Контрольная работа № 2

Задание №1.

Перепишите и переведите письменно при помощи словаря текст:

Literature.

When a novel or play is adapted for the screen it reaches a huge new audience. Surely the main point of story – telling is communication, so if more people can enjoy a story by seeing it in a visual form, what’s wrong with that?

A successful screen adaptation helps to promote (содействовать распространению) the original book and increase its sales. Often, in fact, recently filmed or televised books (even nineteenth – century classics) can become bestsellers all over again.

Pictures make stories more vivid and lifelike – every five – year – old child that. So, why should adult literature be any different? The simple fact is that screen adaptation give books a whole new realistic dimension (объём, измерение). They also make stories where the language is complex and old – fashioned much easier for modern readers to understand.

Quite frankly, without screen adaptations, the publishing industry would be far less healthy than it is. After all, we live in a visual culture where few people actually buy books. To put it bluntly, literature needs TV and films far more than TV and films need literature.

People lead busy lives these days. They don’t want to spend a week reading a novel when they can watch the film version in two hours. It’s a question of convenience (удобство).

Some screen adaptation are good, others are bad, but the main point about them is that they increase choice. You can read the book first and then see the film … see the film, then read the book … just read the book … just see the film. What’s wrong with choice?

Reading a book and watching a screen are two completely different experiences. Reading is active: your mind has to work and create images. Watching is passive: you just sit there and all the work is done for you. It’s less satisfying.

When you’re reading a book you’re able to stop and start whenever you like. The book can become a part of your life for a week – two weeks – however long it takes to read. With a film or TV series, though, the pace (noun, speed) is dictated … you don’t have the freedom to stop and think for five minutes before you carry on.

Screen adaptations are never as subtle (утончённый, искусный) and complex as the books or plays they’re based on. Characters are cut out, scenes removed … that’s because time is always a key issue, especially for film – makers. Producers, directors and screen – writes constantly have to ask themselves, ‘How can tell we fit the story into two hours?’

Books can tell you what characters are thinking. Films and TV serials can’t. They have to use dialogue instead.

Adaptation suits books with a very dynamic plot and a strong visual element – The Jurassic Park, for example – but it doesn’t suit more complex literary fiction a novel and a scrip.

Adaptations have an unfair (несправедливый) influence on the book industry. OK, they turn a certain number of novels into bestsellers, but what about the hundreds of other books, excellent books, which are ignored simply because they haven’t been filmed?

Задание 2.

Ответьте письменно на следующие вопросы:

1.What is the main point of a story?

2.What increase sales of the books?

3.Do you prefer to read a book or to watch a sceen version?

4.Is reading active?

5.Do you agree that adaptations have an unfair influence on the book industry? Why?

Задание 3.

Раскройте скобки, употребив глаголы в нужном времени:

BARBARA CARTLAND.

Barbara Cartland is a famous love-story writer.According to the Guinness Book of Records she (be) _ the best-selling author in the world.

Barbara Cartland (be born) _____at the beginnig of the century.She (write) _____ her first book when she (be)____ twenty-one and it sold out as soon it (reach) _____ the shops.

Since then she (write)____ over 450 books, and all of them (be) about

love.

Задание 4.

Из четырех вариантов (А),(В),(С),(D) выберите единственно правильный:

1.Mount Everest is ________ mountain in the world.

1. high

2. higest

3. the higher

4. the highest

2.What is the first word children learn to ____?

(A)talk

(B)tell

(C)say

(D)retell

3.I don't think I have ____ eaten Chinese food before.

(A)always

(B)ever

(C)sometimes

(D)never

4.I’d like you to meet a very good friend of _____Tom Brown.

(A)us

(B)we

(C)our

(D)ours

5.Nick bought a new tie.It _____ 10 dollars.

(A)costed

(B)had costed

(C)cost

(D)was cost

Контрольная работа № 3

(для студентов специальности 071302 «Социально-культурная деятельность и

народное художественное творчество»

специализация «Декоративно-прикладное творчество»)

Задание 1.

Прочтите текст и переведите письменно на русский язык.

MUSEUMS

For those people who prefer food for thought there are very many museums, exhibition halls and picture galleries. There are different kinds of museums. Those who are interested in history can find a lot of useful and unusual information in history museums. There they can get acquainted with a number of documents, photographs, books, personal belongings of well-known people of the past. In museums of local lore, history and economy one can better understand how people lived in this region, how they worked. They can also learn a lot of interested things about flora and fauna of the locality. To understand arts and to enjoy masterpieces of art one should visit picture galleries and exhibition halls.

There are a great number of museums all over the word. The most famous of them in Russia are the Museums of fine arts named after Pushkin and the State Tretyakov Arts Gallery in Moscow, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and other. The State Hermitage is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. The arts of all the peoples in the word are represented here. The Hermitage Museums was founded in 1764 as a pavilion called the Hermitage. Today it has over 350 exhibition halls, which house a very rich collection of works of art.

One of the largest museums in Great Britain is the British Museums, which is the best known national museum of antiquities and ethnography. It is situated in London. The British Museum is a huge beautiful building with a high round reading hall in it. It is famous for its greatest library. The library has more than six million books that occupy more than 80miles of shelves. Here you can find everything you want: English Chronicles, autographs of great writers, Greek and Latin manuscripts, books and magazine from all parts of the world. There are also lots of other memorials in the museum: the Hall of Mummies, the Ethnography Department, the Arts of Par East and so on. There are always many visitors from all countries in the British Museum.

Задание 2.

Выпишите из текста названия музеев и подберите краткую информацию о них на англ.яз.

Задание 3.

Найдите в тексте ответы на следующие вопросы:

1.What are different kinds of museums?

2. What can we find in the museums of local lore?

Задание 4.

Из четырех вариантов (А),(В),(С),(D) выберите единственно правильный:

1.He phoned _____ tell her about the party.

(A)for

(B)to

(C)and

(D)because

2.How _____ letters are there in Russian alphabet?

(A)much

(B)few

(C)a few

(D)many

3.I have worked as a teacher _____ 6 years.

(A) for

(B) in

(C) since

(D) by

4.In the 20-th years of our century the films were _____ .

(A) feature

(B) documentary

(C) silent

(D) video

5.____ is an art.

(A) sketch

(B) manuscript

(C) painting

(D) wood carving.

Контрольная работа №3

(для студентов специальности 071302 «Социально-культурная деятельность и

народное художественное творчество»

специализация «Постановка театрализованных представлений»)

Задание 1.

Прочтите текст и письменно переведите его на русский язык.

The theatre.

People live a very busy life nowadays, so they have little time to spare. Still they try their best to make use of those rare hours of leisure. Some people find it a pleasure to go the theatre. The theatre is one of the most ancient kinds of arts. For centuries people have come to the theatre for different aims: to relax, to be amused and entertainted, to have a good laugh, to enjoy the acting of their favourite actors and actresses.

Some people like drama, others are fond of music comedy. The subtlest theatre-lovers prefer ballet and opera. In our country there are a lot of theatres: big and small, new and old, famous and not very well known. The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow is among the most famous theatres in the world. Wonderful operas and ballets are staged in this theatre. The names of Ulanova, Plisetskaya, Maximova, Vasiliev, Arkhipova, Sotkilava and others are known worldwide. The other most popular Moscow theatres are the Maly Theatre, the Satire Theatre, the Vachtangov Theatre, the Variety Theatre and others. Young spectators attend the Children’s Musical Theatre and the Puppet Theatre more willingly. All these and lots of other theatres present a great variety of shows. That makes a spectator feel somewhat at a loss what theatre to choose. In this case it may turn out useful to consult a billboard and find out what and where is on. Sometimes you may face a difficulty of another kind: that is of getting tickets. If you don’t feel like standing in a queue for tickets at the box-office, you may book them beforehand. Ticket prices vary according to the seats. The better seats at the theartre are in the stalls and in the dress circle. They are rather expensive seats. Boxes, of course, are the best seats and the most expensive , too. Those people, who are short of money, take seats in the gallery, in the balcony or in the upper balcony. Tickets for afternoon performances are cheaper then those for evening perfomances.

Задание 2.

Bыпишите названия театров, которые встречаются в тексте, найдите и напишите краткую информацию о них на англ языке.

Задание 3.

Найдите в тексте ответы на следующие вопросы:

1.What are the main aims of visiting the theatre?

2.What are the better seats at the theatre?

Задание 4.

Из четырех вариантов (А),(В),(С),(D) выберите единственно правильный:

1.He phoned _____ tell her about the party.

(A)for

(B)to

(C)and

(D)because

2.How _____ letters are there in Russian alphabet?

(A)much

(B)few

(C)a few

(D)many

3.I have worked as a teacher _____ 6 years.

(A) for

(B) in

(C) since

(D) by

4.In the 20-th years of our century the films were _____ .

(A) feature

(B) documentary

(C) silent

(D) video

5.____ is an art.

(A) sketch

(B) manuscript

(C) painting

(D) wood carving.