- •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
Reading
A. Skimming
1. Read the title of the text and say if it is informative enough to guess what the article may be about.
2. Skim the article and give the gist in 2 or 3 sentences.
3. Read the article, define the theme of it and identify the type of writing it belongs to. (a piece of fiction, a feature article, an essay, etc.). Prove your choice.
Scanning
Examine the text for right answers to the following questions.
What does Kate Moss, London supermodel, look like?
What was every woman’s dream in the 1960s?
The girls who go on a crash diet risk depression, stunted growth, brittle bones and infertility, don’t they?
Why do dieters lose weight?
How does dieting influence one’s health?
Do you think dieting affects the mind?
What do many models live on?
What role do model agents play in a to-diet-for career of many successful catwalk models?
Close reading
Comment on the structural components of the essay (introduction, development of the topic, conclusion).
Pick out instances of quoting somebody else’s words and say what purpose they serve.
State the message of the article.
Identify such stylistic devices as epithets, metaphors, similes... and say what role they play in conveying the message.
Critical reading
Say if the author succeeded in developing the topic he chose for discussion. Give your argumentation for and against drastic dieting.
Say if the saying “Thin edge of the wedge” is used off or to the point.
Word study
Match the two columns.
10) puberty |
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Pick out words relating to dieting and food.
Verbs and verb-phrases
Nouns and noun-phrases
Pick out phrases dealing with the description of a model’s appearance.
Explain the meaning of the following adverbs in -ly and reproduce the situations in which they were used.
occasionally, tremendously, ordinarily, heartily, suddenly, disturbingly, naturally.
Complete the following table by inserting the missing forms.
Noun |
Verb |
Adjective |
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waste |
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model |
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favour |
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undernourished |
starvation |
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deny |
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renewal |
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slim |
skin |
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healthy |
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dressed |
Say this in Russian.
food was rationed
modelling is to-diet-for career
thin end of the wedge
undernourished look
the fashion industry
the opulent supermodel
the size 8 coathanger
slim by anyone’s standards
eating disorders
ultra slimmers
junk food
Say this in English.
сидеть на строгой диете (придерживаться диеты)
подиумная модель
похудеть на несколько фунтов
довольствоваться несколькими листиками салата
тощие конечности
строгая диета
один полноценный прием пищи в день
выйти из моды
есть охотно/с аппетитом
демонстрировать большие размеры
становиться жертвой
в возрасте половой зрелости
пристраститься к наркотикам.
Pick out the words having to do with
medicine
parts of a man’s body.
Give synonyms and/or antonyms to the following.
waste away; famine; drastic; pronounce; malnourished; common; lose weight.
Use an English English dictionary to differentiate between the following:
T o w a s t e: a) waste one’s time.
b) waste one’s words; our joke was wasted on … .
c) a wasting disease.
F l a t (adj): a) Life seemed flat to him.
b) He knocked the man flat.
c) The joke feels flat.
d) He pays a flat rate for electric light.
e) She gave him a flat denial.
f) And that’s flat (coll.).
T o i n d u l g e: a) He indulges his children too much,
b) He seldom indulges in a holiday.
T o k e e p: a) keep down weight.
b) keep on living on a cup of tea a day.
c) keep at dieting.
d) while dieting she wanted to keep up with the rest of the girls.