- •Сидоренко с.І. Посібник з практичного курсу англійської мови
- •Contents
- •Bringing up children
- •1.Read the following text and find answers to the following questions:
- •Explain the meaning of the following words and word combinations used in the text:
- •3. Do you agree with all ideas expressed in the text? Discuss the following:
- •4. Read the following text and draw a diagram showing development of perceptual, emotional, intellectual and behavioral capabilities in childhood.
- •5. Act as psychologists and on the basis of your diagrams and the information from the text give advice to parents as to what they should focus on in different years of their child’s development.
- •6. Why is it important to teach children responsibility? Here are some recommendations aimed at teaching responsibility. Do you think they may be effective? Add your own recommendations to the list.
- •7. Read the following text to find out about the role adults, especially parents, play in bringing up children:
- •8. Give arguments to support the following:
- •10. Problem page
- •11. Who or what spoils children? Read the following ideas about what child can be called spoilt and express your attitide:
- •12. Parents and teachers today are concerned about children’s growing aggressiveness, particularly visible in teenagers. Read the following passage to find out more about the problem.
- •In your opinion, are the factors leading to youth crime in Ukraine the same as in the usa?
- •13. Role play
- •14. Discussion club “children and school”
- •15. Group work. In groups of three or four consider the following statements, decide whether you agree with them or not and write your arguments for or against:
- •16. Make oral or written commentaries on the following quotations:
- •The united states of america
- •How much do you know about the United States of America? Can you answer the following questions?
- •Study the following information about the country and be ready to speak about its general characteristics:
- •Do you know that
- •Design a tourist brochure featuring some major cities of the United States. Use the information given below. Present your brochures to your group-mates in class.
- •Check yourself. What do you know about:
- •Read the following outline of us early history. Single out the main events.
- •Put the following historic events in chronological order and supply them with dates:
- •10. Check your knowledge:
- •Holidays in the usa
- •Independence Day (July 4)
- •Travel agency
- •Usa quiz
- •Ukraine
- •1. How well do you know the geography of your country? Supply the information missing in the following text about Ukraine.
- •2. Read the following information about Ukraine from a brochure for foreigners.
- •3. Kyiv
- •Read about some other Ukrainian cities and find answers to the questions which follow.
- •5. Culture of ukraine
- •Imagine that you are to write a chapter on Ukrainian culture for a book of world cultures. Discuss the conception of the chapter. Write the outline.
- •6. Project work
- •7. History of ukraine
- •Inernational status
- •IV. Painting
- •To start thinking on the topic answer the following questions for yourself and then discuss your answers with other students. Find out about their ideas and opinions.
- •Read the following outline of the history of Western painting. Find out about the dominant artistic schools and prominent artists.
- •Landmarks of western painting
- •Learn the following vocabulary and use it in your descriptions of paintings:
- •Impression
- •English landscape painting of the early 19th century
- •Great english portraitists
- •Impressionism
- •Comment on one of the following:
- •Write a description of your favourite painting.
- •Check yourself
- •Crossword “art”
- •V. Music
- •1.To start thinking about the topic, discuss the following questions:
- •2. Read the following passage about the art of music and complete the sentences given below:
- •3. Read the following passage about Modest Mussorgsky and choose the best endings for the sentences which follow:
- •4. Have you ever been to an opera house? What did you see? What was your impression?
- •5.Interview your group-mates to find out:
- •9. Here is an article from The Daily Telegraph featuring Madonna’s arrival for the premiere of her new film in London. What do you learn from it about the singer?
- •If you were a reporter going to interview Madonna, which five questions would you ask her?
- •11. Listening comprehension
- •Discuss in pairs some of the following opinions:
- •Get ready for a discussion “Ukrainian rock and pop music”.
- •VI. Man and nature
- •Read the following passage and speak about the state of the environment in Ukraine:
- •2. Study the following materials on different types of pollution and fill in the table which follows.
- •4. Read the following texts to find answers to the questions which precede them:
- •5. Role play
- •6. Can you explain why the consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe which happened in 1986 remain a burning ecological issue for Ukrainian nation? Read the article below to find more arguments:
- •10. Conference “earth in the 21 century”
- •VII. Higher education. Teacher training
- •Recall the main aspects of the secondary education in Great Britain. Check whether you remember:
- •2. Study the following text about higher education in Great Britain. Higher Education in Great Britain
- •7. Read what Vicky Smith, a 4-year chemistry student of Oxford University, recalls about her entering the university and her present impressions and plans.
- •Developing Skills
- •Outside of College
- •9. Paying for education is a problem. Read the following information to find out how Oxford University tries to help students cope with financial problems.
- •Is Oxford Expensive?
- •If a British student can not pay the tuition fee out of his own or his family income, where can he get the sum he needs?
- •10. Study the following overview of the us university system and make conclusions about specific features of higher education in the usa. Draw parallels with Great Britain and Ukraine.
- •University Organization
- •Read the following text to learn more about the organization of teacher education. Teacher education
- •List of the sources used
Landmarks of western painting
School (trend), epoch |
Representatives |
Specific features |
Florentine, Renaissance (classic) |
Leonardo da Vinci |
Close examination of the natural world, investigation of balance, harmony, and perspective, linking painting to the developing sciences of anatomy and optics. Desire to achieve harmony and balance. Creates a composition that is at once ordered and free, calm and full of movement, simple and varied (“Adoration of the Magi”) |
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Introduced the pyramidal composition that was to become a hallmark of the High Renaissance. Use of light and shade as a unifying compositional factor (“The Virgin of the Rocks”) Achieved a new synthesis between rational composition of the first half of the 15th century and movement and emotion of the second half of the 15th century (“The Last Supper”) Revolutionized portrait painting (“Mona Lisa”) |
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Find reproductions of pictures by greatest European artists and comment on the manner of painting using the information you have got from the text.
Learn the following vocabulary and use it in your descriptions of paintings:
Artists and their art
a fashionable / self-taught / mature / amateur / remarkable artist
a portrait / landscape / marine painter
the old (Italian, Dutch, Flemish, etc.) masters
to paint from nature / memory / imagination
to paint mythological / historical subjects, scenes of everyday life
to specialize in portraiture / landscape
to portray / depict people / emotions / the mood of the sitter with moving sincerity / good knowledge of the subject / restraint
to render / interpret the personality of…
to reveal the person's nature
to capture the sitter's vitality / transient expression / mood / character
to develop one's own style in painting
to conform to the taste of the period
to break with the tradition
to be in advance of one's time
to reject conventions
decorative art
Fine Arts
art critic / connoisseur of art
a representative of realistic school of painting / classic school / Romanticism / Impressionism
to stand on the threshold of…
to paint in allegorical style
to have a lasting effect on…
to anticipate
to be remarkable for…
Types of pictures
an oil painting
a water-colour / pastel picture
a sketch / a study
a family group / ceremonial / intimate portrait
a self-portrait
a shoulder-length / full-length / half-length portrait
a landscape
a seascape / marine picture
a genre painting
a historical painting
a flower piece
a still life
a battle piece
an engraving
an etching
a rural / industrial landscape
a street scene
an interior
graphic art
a caricature
a mural
Composition
in the foreground / background
in the top / bottom / left-hand corner
to be set against the background of…
to arrange symmetrically / assymetrically / in a pyramid format
to define more sharply
to emphasize contours
to be almost invisible
to merge into single entity / whole
to blend with the landscape
to be represented standing / sitting / lying / talking / going about one's daily duties
to be posed against an open sky / a classic pillar / drapery
the subject of the picture
to be done in perspective / out of perspective
to show a fine command of perspective
life-like
the picture vividly portrays / conveys…
the artist employs an unconventional composition of…
the artist communicates to the viewer…
to create a movement leading toward…
Colour scheme. Light and shade effects.
a great colourist
to have a superb sense of colour
palette
colour scheme where dark colours predominate
opposition of light and shade
tone / hue
blues, greens, reds, etc.
bluish, yellowish, greenish, etc. tones
subtle / vague / subdued / calm / cool / restful / soft / delicate / transparent / dull / agitated / oppressive / bright / gaudy / garish / harsh colours
the delicacy of tones may be lost in a reproduction
to combine form and colour into harmonious unity
muted in colour
bright / low-keyed colour scheme
colouring
to be executed mostly in…colours
numerous shades of…prevail in…
colours shade slowly into each other
paints thrown next to each other irreverently
Technique
a canvas
rippling / silky / flat / thin / thick / deep / smooth / rough surface
painter's exceptional skill
a brush
a brush stroke
delicate / rough brushwork
texture
brushwork is almost invisible / stands out / is apparent
medium
by using such technique the artist manages to achieve …
the technique contributes to the effect of… / emphasizes…
the movements of nature / the details of the scenery / the household articles are painted with tremendous skill / great inspiration / thoroughly / convincingly