IV. Read and translate the passage on p. 66.

What was the difference that Julia found in Michael?

ASSIGNMENT VIII

CHAPTER 8

I. Prove that Michael was a success on the stage after the war:

to get oneself demobbed

to step straight into a part

a well set-up, norrmal, high-spirited fellow

drawing-room comedy

to give a peculiar effect to a flippant line

to make love convincingly

to carry off a chaffing love scene

be amenable to smth.

to be idle

to stick out for smth ( stuck)

II. Why couldn't Michael and Julia start their own theatre. Describe Mrs de Vries.

to inherit

savings

to go up enormously ( about the rent )

inadequate sum

to be amply sufficient

find a mug to write a fat cheque

to be perfectly faithful to smb.

effusive and timid manner

a virile air

to be properly delighted

to be shrewd

a good gamble

to get round smb.

III. Describe the week-end with Dolly:

to set one's mind to smth.

to buy options on three plays

on reasonable terms

to urge smb to seize the opportunity

to twist smb round one's little finger

notoriety

to pay out hard cash

to make a dead set. at smb.

to giggle

to be disconcerting

to fold smb in arms

to give smb a brisk handshake

eyes misty with tears

to brim over with excitement

IV. Tell about Michael's first steps as a manager:

ASSIGNMENT IX

CHAPTER 9

I. Speak on Michael's successes and failures in management:

- to lose smth. ( little) over the failures

- to make every possible penny out of smth

- ingenuity

- to gain the reputation

- to give smb. a trial

- to seek out (past p. p. sought)

- to make profitable discoveries

- to buy the lease of smth

- to get sick of smb.

- to show oneself at one's best

- to be unperturbed

- to take the rough with the smooth

- a couple of duds (colloq.)

- a packet into the bargain

- persuasion

- to find one's match

- to have a high blood pressure

- to give smb up as a bad job

- to take smb down a peg or two (colloq.) -

a percentage on the gross

II. Retell about Michael's attempts to take to directing and the way he sacrificed himself for Julia's sake:

- to be commonplace

- to let smo try

- to be conciliatory and exacting

- to smooth things over

- to share the expenses

- to pay one's whack (colloq.)

- self-abnegation

- for smb ' s sake

- to foster smb's career

III. Work with a partner and make a list of reasons which made Julia think of her husband as a "monster of vanity":

- shrewdness

- to exasperate smb intensely

- complacency

- to be a crashing bore

- to be vain of smth

- business acumen

- to spare no pains to do smth

- to become an obsession

- to have one's face lifted

- to keep one's belly from sagging

- to beam with delight

- to be prudent

Chapter 10

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