I. Be ready to speak about the author and his book.

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

(author’s note- ch.6)

Task 1

I. Be ready to speak about the author and his book.

II. Active words and word-combinations (translate, transcribe and use in the sentences of your own): to fare (author’s note); culinary (author’s note); to pester (author’s note); a crux (author’s note); incense (author’s note); demeanour (ch.1); to swarm with/to be infested with (ch.1); to elicit (ch.1); foliage (ch.1); oblivion (ch.1); bountifully (ch.1); potassium/sodium (ch.1); tantrum (ch.3); molten lead (ch.3); sound principles (ch.4); in profusion (ch.4); menagerie (ch.4); an iridescent macaw (ch.4); senile (ch.4); to founder (ch.4); manifold (ch.4); pious (ch.4); happenstance (ch.4); an aviary (ch.4); to remedy (ch.4); fatigue (ch.5); choirmaster (ch.5); siege (ch.6);

III. Explain the following words and word-combinations in English and translate them: a fiasco (author’s note); a subcontinent (author’s note); an anecdote (author’s note); a backpacker (author’s note); Jehova (author’s note); evangelist (author’s note); a tall order (author’s note); an altar (author’s note); cosmogony (ch.1); thyroid gland (ch.1); in situ (ch.1); in the thrall (ch.1); memento mori (ch.1); a parka (ch.2); to take to smth (ch.3); a guru (ch.3); ashram (ch.3); a tomfoolery (ch.3); lo and behold (ch.4); a maharaja (ch.4); hierarchy (ch.4); a turban (ch.5); a prophet (ch.5); a crescendo (ch.5);

IV. Vocabulary work:

1. Write out all the names of animals, birds and insects;

2. Translate and find synonyms to the following words and word-combinations: a trapeze artist (author’s note); fictitious (author’s note); glum (author’s note); a mishap (author’s note); spry (author’s note); hind (ch.1); indolence/sloth (ch.1); illustrious (ch.1); to blanch (ch.1); ludicrous (ch.2); to be spent (ch.3); raiment (ch.4); an apothecary (ch.6);

3. Translate and find plurals of the following nouns: alga (ch.1); terrarium (ch.4); alumnus (ch.5);

V. Translate the following sentences:

1.”The place is furnished to capacity with identical square tables, each with its complement of four chairs” (author’s note);

2. “A spry, bright-eyed elderly man with great shocks of pure white hair was talking to me” (author’s note);

3. “It (a sloth) will then look sleepily in every direction but yours” (ch.1);

VI. Answer the questions:

1. What was the fate of the author’s second book published in Canada?

2. Why did the author fly to Bombay?

3. What peculiarities of the English language in India do you know? Translate the word bamboozle;

4. Comment on the author’s views upon writing of a novel;

5. What is Pondicherry?

6. Who did the author meet at the Indian Coffee House? What were the results of this meeting?

7. What was Mr. Patel’s zoology thesis dedicated to?

8. Why do sloths make people believe in God in Mr. Patel’s opinion?

9. How did the main character get his name?

10. How did Mr. Patel learn to swim?

11. Dwell on the difference between a hotel and a zoo;

12. What is the best time to visit a zoo?

13. Why did the main character think that animals’ lives are more comfortable in zoos than in wild life?

14. Why did children mock at Pi at school? What kind of solution did he find to his problem?

15. Dwell on biblical allusions in the novel “my Roman soldier stood in the schoolyard…I walked in last, wearing my crown of thorns”;

16. Comment on Mr. Patel’s skills in cooking;

VII. Discussion:

1. “I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful” (ch.1);

2. “My fingers, which a second before have been taste buds savouring the food a little ahead of my mouth, became dirty under his (the waiter’s) gaze” (ch.1);

3. “I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both” (ch.4);

4. “The cruelty of children comes as news to no one”(ch.5);

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Task 2

(ch. 7 – ch. 16)

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