Упр.4 Unit 6 Reader ГДЗ English Кузовлев 10-11 класс
4. Here is an extract from the play Pygmalion* by G. B. Shaw. * The play was written in 1913 and since that time it has remained very popular all over the world.1) What are the main characters in the following scene?
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4. Here is an extract from the play Pygmalion* by G. B. Shaw. * The play was written in 1913 and since that time it has remained very popular all over the world.
1) What are the main characters in the following scene? (reading for specific information)
London at 11.15 pm. Heavy summer rain. People running for shelter into the portico of St. Paultasks church, among them a lady and her daughter.
The daughter. Itaskm getting cold. What can Freddy be doing all this time? Hetasks been gone twenty minutes.
The mother. Not so long. But he ought to have got us a cab by this.
Freddy rushes in out of the rain and comes between them closing an umbrella. 1_
The daughter. Well haventaskt you got a cab?
Freddy. Theretasks not one to be had for love or money.
The mother. You really are very helpless, Freddy. Go again and dontaskt come back until you have found a cab.
Freddy. Oh, very well. [He opens his umbrella and runs along the street but comes into collision with a flower girl who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket out of her hands. 2_]
The flower girl. Oh, Freddy: look whtask ytask gowin.
Freddy. Sorry. [He rushes off.]
The flower girl. Тэ-оо banches о voylets trod into the mad. [She sits down sorting her flowers. She is not at all a romantic figure. 3_]
The mother. How do you know that my sontasks name is Freddy?
The flower girl. Ow, eez уэ-ооа, san, is e? Wal, eed ran awy athaht pyin. Will ye-oo py me f them? [4_]
The mother. This is for your flowers. Now tell me how you know that young gentlemantasks name.
The flower girl. I didntaskt. [5_]
The gentleman. Phew!
The flower girl. So cheer up, Captain; and buy a flower off a poor girl.
The gentleman. Itaskm sorry. I haventaskt any change. [6_]
Stop: heretasks three half-pence, if thattasks any use to you.
The flower girl. [7_] Thank you, sir.
The bystander. You be careful: give him a flower for it. Theretasks a policeman here behind taking down every word youtaskre saying. [8___]
The flower girl. I aint done nothing wrong by speaking to the gentleman.
The note taker. Oh, shut up, shut up. Do I look like a policeman? The flower girl. Then what did you take down my words for? How do I know whether you took me down right? You just show me what youtaskve wrote about me. [9_] Whattasks that? That aint proper writing. I cantaskt read that.
The note taker. I can. [10_] "Cheer ap, Keptin; ntask baw ya flahr orf a pore gel."
2) A play consists of two types of words: the words of characters and stage directions. What are stage directions for? What information do they add?
3) Put the stage directions in the proper place, (reading for detail)
A. Trying his pockets.
B. The note taker opens his book and holds it under her nose.
C. Reads, reproducing her pronunciation exactly.
D. He is a young man of twenty, in evening dress, very wet round the ankles (лодыжки).
E. Disappointed, but thinking three halt-pence better than nothing.
F. She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps twenty, hardly older. She wears a little sailor hat that has seldom if ever been brushed. Her hair needs washing badly. She has a brown skirt with an apron. Her boots are much the worse for wear.
G. Here, with apologies, is an attempt to represent her dialect.
H. A blinding flash of lightning, followed by thunder, orchestrates the incident.
I. An elderly gentleman rushes into the shelter and closes his umbrella.
J. All turn to the man who is taking notes.
4) The flower girl is speaking the Cockney accent. It is used to this day by low-class inhabitants of Londontasks East End.
Find in the text all dialect words and tasktranslatetask them into standard English.
5) Why is the play called Pygmalion?
6) Once G. B. Shaw suggested that the word fish should be written ghoti. He explained it this way:
gh is pronounced as in rough
о as in women
ti as in station
Try to make such words of your own. Present them to the class and see if your classmates can read them correctly.