 1903”. After more than eighty years, some critics consider that a few words might be added to the inscription words that he wrote himself shortly before he died: “I have worked well, and used my life well, even intelligently, and with courage”.

Would Strickland want such an inscription for himself? Can we justify every word of it in reference to Strickland?

Every person needs a purge for his feelings some time or other. For some people it is and everyday necessity. The need for catharsis is urgent for every talented person. But this does not mean that an artist can afford being indifferent to the public`s opinion.

Express your agreement or disagreement.

Why did Strickland order to burn his paintings? Does this idea seem fantastic to you?
Express your attitude to the book, to its author and to the main character.

10. Comment on the title of the book.

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