- •Предисловие
- •Lesson I Topic: The Aims of Education
- •1) Verbs
- •2) Adjectives
- •3) Nouns
- •Easy-going self-centred semi-final pro-government
- •In to from of on at with for
- •Fill in the correct prepositions
- •Fill in the correct word(s) from the list below. Make up 5 all types of questions.
- •3.1. Reading comprehension
- •Read the following summary and underline the correct item. Then read the text to find out whether your choices were correct
- •Skim the text to find the English equivalents of the following Russian ones:
- •The Aims of Education
- •Discuss the following questions in groups of 2-3. Make good use of topical vocabulary
- •2. Develop the following ideas according to the text.
- •3. Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •The age of knowledge
- •4. Comment on the following statements
- •5. Fill in the blanks with the following links and express your opinion concerning the information in the text
- •6. Discuss the following points:
- •7. Support or refute the following statements:
- •1. Translate the following sentences
- •3. Complete the following sentences
- •4. Translate into English
- •5. Write an essay (120-180 words) on the following topics:
- •Lesson II Topic: The art of writing
- •1. Study the following target patterns.
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian, using the patterns above.
- •3. Translate the sentences into English, using the patterns above:
- •Reading Comprehension
- •1. Skim the text (read quickly without attention to detail). Select what you think are the main points in paragraphs 1-8.
- •2. Read paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 more carefully and decide which of the following statements are true and which are false.
- •3. Make a list of key words and phrases for every paragraph.
- •4. Make a list of phrases used to express the author’s opinion.
- •5. Read the text and find answers to the following questions:
- •8. Skim the text to find the English equivalents for the following:
- •The Art of Writing
- •1. Develop the following statements according to the text:
- •2. Comment on the following statements.
- •3. Discuss the following questions in groups of 2-4. Make good use of topical vocabulary (See Section 3 task 10 11)
- •4. Dialogue
- •5. Read the text below and discuss with a partner weather poetry is read and appreciated only by artistic-minded people. Do we really need poetry?
- •Heat and Dust
- •7. Before listening: group/pair work.
- •8. Summarize the following in English. Make use of the vocabulary given below.
- •Lesson III Topic: People Аren’t Born Prejudiced Section 1
- •2. Translate the sentences into Russian using the patterns above.
- •1. Verbs
- •2. Adjectives
- •Insidious, derogatory, blameworthy, unaware, genuine, subtle, deficient, unconscious, intelligent
- •3. Nouns
- •Read the text and find the English equivalents for the following Russian ones.
- •Ian stevenson
- •Develop the following statements according to the text
- •Comment on the following statements
- •3. Develop the following topics relying upon the Russian equivalents given.
- •4. Discuss the following questions in groups of 2 - 3. Make good use of topical vocabulary
- •5. Practice reading the following dialogue in pairs, working at your pronunciation and expression. Learn it by heart and perform it with a partner in front of the class.
- •6. Listen to the story and pick up factual information to disprove Jeremy’s arguments in the dialogue above for the spread of prejudiced thinking in the usa.
- •10. Render the following text in English using active vocabulary.
- •11. Comment on the following quotations. What kind of prejudice is discussed in every particular case? Do you agree or disagree with a message? Make good use of topical vocabulary.
- •12. Contradict or support the following statement in the form of debates:
- •1. Complete the following phrases in writing:
- •Develop arguments to prove or disprove the following in the form of a written statement (a paragraph long):
- •3. Write an essay (120 – 180 words) on one of the following topics.
- •Lesson IV Topic: Is Love an art?
- •1. Study the following target patterns.
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian, using the patterns above.
- •Translate the sentences into English, using the patterns above:
- •Section 2.
- •1. Verbs:
- •3. Nouns:
- •3.1. Reading comprehension
- •1. Skim the text (read quickly without attention to detail). In the first 4 paragraphs the main points are underlined. Select what you think are the main points in paragraphs 5-10.
- •2. Read paragraphs 2, 4, 6, 8 more carefully and decide which of the following statements are true and which are false.
- •3. Scan every paragraph to find key words or phrases through which the topic of a paragraph is developed.
- •4. Scan every paragraph to find words or phrases to indicate sequential relationship between the sentences in it.
- •5. Read the text paying attention to detail and find answers to the following questions:
- •9. Skim the text to find the English equivalents of the following:
- •Is love an art? Erich Fromm
- •Discuss the following questions in groups of 2-3. Make good use of topical vocabulary (See Section 3, task 8):
- •2. Work in pairs. Basing on the key words and phrases guess the number of the paragraph and retell it, trying to be as close to the source text as possible. Correct your partner and help to improve.
- •4. Dialogue.
- •1) Practice reading the following dialogue in pairs, working at your pronunciation and expression. Learn it by heart and perform it with a partner in front of the class.
- •5. Read two texts below and discuss them with a partner to find out which of them is about marriage in Britain and which about marriage in the usa. Retell the texts.
- •6. Listen to a story by o. Henry. Discuss it in groups of 3-4 until you are ready to sum up its message. Guess its title.
- •8. Read the two interviews below and working with a partner answer the questions that follow. Pay attention to the use of phrasal verbs. Add them to the list of topical vocabulary.
- •9. Talk on the following, making good use of topical vocabulary:
- •10. Contradict or support the following statement in the form of debates:
- •Insert the links from the box below to fill in the blanks in the following essay. Determine their functions.
- •Lesson V Topic: The Virtues of Ambition
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian, using the patterns above.
- •3. Translate the sentences into English, using the patterns above.
- •3. Nouns:
- •3.1. Reading Comprehension
- •1. Skim the text (read quickly without attention to detail). In the first 4 paragraphs the main points are underlined. Select what you think are the main points in paragraphs 5-10.
- •2. Read paragraphs 4, 8, 11, 14 more carefully and decide which of the following statements are true and which are false.
- •5. Read the text paying attention to detail and find answers to the following questions:
- •3. Make a list of key words and phrases for every paragraph. Choose from those in italics.
- •4. A. Make a list of transition signals connecting the paragraphs of the text. Choose from those in italics.
- •9. Skim the text to find the English equivalents of the following:
- •The Virtues of Ambition
- •1. Discuss the following questions in groups of 2-4. Make good use of topical vocabulary (See Section 3, task 8, points a and b)
- •4. Dialogue.
- •1) Practice reading the following dialogue in pairs, working at your pronunciation and expression. Learn it by heart and perform it with a partner in front of the class.
- •3) Your friend feels worried and unhappy because of some ambition. Discuss the problem with him/her. Help to find a solution. Make use of the expressions below and the topical vocabulary.
- •5. Read two texts below and discuss with a partner arguments to prove that ambition is a healthy impulse. Give both texts suitable titles. Retell the texts.
- •6. Listen to a story by j. G. Gozzens. Discuss it in groups of 3-4 until you are ready to sum up its message and guess its title.
- •2. Using word-combinations from the list of topical vocabulary (Section 3, task 8) at your own choice and some of the links above, write a paragraph to disclose the following topic sentence:
- •3. Prove the opposite in the form of a written statement.
- •4. Develop arguments to prove the following points and make written statements.
- •5. Write a composition on one of the following topics:
- •Lesson VI Topic: On the meaning of Life
- •1. Study the following target patterns.
- •2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian, using the patterns above.
- •2. Translate the sentences into English, using the patterns above.
- •3.1. Reading Comprehension
- •1. Skim the text (read quickly without attention to detail). In the first 3 paragraphs the main points are underlined. Select what you think are the main points in paragraphs 4-8.
- •2. Read the introduction and paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 more carefully and decide which of the following statements are true and which are false.
- •3. Make a list of key words and phrases for every paragraph.
- •4. A) Make a list of linking words and phrases connecting the ideas of the text.
- •5. Read the text and find answers to the following questions:
- •9. Skim the text to find the English equivalents of the following:
- •10. Sum up the text in 12 sentences and add two-three more to comment on it.
- •3.2. Phonetic Reading
- •1. Transcribe and mark the stresses in the following words. Practice reading them out loud:
- •On the Meaning of Life
- •1. Discuss the following questions in groups of 2-4. Make good use of topical vocabulary (See Section 3, task 8)
- •3. Working with a partner and discussing every point fill in the blanks with the links from the box below:
- •Dialogue.
- •1) Practice reading the following dialogue in pairs, working at your pronunciation and expression. Learn it by heart and perform it with a partner in front of the class.
- •5. Read two texts below and discuss with a partner arguments that reveal the author’s ideas on the meaning of life.
- •6. Before listening: group/pair work.
- •2) Einstein on the Meaning of Life
- •8. Talk on the following, making good use of topical vocabulary:
- •9. Contradict or support the following statement after discussing it in groups:
- •1. Insert the links from the box below to fill in the blanks in the following essay.
- •Содержание
6. Listen to a story by o. Henry. Discuss it in groups of 3-4 until you are ready to sum up its message. Guess its title.
7. Below there are two short stories about love at first sight. Working in pairs, get prepared to explain how their messages are related to that of E. Fromm’s essay. Picking up from both stories, enlarge the list of your topical vocabulary and use as many units from it as possible in the discussion.
1. The first time Michael saw Helen, he fell in love with her. It was love at first sight. The problem was how to win her love for him. First he tried to impress her. He asked her to fly to Cannes with him for the Film Festival. She refused. Then he asked her to come to Rome with him. But she said no. ‘Perhaps she likes the simple life,” he thought. So he asked her to spend a weekend with him in the country. She refused that too. “Food. I’ll try food”, he thought and asked her to eat with him at Mason’s, one of the best restaurants in London.
“No, thank you,” she said and lowered her lovely blue eyes, “She is so beautiful,” he thought. “I will try one last question”. And he asked her to marry him.
“Yes,” she said. “I will. Mason’s, Rome, Cannes, the country – what an exciting life we will have’.
2. It was love at first sight. I saw her standing on the other side of a crowded room sipping a glass of wine. Our eyes met. I walked over to her and said, “You seem to be on your own. Can I join you?”
She smiled and said yes. At first she came across as rather shy, but as I got to know her better I found out that she was an open and confident person who was easy to get on with. At the end of the party I said I would like to see her again and asked her out for a meal the following week.
I took her out to a small Italian restaurant in Soho. After talking for a while, we found out that we had a lot in common in fact, we seemed to have the same interests and tastes in everything. She smiled at me when I spoke to her, and when our eyes met this time I knew that I was head over years in love with her. I thought that she was falling in love with me too. We started going out with each other, and after some time we got engaged and decided to live together. We were both very happy and made plans to settle down and get married the following year.
However, it wasn’t long before things started to go wrong. She seemed less affectionate and loving as the weeks passed, and I started to feel she was going off me. She criticized me all the time. “Why are you always going on at me?” I asked.
In the end I wondered if we were suited to one another. I was keen on hard rock and she was fond of classical music. I was interested in sport and she was interested in politics. We finally fell out over a TV Programme. We had a terrible row, broke off our engagement, and called off the wedding. A week later she moved out. I was heartbroken, and it took me a long time to get over it.
A few months later I heard she was engaged to a man who worked in local government. They got married, but after two years, their marriage broke up and they got divorced.
I tell you this because last night I went to a party and I was drowning my sorrows when I saw her standing on the other side of the room sipping a glass of wine. I saw a man walk over to her and I heard him say. “You seem to be on your own. Can I join you?”.