3. Reading Exercises:

Exercise 1. Read and memorize using a dictionary:

Puritanism, recovery, underline, improve, loss, social order, fashion, praise, source, vivid, scholar

Exercise 2. Answer the questions:

1. Who were the two groups among the English Enlightenment?

2. What quotations from Pope do you know?

3. What novels did Defoe write?

4. What are the main themes of Burn’s poetry?

Exercise 3. Match the left part with the right:

1. The central problem of the Enlightenment ideology was	a)one of the masterpieces of English prose.
2. Robinson Crusoe is still considered	b)who came after Swift.
3. Swift’s democratic ideas had a great influence on the English writers	c)by his deep love for his motherland, for its history and folklore.
4. Robert Burn’s poetry was inspired	d)that of man and his nature.

Exercise 4. Open brackets choosing the right word

Burn’s(verses/poems) are (constant/stable) everlasting source of (inspiration/stimulation)for composers in all(countries/lands).

THE SPEAKING MODULE

II. Speaking Exercises:

Exercise 1. Define the terms using the suggested words and expressions as in example:

Verse	Novel	Bard	Masterpiece
Metrical Poetry	Imaginative Narrative Prose Human Social Behaviour	National Poet Narrator Singer Folk Poetry	Work of art Consummate Skill Individual Creative work

Exercise 2. Ask questions to the given answers:

1. Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: The novel glorifies energy and practicalness. .

2. Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer : Irish people considered Swift their champion in the struggle for the welfare and freedom of their country .

3. Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: The novel was suggested to Defoe by the story of Alexander Selkirk, a Scotch sailor.

4. Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: Burns wrote his first verses when he was fifteen.

THE WRITING MODULE

III. Writing exercises:

Exercise 1. Fill in the gaps with the suggested words:

Lifetime, immensely, foreign, majority, model, romantic, citizen, nationalism, imagination

5. In his lifetime Pope was ______popular. Many _____writers as well as the______ of English poets, looked at him as their ______ But later at the end of the 18^th century young poets, especially Wordsworth and Coleridge _____Pope’s poetry for its ______ and lack ____of_______.

Exercise 2. Pick out synonyms from the text and explain the differences between them.

Exercise 3. Make up a plan of the text.

Exercise 4. Find derivatives in the text.

Exercise 5. Compose a story on one of the topics:

1. Defoe’s pamphlets.

2. The origin of the novel “Gulliver’s travel”.

3. The main themes of Burn’s poetry.