Use the text to answer the following questions

II.Discussing the text

Match the words and their definitions.

Study the words and use them in contexts of your own.

I. Vocabulary work

The Way up to Heaven

III. Follow-up activities

II. Discussing the text

1. Read the story “Revenge is Sweet” by C. Fremlin and consider the tasks below.

2. Which of the characters do these words refer to – Felicity, Gerald or Tricia? Describe these three characters adding more words from the text to your vocabulary list.

a generous nature, wretched, the eye of hatred, deep-seated need for personal freedom, snub-nosed, perceptive, discarded mistress, a less chiseled cast of feature, sensitive

3. Felicity had several scenarios of revenge. How many, to be exact? Comment on all of them. Which scenario did she choose in the end and why?

4. Agree or disagree: Felicity did not want Gerald back. She only wanted to spite Tricia.

5. Dwell on the moral aspect of revenge. Did Felicity have a right to take her revenge on Gerald and Tricia?

1. When were you last in two minds about something?

2. When was the last time you spoke your mind? Did you offend anyone?

3. Write a letter, in which you confess having done something wrong. Think of the means you will use to make the addressee as little upset as possible.

Twitch, apprehension, flutter, fidget, irrepressible, foible, gloomy, diminutive, bland.

pathological twitch apprehension flutter and fidget bland irrepressible foible gloomy bustling yearning dapper resign yourself to disconsolate hazy flabby

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strong desire feeling of uneasiness or anxiety unhappy, disappointed busy moving neat in appearance move about in a nervous, irregular way smooth dark and cheerless have a sudden, uncontrollable muscle movement accept without complaining personal peculiarity which she couldn’t control like a disease loose and fleshy unclear

1. Read the short story “The Way up to Heaven” by R. Dahl and consider the tasks below.

1. Are Mr Foster and Mrs Foster a match?

2. Is the Fosters’ marriage happy and trouble-free?

3. What evidence is there of Mr Foster’s attitude to his wife?

4. How does Mrs Foster’s behavior change throughout the story? What accounts for these changes?

3. Discussion: Can Mrs Foster be accused of killing her husband? Was it homicide, manslaughter or just an accident?

4. Think what will happen next, when someone arrives to fix the elevator. Will Mrs Foster get away with the crime?

5. Discussion: Does Mrs Foster deserve to live happily with her grandchildren in France?

6. Agree or disagree: Mrs Foster does not feel guilty about her actions. Prove your point.

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