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N. Four blindly loyal confederates lived with him.
O. The picture had been more or less planted on him.
P. It gradually took on the unarresting personality of a speedometer.
Q. The Chief’s reflexes were geared high that day.
R. … there was on every Comanche’s face a some-girls-just-don’t-
know-when-to-go-home look.
S. For poise, …
T. He didn’t so much seem to be standing behind the pitcher as
floating over him.
VIII. Translate the following passage in writing trying to keep up
with the style and mood of the original.
"When the Laughing Man’s…… …was to pull off his mask"
(p. 79).
Have you encountered any difficulties? Did you have to make a
lot of changes to preserve the original atmosphere? Discuss your
translations.
POINTS FOR DISCUSSION
1. Who narrates the outer story – a man or a boy? Prove it. What does
it contribute to the story?
2. What is the structure of the story? How many parts can you
distinguish?
3. What levels of narration can you point out? (How many narrations
and narratives can you distinguish?) How are they interrelated?
4. How do the inner and the outer stories relate to each other in terms
of time, genre, plot development, structure correlations?
5. Find ironical utterances. Toward whom are they most often
expressed?
6. Scan the inner story about Laughing man once again and pick out
things that seem to you strange, unreal or obviously fictitious.
What do they add to the whole story? What genre is it inherent in?
Make suppositions on the author’s goal in using this technique.
ADDITIONAL TASKS
1. Pick out unconventional word combinations (consult a dictionary of
collocations). What do they serve for? Illustrate it with some
examples.
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2. Pick out sentences or phrases that seem to express simple things or
ideas in a highly intricate way. Can you find any simpler ways of
putting it? Why do you think the author preferred not to?
3. Prepare a report expressing your opinion on the endings of both the
inner and the outer stories.
4. Write a letter John could write to Mary explaining his viewpoint on
the relationship between them and how it can develop if it can.
Lesson 5
Down at the Dinghy
PRE-READING TASKS
1. Read only the first passages on page 80. The maid is obviously
worried about something. Which words of the author show that
something worries her? What might it be?
2. Further in the text there is Mrs. Snell’s remark: "Either he tells her
or he don’t". Who might "he" and "her" be? What can he tell
about? Discuss your predictions. Whose one seems more probable?
More extraordinary? Whilst reading check your predictions.
GENERAL COMPREHENSION
1. Describe the setting of the story.
2. What details are in your opinion important for describing:
¾ Sandra ¾ Mrs. Snell
What do these details prompt about the characters?
3. How does Sandra behave with Mrs. Tannenbaum?
4. What can you say about the child – any facts from the past; the
maid’s attitude to him?
5. What is the record of his previous runaways? What is the reason of
his present escape? How does it characterize the boy?
6. What is the boy’s attitude to his father? Which lines reveal it?
7. What first impression does Boo Boo make? What suggests this
impression in the episode of her talk with the maids?
8. How does the boy behave in the dingy? Did he pay attention to his
mother’s approach? What attitude is he striving to show?
N. Four blindly loyal confederates lived with him. 2. Pick out sentences or phrases that seem to express simple things or
O. The picture had been more or less planted on him. ideas in a highly intricate way. Can you find any simpler ways of
P. It gradually took on the unarresting personality of a speedometer. putting it? Why do you think the author preferred not to?
Q. The Chief’s reflexes were geared high that day. 3. Prepare a report expressing your opinion on the endings of both the
R. … there was on every Comanche’s face a some-girls-just-don’t- inner and the outer stories.
know-when-to-go-home look. 4. Write a letter John could write to Mary explaining his viewpoint on
S. For poise, … the relationship between them and how it can develop if it can.
T. He didn’t so much seem to be standing behind the pitcher as
floating over him.
Lesson 5
VIII. Translate the following passage in writing trying to keep up Down at the Dinghy
with the style and mood of the original.
"When the Laughing Man’s…… …was to pull off his mask" PRE-READING TASKS
(p. 79).
Have you encountered any difficulties? Did you have to make a 1. Read only the first passages on page 80. The maid is obviously
lot of changes to preserve the original atmosphere? Discuss your worried about something. Which words of the author show that
translations. something worries her? What might it be?
POINTS FOR DISCUSSION 2. Further in the text there is Mrs. Snell’s remark: "Either he tells her
or he don’t". Who might "he" and "her" be? What can he tell
1. Who narrates the outer story – a man or a boy? Prove it. What does about? Discuss your predictions. Whose one seems more probable?
it contribute to the story? More extraordinary? Whilst reading check your predictions.
2. What is the structure of the story? How many parts can you
distinguish? GENERAL COMPREHENSION
3. What levels of narration can you point out? (How many narrations
and narratives can you distinguish?) How are they interrelated? 1. Describe the setting of the story.
4. How do the inner and the outer stories relate to each other in terms 2. What details are in your opinion important for describing:
of time, genre, plot development, structure correlations? ¾ Sandra ¾ Mrs. Snell
5. Find ironical utterances. Toward whom are they most often What do these details prompt about the characters?
expressed? 3. How does Sandra behave with Mrs. Tannenbaum?
6. Scan the inner story about Laughing man once again and pick out 4. What can you say about the child – any facts from the past; the
things that seem to you strange, unreal or obviously fictitious. maid’s attitude to him?
What do they add to the whole story? What genre is it inherent in? 5. What is the record of his previous runaways? What is the reason of
Make suppositions on the author’s goal in using this technique. his present escape? How does it characterize the boy?
ADDITIONAL TASKS 6. What is the boy’s attitude to his father? Which lines reveal it?
7. What first impression does Boo Boo make? What suggests this
1. Pick out unconventional word combinations (consult a dictionary of impression in the episode of her talk with the maids?
collocations). What do they serve for? Illustrate it with some 8. How does the boy behave in the dingy? Did he pay attention to his
examples. mother’s approach? What attitude is he striving to show?
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