- •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
4. Answer the questions:
1. What can one do challengingly? 2. Can you make a spontaneous five-minute speech in English? 3. Is it polite to break in when the speaker is in the middle of a phrase? 4. What is your reaction when you are hindered in your work? 5. What was the name of the ancient Greek whose ambition made set a temple on fire? 6. Are there any savage tribes in the world nowadays?
5. Describe an incident from your life when: 1. you had a nightmare; 2. somebody failed to convey something important to you; 3. something was done by tacit consent; 4. somebody tried to shout you down.
6. Recall the situations from the book under discussion suggested by the sentences:
1. Jack broke in, "All the same you need an army – for hunting."
2. All three of them tried to convey the sense of the pink live thing struggling in the creepers.
3. Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked round challengingly.
4. "You are hindering Ralph." 5. "He must have had a nightmare."
6. Spontaneously they began to clap and presently the platform was loud with applause.
7. Piggy opened his mouth to speak, caught Jack's eye, and shut it again.
8. "After all, we're not savages." 9. They stirred and began to shout him down.
10. "Now you... set the whole island on fire."
11. ...by tacit consent they left the shelter and went towards the bathing-pool.
7. Paraphrase or explain:
1. He stood now, warped out of the perpendicular the fierce light of publicity,... (p. 77)
2. The older boys agreed; but here and there among the little ones was the dubiety that required more than rational assurance. (p. 79)
3. Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch,... (p. 82)
4. His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination. (p.89)
8. Explain the meaning of the words humour and heart in these sentences (p. 80-81):
1. The eyes that looked so intently at him were without humour.
2. Ralph lifted the conch again and his good humour came back...
3. Again came the sounds of cheerfulness and better heart.
9. Find sentences in chapters 2 and 3 which may confirm the following statements:
1. The parents could not know the children's whereabouts.
2. The children had a bookish idea of the fun they could have on the island.
3. At first hard work done together united the children and made them enthusiastic.
4. The children hated long and systematic work.
5. The children saw only immediate ends.
6. Jack did not like the power of the conch from the start.
7. Jack's first act of violence was directed against Piggy.
8. Jack's eyes became mad whenever hunting was frustrated or mentioned.
9. Hunting became more important to Jack than rescue.
10. There was no understanding between Jack and Ralph.
11. Ralph grew disappointed in the children.
12. Simon was thought of as somewhat insane.
10. Say whose utterances these are, what preceded them, what state of mind they convey:
1. "He wants to know what you're going to do about the snake-thing."
2. "But if there's a snake we'd hunt it and kill it." 3. "But there isn't a beast!"
4. "I can hardly see! You'll break the conch!"
5. "Where the conch is, there's a meeting. The same up here as down there."
6. "We're English; and the English are best at everything."
7. "You got your small fire all right."
8. "Meetings. Don't we love meetings?"
9. "You are chief. You tell 'em off." 10. "You and your fires!"