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10) a person who never drinks alcohol –
11) a perplexing, embarrassing, or difficult situation –
12) a vagrant who makes a living by searching beaches for articles of value and selling them –
13) friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to –
14) dissatisfaction with one's circumstances –
15) a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job –
16) a very poor person –
17) a person employed to load or unload ships –
18) a person who tends the furnace on a steamship or steam locomotive –
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Cultural Background
Explain the following realia and give the context in which they are used in the book:
♦ Cezanne, Paul;
♦ Van Gogh, Vincent;
♦ Winterhalter, Franz Xavier;
♦ Brueghel the Elder.
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Reading and Translation
Read and translate the following extracts:
1) (p. 166) – " I have said already that but for the hazard of a journey to Tahiti. ………………. here he found
himself."
2) (p. 167) – “The Pacific is more desolate than other seas;… the blue loneliness of the Pacific.”
3) (p. 167 - 168) – “Tahiti is a lofty green island, ……… The colour dazzles you.”
Questions and Tasks for Discussion
I. Answer the questions:
1. What were Strickland’s views on painting? (p. 164)
2. Was Strickland interested in the Impressionists? (p. 164)
3. What was Strickland’s attitude to Velasquez? (p. 165)
4. What was Strickland’s attitude to Chardin? (p. 165)
5. What was Strickland’s attitude to Rembrandt? (p. 165)
6. Why did Peter Brueghel's pictures attract Strickland's attention? (p. 165)
7. For how long had not the narrator seen Strickland? (p. 166)
8. How long was it since Strickland died? (p. 166)
9. What does the narrator remember about his first morning in Tahiti? (p. 166)
10. Are people fond of gossip in Tahiti? (p. 168)
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11. What did Captain Nichols look like? (p. 168)
12. Where did Captain Nichols meet Strickland? (p. 169)
13. Did the narrator know why Captain Nichols first left England? (p. 170)
14. How old was Captain Nichols’s wife? (p. 170)
15. What kind of place was the Asile de Nuit? (p. 172)
16. Why did Captain Nichols notice Strickland among the crowd near the Asile de Nuit? (p. 172)
17. How did the queer companionship of Charles Strickland and Captain Nichols begin? (p. 173)
18. How long did they stay together at Marseilles? (p. 173)
19. What did Strickland do for Tough Bill? (p. 174)
20. Whose papers did Tough Bill give to Strickland? (p. 174)
II. Explain the following:
1. Strickland was not a conversationalist. (p. 164)
2. Brueghel gave me the impression of a man striving to express in one medium feelings more appropriate to
expression in another. (p. 165)
3. The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it. They are easy of approach
and affable in conversation. (p. 169)
4. But I do not think he was a happy man. (p. 170)
5. She gave me an impression of extraordinary tightness. (p. 170)
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6. Captain Nichols was frightened to death of her. (p. 171)
7. I received the impression of a life intense and brutal, savage, multicoloured, and vivacious. (p. 173)
8. When the doors of the Asile de Nuit were closed to them, Strickland and Captain Nichols sought the hospitality of
Tough Bill. (p. 173)
9. Strickland's idea was to ship on some vessel bound for Australia or New Zealand, and from there make his way to
Samoa or Tahiti. (p. 174)
10. Tough Bill's fare was seldom extravagant, and you rose from his table almost as hungry as you sat down, but for
some days they had good reason to regret it. (p. 174)
11. There were often odd jobs to be got. (p. 175)
12. They belonged to all the countries in the world, but this was no bar to good-fellowship; for they felt themselves
freemen of a country whose frontiers include them all, the great country of Cockaine. (p. 176) Кокейн, сказочная
страна изобилия и праздности (в средневековых легендах)
13. Here all the decencies of civilisation are swept away, and you feel that men are face to face with a sombre reality.
There is an atmosphere that is at once intense and tragic. (p. 177)
14. In a little while Tough Bill, accompanied by two huge negroes, came in, and it was easy to see that he was already
three parts drunk. He was looking for trouble. (p. 178)
15. Captain Nichols was anxious. He knew Tough Bill's vindictiveness. (p. 179)
16. Then Strickland had a bit of luck. (p. 179)
III. Speak on:
1. Strickland's opinions of the great artists of the past. (p.164–165)
2. The narrator’s impression of Tahiti.
Lesson 12 (ch. XLV III–LII)
Vocabulary
Cultural Background
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) he was destined never to see it again p. 180 – судьбе было угодно, чтобы он никогда больше не
увидел ее,
2) (to buy) for a song p. 181 – очень дёшево, за бесценок,
3) to make allowances p. 181 – учитывать, принимать во внимание,
4) to lay hands on smth p. 182 – завладевать, прибирать к рукам,
5) (to sell) by auction p. 183 – (продавать) с аукциона, с торгов,
6) board and lodging p. 184 – квартира и стол, полный пансион,
7) to step into smb's shoes p. 187 – заменить кого-л.,
8) as mad as a hatter p. 188 – совершенно безумный,
9) for old time's sake p. 188 – в память о прошлом,
10) to play second fiddle to p. 189 – играть вторую скрипку.
II. Give Russian equivalents:
- unconquerable spirit (180) –
- lost opportunity (183) –
- amatory affairs (184) –
- catching laughter (184) –
- debonair (168) –
- leafy lanes (p. 186) –
- populous streets (186) –
- deep-rooted atavism (186) –
- remarkable gifts (186) –
- private means (186) –
- tramp steamer (187) –
- discreditable motives (187)
- twopenny-halfpenny job (189) –
- eminent surgeon (190) –
- torrent of abuse (190) –
- wheezy music of a gramaphone (194) –
- luxuriant trees (194) –
- shoal of fish (195) –
- savoury dish (195) –
- luscious fruit (195) –
III. Give corresponding nouns:
1) brave, bold, fearless;
2) difficulties, misfortune;
3) unsuitable , inappropriate;
4) everywhere;
5) modest;
6) cleverness , endowments;
7) eccentricity;
8) sense , discretion;
9) avocado;
10) outhouse, barn;
11) careless , easygoing.
a) happy-go-lucky;
b) gifts;
c) unassuming;
d) inapt;
e) dauntless;
f) adversity;
g) far and wide;
h) prudence;
i) shed;
j) kink;
k) alligator pear.
wilful
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resign –
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reveal –
-
exult
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pretend (притворяться, делать вид) –
-
predict –
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IV. Match the synonyms:
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V. Fill in the verbs using them in the appropriate form: allow, escape, bathe, take, ensue, fence, mingle,
ascribe, belong, fire, transfix, make, bear, thrash, urge, carry, scuttle away, condole, shell.
1. This I meant to do, not from wilfulness, but because I wished to leave Strickland setting out with I know not what
fancies in his lonely soul for the unknown islands which_____________ his imagination.
2. They remembered then that they could have bought for a song canvases which now were worth large sums, and
they could not forgive themselves for the opportunity which had ______________ them.
3. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism _________________the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in
the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he
______________________.
4. His brilliance was _____________________by all.
5. The tramp steamer did not generally_____________ a doctor, but one of the senior surgeons at the hospital knew
a director of the line, and Abraham was taken as a favour.
6. Whenever a man does anything unexpected, his fellows _______________it to the most discreditable motives.
7. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to
____________________ a hash of life?
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8. Tiare, when I told her this story, praised my prudence, and for a few minutes we worked in silence, for we were
_________________ peas.
9. "My first husband, Captain Johnson, used to ________________me regularly. I would be black and blue all over
for days at a time.”
10. I _____________ with Tiare, and remarked feelingly that men were deceivers ever.
11. 'Well,' I said to him, 'there's no hurry about it. _______________your time and think it over.”
12. There was a tree just behind which _____________ alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which
gave the land its revenue.
13. Ata's father had planted crotons round his property, and they grew in coloured profusion, gay and brilliant; they
________________ the land with flame.
14. There was a little stream that ran not far away, in which he ______________, and down this on occasion would
come a shoal of fish. Then the natives would assemble with spears, and with much shouting would
_________________ the great startled things as they hurried down to the sea.
15. Sometimes Ata would make a savoury dish of the great land-crabs that _______________ ____________
under your feet.
16. She turned on him with a torrent of abuse. The Chink was not backward to defend himself, and a very lively
quarrel ___________.
17. Tiare __________________ French with English in her conversation, for she used both languages with equal
facility.
VI. Match the words below with their definitions:
a) kindred, b) coveted, c) alien, d) lagoon, e) bungalow, f) throng, g) clearing, h) overseer, i) tarboosh, j) croton,
k) peninsula, l) obesity, m) proprietress, n) aloof, o) extravagance, p) copra, q) postage.
1) a person who supervises others, especially workers –
2) the state of being grossly fat or overweight –
3) a person belonging to a different country, race, or group –
4) one's family and relations –
5) not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant –
6) something that very many people would like to have –
7) a man's cap similar to a fez, typically of red felt with a tassel at the top –
8) a large, densely packed crowd of people –
9) a stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef –
10) a low house having only one storey or, in some cases, upper rooms set in the roof, typically with dormer
windows –
11) a strong-scented tree or shrub native to tropical and warm regions –
12) an open space in a forest, esp. one cleared for cultivation –
13) a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water –
14) the charge for delivering a piece of mail –
15) the female owner of a business, or a female holder of property –
16) the spending of more money than is reasonable or than you can afford –
17) dried coconut kernels, from which oil is obtained –
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