Do you share the idea stated above? Why?

Exercise 10. Study an essay and analyze it taking into account the suggested scheme. Answer the questions.

1. Are there all the three parts: introduction, the body, the conclusion?

2. Are there enough examples?

3. What can be changed in the text?

T hesis (a quotation, a poem, a piece of a song, etc.) or introduction

Arguments (facts from books, films, examples from your or sb’s life) or the body

Thesis (summing up the facts and ideas) or the conclusion

Almost every nation has a reputation of some kind. The French are supposed to be amorous, jolly, fond of champagne; the Germans dull, formal, efficient, fond of military uniforms and parades; the American boastful, energetic, gregarious and vulgar. The English are reputed to be cold, reserved, rather haughty people who do not yell in the street, make love in public or change their governments as often as they change their underclothes. They are steady, easy-going, and fond of sport.

There are, however, certain kinds of behaviour manners and customs, which are peculiar to England.

The English are a nation of stay-at-homes (couch potatoes). There is no place like home, they say. And when a man is not working, he withdraws from the world to the company of his wife and children and busies himself with the affairs of the home. "The Englishman's home is his castle", is a saying known all over the world; and it is no true that English people prefer small houses, built to house one family, perhaps with a small garden.

The fire is the focus of the English home. What do other nations sit round? The answer is they don't. They go out to cafes or sit round the cocktail bar. For the English it is the open fire, the toasting fork and the ceremony of English tea. The English are among the most amiable people in the world; they can also be ruthless. They have a genius for compromise on others with surprising efficiency. They are generous in small matters but more cautious in big ones.

English people are slow to adopt rational reforms. They suffer inconvenience from adhering to old ways, because they don't want the trouble of adapting themselves to new.

Exercise 11. Transcribe the given words and practise reading them in sentences from the article.

reputation; castle; champagne; focus; parade; ceremony; to yell; genius; custom; efficiency; peculiar; rational; affair; to adhere

Exercise 12. Give the Russian equivalents for the following words

Amorous, efficient, gregarious, haughty, couch potato, toasting fork, amiable, ruthless, cautious

Exercise 13. Give the English equivalents for the following words

Весёлый, военная форма, хвастливый, вульгарный, иметь репутацию, постоянный, манеры поведения, разместить одну семью

Exercise 14. Find in the article prepositions for the following verbs and restore the situations they were used in.

to withdraw … sth to busy sb … sth

to sit … sth to go … … somewhere

to compromise … sb to adopt … sth

Exercise 15. What is your opinion of the British? What is a typical Englishman for you? Write an essay-exemplification.

Exercise 16. Sum up everything you’ve learned about the British. Complete the word web.

LESSON 9. RUSSIANS. HOW DO FOREIGNERS SEE THEM?

Would you like to know what people from other countries think of Russians?

Exercise 1. Read about the Russian character and write what points are made about Russian people. Tick the ones you agree with (A), Disagree with (D) or feel true for you personally (T). Use the verbs: think, suppose, consider believe, say, know, expect to support your viewpoint.