First Impressions Parties, Meetings and Revelations BEFORE READING 1 1 2 Chapter Briefly summarise what has happened so far, by completing the sentences with one appropriate word. At the beginning of the a. .............................................., the narrator says something about himself. His name is Nick Carraway, he comes from a MiddleWestern city and took part in the 1st b. .............................. War. Then he moved to New York, but he left it again, after some time, because the people he c. ................................... there did not have the same d. ...................................... of morality as he had. Every one of them disappointed him, except e. ................................... The story starts when he f. ............................................ in New York to learn the g. ........................... business and goes to live in West Egg, Long Island, in a little house next to the enormous mansion of Mr Gatsby. One evening, he is invited to dinner by his second h. ......................................... Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, who are fabulously rich. During the dinner he realizes that Daisy, who is charming and beautiful, is i. ............................ with her husband. At their house he also meets a famous j. .......................................... player, Miss Baker, who tells him that Tom has another woman in New York. One afternoon, he meets Tom s lover Myrtle, when he goes with him to the k. ............................ that Wilson, her husband, owns in a poor part of the city, Myrtle, l. .................................. Tom and Nick on their train to New York. Then, they all go to the m. ............................. where the two lovers usually meet and Myrtle decides to organize a sort of party with her n. ........................ and some neighbours. 2 You are going to read about a very glamorous party. Write a paragraph to give advice on what things are necessary for a successful party.