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CHAPTER 5

Assignment 1. Define the following words and phrases considering their usage in the text. Copy out the sentences from the text which contain them; translate the sentences into Russian; reproduce the situations where these words and phrases were used; make up your own sentences with them.

1.to be overcome with astonishment (p. 76)

2.new mood of comprehension (p. 76)

3.irregular and sketchy triangle (p. 77)

4.to have the wit to do something (p.77)

5.to adjust one's values (p.78)

6.to feel reverence for sth (p.78)

7.to twist the meeting (p.79)

8.to lay out the subject of the debate (p.79)

9.to be tensely expectant (p. 80)

10.to let out one's spare breath (p. 80)

11.to let the fire out (p.81)

12.to override sth (p.81)

13.to interrupt testily (p.83)

14.to say sth indignantly (p.83)

15.to jabber (p.84)

16.a vivid horror (p.85)

17.subdued agreement (p.85)

18.to flinch away from the memory (p.86)

19.a face free of major blemishes (p.86)

20.physical intimidation (p.87)

21.to sag in one's grip (p.87)

22.to be unknown of infinite possibility (p.88)

23.breaking up of sanity (p.88)

24.to become inarticulate in one's effort to express (p.89)

25.to peer into the gloom (p.89)

26.an indignant voice (p.90)

27.to talk out of turn (p.90)

28.to front sb tempestuously (p.91)

29.to summon one's wits (p.91)

30.a discursive and random scatter (p.92)

31.mock hunting (p. 92)

32.in an appalled whisper (p. 93)

33.to kid oneself (p. 93)

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34.to strive unsuccessfully (p. 94)

35.powerless incantation (p. 94)

Assignment 2. Match a word with a definition. Make up your own sentences with them.

Assignment 3. Discuss the text answering the following questions:

1.What idea crossed Ralph's mind when he was pacing along a narrow firm strip by the water?

2.What did Ralph notice as a result of his new mood of comprehension?

3.Did the place of assembly look differently to Ralph at that time? How differently? Why?

4.Having fallen into a mood of speculation what was Ralph reconsidering?

5.Was it easy for Ralph to start the assembly? What was the main difficulty?

6.What things needed to be put straight?

7.How did Ralph bring up the actual subject of the assembly?

8.Which issue caused a row?

9.What was the last thing of Ralph's speech?

10.What was Jack speaking about? What arguments did he use?

11.How was Piggy's talk different from Jack's?

12.What was Phil, a littlun, talking about the beast? What was his fear about?

13.What was wrong with Percival, another littlun?

14.How did the debate proceed after Percival went to sleep?

15.What was Simon trying to say? What kind of mankind's essential illness did he mean?

16.What did Jack accuse Ralph of?

17.What groups did the assembly break up into?

Assignment 4. Write a summary of chapter 5.

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CHAPTER 6

Assignment 1. Define the following words and phrases considering their usage in the text. Copy out the sentences from the text which contain them; translate the sentences into Russian; reproduce the situations where these words and phrases were used; make up your own sentences with them.

1.save that (p. 95)

2.changing winds of various altitudes (p. 95)

3.to strain taut the lines/ to slacken the lines (p. 96)

4.tinder wood (p.96)

5.to go for sb (p.97)

6.a plopping noise (p.98)

7.to tighten the grip of one's arms (p.98)

8.interminable dawn (p.99)

9.to hold tremulously to each other (p.99)

10.to bristle with (spears) (p. 100)

11.to choke on tears (p.100)

12.to pull sb's leg (p.101)

13.to break in contemptuously (p.101)

14.to be emroiled (p.102)

15.exasperation (p.102)

16.to set out (along the beach) (p.103)

17.a flicker of incredulity (p.103)

18.impenetrable tangle of creepers (p. 104)

19. to totter (p.104)

20.chasms of empty air (p.105)

21.stupendous creature (p.105)

22.a clutch of eggs (p.106)

23.a smudge (p.106)

24.a sweeping movement (p.107)

25.to be nuts on sb (p.107)

26.to watch sb somberly (p.107)

27.to obscure one's idea (p.108)

28.to strike the skin off one's knuckles (p.108)

Assignment 2. Match a word with a definition. Make up your own sentences with them.

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Assignment 3. Discuss the text answering the following questions:

20.What was the sign that came down from the world of adults? 21.What was the situation with the signal fire?

22.Why did the twins suddenly become motionless and grip in each other's arms? 23.What was Ralph dreaming about when the twins woke him up ?

24.Why did Ralph call the assembly? Why didn't he blow the conch? 25.What did the twins tell the assembly about the beast?

26.What was the encounter between Ralph and Jack about? 27.How did Ralph manage to draw the crisis to his side? 28.What thought and doubts did Simon have on his mind? 29.How did Ralph show himself as a chief?

30.Why do you think Jack joined Ralph when he went to beet the beast?

31.What was Jack's plan about Castle Rock? What was the first step to implement his plan?

Assignment 4. Write a summary of chapter 6.

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CHAPTER 7

Assignment 1. Define the following words and phrases considering their usage in the text. Copy out the sentences from the text which contain them; translate the sentences into Russian; reproduce the situations where these words and phrases were used; make up your own sentences with them.

1.to have a wallow (with soap) (p. 109)

2.to bite (cut) one's finger–nail to the quick (p. 109)

3.to indulge a habit (p. 109)

4.to be subject for sth ( a shower) (p.110)

5.to numb one's brain (p.110)

6.brute obtuseness (p.111)

7.to search sth (one's face) for a clue (p.111)

8.to quest ahead (p.112)

9.a dog–eared book (p.112)

10.to bound (p. 113)

11.to be full of apprehension (p.113)

12.to squeal in mock terror (p.114)

13.to be carried away by a sudden excitement (p.114) 14.to retrieve one's status (p.115)

15.to twitch rags into place (p.115)

16.to brandish a spear (p.116)

17.to scale a cliff (p.116)

18.to imagine sth vividly (p. 117)

19. infuriatingly (p.117)

20.to sense the raising antagonism (p.118) 21.to set oneself as by right to do sth (p.118) 22.to run at a swift trot (p.119)

23.an urge to do sth (p.119)

24.bitterness of one's taunt (p.120)

25.to be handicapped by the darkness (p.120)

26.impervious (p.121)

27.to take giant strides (p.121)

28.bravado of one's intention (p.122)

29.desperate enterprise (p. 122)

30.nausea (p. 123)

31.to fuse one's fear into a hatred (p.123)

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Assignment 2. Match a word with a definition. Make up your own sentences with them.

cresfallen(117) An undertaking or business organization; industrious impervious (121) Dispirited and depressed; dejected

enterprise (122) Incapable of being penetrated or affected

Assignment 3. Discuss the text answering the following questions:

1.Why do you think Ralph suddenly started planning his toilet?

2.What caught and then held Ralph's attention?

3.Why did Ralph call Simon batty?

4.What was Ralph daydreaming about?

5.What was the hunters' tribal dance devoted to?

6.What was Ralph's decision after it became apparent to the biguns that they wouldn't get to the shelters before the dark? Who supported Ralph?

7.How did Jack make all the boys follow him up the mountain?

8.Who climbed the mountain?

9.Who was the first to see "the beast"? How did he describe it?

10.Did Ralph believe Jack? What did Ralph see on top of the mountain?

11.Follow the struggle between Ralph and Jack in this chapter, which is actually a power struggle for authority. How do the boys try to assert themselves?

12.How do the author portray the descent of the boys into animalistic behaviour?

Assignment 4. Write a summary of chapter 7.

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CHAPTER 8

Assignment 1. Define the following words and phrases considering their usage in the text. Copy out the sentences from the text which contain them; translate the sentences into Russian; reproduce the situations where these words and phrases were used; make up your own sentences with them.

1.to steal out (p. 124)

2.to be astir (p. 125)

3.to push against uncooperative silence (p. 126)

4.in tones of deep meaning and menace (p. 127)

5.to pay no heed to sth (to the steady fall of tears) (p. 127)

6.an expression of derisive incomprehension (p.128)

7.to rebuke sb (p.128)

8.to have the intellectual daring to suggest (p.129)

9.to be full of delight and expanding liberty (p. 129)

10.to crumble into sodden power (p. 130)

11.a partish air about the gathering (p.130)

12.to steal off (p.131)

13.to sound anxious (p.131)

14.to come to oneself with the jolt (p.132)

15.to size sth/sb up (p.133)

16.a tormented private life (p.133)

17.a demented shriek (p.134)

18.to stab down with a finger (p. 134)

19.to hurl oneself at (upon) sth (p.135)

20.to flick (hands) (p.135)

21.to pall (p. 136)

22.to be dim with (p.137)

23.ancient inescapable recognition (p.138)

24.a wide spray of green (p.138)

25.to be vexed to find (p.139)

26.to unburden oneself (p.139)

27.to flush with pride (p.140)

28.to be safe from shame or self–consciousness behind the mask of (p.140)

29.to raid sb for sth (p. 141)

30.a lame remark (p. 142)

31.a sudden gust of hot wind (p.142)

32.to break away (p. 143)

33.misguided (p.143)

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34.to do sb (p. 144)

Assignment 2. Match a word with a definition. Make up your own sentences with

Assignment 3. Discuss the text answering the following questions:

1.How does Piggy accept the news about the Beast?

2.Who calls the assembly?

3.Is Jack's suggestion that Ralph shouldn't be chief supported? What's Jack's reaction?

4.How does Ralph defend himself ?

5.In what way does Jack's refusal to accept the other boys' decision remind a child's behaviour?

6.Comment on the political pretext of Ralph and Jack's opposition. How would you characterize the two governments that emerge on the island?

7.Who demonstrates practical wisdom and ability to adapt to situations again in this chapter?

8.Fill in the gaps with the names of the main characters:

Among the major characters, _________ is the only one who does not have a predictable emotional arc. While ______and ______ descend into their respective forms of madness and ________ remains sensible but increasingly cynical,

_______ confounds expectations; he assumes a particular authority among the boys despite his off-putting appearance and refined tastes as ______defers to his judgment and resolve.

9)How do Jack and his hunters continue to descend into savagery in this chapter? How does Jack state the point of his new tribe?

10)What is the symbol of the descent from civilized behaviour to animalistic savagery?

11)How does Simon discover that nature can be brutal and horrifying? What contradicts spirituality inherent in nature?

12)How is Golding's idea of evil as an internal force conveyed in this chapter?

Assignment 4. Write a summary of chapter 8.

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CHAPTERS 9–10

Assignment 1. Define the following words and phrases considering their usage in the text. Copy out the sentences from the text which contain them; translate the sentences into Russian; reproduce the situations where these words and phrases were used; make up your own sentences with them.

1.a brassy glare (p. 145)

2.a fit passed into the weariness of sleep (p. 145)

3.wide spaces interspersed with thickets (p. 146)

4.to free sth from the wind's indignity (p. 147)

5.to retire in pained silence (p. 147)

6.to haul off a great chunk of meat (p.149)

7.the center of social derision (p.149)

8.a jagged rim (p.150)

9.to go crimson (p. 150)

10.to flinch from the stroke of the drops (p. 151) 11.a club of firewood (p.151)

12.a demeted society (p. 152)

13.unendurable / abominable noise (p.152)

14.to stagger away (p.153)

15.a streak of phosphorescence (p.153)

16.streadfast constallations (p.154)

17.a slit in one's puffy cheek (p.155)

18.a scab formed on the knee (p.155)

19.to gaze with impaired sight (p.155)

20.a low and stricken voice (p. 156)

21.the voice trailed off (p. 157)

22.loathing and feverish excitement in one's voice (p. 157) 23.to get sth over (p. 158)

24.the air heavy with unspoken knowledge (p.158)

25.to hold out against sth (the horrors of the island) (p. 159) 26.torrid sun (p. 159)

27.to assimilate the possibilities of irresponsible authority (p. 160) 28.to squirm (p. 160)

29.daunted by the implication of further terrors (p. 161) 30.the murmur spilled into uncertain silence (p. 161) 31.a beckoning column of smoke (p.162)

32.to dredge in the fading knowledge of the world (p. 162) 33.to cram in haste (p. 163)

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34.at the moment of greatest passion and conviction (p. 163) 35. to nod vigorously (p. 164)

36.a nighty game of supposing (p. 164)

37. a dreadful moaning (p. 165)

38.to be ambushed by sleep (p. 165)

39.head prickled (p.166)

40.a composite of confused images prowling round the shelters (p. 166) 41.a writhing body (p. 167)

42.the night purged of immediate terror (p. 167)

43.a chief in truth (p. 168)

Assignment 2. Match a word with a definition. Make up your own sentences with

Assignment 3. Discuss the text answering the following questions:

1.What was the evening before the storm like?

2.Where was Siman? What did he discover? What did he decide to do about his revelation?

3.What were Piggy and Ralph doing? Why were they on their own?

4.Why did Ralph and Piggy decide to find the other boys?

5.How did they find the boys and Jack?

6.How did Jack assert his leadership and power?

7.What did Jack and Ralph argue again about? What were their arguments?

8.How did Jack reply to the threat of the sky?

9.What do you consider a culmination of the violence among Jack's hunters? How

did brutality against animals move to brutality against each other? 10.What did Ralph look like when he came out of the jungle?

11.What were Ralph and Piggy discussing? How did they try to justify their behaviour? Where did Samneric come in?

12.Even though Ralph and Piggy appeared to be susceptible to the same evel forces that motivated Jack and his hunters, Golding still separates them. How does he do it?

13.What new reality did Roger encounter when he arrived at Castle Rock?

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