- •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
V. Music
Topical vocabulary
Musical genres (styles): classical music (instrumental, vocal, chamber, symphony), opera, operetta, musical, ballet, blues, ragtime, jazz, spirituals, pop, rock, country music, electronic music, background music, rap music
Musical forms: piece, movement, sonata, aria, fantasy, suite, rapsody, concerto, solo, duet, trio, quartet, chorus, fugue, etude, prelude, cantata
Musical rhythms: polka, waltz, march, blues, ragtime, jazz, swing, sambo, disco, rock, rap
Musical instruments: (string group) violin, viola, double-bass, cello; (woodwind group) clarinet, flute, bassoon, oboe; (brass group) French horn, tuba, bugle, trombone, trumpet; (percussion group) drums, xylophone, harp, cymbals; piano, accordion, guitar, saxophone, organ, clavecin, synthesizer(sequencer)
Music makers: composer, conductor, musician, soloist, virtuoso, group, band, orchestra, choir, arranger, back vocalist
Music making: to compose, to write, to arrange, to make, to record, to perform music, to improvise, to interpret, to accompany, remake
Musical equipment: tape-recorder, VCR, tuner, CD-player, amplifier, player, equalizer, deck, speakers, hi-fi system, microphone
Musical events: concert, recital, jam session, gig, rehearsal, festival, competition, show
Miscellany: major, minor, video-clip, score, sound track, album, single, hit (parade), potpourri, to lip-sync
1.To start thinking about the topic, discuss the following questions:
Does music play an important role in our life? What kind of role is it?
Why do you think people have always felt the need for music? What do you know about the place music occupied in different historic epochs?
What music do you like listening to? Who are your favourite composers, singers, musicians?
What is your attitude to classical music? Do you think it will ever die out? Why?
Do you think music can have negative effect on people?
2. Read the following passage about the art of music and complete the sentences given below:
Music is an art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony.
Both the simple folk song and the complex electronic composition belong to the same activity, music. Both are humanly engineered; both are conceptual and auditory, and these factors have been present in music of all styles and in all periods of history, Eastern and Western.
Music is an art that permeates every human society. Modern music is heard in a great variety of styles, many of them contemporary, others having their roots in past eras.
Music is a flexible art; it easily combines with words, as in song, and with physical movement, as in dance. Throughout history, music has been an important element of ritual and drama and has been valued for its capacity to reflect and influence human emotion.
Music is successfully used in psychotherapy, geriatrics, and advertising, which testifies to its power to affect human behaviour. Publications and recordings have effectively internationalized music.
Beyond all this, the teaching of music in primary and secondary schools has now attained virtually worldwide acceptance.
But the prevalence of music is nothing new, and its human importance has often been acknowledged. What seems curious is that, despite the universality of the art, no one until recent times has argued for its necessity. The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus denied any fundamental need for music: "For it was not necessity that separated it off, but it arose from the existing superfluity." The view that music and the other arts are mere graces is still widespread, although the growth of psychological understanding of play and other symbolic activities has begun to weaken this long-standing belief.
Music is an art…
All kinds and genres of music have common essential features which include…
Modern music presents…
Music easily combines with…
Throughout history, music…
The power of music to influence human behaviour can be proved by…
What seems curious is that…
The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus…
A widespread view on music is that…
Explain and comment on the following lines from the passage:
Music is an art that permeates every human society.
Publications and recordings have effectively internationalized music.
The view that music and the other arts are mere graces is still widespread.
What is your opinion of the Greek philosopher Democritus' words about music?