III. Focus on Writing

1. Translate the following extracts: “Dixon now had …. going” (pp. 199-200); “Well, we both have … them ….” (p. 202); “Passing under … loudly” (p. 206-207); “He watched her … course.” (p. 215). Explain their key ideas.

2. Write the summaries of the chapters. Comment on their language such as key-words, key-phrases, recurrent words. Analyze the manner of characterization, comment on the general slant of the chapters, their stylistic tone.

3. Write a brief comment (100 words) on the relationship between Dixon and Prof. Welch. Dwell on the necessity to keep balance between objective factors and personal affection in the problems of career and business relationships.

IV. Focus on Text Analysis

Irony is based on the simultaneous realization of two logical meanings – dictionary and contextual, that are opposite to each other. E.g. “It must be delightful to find oneself in a foreign country without a penny in one’s pocket”. In the particular context the word delightful acquires the meaning “unpleasant”.

Find the examples of irony in the chapters under discussion. Analyze the effect irony produces/ is supposed to produce on the reader. Specify its role in the understanding of the text, in the development of the characters and in the general impact of the chapters.

Assignment 11 Chapter 19

I. Active Vocabulary

1. Learn the pronunciation and the meaning of the given words:

Plush, deleterious, deterrent, lascar, rout, excoriation, intercept, noncommittally, diffident, imprecation, an estimate, oddity, incur, a tentative date, unmanning, insolence, counterfeiting, alleged, penetrating, assumptions, a twister, a bar-fly, formidable, ludicrously, vapidity, peevish, agitation, dilated.

2. Match the words with their TWO synonyms from the box:

Hinder harmful insipidity impudence quarrelsome frightful criticism timid

prevent fuss injurious clamour

fretful arrogance absurdly bashful dullness disapproval ridiculously terrible

Deleterious

Rout

Excoriation

Intercept

Diffident

Peevish

Ludicrously

Formidable

Vapidity

Insolence

3. Fill in the gaps where possible with the corresponding words. Translate the words:

Noun	Adjective	Verb
agitation
	penetrating
a twister
	deterrent
imprecation
estimate
	counterfeiting
		to incur
assumption
	alleged

4. Paraphrase the following word combinations from the text:

To incline smb (p.217), to start doing a particular activity about smt/smb (p.218), to radon oneself (p. 218), to talk at cross-purposes (p. 219), to clear everything up (p.219), to get down to a job (p.220), to feel queasy with apprehension (p. 223), without recourse to speech (p. 225), in lofty but sincere commiseration (p. 225), to come to a head (p. 227), to sound hot under the collar (p. 227), to know the snags about smb (p. 229), to turn smb loose (p. 229).

5. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box. Translate the phrases. Remember the situations they were used in:

in a paddy rough guts push

evasive beer a grudge manner

take smooth skittles a go

to have grudge against smb (p. 219);

to __________ smb for smb (p.219);

to be all _____________ and ___________ (p. 221);

in such ____________ (p.222);

an evasive career (p. 222);

to have _________ at smth (p. 222);

to __________ smb around (p. 226);

to get ___________ about smth (p. 226);

to take _________ the with the __________ (p. 226);

to have the ________ to do smth (p. 229).