- •Assigment II
- •1. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •2. Learn the phrases of the active vocabulary so as to write a dictation- translation.
- •3. Answer the following questions:
- •4. Describe Miss Barkley using the active vocabulary.
- •5. Paraphrase or interpret the following:
- •6. Read and compare the weather’s description with new feelings of the main character:
- •7. Give a stylistic analysis of the dialogue between Frederic and Catherine.
- •Assigment III
- •3. Learn the phrases of the active vocabulary so as to write a dictation- translation.
- •4. Use the phrases given above in your situations.
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Insert prepositions wherever necessary:
- •7. Paraphrase or interpret the following:
- •8. Comment on the following. Give a stylistic analysis of the abstract.
- •9. Retell the chapters. (give the summary and the gist to each chapters) assigment IV
- •1. Reproduce the situations with the following word combinations:
- •2. Find the English equivalents in the texts:
- •3. Learn the phrases above by heart and use them in the story of your own.
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Paraphrase or interpret the following:
- •7. Comment on the following:
- •8. Give a stylistic analysis of the abstract.
- •9. Speak on the episode you were impressed by most of all. Comment on it. Assigment V
- •1. Choose an extract of 10-15 lines for a well-prepared reading and translation.
- •2. Find the English equivalents in the texts:
- •2. Learn the phrases of the active vocabulary so as to write a dictation- translation.
- •3. Ask your group-mates 15-20 questions to check up their understanding of the chapters’ content.
- •4. Insert prepositions wherever necessary:
- •5. Insert articles wherever necessary:
- •6. Paraphrase or interpret the following:
- •7. Describe Rinaldi’s visit to the hospital. Reproduce the conversation between Frederic and Rinaldi.
- •8. Comment on the following:
- •9. Give gist to each chapters in writing. Book II assigment VI
- •1. Choose an extract of 10-15 lines for a well-prepared reading and translation.
- •2. Match the English and Russian vocabulary units, find the sentences in the text and give the translation of them:
- •3. Learn the phrases of the active vocabulary so as to write a dictation translation.
- •4. Correct the wrong statements given below using the conversational phrases on p. 59. Add a few more sentences to make up a dialogue.
- •5. Paraphrase or interpret the following:
- •Assigment VII
- •3. Make up a situation using as many of these expressions as possible.
- •4. Make up 10 or more detailed questions about the development of the events. Ask your fellow – students.
- •5. Fill the prepositions:
- •6. Paraphrase or interpret the following:
- •8. Comment on the following:
- •9. Retell the chapters. (give the summary and the gist to each chapters) assigment VIII
- •1. Find the English equivalents in the texts and illustrate them in sentences of your own. Learn them:
- •2. Recall the situations where the phrases are used.
- •3. Choose all the phrases dealing with the topic “Illnesses and their Treatment”, make a short dialogue to practice them in speech.
- •4. Answer the following questions using your active vocabulary phrases:
- •5. Make a list of adjectives the writer uses for characterizing people (both the appearance and inner world). Memorize them.
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •7. Reproduce and analyze the conversation between Frederic and Catherine.
- •8. Give a stylistic analysis of the abstract. Pick out sentences with Metathor.
- •9. Retell the chapters. (give the summary and the gist to each chapters) assigment IX
- •1. Find the Russian equivalents in the text, reproduce the situations with them and illustrate them in sentences of your own:
- •2. Make up a situation using as many of these expressions as possible.
- •3. Answer the following questions using your active vocabulary phrases:
- •4. Fill in prepositions:
- •9. Retell the chapters. (give the summary and the gist to each chapters) assigment X
- •1. Prepare the most important extract (from your point of view) for a good reading and translation.
- •2. Find the English equivalents in the text, reproduce the situations with them and illustrate them in sentences of your own:
- •3. Learn the phrases of the active vocabulary so as to write a dictation - translation.
- •4. Answer the following questions using your active vocabulary phrases:
- •5. Insert prepositions wherever necessary:
- •6. Explain the role of the nature in these chapters.
- •7. Comment on the dialogue between Frederic and Catherine:
- •Assigment XI
- •8. Make up an outline of the chapter.
- •9. Give the summary of the chapter. Book III assigment XII
- •3. Learn the phrases of the active vocabulary so as to write a dictation translation.
- •4. Make up a situation or several short situations using expressions mentioned above.
- •5. Answer the following questions using your active vocabulary phrases:
- •6. Fill in the gaps with prepositions:
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Dramatize the talk between Frederic and Rinaldi.
- •9. Retell the chapter close to the text. Assigment XIII
- •3. Make up a situation using as many of these expressions as possible.
- •4. Answer the following questions using your active vocabulary phrases:
- •5. Read and compare the weather’s description with new feelings of the characters. Try to correlate these phenomena.
- •6. Comment on the following sentences:
- •7. Act the dialogue between Frederic and the priest.
- •9. Retell the chapters. (give the summary and the gist to each chapters) assigment XIV
- •3. Make up several short situations with these phrases.
- •4. Insert prepositions wherever necessary:
- •5. Explain the meaning of the sentences:
- •6. Make up and write down five false statements about the events.
- •7. Comment on Frederic’s monologue:
- •Assigment XV
- •5. Paraphrase or interpret the following:
- •8. Make up a dialogue to discuss in general the events of the chapter.
- •9. Give the gist of the chapter. Assigment XVI
- •2. Match the English and Russian vocabulary units, find the sentences in the text and give the translation of them:
- •3. Learn the phrases above by heart and use them in the story of your own.
- •4. Answer the following questions using your active vocabulary phrases:
- •5. Insert prepositions wherever necessary:
- •Assigment XVII
- •3. Make up a situation using as many of these expressions as possible.
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •5. Insert prepositions wherever necessary:
- •6. Paraphrase and interpret:
- •7. Give a stylistic analysis of the abstract.
- •8. Comment on the following extract of the chapter:
- •9. Speak on any episode or event you liked in these chapters best. Book IV assigment XVIII
- •1. Give the title to the chapter you have read.
- •8. Act the dialogue between Frederic and proprietor.
- •9. Give the gist of the chapter. Assigment XIX
- •1. Match the English and Russian vocabulary units, find the sentences in the text and give the translation of them:
- •6. Explain the meaning of the sentences:
- •7. Act and comment on the conversation between Frederic, Catherine and Helen Ferguson, paying your attention to their emotions and attitude to each other.
- •8. Comment on the following:
- •Assigment XX
- •6. Dramatize the dialogue between Frederic and Count Greffi.
- •Assigment XXI
- •3. Get ready to write a dictation – translation including your active vocabulary from the previous assignment.
- •4. Insert prepositions wherever necessary:
- •5. Insert articles wherever necessary:
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •Assigment XXII
- •3. Use the phrases given above in your micro-dialogues.
- •4. Get ready to answer the questions:
- •5. Paraphrase or explain:
- •6. Complete the following sentences according to the chapter’s content:
- •7. Find out all the nature’s descriptions. Underline the sentences where it is compared with a human being.
- •8. Translate into English.
- •9. Retell the chapters. (give the summary and the gist to each chapters) Book V assigment XXIII
- •2. Find the English equivalents in the text, reproduce the situations with them and illustrate them in sentences of your own:
- •7. Translate into English.
- •Assigment XXIV
- •9. Retell the story as if you were:
- •Assigment XXV
- •1. Title the chapter. Explain your choice in a few words.
- •2. Match the English and Russian vocabulary units, find the sentences in the text and give the translation of them:
- •3. Use the phrases given above in your micro-dialogues.
- •4. Insert prepositions wherever necessary:
- •5. Make up 10 questions about the contents of the chapter.
- •6. Complete the following sentences according to the chapter’s content:
- •7. Translate into English.
- •Assigment XXVI
- •3. Recount the situations in which these expressions are used.
- •4. Paraphrase or explain:
- •5. Get ready to answer the questions:
- •6. Find out all the nature’s descriptions. Underline the sentences where it is compared with a human being.
- •7. The following passage is one of the most famous metaphors in literature. Briefly describe how this metaphor illustrates the major theme in the chapter that the world is cruel and death inevitable.
- •8. Comment on the following:
- •9. Retell the chapters. (give the summary and the gist to each chapters) revision & discussion
- •Exploring Ideas and Questions for final Discussion
- •Supplementary material Studies of Written English
- •Summary
- •Message
- •Composition
- •Notes on style
- •Notes on synonyms, antonyms and homonyms
- •Conversational Phrases
- •1. Handling a Dialogue
- •2. Reacting to News
- •3. Discussion. Opinions
- •4. Agreeing. Disagreeing
- •5. Giving Advice
- •6. Explaining and clarifying
- •7. Asking for an opinion
- •Characteristics of People Personal Qualities
- •Adjectives Describing Emotions
- •Additional Words and Word Combinations Suggested for Literary Discussion
- •Scheme of a Book Appraisal
- •Рекомендуемая литература Основная
- •Дополнительная
- •Интернет-источники
- •Содержание
8. Comment on the following:
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
9. Divide the chapter into parts, name them and retell it.
Assigment XX
READ CHAPTER XXXV
1. Try to guess or find in the dictionary the meaning of the following expressions containing the words from the chapter:
1) играть в бильярд
2) произвести сильное впечатление
3) отступать
4) гребля
5) рыбная ловля
6) осведомляться о чем-либо
7) уехать за границу
8) быть чьим-либо современником
9) находиться на дипломатической службе
10) являться большим общественным событием
2. Recall the situations from the chapter where the above-mentioned phrases are used.
3. Learn the phrases of the active vocabulary so as to write a dictation translation from the previous assignment.
4. Make up 20 questions about the contents of the chapter.
5. Paraphrase or explain:
1) Stresa looked very deserted from the lake.
2) I lay down on the bed and tried to keep from thinking.
3) Knotting my tie and looking in the glass I looked strange to myself in the civilian clothes.
4) “I know. You haven’t anything to do. All you have is me and I go away.”
“That’s true.”
“I’m sorry, darling. I know it must be a dreadful feeling to have nothing at all suddenly.”
5) “Oh, I am always well. But I am getting old. I detect signs of age now.”
6) “She (Ferguson) won’t stay afterward, will she?”
“No. I’ll get rid of her.”
7) You must miss them (Americans). One misses one’s countrymen and especially one’s countrywomen. I know that experience.
6. Dramatize the dialogue between Frederic and Count Greffi.
“Will you tell me about the war?”
“About anything else.”
“You don’t want to talk about it? Good. What have you been reading?”
“Nothing. I’m afraid I am very dull.”
“No. But you should read. I thought Mr. ‘Britling’ a very good study of the English middle-class soul.”
“I don’t know about the soul.”
“Poor boy. We none of us know about the soul. Are you Croyant?”
“At night.”
“I had expected to become more devout as I grow older but somehow I haven’t. “It is a great pity.”
“Would you like to live after death?”
“It would depend on the life. This life is very pleasant. I would like to live forever. I very nearly have. If you ever live to be as old as I am you will find many things strange.”
“You never seem old.”
“It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser.”
“You are wise.”
“No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“Perhaps that is wisdom.”
“It is a very unattractive wisdom. What do you value most?”
“Some one I love.”
“With me it is the same. That is not wisdom. Do you value life?”
“Yes.”
“So do I. Because it is all I have. And to give birthday parties. You are probably wiser than I am. You do not give birthday parties.”
“What do you think of the war really?”
“I think it is stupid.”
“Who will win it?”
“Italy.”
“Why?”
“They are a younger nation.”
“Do younger nations always win wars?”
“They are apt to for a time.”
“Then what happens?”
“They become older nations.”
“You said you were not wise.”
“Dear boy, that is not wisdom. That is cynicism.”
“It sounds very wise to me.”
“It’s not particularly. I could quote you the examples on the other side. But it is not bad. I hope you will be very fortunate and very happy and very, very healthy.”
“Thank you. And I hope you will live forever.”
“Thank you. I have. And if you ever become devout pray for me if I am dead. I am asking several of my friends to do that. I had expected to become devout myself but it has not come.”
“I might become very devout. Anyway, I will pray for you.”
“I had always expected to become devout. All my family died very devout. But somehow it does not come.”
“It’s too early.”
“Maybe it is too late. Perhaps I have outlived my religious feeling.”
“My own comes only at night.”
“Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling.”
“You believe so?”
“Of course. You were very kind to play.”
“It was a great pleasure.”
7. Speak on Count Greffi’s opinion on the following topics:
wisdom in old age
the war
religious devotion
8. Discuss the chapter’s events in dialogues of your own.
9. Give the gist of the chapter.