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Post by Michael Kalinichenko on Nov 26, 2015 16:26:54 GMT
“Doctor in the House” by Richard Gordon In our world, full of difficulties and various problems I am sure no one can say that he is free from spoiling his nerves and health in order to overcome some important destiny barriers. As a matter of fact, who can agree that life is more interesting, when it flows as a calm river of constantly and monotonously changing events?
A person becomes experienced and strong only having felt the whole disgrace of the world he has a chance to live in. And what an amazing quality our memory has; it specially chooses the worst recollections and with the sense cruelty reminds us our past mistakes and annoyances, making us feel that awful feelings again and again.
The fact that nothing can be as memorable as our misfortunes was remarkably proved by Richard Gordon in his novel under the title "Doctor in the House".
Having a great medical practice, the author reveals his own recollections of the old days, when he was just a student, stumbling through the most scaring trial in his life – the finals. He colourfully describes all the sides of his extremely important event. Cheating is practically impossible, all the knowledge is an inseparable mass in the heads of young and full of hopes students. Oral and writing examinations become some kind of a “judgment day”. And not everyone becomes that lucky, who will take the diploma from the professor’s hands. With an irony the author gives us the description of students’ feelings and behaviour. Some of them have “superiosity in their faces”, others were trying to complete the last brilliant sentence, “dissatisfied with the period allowed for them to express themselves”.
Richard Gordon describes in details the examiners too, people, who were maybe the most scaring ones for poor students. All the professors were calm and steady. For most of them the finals were just a point in their schedule, and their calmness seemed to the narrator to be the act of real cruelty.
“One doesn’t fail exams. One comes down, one muffs, one is ploughed, plucked or pipped”. In this amplification the author shows the real significance of the exams, and for somebody the failure can be a synonym of “dying”. The hopelessness of the situation is supported by the day, when the results are published. The past can’t be changed, and everything a person can do is just waiting, the most annoying thing for people, who practically won through the circles of hell. Fortunately, the narrator reached the finish line with success.
After years such event seems to be extremely funny. The author showed us the atmosphere people sometimes have to be in. Recollecting my own experience I can say that in many cases my feelings were the same. Everything, which happens to us sooner or later turns into the simple recollection. Of course it puts a trace in our mind, and not always pleasant one. Richard Gordon gives us a way to understanding of such things. It is humour, the best “cure of the injures” the life gives us. Remembering this rule a person is able to overcome many life trials, becoming stronger and wiser. In this case even the best professor can’t be compared with the teacher we all have – our past.
Ver1.To kill a mockingbird The extract under study is taken from the book “To kill a mockingbird” written by Harper Lee. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is her first novel and the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. The novel depicts the life of its young narrator Jean Louse “Scout” Finch in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a smart lawyer with high moral standards. Attitus decides to take up a case involving a black man, Tom Robinson, who has been accused in raping a very poor white girl named Mayella Ewell. Attitus is sure in his defendant's innocence but Tom has almost no chance to be acquitted, because the white jury will never believe the black man more than a white woman. The article could be logically divided into four parts. The first part begins when we meet Atticus in the court-room who is “half-way through his speech to the jury”. He proves the fact of being an experienced smart lawyer who knows his business pretty well. His speech is logically organized; he speaks “easily, with the kind of detachment he uses when he dictates a letter”. During his speech the jury seems to be attentive and appreciative. That is, according to Scout, because he is not a “thuderer”. His children present in the court-room and notice some strangers in their father's behavior – the so-called “firsts” – this kind of digression shows Atticus's excitement (“This is equivalent of him standing stark naked”). Atticus addresses the jury “gentlemen”, showing his respect for them. After stating the facts the lawyer goes on to the evidence of Tom's innocence .The manner of his speech changes, and addresses the jury “as if they are folks on the post office corner”. He appeals to these people to be just, without prejudices. He tries to make the jury believe that Tom is not guilty. He says that the case “requires no minute sifting of complicated facts” and compares it with black and white. This case of similily shows that Atticus uses the simplest words for people better to understand what he means. In the second part, we’d better name it “The speech”, he carefully outlines each peace of evidence. According to him it was not tom Robinson but Mayella Ewell who was guilty. The author compares her with “a child, who hides stolen contraband”. Probably using this case of simile Lee tries somehow to approve Mayella's behavior and make the reader feel sorry for her. In this part of the extract we come across a number of stylistic devices, most of which serve to emphasize the meaning of the utterance. First of all it is rhetorical questions which Atticus asks and answers himself (what did she do? She tempted a negro), then such device as anadiplosis “I have nothing but pity… but my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake”, or repetition “She has broken a code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live”. These words underline the general passage atmosphere. Speaking about Mayella, Atticus repeats the verb “must” to express the situation from Mayella’s point of view: “…she must put him away from her — he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense.” We also come across a number of emphatic structures (it was guilt that motivated her) which also contribute to the expressiveness of the passage. Atticus characterizes Tom Robinson from his point of view, using epithets: quiet, respectable, humble. He proves the fact that the Negro is not worse and in some way even better than many of white people. He expresses his idea using repetition (anaphora): “some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around the women - black or white”. Atticus ends his speech with Thomas Jefferson’s words – “all men are created equal”, but he does not agree with it because he sure that all people are different, but there is one institution where all are equal – it is a court. The court is “one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president”. Here, the author used the parallel construction which emphasizes the effect of statement. But Atticus understands that the jury can make a mistake because:”The court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up”. So the third part of the extract begins, it may be called “Waiting (or suspense)”. Scout sees the jury return “…moving like underwater swimmers, and Judge Taylor's voice came from far away and was tiny”: For Atticus, his children and Tom Robinson these moments turn into a nightmare. “The foreman handed a piece of paper to Mr. Tate who handed it to the clerk who handed it to the judge.” This repetition seems to be created to emphasize Atticus’s feelings. The climax of the story is seen in the next paragraph. Atticus’s children at the state of critical stress: “Jem's hands were white from gripping the balcony rail”. Here we see the repetition of the word “guilty”, which shows the tightness in the air, and describing the Jem’s feelings – a comparison: “each “guilty” was a separate stab between them”. The fourth part, in my opinion, could be named “Respect”. “I looked around. They were standing. All around us and in the balcony on the opposite wall, the Negroes were getting to their feet” One of them respectfully calls Scout “Miss Jean Louse”, because everybody understand that Atticus did his best to protect the innocent. The novel has a number of interesting facts connected with its context and vocabulary. The author uses words from the lawyer's dictionary, making a reader a participant of the events: corroborative evidence, jury, complicated facts, guilt, defendant, crime, state, testimony, witness, judge, with the court permission, testify, gavel”. It goes without saying that racism is a major theme of the novel. And the central message is the equality of white and black people.
ver2.TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD I’d like to analyze the extract from a book which is entitled “To kill a mockingbird”. The author is Harper Lee, an American author known for her 1960-Pulitzer-Prize-winning and who is considered now by many to be a literary icon. Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. Her novel ‘To kill a mockingbird’ which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. The book became an international bestseller and was adapted into screen in 1962. The story of “To kill a mockingbird” takes place during a tumultuous time in the South. At that time black people were treated as people of lower level than white people and racial tensions were running high in the South as a whole, especially in Alabama. People all over the US followed events like the Scottsboro incident, 1955 bus boycott and also Martin Luther King’s rise to leadership. Harper Lee is said to have been influenced by these events very much. Though many details of To Kill a Mockingbird are apparently autobiographical she has insisted that the novel is a work of fiction. The text under analysis belongs to the group of fictional texts. The literary trend is realism. The book is brilliant and powerful and it is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama. In the novel the author paints a true and lively picture of that time. A Negro was falsely accused of raping a white woman. Rhe extract’s scene takes place in the Supreme Court in 1936. At the beginning the author pays readers attention to the main character of the story, Atticus, who is a defender. Then the author passes on the detailed description of Atticus’s speech to the jury from which we learn that he occuses a young girl who tempted a black man. The author depicts how Atticus defending Tom Robinson, tries to persuade the jury that it was she, Bob Ewell’s daughter, who broke the code because her desires were stronger and we see Atticus providing the court with some evidences protecting the black man. After that he refers to Thomas Jefferson’s speech emphasizing that in the court all people were equal, in spite of being black or white. He ends his speech by asking the jury to make a right decision. Further on we learn that the jury voted and discussed the case for a very long time and finally brought in a verdict Robinson’s guiltiness which should be followed by the death penalty. It is important to analyze the title of the book, which has very little connection to the plot, but it is a kind of a symbol of the whole situation. In this story, the “mockingbird” comes to represent the idea of innocence. Thus, ‘to kill a mockingbird’ is to destroy innocence. As we see this story is a real masterpiece of true-to-life description. Speaking about the structure of the story, it is represented quite vividly. There is the exposition, which is at the beginning, where the author writes how Atticus presents his speech to the jury. The exposition is followed by the risking – the speech of Atticus. And the climax is the moment, when the main character appeals to people’s feelings and values. The outcome is the verdict which is believed to be unfair. So, we can make a conclusion that this is the anticlimax of the extract. When Atticus finishes, he leaves the court – room, this is the story’s falling, but still being the extract of the novel, it has the open end. In spite of the fact, that the story has the sharp end, the author managed to reveal the main idea. The rigid social divisions and the problem of racial discrimination are vividly shown in the book. The author wants to show that all men are created equal and everyone has the same rights. Besides Lee depicts how cruel people can be especially when they deal with someone who is different from them. Speaking about the main characters of the story we can’t avoid the detailed description of Atticus Finch who is said to be the voice of reason in the town and in the novel. He is described indirectly, that is the character is revealed through actions, thoughts, speech and appearance, it helps the reader to create the image of Atticus Finch quite easy. He is a protagonist of the novel; he may be defined as round and static, because there are no radical changes in his temper throughout the story. Being a successful lawyer he is a good father; he wants his children to grow up moral and honest people. In spite of the threats of the Ku-Klux-Klan, Atticus was eager to take up this case and did his best. It characterizes him as a very brave person, since this organization was terrible and famous for their bloody deals. The members of the Ku-Klux-Klan lynched not only blacks but also those who supported them. He is an honest man who represents morality and justice in To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus can be characterized as a man with kind heart as he really sympathized Tom and felt indignant for the falsely accused man. He feels he is responsible to take Tom Robinson’s case and defend him to the best of his abilities. Atticus is sometimes overly optimistic, but his unshakable hope in mankind and self-created role as the town 'do-gooder' sustain him. He is a good speaker, because his speech is organized logically and rhythmically. He knows how to attract their attention. Atticus addresses the jury “gentlemen”, showing his respect for them. Using simile “he was talking to the jury as if they were folks on the post office corner” the author wanted to show that he is not going to ingratiate with them. Another simile shows him being a quick-witted man as he says “This case is as simple as black and white” and the other “a lie as black as Tom Robinson’s skin”. The allusion of the Yankees and Thomas Jefferson’s speech also give us a certain image of a well-educated man and it also help Atticus somehow to influence the Jury. The author uses the anaphora when such crimes can’t be applied to a particular race of men: “Some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women…” There is also a very interesting case of the repetition with the parallelism, which seems to be the author's attitude towards the red tape of the court: “The foreman handed a piece of paper to Mr. Tate who handed it to the clerk who handed it to the judge.” The vivid example of repetition of the word “guilty” pronounced by Judge Taylor after the polling of the grand jury shows us the tension in the room. In the Atticus’es speech we can also find a phenomenon of antithesis: “there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein and the ignorant man the equal of any college president”. Here the author emphasizes the great abyss between the rich and the poor. By the word a Rockefeller the author implies a very rich man, and by the word an Einstein – a very ignorant one. The other character of the story is Tom Robinson, a young strong Negro who was charged with raping a white girl, but in fact, he is not guilty. The method of his describing is masterfully mixed: it is direct and indirect simultaneously. The character is flat, that is he is relatively uncomplicated and doesn’t not change throughout the whole course of a work. Tom is also said to be a protagonist of the story as well as his defendant being contradicted to the prejudiced society. He is described by Atticus as a quiet, respectable, humble Negro. Such epithets help us to imagine the character more colourfully. We can definitely say that he is too naïve and simple that we can’t help sympathizing him. Which is more he is a bit helpless, but we know how hard it was to fight for the rights at that time especially when the matter concerned bblack men. In this story he is represented as a victim of the society, of its prejudice to the Blacks. His only guilt is his colour of skin. Describing the Mayella Ewell, a girl who accused Tom in raping, Atticus uses the strong metaphor saying that she is the victim of poverty and ignorance. Hereafter he uses the effective parallel construction saying that “She knew full well the enormity of her offense…, she did persisted.., she did something every child has done, she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her”. Speaking about her personality we should say about her irresponsibility for her actions and words as it was she who actually seduced a man. To be more specific we can point out her lost morality and lack of education and upbringing itself. It is not a surprise judging by her father’s behavior in the court. He is even more ignorant and ill-natured than his daughter. The style prevailed in the extract is oratorical. Its main function is persuasion of the audience. The speaker, Atticus, uses a lot of stylistic devices in his speech in order to persuade the jury that his defendant is not guilty. The most frequently used is the epithet. The story is full of the epithets a rigid and time – honored code; a code so severe; any God-fearing, persevering, respectable white man; a quiet, respectable, humble Negro; the cynical confidence; the evil assumption; Judge Tailor’s voice was tiny which express the author’s attitude toward what he describes. They contribute to the expressiveness and vividness of the lawyer’s speech. The metaphor is another figure of speech used in the text; it requires no sifting of complicated facts; no code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards; a phrase that the Yankees… are fond of hurling at us; hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. Human society is compared with a flock of dogs which hound a wild animal during hunting. There is only one example of irony in the text and so quite respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman. Irony shows the attitude of the author to certain facts or events and creates a humorous effect. In the speech of Atticus Finch also such stylistic devices as allusion: Thomas Jefferson once said; In the name of God; and antonomasia: a Rockefeller, an Einstein are used. Simile is used by the author, too: ...we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson’s skin...; this case is as simple as black and white. The speaker intensely chooses such word as black to refer the audience to Tom Robinson’s racial belonging which must not take any matter for them. In spite of lexical stylistic devices a number of syntactical stylistic devices are used. The one of them which helps the author to catch the reader’s attention is the repetition, in the text we find different types of repetition. Among them is catch repetition: …which she had done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt. I say, guilt, gentlemen…; … she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is honored from our midst… Anaphora: …that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral being, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our woman…; and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around our women…; … she persisted in breaking it. She persisted and… Ordinary repetition: A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. The repetition is often used to make the speaker’s meaning clear, to lay greater emphasis on his statements. Emphasis in the text is also attained by: the use of the verb “to do”… it does require you to be sure…; the emphatic word order all around us and in the balcony on the opposite wall the Negroes were getting to their feet… It was interesting to notice that in the speech of the lawyer gradation takes place: first, the speaker mentions the name of Thomas Jefferson, then the Supreme Court and, finally, the name of God. Thus, the gradation is Thomas Jefferson – the Supreme Court – God. We can see the suspense in the speech of Finch when he declares that Robison can’t be guilty, “but somebody in this court room is”. The narration itself is full of epithets and metaphors. For instance, the glances in the court are defined as “horrified”. Atticus concludes his closing statement using Thomas Jefferson’s words – “all men are created equal”. Speaking about the peculiarity of Harper Lee’s language, the language of the story mostly formal with use of law terminology, making a reader a participant of the events in the courtroom: medical evidence, witness, court-room, jury, case, guilt of the defendant, cross-examination. This proves that Lee studied at the law school and knew the subject perfectly. Besides, these words create the real atmosphere of the court. It helps the reader to feel the tension of the characters. In conclusion I would like to say that the novel is full of the deep ideas that everybody should think over. A person must respect others no matter who people are and where they come from. This value should be given to children from the very infantry. I absolutely agree with the Atticus’s belief that all human beings must be accepted and treated equally.
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Post by Michael Kalinichenko on Dec 9, 2015 16:54:59 GMT
Texts and exam questions: I.Тексти (сторінки) 1. From DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE (c.6-10) 2. From TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (c.38-43) 3. From W.S. Part I (c.84-87) 4. From W.S. Part II (c.298-304)
II.Теми для доповідей на екзамені: 1. How to prepare a SUMMARY (c.21) 2. How to Evaluate a Story (c.295) 3. How to Analyze the Author's Style (c.297) 4. Higher Education in the USA (c.31) 5. Syntactical Stylistic Devices (c.56) 6. Lexical Stylistic Devices (c.58) 7. Law enforcement in the USA (c.74) 8. The US Court System (c.292) 9. Organization and Structure of the System of Education in the USA (c.284) 10. British and American Universities (c.291 !!! також додати до цього матеріалу стислу, але змістовну розповідь про два відомих університети – один для Британії, один для США). 11. Biography of a British \ American Writer of the XX–XXI centuries (it must be someone famous, someone like Norman Mailer or Graham Green) AND a short summary of any of his \ her novels.
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Post by Olena Loburenko IM-45 on Dec 10, 2015 22:36:41 GMT
Analyzing the “ Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome (I-IV chapters)
I’d like to analyze the extract from a book which is entitled "Three Men in a Boat". The author is Jerome K. Jerome. Jerome K. Jerome.was an English writer and humourist, whose novels "Three Men in a Boat», « Diary of a Pilgrimage», Three Men on the Bummel have enjoyed great popularity. He is famous for his art of story- telling , his vivid style and humor wgich is generally expressed in laughter – provoking situations. The text begins with the description of narratour and his friends (Gearge and Harries) health: We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order." It can be seen that the beginning of this story makes it more vivid, funny and interesting. From this description we can see that the narrator accesses to the thoughts and feelings of all the characters of this story. In this capture the narrator depicts himself as amusing, unusual, ironic and strange person: I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch – hay fever, I fancy it was…..I have concluded that I has all kinds of diseases instead of the housemaid’s knee….” George and Harris are also funny and amusing heroes : « George stood on the hearth-rug, and gave us a clever and powerful piece of acting, illustrative of how he felt in the night. George fanciese he is ill; « That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.». Then we can see that the heroes dialogues and reflections about their ilnesses and sufferings become to be more strained and brisk. It points on the author’s charged tone with tension and emotions: heroes began to argue about the place of the their rest and at the end of a lot funny discussions they decided to go to the river: George said:"Let's go up the river”….It suited me to a "T" too, and Harris and I both said it was a good idea of George's. One more hero of this story is a dog Montmorency — the only hero, which the author doesn’t depict very funny. Depicting the heroes conversations and preparation for their travelling, the author ridicules their distraction, inattention and irresponsibility: «We had taken up an oil-stove once, but "never again." It had been like living in an oil-shop that week. It oozed»… George said:"What time shall I wake you fellows?"Harris said:"Seven."I said:"No - six," because I wanted to write some letters…… IT was Mrs. Poppets that woke me up next morning.She said:"Do you know that it's nearly nine o'clock, sir?"… «There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time;»….and so on. There are a lot of descriptive passages in the text: “We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing;…. Then we run our little boat into some quiet nook, and the tent is pitched, and the frugal supper cooked and eaten. Then the big pipes are filled and lighted, and the pleasant chat goes round in musical undertone; while, in the pauses of our talk, the river, playing round the boat»….The text has local –colour context. Also there are a lot of repetitions of words (for ex. In the first chapter:! With me, it was my liver that was out of order, knew it was my liver that was out of order; I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart” and others. Despite the fact, that the author depicts main heroes in different curious and laughable situations, ridicules their character and behavior, he supports and respects their decision to travel. One of the most important author’s words in these text are: “Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing!!!»
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Post by Tetyana Mulko IM45 on Dec 11, 2015 18:00:24 GMT
Analysis "From W.S." by L.P. Hartley
I have recently read a story “From W.S.”, written by L.P. Hartley. This author wrote a lot of short stories, which were recognized as a major contribution to English fiction.
Once one contemporary reviewer remarked: “L.P. Hartley not only portrayed the exterior of social life, but also explored the underworld of fears and fantasies”.
In the story “From W.S.” author speaks from his own voice. He depicts very strange situation in the life of main character – Walter Streeter. The type of his description is direct because while reading everyone gets very detailed information and the author tries to trust his own opinion to readers.
Walter Streeter – the main hero – is a novelist and some days ago he suddenly started to receive odd postcards from different places. The first postcard came from Forfar but it didn’t touch his feelings a lot and he tore it up. After ten days he received another postcard from Berwick-on-Tweed. That postcard made him worried and he started to think over it. It was really surprising for me to find out, that the anonymous writer of postcards knew almost all preferences of Walter Streeter (for example, his interest in cathedrals and churches).
After receiving the third postcard Walter decided to show it to his friend, but he said, that there was no reason for panic and he stressed, that the anonymous writer was just a loving woman.
After some days the main hero received one more postcard from Coventry and a wave of panic surged up in him. He found out that every previous card came from a place geographically closer to him than the last.
Walter went to the police, searching for help. The final of the story confused me completely – Walter was killed! But in what way! He wasn’t killed by an ordinary murderer - he was killed by the mendacious policemen, who turned out to be a hero from Walter Streeter’s stories – William Strainsforth. I was shocked to find out that Walter was strangled. So, the final of the story was unexpectable.
Speaking about tone of the story, I must mention that it is not calm and it is charged with emotions and tensions. In my point of view, the most intense moment of the story was when William Strainsforth asked Walter to name just one redeeming and good feature of him.
All my nerves strained and I was hopefully looking out for the further development of the plot.
During all story L.P. Hartley used several language pecularities, for example – phraseological units and idioms: to get to grips, to have smb’s feet firm in the ground, to get into a groove, to send smb to Coventry, to wear blinkers, to get a knife, to keep an eye on smth.
Also L.P. Hartley used several similes: to purr like a kettle, memory, clenched like a fist, as good as their words, as safe as houses, eyes like gooseberries, it looked like man’s handwriting, woman – a little-mouse creature; epithets: noble, upright fellow, glorious tower, tall square gate posts and metaphores: dark creature, fruitful conflict, to colour smb’s mind.
Phraseologіcal units help to emphasize on the importance of a particular episodes. Also idioms help to convey positive or negative author’s attitude to certain events and they are used in the text for better understanding of emotions and worries of the heroes.
Sometimes idioms are used to describe certain language colour of some people.
Also I should admit, that L.P. Hartley is the master of psychological details: he described all feelings and worryings of W.S. in a very talented and picky manner.
I liked this story because of atmosphere of tension that didn’t leave me while reading and because of unexpected final.
I will recommend to read this story for those people, who are fond of reading books with interesting plot, a big amount of psychological details and tense and scary moments.
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Post by Michael Kalinichenko on Dec 11, 2015 18:10:34 GMT
NAME: CURRENT MARK: 1. Блиндарук Єлизавета 58 2. Борей Мирослава 40 3. Бурківська Оксана 50 4. Вікторія Печенюк 50 5. Гурин Юлія 54 6. Зазулевич Георгій 7. Марія Процик 40 8. Олена Панченко 60 9. Олена Лобуренко 60 10. Тетяна Мулько 60 11. Ульяна Панасюк 60 12. Юлія Павлушенко 60 13. Євсюкова Тетяна 60 14. Івойлов Михайло 40
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Post by Michael Kalinichenko on Dec 20, 2015 15:51:56 GMT
Важливе оголошення для ІМ-45 (дистанційне навчання на 2016-й рік) Дайте відповідь на два питання:
- як добре працює Ваш домашній Інтернет (швидко, повільно) - Чи вмієте Ви користуватися програмою Skype???
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Post by Michael Kalinichenko on Jan 14, 2016 19:26:31 GMT
And silent they were))) Ok, you will get some SKYPE assignments soon)))
We have 20 academic hrs for this semester, and you are going to learn something about SKYPE (just in case you don't know what it is) and participate in several distance lesson with the help of this very handy learning tool.
First of all, you need to install SKYPE, activate it, create your own account & try using it. We shall start with the basics, such as CHAT, and then move on to video messages. If you want to see how it works, just send me whatever messages you want (using my SKYPE address) sometime after 8 PM. AFTER that (probably some time in February) you will participate in real SKYPE lessons, and that includes (maybe) group discussions))) Good luck!
My SKYPE address: zotov_ua
What you MAY do (the rules) when using SKYPE: - speak in a loud & clear voice - look good & don't preted to be shy; - add your own materials to your video presentation (imagine that it is your final exam answer!)
What you may NOT do: - completely ignore SKYPE assignments... it would be a grave mistake, really! - pretend to be silly & say something like "I cannot use SKYPE for such and such reason (moral or technical). Once again, it will seriously affect your final grades, so don't do it!"
Sooo... IT's TIME to USE SKYPE.
Your first real SKYPE assignment is very simple (besides getting in touch with me, sending me your SKYPE contacts etc.) You need to send me a VIDEO message:
- prepare a short summary of your favorite book (ANY kind); - sit in front of your PC with the camera & SKYPE; - read your text or just speak about it & record it as a video message; - send it to my SKYPE address;
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Post by Michael Kalinichenko on Feb 4, 2016 11:55:08 GMT
За вже відомою Вам схемою: 1) Лексико-стилістичний аналіз тексту
Текст 1.
Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall-street
moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf
2) написання академ-есе за темою
Bartleby essay topics (choose one):
1.What ethos does Bartleby have & how does he establish it?
2.Discuss the significance of the last line of the story, "Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!" In what ways does Melville mean the story to have universal significance?
3.Discuss how Bartleby reflects an "anti" or "ironic" hero.
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Post by Michael Kalinichenko on Feb 19, 2016 13:17:31 GMT
OK guys, my computer is back & all is well, but... I had to change my SKYPE address))) And the new SKYPE address: kalina.ua1980
kalina.ua1980
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Post by Michael Kalinichenko on May 2, 2016 19:59:16 GMT
Task 1. Watch the video 1 & 2 AND prepare a summary for each one.
Video 1.
Video.2
Task2. Find the answers to the following questions (make them sound like mini-presentations):
- What's Regtime? - Who is E.L.Doctorow?
Some useful films:
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Post by Michael Kalinichenko on May 17, 2016 18:04:12 GMT
TASK1 - who is Master Juba (William Henry Lane)Juba Dance by African-American composer Nathaniel Dett, performed by Clipper Erickson. Final movement from the In the Bottoms Suite for piano. Dedicated to the best African-American Dancer William Henry Lane - it's Master Juba Show! TASK2 - Hutchinson Family Singers - who are they???*A Tom and Jerry is a traditional Christmastime cocktail in the United States, devised by British journalist Pierce Egan in the 1820s. It is a variant of eggnog with brandy and rum added and served hot, usually in a mug or a bowl.
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