- •Contents
- •About myself & my future career
- •1. Answer the questions in writing.
- •2. Use your answers and make up a topic about yourself.
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary work
- •Registration form
- •2. Copy out and fill in your own registration form for your University classes of English:
- •Registration form
- •About myself
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Give the English equivalents to the following.
- •4. Read the following statements and say whether they are true or false.
- •5. Ask 15 questions to the text and be ready to answer your groupmates’ questions.
- •6. Fill in suitable words:
- •7. Work with a partner. Ask him/her the following questions:
- •8. Give the English equivalents to the following:
- •9. Read the classroom vocabulary. Try to guess and/or look up the meaning of these phrases. Memorize them.
- •10. Make up a dialogue with a partner and use as many classroom expressions as possible.
- •Verb to be
- •1B. Write the full form (she is / we are not etc.).
- •3. Write full sentences. Use am/is/are each time.
- •4. Write positive or negative sentences. Use am / am not / is / isn't / are / aren't.
- •Jobs & hobbies
- •1. Look at the names of the professions. Pair up. Try to guess from the mime of your partner what the job is:
- •Choosing a Career
- •Vocabulary
- •Is from Volgograd
- •Is good at mathematics and foreign languages
- •Interested in psychology and sociology
- •6. A. Speak about your friend using the following plan:
- •7. Speak on the topic (first word in the passage) and use the introduced vocabulary.
- •8. Read the dialogues. What do the people who talk to each other do?
- •9. Answer the questions.
- •Present Simple
- •Exercises:
- •1A. Rewrite each sentence as a positive or negative sentence, or a question, according to the instructions.
- •Think of your working day. How do you spend it? When and how long do you do your homework? How do you study English? What helps you here?
- •Imagine you already work. Where do you work? What is your position? What do you do? How much money do you get for it? Present Simple: short answers form
- •4. Write the short answers:
- •1. Read and remember English letters, sounds and phonemic symbols.
- •2. Spell your names in English, using the alphabet. Pronounce each letter.
- •3. Look up the pronunciation of the words society, people, hierarchy in a dictionary. Как работать со словарем
- •3. Translate the sentences into Russian using a dictionary:
- •5. Translate the proverbs into Russian:
- •6. Put the words in the dictionary (I.E. Alphabetic) order:
- •7. Define the initial form of these words:
- •8. Translate the following collocations:
- •1. Write the correct pronouns for these sentences.
- •2. Write the correct reflexive pronouns for these sentences.
- •3. Write the correct possessive adjectives for these sentences.
- •4. Write the correct possessive adjective or pronoun for these sentences.
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Fill in suitable words:
- •2. Give English equivalents to the following words and collocations:
- •3. Finish the sentences:
- •2. Interrogative sentences
- •4.Exclamatory sentences
- •Interrogative sentences (am/is/are)
- •1. Write questions from these words. Use am/is/are:
- •2. Write questions with What/Who/How/Where/Why . . . ? Use am/is/are:
- •3. Ask the questions (Read the answers to the questions first):
- •4. Write positive or negative short answers (Yes, I am / No, he isn't etc.).
- •5. Make four different types of questions questions from these statements:
- •6. Rewrite these sentences without using to or for.
- •7. Rewrite these sentences in the correct order.
- •Samara state university
- •Vocabulary
- •Say if these statements are right or wrong:
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •More about Samara State University
- •1. Say if these statements are true or false:
- •2. Fill in suitable words:
- •3. Discussion
- •1. Rewrite each sentence as a positive or negative sentence, or a question, according to the instructions.
- •2. In your notebook, write these sentences putting the verbs into the correct tense (Present Simple/Present Continuous):
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Give English equivalents to the following words and collocations:
- •2. Finish the sentences:
- •3. Translate the text into Russian.
- •4. Use each of the following word combinations in sentences of your own:
- •5. Retell the text.
- •6. Top Sixteen Reasons for Studying a Foreign Language: give your reasons for studying languages and fill in the gaps.
- •1. Fill in the indefinite article: a or an.
- •2. Enumerate the nouns that need an indefinite article. Which nouns from the list need no article at all? Family Relations:
- •3. Fill in the indefinite article: a or an.
- •4. What are these things? Choose from the list.
- •5. Write sentences from the brackets (). Write a or an where necessary.
- •The Indefinite Article a and the Definite Article The
- •6. Write a, the, or no article to complete these sentences.
- •7. Write the names of the places below in two columns, those with the and those without the:
- •8. Insert the articles where necessary:
- •Great britain (The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Say if these statements are right or wrong:
- •3. Finish these sentences:
- •4. Speak on:
- •5. Use each of the following word combinations in sentences of your own:
- •6. Retell the text.
- •Irregular Plurals:
- •1. Write the plural:
- •3. Paraphrase the following using the possessive case:
- •5. Some of these sentences are right and some are wrong. Correct the sentences that are wrong. Write 'okay' if the sentence is right.
- •6. Which is right? Complete the sentences:
- •7. Write the words in the plural and in the correct column.
- •8. Complete the sentences using the words from the box in the plural form.
- •9. Some of these sentences are right but most are wrong. Correct the sentences that are wrong.
- •10. Complete the words using the vowels in the box below.
- •Customs and traditions
- •Englishmen and their Habits
- •Vocabulary
- •1. A. Read the dialogue.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Find in the text the English for the following and use them in sentences of your own.
- •4. Give the three forms of the following verbs:
- •5. Study the following and add as many names of the countries, nations and languages to the list as you can. Consult a dictionary.
- •6. Study the following combinations and use 3-5 of them in one situation.
- •7. Insert prepositions or adverbs. Retell the text.
- •8. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word from your active vocabulary. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •9. Make up a dialogue to illustrate the difference between custom and habit. Study the example.
- •10. Speak On:
- •11. Illustrate the proverbs with examples from your life experience.
- •1. Write these sentences in the past simple, keeping them as questions or negatives.
- •2. Change the verbs into the past simple, keeping them as positives, negatives, or questions.
- •3. Use the verbs above to complete these sentences.
- •4. Write the past simple positive of these irregular verbs.
- •5. In your notebook, write these sentences putting the verbs into the past simple. Remember that the infinitive is used for questions and negatives.
- •The united states of america
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Say if these statements are true or false:
- •Asking General and Special Questions
- •1. Make questions from these statements.
- •2. In your notebook, make ten questions from the box below, and give the answers.
- •3. Write the questions.
- •What is sociology?
- •Sociology
- •1. Look through the text and answer the following questions:
- •2. Complete the sentences below using words from the following list:
- •3. Use each of the following word combinations in sentences of your own:
- •4. Read and translate the following text. Some more facts about Sociology
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •What is Sociological Theory? Origins of Sociology.
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Match the words and phrases on the left with their definitions on the right and translate them.
- •1.Rewrite these sentences as questions or negatives, according to the instruction given.
- •2. Complete these sentences using can or could. If two answers arc possible, write them both.
- •3. Rewrite these sentences using may or might. Where two answers are possible, write them both:
- •4. Complete the telephone conversation using may {not) or might {not). Where two answers are possible, write them both.
- •5. Write the sentences, choosing one of the modals:
- •6. Complete the sentences with can, could, may, might, should or must in the positive or negative:
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Brain Teaser
- •2. Fill in suitable words:
- •3. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete the sentence below:
- •4. Read and translate the text. Learn the words and collocations in bold type. Family as a Social Phenomenon
- •5. Answer the questions:
- •6. Find in the text equivalents to the following words and word combinations.
- •7. Work with a partner. Ask him/her the following questions and make a note of his/her answers.
- •10. Say it in another way:
- •11. Use each of the following word combinations in sentences of your own:
- •12. Answer the following questions:
- •13. Translate the text into Russian:
- •1. Write these sentences, putting the verbs into the future simple.
- •2. Write the correct form of going to or will to complete the dialogue:
- •3. Complete these sentences with the correct tense (will or going to):
- •Methods and techniques of sociological research
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Fill in suitable words:
- •Find English equivalents in the text:
- •Which of the given words mean:
- •Read about the Department of Sociology at the Chicago University. Compare it with your own Sociology Department. Translate the text. The University of Chicago. The Department of Sociology
- •1.Write the sentences below using direct speech. Write each sentence twice, putting she said, he said, etc. Before and after the statement.
- •Indirect speech
- •2.Write these sentences in indirect speech, using the words given. Remember to change the pronouns where necessary.
- •3.Write these sentences in indirect speech, using the words given. Change the pronouns where necessary.
- •National stereotypes
- •Brazilians voted best tourists, germans worst
- •If your nationality is not mentioned In the four categories in the survey, do you think it should be?
- •Education The Clichés for Rendering a Newspaper Article
- •1. Summarize the text below, using the clichés.
- •Universities may be told to favour bad schools
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •3. Split up into four equal-sized groups (groups of two, groups of three or four), but work on your own. Read the text with these tasks in mind:
- •4. Read and summarize the text. Education
- •5. Summarize the text in 3 paragraphs using the given clichés. Education in Russia
- •1. Rewrite these sentences in the passive:
- •2. Complete these sentences in the passive using is, are, was or were and a word from the list.
- •3. Rewrite these sentences, putting the verbs in the passive:
- •Communication in crosscultural professional interaction
- •1. When speaking about different nations we use stereotyped definitions. Do you agree with the definitions given below? What definitions could you add? How could you define your nationality?
- •2. Have you personally noticed any differences in the way business people behave themselves in other countries? What nationalities do you tend to associate with the following characteristics?
- •3. Read the descriptions of some different social and business customs. Can you identify which nationality group they refer to? Match each description with one of these nationalities:
- •4. Read and translate the text. Boardroom Culture Clash
- •5. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •7. Comprehension check:
- •8. Vocabulary work
- •1. Write these sentences, putting the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the future simple.
- •2. The Sales Manager of the company is always very optimistic and expresses the conditions below as if they were all real possibilities. Follow this example.
- •3. The Finance Manager of the company is on the contrary a very cautious person and expresses the conditions with some doubt. Now follow this example.
- •4. Two managers are discussing whether or not to invest in more capital equipment. One is in favour of the idea, the other is against. Study their reasons and produce their arguments.
- •5. The Sales Manager of a company producing motor cars is writing a report to the Managing Director explaining the reasons why the first half of the year has been unhappy.
- •6. Group Discussion
- •Socio-Cultural Stereotypes
- •How to handle them
- •The Americans
- •7. Group Discussion
- •Negotiating Style
- •1. Strategies:
- •2. Attention to different stages of negotiating:
- •3. Direct vs indirect fact presentation:
- •8. Discuss negotiating styles of different nations in Chart 1, 2, 3. Where could you place your country? Personal Relationship
- •9. Group Discussion
- •What Can Help You to Overcome Problems of Separation in Crosscultural Interaction
- •10. Discuss:
- •Employment
- •1. Job Interview
- •Imagine you are the boss and are interviewing a candidate. Decide what characteristics you would like your employee to possess and those you would not.
- •3. Role play: Work in pairs or small groups. Practice asking and answering different interview questions in one-on-one / panel interviews.
- •4. Task: Imagine that a friend of yours is about to attend an interview. Note down at least ten pieces of advice that you would give to them.
- •5. Saying 'no'
- •Your language english
- •6. Saying 'yes'
- •6. Is next Thursday suitable for our next meeting? a. Yes, I think so.
- •Active listening
- •7. Curriculum Vitae (gb) / Resume (usa)
- •1. Write these sentences, putting the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •2. Circle the correct answer to the questions below:
- •Management styles
- •1. The same or different?
- •2. Discuss
- •She is the Boss
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •3. Match the words and phrases on the left with their definitions on the right and translate them:
- •4. Comprehension check
- •5. Vocabulary work
- •6. Discuss
- •8. Discuss
- •Economic issues. An uncertain future
- •1. Compare your views with your groupmates and those expressed in the article, The Death of Economics. Read and translate it. The Death of Economics
- •2. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •3. Match the words and phrases on the left with their definitions on the right
- •4. Comprehension Check
- •Vocabulary work
- •5. Discuss
- •6. Role Play
- •Social responsibility of business
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •3. Find words or phrases in the text which mean the same as the following:
- •4. Comprehension check
- •5. Vocabulary work
- •Verbs nouns
- •Is Big Business Antagonistic to Nature? (Environmental Ethics)
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Look back at the text. Find the words and expressions which mean:
- •4. Comprehension check
- •Vocabulary work
- •Business Word-Combinations
- •5. Discuss:
- •International Business and Professional Ethics
- •Culture and society
- •Cultural Relativism
- •Social structure Social Structure is All Around You
- •Experiment: Adopting Statuses in a Simulated Prison
- •Population
- •Before reading the text, can you tell why are sociologists interested in demographic data?
- •Look up the following words in the dictionary to make sure the meaning is clear to you and you know how to pronounce them correctly:
Vocabulary work
a) In his book, The Ecology of Commerce, Paul Hawken outlines practical ways in which we might work our way back towards a sustainable economy. Complete the checklist below by selecting from the lists of words:
technology resources consumption hemisphere
Reduce (1) ..........of energy and natural (2) in the northern (3)..........by 75 % . This is not as difficult as it sounds. We already have the (4)..........to make things last twice as long with half the resources.
war inequality employment security
Provide secure (5)..........for the whole populace. A sustainable economy without job (6)..........would only lead to social (7).......... and civil (8)..........quality nature goods dynamics. Honour market principles. Since you cannot change the (9) .......... of the market, you have to operate within it. Taxing morality by charging higher prices for environmentally-friendly (10) ...... doesn't work. It is basic human (11)..........to shop around for the cheapest goods of comparable (12)...........
earth systems restoration programme
Extensive (13)..........will be needed as it is simply too late to sustain what we have. As part of our overall economic (14)..........we shall need to redesign all industrial, residential and transport (15) ..........so that everything we use comes from the (16) ..........and returns to it.
acts circumstances society users
Governments alone cannot create a sustainable (17)........... Everything largely depends on the daily (18)..........of billions of ordinary people. Humans are not naturally wasteful and predatory, but intelligent (19).......... who adapt to fit in with their (20)...........In a sustainable culture people would naturally conserve.
b) Find in the article word-combinations with these lexical units, translate them into Russian and learn 10 of them:
Business Word-Combinations
1. environmental 2. solid 3. global 4. private 5. big 6. world 7. eco- 8. global 9. ecological |
10. practical 11. track 12. antiquated 13. financial 14. corporate 15. insider 16. commercial 17. environmental 18. global |
c) Choose one noun to form a frequent word-combination with all the verbs in each example. Give their translation and English equivalents.
resources, the environment, a promise, an issue, power, a goal, pollution, a policy
1. protect / harm / threaten
2. control / create / cut
3. develop / exploit / tap
4. address / face / settle
5. make / break / keep
6. adopt / implement / abandon
7. set / achieve / reach exercise / wield / seize
5. Discuss:
What do you know about the following?
Chernobyl
The Union Carbide Company
The Exxon Valdez
Work in two groups. One group should make a list of the ways in which business inevitably harms the environment. The other should make the list of the measures that might be taken to restore the balance. Compare your lists.
How environmentally sound is your country? What environmental problems does your country face? What are their causes? How do you think they could be resolved?
Does Hawken's blueprint for a better planet strike you as plausible or idealistic? Where would the motivation come from for the business community to change its attitude to ecology and commerce?
POINT OF GRAMMAR
a) Form teams of 3 people. This activity is designed to help yon use modal verbs more effectively, which show your attitude to events (must, may, might, will, would, can, could, shall, should, have to, need, etc). They are essential when yon want to express doubt, certainty, degrees of ability and feasibility; they are also useful when yon want to give advice or make suggestions.
You have just 10 minutes to solve as many of the language problems as you can. At the end of the project you will be asked to report your findings.
1. In which of the following is spending more money an option?
We mustn't spend any more money on this. We don't have to spend any more money on this. Which of the two sentences means almost the same as. «We don't need to spend any more money on this?»
2. Which of the following is more likely to be my opinion?
We must cut down on waste.
We have to cut down on waste.
Which of the two sentences above could mean:
They've told us to cut down on waste!
3. In which of the following are you sure I finished the report?
I didn't need to finish the report today. I needn't have finished the report today.
4. Which of the following is more diplomatic?
That isn't enough.
That wouldn't be enough.
5. What is the opposite of,
That can't be right!
That can be right. That must be right.
6. What is the opposite of,
We should have known what would happen!
We shouldn't have known what would happen. We couldn't have known what would happen.
7. Which of the following seems more certain?
We could do it if we tried.
We might be able to do it if we tried.
8. Which of the following seems more certain?
If he calls, tell him I'm out.
If he should call, tell him I'm out.
9. Do either or both the following refer to future time?
You could ask her but she won't know yet. You could ask her but she won't help you.
b) Now match up the sentences on the left with their equivalents on the right.
1) It's necessary to take action. a) We should take action
2) It’s not necessary to take action b) We could've taken action, action.
3) It would be a good idea c) We should've taken action, to take action.
4) It's not possible for us d) We must take action, to take action.
5) It's possible we will e) We needn't have taken action, take action.
6) It would have been a good f) We can't take action, idea to take action.
7) It wasn't a good idea to take g) We didn't need to take action, action, but we did.
8) It was possible for us h) We may take action, to take action but we didn't.
9) It wasn't necessary to take action i) We shouldn't've taken action, action, so we didn't.
10) It wasn't necessary to take action but we did j) We don't have to take action.
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Have you ever been in the position at work where you should have taken some kind of action but didn't? Or where you needn't have taken the action you did?