The man with the scar

Vocabulary and Grammar Tasks

[Link] scar from the temple to the chin, a good-humoured face, far from clean, now and then, an acquaintance, to
hold out a lottery ticket to someone, to try by court-martial, to be sentenced to be shot ,to spend, bad luck, to
keep smb. waiting, to attend the execution, to perfom the formalites, regular features, to stab, high-flown
language, due to.
1) he man could get the scar in the accident. It could be a car crash. He could also get it in a fight with somebody.
He could save somebody's life.
2.
1)good-humored
2) far from
3)now and then
4) an acquaintance
5)next to
6)without delay
7) to attend
8)regular
9) frontier
10) due to
3.
1)c
2)a
3)b
4)a
5)b
6)b
7)b
8)b
4.
A: 1) I asked, 'Has it been caused by a sabre or by a fragment of shell?' 2) He told me, 'I have never had such bad
luck in my life.' 3) Our friend asked the officer commanding the squad, 'What the devil were they keeping him
waiting for?' 4) The officer said, 'The general commanding the troops wishes to attend the execution and they
await his arrival.' 5) The general asked the condemned men, 'Is there anything they wish before the execution
takes place?'
B: 1) The author's companion asked the ex general how life was. The general answered not so bad and added that
business was not too good, but it might be worse. The companion asked what the general would have and he
answered a brandy.2) The officer whispered that she was dead and the rebel crossed himself. The general asked
why he had done that. The answer was that he had loved her.3) I asked at last but how then he had got the scar.
The answer was that had been due to a bottle of ginger ale that had burst when he had been opening it. I told that
I had never liked it.
5.1) Nobody noticed him. 2) They usually do such things without delay in these countries, you know. 3) I think
he knew what was coming to him when they caught him. 4) The guards led them into the courtyard of the jail and
placed them against the wall. 5) They performed usual formalities.
B: 1) He was greeted by my companion. 2) He was captured together with his staff and tried by court-martial. 3)
Matches were used for chips. 4) A knife was drawn by him from his ragged shirt. 5) The girl was laid on the
ground.
7.
1 ale (a – тому що одна порція)
2 for a while in silence (вирази з of – the)
3 into the cell (the після прийменників, перше-сталий вираз)
4 soul of my heart (сталі вирази)
Reading
1.1) The writer noticed the man on account of the scar. The scar spoke of a terrible wound from sabre or shell.
2) The man with the scar had round, fat and good-humoured face with small features and his face went oddly
with his large and fat body. He was a powerful man of more than common height wearing a very shabby grey
suit, a khaki shirt and an old sombrero. He was far from clean.
3) He used to come into the Palace Hotel at Guatemala City every day at cocktail time and tried to sell lottery
tickets.
4) The author's companion told the author the story of the man. He called him a ruffian and a bandit, but not a
bad fellow though drinking a lot.
5) He was an exile from Nicaragua.
6) Because he was a ruffian and a bandit. He took part in a rebellion and was the general of the rebellious troops.
7) He spent the night in jail playing poker with the others.
8) They were led into the courtyard of the jail and placed against a wall, the five of them side by side with the
firing squad facing them. There was a pause because they awaited the general commanding arrival.
9) The man's last wish was to say good-bye to his wife. It was easy to fulfil because she was waiting at the prison
door.
10) The wife was in black, with a veil over her hair, and her face was dead white. She was hardly more than a
girl, a slim creature, with little regular features and enormous eyes.
11) He pressed his lips to hers and drew a knife from his shirt to stab her in the neck. Because he loved her.
12) Because it was a noble gesture. He ordered the solders to take his car and drive him to the frontier.
13) The man got the scar due to a bottle that burst when he was opening a bottle of ginger ale.
2. This story is about the life of the man with the scar from the temple to the chin from the burst bottle of ginger
ale. But everyone thought it was from the sabre or shell. He was a military man but now he is a hard drinker,
walking from bar to bar and selling lottery tickets. He was tried by court-martial and sentenced to be shot, but he
avoided his death after killing his wife (because of love).
3. 1) Yes,they do, appearances usually reflect the personality. His appearance shows that he lost his way. he was
a general and now is a hard drinker.
2) Yes, it was bad luck [Link], I do, I believe in omens.
3) Because he loved her and didn’t want her to suffer. It was sick love. It was not a noble gesture to my mind.
4) Because he wanted to make his story interesting. The romantic thing was love to his wife and the
commonplace things in the story were bar scenes.
5)Yes,I do (life is a play and we are actors)
6)The key sentence of the story :’It was a noble gesture” he said at last, 'I cannot execute
this man’
7). He was a general and now is a hard drinker. He was top high and now he is in the bottom.
8) It is strange and means that all the problems are from the alcohol.
9)No, it isn’t. I didn’t liked it at all. I was a bit shocked.
THE LUNCHEON
Vocabulary and grammar
[Link] catch sight, beside smth., how time flies!, to keep body and soul together , manage smth., to be startled, to
reassure, generously, on the menu, to overload (stomach), digestion, heart sank, never mind, mouth had watered,
couldn’t afford, not in the least, to borrow, it was all the same to me, to have a snack, the bill, tip, follow smb’s
example, to have revenge, to weigh.
[Link] flies
[Link] the menu
3. overload
[Link]
[Link]’t afford
6. had often watered
7. tip
8. have had my revenge
3. 1) beside
2) to keep body and soul together
3) manage well enough
4) was startled
5) wouldn’t mind
6) to borrow from
7) it was all the same to me
4.A1)- c) Present Perfect
2)-d) Past Simple
3)-b) Past Continuous;
4)-a) Past Perfect
B1)had expected 2)was being cooked 3) turned 4) had absolutely forbidden 5)were waiting 6) have filled 7) have
had 8)walked
5.A
1. a)без артикля (вирази з прийомами їжі без артикля)
b) a (словосполучення з артиклем )
2.a) (незлічуваний іменник без артикля)
b) the(конкретний, зустр. другий раз)
c) the(конкретний)
B:1)без
2) а
3)без
4)без(незліч)
5)а
6)без
7)без
8)the
Reading
1.1) [Link] caught sight of the woman at the play. It was long since he had last seen her.
2.)Yes ,he did. He was living in Paris at that time .He was earning barely enough money to keep body and soul
together.
3) .She had read his book and wrote to him. She would like him to give a little luncheon in at Foyot’s restaurant.
Because Foyot’s is a restaurant at which the French senators eat and it was so far beyond his means.
4)He agreed to meet her at Foyot’s because he was flattered.
5) She was not so young, about forty, not really attractive and talkative. White and large even teeth were
unusual about her appearance.
6) The writer was prepared to be an attentive listener because she was inclined to talk about him.
7) He was startled when the menu was brought because the prices were a great deal higher than he expected. She
reassured him that she never ate anything for luncheon.
8) She repeatedly said throughout the luncheon that she never ate more than one thing
9) She ordered salmon first. His heart sank because she ordered expensive caviar and he could not afford it but
he couldn’t tell her that.
10) He ordered the cheapest dish on the menu .She said that she thought that he was unwise to eat meat.
11) She was going to drink white wine.
12) She talked about art, literature and music while she ate the salmon and the caviar.
13) She said wanted to have asparagus because she should be sorry to leave Paris without having some of them.
He wanted her think that he didn’t like asparagus.
14) Because he was afraid that he had not had enough money to pay the bill. He decided to say that his money
had been stolen.
15) While they were waiting for the coffee , the head waiter came up to them bearing a large basket full of huge
peaches.
16) She said she believed in that one should always get up from a meal feeling one could eat a little more.
17) He could pay the bill. He had enough money for a quite inadequate tip.
18 )She said he was humorist because he would eat nothing for dinner that night but he wasn’t a humorist.
19) Yes, he has. He has had his revenge at last. That day she weighed twenty one stone.
2. 1) I guess the woman was from a rich family and she used to expensive things and food or it is her way of life
- to eat at somebody's expense. 2) I think she wrote to the author because she liked the book and wanted to see
how the author looked like. I don't think many people send letters to writers now. I couldn't write to a writer. 3) I
think Foyot's used to be her favorite restaurant but now she couldn't afford it or she always dreamt to eat there.
That's why she ordered the most expensive things or she is just selfish and uses men. I guess it was a trick to say
repeatedly that she never ate anything at luncheon. 4) I think the author describes the woman's teeth to show that
she eats too much. 5) The author's attitude to the reading public is ironical and skeptical. 6) In my opinion, S.
Maugham tries to convey a message. The story was sad. I felt sorry for the man.
This story is about the writer and his fan. She wrote him a letter about his book, and then she offered him to
meet in an expensive restaurant for a chat when she would be in Paris. The writer couldn't say no, he was
flattered so he hoped to have a modest lunch. But the woman ordered the most expensive dishes in that
restaurant though she said every time that she never ate more than one thing. He spent all his money, but he
thought he had had his revenge because she became fatter.
A FRIEND IN NEED
1. to judge the person, to draw a consilion, to puzzle, to ocurre, to be capable of smth., wrinkled, to raise one’s
voice, not hurt a fly, to wave hand, a namesake, to sip gin, with the exception of, to think a lot of smb., to give
little chuckle, to be down and out, to commit suicide, all to pieces, the currents, shocked, to shrug one’s
shoulders, to wish good luck, in vain, to ruin health, to be drowned.
2. 1) draw conclusions
2) was capable of
3) wrinkled
4) waved hos hand
5) sipped
6) commit suicide
7) current
8) shrug my shoulders
9) in vain
10) was drowned
3. 1) judge 2) occurred 3) raise his voice 4) a namesake of 5) thougt a lot of 6) down and out 7) puzzled 8) ruined
his health
4. 1)pleasing 2)pleased 3)frightened 4)frightening 5)loving 6)loved 7) startling 8) startled 9)surprising
10)surprised
5. A 1) питання в Present Perfect Continuous (акцент на процесі, дія триває певний період)
2) питання в Present Perfect (акцент на результаті, дія завершилася)
B
3) has drunk
4) has been ruining
5) has been playing
6)I have seen
7)have just seen
8)have just seen&*
9)has swum **
10)I have been swimming
6. … he said, 'I have had bad luck at cards for some time. I haven't a penny. I have pawned everything I have. I
can't pay my hotel bill and they won't give me anymore credit. I am down and out. If I can't get a job, I'll have to
commit suicide.'
7. 1) I used to play...2)...he used to swim...3)...money used to come...4)...Mr. Burton used to come down...5) ...he
used to be an athlete
8.A 1) We happened to be both staying…, 2) I happened to read…, 3) I happened to meet…, 4) [Link]
happened to come…, 5) I happened to come across...
B 1) He seemed to have an… 2) They seemed to be a… 3) He seemed to have a…4) His suggestion seemed to
take him…, 5) he seemed to have been drinking more…

Reading
1.
1. The thoughts that the longer he know people, the more they puzzled him: his oldest friends were precisely
those about whom could say that he knows nothing about them occurred to the author when he read in the
newspaper about Mr. Burton's death.
2. [Link] interested the writer because one day he gave him a big surprise.
3. The writer was introduced to [Link] at the British [Link] used to play bridge together.
4. The writer knew [Link] very little. He knew [Link] was a merchant and he had been in Japan for many
years. He seemed to be popular at the club where he played bridge and players described him as one of the
[Link] had a wife and two daughters.
5. He was a tiny man, very slender, with white hair, a red, wrinkled face and blue eyes. He was always neatly and
calmly dressed in accordance with his age and position. His voice was gentle; you could not imagine that he
could raise it in [Link]'s kindliness attracted the writer.
[Link]. Burton told the writer the story of his namesake in the lounge of the Grand Hotel one afternoon.
7. Young Burton wasn't a bad chap. He was always well-dressed and he was handsome in a way, with curly hair
and pink-and-white cheeks. Women thought a lot of him. There was no harm in him, he was only wild and he
drank too much. He was quite a remarkable player. He seemed to have an instinct about the cards.
8. Young Burton came to him when he was broke and asked for a job
[Link] told [Link] that he had had bad luck at cards for some time. He hadn't a penny. He'd pawned
everything he had. He couldn't pay his hotel bill and they wouldn't give him any more credit. He was down and
out, he went broke and there was no more money coming from home and he wanted to work.
[Link]. Burton suddenly had an idea of young Burton's swimmimg from there round the beacon and landing at
the creek of Tarumi.
11. Young Burton was taken aback because he used to be a good swimmer and now he was not in very good
condition.
[Link] Burton was drowned because he'd ruined his health by drink. The currents round the beacon were
more than he could manage.
[Link] was a little schoked
14. Mr Burton hadn't got a vacancy in his office at that moment.
2. Mr Burton was a merchant. The writer knew him very little but he gave the writer a great surprise as both his
appearance and his manner gave the impression of a very different man who was not capable of killing a man
only wishing a good luck in a swim in order to offer him a job. One could not even imagine that [Link] could
raise his voice in anger, even his smile was kind. He was a tiny little fellow, very slender, with white hair, a red
face much wrinkled, and blue eyes. He was about sixty at that time. He was always neatly and quietly dressed.
He had a united and loving family and seemed very kind. [Link]'s kindliness was the chief thing that struck
the writer. There was even something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes. His voice was gentle, he did not talk
very much but told sensible things. He had a quiet, dry humour. He seemed to be popular and he was a man who
attracted you because you felt in him a real love for his fellows. He had charm. But there was nothing
sentimental about him: he liked his game of cards and his cocktail, he could tell a good and spicy story, and in
his youth he used to be an athlete. He was a rich man and he had made every penny himself. One thing that
made you like him was that he was so small and frail; he aroused your instincts of protection. There was a feeling
that he would not hurt a fly. His namesake, Lenny Burton, about 35 years old, wasn't a bad chap. He was always
well-dressed and he was handsome in a way, with curly hair and pink-and-white cheeks. Women thought a lot of
him. There was no harm in him, he was only wild as he drank too much. Fellows like him always do. A bit of
money used to come in for him once a quarter and he made a bit more by card-playing. Actually, he was the best
bridge player, quite a remarkable player. He seemed to have an instinct about the cards. It was uncanny as one
may think. But he went broke as he had had bad luck at cards for some time. He hadn't a penny. He'd pawned
everything he had. He couldn't pay his hotel bill and they wouldn't give him any more credit. He was down and
out, he was all to pieces, there was no more money coming from home and he wanted to work. If he couldn't get
a job, he'd have to commit suicide, so he came to see [Link] in his office one day and asked him for a job. He
used to be a good swimmer though he went pale and was taken aback when [Link] offered him to swim
round the beacon, hesitated but agreed and drowned as he was in bad condition because of alcohol that ruined his
health when wanted to get a job. But Mr. Burton hadn't got a vacancy in his office that moment and told a story
with a chuckle and rubbing his chin.
4. 1) The writer would never have believed that Mr. Burton was capable of such an action if he had not heard the
story from his own lips because Mr. Burton seemed kind and there was a feeling that he wouldn't hurt a fly. I
think that the first impressions of a person are not always right and the proverb Appearances are deceitful
chracterizes his behaviour. 2) Young Burton's had never done anything in his life for his thirty five years of life
because he had an idle and vacant life playing cards while he was lucky. 3) Yes, there is an evidence in the story
that Mr. Burton was not all that kind and gentle: he sent his namesake for death with a smile and wishing him
good luck. He promised his namesake a job if the latter swam round the beacon because he had no vacancy at
that time and knew that the namesake wouldn't survive. I guess, yes, he knew he would be drowned but he came
to the creek to be sure. 4) Mr. Burton told the writer the story to amuse him. He said it was rather a funny story
because it was so for him. He gave a little mild chuckle when the writer asked him if he had known that the man
would be drowned because he knew he would but he didn't care. 5) The story is about the complexity of human
nature and good and bad sides of the character though the appearance is telling the opposite beneath the surface
of the narrative.I think the proverb in the title of the story means that this story is about a friend who didn't help
and I think the same now that I have read the story. 'The friend in need' could have naturally be expected to help
in that situation. I would tell it was cruel to do such actions. 6) I was a little shocked like the writer.
This story is about a merchant, [Link] and his namesake Lenny Burton, who had had a bad luck in cards and
came to him to ask for a job but he couldn't do anything except swimming. [Link] told him if he swam round
the beacon and landed at the creek of Tarumi, he would give him a job. But Lenny was drowned because he
ruined his health by alcohol and was in bad condition. [Link] didn't even feel sorry as he hadn't got a
vacancy in his office at that moment.

LOUISE
Vocabulary and grammar
1. behind one’s back, live alone, take for smth., worshiped, to take care off, to propose, to be convinced, to
be well off, give in, outlive, not stir a finger, to bring up, to be out of the question, to give way to grief, to turn
smth into, to have the time one’s life, to be hard on smb., to sacrifice oneself, to go out, to lead a life of one’s
own, to postpone for an indefinite time, to bury, pity for smb, to get some pity for someone, to be as good as
one’s word, to fix the date, a heart attack.
2.1) turn the mask into the face
2) were convinced
3) gave in
4) survive
5) bring up
6) turned …into
7) to go out
8) to lead a life of her own
9) sacrificing
10) have buried / bury
3. 1) behind my back
2) not living me alone
3) worshiped
4) was well off
5) had the time of her life
6) postponed
7) to take care off
8) was as good as her word
4A
1-b
2-a
3-b
4-a
4.B
Louise ask smb to lunch, Iris would not go out, to listen to, Iris would not say a disagreeable thing about smb
behind smb's back, Iris would not of desert, Louise would have a heart attack, Louise would go to al the most
lively parties, Iris would not marry.
5.A
1-b
2-a
3-a
4-b
5-a
6-b
B
1 fall down dead
2 spend the winter
3flirt with tall slim young men
4do a single thing
5fill with tears
6 do a great deal
7 to give up their pleasures
8fly into a passion
9tell her
10 to marry the young man

Reading
1.
1) They knew each other almost intimately for five an twenty years.
2) She thought him a brutal cynical and vulgar fellow.
3)She was afraid when delicate girl with large and melancholy eyes.
4)She had to take care of herself because of a weak heart.
5)Parents agreed to the marriage because he was rich and promised, to do everything in the world for Louise .
6) Tom Maitland was a big strong fellow, very good-looking and a fine athlete. He adored Louise. He was ready
for anything for her sake. She was the most gentle wife a man could have.
7)She walked eight miles on the expedition and the author noted that she is stronger than one might think.
8)He caught his death of [Link] left her a comfortable fortune and a daughter.
9)Friends thought that she would follow poor Tom Maitland to the grave .
10)Her a second husband was a fine fellow and he was not at all badly off.
11) For the next two or three Louise managed, in spite of her weak heart to go beautifully dressed to all the
most lively parties to gamble very heavily ,to dance and even to flirt with tall slim young man .
12)He was killed at war.
13) In order to distract her mind she turned her villled at Monte Carlo into a hospital for convalescent officers.
14) When the war came to end ,Louise settled in London.
15) Iris, came to live with her mother to take care of her
16) Iris was a nice girl. She had been brought up with the knowledge that her mother's health was very weak. As
a child she had never been allowed to make a noise. She had always realized that her mother must on no account'
be upset.
17) Iris preferred to stay at home rather than go out because the moment she started off anywhere she could have
one of her heart attacks,
18) because Iris felt that she could not desert her mother.
19) The author managed to make Louise agree to Iris's marriage with his words that Louise was bluffing all the
time and that she was the most selfish and terrible woman he had ever known, she ruined the lives of her two
men and would also ruin the life of her daughter.
20). On the wedding-day, at ten o'clock in the morning, Louise, that devilish woman, had one of her heart attacks
- and died.

2.
1-eyes
2-woman
3-statement
4-spirit
5-thing
6-fellow
7-fellow
8-girl
9-young man
 2. This story is about Louise, who was the most selfish and terrible woman, bluffing all the time, that she
had a weak heart and health. She outlived two husbands, but first she didn't let her daughter marry. Then agreed,
but died on her daughter's wedding day, blaming and forgiving her.
3. 1) I think Louise could always find a man to take care of her because she manipulated with her weak
health and some men tend to take care and protect the weak. She was also beautiful and looked fragile, maybe
that's why her two husbands gave up everything to make her happy. 2) Her second husband have to brace himself
now and then with a drink for his day's work of Louise's husband maybe because she didn't love him and he had a
stressful job, he needed attention. It was a work of a soldier. 3) Louise turned her villa at Monte Carlo into a
hospital because she wanted to meet new men and to show that she suffered and needed something to distract. No,
she didn't really mean to distract her mind. 4) She didn't look at forty a day more than twenty- five because she
was cared all the time and did nothing hard in her life. 5) Louise's health wasn't really very weak as she could walk
eight miles on an expedition and I agree with writer that she "carried out a bluff for twenty-five years". I also agree
with the writer that she was "the most selfish and monstrous woman" because she really "ruined the lives of those
two unhappy men she married" and was going to ruin the life of her daughter. I guess she never loved all of them.
7) The final sentence of the story means that she blamed her daughter though she supposedly forgave her and there
was a feeling that Louise died on the wedding day on purpose to show how they all and especially the writer were
mistaken. 8) My personal reaction to the story is that I was sad again.
4. 1) I think Louise could always find a man to take care of her because she manipulated with her weak health and
some men tend to take care and protect the weak. she was also beautiful and looked fragile, maybe that's why her
two husbands gave up everything to make her happy. 2) Her second husband have to brace himself now and then
with a drink for his day's work of Louise's husband maybe because she didn't love him and he had a stressful job,
he needed attention. Iit was a work of a bodyguard and a fairy in one. 3) Louise turned her villa at Monte Carlo
into a hospital because she wanted to meet new men and to show that she suffered and needed something to
distract. No, she didn't really mean to distract her mind. 4) She didn't look at forty a day more than twenty- five
because she was cared all the time and did nothing hard in her life. 5) Louise's health wasn't really very weak as
she could walk eight miles on an expedition and I agree with writer that she "carried out a bluff for twenty-five
years". I also agree with the writer that she was "the most selfish and monstrous woman" because she really
"ruined the lives of those two unhappy men she married" and was going to ruin the life of her daughter. I guess she
never loved all of them. 7) The final sentence of the story means that she blamed her daughter though she
supposedly forgave her and there was a feeling that Louise died on the wedding day on purpose to show how they
all and especially the writer were mistaken. 8) My personal reaction to the story is that I was sad again because I
don't like such type of people