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2. There were various motives for murder in this story. Can you explain why Olivia arranged to kill Loren, why Stephen planned to kill Olivia and why Olivia wanted to kill Stephen?

3. Do you feel sympathy for anyone in the story? Why or why not?

4. Imagine that Olivia did not lock herself in the deep freeze, what might be the continuation of the story?

From the Cradle to the Grave

                                        Tea

Pre-reading task:

Before reading the story look at the title and try to predict what the story might be about. What associations does the title bring forth?

Reading:

Read the story carefully and try to understand it in detail. Mind the notes to the text.

Vocabulary focus:

1. Look up and learn the following words.

women-folk                           aforesaid

to admire                               matronly

dilatory                                  domesticity

inarticulate                            ability

innocent                                discretion

flirtations                              subsequent

to disregard                           perpetual

enamoured                            half-mourning

musings                                 porcelain

to detest                                 scores

workshop                              drawn-out

outbreak                                allusion

complacent                            to contrive

2. Make up word combinations by matching the words from A with the words from B.

A.                                                         B.

decent-souled                                     flirtations

comfortable                                        girl

home                                                  consideration

matrimonial                                       approach

irksome                                              questions

unutterable                                         conviction

romantic                                             negation

ruthless                                               suddenness

marriageable                                       legacy

straitened                                            business

remote                                                circle

solicitous                                            thoughts

dilatory                                               cousin

settled                                                 circumstances

innocent                                              mortal

3. Insert the necessary words to complete the sentences.

Irksome, honeymoon, legacy, disapproval, deliverance, domesticity,

mortal, flirtations, allusion, curiosity, mansion, tangle.

1. Her uncle departed this live and bequeathed her a comfortable little ______.

2. They have just got married and now they are spending their ______ in Paris.

3. She was a very rich woman and she lived in a huge ______.

4. For some fellows proposing marriage seems to be a rather ______ business.

5. His most innocent ______ were watched with straining eagerness.

6. James thought that he and Jane will go through the prescribed stages of congratulations, present-receiving and eventual ______.

7. A momentary ______ presented itself, when he noticed the house of his cousin.

8. He passed through a ______ of small streets that led indirectly to her house.

9. You arose not only my ______ but my business instincts.

10. She made no other ______ to food, but talked amusingly about interesting things.

11. No ______ can resist the temptation to have a lot of money.

12. Many of his friends regarded his diletary approach to the married state with a ______.

4. Reproduce the situations from the story where these phrases were used and insert the missing prepositions where necessary.