Home Assignment

1. Translate into English:

   1. Её сын убеждённый холостяк.

   2. Она сказала, что у ребёнка хороший слух и обещала помочь ему поступить в музыкальную школу.

   3. Она — серьезная девушка, не пытайся вскружить ей голову лестью.

   4. Она сегодня такая счастливая, что у меня духу не зватает сообщить ей дурную весть.

   5. Они приучил себя никогда не давать волю своим чувствам.

   6. У неё хватило наглости явиться на переэкзаменовку на следующий день после того, как она провалила экзамен.

   7. Так тебе и надо, ты не можешь не считаться с его чувствами.

   8. Как бы мне хотелось, чтобы ты прибрала его к рукам!

2. Translate the given cue from one of Shaw’s plays from Cockney into Standard English: “Ahrs is a Free Tride nition. It gows agin us as Hinglishmen to see these bloomin furriners settin up their Castoms Ahses and spheres o hinfluence and sich lawk hall owver Arfricar. Daownt Harfricar belong as much to huz as to them? thet’s wot we sy.”

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, Act I

3. Write a summary of Act III using the plan from ex. 7 for Act III and providing your key-words in the exercise-book.

Act III

Comments

Mrs Higgins and Arts

Find out some information on what kind of arts Mrs Higgins was interested in. You are welcome to use http://www.artcyclopedia.com/. How did she furnish her room? More on Chippendale furniture: http://flfl.essortment.com/chippendalechai_rmbq.htm.

Small Talk

Use any source of information to find out data on the nature of small talk. This might be helpful: http://speaking.englishclub.com/small-talk_wh.htm. And take care to read additional information on conversation starters.

Tasks

1. What was Mrs Higgins’s room like?

2. What is the idea of small talk? What do people usually talk about?

3. Find the sentences in which the following word-combinations are used. Translate the sentences into Russian

   1. to offend sb

   2. to get round

   3. to make for sth

   4. to shake hands

   5. (to be) confident

   6. bewildered

   7. past endurance

   8. eligible

   9. to sympathize with sb

   10. to forbid sb do sth

   11. to be infatuated with sth

   12. sober

   13. to be conscious of sth

   14. to get a bee in the bonnet about sth/sb

   15. to make no mistake about sth

   16. unconsciously

   17. to console

4. Use the above expressions in situations based on the book

5. Paraphrase the following OR comment and explain it in English:

   1. [author’s comments] In the corner diagonally opposite the door Mrs. Higgins, now over sixty and long past taking the trouble to dress out of the fashion, sits writing at an elegantly simple writing-table with a bell button within reach of her hand.

   2. [Higgins] Nonsense! I know I have no small talk; but people dont mind.

   3. [Mrs. Higgins] I like to get pretty postcards in your patent shorthand, I always have to read the copies in ordinary writing you so thoughtfully send me.

   4. [Higgins] I started on her some months ago; and shes getting on like a house on fire.

   5. [author’s comments] The parlor-maid returns, ushering in Pickering.

   6. [Freddy] [shaking hands with Mrs. Higgins] Ahdedo?.

   7. [Higgins] Cynical! Who the dickens said it was cynical? I mean it wouldnt be decent.

   8. [Mrs. Eynsford Hill] But it cant have been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat like that. It might have killed her.

   9. [Mrs. Higgins] [unconsciously dating herself by the word] A problem.

6. Answer the teacher’s questions on Act III.

7. Make a summary of Act III. Keep in mind the guidelines given in Task 3 of Act I home assignment. Here you see a suggested plan with no key-words, i. e. you do not have to do points 1 – 3 of the guidelines. You are to make a list of key-words and provide it in the exercise-book. Use of the words given in Task 3 is beneficial.

   1. Mr. Higgins comes to Mrs. Higgins to tell her about Eliza

   2. Small talk with the Eynesford Hills and Pickering

   3. Eliza joins in

   4. The experiment is described to Mrs. Higgins

8. Express your agreement or disagreement with the following ideas:

   1. HIGGINS. Oh, I cant be bothered with young women. My idea of a loveable woman is something as like you as possible. I shall never get into the way of seriously liking young women: some habits lie too deep to be changed. [Rising abruptly and walking about, jingling his money and his keys in his trouser pockets] Besides, theyre all idiots.

   2. MISS EYNSFORD HILL [who considers Higgins quite eligible matrimonially] I sympathize. I havnt any small talk. If people would only be frank and say what they really think! HIGGINS [relapsing into gloom] Lord forbid! MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [taking up her daughter's cue] But why? HIGGINS. What they think they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows; but what they really think would break up the whole show. Do you suppose it would be really agreeable if I were to come out now with what I really think?

   3. HIGGINS. You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names? [To Miss Hill] What do you know of poetry? [To Mrs. Hill] What do you know of science? [Indicating Freddy] What does he know of art or science or anything else? What the devil do you imagine I know of philosophy?

   4. You see, it's like this. If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he's sober; and then it makes him low-spirited. A drop of booze just takes that off and makes him happy.

   5. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. I daresay I am very old-fashioned; but I do hope you wont begin using that expression, Clara. I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unlady-like. But this last is really too much.

   6. MRS. HIGGINS. You certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll.