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State the morphological composition of the following

a) nouns:excitement, cheapness, truth, gentleman, simplicity, investigation, capability, furniture, whim, agreement, staircase, daytime;

b) adjectives:well-known, endless, wooden, truthful, reddish, swarthy, ungrammatical, romantic, suitable, ancient, fair-haired.

6. a) Which of the following adjectives describe Parker, Poirot, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson? Which words describe neither of them?

handsome, shrewd, swarthy, dainty, charming, delightful, nice, ordinary, malicious, troubled, nothing startling, tender, truthful, tall, fair.

b) Sum up what you've learned about these characters using appropriate adjectives.

Fill in articles where necessary. Explain your choice.

1. We alighted at ____door of ____ small house standing back from ___ road.

2. But there must be ___ catch somewhere.

3. Now for some time past Luigi Valdarno had been going about with ___ Miss Elsa Hardt, ___ concert singer.

4. Then it was our turn, and ___ perfect babel of tongues was let loose.

5. Figure to yourself, my friend, that ___ real rent of those flats is 850 pounds.

6. Poirot interrupted me with ___ tremendous chuckle.

7. I started forward in ___ amazement, conscious as I did so of Poirot's malicious grin.

8. Poirot uttered ___ exclamation of satisfaction.

9. One of them left suddenly for England ___ fortnight ago.

 

IV. SPEECH EXERCISES

Name all the characters introduced by the author. Say a few words about each of them.

State whose utterances these are, what preceded or followed them. Recount the circumstances under which they are used in the story. Think under what circumstances you would say the same.

1. "I will have the law of you."

2. "Ahead of you for once, my dear".

3. "It is as well, mon ami, that we have no affairs of moment on hand".

4. "I don't know – betwixt and between, and just an ordinary sort of face.

5. "We are going to break into the flat".

6. "Now we have but to wait".

7. "I have always said there are plenty of flats – at a price."

8. "You have our friends safe and sound".

 

Work in pairs asking each other fact-finding questions. Make use of the Active Vocabulary.

Prove that

1. Houses and flats were Parker's special hobby.

2. Hastings brings more sympathy and appreciation to his description of women.

3. Elsa Hardt and her husband, or brother or whatever he really is, hit on a scheme of transparent simplicity.

Act out dialogues between

a) Mrs. Robinson and Gerald Parker

b) Hastings and Poirot

 

6. Speak on the following making use of words and word-combinations given below as if you were:

a) Mrs. Robinson telling about her adventures while looking for a flat.

piece of luck; at a price; there must be a catch somewhere; a taste for philanthropy; the place is haunted; the well-known rule of dog eating dog always applied; there and then; triumphantly;



b) Poirot explaining the case.

a sigh of satisfaction; suspicion fell upon a young man; shot dead; in reality; to keep an eye upon; to cover one's tracks; beauty sleep; all-night vigil.

 


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