How to Discuss a Story. Бунеева И.М - 15 стр.

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Proper names
Mr. Meeks
Mrs. Mary Snyder
Detective Mullins
The Waldorf café
private detective Shamrock Jolnes
Juggins, the leader of the new modern school of detectives
Nathaniel Hawthorne, a detective and adventure story writer (1804-1864)

Words and expressions                       (cases/crimes/problems)
a scrub-woman                               I will take up your case
police headquarters                         hat pin
the chief of police                         a first-class boarding house
chorus girls                                jewellery
to take the rooms by the month              had a far-away look in his eyes
directory                                   shook hands with ceremony
got rid of …                                enlarged portraits
always solved mysteries                     pay weekly installments

   II.   AFTER LISTENING TASKS . COMPREHENSION CHECK

         GENERAL COMPREHENSION

       a. Listen to the story once to answer the following questions
   1. Why was Mr. Meeks looking for Mrs. Snyder?
   2. What did the police think about that case?
   3. How many methods did detective Mullins offer?
   4. What was the first plan like and why didn’t Mr. Meeks agree with it?
   5. Why did Mullins say that the second method would cost Meeks more?
   6. Why did Meeks get rid of the city detective?
   7. Who was the next man Meeks consulted?
   8. Did the detective agree to take up the case and how much money did he ask
       for it?
   9. What case did Jolnes solve a year ago?
   10. What did the detective find when he examined the room where Mrs. Snyder
       used to live?
   11.What conclusion did he come to?
   12. How did Jolnes explain everything to Meeks?
   13. Did they find Mrs. Snyder in the first-class boarding-house? What
       information did they get there?
   14. What did Mr. Meeks think about the things they had found in his sister’s
       room?