- •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
6. Discuss episodes from your own life when:
1. somebody tried to assert his (her) authority in the wrong way; 2. you turned out to be an outsider;
3. somebody gave you dubious advice; 4. you failed to adjust yourself to a new rule, regulation or way of life; 5. somebody's name was tabooed.
7. Recall the situations from the book where the following sentences occur:
1. Nevertheless, the northern European tradition of work, play and food right through the day, made it impossible for them to adjust themselves wholly to this new rhythm.
2. ...though there was a dubious region inhabited by Sim and Robert and Maurice, nevertheless no one had any difficulty in recognising biguns at one end and littluns at the other.
3. They suffered untold terrors at night and huddled together for comfort.
4. He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he himself exercising control over living things.
5. Here, invisible but strong, was the taboo of the old life
6. He began to dance and his laughter became bloodthirsty snarling.
7. There had grown tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider... by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, a certain disinclination for manual labour.
8. They were chanting, something to do with the bundle that the errant twins carried so carefully.
9. His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge... that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it...
10. So Ralph asserted his chieftainship and could not have chosen a better way if he had thought for days.
8. Apply the words and word combinations below to situations different from those in the novel: dubious; to exercise control over smth; bloodthirsty; outsider; disinclination for smth; to impose smth upon smb
9. Paraphrase or explain:
1. The littlun Percival had early crawled into a shelter and stayed there for two days, talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused. (p. 108)
2. In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand. (p. 110)
3. Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. (p. 113)
4. He (Jack) capered towards Bill, and the mask was a thing of its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness. (p. 115)
5. Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened elsewhere. (p. 127)
6. Numberless and inexpressible frustrations combined to make his rage elemental and awe-inspiring. (p. 129)
10. Find sentences confirming that:
1. the children were afraid of the dark; 2. the younger imitated the older; 3. Roger enjoyed throwing stones at Henry; 4. Jack's mask had more than one function; 5. Jack made some children disobey Ralph's orders; 6. Jack took delight in the act of killing; 7. Jack's violence shifted Ralph and Piggy's relations.
11. Say why this happened:
1. Roger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones. (p. 110)
2. The mask compelled them. (p. 115)
3. Ralph picked out Jack easily, ... tall, red-haired, and inevitably leading the procession. (p. 121)
4. He (Jack) took a step, and able at last to hit someone I stuck his fist into Piggy's stomach. (p. 125)
5. Then to his (Jack's) surprise, Ralph went to Piggy and took the glasses from him. (p. 127)
6. Simon,... wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it. (p. 128)
7. Jack, recovering, could not bear to have his story told. He broke in quickly. (p. 129)