- •Unit five
- •I speech patterns
- •Exercises
- •I. Paraphrase the following using Patterns 1-3:
- •II. Make the following sentences emphatic using Pattern 4 as in the example:
- •III. Translate these sentences into English:
- •IV. Answer the questions: use would or used to.
- •V. Make up short situations (no more than two or three sentences) or dialogues to illustrate Patterns 1-4 text. A freshman's experience From "Daddy Long-Legs" by Jean Webster
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I. Read the text and do the following
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Explain (in English) what is meant by and give Russian equivalents of:
- •IV. Paraphrase the following sentences:
- •V. A) Write 20 questions about the second part of the text of Unit Five using the following words and phrases:
- •B) Ask your fellow-students to give their responses.
- •VI. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •IX. Revise Essential Vocabulary (I) and translate the following:
- •X. Compose 20 sentences about the text, using modal verbs must, can, may, ought, might with the perfect infinitive:
- •XI. Translate the text into Russian:
- •Topic: education
- •Text a. Higher education and teacher training in great britain
- •Text b. Dialogue
- •Text с. How to get a degree
- •Essential vocabulary (II) Words and Word Combinations
- •Exercises
- •I. Study Text a and write English equivalents of the following words and phrases. Transcribe them:
- •II. Write 15 questions on Text a, using new words and expressions in each question. Ask your classmates to reply them. Summarize what you have learned about the British system of higher education.
- •III. Study Texts в and с and write English equivalents of the following words and phrases:
- •IV. Ask your fellow-students:
- •V. Retell Text в in indirect speech using new words and word combinations.
- •VI. Fill in prepositions. Ask the others to give their responses to the given sentences so as to make up micro-dialogues:
- •VII. Make up dialogues, using Essential Vocabulary on the topic Suggested situations:
- •VIII. A) Read and translate into Russian: Oxford
- •B) Argue the pros and cons of: 1. Tutorial system. 2. Students' uniform. 3. Residential colleges.
- •IX. Read the text. Comment on its content: Students in Tents
- •Unit nine
- •I. Speech patterns
- •Exercises
- •I. Change the sentences, using the patterns:
- •II. Think of a situation. Suggest a beginning matching up the end. Use the proper pattern:
- •III. Translate the following into English. Use the patterns:
- •IV. Respond to the following statements and questions, using the patterns:
- •V. Write 12 questions suggesting answers with these patterns. (The questions in Ex. IV may serve as a model.) text. Rose at the music-hall From "They Walk in the City" by j. B. Priestley
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Essential vocabulary (I) Words
- •Word Combinations
- •Exercises
- •VII. Translate these sentences into English, using the word way.
- •VIII. Insert prepositions or adverbs where necessary:
- •Iх. Make up a story, using the words and phrases from Essential Vocabulary I.
- •X. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •XI. Test on synonymy.
- •1. Prove that the following words are (or are not) synonyms:
- •2. Synonyms within the following pairs differ by style. Point out which of them are bookish, colloquial or neutral.
- •XII. Go over the text again and try to discuss the following:
- •XIII. A) Translate the text into Russian:
- •B) Comment on the following aspects of the fragment:
- •Text b. At the box-office
- •Text с. Pantomimes
- •I. Answer the following questions:
- •II. Learn Text в by heart. Act out this dialogue.
- •III. Retell Text с in your own words.
- •IV. Translate the following into English:
- •V. Read the following and either agree or disagree with the statements.
- •VI. A) Describe your impressions of a play (opera, ballet) you have seen. Follow the plan below:
- •B) Make up dialogues discussing the points above.
- •VII. A) Supply articles where necessary:
- •VIII. Give a free translation of the following passage. Make use of the English phrases given at the end:
- •IX. A) Read Sir Laurence Olivier's answers given by him in a newspaper interview:
- •X. Translate the following fragments into Russian (in writing)!
- •Хi. Speak individually or arrange a discussion on the following:
- •Studies of written english
Text b. At the box-office
— I want four seats for Sunday, please.
— Matinee or evening performance?
— Evening, please.
— Well, you can have very good seats in the stalls. Row F.
— Oh, no! It's near the orchestra-pit. My wife can't stand loud music.
— Then I could find you some seats in the pit.
— I'm afraid that won't do either. My father-in-law is terribly short-sighted. He wouldn't see much from the pit, would he?
— Hm... Perhaps, you'd care to take a box?
— Certainly not! It's too expensive. I can't afford it. — Dress-circle then?
— I don't like to sit in the dress-circle.
— I'm afraid the only thing that remains is the gallery.
— How can you suggest such a thing! My mother-in-law is a stout woman with a weak heart. We couldn't dream of letting her walk up four flights of stairs, could we?
— I find, sir, that there isn't a single seat in the house23 that would suit you.
— There isn't, is there? Well, I think we'd much better go to the movies. As for me, I don't care much for this theatre-going business. Good day!
Text с. Pantomimes
Sally: Tony, there's an advertisement in the local paper saying that the theatre in the High Street is putting on24 "Cinderella". I haven't seen a pantomime for years and years. Do you fancy going?
Tony: Yeh, that sounds good. I don't think I've seen one since I was about fourteen — except for one on ice when I was crazy about skating, and that's not quite the same thing, is it?
Sally: No. Ice shows don't have all the wonderful traditional scenery and that gorgeous theatre atmosphere.
Tony: Pantomimes are awfully old, if you think about it, aren't they? I mean with a girl playing the part of the principal boy, all dressed up in tights and tunic ...
Sally: Mm, and the dame parts taken by men. I've never seen "Cinderella". I suppose the stepmother and the ugly sisters are the men's parts in that.
Tony: Aladdin used to be my favourite, when a comedian played the Widow Twankey. And when Aladdin rubbed the magic lamp an enormous genie appeared ...
Sally: And the audience booing the wicked uncle, and joining in the singing of the popular songs they always manage to get into the play somehow.
Tony: Yes! I wonder how on earth they manage to fit today's pop songs into pantomime stories?
Sally: Well, why don't we get tickets and find out?
Tony: Yes, OK. Come on, then.
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY (II)
Words
act υ gallery n properties acting n
interval n (props) n balcony n lighting n
repertoire n box n matinee n row n
cast n orchestra-pit n stage-manager n company n
pit n stalls n costumes n produce υ
(theatre-) house n director n producer n treatment n
dress-circle n production n
Word Combinations
professional theatre the setting of a scene repertory company
light and sound effects amateur theatre to produce a play
dramatic society
EXERCISES
I. Answer the following questions:
A. 1. What is the centre of theatrical activity in Great Britain? 2. Which theatrical companies receive financial support from Arts Council? 3. What is meant by a repertory theatre? 4. What do you know about the Royal Shakespeare Company? 5. What kind of performances are staged in the Royal Opera House? 6. Are there many theatres in or near the West (East) End of London? 7. What kind of music is popular in England? 8. Are there any amateur theatres in Great Britain? 9. What leading actors of the British theatre do you know? 10. How are the British Arts Councils going to celebrate approach of the millennium?
B. 1. How is the Russian theatre organized? 2. What Russian theatres are best known in Russia and abroad? 3. Is attendance at our theatres high? 4. How many times a month (a year) do you go to the theatre? 5. Are there any amateur theatres in Russia?