Part 4. PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER.

PART 1. Chinese Writer to Have Shakespeare’s Face

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).

a.	A Chinese write is going to have a face transplant.	T / F
b.	The writer will have an operation a month for ten months.	T / F
c.	The writer hopes his new face will allow people to mourn Shakespeare.	T / F
d.	He said life is a process in which you try to make your face better.	T / F
e.	The writer is no stranger to controversy in China.	T / F

f.	Chinese people are divided in their opinion on the writer’s plan.	T / F
g.	A surgeon said the writer’s face is a good shape to copy Shakespeare’s.	T / F
h.	The Chinese believe he will write like Shakespeare after the surgeries.	T / F

2. Listen and fill in the gaps.

A well-known Chinese writer is ____________________ the knife to become a William Shakespeare look-alike. The Shanghai Daily newspaper reports that best-selling author Zhang Yiyi ____________________ operations in the next ten months. After the surgeries he will ____________________ of Britain’s most famous writer. Mr Zhang said he wants to “let the people across the world mourn” one of the world’s greatest ever playwrights ____________________. The cost of the plastic surgery will be around $150,000 – the same as the ____________________ for his last book. Zhang justified the surgery and cost, saying: "Life is a ____________________ become a better person. I think the surgeries are worth the money."

Zhang Yiyi’s upcoming surgeries have become a talking point in China. He is already ____________________ after he compared himself to China’s great philosopher Confucius. Many Chinese believe he is ____________________ seeker while others believe ____________________ spend his money the way he wants. He is set to become the most famous cosmetic surgery patient since Michael Jackson. Zheng Churong, the head of the team of surgeons ____________________ operations, told reporters that the surgeries would not be so difficult. He said Zhang’s face is the right shape, with a “sharp nose” and “deep eyes”. The big question ____________________ whether Zhang’s new look ____________________ write as well as Shakespeare.

INDIVIDUAL READING BLACK SWAN GREEN by David Mitchel ASSIGNMENT 1. pp. 1-120 About the author Born in Southport in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an MA in Comparative Literature, at the University of Kent. He lived for a year in Sicily before moving to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. In his first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), nine narrators in nine locations across the globe tell interlocking stories. This novel won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, number9dream (2001), was shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize for fiction. It is set in modern day Tokyo and tells the story of Eiji Miyake's search for his father. In 2003 David Mitchell was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'. In his third novel, Cloud Atlas (2004), a young Pacific islander witnesses the nightfall of science and civilisation, while questions of history are explored in a series of seemingly disconnected narratives. Cloud Atlas was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and was followed by Black Swan Green (2006). David Mitchell lives in Ireland. His most recent book is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010). Task 1. Read and translate the culture words M5, The Rockford Files, Bluebeard, Parish magazine, Scabby Queen, the Highway Code, Boxing Day, OXO, St.Gabriel’s, Blarney Stone, Richond, Marmite, MOT, the Big Two, Scot-free, Police 999 Task 2. Read and translate the words To be mangled, aeons, grinny-zitty, incursion, to pong, book tokens, to be funny in head, poxy, to slagger smb. off, biz, to give smb silent treatment, to thud, to trespass, satchel, twat, to get scurvy, eavesdropping, muffled laughter, bog, gritty, posh Task 3. Questions for discussion 1. The title of the book is Black Swan Green. How do you understand it? 2. How can you describe the way the main character perceives his father's study judging by the way he behaves in there? What can it suggest about his relationship with his father? What is the main character’s name? 3. On p.3 the Hangman steps into the narrative. Who do you think it might be? Justify your answer. On p.4 the main character dwells quite a lot upon the rules of conduct. What do

4.these thoughts suggest about the situation he has to live in and about the character’s standing in this social system? 5. Throughout the book the characters swear quite a lot. Do you think they are being offensive, or it is something else that makes them use bad language? 6. Several times throughout the chapters the main character makes remarks about the Russians possibly willing to invade. Is he really so politically concerned, or is there something else that is behind it? 7. What does the main character think about the British Bulldogs game (pp.6-8)? How can this attitude be explained? 8. Dwell upon the episode by the House in the Woods. What made the main character particularly nervous? 9. Describe the family of the main character. What are the relations within the family? 10. What does the episode with hiding the Omega watch in a specially hidden tin tell us about the main character? 11. Who do you think the Unborn Twin might be? (p.20) 12. How do you understand the episode by the lake and the events that followed it? (pp.21-27) 13. Who is Mrs de Roo? Of what importance is she for the main character? 14. The main character has a marvelous skill with words but at the same time suffers from a serious speech disorder. What can this suggest about his character and personality? 15. What is school like for the main character? Does he like it? Comment on the events which happened during the form assembly. 16. Some elements of the main character’s life experiences and thoughts are presented in the form of images (pp 36, 38). What do you think was the reason for that? 17. What do we learn about the relatives of the main character? What is Jason's attitude towards them? 18. What are the relations between Uncle Brian and Jason's father like? 19. Give a character sketch of Hugo. 20. What does the conversation between Jason’s mother and her sister reveal about the problems of the family? 21. Dwell on the episodes of hanging out, shoplifting and smoking (pp.74-83). Comment of the way Jason sees the situation. 22. Comment on Jason's behavior in the morning. Why did he find a particular pleasure in doing so? 23. Comment on Jason’s encounter with the owner of the dogs. What doesn't the man particularly like about Jason? (pp. 88-89) 24. What is the importance of the fight between Grant Burch and Ross Wilcox for Jason? 25. Jason seems to fancy Dawn Madden. What do you think the reason might be? Does Dawn herself find Jason in any sense attractive? (p.103-109) ASSIGNMENT 2. Part 2 (p.121 – 248) Task 1. Read and translate the culture words: The Falklands War, HMS, GOTCHA, CND sticker, Harper’s Bazzar, LP, Oxfam Shop,

a.	doomed	magnificent
b.	poaching	support
c.	initiative	profitable
d.	backing	strategy
e.	majestic	disappear
f.	wholly	unavoidable
g.	vanish	ill-fated
h.	inevitable	sell for
i.	lucrative	entirely
j.	fetch	illegal hunting

Task 2. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

a.	hope is fading	conservation initiative
b.	the final nails	dress in Tibet
c.	This is in contrast to a successful	whole subcontinent
d.	the full backing of	the current poaching
e.	1,200 of the majestic beasts on the	fetches up to $20,000
f.	the Indian government was wholly	fast for the big cat
g.	such a low	then Prime Minister Indira Ghandi
h.	two factors are behind	responsible
i.	used in ceremonial	ebb
j.	A tiger skin	in the coffin

Task 3. ANIMAL PRODUCTS:With your partner(s), talk about these animal products. Rank them using this scale: 10 = the trade should be banned forever; 1 = I’d like to start selling this/these.

tiger bones
ivory
whale meat
alligator skin

frogs’ legs
stuffed eagles
seal fur
beef

Task 4.TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

a.	People are worried about the future of ten tigers lost in the jungle.	T / F
b.	Many Indian tigers are being buried in human coffins in India.	T / F
c.	India’s ex Prime Minister Indira Ghandi championed the tiger.	T / F
d.	There are only twelve hundred tigers left in India.	T / F
e.	An Indian conservationist recommended living with tigers as pets.	T / F
f.	The conservationist accused India of not caring about tigers.	T / F
g.	The BBC says a demand for tiger bones is endangering the tiger.	T / F
h.	Tiger bones fetch up to $3,000 a kilo and are very lucrative.

Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean grows in winter (7) ______________________ summer. The amount of sea ice melting in the summer has greatly increased in (8) ______________________. Environmentalists attribute this to global warming. The NSIDC said (9) ______________________ sea-ice cover have now occurred in the last six years. It said (10) ______________________ is less ice to reflect the sun's heat, which means the ocean gets warmer. This (11) ______________________ consistent with 2007 levels until July, after which it started disappearing at a faster rate. Meteorologists say a strong storm in early August could have (12) ______________________, weaker ice, making it melt faster.

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