- •Contents
- •I. The study of languages and literature
- •II. English and american literature
- •III. Vocabulary Предисловие
- •Структура и содержание пособия
- •Методические указания студентам
- •Работа над текстом
- •Как пользоваться словарем
- •Основные трудности при переводе английского текста на русский язык
- •Каковы основные типы смысловых соответствий между словами английского и русского языков?
- •Exercises
- •Text 2. Descriptive, historical and comparative linguistics
- •Text 3. Applied linguistics
- •Text 4. Why we study foreign languages
- •Text 5 aspects of language
- •Text 6 parts of speech
- •Text 7 russian language
- •Text 8 languages of russia
- •Text 9 about the english language
- •Text 10 strong language
- •Dialogue I
- •Is that a threat or a promise darling? Look, I’m off, I haven’t got all day.
- •Dialogue II
- •I wonder if you’d be kind enough to get me a size 18 in this …if it’s not too much trouble, that is.
- •18? We don’t do extra-large, lug. Sorry. You want the outsize department.
- •Text 11 types and genres of literature
- •Do we really need poetry?
- •Reading detective stories in bed
- •Books in your life
- •Writing practice: Short story
- •Complete the story using the appropriate form of the verbs in brackets.
- •Look at the checklist below and find examples of these features in the story:
- •Connect the following sentences with the sequencing words in brackets. Make any changes necessary.
- •Rewrite these sentences to make them more vivid and interesting foe the reader. Replace the underlined words with words from the box. Make any changes necessary.
- •Text 12 philologist
- •A good teacher:
- •Is a responsible and hard-working person
- •Is a well-educated man with a broad outlook and deep knowledge of the subject
- •English and american literature
- •2. The Middle Ages
- •Geoffrey Chaucer
- •Chaucer's Works
- •3. The Renaissance
- •Renaissance Poetry
- •4. William Shakespeare
- •The Comedies
- •The Histories
- •The Tragedies
- •The Late Romances
- •The Poems
- •The Sonnets
- •From Classical to Romantic
- •The Reading Public
- •Poetry and Drama
- •Daniel Defoe
- •New Ideas
- •6. The Age of the Romantics
- •The Writer and Reading Public
- •Romantic Poetry
- •The Imagination
- •Individual Thought and Feeling
- •The Irrational
- •Childhood
- •The Exotic
- •7. The Victorian Age
- •The Novel
- •Oscar Fingal o'Flahertie Wills Wilde
- •Life and Works
- •Poetry of the First World War
- •Drama (1900-1939)
- •George Bernard Shaw
- •Life and works
- •Stream of Consciousness
- •9. Historical Background of American literature.
- •Benjamin Franklin
- •10. Romanticism in America
- •11. Critical Realism
- •Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- •О. Henry
- •Jack London
- •Theodore Dreiser
- •Vocabulary
Exercises
Task 2. Read the international words and guess their meanings. Mind the stress.
General, regional, course, object, linguist, nature, practice, human, limit, social, basic, context, form, structure, concentrate, familiar, linguistics, manifestation, individual, interpretation.
Task 3. Memorize the following pairs of derivatives.
V -> N N -> A
consider - consideration science – scientific
transmit - transmission difference - different
interpret - interpretation value - valuable
arrange - arrangement desire - desirable
relate – relations importance - important
Task 4. Transform as in the model
Model: to arrange words and sentences in a language —> the arrangement of words and sentences in a language
To transmit speech sounds, to define the term, to concentrate a limited number of languages, to use language in different forms of literature.
Task 5. Match English and Russian equivalents.
1. scientific study of linguistics |
a. различные социальные контексты |
2. general linguistics |
b. родной язык |
3. nature of language |
c. ограниченное число языков |
4. to convey the meaning |
d. общая лингвистика |
5. a limited number of languages |
e. объект изучения |
6. to transmit speech sounds |
f.природа языка |
7. object of study |
g.передавать звуки речи |
8. native language |
h.передавать значение |
9. different social contexts |
i.научный подход к изучению лингвистики |
Task 6. Translate the underlined words and expressions in the text and make up your own sentences using them.
Task 7. Complete the sentences.
1. General linguistics may be defined as.... 2. It is desirable to consider the difference between.... 3. In studying linguistics the scholars attempt to answer many questions about.... 4. General linguistics is based on ... . 5. Different languages in all their forms and manifestations constitute ….
Task 8. Insert the right word:
(worthy, arranged, linguistics, a linguist, language)
1. There are many other important questions that ... attempts to answer. 2. Any language is a valuable and ... object of study. 3. In practice most ... concentrate on a limited number of languages. 4. Most linguists concentrate on their own native ... . 5. How are words and sentences ... in a language?
Task 9. Answer the questions on the text.
1. How can you define general linguistics? 2. What does linguistics deal with? 3. What is general linguistics based on? 4. Is there any connection between general linguistics and the individual study of languages? 5. Is any language a worthy object of study for linguistics?
Task 10. Make a short summary of the text.