Choose two topics from the list below to prepare two five-minute presentations making use of the book you have read

Choose two topics from the list below to prepare two five-minute presentations making use of the book you have read.

Tasks for Non-Guided Reading

APPENDIX

III. Follow-up activities

Use the text to answer the following questions.

II. Discussing the text

1. Read the short story “Makeover” by B. Callahan and consider the tasks below.

1. How and why did the conflict between Emily and her husband start?

2. What radio programme was Emily listening on her way to the restaurant?

3. When did you guess that Stephanie was talking about Emily?

4. How did Stephanie describe Emily?

5. Why was Emily shocked when she saw Stephanie’s photo?

6. What did Emily decide to change about her life? How did Todd react to these changes?

7. Recall the episode with Emily’s throwing the cake away and a strange dream she had afterwards. Comment on Todd’s and Emily’s behaviour.

8. What changed about Todd?

9. How did Emily find out about Stephanie and Todd’s plan? Did this plan work? Did Emily’s plan work?

3. Comment on the “look-alike” pattern theory. Does it work in real life?

4. Agree or disagree: A person has to adapt to a new lifestyle as they get older.

1. Imagine that you are a stylist and Emily is your client. Work out a makeover plan for her.

2. Did Emily feel happy about the changes she had introduced into her life?

I. Tasks for “The Undomestic Goddess” by S. Kinsella

1. Give a description of a typical “woman with a career”. What is her working day like? Does being busy necessarily mean being stressed out?

2. How is the work at Carter Spink organized? What makes the company thrive?

3. How can one mistake ruin a successful career?

4. Being a full-time housekeeper is not so boring as it may sound.

5. You don’t have to be a real expert to produce a favorable impression? Is it right?

6. Cleaning, washing and cooking are an art, aren’t they?

7. No matter how busy, one should always find time to relax.

8. Compare Samantha’s life “before” and “after”.

II. Tasks for “Man and Boy” by T. Parsons

1. When a marriage gets wrong, both the spouses are to blame. Is it true with Harry and Gina?

2. Becoming a parent changes you perception of the world completely, doesn’t it? What changed about Harry and Gina, when Pat was born?

3. Is it true that parents always love their children, however naughty they are?

4. When turning thirty a person should become more responsible. Is it the same with men and women?

5. It is believed that people dote on their grandchildren more that on their children. Is it true?

6. Working on television cannot but affect your character. Prove it.

7. Cyd can never replace Gina. Does Harry think so?

8. Cyd’s and Harry’s lives are similar in some way, aren’t they?

III. Tasks for “Man and Wife” by T. Parsons

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