- •Практика чтения и письменной речи reading and writing aid
- •Preface
- •Texts for guided reading
- •Doreen pope
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •Write an essay on the following topic: “What’s done to children, they will do to society” (k. Meuninger).
- •Education: doing bad and feeling good
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •How to plan for happiness
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Paraphrase the following.
- •Match the following English and Russian proverbs.
- •Writing
- •Compress the information and a) make up an outline, b) write a précis of the text.
- •2. Expand on the following: “He is happy that thinks himself so.”
- •A news report
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •Language and literature
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •Thin end of the wedge
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Paraphrase the following.
- •Writing
- •How life imitates screen violence
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •The domain of style
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Group the following words and word-combinations into
- •Writing
- •The open window
- •Reading
- •Define means of producing a humorous effect used in the text (deliberate exaggeration, unexpected comparison, words which do not belong in the situation, etc.).
- •Do you find the story entertaining? Say how it appeals to your sense of imagination?
- •If it were up to you how would you change the end of the story? word study
- •Writing
- •Angel pavement
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •Inflation and the transition to a market economy
- •Reading
- •1. Read the title and define the theme of the text.
- •2. Give the gist of the text.
- •3. Identify the type of writing the text belongs to (publicistic, scholarly writing, fiction).
- •Word Study
- •Writing
- •Up the down staircase
- •Reading
- •5. Comment on the cases of humour and irony in the following examples. Say how ironic or humour effect is achieved.
- •6. Comment on the message of the story. Is it criticism of the system of education or its appraisal? Prove your point of view.
- •Word Study
- •1. Match the two columns.
- •2. Fill in the blanks with words or their derivatives from exercise 1
- •Writing
- •Feminism and the School Teacher
- •Reading
- •1. Read the title and define the theme of the text.
- •2. Skim the text and define the type of writing it belongs to (fiction or non-fiction); give the gist in two or three sentences.
- •Word Study
- •Say this in Russian.
- •5. Use an English-English dictionary to differentiate between, to give illustrative contexts for the following.
- •Writing
- •1. Compress the information and
- •2. Write an essay on the gender problem in education.
- •A last will
- •Reading
- •1. Read the title of the text and see of you can define the theme of it.
- •2. Run over the text, define the type of writing it belongs to and give the gist in 2 or 3 sentences.
- •Word Study
- •Writing
- •Texts for non-guided reading
- •The complete plain words
- •In what ways cyber space differs from america The boundlessness of the Internet opens new horizons
- •I/We Gather Together
- •Is School Unfair to Girls?
- •Reading and writing techniques
- •Humour, Irony, Sarcasm
- •Keys to exercises
- •Reading and writing test
- •Contents
- •Reading and writing aid
Reading and writing test
Choose one of the texts from Part II and fulfill the following assignments on it.
R e a d i n g: 1. Read the text and define the type and the theme of it.
2. Read it again and define the message or the main idea.
3. Pick out no less than ten words and word-combination which you consider worth studying and make up 4 exercises following the samples given in Part I.
W r i t i n g: 1. Compress the information and write:
notes on the text;
a précis of the text.
2. Expand on the theme of the text chosen and write a short two-page essay.
R e a d i n g a n d W r i t i n g T e s t P a t t e r n:
The title of the text.
The type and the theme of the text.
The message of the text.
Notes on the text.
The précis.
Exercises.
The essay on the theme
Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Part 1. Texts for Guided Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Text 1. Doreen Pope (M. Loudon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Text 2. Education. Doing Bad and Feeling Good (C.H. Krauthammer) . . . 9
Text 3. How to Plan for Happiness (S.Lauer, B.J. Gebhardt). . . . . . . . 15
Text 4. A News Report (D. Davy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Text 5. Language and Literature (N. Brooks) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Text 6. Thin End of the Wedge (L. Rogers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Text 7. How Life Imitates Screen Violence (M. Driscoll) . . . . . . . . 38
Text 8. The Domain of Style (J.N. Leech, M.H. Short) . . . . . . . . . . 43
Text 9. The Open Window (N. Munro) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Text 10. Angel Pavement (J.B. Priestley) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Text 11. Inflation and the Transition to a Market Economy (M. Watts) . . . 61
Text 12. Up the Down Staircase (B. Kaufman) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Text 13. Feminism and the School Teacher (A. Coffey, S. Delamont) . . 72
Text 14. A Last Will (W. Fish) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Part II. Texts for Non-Guided Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Text 1. Developing World. Is Globalization Good? (J. Riggs) . . . . . . 81
Text 2. A Feature Article (D. Davy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Text 3. That’s Outrageous! (T. Carlson) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Text 4. The English Language (C.L. Wrenn) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Text 5. The Marks of an Educated Man (N.M. Butler) . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Text 6. Ten Money Notes (K. Jackson) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Text 7. The Complete Plain Words (E. Gowers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Text 8. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (J. Thurber) . . . . . . . . . . 101
Text 9. In What Ways Cyber Space Differs from America . . . . . . . 106
Text 10. Language and Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Text 11. How to Make the Language Stick (G. Turnbull) . . . . . . . . 112
Text 12. Anthony in Blue Alsatia ((Eleanor Farjeon) . . . . . . . . . . 114
Text 13. I/We Gather Together (Ellen Goodman) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Text 14. Raw Material (S. Maugham) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Text 15. Is School Unfair to Girls? (R.N. Ostling) . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Supplement 1. Reading and Writing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Supplement 2. Keys to Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Supplement 3. Reading and Writing Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
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Смирнова Неонила Федоровна
Бурлак Тамара Фадеевна
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ПРАКТИКА ЧТЕНИЯ И ПИСЬМЕННОЙ РЕЧИ
Учебно-методическое пособие для студентов старших курсов заочного отделения факультета английского языка
Корректор С.О.Иванова Ответственный за выпуск Т.Ф. Бурлак
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