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VI. Correct the false statements.
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ISBN 5-305-00016-5
Предисловие
Настоящее издание является приложением к учебникам под общим названием "Практический курс английского языка" под редакцией В. Д. Аракина и предназначается для первого и второго курсов факультетов и отделений английского языка педагогических институтов и университетов.
Основой для всех разработок послужила оригинальная литература.*
* В пособие не включены адаптированные тексты, которые могут быть необходимы для некоторых учебных заведений в начале первого курса, но их изучение не должно быть слишком продолжительным.
Для первой части подобраны произведения, достаточно доступные по своему языку для студентов 1-го курса: рассказы А. Кристи, "Да сгинет день" Дж. Гордона.
Во вторую часть включены упражнения по пьесам английских драматургов О. Уайльда "Идеальный муж", "Веер леди Уиндермиер", "Как важно быть серьезным", Б. Шоу "Пигмалион", рассказам У.С. Моэма, а также по роману австралийской писательницы Д. Кьюсак "Скажи смерти "Нет!".
Выбор материала обусловлен несколькими моментами: во-первых, принадлежностью указанных произведений к наиболее известным и популярным во всем мире и вследствие этого включенным в курс изучаемой английской литературы. Во-вторых, возможностями для расширения тематического словаря студентов. Так изучение медицинской терминологии в романе Д. Кьюсак способствует более глубокому изучению одной из наиболее трудных тем программы 2-го курса: "Болезни. Здравоохранение".
Основными целями работы над указанными материалами являются не только углубленное изучение языка писателей, но, прежде всего, развитие навыков устной речи, чему в большой степени способствует занимательность сюжета выбранных произведений и возможности, предлагаемые текстом, для обсуждения жизненно важных проблем.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE
Dame Agatha Christie (nee Miller) was one of the most famous writers of detective fiction of the 20th century. She was born in 1890 in Torquay, Devon. Her father was American, her mother was English. She had a quiet, middle-class childhood, being educated at home. In 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie. During the First World War she worked as a hospital dispenser. Her marriage broke up in 1926. In 1930 A. Christie got married to Max Mallowan, an archeologist whom she accompanied on his excavations in Syria and Iraq.
A. Christie's work as adispenser and her travels to the Near East were useful to her in writing detective stories. In her first detective novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (1915) readers got acquainted with Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective made by A.Christie's imagination. It was his first case, the beginning of his career, which lasted for more than fifty years. His last meeting with readers took place in the novel "Curtain" written by A. Christie in 1975, a year before her death in 1976. Another famous character created by A. Christie's genius was Miss Marple, the prim elderly spinster from St. Mary Mead who was good at solving various mysteries. She had her own original methods of investigating murders which sometimes embarrassed the police. Miss Marple's last case was described in "Sleeping Murder" (1976).
A. Christie wrote more than 80 books, some of which have become classical – "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926), "Peril at End House" (1932), "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "The ABC Murders" (1935), "Ten Little Niggers" (1939). They belong to the Golden Age of detective fiction in the 1920s and 1930s.
Two other short stories "The Mousetrap" and "Witness for the Prosecution" were adapted for the stage and were a great success.
A. Christie became known for her ingenuity in making the least likely suspect turn out to be the murderer.
THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY*
* Christie A. Puzzles. M., 1983.
Assignment 1
Chapter 1 (pp. 10-21)
I. Be sure that you know the right pronunciation and translation of the following words. Write them down in your vocabulary books.
| colonel wrap butler incredible | hysterical constable perplexity tawdry | flamboyant spouse appetizing mascara |
II. Find the following word combinations, write them out, translateinto Russian, remember the situations in which the author usedthem.
To give out the prizes (p.10), to frown (p.11), to go to sleep (p. 11), to be awake (p. 12), to go mad (p. 12), to ring up the police (p. 13), to cast a reproachful glance (p.13), I didn't quite catch (p.13), to dial a number (p. 13), to be good at smth (p. 15), to be heavily made up (p.17), to make a discovery (p. 17), to try one's hand at smth (p. 18), to remind smb of smth (p.19), to throw light upon smth (p.19), to bite one's nails (p. 19), to look alike (p.21).
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III. Find the following adjectives in the text of the novel, writethem out. Make up your own sentences to illustrate the use ofthese adjectives.
Тактичный, осторожный (р.10), приглушенный (р.10), сдержанный (p.11), непредвиденный (р.14), запущенный и неряшливый (р.16), яркий, цветистый (р.17), кричащий, безвкусный (р.17), невероятный (р.18), щедрый (pp.13, 20).
IV. Find synonyms to each of the following words.
To be finished (p.10), to think (p.ll), husband (p.11), quickly (p.ll), unmarried woman (p. 14), to get out of a car (p. 15), detective (p. 18), to be having breakfast (p. 19), to understand (p. 19), to explain (p.20).
V. Answer the questions:
1. What was Mrs. Bantry's dream about?
2. Why did she frown in her dream?
3. What did Mary cry out that made Mrs. Bantry awake?
4. What was Colonel Bantry's first reaction when his wife tried to wake him up? How did it characterize him?
5. Colonel Bantry didn't find anybody in the library, did he?
6. Why was Police Constable Palk's tone undergo a slight modification when he heard the colonel's voice?
7. Was the girl murdered or strangled?
8. Why was Miss Marple surprised when she heard her telephone ring?
9. Why did Mrs. Bantry decide to send the car for Miss Marple?
10.Why did Constable Palk let Miss Marple come into the library?
11.What did Miss Marple see in the library?
12.Who else came to see the body?
13.What was Miss Marple famous for?
14.What did Miss Marple think of the murder?
VI. Correct the false statements.
1. Colonel Bantry never agreed with his wife in anything.
2. Mary, the servant, who found the body was very courageous.
3. Miss Marple lived with her large family in London.
4. The strangled girl was poorly dressed, she wore no make-up.
5. Constable Palk did not allow Miss Marple to come into the library.
6. Inspector Slack was a slow man who justified his name.
7. Miss Marple said she knew what the murdered girl could have been doing in the library.
8. Mrs. Bantry liked Selina Blake, Basil Blake's mother.
9. Colonel Bantry did not like Basil Blake very much.
10. Miss Marple remarked that all those young girls looked different.
VII. Comment on the following sentences:
(p. 13) Police Constable Palk's tone underwent a slight modification. It became less impatiently official, recognizing the generous patron of the police sports and the principal magistrate of the district.
(p. 16) Constable Palk gave way. His habit of giving in to the gentry was lifelong.
(p. 18) Colonel Melchett said with a slight chuckle, "If you ask me, your wife's going to try her hand at a little amateur detecting".
VIII. Translate these sentences into Russian:
"I must have been dreaming" (p. 11)
"You must have imagined it" (p. 12)
"True to his ingrained belief that the gentry didn't let you down, Mrs. Bantry immediately moved to the door" (p. 17)
"... they make me green with envy" (p.20)
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