- •Everyday english
- •Content
- •Unit 1. My family
- •Germany: What future is for the family?
- •5. Read the text again. Are these sentences true or false? Correct any false sentences.
- •6. What do you think of Ms von der Leyen's plan?
- •1. Are these statements true about your country?
- •2. Read the advert. Who uses the institute and its services? Why?
- •The Institute of Future Analysis
- •We provide:
- •Information about future trends in society.
- •Unit 2. House
- •4. Look at the photo and discuss the questions.
- •5. Read the text and decide whether it’s (t) true or (f) false.
- •Living in front of the cameras
- •Unit 3. Spare time
- •Las fallas
- •Vocabulary
- •4. Write a short summary of a festival you know about. Read your summary to a partner.
- •1. Think about last New Year's Eve. Work with a partner and ask and answer these questions.
- •2. What do you know about Chinese New Year? Decide whether you think the statements below are true or false.
- •How to throw the best party ever? (and enjoy it)
- •Vocabulary
- •10. Find words or phrases from the article above to complete the descriptions.
- •11. Have you ever thrown a party? What was it like? Tell your partner. Unit 4. Food
- •1. Read through the questions below and guess how your partner would answer.
- •If you answered yes to at least three of the questions you're probably a chocoholic.
- •2. Compare your answers. Who is the bigger chocoholic? Could you live without chocolate?
- •3. Decide whether the statements about chocolate are true or false.
- •7. Have you tried any of the dishes he talks about? Would you like to? What is the most unusual thing you have ever eaten? Tell your partner.
- •8. Read the article. What was Emma Bunton's favourite food as a child? What food didn't she like? memories of food
- •9. Look at the following statements about Emma's childhood. Are they true or false?
- •Unit 5. Language
- •4. Look at the text opposite about language learning. Where does it come from? What is its purpose?
- •5. Read the text quickly. Who is it aimed at?
- •English spoken here!
- •Don't delay ...Do it today!
- •Unit 6. Cultures
- •A world guide то good manners
- •1. Are these words and phrases used to talk about people, places, or things?
- •2. Can you remember any other words? Compare your ideas with a partner.
- •3. Read the story and choose the best title.
- •4. Read the story again. Work with a partner and decide if the sentences are true or false. If there is no information in the text, write doesn't say.
- •5. Look at Monica's story. Underline the correct option.
- •Unit 7. Art
- •Creative lives
- •Frida kahlo (1907-1954)
- •Unit 8. Travel and tourism
- •6. Work with a partner. How important are the different reasons, do you think? What are the three most important? Why?
- •7. Work with a partner to discuss the following.
- •8. Read the article quickly and choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph. (There are two extra headings.)
- •Travel and tourism
- •9. Read the article again and answer the questions.
- •1. What are the most interesting places you have visited in уour own country and abroad? Where else would you like to visit?
- •2. Complete these travel tips with the words in the box.
- •Unit 9. Health
- •5. Which of these definitions for words in the text are wrong? Can you correct them? Use your dictionary.
- •Unit 10. The environment
- •4. Listen to part of a documentary about global warming. Number these topics in order (1-6).
- •5. Listen again and answer these questions.
- •6. The presenter says we have to produce less c02. How can we do that? Discuss with a partner.
- •1. Change these sentences so that they are true for the place where you live. Compare your ideas with a partner.
- •2. Read the funding proposal below and answer these questions.
- •Wild city
- •Unit 11. Global affairs
- •4. Are these statements true or false, or does the text not say?
- •1. Look at this webpage about Stephen Hawking. Why is he famous?
- •2. Complete this summary of Hawking's life. Write one word in each gap. (The words you need are in the text.)
- •After the operation
- •8. Discuss these statements about attitudes to science in small groups.
- •Список литературы
Creative lives
LESSON 2
Frida kahlo (1907-1954)
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. Her colourful paintings show her powerful feelings about herself and the world around her. Some of her recent fans include Madonna and Robert de Niro.
Life
Her life began and ended in Mexico City.
When Kahlo was six years old, she had a serious disease (polio) that damaged her right leg forever. However, she was a clever and determined young woman and went to one of the top schools in Mexico. When she was fifteen, she met the famous painter Diego Rivera. He was doing a painting on a wall at her school at that time. Then, at the age of eighteen, Kahlo was in a terrible accident. She was travelling on a bus when a tram crashed into it. She began to paint while she was recovering from the accident because she was bored in bed. During the rest of her life she had over 30 operations to try to correct her physical problems.In 1929, she married Diego Rivera but their relationship was often stormy. Soon after she got married, Kahlo started to wear traditional Mexican clothes and jewellery, and she also started to wear her hair high on her head. She visited the United States and France, and met many important people. While she was staying in Paris, she appeared on the front cover of Vogue magazine. When she wasn't working, she liked singing and telling jokes at parties.
Work
Kahlo produced about 200 works in her life. Many of them were self- 25 portraits - a mixture of dreams and reality. In them, we can see that she was very proud of Mexico. Her paintings also tell us about politics, power relationships between rich and poor countries, Eastern and Western philosophy and the position of women in society. Many people admired her work, including Pablo Picasso.
READING AND S P E А К I N G
1. Discuss these questions with a partner.
Are you creative, e.g. can you sing, draw, paint, dance, etc.?
Which famous creative people do you know or like?
2. Read the text quickly. Write down two interesting things you remember. Compare with other students.
3. Are these sentences true or false, or does the text not say?
Frida Kahlo had a good education.
She had two very bad experiences when she was young.
She was on a tram when a bus crashed into it.
She started painting when she met Diego Rivera.
She travelled a lot in Mexico.
People didn't think that she was a talented painter.
4. Find words in the text that mean:
physically harmed something
becoming healthy again (e.g. after an illness or accident)
feeling pleased about your actions, your family or your country because they are good or successful
the study of ideas about life and how people should live
looked at something and thought that it was very good
5. What do you think about Frida Kahlo? Would you like to know more about her? Would you like to see more of her paintings? Why / Why not?
6. Think about some important events in your life. What happened? Did they change your life in any way? Tell your partner.
7. What Russian artists do you know? Describe their works. Which museums are their works displayed at? Make a report.
8. Make a presentation on the famous Russian, British and other artists’ works.