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Lesson 6 The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die Mordecai Richler I. Pre-reading Tasks 1.1 Lead-in Questions Do you live with your grandma or grandpa in your childhood? What’s your feeling about it? Why do some people send their old parents to the Old People’s Home? Is it right or wrong? What do you think an obedient adult child should be？ What’s your attitude toward the saying that a parent of prolonged illness finds no dutiful children at the bedside? 1.2 Word Warming-up (1)……and their marriage had been a singularly happy one. (2) A vice, for such it was to his impecunious family, which made him as unreliable a provider as a drinker. (3) ......, she had grown a spiky grey moustache. II. While-reading Tasks 2.1 Phrases Be supposed to Chip in Kick off Peek up Rain or shine Sour and pain Get us nowhere Find fault Put yourself down Might as well Easy does it Go down with sb. 2.2 Notes to the Text Mordecai Richler, Montréal （1931-2001). One of Canadas foremost novelists, a controversial and prolific journalist, and an occasional scriptwriter Mordecai Richler Main Works Novels: The Acrobats (1954) Son of a Smaller Hero (1955) A Choice of Enemies (1957) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) made into a movie(1974) The Incomparable Atuk (1963) Cocksure (1968), won the Governor Generals award St. Urbains Horseman (1971), won the Governor Generals award Joshua Then and Now (1980) made into a movie (1985) Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989) Barneys Version (1997) Childrens books: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975) made into a movie(1977) Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur (1987) autobiographical: Home Sweet Home (1985) A year in Jerusalem (1996) 2.3 Long and Difficult Sentences 1. My grandfather had been a Zaddik, one of the Righteous, and I’ve been assured, that to study Talmud with him had been an illuminating experience.(P50/para.2 ) 2. “When the men at the kosher bakeries went out on strike the zeyda spoke up agains