- •Contents
- •Предисловие
- •English in the world
- •Section I
- •Section II
- •The indo-european language family tree scheme
- •Indo-european
- •Skim Reading Task
- •From the History of the English Language
- •Text I The Language of Shakespeare
- •Info Box
- •Section III
- •Text II English Has no Equals!
- •Vocabulary and Speech Exercises:
- •Text III
- •English in the World
- •Vocabulary and Speech Exercises:
- •Info Box
- •Section IV
- •The English Language
- •Text IV Basic Characteristics of the English language
- •Vocabulary and Speech Exercises:
- •British English and American English
- •Section V Text V
- •Are You Happy with the Way, You are Taught English?
- •Vocabulary and Speech Exercises:
- •Discussion Points
- •What makes a good language learner? test your aptitude for learning a foreign language
- •Interpret your score
- •Discussion
- •Section VI
- •Vocabulary and Speech Exercises:
- •Writing
- •Section VII Discussion Points
- •Listening
- •Appearance
- •Section I Topical Vocabulary
- •Section II
- •Vocabulary and Pre-reading Work
- •Info Box Why hair turns grey when people are old
- •If you put these letters in order according to their numbers you will have a quotation.
- •Discussion Points
- •Skim Reading Exercises
- •My Aunt Emily
- •Writing
- •Discussion and Speech Exercises
- •Section IV
- •Vocabulary and Pre-reading Work
- •Text I
- •A Visit to the Country
- •Vocabulary and Speech Exercises
- •Word Guide
- •Grammar
- •Believe it or not
- •Section V
- •Vocabulary and Pre-reading Work
- •Word Guide
- •Text II
- •Mr. Rochester’s Visitors
- •Grammar
- •Believe it or not
- •Section VI Word Guide
- •Discussion Points
- •Skim Reading Work
- •Text III
- •Writing
- •Discussion points:
- •Appearance
- •Vocabulary and Speech Exercise
- •Dictation
- •Writing
- •Spelling and punctuation
- •Listening
- •1) Darren Appleby, a 31-year-old art director, is married to Nicola, 30. They live in Cheshire.
- •2) Steve King, 28, lives in London and works in the media. He's single.
- •3) Richard Shorney, 40, a business adviser, lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife Sarah, 32.
- •4) Andy Barden, 35, lives in Kent with his wife Sandra, 46.
- •5) James Palmer, 32, is a farmer from Cambridge. He's married to Alison, 27.
- •6) Joel Orme is a 24-year-oid television researcher. He lives in Manchester with his girlfriend Lyndsey Evans, 24.
- •7) Simon Wells, 44, and Rebecca Owen, 59, both teachers, live in London.
- •8) Michael Briggs, 56, is married to Linda, 48. They run a website business together and live in Norfolk.
- •Discussion points:
- •The Key thing is the Heart
- •Word Guide
- •Skim Reading Task:
- •Writing
- •Listening
- •Список использованной литературы
- •Мартынюк н. Л. Oral and written practic in modern english part 1
Vocabulary and Speech Exercises:
Ex.1. Enumerate the words denoting grammatical categories you have picked out from the text.
e. g. существительное, число, падеж, глагол и т. д.
Ex.2. Find in the text derivatives of the following: e.g. to differ – different
Simple, to flex, to admit, to arrive, to inflect, to propose, to retire, to admit, to create.
Ex.3. Translate the following word combinations and reproduce sentences in which they were used in the text:
Согласно чему-либо, количество людей, без сомнения, в результате, единственное и множественное число, распространенный язык, утрата окончаний, за последние столетия, функционировать в качестве, соответственно существительному, за последние пять столетий, упрощать слова, язык делового общения, авиация и спорт, разные части речи, много окончаний, легко поддающийся влиянию, одинаковая форма, создание сложных и производных слов.
Ex.4. Answer the questions on the text:
Why does the English language have the simplicity of form? In what way can it be seen?
Owing to what fact has English become very flexible? Give examples of this fact. What parts of speech can be flexible?
What are the facts to show the openness of the English vocabulary? What process in the English language is now being reversed? Who are purists of a language?
What is the future of English according to the contents of the text? Do you agree with this statement?
What are the main characteristics of the English language?
Ex.5. It is said in the poem, that the English language is hard. Why has English acquired such popularity in the world then? Compare English and your native language. In what way are they similar / different?
Ex.6. Comment on the following statement: “Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it”.
British English and American English
Ex.7. Compare the opinions of different people about the two variants of the English language. Are they contradictory or alike? What is the main idea of each quotation?
Each intelligent person should be aware of the differences in the British and American English in order to make correct use of those. Which dialect to choose is the matter that can be decided by each individual depending on whom he is speaking to – an American or Englishman?
1) “Most of Oxford English Dictionary’s words are just as much my vocabulary as they are Queen Elizabeth’s; we speak them a bit differently, but … these differences are more amusing than troubling, more interesting than inconvenient.”
Kenneth G. Wilson, 1986
2) “The two varieties of English have never been so different as people have imagined, and the dominant tendency, for several decades now, has clearly been that of convergence and even greater similarity.”
Albert H. Marckwardt and Sir Randolf Quirk, 1964
3) “The English used in the United States and that used in England are so overwhelmingly alike that such differences as do exist hardly justify anyone in advancing a claim of superior excellence for either the so-called American language or the English language. The really surprising thing about the English of England and that of the United States is not that they differ slightly, but that their difference is as slight as it is.”
Milford M. Mathews, 1931
4) There is not the faintest chance of there ever being an American language as apart from English.”
Stephen Leacock, 1943
Ex.8. Explain why it is important to know the differences between British and American English.
Ex.9. Comment on the quotation of George Bernard Shaw:
“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”