By Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Assignment 1

Act 1

I. Study the vocabulary. Render the situations from the text containing the words under study:

Accurately, forte, merely, tedious, to reveal, ailment, shilly-shallying, notorious, inquiries, unsound, Tories, disposition, bewildered, trivet, nuisance.

II. Form negative adjectives using prefixes im -, ir - or in -:

Comparable, probable, valuable, variable, proper, resistible, material, definite, moral, comprehensible, moderately, different, decorous.

III. Fill in the table:

IV. Give synonyms to the following:

Poor people –

Cash –

To lead to –

To put forward –

To dislike –

To be all right –

To affect strongly –

To be bound –

To visit –

A snack –

V. Translate the following into English using the vocabulary under study:

1. Я не зміг купити потрібну річ навіть за готівку.

2. Він завжди відверто висловлює свою думку.

3. Справжня дружба безцінна.

4. Цей хлопчина завжди пропонує цікаві ідеї.

5. Надмірний перегляд телевізора шкодить дитячому зору.

6. Необережне водіння часто стає причиною аварій на дорогах країни.

7. Вона марнувала час, блукаючи по місту.

8. Команда складається в основному з молодих спортсменів.

9. Незрівнянне виконання арії молодим співаком викликало шквал аплодисментів.

10. На початку лекції був незмінний нудний перелік присутніх.

11. Незбагненна сила поетичного слова торкається найпотаємніших куточків нашої душі.

12. У лісі запанувала повна темрява.

13. Незабаром ми натрапили на млявий струмочок з чистою водою.

14. Непристойна поведінка нікого не прикрашає.

15. Дівчина обрала невдалий одяг для цієї ситуації.

VI. Use the vocabulary under study in examples of your own (10 sentences).

VII. Prepare good reading and translation of the passage on p. 11 “Lady Bracknell [Pencil and note-book in hand] … to reside in the country.”

VIII. Use reported speech:

1 'I'm going out now, but I'll be in by nine, 'he said.

2 'I'm working in a restaurant, and don't much care for it,' she said.

3 'I can't live on my basic salary, said Peter. I'll have to offer to do overtime.'

4 'How long does it take to get to Edinburgh by coach?' asked the tourist.

5 'We're waiting for the school bus,' said the children. It's lateagain.'

6 'I've made a terrible mistake!' said Peter.

7 'They are supposed to be landing at London airport,' I said.

8 'I bought this bag in Milan,' I said.

9 'Shall we have dinner somewhere after the theatre?' said Peter.

10 'Read the questions twice,' said the teacher

11 'The ice will soon be hard enough to skate on,' said Tom.
12 'Do you want to see the cathedral?' said the guide.

13 'I'm leaving tomorrow,' she said, 'by the 4.30 from Victoria.'

14 'I've just bought a car,' said Peter, 'but it's not insured yet so I can't take you for a drive.'

15 'I've run out of petrol,' said the man. 'Could you possibly give me a lift to the next village?'

Assignment 2

Act 2

I. Give the title to Act 2.

II. Study the pronunciation, check translation if necessary:

Irretrievably, vacillating, debonair, hypocrisy, Quixotic, appetite, precept, horticulturally, immersion, portmanteaus.

III. Form negative adjectives:

Fortunate, fair, laid, profit, attentive, excusable, thought, heart, bearable, experienced.

IV. Fill in the prepositions where necessary:

He is leaving ____ town.

Idle merriment and triviality would be __ ___ place in his conversation.

We might have a good influence ___ him.

Things of that kind influence ____a man very much.

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered ___ my pleasures ___ the smallest degree.

This Bunburying, as you call it, has not been a great success ____ you.

You need hardly remind me ___ that.

I am very fond ___ being looked ___.

I am sorry to say they have not been ____ good terms for a long time.

Are there many interesting walks ____ the vicinity, Miss Cardew?

V. Explain differences in meaning:

to have a short stroll – to trot round – to walk.

VI. Make up a list of adjectives Cecily and Gwendolen called each other.

VII. Think of 5 sentences for your group-mates to translate from Ukrainian into English using vocabulary of tasks II-VI.

VIII. Whose words are these:

“As a man sows so let him reap.”

“What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”

“The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.”

“When I see a spade I call it a spade.”

“You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.”

Assignment 3

Act 3

I. Write a short summary of Act 3 (up to 10 sentences).

II. Study the pronunciation, check translation if necessary:

Repentance, effrontery, credulity, ordeal, ostentatiously, Oxonian, alienating, grotesque, savour, basinette,

III. Fill in the prepositions where necessary:

I am more than content ______ what he said.

There are some principles _____ stake that one cannot surrender.

He maid ____ his mind ____ the last.

We have finally got rid ___ this Mr.Bunbary.

What did he die ___?

I am engaged to be married ____ Cecily.

I am not ___ favour _____ long engagements.

This engagement is quite ____ _____ the question.

He succeeded ________ the course of the afternoon ____ alienating the affections of my only ward.

…A day that is forever branded ____ my memory…

I insist _____ knowing where you deposited the hand-bag?

IV. Whose words are these:

“Who has a right to cast a stone against one who has suffered?”

“Where is that baby?”

“I suspect him of being untruthful.”

“I killed Bunbary this afternoon.”

“Much depends on your reply.”

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