- •Assignment 1 (Chapter I)
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •2. Study these word combinations:
- •3. Translate into Russian:
- •4. Complete the following sentences. Make your comparisons somewhat exaggerated or comic. M o d e l: He spoke with a touch of bitterness as if I had frustrated all his lifelong ambitions
- •5. Recall the situations from chapter 1 in which these utterances were used:
- •6. Apply the words and word combinations below to situations and personages different from those in the novel
- •7. Explain in English:
- •8. Paraphrase or explain:
- •III. Questions and topics for analysis and discussion
- •Assignment 2 Chapters 2, 3
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •3. Translate into Russian:
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •6. Recall the situations from the book under discussion suggested by the sentences:
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •9. Find sentences in chapters 2 and 3 which may confirm the following statements:
- •10. Say whose utterances these are, what preceded them, what state of mind they convey:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 3
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •3. Study these word combinations, add some more:
- •4. Translate the sentences into Russian:
- •6. Discuss episodes from your own life when:
- •7. Recall the situations from the book where the following sentences occur:
- •9. Paraphrase or explain:
- •10. Find sentences confirming that:
- •11. Say why this happened:
- •12. Say whose utterances these are and what emotions they convey:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 4 Chapter 5
- •5. Make up situations of your own round these sentences:
- •6. Recall the situations from the book suggested by the sentences:
- •7. Apply the vocabulary below to Jack and the situation on the island:
- •8. Paraphrase or explain:
- •9. Confirm or disprove the statements by quoting the text:
- •10. Say what incidents in the past these statements refer to:
- •11. Say whose utterances these are and how they throw light upon the speakers' wishes:
- •12. Say why these things happened:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 5 (Chapters 6, 7)
- •3. Paraphrase the words in bold type using the active vocabulary:
- •4. Make up sentences of your own after the pattern:
- •5. Recall the situations from chapters 6, 7 suggested by these sentences:
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •7. Confirm or disprove the statements by quoting the text:
- •8. Say whose utterances these are and interpret the full meaning of each:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 6 (Chapters 8, 9)
- •4. Make up sentences of your own after the pattern:
- •5. Recall episodes from your life when:
- •6. Recall the situations from the book suggested by the sentences:
- •7. Make up your own statements based on the proceedings in chapters 8,9 applying the vocabulary below to:
- •8. Paraphrase or explain:
- •9. Quote the text to confirm the following:
- •10. Say why this happened:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 7 (Chapters 10, 11)
- •4. Use the active vocabulary to express these notions:
- •5. Make up situations of your own round these sentences:
- •6. Recall the situations from the book suggested by these sentences:
- •7. Apply the vocabulary below to Jack's savages:
- •8. Paraphrase or explain:
- •9. Find sentences in the text confirming that:
- •10. Say why this happened:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 8 (Chapter 12)
- •3. Make up situations of your own round these sentences:
- •4. Recall the situations from chapter 12 suggested by these sentences:
- •5. Apply the vocabulary below to Jack's tribe:
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •7. Confirm the following by quoting the text:
- •8. Say why this happened:
- •9. Discuss the implication of the utterances:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 9 Discussion of the Novel
Assignment 7 (Chapters 10, 11)
I. ACTIVE VOCABULARY
fragile to sneak in to keep on the right side of smb ferocity
impaired to flinch away from smth to exult in smth
loathing to disguise oneself to smarten up
II. EXERCISES
1. Define the contextual meaning of these lexical units; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
fragile; impaired; loathing; ferocity; to smarten up; to disguise; to exult in smth; to flinch away from smth; to keep on the right side of smb
2. Find antonyms of the words and phrases below in your active vocabulary:
to steal off; indestructible; to improve; attraction; to keep on at smb; to unmask oneself; to grieve over smth
3. Note the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences:
a) unpaired sight (health, memory); fragile flowers (china health, happiness); to loathe a person (a smell, a colour), a loathsome smell (sight, disease, crime); to flinch away from a memory (a vision, a sight); to have a tooth pulled out without flinching; to disguise one's appearance (voice, face), to disguise oneself as a policeman (woman, sultan); to exult in one's triumph (victory, liberation), to cause exultation, to be exultant over a success; an act of ferocity, to provoke ferocity, a ferocious tiger (savage, man-eater, fight)
b) 1. At the fancy dress ball she disguised herself under a black domino. 2. The man was well over ninety, but his memory was unimpaired. 3. Whenever the champion scored a new victory, his fans exulted in it as if it were their own. 4. The children caught in a thunderstorm saw a long zig-zag lightning and flinched away from it. 5. The cat, a graceful and tender creature, showed unsuspected ferocity when seeing a dog. 6. We decided to smarten up before the party. 7. The fort was well guarded, nobody could sneak in or steal off without being observed. 8. Where is that marvellous fragile figurine you kept on the mantelpiece? 9. "The young teacher took pains to keep on the right side of the children, and what did he get in return?" "He oughtn't to have done it! Children loathe such tricks, and they are quite right about it"
4. Use the active vocabulary to express these notions:
a delicate piece of china; to be disgusted with a scene; to change one's appearance to conceal one's identity; to move away with fear at the sight of a burning wall; to try to please a child using dubious methods; to ruin one's health; to make oneself clean, tidy and smart; a fierce, cruel, bloodthirsty animal; to rejoice greatly in a victory; to get into an enemy camp by stealth
5. Make up situations of your own round these sentences:
1. You ought to smarten up a bit. 2. He looked ferociously at me. 3. I could hardly conceal my loathing. 4. She wanted to disguise her fear but failed. 5. Your eyesight is unpaired. 6. How fragile you look! 7. Let's sneak in through the hole in the fence. 8. He was exulting in his triumph. 9. The patient flinched away from the dentist. 10. Is that your way of keeping on the right side of me?