Скотта Фицджеральда «Великий Гэтсби»

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  расширение лексического запаса - работа с новыми словами и выражениями;
  
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  понимание прочитанного - ответы на вопросы;
  
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  говорение - монологическая и диалогическая речь, дискуссии и дебаты;
  
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  отработка навыков чтения – театрализованные чтения по ролям;
  
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  овладение основами художественного перевода;
  
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  письмо – написание изложений, сочинений, краткого содержания глав и отдельных эпизодов
  

Почему «Великий Гэтсби»?

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  Which scene in the book you have read is your favourite scene? Describe it briefly and explain why you like it more than other parts of the book?
  
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  Describe one or two scenes in the book which surprised you. Explain briefly what happened, why you were surprised, and why you think the author included these scenes in the book.
  
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  What do you think is the most important event that takes place in the novel? Write an account of it explaining why it is important.
  
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  Who in your opinion is the most interesting character in the book? Why this person is interesting and how he/she contributes to the novel as a whole?
  
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  Why is the book called “The Great Gatsby”? Give an account of Gatsby’s life, his views, principles, friends and enemies and your own opinion of him based on the novel. What do you think is the author’s attitude to him and what makes you think so.
  

1. 
   Who is the narrator of the story?
   
2. 
   From what part of the country does Nick originally come?
   
3. 
   Why has Nick moved to New York?
   
4. 
   How does Nick come to live next door to Jay Gatsby?
   
5. 
   Where had Nick Known Tom Buchanan before?
   
6. 
   What is Jordan Baker’s relationship to Daisy Buchanan?
   
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   What does Nick learn from Jordan when Tom is called to the phone?
   
8. 
   What is the “secret society”?
   
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   What does Nick see Gatsby doing at the end of the chapter?
   

THE GREAT GATSBY

1. 
   What is the Valley Ashes literally?
   
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   Who or what is Dr. T.J. Eckleburg?
   
3. 
   What is George Wilson’s occupation?
   
4. 
   What items does Myrtle purchase in the city?
   
5. 
   What is significant about Myrtle’s questioning whether the dog is a boy or girl?
   
6. 
   Who is Catherine?
   
7. 
   What effect does the change of dress have on Myrtle?
   
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   How does Myrtle talk about the help at the hotel?
   
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   What rumour has Catherine heard about Gatsby?
   
10. 
    How does Catherine explain to Nick the affair of Myrtle and Tom?
    

1. 
   Contrast the green light at the end of Chapter 1 and the gray images of the Valley of Ashes in Chapter 2. What thematic statement do the contrasting images reveal?
   
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   How can George Wilson be said to symbolize the American Dream? Consider his Horatio Alger (“rags-to-riches”) motif, as well as his undying desire to better his situation.
   

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   What kinds of cars does Gatsby use to transport guests?
   
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   How do the guests behave?
   
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   What does Nick wear to the party?
   
4. 
   How does Gatsby interact with the guests?
   
5. 
   What observations does Owl-Eyes make about Gatsby’s library?
   
6. 
   What is Nick’s first opinion of Gatsby?
   
7. 
   What happens at the end of the party when guests are leaving?
   
8. 
   What does Gatsby’s formal gesture of waving farewell remind us of?
   
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   What story does Nick recall about Jordan, and why does it suddenly come up to him?
   
10. 
    How does Nick provide a contrast to Jordan?
    

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   People conducted themselves according to the rules of behaviour associated with an ….
   
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   I went over to his lawn and …..around rather ill at ease among people I didn’t know.
   
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   In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like …among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
   
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   I made an attempt to find my …, but the two or three people of whom I asked his …stared at me in such an amazed way that I went off in the direction of the cocktail table.
   
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   By midnight the ….had increased.
   
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   It was …to ask his name when Jordan looked around and smiled.
   
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   Evidently he lived in this …., for he told me he had just bought a hydroplane.
   
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   “Your face is …..,” he said politely. “Weren’t you in the First Division during the War?”
   
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   I even had a short …with a girl who lived in Jersey City and and worked in the accounting department.
   
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    She was incurably ….But it made no difference to me. …..in women is a thing you never blame deeply.
    

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   What’s the date at this point in the novel?
   
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   What impression is created about Gatsby’s guests through Nick’s memories?
   
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   What is special about the description of Gatsby’s car?
   
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   How does Nick’s opinion of Gatsby change?
   
5. 
   In what country did Gatsby receive a medal “For Valour Extraordinary”?
   
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   Who does Nick meet at lunch with Gatsby?
   
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   What does Gatsby want Jordan to arrange?
   
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   What does Nick learn about Gatsby’s past?
   
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   What does Nick learn about Daisy and her relation to Gatsby?
   
10. 
    What is known about Daisy’s marriage to Tom?
    
11. 
    For how long has Gatsby been pursuing Daisy?
    
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    What phrase keeps coming back to Nick?
    

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   Why does Nick say Gatsby’s house looks like the World’s Fair?
   
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   How does Gatsby’s gardener help prepare for Daisy’s visit?
   
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   Why does Nick turn down Gatsby’s offer to help him make some money?
   
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   How does Gatsby dress and prepare for a rendezvous with Daisy?
   
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   Who is the Finn referred to in Chapter 5?
   
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   How long has it been since Gatsby and Daisy had seen each other?
   
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   What part does nature play in the rendezvous?
   
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   How does Daisy like Gatsby’s house?
   
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   Why does Daisy suddenly start sobbing?
   
10. 
    Who provides the musical background for the love scene?
    

11. 
    What family does Gatsby come from?
    
12. 
    What was his real name?
    
13. 
    What was Dan Cody’s background?
    
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    Who was Ella Kaye?
    
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    How was Gatsby employed by Cody and what jobs did he perform?
    
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    What legacy did Gatsby get from Cody?
    
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    Why did he not receive it?
    
18. 
    What is the significance of threesome dropping in and not waiting for Gatsby?
    
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    How did Tom and Daisy feel at Gatsby’s party?
    
20. 
    How did Tom charge Gatsby with making his money?
    
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    Why did Gatsby want him and Daisy go back to Louisville after she was free and be married from her house?
    
22. 
    Why does Nick call Gatsby sentimental?
    

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   Why does Gatsby dismiss all his servants?
   
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   Whom does he use instead?
   
3. 
   Why do characters decide to go to New York?
   
4. 
   What does Pammy wear when she comes into the room?
   
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   What does Gatsby say about Daisy’s voice?
   
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   What car does Tom drive to New York? Is it of any importance?
   
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   Who rides with Gatsby?
   
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   What comment does Tom make about drug stores?
   
9. 
   Of what does Tom accuse Gatsby?
   
10. 
    How old is Nick at the party?
    
11. 
    What happened to Myrtle Wilson?
    
12. 
    Why did Gatsby stay “on guard” at Daisy’s house?
    

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  “Her voice is full of money”, Gatsby said suddenly. (p.136)
  
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  Wilson had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick…Tom…had a parallel discovery an hour before – and it occurred to me that here was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. (PP.140-141)
  
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  Myrtle Wilson was peering down at the car…her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife. (p.141)
  
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  Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.(pp.141-142)
  
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  “She never loved you…she only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake but in her heart she never loved any one except me!” (p.148)
  
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  “…I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time”. (p.149)
  
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  Wilson was one of these worn-out men…when anyone spoke to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable colourless way. He was his wife’s man and not his own. (p.155)
  
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  Tom and Daisy were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table, with a plate of cold fried chicken between them, and two bottles of ale…They weren’t happy and …yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. (p.165)
  

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   How late does Gatsby stand outside Daisy’s house, waiting to see if she needed him?
   
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   Why does Nick advise Gatsby to go away awhile?
   
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   Where and how had Gatsby met Daisy, according to the story he tells Nick?
   
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   Why didn’t Gatsby return to Daisy immediately after the war?
   
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   When Gatsby returned to Lousiville, where was Daisy?
   
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   Why is the chauffer about to drain the pool?
   
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   Why dies Gatsby ask him to wait?
   
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   After learning who owns the yellow death car, what does Wilson do?
   
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   Why didn’t Nick want to see Jordan that day?
   
10. 
    What made “the holocaust complete” after Gatsby’s body was found in the swimming pool?
    

The Great Gatsby

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   He…………………………across the hall and followed her into the kitchen.
   
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   I’ll ………………………..the vase I broke with a new one.
   
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   Close……………………..of the document showed it to be a forgery.
   
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   He made a fortune ……………………..old ladies out of their life savings.
   
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   The news caused a terrible family…………………………….
   
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   Jessica was …………………………………by the end of the film.
   
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   The children…………………………to come with us.
   
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   I …………………………Helen to stay but she wouldn’t listen.
   
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   We…………………………the doormen to let us in.
   
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    Bryant was …………………….from his post.
    
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    Don’t try to ………………………………..anything from me.
    
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    Carol will take it as an ………………………..if you don’t come to the party.
    
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    The path was ……………………….by long grass.
    
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    The authorities are planning to launch a full-scale…………….into the crash which carried 200 lives.
    
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    An ……………………will be held into the death of an actor, Tom Barnard.
    
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    Well, if he can’t manage he’ll have to be ……………………………………..
    

The Great Gatsby

1. 
   How was Gatsby’s death explained by the press in local newspapers?
   
2. 
   How does Catherine respond to questions about her sister?
   
3. 
   How does Wolfsheim’s letter attempt to explain his not attending the funeral?
   
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   Who is Henry C. Gatz and how does he learn about Gatsby’s death?
   
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   Why does Klipspinger call?
   
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   How does Wolfsheim remember Gatsby?
   
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   Who eventually comes to the funeral?
   
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   Does Daisy send a note or come to the funeral? Why/Why not?
   
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   How does Tom explain his behaviour to Nick?
   
10. 
    Why does Nick break up with Jordan?
    
11. 
    What could Nick mean when he concludes, “This has been a story of the West, after all.”?
    

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  “…I found myself on Gatsby’s side and alone.” P. 186
  
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  Wolfsheim’s letter p. 188
  
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  “It was Gatsby’s father. A solemn old man…” p. 189
  
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  “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead” p. 195
  
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  An old copy of Gatsby’s book pp.196-197
  
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  “Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on” p. 198
  
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  “I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.” P. 203
  
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  “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” p. 204
  

THE GREAT GATSBY

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   “…I thought you were an honest, ………………….person. I thought it was your secret pride.
   
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   So we beat on, boats against the …………….., borne back ceaselessly into the past.
   
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   Ever since he made a success he was very ………………….with me.
   
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   He was so ……………………he had to keep on wearing his uniform because he could not buy some regular clothes.
   
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   “You were his closest friend, so I know you’ll want to come to his ……………this afternoon.
   
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   Most of those reports were a ………………. – grotesque, circumstantial, eager and untrue.
   
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   It was Gatsby’s father, a ………………old man, very helpless and dismayed….He was ……………………., so I took him into the music room and made him sit down while I sent for something to eat.
   
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   That seemed to promise another friend at Gatsby’s ……………
   
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   He was ………………..to close the book, reading each item aloud and looking eagerly at me.
   
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    In a moment Meyer Wolfshiem stood ………………….in the doorway, holding out both hands.
    
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    I was sure there would be a ………………from Daisy before noon – but neither a ………….nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived.
    
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    “Jimmy was …………………….get ahead. He always has some resolves like this or something.
    
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    …and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and ……………….me with black ………………eyes.
    
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    “Don’t worry. Just …………………me and I’ll get somebody for you.
    
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    “I cannot come down now as I am tied up in some very important business and cannot ………………..in this thing now.