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трудной». 8. Энн бросила беглый взгляд на заголовки статей в газете и отложила ее. 9. Я все рассказала ей. — Именно этого

вы и не должны были делать. 10. Не надо было поднимать одной этот ящик! — Право же со мной от этого ничего не

случилось. Вы зря беспокоитесь. 11. Вы можете звонить ей весь день и все же ничего не добьетесь: она не поднимает трубку.

12. Джим прекрасно знал, что это все, на что он мог надеяться. И все же он не отчаивался. 13. Вот все, что я должен ска зав

тебе. Надеюсь, ты отнесешься к этому серьезно. 14. Кирилл прекрасно разбирается в старинных вещах. Вы бы лучше

спросили у него, стоит ли эта ваза таких денег. 15. Никогда не встречал человека, с которым было бы так интересно

поговорить,

6.Make up two sentences of your own on each pattern.

7.Make up and act out in front of the class a suitable dialogue using the Speech Patterns.

TEXT SEVEN THE HAPPY MAN

By Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1966), a well-known English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and essayist, was the son of a British diplomat.

He was educated at King's School in Canterbury, studied painting in Paris, went to Heidelberg University in Germany and studied to be a doctor at St.

Thomas Hospital in England. Although Somerset Maugham did not denounce the contemporary social order, he was critical of the morals, the narrow-

mindedness and hypocrisy of bourgeois society. It was his autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage (1951) and the novel The Moon and Sixpence (1919)

based on the life of the French artist Paul Gauguin, that won him fame. Somerset Maugham was also a master of the short story.

Somerset Maugham's style of writing is clear and precise. He does not impose his views on the reader. He puts a question and leaves it to the reader to

answer it. When criticizing something he sounds rather amused than otherwise.

It is a dangerous thing to order the lives of others and I have often wondered at the self-confidence of the politicians, reformers

and sucMike who are prepared to force upon their fellows measures that must alter their manners, habits, and points of view. I have

always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows

himself? Heaven knows, I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of

our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by

conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself. And life, unfortunately, is something that you can

lead but once; mistakes are often irreparable and who am I that I should tell this one and that how he should lead it? Llfels a diffi-

cult business and I have found it hard enough to make my own a complete and rounded thing; I have not been tempted to teach my

neighbour what he should do with his. But there are men who flounder at the journey's start, the way before them is confused and