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Cultural Background
Explain the following realia and give the context in which they are used in the book:
♦ the Levant;
♦ Alexandria;
♦ Bellotto;
♦ Zoffany.
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Reading and Translation
Read and translate the following extract:
1) (p. 194–195) – "I suppose the next three years were the happiest of Strickland's life. ………………. Then they
would go and eat themselves sick, and dance, and sing hymns."
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Questions and Tasks for Discussion
I. Answer the questions:
1. How did the narrator plan to write his book and how did he write it? (p. 180)
2. Did Strickland make a great impression on the people who came in contact with him in Tahiti? (p. 180)
3. Why did the narrator want to see a Jewish trader called Cohen? (p. 181)
4. Why was Cohen interested in Strickland? (p. 181)
5. What job did Cohen give to Strickland? (p. 181)
6. How did Cohen explain his sympathy for artists? (p. 181)
7. How long did Strickland work as an overseer? (p. 181)
8. What did Cohen and his wife think about Strickland’s picture of their plantation? (p. 182)
9. What three things did Tiare Johnson love? (p. 184)
10. What did Cohen’s wife do with the picture? (p. 182)
11. What did Tiare Johnson do when she wished to do honour to a friend? (p. 184)
12. Did Tiare Johnson turn her customers out of her house because they did not pay their bills? (p. 184)
13. Why did her father call her Tiare? (p. 185)
14. Why was Tiare sorry for Strickland? (p. 185)
15. How did Tiare try to help Strickland? (p. 185)
16. How long did it take Strickland to reach Tahiti after he left Marseilles? (p. 185)
17. What did Ata do in Tiare’s hotel? (p. 190)
18. How often did Strickland come to Papeete? (p. 190)
19. Was Ata a native? (p. 190)
20. How old was Ata? (p. 191)
21 What did Tiare say to Strickland when he told her of his wife in England? (p. 191)
22. Did Strickland paint Ata? (p. 192)
23. Where was Ata's property situated? (p. 194)
24. What years were the happiest of Strickland's life? (p. 194)
25. What trees grew around Ata's house? (p. 194–195)
II. Explain the following:
1. I am in the position of a biologist who from a single bone must reconstruct not only the appearance of an extinct
animal, but its habits. (p. 180)
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2. It was not till he had been dead for some years and agents came from the dealers in Paris and Berlin to look for
any pictures which might still remain on the island, that they had any idea that among them had dwelt a man of
consequence. (p. 180)
3. The place had got hold of him by then, and he wanted to get away into the bush. (p. 181)
4. And at last I received a letter from my brother. What do you think he said? (p. 182–183)
5. Then Monsieur Cohen said an admirable thing.
"I wish that poor Strickland had been still alive. I wonder what he would have said when I gave him twenty-nine
thousand eight hundred francs for his picture." (p. 183)
6. Mrs. Johnson, the proprietress of the Hotel de la Fleur, had a sad story to tell of lost opportunity. (p. 183)
7. And I looked up and I saw the outline of the island. I knew right away that there was the place I'd been looking for
all my life. (p. 185)
8. I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. (p. 186)
9. It wasn't I that acted, but something stronger within me. (p. 188)
10. “Abraham hadn't got character."
Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour's
meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. (p. 189)
11. "I shall beat you,” he said, looking at her.
"How else should I know you loved me,” she answered. (p. 192)
12. I've never been so deceived in a man as I was in George Rainey. (p. 192)
13. I saw he was longing to get away to the bush, and at the end of the month I asked him what he intended to do. (p.
193)
III. Speak on:
1. The story of a man called Abraham (p. 186–187)
2. Alec Carmichael’s lucky chance. (p. 188–189)
3. Strickland’s marriage. (p. 191–194)
4. Tiare Johnson’s appearance and character.
Lesson 13 (ch. LIII–LV )
Vocabulary
Reading and Translation
Questions and Tasks for Discussion
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Vocabulary
I. Study the words and phrases from the vocabulary list. Reproduce the situations in which they are used
in the book.
1) to sit on one’s haunches p. 197 – сидеть на корточках,
2) with a vengeance p. 197 – полностью, в полной мере,
3) a square peg in the round hole p. 200 – белая ворона,
4) to live in penury p. 201 – жить в нищете,
5) to give a gasp p. 205 – онеметь от изумления,
6) He was seized with horror p. 205 – Его охватил ужас.
7) without ceremony p. 206 – запросто; без церемоний,
8) to recover oneself p. 206 – прийти в себя,
9) to be of service p. 208 – быть полезным,
10) at the cost of smth p. 210 – ценою чего-л.
II. Give Russian equivalents:
- a suit of ducks (196) –
- the Garden of Eden (196) –
- complete stillness (198) –
- the rumble of omnibuses (199) –
- the cobbled pavements (199) –
- inexplicable (201) –
- a barren island (202) –
- to work strenuously (202) –
- remote island (202) –
- meaningless phrase (202) –
- strong will (203) –
- determined character (203) –
- florid complexion (203) –
- a crumpled piece of newspaper (204) –
- loathsome disease (206) –
- fortitude (208) –
- dreadful affliction (208) –
- with a heavy heart (208) –
- a feeling of uneasiness (209) –
- primeval forest (210) –
- the abode of pain (210) –
III. Give corresponding nouns:
1) charm , fascination;
2) loathing, abhorrence;
3) esteem, respect;
4) fearless; daring; bold;
5) bush, shrub;
6) happiness;
7) belly;
8) servant;
9) annoyance, fret;
10) cruel, hardhearted, merciless;
11) inexplicable , strange.
a) enchantmen;
b) intrepid;
c) blessedness;
d) detestation;
e) unaccountable;
f) vexation;
g) paunch;
h) scrub;
i) consideration;
j) retainer;
k) ruthless.
to contemplate –
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shrewd –
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intrude –
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lonely –
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to yawn –
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idle
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IV. Match the synonyms:
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V. Fill in the verbs using them in the appropriate form: attain, chase, deserve, shelter, sleep, stream, lead,
fish, consent, encroach, scent, shake, bear, seek,
1. There are men whose desire for truth is so great that to ___________________ it they will shatter the very
foundation of their world.
2. During his sea faring days he had cruised the South Seas, and he determined now to________ his fortune there.
3. Every day I was up at dawn, clearing, planting, working on my house, and at night when I threw myself on my bed
it was to_______________ like a log till morning.
4. I do not know how I have ___________________ to have a wife who was the perfect friend and helpmate, the
perfect mistress and the perfect mother.
5. It is obvious that to ________________ such an existence and make so great a success of it, you must both have
needed a strong will and a determined character.
6. When he went out to get into his trap and drive home, he saw her again, standing a little way off; she looked at him
with a woebegone air, and tears _______________ down her cheeks.
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7. For a moment Strickland's fortitude was _______________, and a tear filled each of his eyes and trickled slowly
down his cheeks.
8. I did not like him, but as I walked slowly down to Taravao I could not prevent an unwilling admiration for the
stoical courage which enabled him to _____________perhaps the most dreadful of human afflictions.
9. I told him I would send some medicine that might be of service; but my hope was small that Strickland would
___________ to take it, and even smaller that, if he did, it would do him good.
10. The bush was ________ and it looked as though very soon the primeval forest would regain possession of that
strip of land which had been snatched from it at the cost of so much labour.
11. When I was building my house in the Paumotus I had slept out for weeks on a harder bed than that, with nothing
to _________________me but wild shrubs.
12. But here there was not a sound, and the air was________ with the white flowers of the night.
13. We were all silent for a while, and Tiare _____________ out of her capacious pocket a handful of cigarettes.
14. We stopped for a few minutes to see the native boys bathing. They _____________ one another with shrill cries
and laughter, and their bodies, brown and wet, gleamed in the sunlight.
VI. Match the words below with their definitions:
a) curio, b) desolation, c) bystander, d) atoll, e) myriad, f) helpmate, g) lamentation, h) stature, i) breaker, j) queer
fish.
1) a ring of coral rock, or a group of coral islands surrounding a lagoon –
2) the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping –
3) (Br.informal) an eccentric or odd person –
4) a small article valued as a collector's item, esp. something fascinating or unusual –
5) a person present but not involved; onlooker; spectator –
6) a state of complete emptiness or destruction –
7) a countless or extremely great number –
8) a heavy sea wave that breaks into white foam on the shore –
9) a companion and helper, esp. a wife –
10) a person's natural height –
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Reading and Translation
Read and translate the following extracts:
1) (p. 196) – "I shall never forget the impression my visit made on me. ………………. He had gone native with a
vengeance."
2) (p. 200) “As we walked along I reflected on a circumstance…………… He received here what he neither
expected nor wanted among his own people – sympathy.”
Questions and Tasks for Discussion
I. Answer the questions:
1. What did Captain Brunot look like? (p. 196)
2. Why did Captain Brunot buy Strickland’s pictures? (p. 197)
3. Did Captain Brunot like Strickland’s pictures? (p. 197)
4. For how long did Captain Brunot plan to keep Strickland’s pictures? (p. 197)
5. Was Strickland happy with Ata? (p. 198)
6. Did Strickland want to return to Europe? (p. 199)
7. Why did the narrator decide to tell the story of Captain Brunot? (p. 201)
8. Did Captain Brunot wish to go to his old home in Brittany? (p. 202)
9. How much time did it take Captain Brunot to come to Tahiti? (p. 202)
10. Without what factor Captain Brunot and his wife could have achieved nothing? (p. 203)
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11. What did Mr. Coutras look like? (p. 203)
12. Why was Strickland not sympathetic to Mr. Coutras? (p. 204)
13. What did the natives call Strickland? (p. 204)
14. What was Strickland doing when Mr. Coutras came to see him? (p. 205)
15. What terrible disease did Strickland have? (p. 206)
16. How did Strickland take the doctor’s words that he had leprosy? (p. 206)
17. Was there rigid sequestration for lepers on the islands at that time? (p. 207)
18. What was Ata’s reaction when Strickland announced that he would go up into the mountain? (p. 207–208)
II. Explain the following:
1. I cannot describe to you the intense silence of the night. (p. 198)
2. The passion that held Strickland in bondage was no less tyrannical than love. (p. 201)
3. On money borrowed from a friend in France, he bought an island in the Paumotus. (p. 201)
4. My wife and I have taught them all they know. (p. 202)
5. I have made something where there was nothing. I too have made beauty. (p. 202)
6. To listen to him was, as the phrase goes, as good as a play; and much better than most. (p. 204)
7. But the doctor gave a gasp, he was rooted to the floor, and he stared with all his eyes. He was seized with horror.
(p. 205)
8. Dr. Coutras had delivered sentence of death on many men, and he could never overcome the horror with which it