Английский язык (практика устной и письменной речи)

МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ

ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТОВ 5 КУРСА ОЧНОГО ОТДЕЛЕНИЯ

ПО СПЕЦИАЛЬНОСТИ 032301.65 «РЕГИОНОВЕДЕНИЕ»

Ставрополь, 2010

Методическое пособие по дисциплине «Английский язык (практика устной и письменной речи)» для студентов 5 курса очного отделения специальности 032301.65 « Регионоведение»/ Сост. преподаватель кафедры иностранного языка Е.Л. Морозова – Ставрополь, 2010.

Методическое пособие состоит из разделов, посвященных следующим темам: «Books and readers», «Cinema: its past, present, future», «The Theatre», «Travelling. Holiday-Making. Environmental Protection», «The Generation Gap», а также в данном пособии представлены тестовые задания.

Данное методическое пособие предназначено для студентов пятого курса специальности 032301.65 «Регионоведение».

Задачи дисциплины «Английский язык (практика устной и письменной речи)»:

- расширить словарный запас студентов;

- совершенствовать умения чтения и перевода различных текстов.

Contents

1. Books And Readers

2. Cinema: Its Past, Present And Future

3. The Theatre

4. Travelling. Holiday-making. Environmental protection

5. The Generation Gap

6. Tests

Books and readers

Vocabulary

Children’s books – книги для детей

Adult’s books – книги для взрослых

Travel books – книги о путешествиях

Biography – биография

Romantic – романтический

Historical novel – исторический роман

Thriller – триллер

Detective stories – детективы

Science fiction – научная фантастика

Fantasy – фэнтези

Non-fiction – документальный

Answer the questions

1) Do you like reading books?

2) What do you prefer to read: books, magazines or newspapers?

3) Which books are you reading now?

4) Where is your favourite place to read?

5) Who is your favourite novelist?

6) What is your favourite poem?

7) Who is your favorite character?

8) Which character do you hate most?

9) Which contemporary author do you most admire?

10) Which is the first book you can remember reading?

11) With which character would you most like to have an affair?

12) What is your favourite children book?

13) Which book would you like to see filmed?

14) What is the worst screen adaptation?

15) Which book would you make compulsory reading?

Define the genres of the texts

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Once upon a time as a merchant set off for market, he asked each of his three daughters what she would like as a present on his return. The first daughter wanted a brocade dress, the second a pearl necklace, but the third, whose name was Beauty, the youngest, prettiest and sweetest of them all, said to her father:

"All I'd like is a rose you've picked specially for me!"

Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive. Mr. Vernon Dursley had been woken in the early hours of the morning by a loud, hooting noise from his nephew Harry's room.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

The Jedi Padawan jumped to a sitting position in his cot on the starship, his eyes popping open wide, sweat on his forehead and his breath coming in gasps. A dream. It was all a dream.