- •Foreword
- •Content
- •Unit 1 About myself
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Form the plural of the nouns:
- •Unit 2 My Family
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Read and dramatize the following dialogues:
- •4. Translate into English:
- •5. Complete the joke with the pronouns from the boxes:
- •In the Secret Service
- •6.Circle the correct item:
- •7.Speak about your family. Unit 3 My friend`s appearance and personality
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Give the English equivalents:
- •Complete the following sentences using the words from the right-hand column:
- •Devide the following words into two columns:
- •Read and translate:
- •Fill in a or an:
- •Circle the correct item:
- •Circle the correct item:
- •Complete the joke with the correct articles:
- •Match the pairs:
- •Tell your groupmates about your best friend. Unit 4 Rights and Duties of Ukrainian Citizens
- •L earn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Crocodiles and Alligators
- •8. Circle the correct item and read the joke:
- •Unit 5 Sport in Our Life
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •7. Complete the poem with the past forms of the verbs in brackets:
- •Speak about sports. Unit 6 Olympic Games
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Put in the correct words:
- •Unit 7 My Hobby
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Find the English equivalents:
- •5. Read the next examples and translate them:
- •Find out why some parents think that their teenage sons or daughters have a lot in common with cats. (Don't take it too seriously, though)Put both…and, so,not…either,either…nor,neither…nor:
- •Speak about your hobby. Unit 8 Education in Ukraine
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •3. Fill in the blanks:
- •4.Answer the questions:
- •Matсh the words to their meanings:
- •Speak about the Education in Ukraine. Unit 9 Education Abroad
- •L earn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text: The Educational system of Great Britain
- •Unit 10 My College
- •L earn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Match the first and the second parts of the sentence
- •Put 4 types of questions to the sentences
- •Unit 11 Prestige Professions in Ukraine and Abroad
- •L earn new words and word-combinations:
- •Retell the text about your future profession: My Future Profession
- •Complete the dialogues with can, may, could, can’t, mustn't:
- •Unit 12 Applying for а job
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Complete the sentences:
- •Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Make up a dialogue using the following words and word-combinations:
- •Circle the correct item:
- •Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets:
- •Make the sentences negative and interrogative:
- •9.Complete the sentences using modal verbs and words in brackets as in the example:
- •Unit 13 t he Career Ladder
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Work in groups of two or three. Read and translate one of the paragraphs:
- •6.Read the following sentences and match if they are True or False (t),(f):
- •Right your own resume. Use the next sample:
- •Unit 14 Cultural Life and Traditions in Ukraine
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions on the text:
- •Translate into English:
- •Fill in the gaps:
- •Imagine that you have a guest from abroad.Tell him about Ukrainian folk art. Unit 15 Festivals and Celebrations in Ukraine
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Truth or false?
- •What word is incorrect?
- •Correct the mistake:
- •Complete the sentence:
- •Make up sentences:
- •Make up the dialogue using the next words and word-combinations:
- •Make up as many questions to the sentences as you can:
- •Unit 16 Customs and Traditions
- •L earn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Continue the sentences:
- •Find the Ukrainian equivalents:
- •6. Fill in the blanks with some or and:
- •7. Answer the following questions:
- •8. Replace the pronoun any and its derivatives (похідні) by no or its derivatives making other necessary changes:
- •9. Tell your groupmates about the traits of Ukrainian character. Unit 17 Television: Benefits and Danger
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Now divide into groups and find benefits and dangers of television:
- •Read the passage about future of television and complete the text with the words from the box: The Future of Television
- •Your task is to match the words and their definitions:
- •Give the English equivalents:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Learn new words and read the text below:
- •Is television useful or harmful?
- •Speak about benefits and dangers of television. Unit 18 My favourite tv programme
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Translate into English:
- •Correct the mistakes:
- •Unit 19 Newspapers and Magazines
- •Read the encyclopedia article and match the words in bold type with their Ukrainian equivalents given below:
- •Translate the words:
- •Discuss the following questions:
- •Match the parts of the words:
- •Match the two parts of the sentence:
- •Translate into English:
- •Speak on the topic “Newspapers and Magazines”. Unit 20 Seasons and Weather
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text, learn it by heart:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Continue the sentences:
- •Translate into English:
- •Speak about Seasons and Weather. Unit 21 Nature Cataclysms
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Try to say what kind of disaster is :
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Fill in the missing words:
- •9. Circle the correct item:
- •Unit 22 Environmental Protection
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions to the text:
- •Read, translate and dramatize the dialoque.Use a dictionary if necessary:
- •Translate into English:
- •Speak about the Environmental Protection.
- •Texts for supplementary reading
- •A Close Friend by Jim White
- •(My friend`s appearance and personality)
- •Human and Citizens' Rights, Freedoms and Duties (from the Constitution of Ukraine)
- •Sport in our Life
- •Higher Education in Ukraine
- •Top 10 High-prestige Professions in Ukraine
- •What are Career Ladders?
- •Holidays in Ukraine
- •Newspapers
- •Newspapers
- •Magazines
- •Seasons and Months
- •The Problem of Environmental Protection
- •Chornobyl Nuclear Accident
Newspapers
Newspaper is a publication that presents and comments on the news. Newspapers play an important role in shaping public opinion and informing people of current events.
The first newspapers were probably handwritten news-sheets posted in public places. The earliest daily newssheet was «Acta Diurna» («Daily Events») which started in Rome in 59 B.C. The first printed newspaper was Chinese publication called «Dibao» («Ti-pao») started in A.D.700's.*It was printed from carved wooden blocks, The first regularly published newspaper in Europe was «Avisa Relation» or «Zeitung», started in Germany in 1609.
Newspapers have certain advantages over other mass media — magazines, TV and radio. Newspaper can cover more news and in much detail than TV or radio newcast can do. Magazines focus on major national and international events of the preceeding week. But newspaper focuses on local news as well and provides information and comments faster than magazine can do.
There are about 1700 daily and 7500 weekly newspapers in the US. The circulation of some weeklies is no more than a few hundred of copies per issue and the circulation of some dailies is over a million of copies.
There are daily newspapers and weekly newspapers. Daily newspapers print world, national and local news. Many dailies are morning papers, others are afternoon papers. Sunday issues of the dailies are usually larger than the weekday ones. They may include special sections on such topics as entertainment, finance and travel or Sunday magazine, a guide to TV programmes, coloured comics. The major dailies in the US are «Christian Science Monitor», «New York Times», «USA Today» , «Wall Street Journal», «Washington Post».
Weekly newspapers serve usually for smaller areas. They are printed in small communities where people know each other and are interested in activities of their friends and neighbours. Weeklies report of weddings, births, deaths and news of local business and politics. Most weeklies do not print world or national news.
Newspapers
Newspaper is one of the important types of Mass Media. This type of publication is aimed at presenting and commenting on the news and different kind of information. Newspapers play a significant role in informing people of current news and shaping public opinion.
Newspapers offer several advantages over other means of communication — TV, radio and magazines. Newspaper can cover more information and news and in more detail than radio or TV newscast can do. It is known that magazines focus on major international and national events of the last week. But newspapers are intent to local news as well as provide information and comment faster than magazines are able to do.
There are daily and weekly newspapers.
National, world and local news are printed by daily newspapers. Dailies can be morning papers and afternoon papers. Sunday issue of the daily newspapers is usually bigger than the weekday issues. They may consist of special sections on topics such as travel, finance and entertainment.
Weeklies report of births, weddings, deaths and news of politics and local business. Finally, newspapers are delivered almost to every home every day.They contain lots of advertisement. A lot of people subscribe sometimes to two or more newspapers.
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