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УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКАЯ РАЗРАБОТКА

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гуманитарных факультетов по развитию социокультурной

компетенции на материале видеофильмов на английском языке

Часть 3

“Discovering the usa”

ТВЕРЬ 2011

Составитель – ст. преподаватель Гаврикова И.Г.

Цель данной учебно-методической разработки – развитие социокультурной компетенции, активизация навыков аудирования и расширение словарного запаса у студентов на материале видеофильма на английском языке “Discovering the USA”.

Пособие содержит в себе иллюстрированный справочный материал, ряд упражнений, которые выполняются при просмотре видеофильма, и тестовые задания.

Учебно-методическая разработка предназначена для самостоятельной работы студентов старших курсов гуманитарных факультетов.

Издается по решению кафедры иностранных языков гуманитарных факультетов

(протокол № от 19.01.2011г.)

Заказ № 50 от 9.02.2011 г.

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Издано в электронном виде.

DISCOVERING THE USA

PART 1

(min. 0:01 – 38:50)

The film begins with the following lines:

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

From “America, the Beautiful” by Katherine Lee Bates

Прекрасна, в вольности небес

Неся янтарь полей

И гордых гор пурпурный блеск

Над сочностью степей,

Америка! Америка!

Судьба к тебе щедра,

Стань океанам берегом

Из братства и добра.

Перевод Алексей Сергейчук

1. Before watching the video study the map of the usa with state names and then look through the lists of the proper names, mentioned in the film:

a) place-names:

Bering Strait

Boston (г.)

Boston Harbour

Concord (г.)

Charles River

Cambridge (г.)

Nantucket Island

New York (г.)

Ellis Island

Bronx

Brooklyn

Queens

Staten Island

Manhattan

Niagara Falls

American Falls

Philadelphia (лат.от ‘City of

Brotherly Love’)

Gettysburg (г.)

Washington, DC (г.)

Potomac River

Appalachia

Nashville (г.)

Memphis (г.)

Cooper River

Ashley River

Charleston (г.)

Okefenokee Swamp

Miami (г.)

Miami Beach (г.)

The Florida Keys (острова)

Key West (г.)

Cuba (о-в)

Gulf of Mexico

B) tourist attractions and historical places and events:

Old North Church

Freedom Trail

Boston Common

Paul Revere’s House

Old State House

Faneuil Hall

Faneuil Hall Marketplace

Harvard University

Greenwich Village

Broadway

Fifth Avenue

Time Square

Statue of Liberty

Central Park

Independence National Historic Park

The Mall

Lincoln Memorial

Reflecting Pools

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Smithsonian Institution

Museum of Natural History

National Air and Space Museum

White House

Capitol Hill

Graceland

Little Havana

Middleton Place

Art Deco District

Calle Ocho

Everglades National Park

c) names of people:

Robert Newman

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Paul Revere

William Dawes

Samuel Adams

John Hancock

Bartholdi Frederic Auguste

Gustav Eiffel

Frederick Law Olmsted

Calvert Vaux

Thomas Jefferson

William Penn, Junior

King George III

S helley

Pierre L’Enfant

Maya Lin

James Smithson

Elvis Presley

Sam Phillips

Henry Middleton

Juan Ponce de Leon

Ernest Hemingway

d) names of Indian tribes and other proper names:

the Cree – индейцы племени кри

the Seminoles – индейцы племени семинолов

the Amish (the Pennsylvania Dutch) – аманиты, амиши (см.рис.)

References:

- «taxation without representation» – «налогообложение без представительства»

- Boston Tea Party – Бостонское чаепитие. Событие в ходе борьбы английских колоний в Северной Америке за независимость, когда в знак протеста против беспошлинного ввоза английского чая

члены организации Sons of Liberty в декабре 1773 г., переодевшись индейцами, проникли на английские корабли в Бостонском порту и выбросили в море партию чая – 342 сундука.

- Minuteman – минитмен. Воин-ополченец в период Войны за независимость (Revolutionary War). Название связано с тем, что каждый член отряда должен был постоянно находиться в состоянии минутной боевой готовности (см.рис.)

- Paul Revere’s Ride – Скачка Пола Ревира. Легендарное событие, ознаменовавшее начало Американской Войны за независимость. Поздно вечером 18 апреля 1775 бостонец Р.Ньюмен (Robert Newman) вывесил на колокольне Северной церкви (Old North Church) два фонаря, предупреждая условным сигналом, что англичане собираются подойти к Лексингтону и Конкорду (Lexington and Concord) со стороны моря. Гонец Массачусетского комитета безопасности П.Ревир отправился верхом предупредить об этом минитменов, располагавшихся в этих поселках (см.рис.). Это событие было воспето Г.Лонгфелло (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) в балладе «Скачка Пола Ревира», строки из которой вы услышите в видеофильме:

“One, if by land, and two, if by sea;

And I on the opposite shore will be,

Ready to ride and spread the alarm

Through every Middlesex village and farm

For the country folk to be up and to arm."

- the munition stock pile – зд. склад боеприпасов

- Freedom Trail – «Тропа Свободы». Туристический пешеходный маршрут длиной около 4 км в г.Бостоне, включающий Старую Северную Церковь (Old North Church), дом Пола Ревира (Paul Revere House), Фэнл-холл (Faneuil Hall) и Старую ратушу (Old State House).

- “…your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free…” – «…усталый ваш народ, брошенный в нужде, все жаждущие вздохнуть свободно…» Cтроки из сонета «Новый Колосс» американской поэтессы Эммы Лазарус, выгравированные на пьедестале Статуи Свободы (the Statue of Liberty)

- Centennium – столетие (зд. столетний юбилей)

- “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are all endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness…- «Мы исходим из той очевидной истины, что все люди созданы равными и наделены их Творцом определенными неотъемлемыми правами, к числу которых относятся право на жизнь, свободу и стремление к счастью...» Строки из Декларации независимости (Declaration of Independence), основным автором которой являлся Т. Джефферсон (Thomas Jefferson)

- Quaker – квакер (последователь протестантского религиозного течения, проповедующего пацифизм и благотворительность; возникло в Англии во второй половине 17 в.)

- City of Brotherly Love – Город братской любви (прозвище г. Филадельфия, шт. Пенсильвания, также известного как Quaker City – Город квакеров)

- “Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” – «И объявите свободу на земле всем жителям ее» Строки из Библии, Левит, XX, 10, использованные Уильямом Пенном, мл. (William Penn, Junior) в Хартии прав (Charter of Privileges), а в 1752 г. выгравированные на Колоколе Свободы (Liberty Bell) – символе американской независимости (см.рис.)

- a watershed – граница между двумя эпохами, этапами

- “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by people, and for the people, shall not perish from this earth.” – отрывок из знаменитой речи президента Линкольна, которую он произнес 19 ноября 1863 г. на открытии национального кладбища в Геттисберге (Gettysburg National Cemetery)

- the Mall – Эспланада. Отрезок музейно-парковой зоны в центре Вашингтона между Капитолием (Capitol) и мемориалом Линкольна (Lincoln Memorial).

- to emanate the odour of power – зд. источать аромат власти

- Grand Ole Opry – «Грэнд оул оупри» (знаменитая радиопрограмма музыки кантри, которая с 1974 г. ведется из концертного зала г. Нашвилла, шт. Теннеси)

2. Read the following questions, then watch the video and answer them:

1. Where did the first known settlers come to North America from? How did they get there? ____________

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2. What did European migrants, seeking new lives on the North American Continent, flee from? ________

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3. What was the place from which the future United States took its rise? ____________________________

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4. Why did Boston patriots stage the Boston tea party in 1773? What did they protest against? __________

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5. What did a shot, fired in the battle of Concord, foreshadow? ___________________________________

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6. What does the historic Freedom Trail reveal? Where does it start? _______________________________

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7. What place along the Freedom Trail is associated with the 1770 Boston Massacre in which 5 patriots were killed? ___________________________________________________________________________

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8. Why is Faneuil Hall often called “the Cradle of Liberty”? _____________________________________

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9. What is the oldest University in the US? When was it founded? _________________________________

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10. Who made their homes on the enchanting isle of Nantucket? Why? _____________________________

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11. The news about what annual wonder of nature do the New England’s local newspapers relate as breathlessly as major sports events? _________________________________________________________

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12. What sort of city is New York? What did it use to be for more than half a century? _______________

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13. What did Ellis Island give European immigrants? ___________________________________________

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14. What statue stands beside “the golden door” to welcome those “yearning to breathe free”? When was it dedicated? _____________________________________________________________________________

Why was it completely renovated in 1986? ___________________________________________________

15. How many boroughs is New York divided into? What are they? _______________________________

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16. Is the Niagara Falls actually one waterfall? ________________________________________________

What does the word “Niagara” mean? _______________________________________________________

Who lives behind the vast curtain of the headlong rushing waters of the Falls, according to the legends?

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17. What ideas was the United States founded on? _____________________________________________

Where did these ideas come to their finest flower? Where were both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution drafted? _________________________________________________________________

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18. When did the Amish come to Pennsylvania? _______________________________________________

What did they flee from? _________________________________________________________________

Why are they called the Pennsylvania Dutch? Are they actually Dutch? ____________________________

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19. What do the Amish believe in? _________________________________________________________

What do they do without? ________________________________________________________________

20. What war tore the American nation apart philosophically? ____________________________________

What battle cost America the largest number of human lives in the whole history of the country? ________

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21. What’s the capital of the USA? _________________________________________________________

Who was it laid out by? __________________________________________________________________

When and where did it happen? ____________________________________________________________

22. Who is the black granite Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, devoted to? _________________________

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23. What is James Smithson’s legacy? What did he do to increase and diffuse knowledge? _____________

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24. Which of American Presidents are responsible for the present-day appearance of the White House?

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25. What symbolizes the executive branch of the USA government? _______________________________

What symbolizes the legislative branch of the USA government? _________________________________

What symbolizes the judicial branch of the USA government? ___________________________________

26. Have the Appalachian culture, its handicrafts, its music and songs changed in the last century? _______

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27. With what advice was Elvis Presley turned away from the Grand Ole Opry in 1954? _____________________________________________________________________________________

Who was the man who helped Elvis become the King? _________________________________________

28. What town, located on a thumb of land where the Cooper and Ashley Rivers flow into the sea, retains the flavour and charm of the Old South? _____________________________________________________

29. What is the oldest landscape garden in the country, where the daily life of the 18^th century self-sufficient low country plantation is recreated down to the last authentic detail? _______________________

When and by whom were the large gardens laid up? ____________________________________________

30. What does the word Okefenokee in the name of the swamp mean in the language of the Cree tribe?

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31. Which city is an anomaly among other American cities? _____________________________________

What does its exotic appeal come from? _____________________________________________________

32. What place is considered to be the soul and spirit of Miami? __________________________________

33. What architectural style is typical of South Beach? __________________________________________

34. What is a string of tiny islands, stretching off the southern tip of Florida, called? __________________

35. What is the southernmost point of the Continental United States? ______________________________

36. How do the islanders pass their time in Key West? __________________________________________

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37. What National Park stands unique in all of North America and is unlike any other ecosystem on the continent? _____________________________________________________________________________

What actually is it? ______________________________________________________________________

What did the Seminoles call these extraordinary wetlands, whose twistings and turnings they knew intimately? ____________________________________________________________________________

3. Explain how all these places, names and things are connected with each other:

1) Robert Newman – the Old North Church __________________________________________________

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2) Paul Revere and William Dawes – the munition stock pile at Concord ___________________________

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3) American Revolution – the birth of a new nation ____________________________________________

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4) Statue of Liberty – the French engineer Bartholdi Frederic Auguste _____________________________

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5) President Lincoln – the national cemetery at Gettysburg _____________________________________

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6) Central Park in New York – Frederic Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux ___________________________

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7) President’s House – the White House _____________________________________________________

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8) Elvis Presley – Graceland, a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee __________________________________

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9) Florida – Juan Ponce de Leon ___________________________________________________________

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10) Little Havana, Miami – Cuba’s Communist regime _________________________________________

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11) Ernest Hemingway – Key West _________________________________________________________

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12) Mermaids – Everglades National Park ____________________________________________________

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4. Match the places and events on the left (1-15) to the descriptions on the right (a-o):

(___) 1. Boston Tea Party

(___) 2. Faneuil Hall

(___) 3. Nantucket Island

(___) 4. New York

(___) 5. Broadway

(___) 6. Wall Street

(___) 7. Central Park

(___) 8. Niagara Falls

(___) 9. Carpenter Hall

(___) 10. Congress Hall

(___) 11. Washington, DC

(___) 12. Smithsonian Institution

(___) 13. the Everglades

(___) 14. Miami

(___) 15. Philadelphia

a. Big Apple, the gateway to the USA

b. a gift from an Englishman who had never been

to the USA

c. an island of green refuge in urban environment

d. a place where people come seeking refuge

from winter

e. a protest against ‘taxation without

representation’

f. the meeting-place of the First Continental

Congress

g the ’Cradle of Liberty’

h. a pinnacle of legitimate theatre

i. once a heart of whaling industry

j. ‘City of Brotherly Love’, founded by an

English Quaker William Penn, Jr on the basis

of religious freedom and tolerance

k. a slowly moving fresh water river in a swampy

region of Florida

l. the place that used to be of great spiritual

significance to native Americans

m. the meeting-place of the First United States

Congress

n. once ‘a mosquito infested swamp’

o. the heart of American finance