Assignment № 4

Chapter V “Beast from water” (pp. 130-155\76-94)

I. Transcribe the words and learn their pronunciation:

wearisomeness, apex, reverence, effigy, clamour, tempestuous, ludicrous, bogy, to bully, to yawn, row (138/81), row (140/83)

2. Explain in English and provide the context:

to be dotted with (131/77), to be worn away (132/77), to have the wit to do smth. (132/77), to fish smth. out of smth. (134/78), to put things straight away (135/79), to be taken short (136/80 и 143/85), to flit through one’s mind (139/82), Serve you right! (140/83), to flinch away from the memory (144/86), to summon one’s wits (151/91)

3. Give English equivalents to the following phrases and make up your own sentences for your group-mates to translate:

язвительно улыбаться (131/76), прокрутить речь в голове (131/76), запутаться в мыслях (two variants) (131/76, 132/77), быстро принимать решение (133/78), четко выразить, о чем пойдет речь (134/79), обдумывать следующую мысль (137/81), брать слово без очереди (150/90), вскочить на ноги (151/91)

IV. Give three synonyms to the word to fight (pp. 149-151/90 – 91)

V. Comment on the sentences:

1) Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies! (140/83)

2) Piggy: “I know there isn’t no fear … unless we get frightened of people” (141-142/84). Simon: “maybe there is a beast. What I mean is … maybe it’s only us” (148/89).

VI. Give some facts to prove the following statements. Quote the text if necessary.

1. Ralph’s enthusiasm of first days was gone. He thought it was the right time to talk seriously.

2. “We decide things but they don’t get done.”

3. Piggy still tried to stick to the rules of the world of adults.

4. Children started getting frightened of the unknown beast.

5. The assembly ended in a failure.

VII. Think of a problem question starting with ‘Why?’ based on the events of the chapter.

VIII. Give a written translation of the extract on p. 130-131/76 from “The tide was coming… up to … tried again”.

Assignment № 5 Chapter VI “Beast from the Air” (pp. 155-174 / 95-108)

I. Learn the pronunciation of the following words:

contour, tremulously, parachute, leviathan, menace, contemptuously, guano, impenetrable, polyp, mutinously, constrainedly, exasperation, festoon, stupendous

2. Study the following words and word-combinations, give synonyms or explain them and use them in the situations from the book:

to be on watch 157(96); to take fire 158(96); to drive smb. insane 158(97); to spread the (dreadful) news 161(99); to take up the story 162(100); to pull smb.’s leg 163(101); to be on the lookout 163(101); to keep smb. out of danger 164(101); to track the beast 165(102); to give smb. the energy to do smth. 165(102); to make a fool of oneself 167(103); the landsman’s view \ bird’s eye view 169(105); to do smth. on one’s own 170(106); to be off one’s rockers 174(108).

3. Situations of encouragement.

4. Imagine you have just seen the beast. You are supposed to tell the assembly about it. Make use of the vocabulary list.

5. Comment on the following sentences:

1. “But a sign came from the world of grown-ups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it” 156(96)

2. “We don’t need the conch any more. We know who ought to say things”. 165(101-102)

3. Ralph walked in the rear, thankful to have escaped responsibility for a time. 166(103)

4. However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick. 167(103).

6. On a separate sheet of paper give a written translation of the second passage of the chapter pp. 156-157(95-96)

7. Topics for discussion:

1. Does Ralph always feel confident taking a decision? Provide examples when he does not.

2. Is Jack ready to take up the position of a chief? What makes you think so?

3. How do you understand the phrase “the pressure of personality” Simon thinks about on p. 167(103)?

4. What urged Jack to join Ralph on p. 170(106)?

5. Compare the reaction of the boys when they saw the “fort”. How does it characterize them?