Speech and composition

Ex 43 Answer the following questions, using the vocabulary of the lesson. Sum up your answers (orally, or in writing).

HUNTING AND FISHING

1. Do you ever go hunting (fishing)? 2. Have you got a rifle (a fishing rod)? 3. What is the best part of the day for fishing? Give your reasons. 4. Why isn't hunting allowed all the year round? 5. Do you get pleasure out of hunting? 6. Is there any good hunting (fishing) near Moscow? 7. What made Turgenyev's "Hunting Stories" so famous? 8. What do you think of hunting as a sport?

"HUNTERS AT REST" BY V. G. PEROV*

1. What's the time of the year? 2. Are the hunters having a rest before or after the hunt? 3. Have they been duck shooting or fox-hunting? 4. What does a dog do when a hunter shoots a duck? 5. Describe the old hunter (the one to your left). 6. What kind of story is he telling the young hunter? How far has his imagination carried him? 7. Why is only the young hunter listening to him attentively? 8. Does the hunter (in the centre of the group) believe the old hunter's story? What makes you think he doesn't? 9. What are most hunters famous for?

SPEAK ON A PERSON YOU LIKE

1. Describe a person you like. What does he (she) look like? 2. Is he tall or short, what colour are his eyes (is his hair)? 3. Is he well-mannered? 4. How does he behave? 5. What attracts you most in him: his looks, manners or behaviour? 6. What is your idea of a well-mannered person (a handsome young man, a pretty girl)?

MAY I HAVE THE NEXT DANCE?

1. Do you enjoy dancing? 2. What are your favourite dances? 3. Which do you like better: modern dances or such "old" ones as the waltz, the fox-trot, etc? 4. What is the birthplace of the waltz (foxtrot, Charleston, twist, etc)? 5. Which of them is the most difficult to dance? 6. Have you got a good dancing partner? What's your idea of a good dancing partner? 7. Where are dances usually held? 8. Which is your favourite ball-room orchestra?

Ex 44 Read and retell the text.

A LOVE STORY

What happened between these two, Tom and Annie, was a remarkably beautiful thing, a kind of model of what love must be between two young people — simple, natural and fine. They told nobody about it because their love was a secret thing they wanted to keep to themselves.

They fell in love at school and it went on for a year and in the autumn Tom went away to Notre Dame* to college, but he didn't stay there. He came back secretly on week-ends. People had expected him to be a great Notre Dame football star, but nothing like that ever happened. He kept disappearing from college every week-end and was soon expelled.

In a way, these week-end meetings with Annie were the happiest times in all their lives together. They were young and in love and nothing else mattered.

In the spring Annie discovered that she was going to have a baby. She wasn't frightened. When she told Tom, he said quite simply, "We'll get married. That's the way it was meant to be."

Tom knew what it meant — that he would have to go to work at any job he could find, that he would never be able to bring her into his house, because his parents were against the marriage and he could expect no money from them. There were many other things that he did not tell her as he didn't want to hurt her.

They were married not in the church but by a Justice of the Peace.** They had between them but a few dollars. Tom got himself a job as an automobile salesman in Pittsburgh. In December the baby, a boy was born. Tom was only twenty and Annie was nineteen. They were perfectly happy and Tom did very well from the start.

Not long after the baby was born his family began trying to get him away from Annie. They missed him more than they had believed possible. They began writing to him, and an older brother came to Pittsburgh, but Tom didn't answer the letters and didn't talk to his brother. For about a year the family gave up the attempt and then began again. At last one of them, Annie never knew which one it was, sent Tom a telegram which read: "Father critically ill. Come at once."

Tom came home from the office, kissed the baby and Annie good-bye and went to Lewisburg. She never saw him alive again. His car met with an accident and Tom was killed.

Annie came to the funeral but never spoke to any of his family. Worst of all, she discovered that the father had never really been critically ill at all. The whole thing had been a trick.

A little less than a year after Tom's death the baby died of pneumonia. Annie was not quite twenty-two and alone in the world once more.

(After "What Became of Anna Bolton" by Louis Bromfield)

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