PART I: BEFORE LISTENING AND READING ACTIVITIES
Write a summary to the part 8 of the target reading materials (see Unit 8) to the story.
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PART II. VOCABULARY
Find out the meaning of the following words and expressions before you listen to the tracks.
- beast
- to tame
- of natural charm
- to arrange
- to study under smb’s direction
- occupant
- to be heavy in figure, movement and understanding
- idle
- by nature
- to row on the river.
- to settle down
- to apply oneself to one’s education
- to develop expensive habits
- to take one’s breath away
- to hand out the cash
- to see a great deal of smb
- to have a great respect for smb
- on occasion
- to stir up one’s curiosity
- to take a good look at smb
- to count smb as one of one’s close friends
- gaily
- talk turns upon rowing
- to boast of smth
- wrist
- to draw back
- in a determined way
- across and across
- to keep clear of smb
- fortune-teller
PART III. LISTENING
Task 1. You are going to listen to the 1st part of the 9th chapter of the story. Fill in the gaps with the missing words that are given in the table.
idle under of natural charm look at by nature acquaintances in arranged occupants settled down
habits respect taken my breath away handed out in the habit of occasion stirred up tamed
I did not find it difficult to live the easy, pleasant life of a gentleman about town. I had money to spend, fine clothes to wear, amusements in plenty, and the society of Herbert and his circle of ______________________.
He took me to visit his father—a grey-haired gentleman _______________________________—and it was ____________________that I should go to his house each day to study ______________ his direction. I was supplied with a pleasant room in the house; and I was introduced to the __________________ of two other similar rooms, by name Drummle and Startop.
Bentley Drummle came of a rich family and was heavy ________ figure, movement, and understanding; he was also ____________, proud, and suspicious ________________. Startop was an easy-going fellow, as delicate as a woman in face and figure.
Herbert was my closest friend and companion. In the evenings we four young men were often out, rowing on the river. I was pretty good at this exercise and, as Drummle and Startop had each a boat, I bought one too, and presented Herbert with a half-share in it.
These were the surroundings among which I ____________________and applied myself to my education. I soon developed expensive ____________, and began to spend an amount of money that, a month or two earlier, would have ______________________________________.
As Mr. Wemmick had told me, it was he who “_______________________the cash”—when instructed to do so by my guardian—and so I saw a great deal of him, and quickly grew to like him. He had a great ________________ for my guardian, who practised largely as a criminal lawyer, and who was something of a power in the Courts of the city.
On one _____________________, when I had gone to him for money, Wemmick was a little mysterious in his remarks and _____________________my curiosity regarding Mr. Jaggers.
“Have you dined with Mr. Jaggers yet?” he asked.
“Not yet.”
“Well,” said Wemmick, “when you do, take a good _______________his housekeeper.”
“Shall I see something very unusual?”
“Yes,” replied Wemmick, “you’ll see a wild beast ______________. I expect he’ll invite you tomorrow—in fact, he told me so this afternoon when he heard you were coming. He’s going to ask your friends, too. Three of them, aren’t there?”
Although I was not _______________________counting Drummle as one of my close friends, I answered, “Yes.”
“Well, just you look out for his housekeeper,” Wemmick repeated. “It’ll give you some idea of Mr. Jaggers’ powers.”
It fell out as he had said it would. I was invited to go with my three friends and dine with my guardian at his house in Soho.
Task 2. Listen to the track 9_02 and decide which of the statements are true (T) and which are false (F).
1. Pip’s guardian, to his surprise, seemed greatly interested in Drummle_____________
2. The housekeeper was a woman of about fifty_____________
3. Pip watched his guardian all through the meal______________
4. Dinner went off gaily enough____________
5. The talk then turned upon rowing__________
6. Pip began to boast of the strength of his arms and wrists______________
7. Molly was Drummle’s sister______________
8. Pip’s guardian was a fortune-teller___________
9. Pip had seen the last of Drummle__________
10. In the days ahead Pip was to grow to hate the name of Bentley Drummle__________
PART IV. AFTER LISTENING AND READING ACTIVITIES
Answer the following questions:
1. Did Pip find it difficult to live the easy, pleasant life of a gentleman about town?
2. Had Pip money to spend, fine clothes to wear, amusements in plenty?
3. Who was Bentley Drummle?
4. Who was Herbert?
5. Was it difficult for Pip to develop expensive habits?
6. Who had to hand out the cash for Pip?
7. What did Mr. Wemmick tell Pip one day?
8. Whom has Pip taken with him to dine at Mr. Jaggers’?
9. Where were they going to dine?
10. Was Pip’s guardian interested in Drummle?
11. Who was Molly?
12. What was the evening like that day?
13. What did Mr. Jaggers ask Molly to do? What for?
PART V. TRANSLATION
Translate these sentences from English into your mother tongue.
1. I did not find it difficult to live the easy, pleasant life of a gentleman about town. I had money to spend, fine clothes to wear, amusements in plenty, and the society of Herbert and his circle of acquaintances.
2. He took me to visit his father—a grey-haired gentleman of natural charm—and it was arranged that I should go to his house each day to study under his direction. I was supplied with a pleasant room in the house; and I was introduced to the occupants of two other similar rooms, by name Drummle and Startop.
3. These were the surroundings among which I settled down and applied myself to my education. I soon developed expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that, a month or two earlier, would have taken my breath away.
4. As Mr. Wemmick had told me, it was he who “handed out the cash”—when instructed to do so by my guardian—and so I saw a great deal of him, and quickly grew to like him.
5. Dinner was laid in a finely furnished room. My guardian, to my surprise, seemed greatly interested in Drummle, and began to talk to him as soon as we sat down to table. I was looking at the two, when there came between me and them the housekeeper, with the first dish for the table.
6. She was a woman of about forty, I supposed. Rather tall, graceful of figure and in movement, very pale, with large eyes and a quantity of wild dark hair.
7. I watched her all through the meal. I was puzzled by the fact that I was sure I had seen that same hair and those same eyes on someone I knew well, but I could not remember who it was. She kept her eyes on my guardian all the time she was in the room, like a dog waiting for its master’s command.
8. Dinner went off gaily enough. The talk then turned upon rowing, and Drummle began to boast of the strength of his arms and wrists. The housekeeper was clearing the table, when suddenly Mr. Jaggers clapped his large flat hand on the woman’s, like a trap, as she stretched it across the table.
9. “Shall we say that he interests me,” was the answer. “But I think you would do well to keep clear of him. If I was a fortune-teller—”
10. About a month after that, Drummle’s time with Mr. Pocket was up for good, and he went home to his family. I thought I had seen the last of him, but in the days ahead I was to grow to hate the name of Bentley Drummle.
PART VI. SELF-STUDY WORK
1. Listen to one of the tracks and practice recording yourself.