Discussion

Discuss the events of the extract you have read:

a. You have known that Judy got a scholarship for marked proficiency in English with general excellency in other lines. But Daddy–Long–Legs forbade her to accept this scholarship. Why?

b. Pay attention to the tone of the letter in which Jerusha informed Daddy that she would accept her scholarship. How does it characterize Judy?

c. Why did Judy call Daddy a stranger?

d. Is it good or bad to have two coats? Remember the episode where Judy said that it was a dreadful thing to have two coats! Is it really so? What for did she mention it?

e. How did Judy understand that Daddy allowed her to visit Julia?

f. Judy described in detail what dresses she and her friends had for the Founder’s dance. Do you agree with the following Judy’s words: “One can’t help thinking, Daddy, what a colorless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman, whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge – is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”?

g. “I love the furs and the necklace and the Liberty scarf and the gloves

and handkerchiefs and books and purse – and most of all I love you!” – Was she sincere when she said she loved him? Or maybe she loved him for his presents? What’s your opinion?

h. What impressed Judy most of all at Julia’s?

i. What secret of happiness did Judy discover?

j. Why did Judy decide to become a Fabian?

k. What was Judy’s attitude to sports? Maybe she followed the motto: Healthy mind in healthy body? Is it popular nowadays to take care of your health?

l. Why did Judy refuse to go to Europe?

m. What did Master Jervie advice Judy to do this summer? Why did they quarrel?

n. Was Judy spending three weeks on Lock Willow Farm after Magnolia? Why did she choose to go to the Adirondacks? Did she get the permission from her Daddy to go there? How did she explain her choice to Daddy?

Unit 8. (3^rd October – Thursday morning)

Vocabulary work

Exercise 1.

a) Consult a dictionary and translate the following words from the extract. Practice their pronunciation paying attention to stresses.

Frontispiece, abstruse, pious, exuberant, purgatory, abolish, obedient, resentful, ordeal, incorrigible, alliterative, conducive, limp, sniffy, scold, dingy, peddle, apathetic, gratitude, companionable, a tangible flesh-and-blood person, bewildered, precious, somber.

b) Listen to your partners’ reading of the above exercise. Correct their mistakes.

Exercise 2. A suggested list of useful expressions. Learn them and recall the situations from the extract in which they are used. Use them in your own examples.

to accept an invitation

to live to see smth

to be in the best of taste

to sit with hands folded

to put smth in one’s mind

to turn one’s nose up

to faint upon the step

to earn for oneself

to give up smth

to be dazed

to put smb on his/her feet

Exercise 3. Make these sentences complete, recalling the situations they are used in the extract.

1. I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just ….

2. And suppose you could only read it on this condition: that you would never forget it, but …

3. I suppose I could keep on being a writer even if I did marry. The two professions are not necessarily ….

4. You men ought to leave intrigue to women; you haven't …

5. Don't be nervous, Daddy – I haven't lost my mind; I'm merely quoting…

6. This is the first love-letter I ever wrote. Isn't it funny that I …?

Exercise 4. Here are some sentences from the text. Explain what the words in bold type mean.

1. However, Daddy, don't take this new affection for the J.G.H. too literally.

2. We do arrive fast in America!

3. Don't you think it would be interesting if you really could read the story of your life--written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?

4. Our heads begin to nod at nine o'clock, and by nine-thirty the pen drops from our nerveless grasp.

5. I have quite a feeling of tenderness for it as I look back through a haze of four years.

6. It gives me a sort of vantage point from which to stand aside and look at life.

Exercise 5. Say it in Ukrainian.

1. Life is monotonous enough at best; you have to eat and sleep about
so often. But imagine how deadly monotonous it would be if nothing
unexpected could happen between meals.

2. I know lots of girls (Julia, for instance) who never know that they
are happy. They are so accustomed to the feeling that their senses
are deadened to it; but as for me – I am perfectly sure every moment
of my life that I am happy. And I'm going to keep on being,
no matter what unpleasant things turn up. I'm going to regard them
(even toothaches) as interesting experiences, and be glad to know what
they feel like.

3. Master Jervie and that editor man were right; you are most convincing
when you write about the things you know. And this time it is about
something that I do know – exhaustively. Guess where it's laid?
In the John Grier Home! And it's good, Daddy, I actually believe
it is – just about the tiny little things that happened every day.

4. I wish you were here to climb the hills with me. I am missing you dreadfully, Jervie dear, but it's a happy kind of missing; we'll be together soon. We belong to each other now really and truly, no make-believe. Doesn't it seem queer for me to belong to someone at last? It seems very, very sweet.

Exercise 6. Write a summary of what happened to Jerusha from 3^rd October to Thursday morning.

Exercise 7. Explain or comment on the following:

1. I never heard one word of real talk from the time we arrived until we left.

2. If you just want a thing hard enough and keep trying, you do get it in the end.

3. Isn’t it fun to work – or don’t you ever do it?

4. I am afraid I have a tendency to make over my ideas to match his!

5. You…will look at it from a wordly point of view and not just a sympathetic human point of view.

Exercise 8. Describe Judy’s meeting Daddy-Long-Legs.

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