Assignment #2.

42. 12-23 ... But the person who saw ...)

I. Study the pronunciation:

supercilious; scurrilous; exquisite; idolatrous; obsequious; subtle; viceregal; flamboyance; conciliations; loquacious; rouge; inconspicuous

II. Explain the meaning of the following:

• to err (p. 12)

• to persecute sb. /with smth./ (p. 12)

• to be denounced (p. 13)

• to insinuate oneself into smth. (p. 14)

• to long to do smth. (p. 15)

• to be vexed (p. 19)

• to drift through the weeks (p. 20)

• to emerge from smth. (p. 20)

• to be confounded (p. 21)

• to have resentment at smb. (p. 22)

• to take liberties with smb. (p. 19)

3. Think of some 2 sentences in Russian for your group mates to translate, using the phrases from task II.

3. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following:

пропотеть (p. 16); ходить по домам и предлагать что-либо на продажу (p. 16); быть близоруким (p. 17); оставить притворство (p. 19).

5. With the situation of your own encourage your group-mates to use a phrase from tasks II and IV.

5. Prepare good reading and translation of the passage on p. 15 starting with «This was the old woman ...».

7. Speak on the following:

1. Was Marquesa’s life miserable and tragic? Who is to be blamed for that?

2. Marquesa’s writing abilities.

3. The incident in the theater and the consequences to which it lead.

8. Comment on the following:

1. «Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world» (p. 15).

2. «All families live in a wasteful atmosphere of custom and kiss one another with secret indifference» (p. 15).

Assignment #3.

(pp.23-32)

1. Study the pronunciation:

obstinacy; minute; efficacy; virtuosity; cessation; abominable; thither; brazier; trough; etiquette; tranquil; charcoal; torture; statuettes; jocose; obliquely; tumult; exhumed; endearment; encyclopædist

2. Explain the meaning of the following and reproduce the situations from the text.

• to concede (p. 23)

• to be gnawed away (p. 23)

• to bind smb. to the maintenance (p. 24)

• to dash into smth. (p. 25)

• to withdraw into oneself (p. 26)

• to mitigate smb. (p. 26)

• the rites of smth. (p. 27)

• to rend from smth. (p. 27)

• to surge up (p. 27)

• to make a pilgrimage (p. 27)

• to be cut short (p. 28)

• to enclose smth. (p. 31)

• to ransack smth. (p. 32)

Encourage your group-mates to use the vocabulary of the task by the situations of your own.

3. Make up some 2-3 Russian sentences for your group-mates to translate into English using the vocabulary.

4. Read and translate the passage on p. 27 «At times... her daughter’s bed»

3. Items for discussion:

1. The story of Pepita

2. Did the news about the child to be born change the Marquesa?

3. Why do you think the accident happened to them on their way back but not on their way to the shrine?