Assignment #6.

(pp. 51-62)

1. Read chapter IV up to passage «The addition of the Archbishop ...» on p. 62.

2. Study the pronunciation:

harlequin; coiffeur; lachrymose; connoisseurship; coterie; masseur; antiques; porcelain; nougat; frontier; omniscient; tenacious; turquoise; renaissance; puerile; omniscience

3. Study the meaning of the vocabulary below and give the situations from the text:

• to send word to somewhere (p. 51)

• to be moth-eaten by disease (p. 52)

• to be swamped with smth. (p. 53)

• to live by one’s wits (p. 53)

• to be tied down (p. 54)

• to reveal oneself (p. 55)

• to fall from favour (p. 55)

• to be contemptuous of smth. (p. 55)

• to bestir smb. (p. 59)

• to efface smb. (p. 59)

4. Think of a situation to encourage your group-mates to use the vocabulary listed above.

4. Prepare good reading and translation of the passage on p. 51 «As the golden wire ... mysterious errands of his».

4. Topics for discussion:

1. Uncle Pio’s biography.

2. How do his life-aims characterize Uncle Pio?

3. Uncle Pio and the ladies.

4. Uncle Pio plays Pygmalion.

5. Comment on the six attributes of the adventurer given on p. 53

Assignment #7

(chapter IV up to p. 73)

1. Study the pronunciation:

cursory; divinity; vagabondage; furtive; usurpation; convalescence; distraught; ludicrous; vicinity; rachitic; dowager; parapet

2. Study the vocabulary

• of one’s own accord (p. 62)

• to allude to smth. (p. 64)

• to extricate oneself (p. 65)

• to linger about (p. 66)

• to fix a wish upon a star (p. 66)

• idle-handed (p. 66)

• to talk at random (p. 67)

• to have (no) heart for smth. (p. 68)

• to penetrate into (p. 69)

• to be impaired (p. 69)

• to besiege smth. (p. 69)

• to enforce one’s request (p. 72)

2. Situations of encouragement.

2. Prepare good reading and translation of the passage on p. 63 «All night they talked ... the race of men»

2. Topics for discussion:

1. Uncle Pio’s love for Camila.

2. What does «some island» mean for Uncle Pio? (p. 68)

3. What changes happened to Camila with years?

Assignment #8

(part V)

1. Study the pronunciation:

votive; horizon; friar; languorous; embroidery; procedure; unsavoury; rueful; sincere; avarice; chasm; frontier

2. Study the vocabulary:

• by dint of hearing (p. 74)

• mainstay of a full hut (p. 74)

• to contrive (p. 74)

• to stumble about (p. 75)

• to relapse into smth. (p. 78)

• to gape over smb. (p. 78)

• to fail smb. (p. 78)

• to lurk about (p. 79)

3. Your situations of encouragement.

3. Read and translate the passage «And so saying ...» on p. 75.

3. Items for discussion:

1. The way the work of Brother Juniper was evaluated. Why did he admit he was under the influence of the devil? (p. 76).

2. What brought Camila to the Abbess?

3. Give your opinion about the story of the master of San Martin (p. 75)

4. Comment on the reaction of Captain Alvarado (p. 77) «How false, how unreal».

5. Comment on the last words of the book.

6. Why those five?

7. Anyone who is interested in reading biographies? What do you find in them?