Comprehension Check - раздел Связь, Предлагаемое пособие разработано для развития навыков опосредованного перевода и устной речи слушателей программы дополнительного профессионального образования «Переводчик в сфере профессиональной коммуникации» A) What Kind Of Letter Did Virginia Receive?
B) Why Did She Consider...
a) What kind of letter did Virginia receive?
b) Why did she consider it offensive?
c) Why did Sunday evenings have a special effect on the woman?
d) What are Virginia’s thoughts mainly preoccupied with?
e) Do you think Virginia really repelled people ‘after a certain point’? What possible explanation did she find for herself?
f) Do you think the woman often felt ‘inclined to cry’? Why?
g) How old is the heroine of the story? Is she happy?
h) Did she loose hope for better life? Give your reasons.
3. Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.
1. not attractive or fashionable
fancy
2. to take care of smb; to guard and protect smb
to take to smth
3. smth that you say or do in an indirect way in order to shoe smb what you are thinking
a snub to smb
4. to be useful
arrogant
5. something that you imagine, fantasy
dowdy
6. to continue an activity without stopping
a hint
7. to make yourself free of smth/smb that is annoying you or that you do not want
to watch over smb
8. to depend on smb for help and support
to be of use to smb
9. behaving in a proud unpleasant way, showing little thought for other people
to lean on smb
10. an action or a comment that is deliberately rude in order to show that you do not like or respect them
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR………………………………………………………..
BLISS…………………………………………………………………………...
PICTURES…………………………
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
New Zealand's most famous writer was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield's creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, a
Match one of the following adjectives to each description.
frank passionate curious amused distressed dreadful collected mysterious absurd extravagant bored
a) A …………… person has strong romantic or sexual feelings and expresses them in thei
Pictures
Eight o'clock in the morning. Miss Ada Moss lay in a black iron bedstead, staring up at the ceiling. Her room, a Bloomsbury top-floor back,
Sun and Moon
In the afternoon the chairs came, a whole big cart full of little gold ones with their legs in the air. And then the flowers came. When you
Life of Ma Parker
When the literary gentleman, whose flat old Ma* Parker cleaned every Tuesday, opened the door to her that morning, he asked after her grands
Marriage a la Mode
On his way to the station William remembered with a fresh pang of disappointment that he was taking nothing down to the kiddies. Poor little
Miss Brill
Although it was so brilliantly fine—the blue sky powdered with gold and the great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins P
Her First Ball
Exactly when the ball began Leila would have found it hard to say. Perhaps her first real partner was the cab. It did not matter that she shared the cab with the Sheridan girls and their brother. S
The Fly
"Y'are very snug in here," piped old Mr. Woodifield, and he peered out of the great, green-leather arm-chair by his friend the boss's desk as a baby peers out of its pram. His talk was ov
The Tiredness of Rosabel
At the corner of Oxford Circus Rosabel bought a bunch of violets, and that was practically the reason why she had so little tea—for a scone
Comprehension Check
a) What did Rosabel do to earn her living?
b) What was her mood when she was returning home?
c) What means did the author use to describe Rosabel’s tiredness?
d) What had
Put in the missing prepositions.
I looked … the apartment where I had spent most … my life. The window was open and sounds … the street mixed … the talk show … the radio that my mother always kept … It seemed that she had even tur
Pension Seguin
The servant who opened the door was twin sister to that efficient and hideous creature bearing a soup tureen into the First French Picture. Her round red face shone like freshly washed china. She
Late at Night
(Virginia is seated by the fire. Her outdoor things are thrown on a chair; her boots are faintly steaming in the fender).
Virginia (laying the letter down): I don't like this letter at all
Sixpence
Children are unaccountable little creatures. Why should a small boy like Dicky, good as gold as a rule, sensitive, affectionate, obedient, and, marvellously sensible for his age, have moods when,
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