- •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
10. Say whose utterances these are and what provoked them. Interpret their meaning:
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He plays a winning hand very well, but when he has bad cards he goes all to pieces.
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He had a broad back, he told her, ...and it did not matter about him; but for her sake they mustn't take the smallest risk.
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Well, you know, women are often under the impression that men are much more in love with them than they really are.
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The doctor says I must get out of the heat if I don't want to go all to pieces.
III. Questions and topics for discussion
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Speak about Walter Fane as seen by Kitty. What features of his made him an excellent husband? What was Kitty exasperated in him by? Did Kitty's opinion of Walter differ much from the others'? Why was Walter not popular? Summarize all' the references to the social status of a bacteriologist.
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Charles Townsend as Kitty saw him. Find proof that Kitty constantly compared him with Walter. Why did she make so much of Townsend's accomplishments? What do you make of them?
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In what way was Kitty's love predetermined by her upbringing? Do you think it was love or infatuation? Did it make Kitty deeper, nobler, wiser or did it bring forth her shallowness, selfishness, vulgarity?
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What was humiliating about the position Kitty was put into by Townsend? How did Kitty plan her future and Dorothy's, Walter's? Could she see that she might cause them a lot of pain, misery?
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Discuss how Townsend regarded the situation and its possible outcome. Why did he think that Walter would kick up no row? Which utterances of Townsend's show that he was not much in love with Kitty?
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How did Walter take the shock? Point out words and phrases conveying his state of mind. Why do you think he kept silence about the matter?
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Whose point of view is predominant in the novel? How does the author manage to introduce other points of view?
Assignment 3 Chapters XXII-XXVII
I. Active vocabulary
of one's own free will
to be frightened out of one's wits
vindictive
to get into a mess (a scrape)
to let smb down
o make a clean breast of smth
to judge smb accurately
to be keen on smth
self-seeking
commonplace
second-rate
to get smb out of harm's way
to send smb to certain death
to bring an action for divorce
callous
II exercises
1. A) Define the meaning of these lexical units:
of one's own free will; commonplace; second-rate; vindictive; to let smb down; to hush smth up; callous; self-seeking
b) Give the corresponding nouns and translate them:
vindictive, commonplace, to let down, callous
2. Translate into Russian. Make up your own sentences with these word combinations:
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a second-rate film (novel); a commonplace joke; a vindictive creature; a self-seeking adventurer; a callous word
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to hush up a scandal; to make a clean breast of the past; to get the children out of harm's way; to be keen on sight-seeing; to let down the best friend; to go to the front of one's own free will; to judge the principal character accurately