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7.
What terrified the ladies at luncheon?
8.
What did the ladies have for luncheon?
9.
How did Lena's dishes and the ladies' food differ during her stay?
10. What kind of talents did the chef and the butler disclose?
11. How did Lena and Frank part?
12. When did Frank stop dead still?
13. What was Beatrice eating?
14. What did Frank suddenly do?
15. How did Arrow react when she saw the two ladies eating?
16. What else did the ladies order?
17. Did the ladies eat calmly or not?
18. What was Frank's revenge upon Lena like?
Phonetic Text Drills
0 Exercise 1
Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.
To cement, outsider, mourning, unduly, to stroll, luncheon, rusk, hostess, embarrassed, to inquire, roll, to
plaster, miraculously, lamb, cutlet, spinach, stewed, pear, resourceful, powdered, macaroni, to sizzle,
delicious, chef, succulent, burgundy, champagne, to persevere, to pour, pathetic, gluttonously, to devour,
voluptuously, solemn, ecstatic, fervour, lousy, meringue.
0 Exercise 2
I. Pronounce the words and phases where the following clusters occur.
1. plosive + w
the second was, the third was, it was, that were, what was, twice, twinkling.
2. plosive + r
great, bridge, introduced, drinks, bright, bring, train, cried, cream, crisp, truth.
3. plosive + 1
settled, presently, butler, plastered, platform, plate, gluttonously.
II. Say why the following clusters can be put under one heading and in what way they differ.
1. some weeks there, does she, as she, those three, was served, was sitting, was spreading.
2. that they, avoid things, but there, and three, informed them.
Exercise 3
Transcribe the phrases and comment on the phonetic difficulties.
It was their fat that had brought them together ...
... if they had not needed a fourth at bridge. 
... powdered sugar had never been served at that table before ...
... and then stopped dead still.
0 Exercise 4
Transcribe and intone the following questions.
'What a'bout \asking her | to 'come here for a
\
fortnight? || 
'Does she 'play 
/
bridge? ||
'May I 'have some
/
bread? || 
^Beatrice, | 'what are you
\
doing? || 
'Where’s the
\
cream, |
you
fool? ||
EXERCISES
Exercise 1
I. Pick out from the text words and expressions denoting:
a) food,
b) drinks,
c) adjectives used to describe dishes. Try to explain their meaning in English or translate them into
Russian.
II. Pick out from the text: a) all phrases used to denote quantities of foodstuffs, i.e. "a lump of sugar", etc.;
b) all words used to denote the ways food may be cooked, i.e. "boil — boiled", etc.
Exercise 2
Find in the text words or phrases similar in meaning to the following. Read aloud the sentences
containing them.
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