Chapters 2-3

Chapter 1

I. Word combinations and word expressions for intensive study:

to fit the gesture to the word to keep accounts to get over smth. to run a theatre to design sets to go on tour to have an appointment three times running to know smth. inside and out to be in love with smb. to make a mess of smth. (not) to have a notion of smth. to put smb. at one's ease to take a weight off one's mind to feel at home

to be in point of fact to set one's mind to smth to break oneself of habit to see (no) point in smth. to adopt a military bearing to play to capacity to take liberties with smb./smth. to be keen on/about smth. to have the nerve to do smth. (not) to do without smb./smth. to take smb. too seriously to take care not to do smth. to be partial to/about smth. to have one's money's worth to do smth. from a desire to please

Reproduce the situations in which these phrases are used.

II. Recall the menu of the lunch.

III. Learn the passage describing Michael's portrait by heart.

IV. Comment on: 'it's the actors the public go to see, not the play'.

V. Translate the following into English:

1. Heкоторые фирмы в Сити ведут свои дела так, что волосы дыбом становятся.

2. Джулия краем уха слушала, что говорила Марджери.

3. Джулия, однако, настаивала, чтобы ее спальня была такой, как ей нравиться, и поэтому она перевезла ее целиком.

4. «Бедный ягненок, тонкий, как травинка», - подумала про себя Джулия.

5. Актеры начали вносить в тексты «отсебятину» и слишком вольно обходиться с текстом.

6. Ты знаешь этот тип людей, которые говорят всякие остроумные слова и обводят людей вокруг пальца.

7. От нас, актеров, теперь требуют невероятного.

VI. Make the list of the chief events in the chapter.

VII. Retell the chapter.

Chapters 2-3

I. Word combinations and word-expressions for intensive study:

(not) to look well in the costume to gain experience to let smb. down to drive smb. like a slave to comply with one's demands to get an engagement to grow popular with smb. to take any amount of trouble to hang about to turn one's head with flattery to be a born actress to get rid of smb./smth. to go straight to the point not to sleep a wink to come down to brass tacks to do smth. before one can say knife to have the makings of smb. а to be taken by one's enthusiasm to be a hit

in due course to make a packet to put by (money) to get mixed up with smb. to make a nuisance of oneself to be bound to do smth. to let oneself in for smth. to tell a thumping lie a millstone round one's neck to be hard up the tempers grow frayed to clench one's jaw to wring one's heart to look like a piece of cheese to have a fat chance to raise money one's got to know the ropes to be pleased by approval to be cast down by censure.