Prepositional phrases

General Vocabulary

to steal, a steal

a bargain, to bargain, to drive a hard bargain

reluctant

to be confined to

to assume

to make profit

to make sense

privacy

charge, to charge

purchase

to rebel

resolute

expert, expertise

to regret

Phrasal Verbs

to pick smth up

to take in (every word)

to mess about

to end up with/in smth

to pore over smth

Idioms

small talk

to take smth with a pinch of salt

in the nick of time

to take smb’s word for smth

Prepositional phrases

on the cheap

engrossed in smth

in unison

to approve of smth/smb.

a book on/about smth

on cue

to wink at smb

on condition

IV. Explain the difference between: cost – price assure – insure – ensure

Make up some sentences to bring out the difference.

V. Learn the derivational pattern; explain its meaning; give 5-6 examples of derivatives built on it;

VI. Say what is meant by: preparatory school, school matron, classics master, don, charter flight, alma mater, Sunni Muslim, Marx and Spencer, shuttle bus, Hilton, guest house, Fiat, Sarong, Bikini top, gym khana, travellers’ cheque, Gucci, Lacoste, Saint Laurent, Mercedes, Savile Row, lounge, Time, the National Magazine.

VII. Find out the pronunciation of the following place names: find the places in a geographical map, find reference to them in the story: Tuscany, Skopje, Heathrow, Birmingham, Bristol, Bermuda, Bahamas, Ephesus, Hereke, Glasgow, Izmir, Piccadilly, East Midlands.

VIII. Find out the pronunciation of the following personal names; find reference to them in the story; say what you know about them: Diana, Achilles, the Virgin Mary

IX. Explain how you understand the following:

1. As Christopher was the classics master at St. Cuthbert’s, a small preparatory school, and Margaret was the school matron, their experience of four of the five continents was largely confined to periodicals such as the National Geographic Magazine and Time.

2. The Roberts’ annual holiday each August was sacrocanct and they spent eleven months of the year saving, planning and preparing for their one extravagant luxury.

3. On the trip across the bay, Ray Kendall-Hume expounded his theories about “having to get away from it all”.

X. Answer the following questions:

1. What were Christopher and Margaret Roberts?

2. How did they spend eleven months of the year? Why?

3. What preparations did they make before going to Turkey? Were their plans detailed and elaborately worked out?

4. What were the “steals” they had made over the years in different countries? What was “the steal” they decided to make in Turkey?

5. What did they get to know about Turkish carpets?

6. What did the Roberts think about the Kendall-Humes?

7. Why were the Roberts so reluctant about getting on board the Kendall-Humes’ yacht?

8. The Roberts tried to avoid the Kendall-Humes over the rest of their holiday, didn’t they? Why?

9. What carpet did Margaret fall in love with at Osman’s?

10. How did the Kendall-Humes and the Roberts behave in the carpet shop?

11. What carpet did the Kendall-Humes buy? How much did they pay for it?

12. The prices at Osman’s were far beyond the Roberts, weren’t they? How did it happen that Margaret bought the carpet she liked so much?

13. What was the true worth of the carpet the Roberts had purchased? How did they learn it?

14. Why didn’t they tell the truth to the Kendall-Humes?

XI. Write a short summary of the story; retell it in brief.

XII. Write out all the words, phrases and passages the author uses to portray the Roberts and the Kendall-Humes.

XIII. Describe the scene in the carpet shop in detail.

XIV. Discussion points:

1. Evidently, the Roberts and the Kendall-Humes travelled for different reasons, didn’t they? Why did the Roberts travel? What about the other family?

2. What sort of travelers were the Roberts? How did they prepare for their trips? Is that “poring over brochures” and working out elaborate plans before setting off really necessary?

3. Give character sketches of the Roberts and the Kendall-Humes. What is the author’s attitude to them? What impression did they produce on you?

4. How would you account for the shop owner’s decision to sell the carpet to the Roberts?

5. How would you comment on the title of the story?

6. Why did the Roberts have ho qualms about the carpet?

7. The Roberts didn’t tell the Kendall-Humes the real value of the carpet, because Christopher thought “the truth was the last thing Kendall-Hume wanted to be told”. Comment on it.

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