W. Somerset Maugham. Theatre. Home Reading Guide. Шишкина Н.М - 19 стр.

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4. What impression did Julia produce on Tom? What did she say to him? Do you
think she was sincere or not? Did she get him back?
5. How did Julia feel after their reconciliation? What did he think of them and their
relations?
6. What was Julia’s reputation? What made Dolly go to Michael and talk to him
about Julia? What was Michael attitude towards Dolly’s words?
7. What can you say about Dolly? Describe her. Give a detailed account of her
behaviour and state she was in during the conversation with Michael.
8. What made Tom be “like a fish’s fin” at the cinema? What did Julia think about it?
9. What kind of talk did Julia and Dolly have?

  2. Who said it and in what connection?
1. I’m not all milk and honey.
2. Men were creatures of habit.
3. Only a woman knows what a woman can do.
4. Men were such fools.
5. It’s my damned virtue.
6. Her gift had neither age nor form.

   3. Make up dialogues based on the text.

  4. Retell:
      a) chapter 15 as it would be told by Julia;
      b) chapter 16 as it would be told by 1. Michael; 2.Dolly;
      c) chapter 18 as it would be told by Julia.


                               Unit 7: Chapters 19-21
                                Vocabulary notes:

   1. frown [fraun] – v to bring your eyebrows together to show that you are
      annoyed or worried
   2. ape – n 1. a large monkey without a tail or with a very short tail, such as a
      Gorilla or Chimpanzee; 2. infml an insulting word for a man who is rude or
      stupid
   3. robust – adj (of a person or animal) strong and healthy
   4. tighten – v to (cause to) become tight or tighter
      tight – adj closely fastened, held
   5. perfidy – n fml esp. lit (an example of) disloyalty, treachery
   6. allay – vt fml to make (a person’s or group’s fear, doubt, anger, etc) less strong
   7. perceive [pə´sı:v] – v 1. to see smth or smb; 2. to have a belief about smth
   8. utter – adj complete or extreme
      utter – vt slightly fml to say smth or to make a sound with your voice
   9. bestow [bı´stəu] – vt fml to give smth as an honor present