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For Friday, July 17:

• Bring an interesting/special object from home that describes you in some way and prepare to describe it in class so that other students can guess what it is.

• Bring a few photos (hard or soft copy) from any of your trips, prepare to show them to your classmates and tell about your travelling experiences.

• Write a paragraph about your travel experience to some place: in the first sentence mention what experience/interesting incident you want to share in some place that you went to (it is the main idea of the paragraph), then give the details about your experience there, and in the last sentence restate the main idea of your paragraph. The paragraph should include minimum 7 sentences. Include the appropriate heading and use appropriate formatting (see above).

• Read Chapters 3 and 4 in the book “The Scarlet Letter” by N. Hawthorne. While reading please underline and translate the new words (right in the book). In addition, please underline the right word based on the book content (please write down the sentences and your answers in your notebook, underline these sentences in the book):

1. Hester doesn’t have any friends/money.

2. Hester sells clothes/flowers to the townspeople.

3. Pearl is a happy/sad child.

4. The Governor thinks that Hester is a good/bad mother.

5. Chillingworth/Dimmesdalewants the child to stay with Hester.

6. John Wilson wants/does not want Chillingworth to find the child’s father.

• Bring the course syllabus (please read it and prepare questions for the instructor if you have any).

• Bring the English-Russian dictionary.

For Monday, July 22:

• Listen to the story “A visitor to The Star” by Chris Rose, then print and complete the two tasks (the audio story and tasks are in the Listening materials folder).

• Complete, print and bring the Student Self-study Log. Please add an appropriate heading and type your answers below the questions. Be sincere and specific please!

• Read Chapters 5-10 in the book “The Scarlet Letter” by N. Hawthorne. While reading please underline and translate the new words (right in the book). In addition, please do several exercises related to the content in these chapters (copy the questions on a separate Word documents and add your answers; print and bring this assignment to class; include a heading)

Exercise 1. Chapters 5-6. What happens first? Number the sentences below, 1-8.

1. Dimmesdale stops eating and sleeping.

2. Dimmesdale watches Hester and Pearl in the yard.

3. Dimmesdale goes to the town square at night.

4. Chillingworth moves into Dimmesdale’s house.

5. Hester and Pearl stand next to Dimmesdale.

6. There is a strange light in the town.

Exercise 2. Chapters 7-8. Are these sentences about Chillingworth (C) or Dimmesdale (D)?

1. Hester wants to help him.

2. Hester meets him on a beach.

3. He thinks that God is punishing him.

4. Hester wants him to forgive.

5. Hester meets him in the woods.

6. Hester tells him a secret.

Exercise 3. Chapters 7-8. Put these words in the right sentences.

Beautiful dangerous hungry nice sad sinful strong warm

1. The townspeople say that Hester has a …………….. heart.

2. Nine years ago, Chillingworth had a ………………face.

3. Now Chillingworth has a face of a ………………..animal.

4. Hester thinks that her husband is a …………………..man.

5. Hester tells Pearl that the scarlet letter is ……………… .

6. Dimmesdale thinks that he is a …………………..man.

7. Dimmesdale thinks that Hester is ………………. .

8. Pearl is happy when her mother is ………….. .

Exercise 4. Chapters 9-10. Put one word in each sentence.

1. Dimmesdale finds a ship to ………………….. .

2. He is going to leave with Hester and ……………….. .

3. ………………….is going on the ship, too.

4. Dimmesdale speaks …………………in church.

5. Then he goes up the stairs to the ………………in the square.

6. He opens his …………….to the crowd.

7. Pearl ……………..her father.

8. Dimmesdale closes his eyes and …………….. .

Exercise 5. Write your short answers to these questions and prepare to share them with the class.

1. Is Dimmesdale a strong man? Why (not)?

2. Does Chillingworth want the townspeople to know the name of Pearl’s father? Why (not)?

3. Dimmesdale says that Chillingworth is “biggest sinner of us all.” Why does he say that? Is he right?

4. Hester says that “only love can make us happy.” What does she mean? Is she right?