2.Answer the questions:

1. What made Dorian to kill Hallward?

2. What kind of letters did Dorian receive? What do you think who wrote them?

3.What brought Dorian and Alan Campbell together ? What was the real passion of Alan Campbell?

4. How did Dorian explain presence of a dead body upstairs?

5. What way did D. force Allan to do what he wanted?

3. Translate and learn the phrase:

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

4. Find the extract beginning with

”The suspence became unbearable.” and ending “Its very horror made him stone.”

Translate it and comment on.

5. Speak on the point, express your approval or disapproval:

- That awful thing, a woman’s memory!

ASSIGNMENT 15

(CHAPTER 15)

1.Find English equivalents for the following word combinations. Reproduce the situation were they occur:

1. проводить в

2. в его висках бешено стучала кровь

3. спокойствие его поведения

4. нудный/скучный

5. обманывать

6. посредственность

7. очаровательная шепелявость

8. утешение

9. прекратить скучать

10. вы на себя не похожи

11. честное слово

12. быть достаточно дерзким

13. быть в прекрасных отношениях

14. неисправимый

15. подходящий

16. не хватает неподдающегося описанию очарования женской слабости

17. белые фарфоровые ножки

18. подтверждающие доказательства

19. быть в дурном настроении

20. вопрос вывел его из равновесия

21. содрогнуться

22. нервно закусить нижнюю губу

23. треугольный ящик

24. застывшая улыбка на лице

25. теплый шарф, обернутый вокруг шеи

2. Answer the following questions:

1) What way did Lord Henry describe Lady Naarborough?

2) According to Lady Naarborough why people living in the country get up early and go to bed early?

3) What does 'pushing nobody' mean? 4) What was in Chinese box? Describe its contents.

5) Where did Dorian go at midnight?

3. Find the extract beginning with

a)” What nonsense people talk about…” and ending “More than enough is as good as a feast.”

b) “He (Mr.Chapman) hoisted the Union Jack on the pinnacles of Thought. The inherited stupidity of the race – sound English common sense he jovially termed it – was shown to be the proper bulwark for Society.”

c) “It was a small Chinese box of black and gold-dust lacquer, elaborately wrought, the sides patterned with curved waves, and the silken cords hung with round crystals and tasselled in plaited metal threads. He opened it. Inside was a green paste, waxy in luster, the odour curiously heavy and persistent.”

Translate it and comment on it.

4. Speak on the point, express your approval or disapproval:

1) Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

2) Inordinate joviality can atone for an entire lack of ideas.

3) A woman marries again because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck, men risk theirs.

4) Women love us (men) for our defects.

Assignment 16 (chapter 16)

1.Find English equivalents for the following word combinations. Reproduce the situation were they occur:

1. где можно купить забвение

2. искупление

3. всё повторяли слова

4. заставляя трепетать каждый нерв, каждый фибр его тела

5. низость воров и подонков общества

6. условный стук

7. затрепетать от наслаждения

8. приветствовать, противно скаля зубы

9. добыча дьявола

10. было действительно делом его рук

11. с оскорбительной прямотой

12. быть движимым опасными инстинктами

13.предтеча зла

14. чуть не совершить ужасное преступление

15. не брать на себя отмщение

16. Чтоб у меня язык отсох, если я вру!

2.Answer the following questions:

1. What was Dorian thinking about while travelling to the opium-densi?

2. What new meaning did he find in Lord Henry’s words that dealt with soul and sense?