- •Практика чтения и письменной речи reading and writing aid
- •Preface
- •Texts for guided reading
- •Doreen pope
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •Write an essay on the following topic: “What’s done to children, they will do to society” (k. Meuninger).
- •Education: doing bad and feeling good
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •How to plan for happiness
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Paraphrase the following.
- •Match the following English and Russian proverbs.
- •Writing
- •Compress the information and a) make up an outline, b) write a précis of the text.
- •2. Expand on the following: “He is happy that thinks himself so.”
- •A news report
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •Language and literature
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •Thin end of the wedge
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Paraphrase the following.
- •Writing
- •How life imitates screen violence
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •The domain of style
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Group the following words and word-combinations into
- •Writing
- •The open window
- •Reading
- •Define means of producing a humorous effect used in the text (deliberate exaggeration, unexpected comparison, words which do not belong in the situation, etc.).
- •Do you find the story entertaining? Say how it appeals to your sense of imagination?
- •If it were up to you how would you change the end of the story? word study
- •Writing
- •Angel pavement
- •Reading
- •Word study
- •Writing
- •Inflation and the transition to a market economy
- •Reading
- •1. Read the title and define the theme of the text.
- •2. Give the gist of the text.
- •3. Identify the type of writing the text belongs to (publicistic, scholarly writing, fiction).
- •Word Study
- •Writing
- •Up the down staircase
- •Reading
- •5. Comment on the cases of humour and irony in the following examples. Say how ironic or humour effect is achieved.
- •6. Comment on the message of the story. Is it criticism of the system of education or its appraisal? Prove your point of view.
- •Word Study
- •1. Match the two columns.
- •2. Fill in the blanks with words or their derivatives from exercise 1
- •Writing
- •Feminism and the School Teacher
- •Reading
- •1. Read the title and define the theme of the text.
- •2. Skim the text and define the type of writing it belongs to (fiction or non-fiction); give the gist in two or three sentences.
- •Word Study
- •Say this in Russian.
- •5. Use an English-English dictionary to differentiate between, to give illustrative contexts for the following.
- •Writing
- •1. Compress the information and
- •2. Write an essay on the gender problem in education.
- •A last will
- •Reading
- •1. Read the title of the text and see of you can define the theme of it.
- •2. Run over the text, define the type of writing it belongs to and give the gist in 2 or 3 sentences.
- •Word Study
- •Writing
- •Texts for non-guided reading
- •The complete plain words
- •In what ways cyber space differs from america The boundlessness of the Internet opens new horizons
- •I/We Gather Together
- •Is School Unfair to Girls?
- •Reading and writing techniques
- •Humour, Irony, Sarcasm
- •Keys to exercises
- •Reading and writing test
- •Contents
- •Reading and writing aid
Министерство образования Республики Беларусь
Минский государственный лингвистический университет
Н.Ф. Смирнова Т.Ф. Бурлак
Практика чтения и письменной речи reading and writing aid
Учебно-методическое пособие для студентов старших курсов
заочного отделения факультета английского языка
Минск 2009
УДК 802.0−085
ББК 81.2 Aн.
С50
Р е к о м е н д о в а н о Редакционным советом Минского государственного лингвистического университета. Протокол № 2 (17) от 20.05.2008 г.
Р е ц е н з е н т ы: кандидат филологических наук, доцент С.А. Хоменко (БНТУ); кандидат филологических наук, доцент М.И. Олейник (МГЛУ)
Смирнова, Н.Ф.
С50 Практика чтения и письменной речи = Reading and Writing Aid: учеб.-метод. пособие для студентов старших курсов заочного отделения факультета английского языка / Н.Ф. Смирнова, Т.Ф. Бурлак. – Минск: МГЛУ, 2009. − 152 с.
ISBN–978–985–460–302–5.
Пособие содержит методический материал по чтению и письму и имеет целью выработать навыки чтения и восприятия текстов различных жанров, а также умение логично и аргументированно выражать свои мысли в письменной форме на изучаемом языке.
Пособие состоит из двух частей. Первая часть, ориентированная на аудиторную работу, включает аутентичные тексты с заданиями и упражнениями. Вторая часть предназначена для самостоятельной работы и также содержит аутентичные тексты различных жанров (проза, публицистика, научные статьи). Все материалы информативны, имеют обучающий и воспитывающий характер.
Адресовано студентам старших курсов факультетов английского языка заочной формы обучения.
УДК 802.0 − 085
ББК 81.2 Ан.
ISBN–978–985–460–302–5 |
© Смирнова Н.Ф., Бурлак Т.Ф., 2009 © УО “Минский государственный лингвистический университет”, 2009 |
Preface
“Reading and Writing Aid” is devised for advance correspondence students of English. This book deals with both reading and writing goals and touches upon manifold types of written English forms – publicistic, newspaper, scholarly texts and fiction. It comprises two parts and three supplements.
Part I includes 14 authentic texts followed by detailed instructions on reading, word-study and writing.
In this part of the manual an attempt has been made to present different reading and writing techniques of English texts, the study of the complexities which are rooted in the basic properties of each type of text, the appreciation of its possibilities as an instrument of thought and expression, in a way that would interest an intelligent student. It is to be studied mainly under the direction of the teacher. The word study section is supplied with keys to some exercises (Supplement 2).
Part II provides the teacher and the student with a wide selection of written texts of different genres for applying the knowledge and skills gained at the previous stage. This part is primarily aimed at independent work.
The choice of the texts can be accounted for by the main aim of the manual: to help students master techniques of comprehending various texts of written English, and to develop the capacity of compressing the information and expanding on a given topic, orally or in writing.
It is intended for students who already have a good command of the basic grammar of English and have a reasonably wide selection of vocabulary, but who want to increase their competence in the language and to acquire methods of skimming, scanning, close reading and critical reading of different types of written texts and also précis and essay writing on different topics given in the manual. Some necessary information on different writing and reading techniques is given in Supplement 1.
The material used in this manual has been selected from various language sources published in the USA and Great Britain. The print, spelling, punctuation marks, and references are those used in the original texts.
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