Reading method guide №9 (3rd year of study)

“A FAREWELL TO ARMS” (BY E.HEMINGWAY)

Chapters 35-37 (pp. 189-216)

Assignment 1 Give synonyms for the following words and illustrate their meanings with examples of your own:

to arrest (p.190), an arrest (p.190), dirty (p.197), frontier (p.200), to deny (p.204), loafer (n) (p.210), grand (p.216).

Assignment 2 Translate the following word-combinations into Ukrainian. Use them in the sentences of your own. Reproduce the situations from the text in which the phrases from your essential vocabulary (ch-s 35-37)occur:

plenty of rooms (p.191), to blow off-shore (p.192), to go with wind (p.193), to go up the shore (p.193), to wave deprecatingly (p.194), to come occasionally in gusts (p.194), custom guards (p.195), to be smashed up (p.195), to be cross (p.196), to rinse smth (p.197), rowing in moderation (p.198), to pull close up to the shore (p.198), the customs town (p.200), to be stiff (p.200), to stroke smb (p.201), to keep on the same track (p.202), a provisional visa (p.203), to question smth (p.204), accuracy means something (p.204), to be groggy (p.206), to be invigorating (p.207), to dominate somewhere (p.208), to come by smb (p.209), to be restless (p.214).

Assignment 3 Give the English equivalents for the following Ukrainian words and word-combinations:

дути з берега (p.192), корма (мор.) (p.193), черпати (p.193), відштовхуватися від чогось (p.194), весло (p.194), виносити весло плазом/плиском (p.194), покриватися пухирями (p.194), правити (човном) (p.195), човен понесло вперед (p.196), полоскати (p.197), знесилюватися (p.197), окликати когось (p.199), тягнутися (про дорогу) (p.199), причал (p.200), бути на підпитку (p.200), займатися зимовими видами спорту (p.202), дозвіл поліції (p.203), ставати менш погордим (p.203), може бути анульованим (p.203), обстоювати щось (p.204), вважати когось гостинним та привітним (p.205), блюзнірствувати (p.206), палац (p.209), карткові ігри на двох (p.208), перукарня (p.209), зграї норців (гагар) (p.209),бути задоволеним щось робити (p.214).

Assignment 4 Prepare the perfect reading and literary translation of the extract beginning with p.208 “In front of the house …” up to p. 208 “… to go in the parlour to drink vine” The translation should be done in writing.

Assignment 5 Answer the following questions to cover the chapters:

1. How does the episode of crossing the lake characterize Frederic and Catherine?

2. How does the author describe the custom-house and the custom-officers?

3. What is the description of the mountain village, its nature and people, where the protagonists got settled?

4. What is the evidence which testifies to the fact that the main characters’ happy life could not last forever?

Home reading method guide №10 (3rd year of study)

“A FAREWELL TO ARMS” (BY E.HEMINGWAY)

Chapters 38-40 (pp. 216-240)

Assignment 1 Give synonyms for the following words and illustrate their meanings with examples of your own:

to commence (p.222), excited (adj) (p224), strength (n) (p.231), brave (adj) (p.232), to kick (p.236), God (p.238).

Assignment 2 Translate the following word-combinations into Ukrainian. Use them in the sentences of your own. Reproduce the situations from the text in which the phrases from your essential vocabulary (ch-s 38-40)occur:

hobnailed boots (p.217), an inn (p.217), to numb (p.217), a chamois hunter (p.217), to wrap smth around smb (p. 217), to send smb a cable (p.218), to wear out (p.218), thaw (p.219), to make smth dismal (p.219), overshoes (p. 219), to move into town (p.219), to be fun up somewhere (p.219), how the weather turns out (p.220), on account of smb (p.220), to haul one’s baggage (p.220), luxury (p.220), to commence doing smth (p.221), to offend smb (p.221), to be ungainly (p.221), to be precise and jerky (p.223), to go to pieces (p.223), to do abdominal exercises (p.223), to shadow-box (p.223), to stir in the bed (p.223), to take smb up to the room (p.224), to hold tight to the arm (p.225), to time the pains (p.225), to step out (p.225), to pray for smb (p.225), the first labour is usually protracted (p.225), to make someone self-conscious (p.226), to be in labour (p.226), to nose smth (p.226), delivery room (p.227), to look tired and worn (p.227), to be fool about smth (p.228), the by-product (p.231), a Caesarean operation (p.231), a feeling of fatherhood (p.234), to moan (p.235), the cord was caught around the neck (p.236), it’s such a shame (p.236), to be choked (p.236), to pay the reckoning (p.238), haemorrhage (p.238), to be unconscious (p.240).

Assignment 3 Prepare the perfect reading and literary translation of the extract beginning with p.236 “I sat down on the chair …” up to p. 237 “…the cup of water on the burning log steamed the ants” The translation should be done in writing.

Assignment 4 Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Reason it out.

1. Henry and Catherine lived in a country where nothing makes any difference.

2. They were doing the winter sports namely tobogganing, skiing, figure skating.

3. The protagonists decided to move into Lausanne on account of Catherine being bored with daily remote’s routine.

4. On the days of false Spring Henry liked to walk along the streets, stop at the café to lunch with Catherine.

5. Catherine wasn’t glad and excited that her first labour started at last.

6. While delivery, Catherine was fool about the gas that helped her to bear the pain.

7. Catherine had given birth to healthy and brawny girl.

8. The moment he had noticed his son, Henry felt a strong feeling of fatherhood and was eager to hold and caress his baby.

9. When Henry had realized that Catherine was going to die he started to pray that she would not.

Assignment 5 Topics for discussion:

• “A Farewell to Arms” as an anti-war novel.

• The greatest and most sincere narrative about love.

• Frederic Henry as a typical “Hemingway hero”, a character of complete honesty, virility and great sensitiveness, a representative of the so-called “lost generation”.

• Catherine Barkley, a woman of great fascination.

• The peculiarities of composition of the novel. Hemingway’s style.