- •К.В.Голубина
- •Introduction the cultural impact of a foreign text
- •Unit 1. Think global, speak local (Tape)
- •Unit 2. Basic brit-think and ameri-think
- •The most important things to know
- •1. I’m gonna live for ever
- •2. New is good
- •3. Never forget you’ve got a choice
- •4. Smart money
- •5. The consensus society
- •‘Them ‘n Us’
- •(Brian Walden The London Standard)
- •6. ‘Me-think’ vs. ‘We-think’
- •7. Good Guys and Bad Guys
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 3. Brits and yanks abroad
- •Amer-Executive
- •Ameri-wife
- •Brits on us hols ... A word of warning
- •A Brit goes Stateside
- •Mrs Brit
- •Brit groovettee
- •Us / uk guide to naffness-avoidance: What not to do in each other’s countries
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Shopping (uk)
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 4. Strictly business
- •Succeeding in business
- •Intimidation and desks
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 5. Brits and yanks at home Home as backdrop
- •Home as bolt-hole (‘Don’t tell anyone I live here’)
- •1. For the affluent, aspirational, or upwardly mobile:
- •2. For everyone else:
- •Some like it hot
- •Brits on heat
- •Ordeal by water
- •Beddy-bye
- •American dreams
- •Closet needs
- •Comprhension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 6. Going places (Film)
- •Unit 7. What do they aspire to? ‘Having It All’
- •Brit soap
- •Strike it rich
- •Success story Double standards
- •Nothing succeeds like success
- •Failure: Anglo-American excuses Making dramas out of crises
- •Delegating blame: ‘It’sa notta myfault!’
- •Bouncing back Recovery from adversity
- •Set-backs
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •The Neasden connection ... Place-names
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Writing
- •Unit 9. Patriotism (Multi-media support available)
- •Eco-chauvinism
- •Buy British:
- •Dollar allegiance … big bucks
- •Pound of flesh
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 10. The establishment
- •The Brit-Establishment includes anyone who:
- •It does not include such instruments of the Establishment as:
- •Amer-Establishment
- •America’s Haute-Establishment – Anyone who:
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 11. Yes, prime minister. The smoke screen (Film)
- •Unit 12. A better class of foreigner ‘Foreigner’
- •The foreign menace
- •British league-table of foreigners (reading from most to least reliable)
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 13. Class The thorny question of Class Gotta Lotta Class
- •If you are a Brit, you will vote Labour if:
- •If you are a Brit, you will vote Conservative if:
- •If you are a Brit, you will vote Liberal, sdp, or sdp-Lib. Alliance if:
- •Class Act
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 14. Only fools and horses (Film)
- •Unit 15. The food connection
- •Eating in Britain: Things that confuse American tourists
- •The importance of sharing
- •Brit guide to Ameri-portions
- •British/american food
- •Unit 17. The importance of being cute
- •Other cosy things Brits do
- •1. Extol the amateur
- •2. Obstruct mPs
- •3. Fill their national newspapers with ‘Around America’ columns
- •4. Cultivate their gardens
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 18. Goods and services Consumer durables and vice versa
- •Conspicuous Ameri-consumption:
- •Attacking the problem
- •Example:
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit19. Doctor doctor Medicine
- •Moi first, doc
- •Doctors
- •Perfect Brit patients
- •The perfect Ameri-patient
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 20. Laws of the lands
- •Comprehension and language
- •Unit 21. Rumpole and the age of miracles (Film)
- •Unit 22. Judging a nation by its television Meet the Press: The media we deserve
- •Ameri-vision: You are what you watch
- •Brit-tv: They’re watching me
- •You are what you read
- •1. Brit tabloids are more explicit.
- •2. Brit papers declare political affiliations.
- •3. Yanks don’t have national newspapers.
- •Snigger Press
- •The international co-production deal: Brit-mogul meets Yank-mogul
- •The 8 commandments of international co-production
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Writing
- •Unit 23. Good sport
- •Fair play
- •American football is:
- •Brit-footie is:
- •Comprehension
- •Language practice
- •Speaking
- •Unit 24. Oxford blues (Film)
- •Unit 25. Humour travels? Transatlantic laughs:
- •To be funny in America, you have to be:
- •To be funny in Britain, you have to:
- •Comprehension
- •Unit 28. One foot in the grave (Film)
- •Unit 29. East-enders (Film)
- •Unit 30. The final solution: or, whatreally counts
- •1. The Royal Family
- •2. The Pub
- •Double raspberry ripple to go
- •Appendix I The Special Relationship
- •Yanks (on brits)
- •Brits (on yanks)
- •Appendix II Glossary of us-uk equivalents
- •Glossary (and translation) of Anglo-American weather terms american
- •British
- •Appendix III The ones that don’t translate
- •Appendix IV The very, very best things in America
- •The best of British
- •Contents:
Comprehension and language
Exercise 1.Sum up the main point of the text in your own words. Make up several true/false statements to check comprehension.
Exercise 2.Identify and explain the cultural component of the text, make up questions to check if your classmates have got it right.
Exercise 3.Draw up a list of topical vocabulary, explain your options and practise them in class.
Exercise 4.Choose and use:
TOP HAT / TAILS / DINNER JACKET / BOW-TIE / FURS/ …
1. Morning dress, usually worn at weddings, consists of grey … and … 2. ‘…’ stands for a black bow-tie and a … 3. ‘…’means a top-hat, … and a white … 4. … are worn by academics and … 5. Barristers are usually dressed up in .., … and … for their appearance in court. 6. A … wears a dark uniform and a … 6. A longer … and … means a higher academic degree.
Unit 21. Rumpole and the age of miracles (Film)
Watch the film carefully and point out the most remarkable cultural things, cultural information, idiom and stereotypes in it. The language below may help you do it better:
a wicked and adulterous generation seek after a sign / entertain with conjurer tricks / Just ticking you off, Sir / Time in and out of Chambers has to be noted / clocking in and out / slopping out / a singular honour / unworthy as I am / You on the woolsack!/ Worshipful Chancellor of the Diocese of … / a judge in the Ecclesiastical Court/ to unfrock a priest / Have you taken the holy orders? / a big shot in the Cathedral / They made him a canon / a difficult sermon to write / Say no more / clock into the nearest monastery / I am not a great one for monasteries / pillars of respectability / conduct unbecoming of a clerk in holy orders / naughty carryings-on / trumped-up charge / to stone smb. to death / a practising member of the Church of England / the Old Bailey / get in on the act / solicitors acting for / guzzle / my favourite bedtime reading / feel called upon to answer any questions, not even in the witness box under the oath / with the case coming up tomorrow, it will be hardly appropriate / Miracles are an essential part of Christian dogma, we all accept that / She keeps walking when some great injustice is being done / remind of a point of legal procedure/assessors / hanky-panky / in the church precincts / charges leveled at / in danger of confusing Christian church with Christianity / chuck sth. away / keep an eye on the Reverend / pay 30 pieces of silver / Doesn’t the Gospel apply in the ecclesiastical court? / spy-master / We intend to develop the property / have no title to the cathedral land / do a tour of the great English cathedral cities / the food here is rather like some of my jokes, not always in the best of taste / use the emergency staircase to avoid unwelcome attention / I gave my word, I am not bringing Wendy into it. I am not going back on my word. / It adds some terror to my work having some sort of a saint as a client. / give the case a very anxious consideration / exercise a special jurisdiction / Very well put / to proceed any further against smb. on this evidence.
Notice the way the people express their feelings in different contexts.