Assignment № 3

Chapter V “Beast from water”

Chapter VI “Beast from the Air”

I. Read, copy out the new words, be ready to discuss the chapters.

II. Give the summary of the chapters.

III. Pronounce the following words properly, give the translation:

1) bogy,

2) contemptuously,

3) contour,

4) effigy,

5) festoon,

6) guano,

7) impenetrable,

8) leviathan,

9) ludicrous,

10) menace,

11) mutinously,

12) stupendous

13) tempestuous,

14) tremulously,

15) wearisomeness,

IV. Explain the meanings of the following expressions, give the translation, memorize for the dictation and reproduce the situations they are used in:

1) to be dotted with,

2) to be off one’s rockers.

3) to be on the lookout;

4) to be on watch;

5) to be taken short,

6) to be worn away,

7) to fish smth. out of smth.,

8) to flinch away from the memory,

9) to flit through one’s mind,

10) to have the wit to do smth.,

11) to make a fool of oneself;

12) to pull smb.’s leg;

13) to put things straight away,

14) to summon one’s wits,

15) to take fire;

16) to take up the story;

V. Answer the questions:

1. What are Ralph’s feelings about life as he walks through the jungle before calling an assembly?

2. What happens in each assembly that makes the boys break up with laughter?

3. What are the boys’ reactions as Ralph makes his points in the meeting?

4. What does Jack think about the littluns’ fear of the beast?

5. What does Piggy think about the possibility of ghosts on the island?

6. What are Piggy and Ralph’s reactions upon hearing about the beast from the twins?

7. Why can’t the boys have an “ordinary hunt” for the beast?

8. Why does Jack follow Ralph into the path to look for the beast?

9. Why doesn’t Ralph want to stay on the other side of the mountain?

VI. Comment on the sentences:

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

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

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

4) “We don’t need the conch any more. We know who ought to say things”.

5) Ralph walked in the rear, thankful to have escaped responsibility for a time.

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

VII. 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.

XII. Multiple choice: Circle the letter of the best answer to each question.

1. What shape is the assembly place?

a. a circle

b. a triangle

c. a square

2. What does Ralph admit that Piggy can do better than he?

a. think

b. run a meeting

c. build shelters

3. What does Ralph say is the most important thing to keep in mind?

a. shelter

b. food

c. fire

4. What does Maurice do to make the littluns stop crying?

a. He makes funny faces.

b. He pretends to fall over.

c. He pretends to run into a tree.

5. What do Ralph, Piggy, and Simon hear in the night after the meeting is over?

a. a loud wail

b. laughter

c. a fight

6. What falls from the sky when no one is awake?

a. a coconut

b. a parachute

c. a plane

7. Why does Ralph think that an ordinary hunt for the beast will not work?

a. The beast could be very dangerous.

b. Not enough boys are willing to go on the hunt.

c. The beast does not leave tracks.

8. Who runs into a tree on the way to the “castle”?

a. Simon

b. Piggy

c. Jack

9. What does Jack see when he looks over to the other side of the mountain?

a. He sees the beast.

b. He sees that the fire is out.

c. He sees the parachute.

10. Why do the boys get angry with Ralph when he comes back from searching with Jack?

a. Ralph calls off the search.

b. Ralph orders them back to their side of the mountain.

c. Ralph will not let Jack be chief.

XIII. Topics for discussion:

1. Does Ralph always feel confident taking a decision?

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”.

4. What urged Jack to join Ralph?

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

6. In Chapter 1, a bond of friendship was growing between Ralph and Jack. In what way is it now disappearing? What are the emotions between the two boys as their bond begins to fall apart? How do they deal with it?

IX. Give a written translation of the extract from “The tide was coming…” up to “… tried again”.

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