Eх. 2. Retell the story according to the following plan using the words and expressions given below.

1. From Palermo to Marseilles

speed across the country; in the south; pass quickly; see the sea occasionа11у; an American lady; buy a canary in Palermo; a sleeping car; a •compartment; further north; flat fields of grapes;. gray-stone hills.

2. A stop in Marseilles

slow down; follow one track through many others; pull into the station;

stop at Marseilles; get off the train; walk a little way along the platform; stay near the steps of the car; for fear of; be left behind; leave with no signal of departure; be a little deaf.

3. From Marseilles to Avignon

leave the station; the switch-yards; the harbor; a farmhouse burning in the field; people watching the house burn; stop at Avignon; get on and off;

the news stand; French papers; soldiers on the station platform; leave Avignon station.

4. In the train at night

make the seats into beds for the night; lie without sleeping; go very fast;

be afraid of the speed in the night; be next to the window; the canary from Palermo; a cloth over the cage; be out of the draft in the corridor; lie awake;

wait for a wreck.

5. In the morning

be near Paris; look wholesome, middle-aged and American; take the cloth off the birdcage; hang in the sun; have breakfast at the restaurant-car; come back; make the beds into seats; the canary; shake feathers in the sunlight; be much nearer Paris; cross a river; pass through many outside of Paris towns;

big advertisements on the walls toward the train.

6. The story of the American lady's daughter

not to listen to the American lady; talk to the narrator's wife; be quite deaf; read lips; go on talking; be convinced; make the best husbands; go on a trip to the Continent; stop at a hotel; fall in love with; be madly in love;

take smb away; get over; lose interest in life.

7. Discussing clothes

admire the travelling-coat; turn out; buy clothes from the same maison de couture; have measurements; know the tastes; pick the dresses out for smb;

send to America; the duty; not exorbitant; appraise; simple-looking; have the daughter's measurements.

8. Approaching Paris

come into Paris; levelled fortifications; many cars marked Paris-Rome;

stand on tracks; cars with seats on the roofs; go back and forth to the sub­urbs; people in all the seats and on the roofs, pass white houses.

9. Visiting Vevey

leave Vevey; two years ago; take a canary as a present; a Swiss; go on long walks together; know Vevey; be on one's honey-moon; a lovely place;

stay at an old hotel; the beautiful fall in the country.

10. Arrival in Paris

pass three cars; be in a wreck; be afraid; have terrific presentiments about things; never travel on a fast train again; come into Paris; arrive safely;

get down the bags; put oneself in charge of; hand the bags to the porter; pile

the baggage on a truck; say good-bye to one's fellow-passengers; give up one's ticket to the man at the gate.

Ex3. Tell the story in the words of:

a) the American lady,

b) the narrator,

c) the narrator's wife,

d) the American lady's daughter.

Ex. 4.

1. Give a character sketch of the American lady.

2. Tell the story of the American lady's daughter. Describe her and her feelings as you imagine them.

3. Tell the story of the narrator and his wife.

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