- •В.В.Ганишева Учебно-методические материалы по темам «Колледж», «Домашнее хозяйство», «Пища».
- •College Life
- •What to Expect
- •Vocabulary and oral practice
- •I. Study the following word combinations and phrases. Recall the episodes with them.
- •II. Explain what the following words mean (use your e-e dictionaries). Say what context these words are used in. Use them in situations of your own.
- •III. Paraphrase using new words and word combinations.
- •IV. Give extended answers to the given questions.
- •Freshman Fears
- •Vocabulary and oral practice
- •I. Study the following word combinations and phrases. Translate them. Recall the episodes with them.
- •II. Give synonyms to the following words.
- •III. What do you call
- •IV. Paraphrase using your active vocabulary.
- •V. Give well-motivated answers to the suggested questions.
- •VI. Get ready for a round table talk. Divide into groups: freshers, senior students and teachers.
- •Parental Relationships – a Guide for Incoming Freshmen
- •II. Group words close in meaning. Find their antonyms.
- •III. Read and learn the definition of the italicized words. Translate them.
- •IV. Render the text into English.
- •V. Expand the following ideas and advice. Provide your versions of the italicized words and expressions.
- •VI. Translate. Provide versions.
- •VII. Discuss the below-given topics.
- •VIII. Tell about your University, what you like and dislike about it. Use recommended vocabulary:
- •Iх. Speak on the following situations.
- •X. It is important to understand. You’re Worth It.
- •Vocabulary:
- •XI. Comment on the following statement.
- •XII. Comment on the following statement.
- •Household chores
- •Weekly Cleaning Chores
- •I. Find in the text the English equivalents of the following word combinations:
- •II. Translate the following sentences into Russian.
- •III. Translate into English:
- •I’m not the Maid
- •I. Match the variants.
- •V. Discussion points.
- •How to get your husband to help at home.
- •I. Transcribe and translate the following:
- •II. What do we call:
- •III. Guess the words from the explanations given.
- •IV. Translate the given word combinations, recall the episodes with them.
- •V. Support or deny the given statements.
- •VI. Ask your partner:
- •VII. Comment on the given replies. Recall the context they were mentioned in.
- •VIII. Role-play the following topics.
- •Household Chores: The Do’s and Don’ts of Involving Your Child
- •I. Comment on the given sentences. In what context were they used?
- •II. Match the variants.
- •III. A Role-play.
- •I. Find synonyms to the given words from the list on the right.
- •II. Render the following sentences into English.
- •III. Paraphrase.
- •IV. Answer the following letter. What would you advise the couple?
- •V. Elaborate the given sentences using your active vocabulary.
- •VI. Translate into English.
- •It’s useful to remember:
- •VII. Highlight the meaning of the English proverbs and use them in the situations of your own.
- •One man`s opinion
- •I. Find in the text the English equivalents for:
- •II. Explain what the following mean.
- •The three fat women of antibes Somerset Maugham
- •II. Make up sentences not related to the topic «Meals» with the given word-combinations.
- •The joys of tasting
- •I. Find in the text the English equivalents for the following word-combinations:
- •II. Paraphrase using the expressions from the text.
- •III. Translate the following into Russian:
- •In search of english food
- •Dieting
- •I. Supply synonyms for the following:
- •II. Translate:
- •III. Taking turns with your partner cover each of the columns and encourage each other to provide translation for the given words.
- •Russian Man’s Meat
- •I. Find in the text the English equivalents for:
- •II. Explain what the following mean:
- •Как приятно выпить чашечку чая
- •In the restaurant
II. Group words close in meaning. Find their antonyms.
to cut lectures to pore over smth.
to idle away one’s time to have smth. at one’s fingertips
to ace an exam to miss classes
to work by oneself to fall behind with
to stay away from classes to beaver away on/at
to work independently to get better
to be a person of many interests to scrape through exam
to know everything there is to know about to lag behind
to breeze through an exam to put a lot of effort into
to loaf away one’s time to work on his own
to be a multiple personality to catch up with
to flunk an exam to sail through an exam
to be ahead of the group to make progress
to pass an exam with flying colours to twiddle thumbs
to get /to come in/ nowhere to work tooth and nail
to know smth. backwards and forwards to bomb an exam
to work heart and soul to play truant from classes
to work by fits and starts to do well in smth.
to burn the midnight oil to let one’s studies slide
Rephrase using the expressions above.
1. He is really smart and is always at the top of the list of the best students.
2. Pam used to lag behind with her English but after she’d worked a bit by herself her English seems to have got better.
3. If you cram everything before the very exam you’re sure to fail it.
4. Working by fits and starts as you do there is no way for you to get through exams.
5. May aced an exam in Psychology because she’d been working really hard on it all through the year.
6. Even if it seems you know everything there is to know about the subject reviewing might be really useful.
7. No wonder you bombed the exam in Phonetics. I had seen you thousand times fooling around instead of closely attending to your studies.
8. He is an active member of the students learned society and often pores over his report till late at night.
9. She has no aptitude for languages but if she tries really hard she might achieve good results.
III. Read and learn the definition of the italicized words. Translate them.
Before an exam you can revise or cram for it. If the exam happens every year, you can look at past papers. Some things can be memorized or learnt off by heart. But rote-learning is not sufficient for most subjects. It is also possible to use mnemonics. But tricks alone are not enough, and the best idea is to burry yourself in your books until you know the subject inside and out.
When preparing an essay, it’s a good idea to start with a mind-map. Always write a first draft before writing up the final version. Your essay should be all your own work; plagiarism is a very serious offence in most colleges and universities. There is usually a deadline. After the essay is submitted, it will be assessed and usually you can get feedback.
study intensively for a short time
exam papers from previous years
learning purely by repetition
tricks that help you to remember
spend the maximum time studying
know it completely
diagram that lays out some ideas for the topic and how they are connected to one another
first, rough version
using other people’s work as if it was yours
10. date by which you must hand in the work
11. evaluated and given a grade comments from the teacher/tutor
Rewrite this short text using words and phrases from the previous text instead of the italicized words.
When I am preparing intensively for an exam, I don’t see any point in looking up exam papers from previous years, nor is there any point in just learning things by memory. I know some people develop very clear memory tricks to help them remember the material, but there is no real substitute for re-reading and going over the term’s work. It’s a good idea to have some sort of diagram to organize your ideas, and memory learning is useful, but in a limited way. At the end of the day, you just have to read a huge amount until you feel you know the subject 100 percent.
Answer the questions.
1. What do we call the first attempt at writing something?
2. What word means “the date by which you must do something”?
3. What are more formal words for “hand in” and “to mark”?
4. What do we say when we know something very well?
5. What do we say when we have to study a lot?