Ex.2. (recognition vocabulary)

Ex.1. (words)

1. This arid plain isn’t claimed by anyone, he continues. Or rather it’s claimed by five different tribes, none strong enough to annihilate the others. All of them wander past this stone heap from time to time, herding their Margaret Atwood 14 thulks —blue sheep-like creatures

2. Mr. Griffen was the brother-in-law of the late Laura Chase, who made her posthumous début as a novelist this spring, and is survived by his sister Mrs. Winifred (Griffen) Prior, the noted socialite, and by his wife, Mrs. Iris (Chase) Griffen

3. The male Snilfards wore masks of woven platinum, which moved as the skin of their faces moved, but which served to hide their true emotions. The women veiled their faces in a silk-like cloth made from the cocoon of thechaz moth. It was punishable by death to cover your face if you were not a Snilfard, since imperviousness and subterfuge were reserved for the nobility. The Margaret Atwood 18 Snilfards dressed luxuriously and were connoisseurs of music, and played on various instruments to display their taste and skill. They indulged in court intrigues, held magnificent feasts, and fell elaborately in love with one another’s wives

4. Stand at your window, he says. Your bedroom window. Leave the light on. Just stand there. He’s startled her. Why? Why on earth? I want you to. I want to make sure you’re safe, he adds, though safety has nothing to do with it. I’ll try, she says. Only for a minute. Where will you be? Under the tree. The chestnut. You won’t see me, but I’ll be there. She thinks, He knows where the window is. He knows what kind of tree. He must have been prowling. Watching her. She shivers a little.

5. It was the law that the noblest Snilfard families must sacrifice at least one of their daughters. It was an insult to the Goddess to offer any who were blemished or flawed, and as time passed, the Snilfards began to mutilate their girls so they would be spared: they would lop off a finger or an earlobe, or some other small part. Soon the mutilation became symbolic only: an oblong blue tattoo at the V of the collarbone. For a woman to possess one of these caste marks if she wasn’t a Snilfard was a capital offence

6. It was the law that the noblest Snilfard families must sacrifice at least one of their daughters. It was an insult to the Goddess to offer any who were blemished or flawed, and as time passed, the Snilfards began to mutilate their girls so they would be spared. The dedicated girls were shut up inside the temple compound, fed the best of everything to keep them sleek and healthy, and rigorously trained so they would be ready for the great day—able to fulfill their duties with decorum, and without quailing.

7. Despite their isolation, some of the girls came to realize they were being murdered as lip service to an outworn concept. Some tried to run away when they saw the knife. Others took to shrieking when they were taken by the hair and bent backwards over the altar, and yet others cursed the King himself, who served as High Priest on these occasions. One had even bitten him. These intermittent displays of panic and fury were resented by the populace, because the most terrible bad luck would follow. Or it might follow, supposing the Goddess to exist. Anyway, such outbursts could spoil the festivities: everyone enjoyed the sacrifices, even the Ygnirods, even the slaves, because they were allowed to take the day off and get drunk.

8. Colonel Henry Parkman High has been endowed with a valuable new prize by the generous bequest of the late Mrs. Winifred Griffen Prior of Toronto, whose noted brother Richard E. Griffen, will be remembered, as he often vacationed here in Port Ticonderoga and enjoyed sailing on our river.

Ex.1. (word combinations)

1. Could I have another dimension of space, and also the tombs and the

dead women, please?

That’s a tall order, but I’ll see what I can do. I could throw in some sacrificial

virgins as well, with metal breastplates and silver ankle chains and

diaphanous vestments. And a pack of ravening wolves, extra.

2. Space it is, then, he says. With tombs and virgins and wolves—but on the instalment plan. Agreed?

3. Good, he says. Now I have to think. He keeps his voice casual. Too much urgency might put her off.

4. Every herdsman or merchant who passes adds a stone to the heap. It’s an old custom—you do it in remembrance of the dead, your own dead—but since no one knows who the dead under the pile of stones really were, they all leave their stones on the off chance. They’ll get around it by telling you that what happened there must have been the will of their god, and thus by leaving a stone they are honouring this will.

5. The funeral will take place on Tuesday morning at the Church of St. Simon the Apostle, followed by interment at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Donations to Princess Margaret Hospital in lieu of flowers.

6. There were lots of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything, and the gods of Sakiel-Norn were no exception. All of them were carnivorous; they liked animal sacrifices, but human blood was what they valued most. At the city’s founding, so long ago it had passed into legend, nine devout fathers were said to have offered up their own children, to be buried as holy guardians under its nine gates.

7. She sits up. That’s really uncalled for, she says. You want to get at me. You just love the idea of killing off those poor girls in their bridal veils. I bet they were blondes.

8. Colonel Henry Parkman High has been endowed with a valuable new prize by the generous bequest of the late Mrs. Winifred Griffen Prior of Toronto, whose noted brother Richard E. Griffen, will be remembered, as he often vacationed here in Port Ticonderoga and enjoyed sailing on our river.

Ex.3

1. In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened, he asked her on no account to tell his father, the prime minister, but to arrange for the payment to be made in several small amounts (=an installment plan) of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables.

2. He was a good public speaker and organizer. Besides, nature had given him (=he was endowed with) extraordinary energy.

3. Many locals admit that justice in this society is often handled on a summary basis (сводная информация), with criminals punished by traditional methods, including beatings and permanent bodily damage (= mutilation).

4. She had a strong desire to defend her husband’s reputation after his death (= posthumously).

5. I am deeply committed to my work but tired of being asked to accept ‘job satisfaction’ instead of (= in lieu of) proper pay.

6. Abruptly, all she wanted was to escape, escape that pitying (выражающий сожаление), patronising (покровительствующий) gleam in his eyes, escape the mounting tension (нарастающее напряжение) which was threatening to completely destroy (= annihilate) the last, precarious shreds (ненадежные клочки) of her self-control.

7. He would often move secretly around (= prowling) darkened housing estates searching for potential victims.

8. A few general-purpose tools (орудия общего назначения, универсальные) will be useful (= will come in handy) here.

9. The museum already has a comprehensive (обширный) library donated as a legacy (= bequest) from the former Cologne gallery owner.

10. Cora thought of ringing him because there was a small probability (= it was a tall order to catch him) of catching him at the flat, but then she shelved the possibility as unlikely.

11. At one time she wanted to be a nurse, but the thought of night shifts (ночные смены) made her stop liking this idea (= put her off the idea).

12. Soon they would be together forever, the use of lies and tricks (= subterfuge) and deceit (обман) ended.

Ex.4 (translation)

1. It seems that everything in this shop is done to put customers off.

2. I dropped in the office on the off chance presuming you could still be there.

3. Various natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods (especially during rainy reasons starting from June to September) and even intermittent droughts take place in this area.

4. Despite all their subterfuges, the results were not reassuring.

5. His brain is like a perfect computer storing the data that may come in handy sooner or later.

6. Leasing helps not to pay 100 per cent of the technology price right off the bat. Leasing enables one to pay a small portion and then pay the whole sum on the instalment plan from receiving income during exploitation.

7. He was endowed with a remarkable force.

8. What he fancied among English classical literature was «The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club» by Charles Dickens and «Vanity Fair» by William Thackeray.

Ex 8 (summary)

Ex. 10 (Represented speech)

1. Uttered presented speech – through the author’s language

2. Unuttered OR inner presented speech – the representation of the thought and feelings of the character

Ex.1. (words)

1. This arid plain isn’t claimed by anyone, he continues. Or rather it’s claimed by five different tribes, none strong enough to annihilate the others. All of them wander past this stone heap from time to time, herding their Margaret Atwood 14 thulks —blue sheep-like creatures

2. Mr. Griffen was the brother-in-law of the late Laura Chase, who made her posthumous début as a novelist this spring, and is survived by his sister Mrs. Winifred (Griffen) Prior, the noted socialite, and by his wife, Mrs. Iris (Chase) Griffen

3. The male Snilfards wore masks of woven platinum, which moved as the skin of their faces moved, but which served to hide their true emotions. The women veiled their faces in a silk-like cloth made from the cocoon of thechaz moth. It was punishable by death to cover your face if you were not a Snilfard, since imperviousness and subterfuge were reserved for the nobility. The Margaret Atwood 18 Snilfards dressed luxuriously and were connoisseurs of music, and played on various instruments to display their taste and skill. They indulged in court intrigues, held magnificent feasts, and fell elaborately in love with one another’s wives

4. Stand at your window, he says. Your bedroom window. Leave the light on. Just stand there. He’s startled her. Why? Why on earth? I want you to. I want to make sure you’re safe, he adds, though safety has nothing to do with it. I’ll try, she says. Only for a minute. Where will you be? Under the tree. The chestnut. You won’t see me, but I’ll be there. She thinks, He knows where the window is. He knows what kind of tree. He must have been prowling. Watching her. She shivers a little.

5. It was the law that the noblest Snilfard families must sacrifice at least one of their daughters. It was an insult to the Goddess to offer any who were blemished or flawed, and as time passed, the Snilfards began to mutilate their girls so they would be spared: they would lop off a finger or an earlobe, or some other small part. Soon the mutilation became symbolic only: an oblong blue tattoo at the V of the collarbone. For a woman to possess one of these caste marks if she wasn’t a Snilfard was a capital offence

6. It was the law that the noblest Snilfard families must sacrifice at least one of their daughters. It was an insult to the Goddess to offer any who were blemished or flawed, and as time passed, the Snilfards began to mutilate their girls so they would be spared. The dedicated girls were shut up inside the temple compound, fed the best of everything to keep them sleek and healthy, and rigorously trained so they would be ready for the great day—able to fulfill their duties with decorum, and without quailing.

7. Despite their isolation, some of the girls came to realize they were being murdered as lip service to an outworn concept. Some tried to run away when they saw the knife. Others took to shrieking when they were taken by the hair and bent backwards over the altar, and yet others cursed the King himself, who served as High Priest on these occasions. One had even bitten him. These intermittent displays of panic and fury were resented by the populace, because the most terrible bad luck would follow. Or it might follow, supposing the Goddess to exist. Anyway, such outbursts could spoil the festivities: everyone enjoyed the sacrifices, even the Ygnirods, even the slaves, because they were allowed to take the day off and get drunk.

8. Colonel Henry Parkman High has been endowed with a valuable new prize by the generous bequest of the late Mrs. Winifred Griffen Prior of Toronto, whose noted brother Richard E. Griffen, will be remembered, as he often vacationed here in Port Ticonderoga and enjoyed sailing on our river.

Ex.1. (word combinations)

1. Could I have another dimension of space, and also the tombs and the

dead women, please?

That’s a tall order, but I’ll see what I can do. I could throw in some sacrificial

virgins as well, with metal breastplates and silver ankle chains and

diaphanous vestments. And a pack of ravening wolves, extra.

2. Space it is, then, he says. With tombs and virgins and wolves—but on the instalment plan. Agreed?

3. Good, he says. Now I have to think. He keeps his voice casual. Too much urgency might put her off.

4. Every herdsman or merchant who passes adds a stone to the heap. It’s an old custom—you do it in remembrance of the dead, your own dead—but since no one knows who the dead under the pile of stones really were, they all leave their stones on the off chance. They’ll get around it by telling you that what happened there must have been the will of their god, and thus by leaving a stone they are honouring this will.

5. The funeral will take place on Tuesday morning at the Church of St. Simon the Apostle, followed by interment at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Donations to Princess Margaret Hospital in lieu of flowers.

6. There were lots of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything, and the gods of Sakiel-Norn were no exception. All of them were carnivorous; they liked animal sacrifices, but human blood was what they valued most. At the city’s founding, so long ago it had passed into legend, nine devout fathers were said to have offered up their own children, to be buried as holy guardians under its nine gates.

7. She sits up. That’s really uncalled for, she says. You want to get at me. You just love the idea of killing off those poor girls in their bridal veils. I bet they were blondes.

8. Colonel Henry Parkman High has been endowed with a valuable new prize by the generous bequest of the late Mrs. Winifred Griffen Prior of Toronto, whose noted brother Richard E. Griffen, will be remembered, as he often vacationed here in Port Ticonderoga and enjoyed sailing on our river.

Ex.2. (recognition vocabulary)

1. That’s a tall order, but I’ll see what I can do. I could throw in some sacrificial virgins as well, with metal breastplates and silver ankle chains and diaphanous vestments.

2. No, I’m serious. You can’t skimp, it might take days. We’ll have to meet again.

3. On the Planet of—let’s see. Not Saturn, it’s too close. On the Planet Zycron, located in another dimension of space, there’s a rubble-strewn plain. To the north is the ocean, which is violet in colour. To the west is a range of mountains, said to be roamed after sunset by the voracious undead female inhabitants of the crumbling tombs located there. You see, I’ve put the tombs in right off the bat.

4. Oh, canals, and all sorts of things. Abundant traces of an ancient and once highly developed civilization, though this region is now only sparsely inhabited by roaming bands of primitive nomads.

5. this is why—say the taletellers—the place is now known only by the name of its own destruction. The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They’re fond of paradox in that region. Each of the five tribes claims to have been the victorious attacker. Each recalls the slaughter with relish. Each believes it was ordained by their own god as righteous vengeance, because of the unholy practices carried on in the city.

6. Why were there people, on Zycron? I mean human beings like us. If it’s another dimension of space, shouldn’t the inhabitants have been talking lizards or something? Only in the pulps, he says. That’s all made up. In reality it was like this: Earth was colonized by the Zycronites, who developed the ability to travel from one space dimension to another at a period several millennia after the epoch of which we speak. They arrived here eight thousand years ago. They brought a lot of plant seeds with them, which is why we have apples and oranges, not to mention bananas—one look at a banana and you can tell it came from outer space.

7. He says: Before its destruction, the city—let’s call it by its former name, Sakiel-Norn, roughly translatable as The Pearl of Destiny—was said to have been the wonder of the world. Even those who claim their ancestors obliterated it take great pleasure in describing its beauty.

8. If a Snilfard should become bankrupt, he might be demoted to an Ygnirod. Or he might avoid such a fate by selling his wife or children in order to redeem his debt. It was much rarer for an Ygnirod to achieve the status of Snilfard, since the way up is usually more arduous than the way down: even if he were able to amass the necessary cash and acquire a Snilfard bride for himself or his son, a certain amount of bribery was involved, and it might be some time before he was accepted by Snilfard society.

9. Where are you supposed to be? he says. The Blind Assassin 19 Shopping. Look at my shopping bag. I bought some stockings; they’re very good—the best silk. They’re like wearing nothing. She smiles a little. I’ve only got fifteen minutes. She’s dropped a glove, it’s by her foot. He’s keeping an eye on it. If she walks away forgetting it, he’ll claim it. Inhale her, in her absence. When can I see you? he says. The hot breeze stirs the leaves, light falls through, there’s pollen all around her, a golden cloud. Dust, really. You’re seeing me now, she says.

10. There were lots of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything, and the gods of Sakiel-Norn were no exception. All of them were carnivorous; they liked animal sacrifices, but human blood was what they valued most. At the city’s founding, so long ago it had passed into legend, nine devout fathers were said to have offered up their own children, to be buried as holy guardians under its nine gates.

11. Nine girls were offered every year, in honour of the nine girls buried at the city gates. Those sacrificed were known as “the Goddess’s maidens,” and prayers and flowers and incense were offered to them so they would intercede on behalf of the living. The last three months of the year were said to be “faceless months”; they were the months when no crops grew, and the Goddess was said to be fasting.

Ex.3

1. In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened, he asked her on no account to tell his father, the prime minister, but to arrange for the payment to be made in several small amounts (=an installment plan) of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables.

2. He was a good public speaker and organizer. Besides, nature had given him (=he was endowed with) extraordinary energy.

3. Many locals admit that justice in this society is often handled on a summary basis (сводная информация), with criminals punished by traditional methods, including beatings and permanent bodily damage (= mutilation).

4. She had a strong desire to defend her husband’s reputation after his death (= posthumously).

5. I am deeply committed to my work but tired of being asked to accept ‘job satisfaction’ instead of (= in lieu of) proper pay.

6. Abruptly, all she wanted was to escape, escape that pitying (выражающий сожаление), patronising (покровительствующий) gleam in his eyes, escape the mounting tension (нарастающее напряжение) which was threatening to completely destroy (= annihilate) the last, precarious shreds (ненадежные клочки) of her self-control.

7. He would often move secretly around (= prowling) darkened housing estates searching for potential victims.

8. A few general-purpose tools (орудия общего назначения, универсальные) will be useful (= will come in handy) here.

9. The museum already has a comprehensive (обширный) library donated as a legacy (= bequest) from the former Cologne gallery owner.

10. Cora thought of ringing him because there was a small probability (= it was a tall order to catch him) of catching him at the flat, but then she shelved the possibility as unlikely.

11. At one time she wanted to be a nurse, but the thought of night shifts (ночные смены) made her stop liking this idea (= put her off the idea).

12. Soon they would be together forever, the use of lies and tricks (= subterfuge) and deceit (обман) ended.

Ex.4 (translation)

1. It seems that everything in this shop is done to put customers off.

2. I dropped in the office on the off chance presuming you could still be there.

3. Various natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods (especially during rainy reasons starting from June to September) and even intermittent droughts take place in this area.

4. Despite all their subterfuges, the results were not reassuring.

5. His brain is like a perfect computer storing the data that may come in handy sooner or later.

6. Leasing helps not to pay 100 per cent of the technology price right off the bat. Leasing enables one to pay a small portion and then pay the whole sum on the instalment plan from receiving income during exploitation.

7. He was endowed with a remarkable force.

8. What he fancied among English classical literature was «The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club» by Charles Dickens and «Vanity Fair» by William Thackeray.