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F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Task I (pp. 5-26)
I. Get ready to speak about the writer (his life and literary activity). II. Comment on the epigraph to the novel.
III. Active words (transcribe, give all the meanings of the words): vulnerable, to feign, levity (5); bizarre, to spank (9); accomplishment, turbulence, elaborate (10); sturdy (11); to ripple (12); to hover, to start (14); to compel (15); infinitesimal, complacency (18).
IV. Translate: a most superficial tag, the consoling proximity of millionaires (9), to savor of anticlimax (10), a touch of paternal contempt, defiant wistfulness of his own (11), pungent roses, the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling (12), a stunned tribute (13), a deft movement, reciprocal curiosity (15), a glass of corky claret, the fervent sun (17), a vigil beside a body (20).
V. Explain in English: a commuting town (7), editorial (8), a Georgian mansion, sundial (10), French window (11), Italian Garden (12).
VI. Write out some examples of: - sound-imitating words from the text;
- simile. VII. Active word-combinations (translate, be ready to use them in the situations from the text): to be privy to smth. (5), in the wake of smth. (6), to be an eye-sore (9), a string of ponies to overlook the bay (10), to hate smb’s guts (11), to stop off in Chicago (14), to be stiff (15), to go from bad to worse (18), to give a heart-to-heart talk, on account of (24), to nibble at smth., to give an intimation(25).
VIII. Discussion:
1. Describe the narrator, his family.
2. Where is the scene of action laid?
3. How come the narrator drove over to East Egg on a warm windy evening? Describe the place, the hosts, Miss Baker.
4. What did the topic of the conversation at the table drift to?
5. Speak about the way T. Buchanan treats his wife (use the text as the proof).
6. What did Nick and Daisy talk about sitting side by side on a wicker settee?
7. Was Nick engaged?
8. Speak about the moment when Nick Carraway reached his estate.
9. Cite the extracts of the text that made you smile.
10. Be ready to speak about major historical and cultural references:
- The Civil War (7);
- The Great War (7);
- “shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew” (8);
- “like the egg in the Columbus story” (9);
- “The Rise of the Colored Empires” by Goddard (7) (“The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy” (1920) by Lothrop Stoddard);
- Cunard and White Star Line (20).