I. Be ready to write a test on task 1;

II. Be ready to retell the contents of the previous chapters using the active vocabulary;

III. Active words and word-combinations (translate, transcribe and use in the sentences of your own): avowed (ch.7); an entirety (ch.7); a mettle (ch.7); bosh (ch.7); polio (ch.7); a kinship (ch.7); a paper clip (ch.8); a safety pin (ch.8); venerable (ch.8); internal bleeding (ch.8); a carnivore (ch.8); in ambush (ch.8); to delude (ch.8); contrite (ch.8); to dismember (ch.8); a kernel (ch.8); to have a knack for (ch.9); to wallow (ch.10); a strife (ch.11); to be well versed in (ch.13); amenable (ch.14); compliant (ch.14); a beaker (ch.15); a germ (ch.16); turmeric (ch.16); a mural (ch.16); a rite (ch.16);

IV. Explain the following words and word-combinations in English and translate them:an obituary (ch.8); a snake charmer (ch.8); a patriarch (ch.8); a unison (ch.8); a lawn mower (ch.12); an anarchy (ch.13); Ganesha (ch.15); Kaaba (ch.15); Nataraja (ch.15); Krishna (ch.15); a murti (ch.15); limbo (ch.16); samskara (ch.16); kumkum powder (ch.16); aarti (arati) (ch.16); bhajan (ch.16); prasad (ch.16); Brahman Nirguna/Brahman Saguna (ch.16); atman (ch.16); Karma (ch.16);

V. 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: bizarre (ch.8); flustered (ch.8); vigilance (ch.8); ire (ch.8); a tending (ch.8); to quake (ch.8); searing (ch.8); to bellow (ch.8); uppity (ch.8); to gauge (ch.9); a dollop (ch.12); cantankerous (ch.14); to wilt (ch.15); to rub shoulders (ch.16);

3. The author mentions the disease “polio”, what other diseases do you know?

VI. Translate the following sentences:

1. “…and what we took to be bleating, grunting, hissing, snorting, roaring, growling, howling, chirping and screeching were but the thick accents of foreigners” (ch.7);

2. “It was enough to scare the living vegetarian daylights out of me” (ch.8);

3. “Ravi and I sulked and gave Father the cold shoulder for a week” (ch.8);

4. “Finally, a casual labourer came upon a leopard under a barn twenty-five miles away” (ch.11);

VII. Answer the questions:

1. What kind of person was Mr. Kumar? Why was he convinced that the reason was his prophet?

2. What do you know about Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin?

3. Why does Pi think that a Man is the most dangerous animal in a zoo?

4. What did Pi’s father paint on the wall just beyond the ticket booth?

5. Comment on the father’s lesson with the tiger; Do you approve of his deed?

6. Was the main character’s father a successful zoo-keeper?

7. Why do animals escape from zoos?

8. Why would an animal attack people?

9. Dwell on the importance of social rank in a pride of lions?

10. What are the rules of taming?

11. How can you explain the fact that an omega-animal is likely to be the star of the show?

12. Describe the house of Mr. Patel;

13. What religion does he belong to?

14. Why does Pi think that “we’re all born like Catholics”?

15. What do you know about Hinduism?

VIII. Discussion:

1. “A clear intellect, close attention to details and a little scientific knowledge will expose religion as superstitious bosh” (ch.7);

2. “Like me, they (the atheists) go as far as the legs of reason will carry them – and then they leap” (ch.7);

3. “We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane” (ch.7);

4. “But religion is more than rite and ritual” (ch.16);

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Task 3

(ch. 17 – ch. 30)

I. Be ready to write a test on task 2;

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 936