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Владимир Дмитриевич Аракин
держаться со мной наравне.
Все стало ясно: он просто не умел ходить на лыжах. Я очень пожалела, что поехала с ним. Дело не в том, что он оказался плохим лыжником.
Он был лгун и хвастун. А с этим я не могла смириться.
7. Make up and act out in front of the class a suitable dialogue using the Speech Patterns.
TEXT SIX THE MAN OF DESTINY
By G.B.Shaw
"^George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), a prominent playwright, was born of an impoverished middle-class family in Dublin where he attended a college. In
1876 he started working as a journalist in London. He became a socialist in 1882 and in 1884 joined the Fabian Society, an organization of petty bourgeois
intellectuals. In 1879 G.B.Shaw took up writing plays, in which he criticized the vices of bourgeois society. Bernard haw is famous for his brilliant
dialogues, full of witty paradoxes and often bitterly satirical. In his play
who makes his career at the cost of human lives. Bernard Shaw was a friend of the Soviet Union which he visited in 1931.
A little inn in North Italy. Napoleon has just put under arrest the lieutenant who arrived without the letters and dispatches he had
been sent for, saying that an unknown youth had tricked him out of them.
T h e L a d y ' s v o i c e (
L i e u t e n a n t (
G i u s e p p e : Only a lady upstairs, lieutenant, calling me.
L i e u t e n a n t : Lady! It's his voice, I tell you.
The Strange Lady steps in. She is tall and extraordinarily graceful with a delicately intelligent face: character in the chin: all keen,
refined, and original. She's very feminine, but by no means weak.
L i e u t e n a n t : So I've got you, my lad. So you've disguised yourself, have you?
that skirt.
are an officer: a general. You will protect me, will you not?
L i e u t e n a n t : Never you mind him, General. Leave me to deal with him.
N a p o l e o n : With him! With whom, sir? Why do you treat this lady in such a fashion?
L i e u t e n a n t : Lady! He's a man! the man I shewed 2 my confidence in.
L a d y (running behind Napoleon and in her agitation clasping to her breast the arm which he extends before her as a
fortification):
N a p o l e o n : Nonsense, sir. This is certainly a lady and you are under arrest. Put down your sword, sir, instantly. I order you to
leave the room.
L a d y : How can I thank you, General, for your protection?