Glossary

ENGLISH	RUSSIAN	KAZAKH
itinerary	Курс, маршрут	саяхат бағдары
militants	воинственный	жауынгер
dampen	ослаблять	босаңсыту
designated	назначенный	тағайындалынған
mind-boggling	Невероятный,потрясающий	ақылға сыймайтын

Home assignment

Prepare the presentation “Outstanding architectural ensembles”.

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Write a poem expressing the beauty, majesty and romance of the Taj Mahal (or other outstanding buildings)

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SEVEN WONDERS: Only one of the ancient seven wonders of the world still exists The Taj Mahal is recognized as a ‘forgotten’ wonder of the world.Talk in groups about what you know of other forgotten, modern wonders, and whether they are really wonders, and whether there are any missing wonders from the list(s). (‘never heard of it / this one’, ‘isn’t this the place / statue that …’, ‘this is definitely (not) a wonder because ..’ etc):

OLD The Aztec Temple in Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), Mexico The Colosseum in Rome, Italy The Great Wall of China The Inca city of Machu Picchu, Peru The Parthenon in Athens, Greece Stonehenge in England Taj Mahal in Agra, India The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy

MODERN The Channel Tunnel The Clock Tower (Big Ben) in London, England The CN Tower in Toronto, Canada Eiffel Tower in Paris, France The Empire State Building in New York City, USA Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, USA The Statue of Cristo Redentor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The Statue of Liberty in New York City, USA The Sydney Opera House in Australia

Exercises on http://www.better-english.com/grammar/aslike.htm

References

Main:

1. English File Upper- Intermediate by Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig. Oxford University press 2009(Student’s book)

2. English File Upper-Intermediate by Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig. Oxford University press 2009(Work book)

Additional:

3. Cutting Edge Upper – Intermediate by Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor. Pearson Education, Longman 2007 (Student’s book)

4. http://www.breakingnews.com

5. http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/257.html

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Discipline: English as a foreign language	Term: fourth
Practical lesson №9 Upper-Intermediate level Lexical theme: Great cities. Grammatical theme: Other forms of comparison. Teacher: assistant professor	Credits: 2 Academic year 2013-2014 Nurgaliyeva A.Zh.

GRAMMAR CONTENT

Other forms of comparison

1 Compared to/with, e.g:

Compared to/with New York, London restaurants are quite cheap.

2 The same as, e.g:

Your camera is the same as mine/John’s.

3 Different from, e.g.:

Your camera is different from mine/hers.

4 Whereas, e.g:

We often eat out during the week, whereas at the weekend we usually stay at home.

5 Compared with/to

Compared with London, Oslo is very expensive.

6 More/less + adjectival phrase (than)

You are more likely to get a job in London than in Oslo.

She is less interested in learning to drive than I thought she would be.

Compare life in Los Angeles, USA with life in Vancouver, Canada using the facts

Example

Compared with/to Vancouver the air in Los Angeles is very polluted. The air in Vancouver is clean compared to Los Angeles.

	Vancouver	Los Angeles
Air pollution	Not very polluted, quit clean	Very polluted
Choice of jobs	A lot of jobs	It is difficult to find a job
Cost of living	Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 1,400.00 C$	Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 1,569.60 C$
Price of clothes	Pair of Jeans Levis  52.32 C$	Pair of Jeans Levis 75.00 C$
Street violence	Low	high
Sport and leisure	Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult 50.00 C$	Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult 41.86 C$

Use a statement with more likely to/less likely to.

Example

I would recommend Vancouver, because you are much more likely to find a good job there.

Сhoose the correct words in italics to complete each sentence.

1 The beach is much less/least crowded today than last week.

2 He is very/much younger than he looks.

3 She’s quite a lively person compared with/than the rest of her family.

4 ‘Police Academy II’ wasn’t as funny so/as ‘Police Academy I’.

5 I’d like another shirt exactly the same color as/than this one.

6 The economic situation is too bad/much worse than we expected.

7 His operation was far more serious that/than we thought.

8 Every novel she writes is different than/from the last.

Exercise 1. Listen again and write 1-5 in the boxes. Which speaker...? [1, T 6.5]

1. _____ couldn’t understand why nobody found his / her talk amusing

2. _____ felt very relaxed before his / her presentation

3. _____ did the last part of his / her talk very quickly

4. _____ made the problem he / she had worse

5. _____ didn't find out he / she had a problem until the end of the talk

Exercise 2. Answer the questions.

1. Would any of the 'Ten top tips' have helped some of the speakers?

2. Which speaker do you think was the most embarrassed?

3. Have you ever been to a talk or presentation where something went badly wrong?

4. Where did the speaker have to give a talk to some students?

5. Why couldn't the people see the slides during the presentation?

Exercise 3 Retell the main idea of the text.

Exercise 4. Role play.

You are at a tourist information office. You’d like to get some information about Moscow (Beijing, New York and London).  One of the students is tourist manager and one of the students is client.

Exercise 5.Choose 2 great cities and compare them.

Exercise 6. Guess the names of the cities.

– This city is very big. It’s a seaport. There are very tall buildings here which are called sky-scrapers. Many businessmen make money in this city. (-----) – This city is very nice. It is two thousand years old. It is on the river and great riverside docks make this city one of the three largest ports in the world. (-----) – In 2012 this city became the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.

It has a diverse range of peoples, cultures, and religions, and more than 300 languages are spoken within its boundaries. (-----) – This city is also the heart of performing arts, including ballet and film. There are ninety-three theaters, 132 cinemas and twenty-four concert-halls in this city. (-----) – This city’s primary airport is about 20 kilometers (12 min) northeast of the city center. It is currently the second busiest airport in the world and the busiest in Asia.  (-----) – Many national newspapers are edited in this city. This city is a major retail center and in 2010 had the highest non-food retail sales of any city in the world, with a total spend of around £64.2 billion. (-----)

– This city is home to a great number of colleges and universities. Owing to this city’s status as the political and cultural capital, a larger proportion of tertiary-level institutions are concentrated here than in any other cities. (-----)

Exercise 7. Read the text and make up your own questions.