7. Study the pair of verbs and point out connotations (additional senses) in the second word of the pair

eat devour

strike peck

push prod

hit butt

hit dash

move rush

throw fling

jump leap

touch paw

8. Listen to the passage beginning from “The animals decided unanimously…..” up to the end of Chapter IV. Prepare it for reading. Translate the passage into Russian (in writing).

7. Discussion Points

A. 1. How has the news about Animal Farm spread across the country? What was the reaction to this news of the farmers who had adjoining farms with Mr Jones ? Why did they delay helping Jones to recapture the farm? What made them eventually arrange the attack on the farm?

2. Speak on Snowball’s role in organizing the “defensive operations” Was he a skilled tactician? What made the men retreat?

3. Describe Boxer’s exploits. Why do you think he regretted “killing the stable man”?

4. How did the animals celebrate their victory?

B. Project Work

Allegory is a form of extended metaphor: it is a symbolic representation of abstract ideas in the form of a fable. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. The underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance. Orwell used allegory as a method of satire

List the events, behaviors or actions of the characters that have symbolic meanings. Find cases of verbal, dramatic or situational irony in the text.

Does Orwell sympathize with any of the characters (animals and humans)?

Chapter 5

1. Look up the following words in the dictionary. Write them in transcription. Practise reading the words

appetite, stroll, blithely, prance, conjure up, dispute, learned (adj.), silage, scheme, controversy, dynamo, machinery, incubator, unintelligible, manger, eloquence, growl, disinterred

2. Learn the following words. Quote the sentences in which these words were used. Give all the derivatives of these words

1. troublesome (adj.);

2. excuse oneself;

3. canvass (v);

4. procure (v);

5. faction (n);

6. side with;

7. conquer (v);

8. dismay (v);

9. articulate (adj.);

10. exaggerate (v);

3. Find English equivalents of the following phrases in the text

1. под любым предлогом;

2. «Дай мне честное слово»;

3. ничего не было известно о ее местонахождении;

4. в клетчатых бриджах и гетрах;

5. ратифицировать большинством голосов;

6. выжидать, ожидать благоприятного момента;

7. рисовать заманчивые картины (будущего);

8. стараться изо-всех сил;

9. держаться в стороне, особняком;

10. наблюдать украдкой, исподтишка;

11. поставить на голосование;

12. бросить косой взгляд;

13. председательствовать;

14. разобраться со своими мыслями;

15. до мельчайших подробностей

4. Match the definition with the verb from the text. Quote the sentence in which the verb was used

to walk in a slow unhurried way stroke

move one’s hand gently over something stroll

to walk in lively springing steps tread on

to walk or step on something prance

say something bound

to move quickly or energetically with large strides or jumps utter

bring up children assemble

gather rear