1. Find the active vocabulary in the text; Make up your own sentences with the active words and word-combinations:

• convent - community of monks or nuns; their building;

nunnery - convent of nuns; a nun - woman living in a convent under religious vow;

• to grin at smb.; to grin from ear to ear;

• to maintain

• a flippant remark ( answer )

• to come to smb.’s resque

• a rougish glance ( smile)

• at smb.’s disposal

• to fall a victim of the epidemic

• to give the shadow of a bow

• to be burdened with smth.; to burden one’s memory with useless facts

• a dormitory

2. Transcribe the flg. words; practise reading them; give Russian equivalents;

malicious, a chequered oilcloth, subterfuge, austerity, amiable, austere demeanour, elaborate embroideries, orphan.

3. Give synonyms for:

grave, merry, charming, simple, permit, desolate, plain.

4. Give antonyms for:

indiscreet, to obey, offensive, sober, understanding.

5. Complete the sentences using your active vocabulary:

• But there was some other quality in her which .....

• She shuddered a little for .....

• Alone once more in the sordid parlour .....

• She had nothing else to do .....

• She had only contempt for herself because .....

• She could not but admit .....

• It was easy to see that .....

6. Speak on:

• Kitty’s decision to visit the convent.

• A drive through a Chinese city.

• Kitty’s impression of the Mother Superior.

• The appearance of the Mother Superior.

• The convent and its inhabitants.

• The interior view of the chapel.

• The orphans in the parlour and Walter’s attitude to them.

• Kitty’s thoughts about her visit to the convent.

SECTION 8. W.S. Maugham. The Painted Veil. Ch. XLVI - L.

I. Learn the active vocabulary. Reproduce the situations it was used in the text. Make up sentences of your own with it:

1. trifle; trifling things

2. to occur to smb.

3. to treat smb. well / badly

4. tedious

5. to flush to the roots of one’s hair

6. to stand in awe of smb.

7. a wayward child

8. to harbour malice in one’s heart

9. to be short-handed

10. to be reticent about (on) smth.

11. to frame the words

12. to have no ear for music

II. Transcribe the flg. words. Give their Russian equivalents: scrupulously, absurd, disproportionate, hydrocephalic, profile, cameo, gorgeous, loquacious, desultorily, arduous, ominously

III. Give synonyms: to cease, weary, rapid, to surrender, tiny, to console, remote

IV. Give antonyms: worthless, insignificant

5. Translate the flg. Sentences:

1. With the regular and finely-cut features it was very distinguished but it was more than severe, it was grim; that immobility of his, only his eyes moving as he perused each page, was vaguely terrifying.

2. He was clad in faded and shapeless rags that looked as though he raked them out of a muck-heap, and through their rents you saw his skin hard and rough and tanned like the hide of a goat; his bare legs were emaciated, and his head, with its shock of coarse grey hair ( the cheeks hollow, the eyes wild ) was the head of a madman.

6. Explain and expand the flg. :

1. You don’t ask for a pearl necklace or a sable coat at a booth in a fair, you ask for a tin trumpet and a toy balloon.

2. ... he had dressed a doll in gorgeous robes and set her in a sanctuary to worship her ...

7. Speak on :

1. Kitty’s talk with Walter about her decision to work in the convent.

2. Kitty’s meditations about her relations with Walter. Her thoughts about his appearance.

3. Kitty’s observations on the way to the convent. Her talk with the Mother Superior.

4. Kitty’s work in the convent - a refreshment to her spirit.

5. Kitty’s friendship with sister St. Joseph.

8. Give a summary of Section 8.

SECTION 9. W.S. Maugham. The Painted Veil. ch. LI - LVI.

1. Read the chapters. Learn the active vocabulary:

1. to peep in ( into )

2. to be devoted to smb.

3. to yearn ( to, for, after ) smb./ smth.

4. vanity; to do smth. out of vanity; to feed smb.’s vanity

5. to commit suicide; to commit to oblivion;

Proverb: He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

6. eternal

1. to give smb. credit fot smth.; He is a man of credit.

2. to make a vow; to be under a vow to do smth.

3. to do smth. on purpose

4. to love smb. to distraction

5. to be wicked of smb. ; wicked world.

6. to make an unforeseen discovery.

2. Transcribe the words; give their Russian equivalents: reverence, princess ( 2 var.), besiege, perplexed, nausea, to vomit.

3. Give synonyms: to exist, ugly, security, terror, to struggle, illness, chuckle, to betray.

4. Give antonyms: genious, to forbid, apart, polite.

5. Complete the sentences with your own endings using your active voc. :

1. It is as though they possessed a secret which .....

2. It’s a good many years now since .....

3. She seemed to be .....

4. She gave a little laugh and .....

5. The silence was intolerable and .....

6. Her thoughts wandered strangely .....

7. She had a feeling that .....

8. There was no need for .....

6. Answer the flg. questions:

1. What hummered madly in Walter’s brain and why?

2. Why did Kitty have to tell Walter the truth?

3. Why did the Manchu Princess stand as the symbol of something that vaguely, but insistently, beckoned to her?

4. Why did Kitty feel relief and the sense of liberation?

7. Speak on the flg. points:

1. The personality of Mother Superior.

1. Mr. Waddington’s private life.

1. Kitty’s work at the convent.

1. A trip to a Buddhist monastery.

1. The human race - the drops of water in the river.

1. Kitty’s fainting fit.

1. Kitty’s final talk to Walter.

Section 10. W.S. Maugham. The Painted Veil. Ch. LVII - LX.

1. Learn the Active Voc. Find the situations in the text and make up those of your own:

1. acid irony; acid looks

2. to heal a wound; Time heals most troubles.

3. to attach importance to

4. to care a row of pins

5. to embroider; embroidery

6. to feel all thumbs

7. to give smb. a sidelong glance

8. to be content to do smth

9. fatigue

10. to be at liberty to do smth

2. Transcribe the words; give their Russian equivalents: fornication, nuisance, magnanimous, haphazard, sojourn, exhaustion, languid, jasmine, contemptuous, knuckle, tapestry.

3. Read the passage (pp. 164-165) beginning with ‘ She was slim...’ up to ‘... the breeding of uncounted centuries.’ Translate it.

4. Give synonyms:

desolation, ridiculous, sensitiveness, weary, to resume.

5. Give antonyms: significance, acid, faithful, fair.

6. Complete the flg. sentences:

1. Kitty hesitated for a moment before .....

2. She took Kitty’s hand and .....

3. The Mother Superior thought a little and .....

3. My mother made no answer and .....

4. There is only way to .....

6. I was still lost in my anxiety and .....

5. But I know that .....

7. Speak on:

1. Walter’s suggestion to take Kitty away.

1. The dinner at Waddington’s house.

1. The mystery of birth blow through the convent.

1. The Mother’s Superior thoughts of the past.

1. Your idea of the alternations of Kitty’s character.

Section 11.W.S. Maugham. The Painted Veil. Ch. LXI - LXVIII.

1. Read the chapters. Learn the active voc.; reproduce the situations from the text and make up your own ones:

1. to be detained

2. to surrender oneself to smth. ( e.g. to despair )

3. to mortify

4. to take pains to do smth.

5. There’s a pretty kettle of fish!

6. to have mercy on smb.

7. to cast down one’s eyes

8. to sympathize with smb.

9. to make a pretence of smth.

10. to be captured by smth./smb.

11. to torment smb.

2. Transcribe the flg. words; give the Russian equivalents:

pestilence, sanguine, envisage, phosphorized, ominous, pallet, rancour, deliverance, tranquil, serene, chaos.

3. Translate into Russian:

1. ..... she could not attach the sound to reality

2. ..... his head was tousled as though he had just jumped out of bed.

3. Kitty could not bring herself to utter the question that trembled horribly on her lips.

4. ..... it was so slight, it was like a breath of air which you cannot feel and yet for an instant ruffles the surface of still water.

5. Those ghastly eyes of his still stared vacantly in front of him.

4. Give synonyms:

swiftly, to protect, a bow, riot, clumsy, to utter, apprehension.

5. Give antonyms: to lock, mortal, alive, passionate.

6. Translate the passage on pp. 215 - 216 from ‘It is the Way ...’ up to ‘... who conquers himself.’ Be ready to read it for a mark.

7. Comment on:

1. Life is a cross which they willingly bear.

2. The richest in beauty is the beautiful life.

8. Be ready to talk on ‘Walter Fane’.

9. Speak on:

1. Kitty’s thoughts like little white clouds reflected on a still lake.

2. Unexpected night’s alarm.

3. Walter’s death.

4. Kitty’s way home.

5. The burial service.

6. Kitty’s talk with Waddington about the problems of life and death.

7. Kitty’s return to the convent.

10. Dramatize the dialogue between Kitty and Waddington about the problems of life and death.

Section 12. W.S. Maugham. The Painted Veil. Ch. LXIX - LXXV.

1. Read the chapters. Learn the active voc.; reproduce the situations from the text and make up those of your own:

1. to be sea-sick

2. callous

3. to disguise ( to disguise oneself in a woman’s dress )

4. to be under an obligation

5. to talk balderdash

6. to fall head over heels in love with smb.

7. to foresee smth.

8. to be convinced of smth.

9. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

2. Transcribe the flg. words: peremptousness, placid, paradise, voluminous, wraith, lapis lazuli, savoury, despicable, iridescent, valiant, effusiveness, bereavement, fragile.

3. Give synonyms: malicious, sacrifice, sorrow, cruel, cordial.

4. Give antonyms: to attract, reluctant, personal, curious, tolerant.