Read the beginning of the essay and finish it in your own way

Choose a passage and prepare it for model reading. Give reasons for your choice. Translate the passage into Russian.

Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.

Complete the sentences the way the author puts it in the story.

Match one of the following adjectives to each description.

frank passionate curious amused distressed dreadful collected mysterious absurd extravagant bored

a) A …………… person has strong romantic or sexual feelings and expresses them in their behavior.

b) Someone or something that is …………..is strange and is not known about or understood.

c) If someone is …………..they are upset or worried.

d) If you say that someone is ……………..you mean that they are very calm and self-controlled, especially when they are in a difficult or serious situation.

e) ……………. behavior is extreme behavior that is often done for a particular effect.

f) If you say that something is ……………., you mean that it is very bad or unpleasant, or very poor in quality.

g) If you are ……… you feel tired and impatient because you have lost interest in something or because you have nothing to do.

h) If a someone is …………. they state or express things in an open and honest way.

i) If you say that something is ………..you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.

j) If you are …………about something you are interested in it and want to know more about it.

k) If you are …………by something, it makes you want to laugh or smile.

b) ‘Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when ….’

c) ‘How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body, if…’

d) She looked into the mirror and ‘it gave her back…’

e) ‘ Why have a baby if it has to be kept…’

f) ‘ She always did fall in love with…’

g) ‘ Harry and she were as much in love…’

h) They had friends …

i) What she appreciated in Harry was…

j) Miss Fulton gave her strange half-smile as though …

k) Harry seemed to dislike Miss Fulton and he often said that …

l) Bertha ‘turned her head towards the hall. And she saw…’

Тебя неожиданно охватывает чувство необыкновенного счастья; в комнате было сумрачно и довольно прохладно; это должно случиться непременно; это звучало совершенно неубедительно и нелепо; неподходящий момент; так очаровательно улыбнулась; мне так трудно с ней после этого; я тебя обожаю; ей хотелось пообщаться с ним минутку; она интересовалась искусством оформления интерьеров; добрые друзья; все до одного пожирали меня взглядом; как ужасно; что же теперь будет?

Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss” is a very beautifully modulated short story that gives us an insight into the mind of a young woman Bertha. Bertha, the innocently happy wife, in a moment of horrified insight recognizes her successful rival. Bertha is suddenly aware that she has been living in a world of illusion and finds herself in the world of experience. At the beginning of the story we find Bertha in an ecstatic mood. She is so happy that she cannot express her happiness in words.

She thinks her life is …

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