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Give English equivalents for the following words and expressions from the text and use them
in the sentences of your own:
Не позаботился
Вагон-ресторан
Только я
собирался сесть
Чувствовал на себе его взгляд
В самую гущу своей бороды
Безбородый
Внушительная
Дело в
том что
Психологический эксперимент
Смущение
Занялся
психологией
Защитные силы человека
Прибегать к различным уловкам
Уйти от реальности
Потрясающий эффект
Чёрствые люди
Бакенбарды
наводили на них панику
Чувствовать себя не в своей тарелке
Полностью исчезла
Отчаянно
пытаясь
Ничего сложного
Assignment № 2
Give Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions from the text and use them
in the sentences of your own:
face smb,
glance at smb,
pull oneself together,
keep one’s eyes on smb,
be impressed with smth,
suffer from smth,
read
books on smth,
come across,
find smth hateful,
make smb do smth,
be shy of doing smth,
waste
life time,
master doing smth.
Assignment № 3
Questions on the text:
1 Why did the author go to the dining-car?
2 Describe the man who was sitting opposite him.
3 Why did the author feel ill at ease?
4 what was it that struck the author in the manner his companion was eating?
5 What did the young man suffer from when he was a student?
6 What did he read about human defence mechanisms in one of the books on psychology?
7 What idea occurred to him?
8 What was the effect of his experiment?
9 How did the young man explain to the author his careful manner of eating?
Assignment № 4
Discuss the following:
1 Is the knowledge of psychology important for a person? Why? Give your grounds.
2 What do you know about human defence mechanisms? In what situations are they
displayed?
3 What kind of world conditions do you consider “hateful”? What are the ways to improve
them?
4 How do you understand the phrase “escape from the world“? When
and why do people have
to do it?
