Учебно-методическое пособие по работе с книгой С. Моэма "Пироги и пиво". Бегун Н.В. - 15 стр.

        8. What was Mary-Ann like?                                                  11. Rosie gave herself airs on returning to Blackstable.
        9. What did Mary-Ann tell about Rosie?
        10. Who was Lord George? Why did Blackstable’s people               Ex. 3   Explain the proverb:
            look upon him with scornful derision?                                   “You can take a horse to the water but you can’t make him
        11. How did it come that the vicar agreed to his nephew’s do-               drink.”
            ing for a ride with Mr. Driffield?                                       Say how it illustrates Lord George’s situation. Make up your
        12. How did young Ashenden spend his time with the Drif-                    own situations which this proverb may be applied to.
            fields?
        13. What conclusion concerning Rosie did young Ashenden             Ex. 4   Make up a dialogue using as many words and phrases from the
            arrive at?                                                              chapters as you can. Make use of the following expressions:
        14. What shocked young Ashenden about the Driffields?                       Ask me another; remember me to …; Good riddance (to bad
        15. How did Mary-Ann react when the boy asked of she had                    rubbish); on my part; I call it very pushing; Just to hang it all;
            spoken to Rosie after church?                                           all I can tell you; I was sorry to hear…
        16. What did the boy see in the garden at night? What impres-               It’s very kind of you; You’d better ask him; a pack of lies;
            sion did the scene produce on him?                                      You could have knocked me down with a feather; Some peo-
        17. Why was Mary-Ann anxious to excuse herself for having                   ple will do anything.
            Rosie in? How did her attitude towards Rosie change?
                                                                            Ex. 5   Say which of the characters the following statements relate to
Ex. 2   Support or challenge the following statements making suitable               and how they characterize each of them.
        quotations to prove your point of view.                                     1. She smiled with her lips and with her eyes and there was in
        1. Rosie produced a rather unpleasant impression on the boy.                   her smile something that even then I recognized as singu-
        2. The boy learned to ride a bicycle the very first day he tried.              larly pleasant.
        3. The boy’s uncle was glad to hear that he got acquainted                  2. I was laughing so much that I positively forgot all about
            with the Driffields.                                                       my social status.
        4. Mary-Ann became furious when Rosie came to see her.                      3. … there was a disarming frankness in her manner that put
        5. Mary-Ann had been taking service with the vicar’s family                    one at one’s ease.
            for years.                                                              4. They are most disreputable people.
        6. Lord George had a reputation of a generous and disinter-                 5. She had never been to London in her life and I do not think
            ested person.                                                              she had been to Tercanbury more than three or four times.
        7. The vicar willingly agreed to his nephews going out with                 6. She was paid twelve pounds a year.
            the Driffields.                                                         7. He used to go out doing painting, but he was out of work
        8. Rosie and Marry-Ann used to be on friendly terms in old                     more often than not.
            times.                                                                  8. The gentry thought him extremely vulgar and I have no
        9. Ted Driffield was ashamed of having been a waiter in a                      doubt that he was vain and boastful.
            restaurant.                                                             9. He was much too friendly.
        10. Rosie didn’t mind recollecting her past and talking about it            10. … she seemed able to do nothing for an indefinite time
            with others.                                                               without feeling bored.
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