II. Questions and Topics for Analysis

1. Describe Dixon’s condition after his return from the local pub.

2. What happened upstairs, near the bathroom?

3. Who helped Dixon out of the predicament? What did Dixon feel towards his rescuer?

4. What happened during the night?

5. How did Dixon resolve the situation?

6. What were Dixon’s feelings towards “the encounter”?

7. What did Dixon discover when he “was alive again”?

8. How did he look and feel in the morning? What was his main concern?

9. What/who caused Dixon’s tears of rage?

10. What was special about breakfast at the Welches’?

11. What feelings did Callaghan girl evoke in Dixon?

12. How did she take Dixon’s account of the fire in his bedroom?

Note: Bakelite – «Бакелит», фирменное название синтетической смолы одноимённой фирмы; применяется для изготовления пластмассовых изделий.

III. Focus on Writing

1. Translate in written form the paragraphs “What gave him … receiver-rest” (p. 79;) “He heaved the bed away……in front of him looking like that” (p.86) into Ukrainian.

2. How do you understand the statements “There was no excuse which did not consist of the inexcusable” and “A stimulus cannot be received by the mind unless it serves some need of the organism”? Write down a short (80 words) comment on every statement.

3. Analyze protagonists’ personality characteristics taking into account the events described in the previous chapters. What episodes made you change your opinion about the main characters of the book?

IV. Focus on Text Interpretation

Simile is a partial identification of two objects belonging to different spheres or bringing together some of their qualities. The object and subject of comparison are united by formal markers: as, as…as, like, as though, as if, such as. Thus similes draw an imaginative comparison between two objects foregrounding one or more points of resemblance (e.g. My heart is like a singing bird; John works like a horse).

Note: Don’t confuse similes with grammatical/logical comparison (e.g. I am as tall as my mother; She works as hard as a miner).

Find in the chapter and write down in your copy books examples of similes. Find the points of resemblance between the compared objects and explain the effect they produce in the text.

Assignment 5 Chapters 7, 8 Chapter 7

I. Active Vocabulary

1. Learn the pronunciation and the meaning of the given words. Make up five sentences of your own with any of these words.

A junk-room, mould, imbecility, a chest of drawers, threshold, incendiarism, effortfully, wisp, feminine, neurotic, triteness, hang-over, un-prim.

2. Find the odd man out:

Cursedly pleasantly repulsively disgustingly

to bear with to put up with to stand for to rebuke

satisfactory intolerable insufferable unbearable

Primness simplicity stand-offishness stiffness

3. Define the meaning of the lexical units:

To be implicated, to barge in smth, by effort, on one’s part, to have no grace to do smth, to reflect on smth, to succeed in doing smth.

Write down the sentences they were used in. Translate them into Ukrainian.