C) Summarize the text in three paragraphs. - раздел Иностранные языки, ПРАКТИЧЕСКИЙ КУРС АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА 4 курс
2. In Spite Of The Russian Proverb One Can Argue Abou...
2. In spite of the Russian proverb one can argue about taste: everybody does, and one result is that tastes change. If given a choice what would you rather read a novel or short stories in book form? Why? Try to substantiate your point of view. Use some of the ideas listed below.
"A novel appeals in the same way that a portrait does — through the richness of its human content."
"It is not only an author's characters that endear him to the public: it is also his ethical outlook that appears with greater or less distinctness in everything he writes."
"A volume of short stories contains more ideas, since each story is based on an idea; it has much greater variety of mood, scene, character and plot."
3. a) What do children want to read about? This is a question that teachers and parents have been asking for a long time. Read the texts below and prepare to give your view on the problem.
One person who had no doubts about what youngsters wanted to read was the children's author Enid Blyton. Although she died in 1968, and many of her stories are today rather dated, her books continue to be hugely popular with children. They have been translated into 27 languages, and they still sell over eight million copies a year, despite tough competition from television and computer games.
Blyton. was not only a gifted children's author, she was also incredibly prolific. During her lifetime, she wrote over 700 books for children of all ages. Her best-known creations are the The Famous Five series, about a group of teenagers who share exciting adventures, and the Noddy books, about a little boy who lives in a world where toys come to life.
But if chidren love Blyton's books, the same cannot be said for adults. All her stories have one thing in common: a happy ending. And this, combined with predictable plots, has led many grown-ups to dismiss Blyton's stories as boring. After her death, her critics went further and accused her of racism and of negative stereotyping — the villains in her Noddy books were "golliwogs", children's dolls representing black people. Many of her books were also denounced as sexist because of the way she treated female characters — girls were usually given a secondary role, while the boys had the real adventures.
Enid Blyton firmly believed in the innocence of childhood. She offered her young readers imaginary worlds, which were an escape from harsh realities of life. In Blyton's books, baddies were always defeated and the children who defeated them were always good.
(BBC English, August 1997)
Once many years ago, in anticipation of the children we would one day have, a relative of my wife's gave us a box of Ladybird Books from the 1950s and 60s. They all had titles like Out in the Sun and Sunny Days at the Seaside, and contained meticulously drafted, richly coloured illustrations of a prosperous, contented, litter-free Britain in which the sun always shone, shopkeepers smiled, and children in freshly pressed clothes derived happiness and pleasure from innocent pastimes
— riding a bus to the shops, floating a model boat on a park pond, chatting to a kindly policeman.
My favourite was a book called Adventure on the Island. There was, in fact, precious little adventure in the book — the high point, I recall, was finding a starfish suckered to a rock — but I loved it because of the illustrations (by the gifted and much-missed J.H. Wingfield). Lyras strangely influenced by this book and for some years agreed to take our family holidays at the British seaside on the assumption that one day we would find this magic place where summer days were forever sunny, the water as warm as a sitz-bath, and commercial blight unknown.
When at last we began to accumulate children, it turned out that they didn't like these books at all because the characters in them-never did anything more lively than visit a pet shop or watch a fisherman paint his boat. I tried to explain that this was sound preparation for life in Britain, but they wouldn't have it and instead, to my dismay, attached their affections to a pair of irksome little clots called Topsy and Tim.
(Bill Bryson "Notes From a Small Island", 1997)
b) Use the topical vocabulary in answering the questions:
1. Can you remember at all the first books you had? 2. Did anyone read bedtime stories to you? 3. You formed the reading habit early in life, didn't you? What sorts of books did you prefer? 4. What English and American children's books can you name? Have you got any favourites? 5. Is it good for children to read fanciful stories which are an escape from the harsh realities of life? Should they be encouraged to read more serious stuffs as "sound preparation for life"? 6. How do you select books to read for pleasure? Do you listen to advice? Do the physical characteristics matter? Such as bulky size, dense print, loose pages, notations on the margins, beautiful/gaudy illustrations etc.? 7. Do you agree with the view that television is gradually replacing reading? 8. Is it possible for television watching not only to discourage but actually to inspire reading? 9. Some teachers say it is possible to discern among the young an in-sensitivity to nuances of language and an inability to perceive more than just a story? Do you think it's a great loss? 10. What do you think of the educational benefits of "scratch and sniff” books that make it possible for young readers to experience the
fragrance of the garden and the atmosphere of a zoo? 11. What kind of literacy will be required of the global village citizens of the 21st century?
c) There is some evidence to suggest that the concentration of young children today is greatly reduced compared with that of similar children only 20 years ago. Do yon agree with the view that unwillingness to tackle printed texts that offer a challenge through length and complexity has worked its way up through schools into universities? Discuss in pairs.
4. Read the interview with Martin Amis (MA.), one of the most successful writers in Britain today. He talks to a BBC English reporter (R) about his work.
R: As the son of a famous writer, how did your own writing style develop?
MA.: People say, you know, "How do you go about getting: your style?" and it's almost as if people imagine you kick off by writing a completely ordinary paragraph of straightforward, declarative sentences, then you reach for your style pen — your style highlighting pen — and jazz it all up. But in fact it comes in that form and I like to think that it's your talent doing that.
R: In your life and in your fiction you move between Britain and America and you have imported American English into your writing. Why? What does it help you do?
MA: I suppose what I'm looking for are new rhythms of thought. You know, I'm as responsive as many people are to street words and nicknames and new words; And when I use street language, I never put it down as it is, because it will look like a three-month-old newspaper when it comes out. Phrases like "No way, Jose" and "Free lunch" and tilings like that, they're dead in a few months. So what you've got to do is come up with an equivalent which isn't going to have its street life exhausted. I'm never going to duplicate these rhythms because I read and I studied English literature and thaf s all there too. But perhaps where the two things meet something original can be created. That's where originality, if it's there, would be, in my view.
R: You have said that it's no longer possible to write in a wide range of forms — that nowadays we can't really write tragedy, we can't write satire, we can't write romance, and that comedy the only form left.
MA: I think satire's still alive. Tragedy is about failed heroes and epic is, on the whole, about triumphant or redeemed
heroes. So comedy, it seems to me, is the only thing left. As illusion after illusion has besen cast aside, we no longer believe in these big figures — Macbeth, Hamlet, Tamburlaine — these big, struggling, tortured heroes. Where are they in the modern world? So comedy's having to do it all. And what you get, certainly in my case, is an odd kind of comedy, full of things that shouldn't be in comedy.
R: What is it that creates the comedy in your novels?
M.A: Well, I think the body, for instance, is screamingly funny as a subject. I mean, if you live in your mind, as everyone does but writers do particularly, the body is a sort of disgraceful joke. You can get everything sort of nice and crisp and clear in your mind, but the body is a chaotic slobber of disobedience and decrepitude. And think that is hysterically funny myself because it undercuts us. It undercuts our pomposities and our ambitions.
R: Your latest book The Information is about two very different writers, one of whom, Gywn, has become enormously successful and the other one, Richard, who has had a tiny bit of success but is no longer popular. One of the theories which emerges is that it's very difficult to say precisely that someone's writing is better by so much than someone else's. It's not like running a race when somebody comes first and somebody comes second.
MA: No, human beings have not evolved a way of separating the good from the bad when it comes to literature or art in general. All we have is history of taste. No one knows if they're any good — no worldly prize or advance or sales sheet is ever going to tell you whether you're any good. That's all going to be sorted out when you're gone.
R: Is this an increasing preoccupation of yours?
MA.: No, because there's nothing I can do about it. My father said. "That's no bloody use to me, is it, if I'm good, because I won't be around."
R: Have you thought about where you might go from here?
MA: I've got a wait-and-see feeling about where I go next. One day a sentence or a situation appears in your head and you just recognise it as your next novel and you have no control over it. There's nothing you can do about it. That is your next novel and I'm waiting for that feeling.
(BBC English, August 1995)
a) Express briefly in your own words what the talk to about. What makes it sound natural and spontaneous?
b) What "does Martin Amis emphasise about his style of writing? What does, he say about modern literary genres? Do you agree that "comedy is the only form left"? Is it really impossible to separate "the good from the bad when it comes to literature or art in general"? How do you understand the sentence "all we have is a history of taste"?
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By R. Gordon
Richard Gordon was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,1 a ship's surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He l
Commentary
1 St Bartholomew's, St. Swithin's Hospitals: medical schools in London.
2 invigilator: a person who watches over students during examinations.
SPEECH PATTERNS
1. However, I'm not worried. They never read the papers anyway.
— You needn't worry about the meals. She never has anything for breakfast anyway.
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
1. annoyvt/i 1) to make a little angry, especially by repeated acts; to disturb and nervously upset a person, e. g. Wilfred did not want to pay too m
To chatter like a magpie
3. cheervt/i 1) to fill with gladness, hope, high spirits; comfort, e. g. Everyone was cheered by the good news. He cheered up at once when I promise
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. a) Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words:
authority; contest n, prize-fighter; enthusiastic;
A) two principal stresses;
b) the secondary and principal stresses. Beat the time:
a) well-established; thenceforward; meanwhile; well-trodden; self-consciousness; unhurriedly: dissa
Make the following sentences complete using the patterns (p. 10)
1. You can just leave. I'm about to tell Bucky to forget it... . 2. I'm done for the moment and ready to join you. I've rinsed my plate and my spoon and run a damp sponge across the
Pair work. Make up and act out a dialogue, using the patterns.
9. Translate the following sentences into English:
1. Хорошо. Я принимаю ваш отказ. В любом случае я рада, что мы познакомились. Над
Note down from the text (p. 6) the sentences containing the phrases and word combinations (p. 11) and translate them into Russian.
11. Complete the following sentences, using the phrases and word combinations:
1. If you are smart enough to cheat in this exam ... . 2. T
Give a summary of the text (p. 6) dividing it into several logical parts.
17. Use the phrases and word combinations and act out the dialogues between:
1. Benskin and Richard Gordon on the technical details of the
Study the essential vocabulary. Give the Russian equivalents for every unit and translate the examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
A. 1. "You are making too much fuss of me, don't worry"
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
1. Who is who: applicant/prospective student; freshman; sophomore, junior, senior, undergraduate student; graduate (grad) student; part-time student; .transfer stud
Higher Education
Out of more than three million students who graduate from high school each year, about one million go on for higher education. A college at a leading university might receive appli
C) Summarize the text in three paragraphs.
2. Use the topical vocabulary and the material of the Appendix (p. 262) in answering the following questions:
1. What steps do students hav
Average Academic Fees per Quarter
(public university)
Tuition
Colleges
non-residential residential
students students
Two Year Colleges $ 753 $ 17
B) Comment on the given information and speak about the financial aspect of getting a higher education in the US A.
4. Read the following dialogue. The expression in bold type show the way people can be persuaded. Note them down. Be ready to act out the dialogue in class:
Year-Round Schooling Is Voted In Los Angeles
The L.A. board of education, has voted to put all its schools on a year-round schedule. This decision does not necessarily increase the number of school days, but it is expected to
D) Spend a few minutes individually thinking of further arguments you will use to back up the opinion you have been assigned.
e) Enact the debates on a year-round schooling at the sitting of the school board of education. Do your best to support those who share a similar point of view and try to pe
A) Open the group discussion by describing the members of the panel and the chairperson.
b) Split into groups of four students. Pretend you are the TV panel. Elect a chairperson and decide which of the four roles each of you will take: Mrs/Mr Terrie/John HilI, t
By Harper Lee
Harper Lee was bom in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is her first novel. It received almo
Commentary
1. a jury: a body of persons, in the USA and Great Britain, 12 in number, who have to decide the truth of a case tried before a judge. The jury brings in a verdict
SPEECH PATTERNS
1. a) Whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who heis,... that white man is trash.
No matter who the man might be, you had no r
Phrases and Word Combinations
smb's word against another's to get a square deal (a fair
(it's your word against mine) deal)
in private and in public (to be) half way (through,
stark na
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
1.smarta 1) quick in movement, brisk, as a smart walk (pace, trot, etc.), e. g. He gave him a smart rap over the knuckles.
2) clever,
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. a) Consult a dictionary and transcribe the following words from the text. Practise their pronunciation paying attention to stresses:
una
Note down from the text (p. 40) the sentences containing the phrases and word combinations (p. 46) and translate them into Russian.
10. Complete the following sentences:
I. 1 understand that it's only his word against mine but... . 2. 1 ... to get a square deal in this c
Using the phrases make up a suitable dialogue and act it out in front of the class.
13. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases and word combinations:
1. Вы выступаете против того, что утверждает он
Retell the text a) close to the text; b) as if you were one of the characters prerent in the court-room.
18. a) Make up and act out dialogues between:
1. Atticus Finch and Judge Taylor before the trial.
2. Atticus Finch
Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
A. 1. When Jean and Henry left the night club in his smart car, they to
B) jerk, shove, twitch
1. The boys ... the chairs and tables from the centre of the room. 2. The train made a sudden ... and stopped. 3. The dog's nose ... as it passed the butcher's shop. 4. A strong gust of wind
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
1. Courts:trial Courts, common pleas courts, municipal and county courts, mayors' courts, courts of claims, courts of appeals, the State Supreme Court.
The
Juvenile delinquency is an issue about which people all over the world are concerned.
a) Read the extracts given below which present information on the gravity of the problem:
a) Youth gangs have been a part of Los Angeles si
Below is an interview with a judge on crime and punishment. The judge says why he gives help in some cases and punishment in others.
a) Work in groups of 3 or 4 and assign different opinions on the problem of the punishment to each member of the group:
Interviewer.
B) Spend a few minutes individually thinking of further arguments you will use to back up your own opinion on the usefulness and types of punishment.
c) Now discuss the issue with other members of the small group using the arguments you have prepared. Do your best to support those who share a similar point of view and try
B) Split into groups of 5-6 students and assign the roles of the panel.
c) Before the beginning of the panel read the following selections carefully and extract the necessary information:
— It's a time-honoured misconception th
Give a brief talk to the ten graders on the Criminal Law and its role hi combatting Juvenile delinquency.
12. Enact a role play "Trying a criminal case". Yon are the Jury and most decide whether to acquit the accused or sentence them to a term of imprisonment (minimum 3 months/maximu
By L. P. Hartley
Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972), the son of a solicitor was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford and for more than twenty years from 1932 was a fiction reviewer for such
Commentary
1. Other-worldly, indeed!"Other-worldly" means more concerned with spiritual matters than with daily life. The exclamation "indeed" is used to express surprise,
SPEECH PATTERNS
1. He was just going to pitch the postcard in the fire when suddenly he decided not to.
David was just about to order a plane ticket when suddenly he decid
Phrases and Word Combinations
to get/come to grips with to have things (too much)
smb/smth (informal) one's own way
to take up time and energy to get into a groove/rut
to linger
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
1. come vi (esp. up to, down to) to reach, e. g. The water came (up) to my neck.
come about to happen, e, g. I'll nev
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words. Pay attention to the stresses:
conscientious, photograph, an
Note down from the text (p. 73) the sentences containing the phrases and word combinations (p. 78) and translate them into Russian.
9. Paraphrase the following sentences using the phrases and word combinations:
1. The speaker talked a lot, but never really dealt serious
Make up and practise a suitable dialogue using the phrases and word combinations.
12. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases and word combinations:
1. Мы должны серьезно взяться за решение этой п
Pair work. Make up and act out situations using the phrases and word combinations.
14. Explain what is meant by:
projections of his own personality or, in different forms, the antithesis of it; to experiment with acquainta
Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
A. 1. My son has begun to come along very well in French since the new
Object(s) — subject(s); to object — to oppose; to obtain — to come by; to happen — to come about; to yield — to give in
1. How did you ... that scratch on your cheek? 2. I haven't been able ... that record anywhere; can you... it for me? 3. The accident ...last week. 4. How did it …that you did not r
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
1. Categorisation:Children's and adult's books; travel books and biography; romantic and historical novels; crime/thrillers; detective stories; war/adventure; scien
MURIEL SPARK
Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The classic image of a writer, for instance, is of a slightly demented-looking person, locked in an attic, scribbling
C) Do library research and reproduce a talk with an important writer.
5. Read the following extract and observe the way literary criticism is written:
Jane Austensaw life in a clear, dry light
Group discussion.
Despite the increase in TV watching, reading still is an important leisure activity in Britain. More than 5,000 titles were nominated in a national survey conducted in 1996. The public was invited
The Diary of Anne Frank
27. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
28.Sons and LoversD.S. Lawrence
29. To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf
30.
MY FAVOURITE LIBRARY
There are many libraries which I use regularly in London, some to borrow books from, some as quiet places to work in, but the Westminster Central Reference Library is unique, in a s
Prepare to give a talk on an important library, its history and facilities.
11. Group work. Work in groups of three or four to discuss the pros and cons of reading detective novels and thrillers. Consider the following:
By E.L. Doctorow
Ragtime is a novel set in America at the beginning of this century. Its characters reflect all that is most significant and dramatic in America's last hundred years. One cha
Commentary
1. Ragtime:the form of music, song and dance of black US origin, popular in the 1920's in which the strong note of the tune comes just before the main beat of the m
SPEECH PATTERNS
1. ... there was somethingdisturbingly resolute and self-important in the way he asked her...
There was something strange in (about) the
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
1.setvt/i 1) to make to be in a specified condition, as to open the cage and set the bird free; to set the papers (a village, a house) on fire; to fix or det
An old hand, good hand at smth
Ant. not much of a hand at smth, e. g. I am not much of a hand at making pastry.
2) encouragement given by clapping the hands, as to give a (good, big) hand to, get a (big, g
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. a) Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciaton of the following words:
rigidly, nuisance, bouquet, chrysanthemums, transient, ex
Make up and act out dialogues using the speech patterns.
6. Translate the following sentences into English using the speech patterns:
1. Есть что-то странное в том, как она одевается. 2. Было что-
Note down the sentences containing the phrases and word combinations (p. 109) and translate them into Russian.
8. Paraphrase the following sentences:
1. We are losing money right and left. 2. Days went past without any news. 3. Judge its size, please
Give a summary of the text (p. 104).
14. Make up and act out dialogues between:
1. Mother and Father before the tea.
2. Mother and Sarah after the visit of the Negro p
Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
A. 1. He was given a little money and at times, in the spirit of advent
Make up short situations or a story using the essential vocabulary.
9. Translate the following sentences into English:
1.Она поклялась никогда не переступать порог этого дома. 2. Учитель задал ученикам труд
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
1. Musical genres (styles):classical music (instrumental, vocal, chamber, symphony), opera, operetta, musical, ballet, blues, ragtime, jazz, pop, rock, folk (countr
Understanding Music
If we were asked to explain the purpose of music, our immediate reply might be "to give pleasure". That would not be far from the truth, but there are other consideration
Below are opinions on the development of music.
a) Spend a few minutes individually thinking of further arguments you will use to back up one of the opinions:
1. The line between serious
Group work. Split into buzz groups of 3—4 students each.
Discuss the following, using the expressions of agreement or disagreement (p. 290):
1. "Some people prefer only classical music and find contemporary
C) As a group, now decide which event you will all attend together. When giving your criticism try to be honest, but tactful.
9. Group work. Discuss the effect of rode music on young people. After a proper discussion each group presents its critical remarks. First read this:
A Feast of Russian Arts
The strong and impressive Russian theme at this year's Edinburgh Festival commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
The festival opened on August 9 with
ByH. Munro
Hector Munro (pseudonym Saki, 1870-1916) is a British novelist and a short-story writer. He is best known for his short stories. Owing to the death of his mother and his father's ab
SPEECH PATTERNS
1. Older and wiser and better people had told him that there could not possibly bea frog in his bread-and-milk.1 How can I possibly do it? Do it if you p
Phrases and Word Combinations
to be in disgrace to change the subject
to describe with much detail (for) the greater part of the day
(in great detail) (the time; the year; of one's
as
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
1. shiftvt/i to change the place, position or direction of, e. g. The boy shifted from one foot to the other. He kept on shifting his plate on the tab
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. a) Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words. Pay attention to stresses:
pseudonym, imperious, frivolou
B) Ask your partner to read the exercise aloud; write down all cases of erroneous pronunciation; correct them.
4. Complete the following sentences:
a) 1. I can't possibly... 2. How can I possibly...? 3. We couldn't possibly... 4. You can't pos
Pair work. Make up and act out a dialogue using the speech patterns.
7. Translate the following sentences and word combinations into English:
а) 1. Как же я могу это сделать, если вы отказываетесь мне помочь? 2. Помой, пожа
Note down from the text (p. 134) the sentences containing the phrases and word combinations (p. 140) and translate them into Russian.
9. Complete the following sentences nsing the phrases and word combinations:
1. After it was discovered that the politician had stolen
Pair work. Make up and act out situations using the phrases and word combinations.
13. Explain what is meant by:
the fact that stood out clearest in the whole affair; an unwarranted stretch of imagination; the delights th
Study the essential vocabulary and translate the ilustrative examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
1. James who felt very uncomfortable in that low chair, shifted his feet uneasily, and p
Make up and practise short dialogues or stories using the essential vocabulary.
8. Review the essential vocabulary and translate the following sentences into English:
1. Мальчик переминался с ноги налогу, не зная, как о
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
1. A happy child is:
a) kind-hearted, good-natured, loving, friendly, affectionate; confident, balanced, secure; getting along (comfortably) with others; gregarious: socia
The Difficult Child
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself, and in consequence, he is at war with the world. A difficult child is nearly always made difficult by wro
The Bell Family Charter
Homework: All members of the family must do an equal share of the housework according to age and ability. A list of duties will be put up each week.
Free Time:
A) Write a letter in response stating your agreement or disagreement.
b) Using both the letter and the answer as a basis turn the contents into a dialogue and act it out in class:
Dear Helen,
I have j
By P. G.Aldrich
What do you remember most about your childhood? Running through the long dewy grass of a meadow or the Saturday morning TV cartoons? Sitting in the kitchen watching your mother coo
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
1. bringvt (with prepositions and adverbs)
to bring aboutto cause smth, e. g. What brought about this quarrel?
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words:
dewy, meadow, cartoon, Captain Kangaroo, episode, mass media
Note down from the text (p. 165) the sentences containing the phrases and word combinations (p. 169) and translate them into Russian.
9. Paraphrase the following sentences using the phrases and word combinations:
1. Who won the race? 2. This is the latest information on t
Pair work. Make up and practise a dialogue using the phrases and word combinations.
14. Explain what is meant by:
watching television is psychologically addictive; questions involving subtle conditioning and brainwashing; f
Answer the following questions and do the given assignment.
a) 1. How influential a part does the TV play in children's lives? Do recollections of TV programmes provide the most part of the majority of young people's childhood memories? 2. W
Give a summary of the text.
17. l) Media inventory.
a) List all the media yon observe in an hour or two in the following places:
Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
1. How a few words can bring it all back! 2. Clocks and watches should be brought forwar
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
1. Television:TV; telly (colloq.), the box (BE); the tube (AE), portable television (set); colour television (set); video; video tape-recorder
C) Summarize the text in 3 paragraphs.
2. Use the topical vocabulary in answering the following questions:
1. What are your favourite programmes? Refer to specific programmes to
The Story So Far
The idea of a machine able to broadcast both sound and vision goes back to 1875. But it wasn't until 1926 that a Scottish engineer turned the idea into a practical reality. Now, his
Internet
is a network connecting many computer networks and based on a common addressing system and communications protocol called TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). From its
D) Participate in the discussion. (You have only five minutes to talk.) Be prepared to answer any question arising in the course of the discussion.
9. Interviewing people basically involves asking for opinions and expressing personal opinions. Next come some cliches you may use for this purpose:
D) Summarize in your own words what you believe to be the best technique for interviewing people (see Appendix, p. 292).
11. Read the following extract on the use of interviews in the foreign language classroom:
The success of an interview depends both on the
Television Questionnaire
1.How man
B) Summarize your observations and report them to the group.
c) Work out a suggested weekly viewing guide based on the recommendations of group members. Beside each programme write the reasons for its appeal: humorous, realistic, un
DRAWING BACK THE CURTAIN
Denis Healey was bom in 1917 and brought up in Yorkshire. After gainig a double first at Balliol College, Oxford, for six years he was a soldier learning about real life.
Commentary
1. The Fabian Society — a British organisation of left wing thinkers which was a founder or the Labour Party and used to have an important influence on it.
SPEECH PATTERNS
1. I learned much from those visits, restricted though they were.
Hard working though he was, there was never enough money to pay the bills.
Stran
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
1. includevt to bring in, to regard as part of the whole, e. g. This atlas contains fifty maps, including six of North America. The price is ten doll
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. a) Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words:
purport; illusion; expunge; consciousness; liquidate; fas
Pair work. Make up and act out a diaioue using the speech patterns.
8. Translate the following sentences into English:
А. 1. Хотя это может показаться странным, я особенно люблю читать истор
Note down from the text (p. 200) the sentences containing the phrases and word combinations (p. 204) and translate them into Russian.
10. Complete the following sentences using the phrases and word combinations:
1. All the Moscow cathedrals and churches have been ... to t
Pair work. Make up and act out situations using the phrases and word combinations.
14. Explain what is meant by:
to expunge it from the consciousness of the people; to be part of a common civilisation; to be meticulously restored; a build
Give a summary of the text, dividing it into several logical parts.
17. Use the phrases and word combinations and act out dialogues between:
1. A guide and an American tourist planning the itinerary of the l
Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
1. A group of theatrical workers including myself wrote an open letter to The Times.
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
1. Symbolic calendar days of rest and celebrations: holidays;festivals; bank holidays; public holidays.
2. Types of holidays:internationa
The Field of Folklore
Folklore comprises the unrecorded traditions of a people. The study of folklore records and analyses these traditions because they reveal the common life of the mind below the leve
Below are opinions on folklore, traditions and customs. a) Read them first.
1. The most widely acknowledged form of Art — Folklore, that is verbal, musical and material (traditional handicrafts), is almost completely devoid of anything that could be called
C) Now discuss the opinions with your partner.
5. When people talk about something they are bound to make mistakes. (To err is human.) But not everyone is able to correct these mistakes in a delicate way without hurting
C) Make a speech on the American tradition to celebrate Halloween.
6. Pair work. Make up and act out a dialogue discussing national holidays. Do library research and collect additional materials describing unusual national holidays. Use the
C) Make a round table discussion of the American holidays.
8. As you know the Americans and British have very much to common in their cultural traditions, for example Christmas and Halloween. But certain celebration
By Ch. Morley
Christopher Morley (1890-1957), an American author, received unusual recognition early in his career. Among his widely known novels are Kitty Foyle and The Trojan Horse.
SPEECH PATTERNS
1. It makes me wild tothink of working and working like a dog...
It made Jane mad to hear the news. It will make the child happier to have his sister with
Phrases and Word Combinations
to pick over smth to go back on smb
to rummage through to be down on smb
to attend to (one's affairs, a word of praise
business) to get promoted
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
1. avoidvt to keep away from, as to avoid a person, speaking to smb. meeting smb, mentioning smth, mistakes, bad company, a quarrel, an argument, a s
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words. Pay attention to the stresses:
a) atmosphere, unforgivable,
Listen to the recording of the text and mark the stresses and tunes. Repeat the text after the model
3. Substitute one of the speech patterns (p. 238) for the parts of the sentence:
M o d e 1 s: a) He became angry when he thought of workin
Translate the following sentences into English using the speech patterns.
1. Нежелание Гордона понять жену разозлило Лору. 2. Ребенок станет счастливее, если его мать будет проводить с ним больше времени. 3. Все, на что мог надеяться Вол, так это на показания его жены.
Note down from the text (p. 231) the sentences containing the phrases and word combinations (p. 238) and translate them into Russian.
8. Paraphrase the following sentences using the phrases and word combinations:
1. At times some praise will work wonders. 2. You'd better
Make up and practise a suitable dialogue using the phrases and word combinations.
11. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases and word combinations:
1. Мальчик очень старался не делать ошибок в своем изложении. 2
Give a summary of the text.
15. Make up and act out dialogues between:
1. Laura (Gordon) and a friend discussing the events of Thursday evening.
2. Mrs Jones
Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
1. We avoided riding through large cities on our trip. 2. One would admire his excellent
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
1. Family, folks, household, tribe, clan, descent (to be of some descent), descendant, ancestor, forefather, heredity, hereditary, sibling, paternal, maternal, next of kin, nearest
The Politics of Housework
It seemed perfectly reasonable. We both had careers, both had to work a couple of days a week to earn enough to live on, so why shouldn't we share the housework? So, I suggested it
C) Cut them down to the five most important.
d) Expand them to describe exhaustively the most perfect wife / husband and mother-to-law.
8. One of the main problems of family li
B) Turn the above situation into a dialogue and act it out.
10. Look at the following ways of giving advice (some of which appear in the text) and accepting advice or rejecting it:
Giving advice
ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE OF THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN THE USA
The school year is usually nine months, from early September to mid-June. The common pattern of organization, referred to as the 6-3-3 plan, includes elementary school in grades 1
TOOLS FOR EVALUATING A STORY
Any work of fiction consists of relatively independent elements — narration, description, dialogue, interior monologue, digressions, etc. Narrationis dynamic, it g
COMPOSITION AND PLOT; FOCUS; VOICE
What are the bare facts of the story? What is the exposition, complication, climax and denouement? Are the elements of the plot ordered chronologically? How does the story begin? I
CHARACTERS AND SETTING
What are the characters names and what do they look like? Does this have any significance? Are the characters round or flat? Does the narrator employ interior monologue to render th
THEME AND ARTISTIC EFFECT
What is the general effect achieved? Has the writer caused characters, and settings to come alive? What was the conflict and how was is solved, if at all? Were there any striking re
By L.P. Hartley
(continued)
A little comforted, Walter went home. The talk with the police had done him good. He thought it over. It was quite true what he had told
Unit Six
magazine programme — programme which is a mixture of "hard" news and feature items.
wild/nature life programme — programme showing animals, birds, etc. in their n
INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES
Ten-point plan to make a good impression
1. Be pleasant and polite to the receptionist or secretary who greets you. It will get you off to a good sta
Respond to the following situations either in a short story, using a dialogue and a description, or in an essay form.
1. Describe how illustrations can help a reader to enjoy the book. Refer to two or three books you have read.
2. Imagine that one of your friends is missing from the classe
Some means that can be useful in persuading others
1. Citing facts to support your view, naming their source if the facts are likely to be doubted.
2. Relating relevant incidents or experiences in which you or others have b
ATTACK AND RESPONSE
Attack
Wouldn't you agree
Wouldn't you say that
Response
I see (take) your po
AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT
Agreeing. Neutral: Yes, I agree. True enough. That's right I can't help thinking the same. Hour true. I couldn't agree more. How right that is. Oh, definitel
EXPRESSIONS SHOWING CRITICISM AND VIRTUES
I know I am not good at...
As for when I look at myself (in a mirror),... well... then I see
someone a bit different.
That's probably my main fault.
REACTING TO OPINION
Positive response:
True... exactly...
I am all out for it.
I am in favour of it.
You have my whole/full
Asking for clarification
I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean by...
I'm sorry, could you explain what you mean by...
I'm afraid, I'm not really very clear about what you mean
Giving clarification
what I'm trying to say is (that)...
Well,
the point I'm trying to make is (that)
Giving advice
I would advise you to DO...
Personally, I think your best course would be to DO...
Accepting advice
Cast list
Helen/Eugene
Role cards
Helen/Eugene Aged 19
You were one of the team. You are a great traveller. You are happy as in summer you worked in a new place and now you look forward to a trip to St. Pet
Cast list
Prof. G., Head of the English Department
Lecturer M.
Lecturer E. senior lecturers
Role cards
Prof. G. Aged 51
You are Head of the English Department and conduct a special meeting to discuss what form of assessment is more efficient and reliable: exams or continuou
Role cards
The author Aged 55
You are the author of the textbook. It is highly valued by the school teachers and so the publishing house is planning the second edition of it. As you h
Situation
At a students' debating club a discussion is held on the role of television in society. Some students of the British group who are on an exchange visit to Moscow are participating i
Cast list
A journalist
A psychologist
A postgraduate
Role cards
Journalist Aged 54
You are a well-known journalist You were asked to lead the discussion. In setting the problems for discussion you are deliberately provocative and extre
Possible follow-ups
1. Choose an evening's viewing for
a) a foreign visitor whose Russian is good and who is very interested in learning more about Russia and our way of life;
b) a fo
Situation
Mrs June Brown was detained for shoplifting. She was accused of having stolen a girl's woolen pullover. Mrs Brown refused to say anything and consequently the police were called and
Role cards
Counsel for the Defence Aged 39
While interviewing the participants of the incident — Mrs Brown, the defendant, Miss Smith, the sales assistant, Mrs Baker, the store detect
Situation
During the last week of the term the eighth form register goes missing from the staff room. The form tutor is worried since it's the time for .the end-of-term assessment which must
Role cards
Teacher W. Aged 35
You are a math teacher and a tutor of the 8th form. The disappearance of the form register upsets you. You intended to
hold a t
Possible follow-ups
1. Discuss the following:
a) Is one's authority as a teacher undermined by seeking the aid of senior members of the staff in dealing with discipline problems?
b) I
Situation
M.N. Semenova, an English teacher, and her colleague, N.M. Petrova, are receiving Mrs Dorothy Parker, a visiting English teacher, at M.N. Semenova's. Her elder daughter, Helen, is
Role cards
M.N. Semenova Aged 45
You are very much annoyed at the news. You love your son who is the apple of your eye and you've been looking foreward to the birthday party. Under th
Situation
A fourth-year student Nick Petrov and a second-year student Ann Semenova are going to get married. They both study at the English faculty and live away from home in the Halls of Re
Role cards
Nick Petrov Aged 22
You are an out-of-door type of young man and think that the only thing worth spending money on is travelling. You find Ann very fussy about clothes, res
МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ СТУДЕНТАМ, ГОТОВЯЩИМСЯ К ПРОВЕДЕНИЮ МИКРОУРОКОВ
К началу IV курса студенты уже обладают не только теоретическими знаниями, но и определенными профессионально значимыми навыками и умениями, например, умением правильно распределя
РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ ПО ПРОВЕДЕНИЮ МИКРОУРОКОВ ПО РАБОТЕ С РЕЧЕВЫМИ ОБРАЗЦАМИ
1. Проанализируйте речевые образцы с точки зрения трудностей, которые они могут представить для ваших учащихся. (Сравнение с родным языком и внутри языка может помочь вам в этом.)
Тренировочные упражнения
— имитационные (согласитесь, подтвердите и т. д.);
— трансформационные (переспросите, выразите удивление, не согласитесь, усомнитесь и т. д.);
— упражнения на зав
РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ ПО ПРОВЕДЕНИЮ МИКРОУРОКОВ ПО РАБОТЕ С ТЕКСТОМ
1. Внимательно прочитайте текст и проанализируйте его с точки зрения трудностей, которые могут возникнуть у учащихся:
— в процессе громкого чтения (трудные слова, сочетани
РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ ПО ПРОВЕДЕНИЮ МИКРОУРОКОВ ПО РАБОТЕ С ЛЕКСИКОЙ
1. Проанализируйте лексические единицы с точки зрения трудностей (по форме, значению и употреблению), которые они могут представлять для ваших учащихся.
2.
РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ ПО ПРОВЕДЕНИЮ МИКРОУРОКОВ ПО РАБОТЕ НАД ЭКСПРЕССИВНОЙ РЕЧЬЮ
1. Вспомните, какие формы экспрессивной речи вы знаете (монолог, диалог); какие виды (подготовленная, неподготовленная); какие стимулы используются в работе над экспрессивной речь
РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ ПО ПРОВЕДЕНИЮ МИКРОУРОКОВ ПО РАБОТЕ С АУДИОТЕКСТОМ
1. Уточните конечную задачу работы с аудиотекстом (текст используется только для развития аудирования или на его основе будет развиваться говорение).
2. Исходя из задачи, п
УСТНОЙ РЕЧИ И ЧТЕНИЯ
1. Проанализируйте материал, над которым вам предстоит работать, с точки зрения фонетических трудностей и сгруппируйте его по фонетическим признакам, например, по ударной гласной,
НАВЫКОВ И УМЕНИЙ
1. Четко сформулируйте задачу письменного контроля, отберите необходимый материал и выберите форму контроля.
2. Вспомните некоторые методические рекомендации по проведению
РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ ПО ПРОВЕДЕНИЮ МИКРОУРОКОВ С ПРИМЕНЕНИЕМ ЭПИ- И ДИАФИЛЬМОВ
1. Сформулируйте задачи (общеобразовательные, воспитательные, развивающие, практические) вашего микроурока. Например, практическими задачами могут быть; развитие умений употреблять
Unit Five
Text. From: "The Lumber-Room" by H. Munro........................................................................ 134
Conversation and Discussion:
Difficult Children....
Unit Seven
From: "The Time of my life" by D. Healey
Text "Drawing Back the Curtain" ............................................................................................ 20
Appendix
Unit One..................................................................................................................................... 262
Unit Two..................
ПРАКТИЧЕСКИЙ КУРС АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА
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