Джек Лондон - Белый клык / White Fang

3. What connected Kiche and the Indians?

4. How did White Fang appreciate people?

5. What was White Fang’s attitude to Grey Beaver?

6. Why did Grey Beaver sell White Fang, if he was not for sale?

7. What was White Fang’s worst fight in the pen?

8. How did Scott change White Fang’s attitude to the environment?

9. How did Collie’s attitude to White Fang develop?

10. Who was Jim Hall?

III. Mark the sentences true (T) or false (F):

1. The wolf-pack ate all the men’s dogs.

2. Kiche had been Grey Beaver’s dog before.

3. Grey Beaver went to Fort Yukon to sell his goods.

4. White Fang never liked Beauty Smith.

5. Weedon Scott was an expert in dog-breeding.

6. Scott took White Fang to California with him.

7. White Fang did not like Scott’s family.

IV. Complete with the verbs in the correct form:

1. All White Fangs’s brothers and sisters ______ – (die) of hunger.

2. At first White Fang ________ – (not trust) Scott because his previous owners _______ – (treat) him badly.

3. While he __________ – (live) in the wood he _________ – (eat) smaller animals.

4. Weedon Scott ________ – (not let) his companion ________ – (kill) White Fang.

5. Cherokee _______ – (be) the first bull-dog that ______________ – (enter) the Klondike.

6. Jim Hall _______ – (want) to revenge Judge Scott because he ________ – (send) him to prison.

7. White Fang ________ – (attack) the bull-dog when he __________ – (look) in another direction.

8. When White Fang ______ – (meet) Kiche again, she ____________ – (not recognize) him. She ________ – (not remember) that she ________ – (be) his mother.

9. By the time White Fang ________ – (meet) Weedon Scott, he ____________ – (fight) with many of dogs.

10. It _____ – (be) Judge Scott who __________ – (sentence) Jim Hall to fifty years in prison.

V. Find in the text the English equivalents of the following words, phrases and word combinations:

Действовать на нервы, отгонять волков, бедолага, избежать вмешательства полиции, вилять хвостом, не просто так, преступить закон, владения бога, волчий вой, учуять чьё-то присутствие, у собак не было шансов против него, в отличном состоянии, подползти к костру, держать дистанцию, ради кого-либо, прокладывать себе путь, дать ему шанс, навострить уши, скомандовал идти домой, сидеть на корточках, у входа в пещеру, сойти на берег, без предупреждения, облизнуться, нанести удар, одомашненные волки, успокоиться, больше не колебаться, держать на цепи, не знал ничего о кровных узах, уже не говоря о чём-либо, зависимость от хозяина.

VI. Give at least one synonym for each of the following words or phrases:

Fire, anger, stomach, to raise hair, to be surprised, family, loyalty, jump, just, rich, killer, to order, to send to prison for fifty years, possibility, awful, track, pets, to show, owner, to be sure.

VII. Tell about the relationships between White Fang and the following characters:

a) Alice Scott

b) Kiche

c) Mit-sah

d) Collie

e) Lip-lip

f) Weedon Scott

g) Judge Scott

h) Matt

VIII. Choose the word that is one-odd-out:

1. a) cry b) howl c) whimper d) bite

2. a) hind-leg b) fang c) paw d) hand

3. a) growl b) bend c) snarl d) bark

4. a) thong b) club c) gun d) whip

IX. How many words connected to the following subjects can you remember? Write at least five words for each.

1. Professions of the characters of the book: a hunter, a mining expert….

2. Parts of human body

3. Parts of the dog’s body

4. Animals and fish

5. Means of transport

6. Emotions

X. Give definitions for the following words:

Howl, slash, porch, occasional, cub, lynx, tame, snarl, hostile, beast, environment, pursue

XI. Put the events in the correct order:

a) Grey Beaver sells White Fang to Beauty Smith

b) Kiche and her cub meet Indians

c) White Fang is shocked by the new environment

d) The hungry wolf-pack attacks the men and their dogs

e) White Fang saves Scott’s family

f) Weedon Scott buys White Fang

g) Kiche and One Eye have a litter of puppies

h) Beauty Smith uses him as a fighting dog

i) White Fang finds out that people can love and care

XII. Retell parts of the book on behalf of the characters:

a) Henry

b) One Eye

c) Kiche

d) Grey Beaver

e) Beauty Smith

f) Weedon Scott

g) Jim Hall

Список сокращений

a – adjective – прилагательное

adv – adverb – наречие

cj – conjunction – союз

n – noun – существительное

prp – preposition – предлог

v – verb – глагол

abreast– adv вровень

accordingly– adv соответственно

acknowledge– v признавать

advance– v продвигаться, наступать; n продвижение

affection– n привязанность

afford– v позволить себе

ancestor– n предок

anticipation– n предвкушение

appoint– v назначать

apprehension– n предчувствие

approvingly– adv одобрительно

astonishment– n изумление

attach– v прикреплять

awkward– a неуклюжий

axe– n топор

bandage– n повязка

barely– adv еле-еле

beaver– n бобр

belly– n живот, брюхо; v ползти на животе

besiege– v осаждать, окружать

bet– v держать пари, делать ставку; n ставка

betray– v предавать

blaze– v гореть ярким пламенем

blink– v моргать, жмуриться

bold– a наглый

bondage– n привязь

bother– v беспокоить, волновать

breed– n порода

bristle– v ( о шерсти ) вставать дыбом

brute– n зверь, тварь; a жестокий