Assignment # Nine – Задание № 9
Составьте диалоги, используя приведенные ниже слова и выражения:
it aches to move
have a headache
look very sick
have a fever
take one's temperature
give medicines
avoid smth.
Assignment # Ten – Задание № 10
Опишите на Английском языке Ваш последний визит к доктору. Используйте слова и выражения из текста и Упражнения 9.
Assignment # Eleven – Задание № 11
Расскажите на Английском языке, каким образом можно предотвратить болезни. Что помогает Вам сохранять себя в хорошей форме (to keep fit)?
Assignment # Twelve – Задание № 12
Прокомментируйте следующие поговорки; постарайтесь найти максимально близкие им эквиваленты в Русском языке:
“An apple a day keeps a doctor away”.
“Health is above wealth”.
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.
Unit 4
THE GREEN DOCTOR by O. Henry
II Give Russian equivalenfs for fhe following words and expressions from fhe text and use fhem in the sentences of your own: master smth, manage to do smth, be (un) certain on smth, be booked up, attract smb's attention, keep smth away from smb., be too shocked to do smth, doubt smth, catch up with smth (smb.).
III Questions on the text:
1) When did Bill start painting and what did people say about his abilities?
2) What did he do with the money he got for his first show?
3) Why wasn't his f urther activity as a painter a success?
4) What was the reason of his going for an interview?
5) How did Garrad explain to Bill's wife the fact that he didn't want to arrange the show of Bill's pictures?
6) What attracted his attention suddenly?
7) What had the board been used for before? Why was Garrad so impressed?
8) What did Garrad mean by the words "catch up with the modern trends?"
9) Why did he change his mind at once?
10) What was Hill's reaction when his wife told him everything?
11) What trick did he decide to play on Garrad?
IV Discuss the following:
1) What do you know about abstract manner of painting? Can you guess from the story what the author's attitude to this trend in painting is?
2) Comment on the title of the story. Do you think Bill will continue to paint in this manner?
3) Sometimes (or often) your life or your future depends on the opinion of some people. Is that so?
4) Compare Bill and Lautisse. Is there anything in common in their careers? What is the difference?
V Retell fhe story on the part of 1) Bill, 2) his wife, 3) Bill's dealer.
Unit ll
The Filipino and the Drunkard' W. Saroyan
This loud-mouthed guy in the brown coat was not really mean', he was drunk. He took a sudden dislike to the small well-dressed Filipino and began to order him around the waiting-room, telling him to get back, not to crowd among the white people. They were waiting to get on the boat and cross the bay to Oakland. He was making a commotion in the waiting-room, and while everyone seemed to be in sympathy with the Filipino, no one seemed to want to come to his rescue, and the poor boy became very frightened.
He stood among the people, and this drunkard kept pushing up against him and saying: "I told you to get back. Now get back. I fought twenty-four months inFrance. I'm a real American. I don't want you standing up here among white people."
The boy kept squeezing politely out of the drunkard's way, hurrying through the crowd, not saying anything and trying his best to be as decent as possible. But the drunkard didn't leave him alone. He didn't like the fact that the Filipino was wearing good clothes.
When the big door opened to let everybody to the boat, the young Filipino moved quickly among the people, running from the drunkard. He sat down in a corner, but soon got up and began to look for a more hidden place. At the other end of the boat was the drunkard. He could hear the man swearing. The boy looked for a place to hide, and rushed into the lavatory. He went into one of the open compartments and bolted the door. The drunkard entered the lavatory and began asking others in the room if they had seen the boy. Finally he found the compartment where the boy was standing, and he began swearing and demanding that the boy come out.
"Go away," the boy said.
The drunkard began pounding on the door. "You got to come out some time," he said. "I'll wait here till
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"Go away," said the boy. "I've done you nothing."
Behind the door the boy's bitterness grew to rage.
He began to tremble, not fearing the man but fearing the rage growing in himself. He brought the knife from his pocket.
"Go away," he said again. "I have a knif e. I don't want any trouble."
The drunkard said he was a real American, wounded twice. He wouldn't go away. He was afraid of no dirty little yellow-faced Filipino with a knife.
"I will kill you," said the boy. "I don't want any trouble. Go away. Please, don't make any trouble," he said earnestly.
He threw the door open and tried to rush beyond the man, the knife in his fist, but the drunkard caught him by the sleeve and drew him back. The sleeve of the boy's coat ripped, and the boy turned and thrust the knife into the side of the drunkard, feeling it scrape against the ribbone'. The drunkard shouted and screamed at once, then caught the boy by the throat, and the boy began to thrust the knife into the side of the man many times. When the drunkard could hold him no more and fell to the floor, the boy rushed from the room, the knife still in his hand.
Everyone knew what he had done, yet no one moved. The boy ran to the front of the boat, seeking some place to go, but there was no place to go, and before the officers of the boat arrived he stopped suddenly and began to shout at the people.
"I didn't want to hurt him, why didn't you stop him? Is it right to chase a man like a rat? You knew he was drunk. I didn't want to hurt him, but he wouldn't let me go. He tore my coat and tried to choke me. I told him I would kill him if he wouldn't go away. It is not my fault. I must go to Oakland to see my brother. He is sick. Do you thirik I'm looking for trouble when my brother is sick. Why didn't you stop him?"
NOTES:
drunkard – rrbaab
mean – rpy6brA
ribbone – pe6po
Exercises and Assignments on the Text
Упражнения и Задания к Тексту
Assignment # One – Задание № 1