- •Assignment 1 Chapters I-XI
- •4. Recount the episodes from the novel in which the active vocabulary is employed.
- •5. Ask fact-finding questions on the chapters under discussion using the active vocabulary.
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •Assignment 2 Chapters хп-ххх
- •Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •5. Find good Russian equivalents of the sayings:
- •6. Make up short comic stories based on your own experience. Use the sentences below as suggestions:
- •7. Recall the episodes from the chapters under discussion in which you came across the following words and expressions:
- •8. Point out words of evaluation applying to Walter; to Townsend.
- •9. Paraphrase or explain:
- •10. Say whose utterances these are and what provoked them. Interpret their meaning:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 3 Chapters XXII-XXVII
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II exercises
- •1. A) Define the meaning of these lexical units:
- •2. Translate into Russian. Make up your own sentences with these word combinations:
- •3. Translate these sentences:
- •4. Complete these sentences:
- •5. Recall the situations in which the following words an phrases occur:
- •6. State whose utterances these are and under what circumstances they were made:
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Say who made these utterances and under what circumstances. Discuss the motives of the speaker and the moral implication of each utterance:
- •9. Say why these things happened or did not happen:
- •III. Topics for discussion
- •IV. Questions
- •Assignment 4 Chapters XXVIII-XXXVIII
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Give definitions relying on an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •2. Study the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences; translate them into Russian:
- •3, Make up situations of your own based on your personal experience. Use the phrases given below:
- •4. Recount the situations from the chapters under discussion in which the active vocabulary is employed.
- •5. Paraphrase or explain:
- •6. Say under what circumstances and why this happened:
- •III. Topics for discussion
- •IV. Questions
- •Assignment 5 Chapters XXXIX-xlix
- •I active vocabulary
- •II exercises
- •1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; point out the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •2. Arrange these words and word combinations in pairs of antonyms and say what they mean:
- •3. Note the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences; translate them into Russian:
- •4. Paraphrase using the active vocabulary:
- •5. Make up situations of your own based on your personal experience. Include the following phrases:
- •6. Recall the situations from the book where the active vocabulary is used.
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Point out historical, political or social causes behind the state of things:
- •9. Find the underlying reasons for:
- •10. Confirm or disprove the statements:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 6 Chapters l-lvii
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •2. Translate into Russian. Make up sentences of your own:
- •3. Paraphrase using the active vocabulary:
- •4. Recount the episodes from chapters XXXIX-xlix where the active vocabulary is employed.
- •5. Give as much information as possible on the subjects prompted by these sentences from the novel:
- •Paraphrase or explain:
- •7. Say who made these utterances and under what circumstances. Comment on the feelings that prompted the utterances and the moral implication they suggest:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 7 Chapters lviii-lxiii
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
- •Give the corresponding verbs, translate them:
- •3. Note the use of the active vocabulary in these word combinations and sentences; translate them into Russian:
- •Make up a comic short story based on your own experience. Use some of the suggested phrases, changing them if necessary:
- •5. Recount the episodes from the chapters under discussion using the sentences below as suggestions:
- •6. Paraphrase or explain:
- •7. Give your own opinion of the following utterances:
- •8. Interpret the following utterances after stating whom they belong to and in what circumstances they were made:
- •III. Questiqns and topics for discussion
- •Assignment 8 Chapters lxiv-lxxiv
- •Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •1. Define the contextual meaning of these words and word combinations:
- •2. Give the corresponding abstract nouns and translate them:
- •3. Translate into Russian. Make up your own sentences or situations:
- •4. Say what you find: a) despicable; b) degrading; c) imprudent in human behaviour. Begin your sentences as in the model.
- •5. Discuss the episodes from the novel where the active vocabulary is employed.
- •6. Use the active vocabulary applying it to situations in the chapters previously read.
- •7. Paraphrase or explain:
- •8. Say who and under what circumstances made these utterances. What feelings and motives were they prompted by?
- •9. Discuss why these things happened or did not happen:
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •IV. Topics for analysis and detailed discussion
- •Assignment 9
- •I. Active vocabulary
- •II. Exercises
- •5. Make up short situations of your own similar to the sentences given below. Don't change the words in bold type:
- •6. Make up situations on the subject-matter of the books or plays you have seen or read, using the active vocabulary.
- •7. Recall the situations from the chapters under discussion relying on the prompts:
- •Say who and under what circumstances made these utterances:
- •Make a list of the proverbs Townsend used when he talked to Kitty. Say what he implied by them and why he, of all people, resorted to them. (Add those from chapters XX and XXI.)
- •III. Questions and topics for discussion
- •IV. Questions for analysis and discussion
- •Assignment 10 Discussion of the Novel
9. Discuss why these things happened or did not happen:
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They gave up everything, their home, their country, love, children, freedom.
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He was actually experimenting on himself.
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She did not want the Mother Superior to see into her heart.
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The convent door closed for the last time behind her.
5. She wondered if all her fellows had in their hearts I shameful secrets which they spent their time guarding from curious glances.
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She wished Dorothy Townsend would go away.
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Kitty did not understand. She did not know what amends Charlie's wife owed her.
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He began talking of the autumn race meeting, and the polo... and a chat he had had that morning with the Governor.
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For a moment she had a picture before her mind's eye of the beggar... who had lain dead against the compound wall.
10. Dorothy had had a letter from him, and he had said all manner of things about her devoted work at the convent, about her courage and her self-control.
III. Questions and topics for discussion
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Walter's burial. Discuss Kitty's state of mind during the burial and after it. Does it strike you as unusual under the circumstances?
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Kitty's talk with Waddington after the burial. How did I Kitty treat the nuns, their work and way of life? What weak 1 point did she find in their outlook? Comment upon Waddington's words about the meaning of human life.
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Waddington breaks the news of the cause of Walter's death. How did Kitty react to it? Compare Waddington's version of the cause with Kitty's. Which was closer to the truth?
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The Mother Superior insists on Kitty's leaving Mei-tan-fu. Why could she not understand Kitty's reluctance to go? I Point out facts confirming that she liked and respected Kitty.
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Kitty's thoughts, feelings and plans on the way to Hong Kong. What did she appreciate most of all in her newly-acquired freedom? Why did she find it despicable to lie to herself?
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Dorothy takes Kitty by surprise. What motives prompted Dorothy to offer Kitty hospitality? Why was Kitty reluctant to accept the offer? Do you think Dorothy knew about her husband's love affair with Kitty?
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Why did Townsend not in the least look as Kitty had pictured him? Comment on his manner during Kitty's stay, rind proof that he did not quite share his wife's respect for Kitty.
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Kitty's way of life at the Townsends'. What made her recall Mei-tan-fu every now and then? Comment on the change in her estimation in Hong Kong.
IV. Topics for analysis and detailed discussion
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Sum up Walter's life. Say what role Kitty played in it and what role she might have played.
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Give a character sketch of Waddington.
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Compare the Kitty that arrived in Hong Kong with the Kitty that had left it several weeks before.
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Discuss the way of life of Hong Kong's colonial administration.
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Specify the place in chapter LXLX that comes close to the explanation of the title of the novel. Give a summary of the view on life at large as expressed in it.