Pre-reading task:
Before reading the story try to foresee what it might be about.
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.
showery day inclination step-sister
squall to betray injustice
to threaten to shuffle decent
abominable cuttings to anticipate
to shelter fireplace fortnight
reticent restless to miss
inmate warder ambitions
segregation soul courtesy
foible to amass reluctance
brand fortune debt
2. Insert the necessary prepositions.
1. It was Angela’s first visit and it was being made … her own suggestion.
2. It had been an abominable afternoon, culminating … about six o’clock … her father’s attempted suicide.
3. Lord Moping habitually threatened suicide … the occasion … the garden party; that year he had been found black … the face, hanging … his braces … the orangery; some neighbours, who were sheltering there … the rain, set him … his feet again, and before dinner a van had called … him.
4. When Lady Moping’s son came … age he might make any changes that he thought fit.
5. Her husband had betrayed her basely … the one day … the year when she looked … loyal support, and was far better … than he deserved.
6. He is putting … weight, eating and sleeping excellently.
7. It’s only today he’s put … … account … being behindhand … his work.
8. He is not one of the private patients, but we allow him to mix freely … them
9. Mr. Loveday is the looney they have put to look … Papa.
10. “I’ve got very well used … the life, miss. I’m fond … the poor people here, and I think that several … them are quite fond … me.”
11. “You are bond … us … ties that none will forget.”
12. If … any time … the future you should grow tired … your life … the world, there will always be a welcome … you here.
13. “I think that now I shall be here … good.”
3. Insert the necessary words in order to complete the sentences.
sense of injustice reminiscence tips
fixed segregation secondary importance
strangled typed out secret ambitions
inmate attended amassed
1. Lord Moping was not an ordinary … . He lived in a separate wing of the asylum, specially devoted to the … of wealthier lunatics.
2. Lord Moping was … by an elderly little man with full white hair and an expression of great kindness.
3. “Anyway,” said Lord Moping rather petulantly, “it is a matter of … .”
4. “I would do more for you if I could, but you see how I’m … .”
5. “You see, sir, I’ve been helping in the library and I haven’t been able to get all his Lordship’s reports … “.
6. We allow private patients to give him small … for services rendered, and he must by now have … quite a little fortune.
7. Angela left the asylum oppressed by a … .
8. “Well, miss, it sounds ungrateful, but I can’t deny I should welcome a little outing once, before I get too old to enjoy it. I expect we all have our …, and there is one thing I often wish I could do.”
9. Mr. Loveday was smiling whimsically, a gentle self-regarding smile of … .
10. Quite near an abandoned bicycle in the ditch lay the … body of a young woman.
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