Angel Pavement. John Boynton Priestley. Соболева Л.П - 24 стр.

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1. to bolt one's breakfast (371) 6. to sink into stupor (387)
2. to fling away the resentment (372) 7. to choke over (390)
3. a call box (373) 8. to talk sense (390)
4. to count on sb for sth (380) 9. to delude oneself (395)
5. to wobble (384) 10. to enthrall (405)
II. Transcribe and pronounce the following words.
Miraculous, escort, creased, finance, to seize, divan, cognac, syren.
III. Make up a situation of your own using the active words and
expressions.
IY. Interpret the following sentences.
1…. so he was free for a few days to make what he could of life by himself.
(372)
2. All these things… were only on the dream-like fringe of life. (376)
3. He ought to knock off for a day or two, even if we are short-handed. (380)
1. Carrington Villas was one great gloomy drip-drip. (381)
2. You give me a start, mate. (389)
6. He couldn't even commit suicide, couldn't afford it. (398)
3. … he was beginning to feel that he was there on sufferance. (401)
4. She doesn't tell me much – bit stand-offish. (403)
9. … he was not a man to be trifled with (405)
V.Translate in writing.
P.P. 375, 376.«That first phase of unusual smartness… a tender hollowness, in
his head.»
YI. Give synonyms.
Perilous, to jeer at, jocular, sullen, to sack sb.
YII. Comment on the figures of speech.
1. «… an unusual sound, a most strange sound, a fantastic and incredible sound,
came from the side of the bed.»
5. «… he poured it all out in a wild unbroken rush of short phrases…»
6. What had he, Harold Turgis, been fancying himself for? What was he? What
could he do? What had he got?
7. «… the same deep soft thing, the same gramophone, records, books,
magazines, bottles, fancy boxes, fruit and glasses all over the place…»
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