- •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
III. Questions and topics for discussion
1. The four boys start living on their own. Describe Ralph's physical and mental condition after the orgy. Why did Piggy try his best to convince Ralph that the murder had been an accident? For whose sake was Piggy telling lies? Do you think that the boys had actually participated in the murder? Why did Samneric tell lies and hear as much in return?
2. The new arrangements at the Castle Rock. How did Jack treat those he ruled? What made them accept the treatment? Did they deserve a leader like Jack? Which words were tabooed by the savages?
3. Ralph's friends face new problems. Discuss the hunters' theft of Piggy's glasses and its consequences for the boys.
4. Specify the conditions when Piggy became Ralph's nurse or Ralph turned into Piggy's nurse. Why had these relations been previously unthinkable?
5. Ralph blows the conch at the Castle Rock. Why were his demands met with the savages' laughter? What made them lame under the circumstances? Dwell on Ralph and Jack's confrontation. What advantage did Jack boast of that had never been achieved by Ralph?
6. Jack forces Samneric to join the tribe. Point out Jack's utterances showing that Samneric had already been captured once but succeeded in running away. What had made the brothers stick to Ralph's camp?
7. Piggy's last speech. Do you regard it as a feat? What did Piggy have to overcome to make it?
8. The murder of Piggy. Find proof that the enormity of the crime was lost upon the savages. Say what events had prepared the murder. Compare it with the previous murder and specify the difference as the new stage in the savages' degradation.
9. Follow all the references to the conch in the chapters under discussion. Mark the epithets conveying its beauty, fragility and magic. Pay special attention to reiterated epithets. Account for the reiteration. Point out the culminating reference uniting all the admirable qualities of the shell. Discuss the symbolic significance of the conch, of its being shattered by the savages and of the fact that Piggy and the shell ceased to exist simultaneously.
10. Discuss the functions of fire valued by Ralph and by the savages.
11. Speak about the symbolic meaning of Piggy’s glasses.
Assignment 8 (Chapter 12)
I. ACTIVE VOCABULARY
to make an outlaw of smb to have a stroke of luck
outcast to give smb a clue to smth
to set one's teeth to smoke smb out
to give the alarm scarecrow
to stand a chance
II. EXERCISES
1. Give definitions of each lexical unit of the active vocabulary. Use an English-English Dictionary.
2. Translate into Russian:
1. The hut was half ruined and could hardly stand a chance against the storm. 2. On long winter evenings the young doctor felt an outcast in the small village buried under snow. 3. When it started raining, the team went on digging the potatoes, with their teeth set. After the work they looked Eke scarecrows in their damp and dirty clothes. 4. The enemy's message ran that if the defenders of the fortress did Hot surrender, they would be smoked out like snakes; but the garrison was past caring and went on fighting. 5. The book is in great demand and hardly available. If you have a stroke of luck you may find it on sale in the remotest parts of the region. 6. The footprints gave a clue to the lost hunter's whereabouts. 7. In medieval England the Norman feudals made outlaws of people who showed their independent spirit; the outlaws lived in forests and attacked rich travellers. 8. Once, when the Norsemen wanted to take the Scots by surprise in the dark, one of them stepped on a thistle and shrieked. The alarm was given in the Scots' camp and the Norsemen had to flee. That is how the thistle became the Scots' national emblem.