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TASK 5. Match the verbs with the expressions they go with.

Part 1


1. to be struck

2. to clench

3. to get off

4. to lose

5. to drag

a) wanly

b) trim and spruce

c) courage

d) ones sleeves

e) face down

6. to smile

7. to keep ones house

8. to summon up

9. to roll down

10. to commit

11. to put the past

12. to fall

f) dumb

g) ones hands/fists

h) with a fright

i) all power of will

j) ones feet

k) behind smb

l) a crime


Part 2


13. to do ones soul

14. to soften

15. to suspect

16. to look

17. to bite

18. to leave smb

19. to blun

20. to gratify

21. to cause

22. to mince

23. to snatch smb

24. to go out

25. to incur

m) the sensibility

n) ones words

o) a tragedy

p) instincts

q) of ones way

r) resentment

s) a great good

t) sideways

u) from the jaws of death

v) smbs grief

w) vaguely

x) ones lip

y) the last word


Part 3

Paraphrase the underlined parts of the sentences using the expressions from Task 5

1. On hearing the terrible news Dirk seemed to have lost the power of speech.

2. Dirks home was always spotless thanks to his mother.

3. Before entering his house Dirk tried to pull himself together.

4. Stroeve hoped that his returning home would help him forget everything that had happened before.

5. In his conversation with Strickland the narrator didnt try to soften his words.

6. Strickland felt no gratitude to Stroeve in spite of the fact that the latter saved his life.

7. Strickland was never afraid of bringing on himself the feelings of bitterness and indignation from women.

8. At first the doctors thought that Blanche would recover soon without any serious complications.

9. The narrator couldnt understand why Strickland had taken trouble to start an affair with Blanche.

10. Strickland brought a great misfortune into the lives of the Stroeves.

TASK 6. Fill in the missing elements from the box into the of-phrases.


pursuit

abyss

blow

lapse

world

singularities

wisdom

heart

tenderness

recesses

mockery

cause

desertion

dust

twinge


 

1. the _______ of the disaster

2. a hint of ________

3. vision of a ________ without sin

4. a sudden wrench of the _______ strings

5. an ________ of cruelty

6. the ___________ of ones mothers love

7. the final ________ of treachery

8. a speck of _______

 

9. the __________ of life

10. a look of ____________

11. a _______ of time

12. _______________ of human nature

13. mysterious __________ of the subconscious

14. a ____________ of remorse

15. a __________ of the ineffable


TASK 7. Fill in preposition from the box into the phrases given below.


1. appreciation ___ the romantic atmosphere

2. a stab ___ ones heart

3. to be seized ____ awe

4. to be absorbed ___ thought

5. to make a claim ____ smb/smth

6. to treat smb/smth ______ firmness

7. to put each thing ___ its appointed place

8. to get off ____ something

9. to rebel _________ smth



10. to get the better ___ someone

11. to get smth ____ ___ mind

12. to be ___ charge ___ the case


TASK 8. Which of the characters did the following?

1. In whose tone was therea frigid contempt?

2. Whose kitchen was a miracle of clean brightness?

3. Who had a flaxen pigtail?

4. Who had a knack for drawing?

5. Who was an outcast and why?

6. Who was laughing up his sleeve?

7. Who wanted to hide a shameful secret?

8. Who walked up and down the room like a caged beast?

9. Who didnt want to mince his words?


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