- •Assignment 1 Chapters I-XI
- •4. Recount the episodes from the novel in which the active vocabulary is employed.
- •5. Ask fact-finding questions on the chapters under discussion using the active vocabulary.
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •Assignment 2 Chapters хп-ххх
- •Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •5. Find good Russian equivalents of the sayings:
- •6. Make up short comic stories based on your own experience. Use the sentences below as suggestions:
- •7. Recall the episodes from the chapters under discussion in which you came across the following words and expressions:
- •8. Point out words of evaluation applying to Walter; to Townsend.
- •9. Paraphrase or explain:
- •10. Say whose utterances these are and what provoked them. Interpret their meaning:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 3 Chapters XXII-XXVII
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II exercises
- •1. A) Define the meaning of these lexical units:
- •2. Translate into Russian. Make up your own sentences with these word combinations:
- •3. Translate these sentences:
- •4. Complete these sentences:
- •5. Recall the situations in which the following words an phrases occur:
- •6. State whose utterances these are and under what circumstances they were made:
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Say who made these utterances and under what circumstances. Discuss the motives of the speaker and the moral implication of each utterance:
- •9. Say why these things happened or did not happen:
- •III. Topics for discussion
- •IV. Questions
- •Assignment 4 Chapters XXVIII-XXXVIII
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Give definitions relying on an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •2. Study the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences; translate them into Russian:
- •3, Make up situations of your own based on your personal experience. Use the phrases given below:
- •4. Recount the situations from the chapters under discussion in which the active vocabulary is employed.
- •5. Paraphrase or explain:
- •6. Say under what circumstances and why this happened:
- •III. Topics for discussion
- •IV. Questions
- •Assignment 5 Chapters XXXIX-xlix
- •I active vocabulary
- •II exercises
- •1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; point out the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •2. Arrange these words and word combinations in pairs of antonyms and say what they mean:
- •3. Note the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences; translate them into Russian:
- •4. Paraphrase using the active vocabulary:
- •5. Make up situations of your own based on your personal experience. Include the following phrases:
- •6. Recall the situations from the book where the active vocabulary is used.
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Point out historical, political or social causes behind the state of things:
- •9. Find the underlying reasons for:
- •10. Confirm or disprove the statements:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 6 Chapters l-lvii
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •2. Translate into Russian. Make up sentences of your own:
- •3. Paraphrase using the active vocabulary:
- •4. Recount the episodes from chapters XXXIX-xlix where the active vocabulary is employed.
- •5. Give as much information as possible on the subjects prompted by these sentences from the novel:
- •Paraphrase or explain:
- •7. Say who made these utterances and under what circumstances. Comment on the feelings that prompted the utterances and the moral implication they suggest:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 7 Chapters lviii-lxiii
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •Give the corresponding verbs, translate them:
- •3. Note the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences; translate them into Russian:
- •Make up a comic short story based on your own experience. Use some of the suggested phrases, changing them if necessary:
- •5. Recount the episodes from the chapters under discussion using the sentences below as suggestions:
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •7. Give your own opinion of the following utterances:
- •8. Interpret the following utterances after stating whom they belong to and in what circumstances they were made:
- •III. Questiqns and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 8 Chapters lxiv-lxxiv
- •Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Define the contextual meaning of these words and word combinations:
- •2. Give the corresponding abstract nouns and translate them:
- •3. Translate into Russian. Make up your own sentences or situations:
- •4. Say what you find: a) despicable; b) degrading; c) imprudent in human behaviour. Begin your sentences as in the model.
- •5. Discuss the episodes from the novel where the active vocabulary is employed.
- •6. Use the active vocabulary applying it to situations in the chapters previously read.
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Say who and under what circumstances made these utterances. What feelings and motives were they prompted by?
- •9. Discuss why these things happened or did not happen:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •IV. Topics for analysis and detailed discussion
- •Assignment 9
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •5. Make up short situations of your own similar to the sentences given below. Don't change the words in bold type:
- •6. Make up situations on the subject-matter of the books or plays you have seen or read, using the active vocabulary.
- •7. Recall the situations from the chapters under discussion relying on the prompts:
- •Say who and under what circumstances made these utterances:
- •Make a list of the proverbs Townsend used when he talked to Kitty. Say what he implied by them and why he, of all people, resorted to them. (Add those from chapters XX and XXI.)
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •IV. Questions for analysis and discussion
- •Assignment 10 Discussion of the Novel
Assignment 9
Chapters LXXV-LXXX
I. Active vocabulary
compunction to break with the past
disown to make claims on smb
morbid to make a better (good) job of smth broadminded
to heave a sigh of relief to have smth in store for smb to take smb/smth for granted
II. Exercises
1. Give definitions of these lexical units relying on an English-English dictionary:
compunction; to disown; morbid; broadminded; to take smth for granted; to make a good job of smth; to have smth store for smb
2. Give antonyms to these words and word combinations:
profound; broadminded; reluctant; admirable; to feel thumbs; to give peace of mind; to make a good job of smth; t make claims on smb
3. Give all the word combinations you have learned while reading "The Painted Veil" with the verbs:
to make, to give, to put, to know, to take, to get, to come
4. Translate into Russian:
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a morbid imagination (reaction, idea, viewpoint, conviction, feeling); a broadminded person (scholar, teacher, philosopher); to make claims on one's family (friends, children, fellow citizens)
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1. The boy was so wicked that his father disowned him. 2. The headmaster kept us waiting without the slightest compunction. 3. The journalist is fairly broadminded in regard t the problems of education. 4. When Mrs. Brown got all the three daughters off her hands, she heaved a sigh of relief. 5. I can't take these data for granted without making inquiries into their sources. 6. Life has a lot of surprises in store for you and your green age. 7. You might have made a better job of your test. 8. To break with the past completely, Arthur went to Latin America under an assumed name.
5. Make up short situations of your own similar to the sentences given below. Don't change the words in bold type:
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It is morbid to turn unpleasant memories over in one's mind.
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The passenger heaved a sigh of relief when he at last got on the train.
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The author of the play condemns the snobbery and conceit of fashionable society.
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Nowadays people are fairly broadminded about early marriages.
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You can't take your health for granted all your life.
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On the New Year's eve people wonder what the coming уear has in store for them.
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You might have made a better job of your translation.
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Mr. Murdstone made David work from morning till night without the slightest compunction.
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If you really want to break with the past, give up your bad habits altogether.
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Even in an emergency you can't make claims on absolute strangers.
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Strickland was in his forties when he disowned his family on a sudden.
6. Make up situations on the subject-matter of the books or plays you have seen or read, using the active vocabulary.
7. Recall the situations from the chapters under discussion relying on the prompts:
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You can hardly expect me to forget that you sent me to almost certain death without a shadow of compunction.
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I'm not that hateful, beastly, lustful woman. I disown her.
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It's so unreasonable, the way you look at it; it's so morbid.
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Well, I'm fairly broadminded, but sometimes you say things that positively shock me.
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He would heave a sigh of relief when ... he had finally seen her off.
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...he had never counted in the house and had been taken for granted...
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...now this chance to break entirely with the past had offered him freedom.
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...I make no claims on you because I'm your daughter, you owe me nothing.
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...I want her to take life like a free man and make a better job of it than I have.
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She could not know what the future had in store for her…