- •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
12. Say whose utterances these are and what emotions they convey:
1. "We could make a sundial..." "And an airplane, and a TV set, and a steam engine."
2. 'They let the bloody fire out."
3. "You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home — "
4. "-I apologize." 5. 'That was a dirty trick." 6. "I got you meat!"
III. Questions and topics for discussion
1. The daily routine on the island. Discuss the pastime of the younger and the bigger boys. What relations existed between the two age groups? Compare the treatment of the "littluns" by Ralph, Piggy and Simon on the one hand and Roger and Jack on the other. How does the author give to understand that the taboos of civilization might be soon discarded by Roger and his like?
2. Point out instances when "the littluns" blindly followed the examples set by the bigger boys. Where did the danger of lie, if any?
3. What new idea was Jack preoccupied with? What difference did wearing a mask make to him? How did it affect the others?
4. What reasons had the boys for treating Piggy as an outsider? Account for Piggy's disinclination for manual labour Why did Piggy seek Ralph's company? How did Ralph treat him?
5. The smoke on the horizon and the boys' frustration. Whom do you think responsible for the missed chance of rescue?
6. Jack leads the procession of hunters. Comment on their chant and the emotional clash of Ralph's and Jack's groups. How did Jack react to the news? Do you regard Jack's violence to Piggy as a typical sort of fight between boys?
7. The meat-eating scene. How did Jack turn it into humiliation of those who had not participated in the hunt? Comment upon his account of the hunt. How did he impose on everybody his exceptional role in it? Note his use of the pronoun "I" and the reiterated phrases. What light do they throw on what he really enjoyed in the hunt?
8. What change was there in the relations of Ralph and Jack? Ralph and Piggy? Ralph and the hunters? Jack and the hunters? Why did the hunters not resent Jack's methods of self-assertion?
9. Comment upon the boys' behaviour after the feast. What was there in common between their actions and those of the people generally described as savages? What enormity of their behaviour was the starting point of their going savage?
10. Sum up Jack Merridew as presented in the chapter. Is there any link between his joy of killing and his rage for leadership? What cardinal defects of his made the boys' rescue impossible under the circumstances?
Assignment 4 Chapter 5
I. ACTIVE VOCABULARY
jeeringly urgency break up (of a meeting) to put things straight inarticulate
inspiration to stick to the rules tough to make sense incantation
II. exercises
1. Explain the contextual meaning:
jeeringly, urgency; inarticulate; inspiration; tough; incantation
2. Arrange the lexical units into pairs of antonyms:
inarticulate; meek; to make a mess of things; to get together; to sweep away obstacles; to throw over order; distinct; tough; to put things straight; to stick to the rules; to break up; to hinder
3. Study these word combinations and add some more:
inarticulate words (phrases, cries, fears); to jeer at enemy, a half-jeer, a jeering reply; to have a sudden inspiration, to draw inspiration from nature, to inspire people with awe (exultation, joy); a tough fellow (soldier, politician)
4. Translate into Russian:
1. The party broke up well after midnight. 2. Do you see the urgency of my request? 3. The baby smiled and pronounced a series of inarticulate sounds. 4. If you can't put the things straight, who would? 5. I have read this article and I must confess it does not make much sense to me. 6. The poets of the Lake School drew inspiration from the wonderful scenery of the Lake District. 7. A leader is supposed to be tough in certain circumstances, but if your sole reason for choosing a leader is his imposing appearance, you look for toughness in the wrong quarters. 8. Football has been played since times immemorial, but it was only in the XIX century that strict rules were made for the players to stick to. 9. "I don't object to your using that name like an incantation, it will make the scene all the funnier," the producer said with a touch of weary tolerance.