- •Home-reading guide the moon and sixpence Unit 1: Chapters I — VI
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •Unit 2: Chapters VIII—XI
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •III. Find the following allusions in the text and say what you know about them:
- •IV. Answer the following questions:
- •V. Give a summary of the chapters under study. Unit3: Chapters XII—XVI
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •IV. Answer the following questions:
- •V. Give Ch. Strickland's character-sketch. Do you justify his motives for abandoning everything for the sake of painting?
- •VI. Fill in the character-sketch pages.
- •VII. Give a summary of the chapters under study. Unit 4: Chapters XVII—XXVI
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •III. Learn by heart and reproduce with a partner the talk between Mrs Strickland and the narrator (Ch. XV).
- •V. What do you consider is the most typical feature of:
- •VI. Points for discussion:
- •VII. A) Sum up what you've learned about Dirk Stroeve. Give his charac-
- •VIII. Give a summary of the chapters under study. Unit 5: Chapters XXVII—XXXII
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •V. Suggest words or word combinations from the vocabulary list:
- •VI. Paraphrase the underlined word-groups, supply their Russian equivalents and use them in sentences of your own:
- •I. Use the words and phrases from the vocabulary list in situations of your own.
- •II. Comment on what the author or the character says or thinks:
- •III. Answer the following questions:
- •IV. Discuss the chapters you've read along the following lines:
- •V. Fill in the character-sketch pages.
- •VI. Give a summary of the chapters under discussion. Unit 6: Chapters XXXIV—XXXIX
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •VII. Reproduce the situations in which the words from the word list occur.
- •I. In the chapters you've read find reference to the following places and names and say what you know about them:
- •II. Paraphrase the following sentences:
- •III. Bear out or refute the following statements. Prove your point of view:
- •IV. Answer the following questions:
- •V. Discuss the following:
- •VI. Fill in the character-sketch pages.
- •VII. Give a summary of the chapters under study. Unit 7: Chapters xl—xliv
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •IV. Look up some material about the famous schools and trends in painting touched upon in the novel and prepare a talk about:
- •V. Fill in the character-sketch pages.
- •VI. Give a summary of the chapters under study. Unit 8: Chapters xlv—li
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •VI. Give the context in which the following words and word combinations occur:
- •VII. Learn the following idioms with do used both as a noun and as a verb:
- •VIII. Translate the following sentences into Russian. Make up a few sentences of your own using the given idioms:
- •I. Explain what is meant by the following sentences and comment on them:
- •III. Pick out a passage describing nature in Tahiti and prepare It for recital in class.
- •IV. Answer the following questions:
- •V. Points for discussion:
- •VI. Fill in the character-sketch pages.
- •VII. Give a summary of the chapters under study. Unit 9: Chapters liii—lv
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •IV. Paraphrase the italicized parts of the sentences:
- •I. Compose sentences of your own with the following words and phrases:
- •II. Explain the use of the idiom a square peg in a round hole in the text; give its Russian equivalent and illustrate its meaning with a situation or story.
- •III. Comment on the following statements:
- •IV. What do you know about the life of Paul Gauguin in Tahiti? Compare his life and the circumstances of his death there with those of Strickland's.
- •V. Could you name other men of art equally possessed by the desire to create so that they were "deaf and blind to everything else in the world" like Strickland?
- •VI. Answer the following questions:
- •VII. Points for discussion:
- •VIII. Fill in the character-sketch pages.
- •IX. Give a summary of the chapters under study. Unit 10: Chapters lvi—lviii
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •I. Find in the text sentences containing the following words and phrases and translate them into Russian:
- •II. Give synonyms for:
- •III. Paraphrase the following sentences and explain them:
- •VI. Answer the following questions:
- •VIII. Fill in the character-sketch pages.
- •IX. Give a summary of the chapters under study.
- •Reference List
IV. Paraphrase the italicized parts of the sentences:
1. It was a feast of colour.
2. He was eternally a pilgrim, haunted by a divine nostalgia, and the demon within him was ruthless.
3. In England and France he was the square peg in the round nole, but here the holes were any sort of shape, and no sort of peg was quite amiss.
4. The bush was encroaching, and it looked as though very soon the primeval forest would regain possession of that strip of land...
5. ...he liked to have his models under his hand.
6. To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish> but they were used to queer fish, and they took him for granted...
7. The passion that held Strickland in bondage was no less tyrannical than love.
8. His complexion was florid and his hair white.
9. / did not relish fourteen kilometres over a bad pathway...
10. But the doctor gave a gasp, he was rooted to the floor, and he stared with all his eyes.
11. He judged that the disease had already attacked the vocal cords.
12. Dr Coutras surmised she was afraid to go farther in case she met any of the people from the village.
B. Speech Exercises
I. Compose sentences of your own with the following words and phrases:
to do sb an injustice; on one's haunches; palette; leprosy; quinine; remote; fortitude; shallow.
II. Explain the use of the idiom a square peg in a round hole in the text; give its Russian equivalent and illustrate its meaning with a situation or story.
III. Comment on the following statements:
1. ...the place where Strickland lived had the beauty of the Garden of Eden.
2. Words cannot describe that paradise. [...]! suppose to European eyes it would have seemed astonishingly sordid.
3. He had gone native with a vengeance.
4. And though I had bought them out of compassion, after living with them I began to like them.
6, Here, on this remote island, he seemed to have aroused none of the detestation with which he was regarded at home... If he had spent his life amid these surroundings he might have passed for no worse a man than another.
6. There are men whose desire for truth is so great that to attain it they will shatter the very foundation of their world. Of such was Strickland, only beauty with him took the place of truth.
7. Strickland was not sympathetic to me. He was an idle, useless scoundrel, who preferred to live with a native woman rather than work for his living like the rest of us. Man Dieu, how was I to know that one day the world would come to the conclusion that he had genius?
8. Women are strange little beasts... Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.
IV. What do you know about the life of Paul Gauguin in Tahiti? Compare his life and the circumstances of his death there with those of Strickland's.
V. Could you name other men of art equally possessed by the desire to create so that they were "deaf and blind to everything else in the world" like Strickland?