- •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
5. Make up situations of your own round these sentences:
1. He was a tough one. 2. An inarticulate phrase reached my ear. 3. The urgency of the matter is obvious.
4. We've got some rules to stick to. 5. The meeting broke up very late.
6. It doesn't make sense, I am afraid. 7. Am I to put these things straight for you?
6. Recall the situations from the book suggested by the sentences:
1. He stopped... and remembering that first enthusiastic exploration as though it were part of a brighter childhood, he smiled jeeringly. 2. At that he walked faster aware all at once of urgency...
3. Assembly after assembly had broken up in laughter when someone had leaned too far back...
4. "We need an assembly. Not for fun. Not for laughing and falling off the log... But to put things straight." 5. Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. Inspiration came to him. 6. ...we can't have proper assemblies if you don't stick to the rules.
7. "You got to be tough now. Make 'em do what you want." 8. '"Cos things wouldn't make sense."
9. Percival Wemys Madison... was living through circumstances in which the incantation of his address was powerless to help him.
7. Apply the vocabulary below to Jack and the situation on the island:
jeeringly (to jeer); to put things straight; inspiration; tough; incantation
8. Paraphrase or explain:
1. He (Ralph) found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's walking life was spent watching one's feet. (p. 131)
2. Again he fell into that strange mood of speculation that was so foreign to him. (p. 133)
3. Percival Wemys Madison would not shut up. A spring had been tapped, far beyond the reach of authority or even physical intimidation. (p. 145)
4. The assembly looked with him; considered the vast stretches of water, the high sea beyond, unknown indigo infinite possibility, ... (p. 146-147)
9. Confirm or disprove the statements by quoting the text:
1. Ralph thought Piggy cleverer than himself. 2. The children did not like assemblies.
3. The children created real danger to the environment. 4. Simon liked to be all by himself.
5. Jack was not afraid of anything on the island. 6. Ralph realized that Jack was actually becoming chief.
10. Say what incidents in the past these statements refer to:
1. "...we can start again and be careful about things like the fire." A picture of three boys walking along the bright beach flitted through his mind. "And be happy." (p. 139)
2. "Am I a hunter or am I not?" They nodded, simply. He was a hunter all right. No one doubted that. (p. 140)
3. Ralph remembered another small boy who had stood like this and he flinched away from the memory. (p. 144)
4. 'Percival Wemys Madison, The Vicarage, Harcourt Anthony, Hants, telephone, telephone, tele-" (p. 145)
11. Say whose utterances these are and how they throw light upon the speakers' wishes:
1. 'The fire is the most important thing on the island." 2. "Life is scientific."
3. "Maybe there is a beast... What I mean is... maybe is only us."
4. "You can't hunt, you can't sing — " 5. "You got to be tough now."
6. "Go on being chief." 7. "If only they could send us something grown-up... a sign or something."