VI. Whom do the following words belong and refer to? Comment on them:

1. "However good a part is, it has to be acted for all it's worth".

2."You don't exist, you are only the innumerable parts you have played ... When I have seen you go into an empty room I have sometimes wanted to open the door suddenly, but I have been afraid to in case I found nobody there."

3."Of course your father and I belong to a different generation and I don't suppose we can help you. Why don't you talk it over with someone more of your own age?"

4. "Real grief is ugly; the business of the actor is to represent it not only with truth but with beauty".

VII. Act out: a) the conversation between Julia and Michael;

b) the conversation between Julia and Roger.

VIII. Make a list of the chief events in these chapters. Chapters 28-29

I. Word combinations and word expressions for intensive study:

a raving beauty to have a knack of doing smth. to satisfy one’s appetite to hold the attention of smb. under one's business-like direction without a hitch to resist one's advances on the whole to breathe a word about smth. to knock smb. down with a feather to lose one's grip of smth. to pass through the ordeal to learn from experience to keep out of one's way to stand in one's way curtain calls National Anthem to put a spoke in one’s wheel

to cod an old trooper to lay bare on account of smth. hard luck to tickle smb. to death to slip one’s memory to let smb. down by all and sundry to fight one's way to stamp one's feet to throw prudence to the winds beyond all question to feel on the top of the world to do smth. with a free conscience to get into smb’s shoes to give birth to smb. a share in the profits to wipe the floor with smb. raw material

Reproduce the situations in which these phrases are used.

II. Translate the passages:

1) "She studied her part. Julia did not deliberately create the character she was going to act by observation..."; 2) "What nonsense that was Roger talked the other day...".

III. Paraphrase:

"That's the sort of part I can play on my head".

"That ought to knock the critics".

"Do you think you can cod an old trooper like me?".

"Come off it".

"Not on your life".

IV. Whom do the following words belong to? Comment on them.

1. "It's hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as thought it had never occurred to us, and they're disappointed if we can't share their surprise when they have just discovered that a hen lays an egg. There's a lot of nonsense in their ranting and raving, but it's not all nonsense. One ought to sympathize with them; one ought to do one's best to understand".

2. "Be hopeful. You thought you'd only given birth to an ugly duckling; perhaps, he's going to turn into a white-winged swan".

3. "I am as innocent as a babe unborn".

4. "You had to have had the emotions, but you could only play them when you had got over them".

5. "... the origin of poetry was emotion recollected in tranquility".

6. "We are the symbols of all this confused, aimless struggling that they call life, it's only the symbol which is real"

7. "Love isn't worth all the fuss they make about it".