
- •Contents
- •Part 1: My Academy ………………………………………………………………….38 Part 2: Higher Education in the usa.……………………….......................................56
- •Предисловие
- •Chapter 3 lifestyles around the world Part 1: Lifestyles and the Good Life
- •5. Think of constituents of a lifestyle and fill in the spider graph below. Share your ideas with the class. Constituents of the lifestyle
- •6. Summarize your understanding of the lifestyle concept in writing (60 words).
- •Before you read
- •1. Making predictions. What do you think you will read about in the text “What’s the “good life” to you?” Write down three predictions:
- •2. Read the text to compare American ideas of good life with yours expressed in pre-reading exercise. How different are they? Discuss the differences with your partner. What’s the “Good Life” to You?
- •9. Scan the text to find out what Americans consider the “good life” and how many of them think so. Fill in the chart below. The first one has been done for you.
- •10. Ask questions to these answers. Do it taking turns round the class.
- •Language Focus
- •1. Give English equivalents of the words and word partnerships used in the text.
- •2. Match the definitions on the left with the words used in the text on the right.
- •3. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words in a proper form from the list below.
- •5. Make new words by adding suffixes or prefixes to the italicized words. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •6. Translate from English into Russian.
- •Comprehension / Interpretation
- •Language Functions Ways of asking for reasons and giving reasons
- •Respond to the following questions in a neutral style.
- •Respond to the following questions in an informal style.
- •Say which job you would prefer and why:
- •Develop the conversation giving sane reasons for this or that decision.
- •Find out about your groupmates’ and other people’s occupation. Use the following dialogues as models.
- •Discussing the lecture. Discuss the following questions about the interview and your own experience. Refer to your notes as necessary. Use the new vocabulary as you talk.
- •Part 2: Healthy hobbies
- •Before you read
- •Healthy hobbies
- •Language Focus
- •1. Give English equivalents of the words and word partnerships used in the text.
- •2. Match the definitions on the left with the words used in the text on the right.
- •3. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words in a proper form from the list below.
- •4. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •5. Make new words by adding suffixes or prefixes to the italicized words. Translate the sentences into Russian. -tion/-al/-ed/
- •-Less/-ly
- •Self-/-ed/-able/-ly/-ility
- •-Ed/-ment
- •6. Translate from English into Russian.
- •7. This text was translated by a computer. Read the translation and correct the mistakes. What is the main idea of the text?
- •8. Match each hobby (a –k) with the benefits people get from it (1 – 11). More than one answer is possible.
- •9. Organize the following words by putting them in the correct column.
- •10. Match the words and phrases in column a with those in column b. Tick the phrases that apply to you.
- •11. Tell about your hobby/your friend’s/your parent’s. Say what you’ve gained from it. The words in the box can help you.
- •Language Functions Agreeing and disagreeing
- •Exercises
- •2. Read the following illustrative examples of expressing agreement and disagreement.
- •3. Express your agreement or disagreement with someone’s view.
- •4. Make any statements you like. Someone will either agree or disagree with you.
- •5. Agree or disagree with the following statements.
- •6. Express partial agreement with the following statements.
- •7. Discuss the situation with your partner(s) and decide on the proper level of formality. You can use the suggested expressions if you want to.
- •In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring. Have a chat about the topics you liked.
- •Longevity: What helps most? Rank these and share your rankings with your partner. Put the most helpful at the top. Change partners and share your rankings again.
- •True / false: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (t) or false (f).
- •4. Synonym match: Match the following synonyms from the article.
- •5. Phrase match: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
- •6. Gap fill: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
- •7. Word search: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘long’ and ‘life’. Share your findings with your partners.
- •8. Test each other: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:
- •9. Answer the questions.
- •Living without a tv
- •Read the article again. Then cover it and in pairs answer the questions from memory.
- •3. You are going to write a similar article about mobile phones. First, with a partner, make a list of advantages and disadvantages.
- •Chapter 4 education Part 1: My Academy
- •State (n.) – государство, штат; state (adj.) – государственный
- •Before you read
- •My academy
- •Comprehension / Interpretation
- •1. All students study full-time.
- •Language focus
- •Give English equivalents of the words and word partnerships used in the text.
- •Identify the word by its meaning. Make your own sentences with these words.
- •3. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words in a proper form from the list below.
- •5. Make new words by adding suffixes or prefixes to the italicized words. Translate into Russian.
- •6. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Language functions Opinions
- •Ways of asking for opinion and expressing opinion
- •Approval and disapproval
- •Ways of expressing approval and disapproval
- •Exercises
- •1. Read the dialogues in parts, pay attention how people express their opinion, approval and disapproval. Then learn one of them and reproduce it with other students in class.
- •2. Compile the sentences:
- •3. Ask someone's opinion on the following, using proper names. The person asked then replies.
- •4. Express your opinion on the questions discussed in an informal style.
- •5. Argue the following statements. Say whether they have a positive or negative connotation.
- •6. Reveal your attitude to the problems discussed.
- •Make short conversations in the following situations:
- •1. Prelistening Questions. Discuss these questions with your classmates.
- •2. Vocabulary Preview. These sentences contain expressions from the conversation. Use the context to match the underlined words and expressions with their definitions.
- •Now listen to the conversation again. Some of the stressed words are missing. During each pause, repeat the phrase or sentence; then fill in the missing stressed words.
- •2. Prepare good reading of the dialogue.
- •1. Vocabulary Review. Discuss your answers to the following questions with a partner. Use the underlined vocabulary from Activity 2 (Vocabulary Preview) in your answers.
- •In groups, each choose one different topic from the list below. Decide if you agree or disagree, and write down at least three reasons.
- •Part 2: Higher Education in the usa
- •Tuition fee (n.) – плата за обучение
- •Before you read
- •Higher Education in the usa
- •Comprehension / Interpretation
- •Language focus
- •1. Give English equivalents of the words and word partnerships used in the text.
- •2. Identify the word by its meaning. Make your own sentences with these words.
- •3. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words in a proper form from the list below.
- •5. Make new words by adding suffixes or prefixes to the italicized words. Translate into Russian.
- •6. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •7. Explain how you understand these proverbs.
- •11. Writing
- •Saluton. Kiel VI fartas?
- •Want to improve your memory
- •B. From prompts to sentences
- •D. Plan your paragraphs
- •E. Homework
- •Windsor College Summer Courses in English
- •Language functions How to express your emotions
- •Ways of expressing pleasure / joy and displeasure
- •Ways of expressing excitement and disappointment
- •Ways of showing irritation, anger and sympathy
- •Ways of saying you are bored and ways of expressing surprise
- •Exercises
- •2. Read the dialogues in pairs and state what emotions are expressed in the situations described and how other people react to them.
- •3. Express pleasure, delight or enthusiasm in the following situations. Let another student respond.
- •4. Make up short situations, using one item from each column.
- •5. What would you say in the following situations? Address your remark to a fellow-student, who tries to reassure you.
- •6. Choose a situation from those given in exercise 5 to express your irritation and anger.
- •7. Express your disappointment in the following situations.
- •8. Read the illustrative dialogues in pairs, noting how different degrees of surprise can be expressed more or less formally. Then learn the dialogues and reproduce them with another student in class.
- •9. Respond with surprise to the following statements.
- •10. Read the following statements and let another student respond to them with sympathy.
- •11. Make short conversations in the following situations:
- •Using the Introduction to Predict Lecture Content
- •Taking Notes on the Introduction
- •Three Keys to Writing Effective Lecture Notes
- •Identifying the Three Keys to Taking Effective Lecture Notes
- •2. Situation
- •3. Discussion Questions
- •4. Role-Play
- •Appendixes
- •I. Writing an Essay. Discursive Essays (Дискуссионные сочинения) Тип сочинения и примерный план
- •Useful Language (For and Against Essay)
- •Useful Language (Opinion Essay)
- •Образец эссе с аргументацией «за» и «против»
- •Образец эссе с элементами рассуждения по теме
- •II. Additional Material to the Chapter Education.
- •III. Supplementary reading Books. Reading.
- •Exercises
- •Give English equivalents of the words and word partnerships used in the text and included in the list of words before the text.
- •2. Read the short descriptions (a –k) of literary works of different genres. Match the description to the type of literary work (1 – 10).
- •3. Match the words from the two boxes. Make up your own sentences with word partnerships.
- •4. Make new words by adding suffixes or prefixes to the italicized words. Translate the sentences.
- •-Ful / -less / -ly
- •5. Read, guess the name of a person described, and translate the texts below.
- •6. Read one of the most popular poem by Robert Burns My Heart’s in the Highlands first in the original and then in translation. Learn it by heart.
- •7. Translate the following sentences into English
- •8. Speak about your favorite author or a book. Use some useful expressions given at the beginning of the chapter.
- •Sources
Contents
Предисловие…………………………………………………………………………. 4
CHAPTER 3 LIFESTYLES AROUND THE WORLD
Part 1: Lifestyles and the Good Life …………………………………………………. 5
Part 2: Healthy Hobbies ……………………………………………………………...20
CHAPTER 4 EDUCATION
Part 1: My Academy ………………………………………………………………….38 Part 2: Higher Education in the usa.……………………….......................................56
APPENDIXES………………………………………………………………………...80
I. Writing an Essay……………………………………………………………………80
II. Additional Material to the Chapter Education………………………………..........86
III. Supplementary Reading …………………………………………………………..87
SOURCES.................................................................................................................. 100
Предисловие
Настоящее учебное пособие предназначено для бакалаврантов 1-го курса направления «Экономика» 080100.62, профиль «БУАиФА», «МЭ»; направления «Торговое дело» 100700.62, профиль «ММа», «МКД»; направления «Менеджмент» 080200.62, профиль «ММ», «МТГХ», «Логистика»; направления «Реклама и связи с общественностью» 031600.62, профиль «РиСО в коммерческой сфере», «РиСО в политике», направления «Таможенное дело» 036400.65. Пособие может быть использовано как для аудиторной, так и для самостоятельной работы студентов.
Данное пособие представляет собой вторую часть сборника “Getting on in English”. Цель пособия – активизировать знания лексического материала и отработать лексические и коммуникативные навыки. Пособие основано на ситуативно-коммуникативном, тематическом и социолингвистическом принципах.
Пособие имеет чёткую структуру и состоит из двух глав. Каждая глава включает в себя две части, которые состоят из учебного словаря, текста для чтения и обсуждения, лексических упражнений, речевых упражнений, заданий для аудирования и говорения, заданий для развития навыков письменной речи.
Тексты пособия предназначены для развития навыков изучающего чтения и включают программный лексико-грамматический материал. Тематический отбор текстов обусловлен требованиями вузовских программ, а также учебно-методическими задачами данного этапа обучения.
Лексические упражнения направлены на закрепление активной лексики, расширение рецептивного и потенциального словарей, развитие языковой догадки, на совершенствование навыков работы с толковыми английскими словарями.
Речевые упражнения направлены на развитие навыков диалогической и монологической речи с использованием указанных конструкций и речевых образцов в предлагаемых коммуникативных ситуациях бытовой коммуникации. Данные упражнения носят в основном творческий характер и построены таким образом, чтобы в них обязательно присутствовала мыслительная задача, максимально стимулирующая развитие навыков говорения.
Особенностью данного пособия является использование видео- и лингвокомпьютерных заданий, ориентированных на формирование лингвокомпьютерной компетенции студентов.
Chapter 3 lifestyles around the world Part 1: Lifestyles and the Good Life
In your opinion, what is a lifestyle? Write down your definition in the space below.
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Look at the pictures below and in small groups discuss for five minutes how different lifestyle constituents characterize people’s way of life.
Types of houses
Clothes and accessories
Car makes
Food
Read the lifestyle definition given by the famous Russian actor Yury Solomin in the interview with the Russian weekly Argumenty and Fakty (АиФ) and discuss it with your partner.
Стиль жизни – это прежде всего уклад твоей семьи и всего общества, в котором ты можешь существовать на те средства, которые у тебя есть.
(Source: АиФ, 2005, № 27)
Read the dictionary definitions. Discuss them in pairs, compare them with Yu. Solomin’s and the definition you have given in Activity 1. Report the results to the class.
Lifestyle is:
A way of living, including the kind of home one lives in, the things one owns, the kind of job one does, and the kind of leisure activities one enjoys.
(Source: Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture, 1993)
A person’s typical approach to living, including his moral attitudes, preferred entertainment, fads, fashions etc.
(Source: Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 1988.)
a) a person’s basic character as established early in childhood which governs his or her reactions and behavior; b) an individual’s or group’s way of life; a way or style of living.
(Source: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993.)