- •Английский язык
- •Introduction
- •C o n t e n t s
- •Text 1: the luncheon
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 2: cooking skills
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 3: the tv blackout
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 4: lost in the post
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 5: butterflies
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 6: destructive forces in life
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 7: hotel room hell by Michelle Renee
- •What is essential for you in accommodation?
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 8: online robbery
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 9: shopping for one
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 11: wind song
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 12: a custom house incident
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 13: removal
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 14: mr. Mouse in the house
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 15: the test by Angelica Gibbs
- •2) Have you ever had any funny/unpleasant experiences in cars?
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 16: do you speak english?
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 17: cruise (letters from a young lady of leisure)
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 18: wistful, delicately gay (extract)
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 19: the enormous radio (Part I)
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Text 20: the enormous radio (Part II)
- •Vocabulary Training
- •Texts for skimming
- •Appendix 1. Plan for text analysis
- •A very dangerous invention
- •Analysis
- •Appendix 3. Sample analysis: character portrayal
- •Character analysis for Text 1 “The Luncheon”
- •Appendix 4. Glossary of literary terms
- •Appendix 5. Useful vocabulary describing characters
- •Negative qualities
- •Positive qualities
- •Neutral qualities
- •Linking your ideas
Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации
Федеральное агентство по образованию
ГОУ ВПО «Ивановский государственный университет»
Факультет романо-германской филологии
Кафедра английского языка
Английский язык
Методические указания и задания
по курсу «Аналитическое чтение»
для студентов 2 курса исторического факультета
специальности «Международные отношения»
Иваново
Издательство «Ивановский государственный университет»
2010
Составитель: к.ф.н., старший преподаватель кафедры английского языка М.Н. Павлова
Предлагаемые методические указания, включающие в себя произведения на английском языке, задания к ним, а также рекомендации по анализу текстов, составлены с учётом программы и учебного плана по английскому языку на историческом факультете специальности «Международные отношения».
Данные методические указания предназначены для студентов 2 курса и могут быть использованы как во время аудиторных занятий, так и для самостоятельной внеаудиторной работы.
Печатается по решению методической комиссии
факультета романо-германской филологии
Ивановского государственного университета
Рецензент
кандидат филологических наук И.С. Киселёва (ИвГУ)
© Павлова М. Н., составление, 2010
Introduction
The course of Analytical Reading is aimed at developing various reading skills from skimming and general comprehension to elements of in-depth character, theme, style and point of view analysis.
The purposes of the course also include increasing fluency in reading, expanding the vocabulary, training critical attitude towards text and raising cultural awareness.
The texts in this learner’s guide range from classical and contemporary short stories to real life anecdotes. The texts selected for the course are meant to introduce a variety of styles, moods and problems. Contrasting pieces of writing are supposed to sharpen the students’ linguistic perceptibility in a second-language medium and their awareness of multiple points of view present in a narrative as well as of means of their representation.
The programme combines close analysis of the stories’ subject matter and texture with intensive vocabulary training. To this purpose each text is accompanied by varied activities:
1. Pre-reading activities either help channel text perception or explore the readers’ anticipation through warming-up questions.
2. Multiple-choice and true/false Comprehension tasks are best after the first quick reading.
3. Vocabulary Training section includes studying word meaning in context, idiom, phrasal verb and pattern practice, explaining and paraphrasing, noting polysemy and conversion, topic-related vocabulary building. These tasks help master, activate and consolidate vocabulary essential for further discussion. The emphasis is on vocabulary likely to be used outside the particular text analysis. Theme-wise the texts are related to the topics “Food and Cooking”, “Bank”, “Post”, “TV and Radio”, “Telephone”, “Shopping”, “Everyday Services”, “Hotel”, “Travelling”, “Cinema”.
4. Recounting and Interpreting Details section includes questions and tasks which lead, step by step, from noting meaningful details to grasping the narrators’ point of view and their treatment of the problem. While literary texts are open to multiple interpretations, meaningful details are hints that enable to get the most out of reading.
5. Creative Follow-up Work section proposes tasks that help explore the problem from a different perspective or relate it to the reader’s experience.
Completion of comprehension and vocabulary tasks provides thorough preparation for text analysis according to the guidelines given in the Appendices – an ample reference section facilitating the students’ independent work.