- •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 6 Chapters l-lvii
I. Active vocabulary
wicked to throw everything
to love smb to distraction to the winds
to distract one's mind to be seized with terror (horror, panic, etc.)
to regain one's spirits
to attach importance to smth to be overwhelmed with joy
inscrutable nuisance
to be a blow (a wound) to one's vanity petty
sensitive to summon up one's resolution (courage, will)
II. Exercises
1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
wicked; to regain one's spirits; inscrutable; sensitive; to be overwhelmed with joy; nuisance; petty; to summon up one's resolution; to distract one's mind
2. Translate into Russian. Make up sentences of your own:
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a wicked man (child, smile, look, remark, behaviour, action); an inscrutable smile (face, countenance), inscrutable eyes, inscrutable ways of nature; a sensitive child (girl, plant, flower, skin); sensitive to blame (beauty, charm, heat, cold, the Min, gossip); a petty man (snob, trouble, offence); petty vindictiveness (snobbery, wickedness, feelings, regulations)
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1. Don't let any petty feeling come between us. 2. It was wicked of your friend to bring that girl to the party. 3. I am sorry if I am a nuisance, but do you mind changing places with me? 4. The rumour had it that I had been too sensitive to your criticism. Don't you believe it, it was somebody's wicked tongue, no more. 5. I don't attach much importance to what
ant people have to say on the subject. 6. When your face becomes inscrutable, I am prepared for the worst. 7. Summon up your courage and face reality, man! You can't live on make-believe all your life. 8. When I read that story, I was seized with horror. 9. The story runs that a young girl loved a boy to distraction and when she was ready to throw everything to the winds for his sake, she encountered him with another girl in the street. It was a mortal blow to her vanity. To distract her mind, she married another man, old enough to be her father, to fim out later that that girl was her boy's aunt. A charming story, isn't it? I could hardly regain my spirits for laughing my head off, after reading it. Love is blind.
3. Paraphrase using the active vocabulary:
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When the youth became an officer, his joy knew no bounds.
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The young mother loved her child madly.
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Turn off the radio, it is getting on my nerves.
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None of the soldiers was panic-stricken at the sight of the approaching enemy.
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Time is the best healer: in a month after the accident the girl became her former self again.
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Do you really find my opinion so important?
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He was mortified by his girl marrying his bitterest enemy.
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She wondered if there was a man who could ruin his; future, make a sacrifice of his career, forget himself for' her sake.
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To prevent myself from thinking about my troubles, I went to the cinema.
10. This flower can't stand the sunshine, it is too tender.