- •Assignment 1 Chapters I-XI
- •4. Recount the episodes from the novel in which the active vocabulary is employed.
- •5. Ask fact-finding questions on the chapters under discussion using the active vocabulary.
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •Assignment 2 Chapters хп-ххх
- •Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •5. Find good Russian equivalents of the sayings:
- •6. Make up short comic stories based on your own experience. Use the sentences below as suggestions:
- •7. Recall the episodes from the chapters under discussion in which you came across the following words and expressions:
- •8. Point out words of evaluation applying to Walter; to Townsend.
- •9. Paraphrase or explain:
- •10. Say whose utterances these are and what provoked them. Interpret their meaning:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 3 Chapters XXII-XXVII
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II exercises
- •1. A) Define the meaning of these lexical units:
- •2. Translate into Russian. Make up your own sentences with these word combinations:
- •3. Translate these sentences:
- •4. Complete these sentences:
- •5. Recall the situations in which the following words an phrases occur:
- •6. State whose utterances these are and under what circumstances they were made:
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Say who made these utterances and under what circumstances. Discuss the motives of the speaker and the moral implication of each utterance:
- •9. Say why these things happened or did not happen:
- •III. Topics for discussion
- •IV. Questions
- •Assignment 4 Chapters XXVIII-XXXVIII
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Give definitions relying on an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •2. Study the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences; translate them into Russian:
- •3, Make up situations of your own based on your personal experience. Use the phrases given below:
- •4. Recount the situations from the chapters under discussion in which the active vocabulary is employed.
- •5. Paraphrase or explain:
- •6. Say under what circumstances and why this happened:
- •III. Topics for discussion
- •IV. Questions
- •Assignment 5 Chapters XXXIX-xlix
- •I active vocabulary
- •II exercises
- •1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; point out the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •2. Arrange these words and word combinations in pairs of antonyms and say what they mean:
- •3. Note the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences; translate them into Russian:
- •4. Paraphrase using the active vocabulary:
- •5. Make up situations of your own based on your personal experience. Include the following phrases:
- •6. Recall the situations from the book where the active vocabulary is used.
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Point out historical, political or social causes behind the state of things:
- •9. Find the underlying reasons for:
- •10. Confirm or disprove the statements:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 6 Chapters l-lvii
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •2. Translate into Russian. Make up sentences of your own:
- •3. Paraphrase using the active vocabulary:
- •4. Recount the episodes from chapters XXXIX-xlix where the active vocabulary is employed.
- •5. Give as much information as possible on the subjects prompted by these sentences from the novel:
- •Paraphrase or explain:
- •7. Say who made these utterances and under what circumstances. Comment on the feelings that prompted the utterances and the moral implication they suggest:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 7 Chapters lviii-lxiii
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •Give the corresponding verbs, translate them:
- •3. Note the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences; translate them into Russian:
- •Make up a comic short story based on your own experience. Use some of the suggested phrases, changing them if necessary:
- •5. Recount the episodes from the chapters under discussion using the sentences below as suggestions:
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •7. Give your own opinion of the following utterances:
- •8. Interpret the following utterances after stating whom they belong to and in what circumstances they were made:
- •III. Questiqns and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 8 Chapters lxiv-lxxiv
- •Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Define the contextual meaning of these words and word combinations:
- •2. Give the corresponding abstract nouns and translate them:
- •3. Translate into Russian. Make up your own sentences or situations:
- •4. Say what you find: a) despicable; b) degrading; c) imprudent in human behaviour. Begin your sentences as in the model.
- •5. Discuss the episodes from the novel where the active vocabulary is employed.
- •6. Use the active vocabulary applying it to situations in the chapters previously read.
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Say who and under what circumstances made these utterances. What feelings and motives were they prompted by?
- •9. Discuss why these things happened or did not happen:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •IV. Topics for analysis and detailed discussion
- •Assignment 9
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •5. Make up short situations of your own similar to the sentences given below. Don't change the words in bold type:
- •6. Make up situations on the subject-matter of the books or plays you have seen or read, using the active vocabulary.
- •7. Recall the situations from the chapters under discussion relying on the prompts:
- •Say who and under what circumstances made these utterances:
- •Make a list of the proverbs Townsend used when he talked to Kitty. Say what he implied by them and why he, of all people, resorted to them. (Add those from chapters XX and XXI.)
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •IV. Questions for analysis and discussion
- •Assignment 10 Discussion of the Novel
4. Recount the episodes from chapters XXXIX-xlix where the active vocabulary is employed.
5. Give as much information as possible on the subjects prompted by these sentences from the novel:
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Kitty had been conscious from the beginning that the' personality of this woman dominated the convent.
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...They are quite charming sometimes, these Manchu women.
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She loved him no longer. Oh, the relief and the sense of liberation!
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He did now what he did seldom; he looked her full in the face , professional instincts were stronger than his personal.
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Paraphrase or explain:
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The moment they arrived they began to save the poor little unwanted girls from the baby-tower...
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It was lucky that Waddington knew nothing, she could never have endured his malicious eyeing and his ironical innuendos.
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The epidemic seems to be abating and the cool weather should see the end of it.
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She could not tell why the way he spoke of her (the Manchu woman), ... gave her (Kitty) the impression so strongly of the woman's intense and unique devotion. "It does seem a long way to Harrington Gardens," she smiled.
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She could count on him (Walter) never to throw the past in her teeth.
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"I shouldn't have thought you were the sort of person to put yourself out for a few stuffy nuns and a parcel of Chinese brats."
7. Say who made these utterances and under what circumstances. Comment on the feelings that prompted the utterances and the moral implication they suggest:
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"One is not even grateful to the people who love one; if one doesn't love them, they only bore one."
"I have no experience of the plural," he replied. "Mine is only in the singular."
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"Your husband is much too busy to be troubled. In five minutes you'll be perfectly well."
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"Am I the father?"... "I don't know," she said.
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'This isn't a place for a woman in your condition."
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"You must know that by bringing you here I've condoned the offence."
III. Questions and topics for discussion
1. Kitty comes to know the nuns better. Speak about Sister St Joseph's traits making her different from a typical nun. What did Kitty learn from her about the Mother Superior? Why did] Kitty feel a wall between the nuns and herself?
2. Compare what Sister St Joseph told Kitty about Waddington's private life with what he told Kitty himself. What new light does it throw on Waddington's personality? Whom is he contrasted to in the novel?
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Kitty feels free from Townsend. Dwell on her reaction to the discovery. What do you think helped her to regain her heart?
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Kitty learns that she is with child. Account for her reaction. Compare it with what the nuns felt about it.
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Kitty breaks the news to Walter. Dwell on her inner struggle before she told her husband all the truth. Point out the signs of Walter's changing somewhat to her after the talk. Account for the change.
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Walter insists on Kitty's leaving Mei-tan-fu. Give his reasons. Comment upon what he told her about his aim in having brought her there. Do you think him vindictive?
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Discuss a change in Kitty's personality brought about by her life in Mei-tan-fu. Find proof that the change was none too deep.