- •Введение
- •Unit 1. Superstitions and Prejudices.
- •In Britain as well as in other countries the objects and actions have superstitions attached to them:
- •II. Read the following situations and say which of them are associated with superstitions and which of them are associated with customs and traditions:
- •Highlight the following words and word combinations and fill the gaps in these sentences with suitable words from the list above.
- •Look at the pictures given below and say what these superstitions foretell and which of them foretell good / bad
- •Read the definition of the word “superstition” and answer the following questions:
- •Work in Pairs. Ask your partners:
- •Vocabulary Development
- •Do you believe in luck? Put the beginnings and ends together, using expressions from the box. (There are too many expressions).
- •Explain the following expressions and make up situations of your own:
- •Explain the following expressions. Use a dictionary if necessary.
- •Fill the gaps with suitable phrases from the list above.
- •Work in pairs. Make up a dialogue using the expressions with “luck” and act it out. Reading.
- •A) Before you read the text discuss the role of superstitions in our life.
- •Text 1 Superstitions
- •XII. A) Read the text and find the following information in the text:
- •Text 2 The Murder of the Mandarin
- •XIII. 1) What is prejudice?
- •2)What is the difference between prejudice and superstition?
- •Vocabulary Development
- •XIV. A) Match these definitions to the following words:
- •XV. Work in pairs. Discuss with your partner the following points:
- •Reading
- •XVI. A) Read the article and find the answers to the following questions in it:
- •Text 3 Prejudices
- •XVII. A) Read the following text and say what kind of prejudice is described in it: Text 4 The Thoughts of Lizzy
- •Discussion activity
- •Unit 2. The Unexplained.
- •In our life we often encounter some phenomena difficult to explain, they are often called paranormal.
- •Vocabulary development. The Six Senses
- •I. Make a sentence using any of these verbs, look, sound, taste, touch and smell, plus an adjective about the situations:
- •II. Which of the verbs in the text in b suggests looking:
- •III. Replace the underlined words with a more interesting and precise verb:
- •Reading
- •X. A) Read the following stories and answer these questions:
- •Coincidences
- •What are the main points? Do the tasks; you can look back at the stories.
- •XI. A) Read these five texts and answer the questions given below: Chance Encounters
- •Same Names
- •Love Will Find a Way
- •No Escape From Love
- •Like Father, Like Son
- •A) Read the following story and answer the questions: Another Time, Another Place
- •2) Do you know any good ghost stories or have you seen any good ghost films? Tell each other the story and how you felt about it.
- •A) Read the following stories and match them to the phenomena which a person with sixth sense may experience:
- •Strange Tales Indeed!
- •Out of Body Experience
- •2) A There are six stages associated with ‘Near Death Experiences’. From what you heard before, what order do you think they come in?
- •Listening
- •1) This is the first line and the last line of another ghost story. The title is ‘The Dress’. In groups, guess what happens.
- •2) A) Listen to the story. How different was it to yours?
- •Listen to a phone-in on the radio with people who have had a ‘Near Death Experience’
- •Discussion Activity
- •Think up a story about a coincidence (intuition, premonition, telepathy, déjà vu, ufOs, etc.) that has happened to you or someone you know.
- •Think about a big surprise in your life (good or bad).
- •XIX. Read the following abstracts; comment on them and discuss
- •XX. Invent a ghost story based on the pictures below.
- •XXI. Complete the following stories:
- •XXII. Debating the Issue:
- •Preparation for the Debate:
- •Procedure
- •3.In pairs write a plan for an essay “Do Near Death Experiences Really Exist?”
- •Useful Language
- •Unit 3. Fears and Phobias
- •Vocabulary Development
- •V. Which of the phobias mentioned in ex. IV have you experienced if you:
- •Reading
- •VI. Read the following text and answer the questions given below: Fear is Necessary
- •VII. A) Read the following text and answer these questions:
- •The Mystery Phobia
- •Listening
- •Discussion Activity
- •XIII. Work in groups. Here is a statement. Discuss your reaction to it with your partner. Give your argument /counterargument, using the expressions and the procedure, given on p. 49-51.
- •Appendix I
- •XXI. Read the end of the stories, given on p. 49.
- •Appendix II Superstitions and Prejudices (Additional Information)
- •Why people believe in magic
- •Kinds of mental illness
- •The powers of witches.
- •Appendix 3 Texts for Listening Unit 2. The Unexplained
- •XV. Text “The Dress”.
- •Unit 3. Fears and Phobias.
- •VIII. Text “Phobias”.
A) Read the following stories and match them to the phenomena which a person with sixth sense may experience:
telepathy; ghosts; premonitions; intuition; déjà vu
Strange Tales Indeed!
In May 1957seven people were sitting in a dining room just after lunch. Suddenly a man in brown walked past the open door into the kitchen. Four of the people saw him, and one got up to ask him what he wanted. The man had vanished, yet he could not have left the house unseen. Only then did the people realize that they must have seen a ghost.
This happened near Sydney, Australia, one evening in 1873. Six weeks after Captain Towns died, his married daughter entered a bedroom where there was a burning gas lamp. Reflected in the shiny surface of the wardrobe was a ‘portrait’ of her father. His thin, pale face, and grey flannel jacket were unmistakable. A young lady who was with the daughter saw the image too. They called other members of the household. Altogether eight people came and marveled at the apparition. But when the Captain’s widow tried to touch it, the image faded away.
An old man was seen trudging home through a stormy night, dressed only in pyjamas. The driver who passed him on the road discovered that the old man had died three weeks before.
One night in 1976, a woman awoke to see a tall, thin, female figure in her bedroom. The phantom pressed skinny fingers around the woman’s throat as if to strangle her. Then the grip relaxed, and the figure faded. Later, the victim described the ghost to her fiancé. The description fitted his long-dead Malaysian grandmother.
In 1964 a huge press was accidentally set moving inside a Detroit car factory. A nearby worker claimed his life was saved only by a tall, scarred black man who pushed him clear of the machinery. No one with him saw that person, but some recognized the description. It fitted a black worker accidentally killed there 20 years before.
In the middle 1800s, a young girl was walking down an English country lane. Suddenly she seemed to see her mother lying on a bedroom floor. The girl fetched a doctor and they found her mother exactly as the girl described her. The mother had fallen with a heart attack. Luckily the doctor arrived in time to save her life.
In 1926, two women on a country walk near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England, saw a big house in a garden surrounded by a high wall. Soon afterwards they passed that way again. They found only overgrown waste land that had not been disturbed for years.
(from ‘The Piccolo Explorer Book of Mysteries’)
b) Discuss these stories with your partners.
1) Some people have suffered strange experiences, when they feel that they have been taken out of their body. Some experiences are more dramatic and are better termed ‘Near Death Experiences’. The experiences are not necessarily bad but are often connected with illness and can leave a strong effect on the person concerned.
Which of these words, if any, do you associate with death? Add any others you can think of.
terror; peace; detachment; darkness; light; joy; music; white; blue; black; tunnel; mist; float; despair; pain; relief