- •W.S. Maugham. ( 1874 - 1965 )
- •Read Chapters 1 - 7. Learn the active words and word-combinations, reproduce the situations in which they are used in the text:
- •7. Speak on the flg. Points:
- •Read Chapters 8-13 paying attention to the usage of the active vocabulary; learn the active words and word-combinations; give situations from the text:
- •Translate the flg. Word-combinations and sentences into Russian:
- •Translate into English:
- •Speak on the flg. Points:
- •Read Ch. 14 - 20 paying attention to the usage of the active words and word-combinations; learn them; reproduce the situations from the text:
- •Correct the flg. Statements:
- •1.Read Chapters 21 - 24 paying attention to the usage of the active words and word-combinations. Reproduce the situations from the text:
- •Transcribe the flg. Words; read the aloud:
- •The flg. Statements are not true. Correct them:
- •Convert the flg. Sentences from direct into indirect speech. Make all the necessary changes:
- •Find the active vocabulary in the text; Make up your own sentences with the active words and word-combinations:
- •I. Learn the active vocabulary. Reproduce the situations it was used in the text. Make up sentences of your own with it:
- •Translate the flg. Sentences:
- •5. Complete the flg. Sentences:
- •6. Dramatize the dialogue between Kitty and Dorothy ( ch. Lxxi )
- •7. Speak on:
- •Choose a passage (10 - 12 lines ), mark stresses and tunes and learn it by heart; reason your choice.
- •1. Read the chapters. Learn the Act. Voc. Reproduce the situations from the text and make up those of your own:
- •6. Speak on:
- •Use the flg. Words and word-combinations in your report:
- •Use the flg. Plan:
The flg. Statements are not true. Correct them:
One can’t be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
It wasn’t just like Walter to expose Kitty to such a cruel disillusion.
Walter’s chair headed the procession and all the rest followed her.
Kitty passed through the country with joy and pleasant anticipation.
Kitty understood perfectly well why Walter did not love her: it was her fault, though she remembered a thousand signs of his adoration.
Kitty could not understand why the bearers had called her attention to the archway that stood on the crest of the hill.
Convert the flg. Sentences from direct into indirect speech. Make all the necessary changes:
‘Of course, I love you,’ he said tenderly. ‘You surely can’t have any doubt of that now.’
‘Does that mean you don’t want her to divorce you?’ she asked.
‘ I’m not going to let you down,’ he said.
‘Oh, my dear, it’s rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he is in love with you,’ said Charlie.
‘We’re not going to get much further by saying disagreeable things to one another,’ he answered.
‘How can you be so heartless!’ she exclaimed.
Choose a passage ( 1 - 12 lines ) and learn it by heart. Be ready to recite it with proper pronunciation and intonation.
Section 6. W.S. Maugham. The Painted Veil. Ch. XXXI - XXXVIII.
Find in the text and reproduce the active voc. in the situations from the text:
to boast of / about
to perform the funeral rites
to take precautions
to clench hands
to humiliate smb.; humiliation
to put on ( no ) frills
to knock smb. down with a feather
a nun; nunnery
to be inoculated
to deceive smb.
Transcribe the words; practise reading them:
martyr, bizarre, bungalow, paraffin, ludicrous, grotesque, awe, barbarian, hilarious.
Complete the sentences using your active vocabulary:
In the dim light she could see ...
He spoke lightly and ...
He laughed as he recollected ...
The streets were narrow and tortuous and ...
The years ran down Kitty’s face and ...
Vaguely she knew that ...
Kitty sometimes was so frightened that ...
He gives you the impression that ...
She laughed with soft affection because ...
Dramatise the conversation between Waddington and Kitty (pp.106 - 108)
Copy out the words connected with the topic ‘Appearance’ and learn them.
Be ready with 5 sentences for back translation.
Write down the summary of the chapter you’ve read.
8. Choose a passage ( 10 - 12 ) lines, mark stresses and tunes, practise reading it, learn it by heart. Reason your choice.
Speak on:
Kitty’s acquaintance with Waddington.
Describe Waddington’s appearance and character.
Kitty’s dreams.
Kitty’s impression of the city she saw at dawn.
Kitty’s desire to escape.
Waddington’s attitude to Charlie.
Kitty’s thought about Charlie after his departure.
Kitty’s walks with Waddington.
Waddington’s impressions of Kitty’s married life.
Section 7. W.S. Maugham. The Painted Veil. ch. XXXIX - XLV.