- •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
Discuss in pairs some of the following opinions:
It is not difficult to become a pop star today
Video clips made a revolution in pop music
What is considered to be advanced in music today may become commonplace tomorrow
Money rules the world of pop music nowadays
Really professional singers always sing live
You can’t draw hard and fast lines between classical and pop music
Get ready for a discussion “Ukrainian rock and pop music”.
Participants:
a music critic;
a producer of some pop star;
a soloist of Ukrainian National Opera;
a presenter of TV music show;
a newspaper reporter;
a popular composer;
a poet;
fans.
Think your roles over carefully, find and study relevant information from newspapers, magazines, TV, etc. to decide which issues you would like to discuss with other participants. During the discussion try to define what the Ukrainian rock and pop music is, whether it has something which makes it specific, predict its further development.
VI. Man and nature
Topical vocabulary
Natural resources and attractions: minerals, (fresh) water-supplies, floods, rainfalls, vegetation, greenery, woodland, forestry, wildlife, flora and fauna, arable land (soil), cultivated land, open land, “green belts”, recreation areas, coastal areas, national parks, wildlife reserves, public open spaces
Environment and man: to link man to nature, to adapt to environment, to be preoccupied with economic growth, unrestricted industrialization, the sprawl of large-built areas, to upset the biological balance, industrial zoning, to abuse nature, to litter the landscape, ecosystem, to be environment-conscious, to be environment-educated
Environmental problems: land pollution, industrial wastes, the by-products of massive industrialization, to dump waste materials on land, extensive use of agrochemicals, the denudation of soil, the toxic fall-outs of materials, desertification, deforestation, water pollution, dropping water level, to face the fresh water-supply problem, depletion of water resources, the disruption of water cycle, marine pollution, oil spillage, destruction of aquatic ecosystems, air (atmospheric) pollution, the air pollution index, to produce foul air, to exhaust toxic gases (fuel), combustion of fuel, concentration of smoke, carbon dioxide in the air, radioactive pollution, high (low) radioactivity, radioactive contamination, to store (disperse) radioactive wastes, noise offenders, merciless killing of animals, destruction of animal habitats, global environmental problems, acid rains, ozone holes, “greenhouse” effect, global climatic changes
Nature conservation and environment protection: global environmental security, to preserve ecosystems, to create disaster-prevention programs, to harmonize industry and environment, conservation movement, to preserve woodlands, to protect and reproduce animal (fish, bird) reserves, to fight pollution, to install anti-pollution equipment, to minimize noise disturbance, to reduce pollution, to dispose garbage (litter, wastes) in designated areas, to improve sewage works, to use alternative types of energy, to protect endangered species
Use a dictionary to check the meaning of the words and phrases you do not know.
Practise the topical vocabulary in answers to the following questions:
Why do you think the problem of environmental protection has come into the focus of public attention recently?
Why were people not concerned with environmental problems in the 19th century?
Why is clean and safe environment vital for humanity?
What are the main environmental problems humanity faces today?
What caused these problems?
What are the negative consequences of uncontrolled human activity?
What do you know about ozone holes, acid rains, “greenhouse” effect, deforestation? Why do these problems worry mankind today? Why are they called global?
What is done and can be done to protect nature?