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): to swerve (ch.43); arrested cries (ch.43); to thrash about (ch.43); to go at a good clip (ch.43); to exude (ch.43); a counter-clockwise direction(ch.43); a redemption (ch.43); virulent (ch.43); 15 minutes flat (ch.43); catholicity (ch.43); to scrutinize (ch.45); to be the odd one out (ch.45); a dorsal fin (ch.46); a canine (ch.46); to lunge at (ch.46); to capsize (ch.46); kinetic (ch.47); viciously (ch.47); to baptize (ch.48); to perk up (ch.49); parched (ch.49); a noble guise (ch.49); a cauldron (ch.49); to make headway (ch.50); straits (ch.50); a fiend (ch.51); to honk (ch.51); to be drunk on smth (ch.51); sorely (ch.51);

IV. Explain the following words and word-combinations in English and translate them:a console (ch.43); a rosette (ch.43); a mange (ch.43); an exhaust pipe (ch.43); gastric juices (ch.43); a zenith (ch.44); a contour (ch.44); to bask in (ch.45); frugivorous (ch.45); a durian (ch.45); an amok (ch.46); a clerical error (ch.48); a henna (ch.48); a sustenance (ch.49); a stowaway (ch.49); a ship chandler (ch.49); a cache (ch.50); a solar still (ch.52); a bailing cup (ch.52); an airtight lid (ch.52); a sinker (ch.52); a gaff (ch.52); a barbed hook (ch.52); a hatcher (ch.52);

V. Vocabulary work:

1. Translate and find synonyms to the following words and word-combinations: an ostentation (ch.43); scraggly (ch.43); to shamble (ch.43); to gnaw (ch.43); a lair (ch.43); to disgust (ch.43); callous (ch.45); queasy (ch.45); a nausea (ch.45); a viscera (ch.46); a grit (ch.47); a morsel (ch.47); forlorn (ch.47); tautly (ch.47); befuddled (ch.48); a conundrum (ch.48); insouciant (ch.49); a hasp (ch.51); unambiguous (ch.51); a supplication (ch.51); to rummage about (ch.51);

2. Translate and find antonyms to the following words: infirm (ch.43); a zenith (ch.44); an expiration (ch.44);

3. Impending VS imminent – what is the difference in the shades of meanings of these two synonyms?

4. What is the etymology of the word “catholic”?

VI. Translate the following sentences:

1. “It was inconceivable that the Tsimtsum should sink without eliciting a peep of concern” (ch.43);

2. “My mood plummeted. Then, with only a snarl for notice, the hyena went amok” (ch.46);

3. “I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light” (ch.50);

4. “That moment of material revelation brought an intensity of pleasure – a heady mix of hope, surprise, disbelief, thrill, gratitude, all crushed into one – unequalled in my life by any Christmas, birthday, wedding, Diwali or other gift-giving occasions” (ch.51);

5. “Pity about the fat, but given the exceptional circumstances the vegetarian part of me would simply pinch its nose and bear it” (ch.51);

VII. Answer the questions:

1. How does Pi describe a hyena? What were the hyena’s actions on the lifeboat?

2. What kind of sounds filled the boy’s first days and nights in the ocean?

3. Comment on the following -“The ecosystem on this lifeboat was decidedly baffling” (ch.45);

4. Why did Pi’s second night at sea stand in his memory as one of “exceptional suffering”?

5. What is the life-story of Orange Juice?

6. How did the tiger get his name?

7. Describe the lifeboat; its colour and size;

8. Where did the boy find a locker with water? What else did the locker contain?

VIII. Discussion:

1. “When the sun slipped below the horizon, it was not only the day that died and the poor zebra, but my family as well” (ch.46);

2. “Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative” (ch.48);

3. “You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better” (ch.49);

4. “How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true”(ch.50);

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