Making an Apology
to go to one's work; to go by bus; the rush hour; to be packed; to manage; to get inside; to close the doors; accidentally; to step on smb's foot; to say "Excuse me" ("I beg your pardon"); to hear "It's all right". Ex. 54. Tell the story of each picture, using the words and phrases given below.
It's the same fellow who did the walls in our flat! Ex. 55 Subjects for oral and written composition.
1. Tell the story as if it were told by a) Lautisse; b) Gerston; c) Mrs. Gregg; d) a newspaper reporter; e) one of the businessmen who had arrived to buy the fence. 2. Give character-sketches of a) Mr. Gregg; b) Mrs. Gregg; c) Lautisse. 3. Explain how it happened that a plain garden fence was sold for a work of art. 4. Write up the story as it might have appeared in the newspapers under the headline: LAUTISSE PAINTS AGAIN. 5. Tell a story to illustrate the English saying "The game is worth the candle" (Игра стоит свеч). 6. A painting that has impressed me. 7. A visit to a one-man exhibition of painting. 8. The life story of a great painter. 9. The Russian school of painting. 10. Modern Soviet painting. 11. The dangers of "modernism" in art.
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