Contents:

Unit I. What Is Character?

Lesson 1. How Do People Understand Character? ............................ 4 - 6

Lesson 2. What Kind of Person Are You? .......................................... 6 - 11

Lesson 3. What Kind of Person Is Your Friend? ............................... 11 - 15

Lesson 4. Is Temperament Guilty? ..................................................... 16 - 22

Lesson 5. What Is Anger? .................................................................... 22 - 26

Unit II. National Character. How Do People See Each Other?

Lesson 6. Typical Americans. What Are They? …………………….. 26 - 29

Lesson 9. Will the Next Century Be Called American? ...................... 29 - 32

Lesson 10. The British Character? Yes, the British Character! ........ 33 - 38

Lesson 11. Russians. How Do Foreigners See Them? ......................... 38 - 42

The List of Literature …………............................................................ 43

Unit I. What Is Character?

LESSON 1. HOW DO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND CHARACTER?

Exercise 1. Study the table and say what character is.

Character

1. mental and moral nature or qualities that make one person, race (nation) etc. different from others;

2. the set of characteristics differing one person from another

3. moral strength

4. reputation

1. Character is …/associated with …

• f ate

• individuality

• rock

• doom

• destiny

• fortune

• luck

• penalty/ punishment

• gift

• personal qualities

2. Character depends on …

• up-bringing

• inclinations

• living conditions

• wealth

• surroundings (parents, friends)

• g enetic code

• heredity

• human nature

• health

• appearance

• geographical location/ climate

• personal efforts/the desire to be what you want to be

• education

• money

• success in life

• circumstances

• national history/ traditions

Exercise 2. Spell out the words according to the transcription.

[¸repju'teiSn] ['sə:kəmstəns] [feit]

[sək'ses] [du:m] [hə'redəti]

['destəni] [welθ] ['fo:tSən]

[¸inkli'neiSn] [lΛk] ['Λp¸briηiη]

['penlti] ['pΛniSmənt] [¸edju'keiSn]

Exercise 3. Fill in the table using the appropriate lexical units from the table.

умственная или моральная сущность/ природа
набор характеристик
моральная сила
ассоциироваться с чем-то
личные качества
условия проживания
окружение
человеческая природа
генетический код
внешность
географическое расположение
климат
деньги
национальная история
традиции
богатство
здоровье
зависеть от
желание быть тем, кем ты хочешь

Exercise 4. Study the difference between the notions and explain it.

* fate	1) судьба; доля, жребий, фатум 2)а) гибель, кончина, смерть б) бедствие, несчастье
* rock	1) рок, судьба, фатум, гибель
* doom	1) рок, судьба, фатум 2) гибель; кончина, смерть
* destiny	1) рок, судьба (как высшая сила) 2) удел, участь, жребий (предназначенное судьбой)
* fortune	1) некая высшая сила, управляющая судьбами людей, влияющая на течение жизни; осмысляется в двух ипостасях: сила, несущая добро - фортуна и сила, несущая зло - фатум 2) счастье; фортуна, счастливая судьба 3) удача, успех 4) богатство, состояние
* penalty	1) а) наказание; взыскание; штраф б)перен.неудобство, проблема, неприятность
* punishment	1) кара, наказание

Exercise 5. Study exercise 1 again and find 16 words relative to the topic “character”. Make up your own examples with them to illustrate their usage.

F	A	A	E	B	W	N	C	D	P
O	H	P	D	C	E	A	L	O	U
R	E	P	U	T	A	T	I	O	N
T	A	E	C	S	L	U	M	M	I
U	L	A	A	U	T	R	A	G	S
N	T	R	T	C	H	E	T	I	H
E	H	A	I	C	D	E	E	F	M
S	F	N	O	E	G	F	A	T	E
E	H	C	N	S	C	O	D	E	N
T	P	E	R	S	O	N	I	J	T

Exercise 6. Say what character is using the scheme below.

To my mind, character is ...