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Language Focus

 

1 Mr Curry often speaks in cliches and uses well-known quotations. Find the following in the text, and explain their meaning:

live and let live

nation shall speak peace unto nation

I have earned my passage at all times

two strings to my bow

sound in wind and limb

plying my other trade

we are of like mind

2 Look again at the passages where Esme is thinking about or having a dialogue with her mother. Can you describe all the emotions and states of mind Esme goes through (e.g. fear, guilt, shame, relief, anxiety, defiance)?

3 Words and word combinations to be memorized:

thrill to be up to smb. to take smb. out of

disconsolate mourning to be bedridden

prudent to be in want sin

bewilderment deliberately to hoard

to seep up over smb. encounter to deceive

inaccessible orthright woman

4 Ask 10 general and 10 special questions on the text.

5 Give the description of Esme – her feelings and behavior after her mother’s death.

6 Be ready to discuss the subject, the ideas and the main characters of the text.

 

Activities

 

1 What do you think might happen after the end of the story? Write another paragraph to finish the story in, for example, a year's time. Write it from Esme's point of view, including her thoughts as well as any events. Does she marry Mr Curry? Does she become a partner in his song and dance act, or just continue to make lampshades and cook his breakfasts and dinners?

2 Write Mr Curry's diary for the day he arrives at Esme's house. Describe Esme and the house in the way you think he would see them, and include his reasons for not telling her about his summer work. What do you think he deduces about Esme's mother?

 

Ideas for Comparison Activities

 

1 In the stories Same Time, Same Place and A Bit of Singing and Dancing, what similarities or differences are there between Esme and Miss Treadwell, and Mr Curry and Mr Thornhill?

2 Which of these two stories do you prefer, and why?


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