Improve your English with Downton Abbey Characters. Season 1 Episode 4. Answers

Downton abbey Season 1 Episode 4

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1. The false statements are:

1. #3. Violet, in fact, believes, that Matthew is a person of honour and integrity and that he, of all lawyers, will be objective when looking and Lord Grantham’s case.

2. #6. Thomas is not interested in women at all. He wants to humiliate William, and, probably, try to find out if Daisy knows anything about the Pamuk affair.

3. #10. Mrs Hughes is obliged to call herself ‘missis’ because she is a housekeeper. Housekeepers and cooks traditionally had to be called ‘Mrs’ even if they had never been married. (The case with Mrs Patmore is the same).

4. #12. Thomas is either not frightened by Bates’ threats at all is is not showing his fear.

5. #14. It is Violet, the Duchess, who comes up with the right diagnosis , and she is delighted to win over Isobel Crawley in that.

6. #17, to some degree. In fact, it is not clear if she rejects the farmer’s proposal because she does not see herself as a married woman, or if she feels that this person is not right for her, since she has changed so much.

1. 1) Mary means that young girls of the aristocratic circles cannot really lead a full life until they are married.

2. Branson refers to Lord Grantham’s old clothes being send ‘to the missionary bowl’, which is to missionaries and poor people in India and other British colonies. As a socialist, he thinks that the rich should take more radical steps to help the poor.

3. Matthew is in love with Mary, and he can’t help being troubled by the fact that the law is unfair to her.

4. Sybil alludes to the French Revolution of 1789-1994. The Duchess fears all reform: big and small, because she believes that it will be followed by a revolution and spilling the blood of the rich.

3. 1) Thomas is a troubled soul.

2) She’s been terribly down in the mouth.

3) When she dies, they will cut her open and find it engraved on her heart.

4) I am a lost soul to you!

5) She must resent me so bitterly!

6) I didn’t mean 'recover' exactly. Just get past it.

4. 1) You would want to get past it.

2) You might believe that this person is a lost soul.

3) This person is down in the mouth.

4) This person probably resents the offender.

5) You might call this person ‘a troubled soul”.