- •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
Read the title and try to define the theme of the article.
Read the article and give the gist of it in 2 or 3 sentences. Say how the title is related to the whole text: (a) it conveys the author’s message; b) it focuses the reader’s attention on the most important point; c) it contrasts with the topic of the article).
Identify the type of writing the text belongs to (a piece of fiction, a feature article, a scientific report, an essay — descriptive, narrative, expository). Prove your point.
Scanning
Scan the text for right answers to the following questions.
How did they know that 13-year-old Americans had a very high opinion of their knowledge?
What’s bad about it? What connections does the author see between this news and the self-esteem curriculum?
When and by whom was the state of education in the US discussed? What decisions were arrived at?
What was the really bad news according to the author?
What is wrong with the Curriculum of Inclusion?
Why does the author qualify the preoccupation with Eurocentrism as “a real tragedy”?
What way out does the author see?
Compare the ideas expressed in “Education” with those in the previous text.
C. Close Reading
Read the text again and: a) extract the main factual information from each paragraph; b) find the words and word-combination which convey the author’s viewpoint; c) find the quotations which contribute to the objectivity of the information given in the text; d) define the message of the text; e) comment on the direct and indirect means of conveying the message.
Analyze the structure of the text (introduction, development of the topic, conclusion).
Comment on the role of the following sentences in developing the author’s viewpoint, on the one hand, and persuading the reader, on the other. Name the stylistic device used here.
Now the bad news ... ;
Now the really bad news ... ;
The real tragedy of this … is a trap … .
Critical Reading
Prove that the author managed not only to give the information on the problem but to move and to persuade the reader.
Comment on the stylistic devices used and say whether they are original or hackneyed.
Do you think there were good reasons for the author to use words related to medicine (psychic, pathology, psychotherapy, antidote, etc.)?
Do you agree that the pursuit of good feeling in education is a dead end?
Does the conclusion of the essay seem convincing enough?
Word study
1. Match the two columns.
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Use a Thesaurus to find synonyms for the following.
evidently, superfluous, exceedingly, adverse, damage, devastate, relentlessly, hindrance.
Use an English-English dictionary to explain the meaning of the following words and word combinations.
masquerade, it ranks at the bottom, obsessive preoccupation with indulgency, antidote, on its face.
Suggest neutral words which can be used instead of the following bookish words.
indulge, damage, adverse.
Give words of the same root in Russian and say if they differ in meaning.
nation, risk, standard, fixation, intellectual, psychotherapy, ideology, psychic, pathology, elite.
Find in the text the English for:
социальные пороки; обсуждение проблем образования на высшем уровне; учебные материалы; предпринял атаку на …; явная ложь; сфабрикованный; высокий уровень отсева; навязчивая озабоченность; если вообще имеют отношение; стоит на последнем месте; тупик; противоядие.