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Unit V
Growing Pains
From “Breathing Lessons” by Anne Tyler
Ira and Maggie are bringing up two children, a boy and a girl. While their daughter is an exemplary child, their son Jesse turns out to be tempestuous, sweet at one time, and impossible to deal with next moment.
Why was Ira so negative about Jesse? Jesse wasn’t perfect, no, but he had all kinds of endearing qualities. He was so generous and affectionate. And if he lost his temper easily, why, he regained it easily too, and had never been known to bear a grudge.
And then the minute he was five and he discovered other children –why, he was hardly seen at home any more. But that, too, Ira found fault with, for Jesse missed his curfews, forgot to appear for dinner, neglected his schoolwork in favor of a basketball game in the alley.
Why was it his laughter she remembered while Ira remembered the tantrums? In a family very nearly without a social life, Jesse was intensely, almost ridiculously social, knee-deep in friends. Classmates came home with him almost every afternoon, and sometimes as many as seven or eight stayed over on weekends.
And then it was girls, girls, girls – a jostling parade of girls, all of them fair and slender and pretty. They called him on the phone and sent letters and sometimes simply arrived on the doorstep, and then Jesse would saunter out. The girls would grow positively swaybacked with perkiness, and Maggie knew they didn’t stand a chance.
It was about that time that the music began. Loud music, with a hammering beat. And then he started writing his own songs. A few of them he sang for Maggie when Ira wasn’t around. He had a nasal, deadpan style of singing that was more like talking. To Maggie it sounded very professional, very much like what you might hear on the radio. His friends were impressed, Don Burnam said Jesse was good enough to form a group of his own and sing in public. And Jesse formed a band called Spin the Cat – he and a bunch of older boys, high-school dropouts mostly. And in the spring it emerged that he hadn’t attended school in some time and would not be promoted from junior year to senior.
Shape up or ship out, Ira told Jesse. Earn the missing credits in summer school, or otherwise find a job and move to your own apartment. Jesse said he’d had a bellyful of school. He would be glad to get a job, he said, and he couldn’t wait to move to his own apartment, where he could come and go as he pleased with nobody breathing down his neck.
Slit-eyed and wary, all his old light-heartedness gone, Jesse prowled the city in search of work. He was hoping for a job in a record store. And each day he came back glummer than the day before, and each evening he and Ira fought. “If you showed up for the interviews dressed like a normal person,“ Ira told him.
“A place puts that much stock in appearance, I wouldn’t want to work there anyhow,” Jesse said.
“Fine, then you’d better learn how to dig ditches, because that’s the only job where they don’t put stock in appearance.”
Then Jesse would slam out of the house again, and how flat things seemed after he left! How shallow, how lacking in spirit! Maggie and Ira gazed at each other bleakly across the living room. Maggie blamed Ira; he was too harsh. Ira blamed Maggie; she was too soft.
They had quarreled over Jesse ever since he was born, it seemed now, always taking the same stances. Ira criticized, Maggie excused. Ira claimed that Jesse refused to wipe that obstinate expression off his face, acted hopelessly inept when helping out in the shop. He just had to come into his own, Maggie said. For some it took longer than for others.
Sometimes, deep down inside, Maggie blamed herself too. She could excuse anything in her children, forgive anything. She would have made a better mother, perhaps, if she hadn’t remembered so well how it felt to be a child.
Soon Maggie noticed that Jesse was gone more than ever, that he returned abstracted, that his brief spells at home were marked by long private conversations on the upstairs telephone and it was always the same girl’s voice – when Maggie happened to lift the receiver.
He found a job in an envelope factory, finally, something to do with shipping, and started looking for an apartment. The only trouble was, the rents were so high and his paycheck so puny. Good, Ira said. Now may be he would have to face a few hard facts. Maggie wished Ira would just shut up. “Don’t worry,” she told Jesse. “Something will come along.”
That was the end of June. In July he was still living at home. And one Wednesday evening in August, he caught Maggie alone in the kitchen and informed her, very calmly and directly, that he seemed to have got this girl he knew in trouble. “So here’s what I’m asking:” he said. “You be the one. You go to the clinic and stop her. You always get along so well with my girlfriends. Tell her about my job. I’m quitting at the envelope factory. I’ve applied at this computer store, where they’ll train me to fix computers, pay me while I’m learning. They said I have a good chance of getting hired.” “Couldn’t you just consider it?” he asked.
She tilted her head. “Oh,” she said, “the possibility, may be…”
***
Maggie reached out and touched Fiona’s arm. “After all,” she said, “you do love each other, don’t you? Don’t you love each other?”
“Yes, but maybe if we got married he would start to hold it against me,” Fiona said. “I mean, he’s a lead singer! He’ll probably want to go up to England or Australia or some such place after he gets famous. And meanwhile, his band has just barely started earning any money. Where would we live? How would we work this?”
“At first you could live here with us,” Maggie said and ran upstairs. She pounded on the bathroom door. “Jesse, are you coming?” she called.
Then Jesse came out. His hair was wet and tousled and his skin was radiant. He said, “Fiona?”
And she lifted her face and said, “Well, all right, Jesse, if you want. I guess we could get married if you want.”
Explanatory Notes
He was knee-deep in friends – у него полно друзей
Deadpan style of singing – невозмутимая манера пения
Shape up or ship out – или веди себя как следует, или уходи
To have a bellyful of school – от школы тошнит
To act hopelessly inept – показать себя крайне неумелым
To grow swaybacked with perkiness – быть подавленным самоуверенностью
Vocabulary Notes
1. attend, v. 1. быть внимательным You are not attending 2. присутствовать to attend a meeting/lecture.
to attend to somebody – заботиться
to attend on somebody– ухаживать за больным
attendance - посещение; посещаемость
attentive, adj. – внимательный
attendant, n.– сопровождающее лицо, спутник
bear oneself – вести себя
to bear a grudge against somebody – иметь зуб против кого-то
to bear malice toward somebody – затаить злобу
to bear with somebody – относиться терпеливо; мириться с чем-то
3. fault (n) – недостаток; промах
at fault– быть в затруднительном положении;
to find fault – придираться
faultfinder – придира
faultless – безупречный
4. neglect, v – пренебрегать;
negligent – небрежный, халатный
negligible – незначительный
5. show (v) – показывать
to show around – показать, провести
to show in – провести, ввести
to show off – 1. показывать в выгодном свете. 2. (пускать пыль в глаза)
to show out – проводить до дверей
to show over –показать кому-то город и т.д.
to show up – 1. провести наверх. 2. появляться, объявиться неожиданно
6. trouble (v) – беспокоить
to ask/look for trouble – искать неприятностей
to get into trouble – попасть в беду
to get the girl into trouble – to make the girl pregnant;
troublemaker – нарушитель порядка; смутьян;
troubleshooter – аварийный монтер
Vocabulary Exercises
1. Transcribe and read:
Endearing; affectionate; tantrum; curfew; alley; ridiculously; jostling; saunter; perkiness; wary; light-heartedness; prowl; puny; record (v, n); envelope; tousled.
2. Give the three forms of the verbs:
Lose; bear; sing; hear; saunter; grow; fight; forgive; shut; catch.
3. Give the negative forms of these words using prefixes or suffixes: Discover; appear; social; fair; professional; pleased; normal; spirit; hopeful; claim; child; marked; directly.
5. A. Learn these phrases with prepositions and adverbs:
appear for dinner
stay over on weekends
hear on the radio
sing in public
slam out of the house
quarrel over something
hold something against somebody
B. Insert prepositions and adverbs:
1. Don’t forget to appear … dinner dressed properly! 2. They so much liked our small summer house that often stayed … … weekends. 3. You can hear it … the radio practically every day. 4. It’s pretty scary to sing … public. 5. Each quarrel ended in the same way – promising never to return he slammed … … the house. 6. Don’t hold my words … me – I didn’t mean to offend you. 7. I’ve found a plum job – I always hoped that something would come … . 8. I’m afraid I sound very rude but will you please shut … ? 9. It was such a fine spring morning, so he sauntered … to the porch to enjoy sunshine. 10. As the teacher was entering the classroom we hurried to wipe … the drawing from the blackboard. 11. On seeing me he reached … his hand to shake mine. 12. To get … well with her in-laws was the aim she set before herself. 13. I never expected my former boyfriend to show … … my wedding. 14. I would show him … if I could, but there was not much to be done.
6. Translate these words and collocations and recall the context they are used in:
1) To be negative about; 2) to regain one’s temper; 3) to miss curfews; 4) a jostling parade of girls; 4) not to stand a chance; 5) to be promoted from junior year to senior; 6) high-school dropouts; 7) to earn the missing credits; 8)to move out; 9) to be shallow and lacking in spirit; 10) to show up for an interview; 11) to act hopelessly inept; 12) to face a few hard facts; 13) to take a stance; 14) a puny paycheck; 15) brief spells at home; 16) to get the girl in trouble; 17) a good chance of getting hired.
7. Say it in English:
1) Плохо относиться; 2) замечательные душевные качества; 3) потерять самообладание; 4) иметь зуб на кого-то; 5) придираться; 6) забросить школу, предпочтя ей баскетбол; 7) семья, в которой не было принято выходить в свет; 8) детские капризы; 9) «мне осточертела школа»; 10) вереницы девушек; 11) не иметь шансов; 12) организовать группу; 13) настороженный, с глазами, сузившимися от злости; 14) рыскать по городу; 15) придавать большое значение внешности; 16) мрачно смотреть друг на друга; 17) придерживаться определенной точки зрения; 18) стереть упрямое выражение с лица; 19) телефон наверху; 20) посмотреть в лицо фактам; 21) стать самостоятельным; 22) иметь хорошие отношения; 23) солист группы; 24)иметь претензии к кому-либо
8. Translate the sentences using the vocabulary notes of the unit:
attend, attendance, attention, attendant: 1. Ты должен внимательно выслушать задание. 2. Задача нашей фирмы – выполнять желания наших клиентов. 3. Какой доктор лечит тебя? 4. Его лекции всегда хорошо посещаются. 5. Ученик получил дополнительные баллы за хорошую посещаемость. 6. Никто не обратил внимания на мои слова.
bear: 1. Я больше не могу этого выносить. 2. Лед тебя не выдержит. 3. В этих обстоятельствах он вел себя очень достойно. 4. Я не держу на него зла. 5. Вам придется потерпеть меня еще два дня.
fault: 1. Ее единственный недостаток – ее скромность. 2. Я не нахожу недостатков в вашей работе. 3. Кто виноват в том, что мы не выполнили план? 4. Он ужасный придира. 5. Это безупречная работа!
neglect, negligence, negligent, negligible: 1. Ты не должна пренебрегать своим здоровьем. 2. Он не удосужился написать письмо с выражением благодарности (a thank you letter). 3. Пожар случился из-за халатности персонала. 4. Он не обращал никакого внимания на свою внешность. 5. Разница в количестве голосов действительно незначительная.
show: show around/show over, show in, show out, show off, show up: 1. Вы должны показать свой билет контролеру. 2. Джон покажет тебе наш дом. 3.
Проводите гостя в столовую, пожалуйста. 4. Не беспокойтесь, я знаю, где выход. 5. Он хочет похвастаться своей новой машиной. 6. Проводи, пожалуйста, доктора наверх, в спальню. 7. Один из гостей не приехал.
trouble, ask for trouble, get into trouble, troublesome, troublemaker, troubleshooter: 1. Можно Вас побеспокоить? Вы не могли бы помочь мне? 2. – Спасибо, вы мне очень помогли. – Пожалуйста. 3. Меня не надо встречать. 4. Ты нарвешься на неприятности, если будешь поздно приходить домой. 5. У него вечно неприятности с полицией. 6. От этого ребенка одни неприятности! 7. Какой-то смутьян распространяет обо мне слухи. 8. Нужно срочно вызвать аварийного монтера.
9. A. Below there are a number of words with their synonyms; say which meaning is realized in the text:
affectionate (adj) – loving; warm; tender; sympathetic.
He was so generous and affectionate.
grudge (n) – hatred; malice; resentment.
He (Jesse) had never been known to bear a grudge.
fair (adj) – blond; beautiful; honest and just.
…a jostling parade of girls, all of them fair and slender and pretty.
beat (n) – blow; pulsation; round.
Loud music with a hammering beat.
perky (adj) – boldly cheerful; full of life and interest.
The girls would grow swaybacked with his perkiness.
wary (adj) – cautious; watchful.
Slit-eyed and wary, Jesse prowled the city in search of work.
flat (adj) – level; low; dull; tasteless; direct.
How flat things seemed after he left!
spirit (n) – life; soul; ghost; frame of mind; courage.
After he left things seemed flat, shallow, lacking in spirit!
Bleak (adj) – uninviting; cold; cheerless.
Maggie and Ira gazed at each other bleakly across the living room.
Abstracted (adj) – inattentive; absent-minded.
Jesse was gone more than ever, then he returned abstracted…
Puny (adj) – weak; little.
The only trouble was, the rents were so high and his paycheck so puny.
10. Paraphrase the underlined words and phrases using the vocabulary notes of the unit:
1. He often flies off the handle. 2. If only she didn’t pay so much attention to her appearance. 3. “A fat chance I have to win this girl”, he said in despair. 4. “Why not face the truth and admit that you are not capable of doing the work”, said the boss angrily. 5. “Stop picking on me! Everyone knows it’s impossible to please you!” 6. Call me only if something really urgent happens. 7. To my surprise everybody was present at the meeting. 8. His ambition was to get to the top of the company. 9. Her problem was she didn’t take proper care of her child. 10. You’ll have problems with the road police if you drive so fast.
11. Paraphrase the passages changing the wording and the construction if possible:
A. Why was Ira so negative about Jesse? Jesse wasn’t perfect, no, but he had all kinds of endearing qualities. He was so generous and affectionate. And if he lost his temper easily, why, he regained it easily too, and had never been known to bear a grudge.
B. It was about that time that the music began. Loud music, with a hammering beat. And then he started writing his own songs. A few of them he sang for Maggie when Ira wasn’t around. He had a nasal, deadpan style of singing that was more like talking. To Maggie it sounded very professional, very much like what you might hear on the radio. His friends were impressed, Don Burnam said Jesse was good enough to form a group of his own and sing in public. And Jesse formed a band called
Пенелопа не могла не принять его доводы.
Discussion
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What was the nature of Danus’s and Antonia’s relationship in the beginning? -
What did Danus begin to feel towards Antonia while they were visiting their friends’ farm? -
What in your opinion made Antonia get interested in Danus’s plans for the future? -
Do you find Danus’s first reason for leaving Antonia valid? -
What in Penelope’s opinion made a relationship successful? -
Do you find the second reason Danus offered acceptable? -
What did Danus reveal about his family? -
In what way did Danus deal with his illness? -
What decision did Danus come to about his future and why? -
Was his decision meant to protect Antonia or to hurt her feelings? -
Which of the statements in the text convey its message most fully? -
Identify significant ideas from the text. Back them up with a quote. -
Discuss what struck you most in the text and mark places you especially like. Explain why. -
In what way would you speak your mind as regards the situation Danus found himself in? -
What question is the text asking you? -
How does this text work on you as a reader? -
Pick out from the text words and phrases denoting interest in things. -
Retell the text in detail. -
Tell the text in the person of Penelope. -
Act out a conversation between Danus and Penelope. -
Give a character sketch of Danus. -
Imagine you are talking with Danus. What would you say to him?
Unit V
Growing Pains
From “Breathing Lessons” by Anne Tyler
Ira and Maggie are bringing up two children, a boy and a girl. While their daughter is an exemplary child, their son Jesse turns out to be tempestuous, sweet at one time, and impossible to deal with next moment.
Why was Ira so negative about Jesse? Jesse wasn’t perfect, no, but he had all kinds of endearing qualities. He was so generous and affectionate. And if he lost his temper easily, why, he regained it easily too, and had never been known to bear a grudge.
And then the minute he was five and he discovered other children –why, he was hardly seen at home any more. But that, too, Ira found fault with, for Jesse missed his curfews, forgot to appear for dinner, neglected his schoolwork in favor of a basketball game in the alley.
Why was it his laughter she remembered while Ira remembered the tantrums? In a family very nearly without a social life, Jesse was intensely, almost ridiculously social, knee-deep in friends. Classmates came home with him almost every afternoon, and sometimes as many as seven or eight stayed over on weekends.
And then it was girls, girls, girls – a jostling parade of girls, all of them fair and slender and pretty. They called him on the phone and sent letters and sometimes simply arrived on the doorstep, and then Jesse would saunter out. The girls would grow positively swaybacked with perkiness, and Maggie knew they didn’t stand a chance.
It was about that time that the music began. Loud music, with a hammering beat. And then he started writing his own songs. A few of them he sang for Maggie when Ira wasn’t around. He had a nasal, deadpan style of singing that was more like talking. To Maggie it sounded very professional, very much like what you might hear on the radio. His friends were impressed, Don Burnam said Jesse was good enough to form a group of his own and sing in public. And Jesse formed a band called Spin the Cat – he and a bunch of older boys, high-school dropouts mostly. And in the spring it emerged that he hadn’t attended school in some time and would not be promoted from junior year to senior.
Shape up or ship out, Ira told Jesse. Earn the missing credits in summer school, or otherwise find a job and move to your own apartment. Jesse said he’d had a bellyful of school. He would be glad to get a job, he said, and he couldn’t wait to move to his own apartment, where he could come and go as he pleased with nobody breathing down his neck.
Slit-eyed and wary, all his old light-heartedness gone, Jesse prowled the city in search of work. He was hoping for a job in a record store. And each day he came back glummer than the day before, and each evening he and Ira fought. “If you showed up for the interviews dressed like a normal person,“ Ira told him.
“A place puts that much stock in appearance, I wouldn’t want to work there anyhow,” Jesse said.
“Fine, then you’d better learn how to dig ditches, because that’s the only job where they don’t put stock in appearance.”
Then Jesse would slam out of the house again, and how flat things seemed after he left! How shallow, how lacking in spirit! Maggie and Ira gazed at each other bleakly across the living room. Maggie blamed Ira; he was too harsh. Ira blamed Maggie; she was too soft.
They had quarreled over Jesse ever since he was born, it seemed now, always taking the same stances. Ira criticized, Maggie excused. Ira claimed that Jesse refused to wipe that obstinate expression off his face, acted hopelessly inept when helping out in the shop. He just had to come into his own, Maggie said. For some it took longer than for others.
Sometimes, deep down inside, Maggie blamed herself too. She could excuse anything in her children, forgive anything. She would have made a better mother, perhaps, if she hadn’t remembered so well how it felt to be a child.
Soon Maggie noticed that Jesse was gone more than ever, that he returned abstracted, that his brief spells at home were marked by long private conversations on the upstairs telephone and it was always the same girl’s voice – when Maggie happened to lift the receiver.
He found a job in an envelope factory, finally, something to do with shipping, and started looking for an apartment. The only trouble was, the rents were so high and his paycheck so puny. Good, Ira said. Now may be he would have to face a few hard facts. Maggie wished Ira would just shut up. “Don’t worry,” she told Jesse. “Something will come along.”
That was the end of June. In July he was still living at home. And one Wednesday evening in August, he caught Maggie alone in the kitchen and informed her, very calmly and directly, that he seemed to have got this girl he knew in trouble. “So here’s what I’m asking:” he said. “You be the one. You go to the clinic and stop her. You always get along so well with my girlfriends. Tell her about my job. I’m quitting at the envelope factory. I’ve applied at this computer store, where they’ll train me to fix computers, pay me while I’m learning. They said I have a good chance of getting hired.” “Couldn’t you just consider it?” he asked.
She tilted her head. “Oh,” she said, “the possibility, may be…”
***
Maggie reached out and touched Fiona’s arm. “After all,” she said, “you do love each other, don’t you? Don’t you love each other?”
“Yes, but maybe if we got married he would start to hold it against me,” Fiona said. “I mean, he’s a lead singer! He’ll probably want to go up to England or Australia or some such place after he gets famous. And meanwhile, his band has just barely started earning any money. Where would we live? How would we work this?”
“At first you could live here with us,” Maggie said and ran upstairs. She pounded on the bathroom door. “Jesse, are you coming?” she called.
Then Jesse came out. His hair was wet and tousled and his skin was radiant. He said, “Fiona?”
And she lifted her face and said, “Well, all right, Jesse, if you want. I guess we could get married if you want.”
Explanatory Notes
He was knee-deep in friends – у него полно друзей
Deadpan style of singing – невозмутимая манера пения
Shape up or ship out – или веди себя как следует, или уходи
To have a bellyful of school – от школы тошнит
To act hopelessly inept – показать себя крайне неумелым
To grow swaybacked with perkiness – быть подавленным самоуверенностью
Vocabulary Notes
1. attend, v. 1. быть внимательным You are not attending 2. присутствовать to attend a meeting/lecture.
to attend to somebody – заботиться
to attend on somebody– ухаживать за больным
attendance - посещение; посещаемость
attentive, adj. – внимательный
attendant, n.– сопровождающее лицо, спутник
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bear v.– нести
bear oneself – вести себя
to bear a grudge against somebody – иметь зуб против кого-то
to bear malice toward somebody – затаить злобу
to bear with somebody – относиться терпеливо; мириться с чем-то
3. fault (n) – недостаток; промах
at fault– быть в затруднительном положении;
to find fault – придираться
faultfinder – придира
faultless – безупречный
4. neglect, v – пренебрегать;
negligent – небрежный, халатный
negligible – незначительный
5. show (v) – показывать
to show around – показать, провести
to show in – провести, ввести
to show off – 1. показывать в выгодном свете. 2. (пускать пыль в глаза)
to show out – проводить до дверей
to show over –показать кому-то город и т.д.
to show up – 1. провести наверх. 2. появляться, объявиться неожиданно
6. trouble (v) – беспокоить
to ask/look for trouble – искать неприятностей
to get into trouble – попасть в беду
to get the girl into trouble – to make the girl pregnant;
troublemaker – нарушитель порядка; смутьян;
troubleshooter – аварийный монтер
Vocabulary Exercises
1. Transcribe and read:
Endearing; affectionate; tantrum; curfew; alley; ridiculously; jostling; saunter; perkiness; wary; light-heartedness; prowl; puny; record (v, n); envelope; tousled.
2. Give the three forms of the verbs:
Lose; bear; sing; hear; saunter; grow; fight; forgive; shut; catch.
3. Give the negative forms of these words using prefixes or suffixes: Discover; appear; social; fair; professional; pleased; normal; spirit; hopeful; claim; child; marked; directly.
5. A. Learn these phrases with prepositions and adverbs:
appear for dinner
stay over on weekends
hear on the radio
sing in public
slam out of the house
quarrel over something
hold something against somebody
B. Insert prepositions and adverbs:
1. Don’t forget to appear … dinner dressed properly! 2. They so much liked our small summer house that often stayed … … weekends. 3. You can hear it … the radio practically every day. 4. It’s pretty scary to sing … public. 5. Each quarrel ended in the same way – promising never to return he slammed … … the house. 6. Don’t hold my words … me – I didn’t mean to offend you. 7. I’ve found a plum job – I always hoped that something would come … . 8. I’m afraid I sound very rude but will you please shut … ? 9. It was such a fine spring morning, so he sauntered … to the porch to enjoy sunshine. 10. As the teacher was entering the classroom we hurried to wipe … the drawing from the blackboard. 11. On seeing me he reached … his hand to shake mine. 12. To get … well with her in-laws was the aim she set before herself. 13. I never expected my former boyfriend to show … … my wedding. 14. I would show him … if I could, but there was not much to be done.
6. Translate these words and collocations and recall the context they are used in:
1) To be negative about; 2) to regain one’s temper; 3) to miss curfews; 4) a jostling parade of girls; 4) not to stand a chance; 5) to be promoted from junior year to senior; 6) high-school dropouts; 7) to earn the missing credits; 8)to move out; 9) to be shallow and lacking in spirit; 10) to show up for an interview; 11) to act hopelessly inept; 12) to face a few hard facts; 13) to take a stance; 14) a puny paycheck; 15) brief spells at home; 16) to get the girl in trouble; 17) a good chance of getting hired.
7. Say it in English:
1) Плохо относиться; 2) замечательные душевные качества; 3) потерять самообладание; 4) иметь зуб на кого-то; 5) придираться; 6) забросить школу, предпочтя ей баскетбол; 7) семья, в которой не было принято выходить в свет; 8) детские капризы; 9) «мне осточертела школа»; 10) вереницы девушек; 11) не иметь шансов; 12) организовать группу; 13) настороженный, с глазами, сузившимися от злости; 14) рыскать по городу; 15) придавать большое значение внешности; 16) мрачно смотреть друг на друга; 17) придерживаться определенной точки зрения; 18) стереть упрямое выражение с лица; 19) телефон наверху; 20) посмотреть в лицо фактам; 21) стать самостоятельным; 22) иметь хорошие отношения; 23) солист группы; 24)иметь претензии к кому-либо
8. Translate the sentences using the vocabulary notes of the unit:
attend, attendance, attention, attendant: 1. Ты должен внимательно выслушать задание. 2. Задача нашей фирмы – выполнять желания наших клиентов. 3. Какой доктор лечит тебя? 4. Его лекции всегда хорошо посещаются. 5. Ученик получил дополнительные баллы за хорошую посещаемость. 6. Никто не обратил внимания на мои слова.
bear: 1. Я больше не могу этого выносить. 2. Лед тебя не выдержит. 3. В этих обстоятельствах он вел себя очень достойно. 4. Я не держу на него зла. 5. Вам придется потерпеть меня еще два дня.
fault: 1. Ее единственный недостаток – ее скромность. 2. Я не нахожу недостатков в вашей работе. 3. Кто виноват в том, что мы не выполнили план? 4. Он ужасный придира. 5. Это безупречная работа!
neglect, negligence, negligent, negligible: 1. Ты не должна пренебрегать своим здоровьем. 2. Он не удосужился написать письмо с выражением благодарности (a thank you letter). 3. Пожар случился из-за халатности персонала. 4. Он не обращал никакого внимания на свою внешность. 5. Разница в количестве голосов действительно незначительная.
show: show around/show over, show in, show out, show off, show up: 1. Вы должны показать свой билет контролеру. 2. Джон покажет тебе наш дом. 3.
Проводите гостя в столовую, пожалуйста. 4. Не беспокойтесь, я знаю, где выход. 5. Он хочет похвастаться своей новой машиной. 6. Проводи, пожалуйста, доктора наверх, в спальню. 7. Один из гостей не приехал.
trouble, ask for trouble, get into trouble, troublesome, troublemaker, troubleshooter: 1. Можно Вас побеспокоить? Вы не могли бы помочь мне? 2. – Спасибо, вы мне очень помогли. – Пожалуйста. 3. Меня не надо встречать. 4. Ты нарвешься на неприятности, если будешь поздно приходить домой. 5. У него вечно неприятности с полицией. 6. От этого ребенка одни неприятности! 7. Какой-то смутьян распространяет обо мне слухи. 8. Нужно срочно вызвать аварийного монтера.
9. A. Below there are a number of words with their synonyms; say which meaning is realized in the text:
affectionate (adj) – loving; warm; tender; sympathetic.
He was so generous and affectionate.
grudge (n) – hatred; malice; resentment.
He (Jesse) had never been known to bear a grudge.
fair (adj) – blond; beautiful; honest and just.
…a jostling parade of girls, all of them fair and slender and pretty.
beat (n) – blow; pulsation; round.
Loud music with a hammering beat.
perky (adj) – boldly cheerful; full of life and interest.
The girls would grow swaybacked with his perkiness.
wary (adj) – cautious; watchful.
Slit-eyed and wary, Jesse prowled the city in search of work.
flat (adj) – level; low; dull; tasteless; direct.
How flat things seemed after he left!
spirit (n) – life; soul; ghost; frame of mind; courage.
After he left things seemed flat, shallow, lacking in spirit!
Bleak (adj) – uninviting; cold; cheerless.
Maggie and Ira gazed at each other bleakly across the living room.
Abstracted (adj) – inattentive; absent-minded.
Jesse was gone more than ever, then he returned abstracted…
Puny (adj) – weak; little.
The only trouble was, the rents were so high and his paycheck so puny.
10. Paraphrase the underlined words and phrases using the vocabulary notes of the unit:
1. He often flies off the handle. 2. If only she didn’t pay so much attention to her appearance. 3. “A fat chance I have to win this girl”, he said in despair. 4. “Why not face the truth and admit that you are not capable of doing the work”, said the boss angrily. 5. “Stop picking on me! Everyone knows it’s impossible to please you!” 6. Call me only if something really urgent happens. 7. To my surprise everybody was present at the meeting. 8. His ambition was to get to the top of the company. 9. Her problem was she didn’t take proper care of her child. 10. You’ll have problems with the road police if you drive so fast.
11. Paraphrase the passages changing the wording and the construction if possible:
A. Why was Ira so negative about Jesse? Jesse wasn’t perfect, no, but he had all kinds of endearing qualities. He was so generous and affectionate. And if he lost his temper easily, why, he regained it easily too, and had never been known to bear a grudge.
B. It was about that time that the music began. Loud music, with a hammering beat. And then he started writing his own songs. A few of them he sang for Maggie when Ira wasn’t around. He had a nasal, deadpan style of singing that was more like talking. To Maggie it sounded very professional, very much like what you might hear on the radio. His friends were impressed, Don Burnam said Jesse was good enough to form a group of his own and sing in public. And Jesse formed a band called
