How to Discuss a Story. Бунеева И.М - 39 стр.

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        b. Talking points
   1.   What is a perfect crime? What do you think the title means? Is it connected
        with the central theme of the story?
   2.   In your view, what story did Emily tell Mark Melcher?
   3.   Why did the sheriff start to laugh when he heard Mark’s confession?
   4.   Why did Mark kill his friend Andrew Fellows?
   5.   Why was Mark Melcher put away in the Doe Smith’s sanatorium?
   6.   Through whose eyes is the story told? Did that person know Mark and other
        characters quite well?
   7.   What do you think of the composition of the story? Why does the author
        speak about very important facts in the final lines of the story?

        c. Sum up the discussion in pairs

       d. ►Improve your listening / pronunciation skills
          Listen to the following passage from the story; fill in the blanks;
          intone the passage; learn it by heart
“You go,” he said “ to this 1)_______ “ – he gave her the 2)_______ of somebody
in New York – “and tell the 3)_______.there all about it. Tell her Mark Melcher
4)_______ you. And don’t you ever come back to 5)_______ , Emily.”
Emily insisted she wouldn’t take the 6)_______, of course. But Mark just took her
in his 7)_______ and kissed her mighty 8)_______ and made her do it. Then, when
she was 9)_______, he got behind his prescription counter again and 10)_______ .
He had made to his mind to 11)_______ Old Man Fellows, to 12) _______ and to
let them 13)_______ him if they wanted to.

                           THE GIRL IN THE BLUE DRESS

   I.      BEFORE LISTENING TASKS

        a. Read carefully the following proper names, words and expressions.
           Make sure you know what they mean

Proper names:
Mrs. Ramsay
Café de la Paix
Richard Talbot
Bill Maine
Louis-Quatorze – King Louis XIV
Jeanette de Fienne