Building the Vocabulary

Consult the English-English dictionary for the following words and phrases:

sinister (p. 37)

bookmaker (p. 37)

to be scared (p. 37)

perpetual (p. 37)

out of distress (fear) (p. 41)

indignity (p. 41)

all that glitters is not gold (p. 47)

to have a proposal (p. 48)

to ask smb. a favour (p. 50)

to have a clue (p. 51)

pensive (p. 51)

to drop the subject (p. 52)

touch-and-go (p. 52)

to get the sense (sensation) (p. 53)

day-to-day encounters (p. 53)

to identify oneself with (p. 53)

to raise the money for (p. 54)

to get out and about (p. 54)

to do banking (p. 54)

to be on one's own (p. 58)

a bank statement (p. 61)

to overdraw (p. 61)

a carrier bag (p. 61)

a tabloid (p. 61)

a cutting (p. 62)

mogul (p. 62)

to put forward (p. 63)

strident (p. 63)

to feel included within (p. 63)

plumber (p. 63)

social outings (p. 62)

brutal (p. 63)

UNIT III (p. p. 67 - 92)

Part I

First Reading

A. Thinking about the Chapters

What do you feel for Hilary Winshaw?

B. Understanding the Plot

1. How did Hilary get into the television business? (p. p. 67 - 70) When do the events take place? Who was Mr. Beamish?

2. Was she a failure? Why? (p. p. 71 - 72)

3. Where did she find her new job? Why was deputy editor pleased by her? (p. p. 72 - 74)

4. How did it happen that Peter Evans took her out to dinner one evening? (p. p. 74 - 76)

5. Describe the wedding of Hilary Winshaw and Peter Evans. What can you say about their relations after marriage? Were they happy? Was Hilary an affectionate mother? (p. p. 78 - 81)

6. What were Hilary's ambitions?

7. What did we learn about Henry Winshaw's career and why did he want to meet Hilary? (p. p. 82 - 83)

8. How did Hilary get her new job of head of current events instead of Mr. Beamish? (p. p. 83 - 86)

9. Who is the main character of this chapter? What did you learn about him?

10. What offer did he get from Tabitha Winshaw? Why did he accept it? (p. p. 87 - 88)

11. What was his story about? (p. p. 88 - 89)

12. What significant change took place in his research of the family? Why? (p. p. 88 - 89)

13. What way was he going to change his story? What did he decide to find out? What did he do for this? (p. p. 90 - 92)

14. What did you learn about the situation in Iraq?