- •The portrait
- •The boarding house
- •The rocking-horse winner
- •Feuille d'album*
- •Tactical exercise
- •Manhood
- •Green eyes
- •The plan of discussing a story
- •Discussion activities The Portrait
- •1. Discuss some problem-questions.
- •2. Explain how the characters of the story become revealed in the following episodes.
- •3. Say how the writer's attitude to his characters becomes revealed in the following quotations.
- •4. Which of the following could be said to be:
- •5. Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impression of it. The Boarding House
- •1. Discuss some problem-questions.
- •2. Explain how the main characters of the story become revealed in the following.
- •The Rocking-Horse Winner
- •2. Explain how the characters of the story become revealed in the following quotations and episodes.
- •3. Speak on the atmosphere in the house and its effect on Paul considering the following quotations.
- •Feuille d'Album
- •Tactical Exercise
- •2. Explain how the main characters become revealed in the episodes described in paragraphs pointed out in brackets.
- •3. Explain what the writer means.
- •Manhood
- •2. Explain how the characters of the father and the son become revealed in the following quotations.
- •Green Eyes
- •2. Explain what the main conflict of the story is choosing one of the following and give your reasons.
- •3. Explain how the character of Skimpy and the attitude of his fellow-villagers to him become revealed in the following.
- •Notes The Portrait
- •The Boarding House
- •The Rocking-Horse Winner
- •Feuille d'Album
- •Tactical Exercise
- •Green Eyes
Notes The Portrait
Rembrandt - 1606-1669, well-known Dutch painter Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1723-1792, well-known English painter a Manor House - the house of the lord of a manor that is of an estate administered as a unit
Longhi - 1702-1785, well-known Italian portrait-painter morbidezza - the delicate, subtle and lifelike rendering of flesh in painting, sculpture or engraving
Rosalba - 1675-1757, Italian portrait and miniature painter Tiepolo - 1696-1770, a Venetian painter
Anne Boleyn - about 1507-1536, second wife of Henry VIII of England, mother of Queen Elizabeth
Nell Gwynn - 1650-1687, English actress, mistress of Charles II Duke of Wellington - 1769-1852, First Duke, known as The Iron Duke
Galuppi - 1706-1785, Italian composer Misericordia - Italian bural society, rendering service to all Piccinni - 1728-1800, Italian musician and composer, known as the rival of Gltik
Santa Maria - a well-known church in Venice Porpora - 1686-1768, Italian composer and singing teacher Tartini - 1692-1770, Italian composer and violinist, created the well-known "The Devil's Sonata"
Ridotto - the hall where a musical and dancing entertainment is given
Maria-Theresa - 1717-1780, wife of Emperor Francis I, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
Pantaloon - a traditional character in Italian comedy, also the patron saint of Venice
Pulcinello - or Punchinello, a comic character in Italian burlesque or puppet show, same as the English Punch Punch - Панч (Петрушка)
саrа arnica - ит. дорогой друг
cicisbeo (pi cicisbei) - ит. кавалер, постоянный спутник дамы
Lido - an Italian island in the Adriatic South East of Venice, fashionable seaside resort
Guardi - 1712-1793, Venetian painter known for his scenes of Venice
The Boarding House
corn-factor's office - office of an agent in charge of trading corn
to sow one's wild oats - отдавать должное увлечениям юности Reynold's Newspaper - a Sunday newspaper that supported the policy of the Labour party
The Rocking-Horse Winner
with a sort of stealth - зд. со своей тайной
to be in full tilt - быть наклоненным до предела
Ascot - the famous race-course and horse races at Ascot Heath in Birkshire, England
blade of the "turf" - зд. завсегдатай скачек Honogr bright - разг. честное слово
Nat Gould - a famous financier 92
spinning yams - разг. небылицы as sure as eggs -зд. верное дело
as right as a trivet - разг. зд. в полном порядке
Feuille d'Album
Feuille d'album - фр. листок из альбома
rag-time - music of American negro origin, which was very popular as dance-music in the 1920s
terra-cotta - a red substance made from a mixture of clay and sand
Tactical Exercise
Belgravia - the smart and very expensive residential area of London
Pont Street - a street in London associated with wealthy upper middle-class society
M.C. - Military Cross, a decoration
the Heath - Hampstead Heath parkland in a London suburb "Welcome to Chaos and Old Night" - a reference to the words of Milton in his poem "Paradize Lost" (Book I, line 540)
'24 Comprirnes narcotiques, hypnotiques' - фр. 24 таблетки снотворного
'Ne pas dépasser deux' - фр. не более двух
the Cornish coast - situated in Cornwall, in the south-west of England
'Your castle hath a pleasant seat' - a quotation from Macbeth by Shakespeare
staff-solution - the official answer to a problem set by instructors at the Army Staff College
The Bum
Vera Crus - a port on the East coast of Mexico Yucatan - a region in the south-east of Mexico
the Spanish Main - Caribbean Sea
white ducks - trousers made of white sailcloth material
"Dispense Usted por Dios" - исп. прости меня, Господи