I. Active Vocabulary

Assignment 2

(Chapters 2, 3)

I. Active Vocabulary

to break in

to convey smth to smb

challengingly adv

hinder vt

nightmare

spontaneously adv

to catch smb’s eye

savage n

to shout smb down

to set smth on fire

by tacit consent

II. Exercises:

1. Note the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations. Make up 5 sentences using these combinations:

to look around challengingly, to challenge, to challenge a person to a duel; to convey some meaning (peace and understanding, amiable feelings, local colour); by tacit consent (understanding, agreement, approval); to act (react, answer) spontaneously, a spontaneous reaction (act, question).

2. Translate into Russian:

1. Words fail to convey my feelings. 2. The speech he made was spontaneous but impressive. 3. By tacit consent we went on working after the bell. 4. Please, don’t break in till I have finished. 5. See to it that the child is not hindered in his work. 6. There was a challenge in his voice which nobody dared to answer. 7. The walk along the muddy road in the dark was a nightmare. 8. There was a tumult at the end of the meeting caused by the speaker’s sarcasm. Somebody tried to shout him down but thought better of it after catching the chairman’s eye. 9. Don’t drop matches here. You may set the forest on fire in this hot weather. 10. Fancy him calling us a mob of savages! Did savages dance to a tape-recorder?

3. Describe an incident from your life when:

1. you had a nightmare; 2. somebody failed to convey something important to you; 3. something was done by tacit consent; 4. somebody tried to shout you down.

4. Recall the situations from the book under discussion suggested by the sentences:

1. Jack broke in, “All the same you need and army – for hunting”.

2. All three of them tried to convey the sense of the pink live thing struggling in the creepers.

3. Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked round challengingly.

4. “You are hindering Ralph”.

5. “He must have had a nightmare”.

6. Spontaneously they began to clap and presently the platform was loud with applause.

7. Piggy opened his mouth to speak, caught Jack’s eye, and shut it again.

8. “after all, we’re not savages.”

9. They stirred and began to shout him down.

10. “now you…set the whole island on fire.”

11...by tacit consent they left the shelter and went towards the bathing-pool.

5. Find sentences in chapter 2 and 3, which may confirm the following statements:

1. The parents could not know the children’s whereabouts.

2. The children had a bookish idea of the fun they could have on the island.

3. At first hard work done together united the children and made them enthusiastic.

4. The children hated long and systematic work.

5. The children saw only immediate ends.

6. Jack did not like the power of the conch from the start.

7. Jack’s first act of violence was directed against Piggy.

8. Jack’s eyes became mad whenever hunting was frustrated or mentioned.

9. Hunting became more important to Jack than rescue.

10. There was no understanding between Jack and Ralph.

11. Ralph grew disappointed in the children.

12. Simon was thought of as somewhat insane.

6. Say whose utterances these are, what preceded them, what state of mind they convey:

1. “He wants to know what you’re going to do about the snake-thing.”

2. “But if there’s a snake we’d hunt and kill it.”

3. “But there isn’t a beast!”

4. “I can hardly see! You’ll break the conch!”

5. “Where the conch is, there’s a meeting. The same up here as down there.”

6. “We’re English; and the English are best at everything.”

7. “You got your small fire all right.”

8. “Meetings. Don’t we love meetings&”

9. “You are chief. You tell’em off.”

10. “You and your fires!”

11. "We'll have rules! Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks 'em

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