- •Часть I
- •Contents
- •Prehistory
- •Stone age and neanderthals
- •Bronze age
- •Iron age
- •I. Hallstatt culture
- •II. La tène culture
- •Atlantis
- •Ancient egypt
- •Ancient greece
- •Ancient rome
- •The celts
- •The vikings
- •Easter island
- •The maya
- •Mini humans
- •History as a science
- •Methods of archeology
- •Stonehenge
- •Egyptian pyramids
- •Babylon
- •The hanging gardens of babylon
- •The acropolis
- •The temple of artemis in ephesus
- •Associated carved decorated deserved destroyed disappeared founded helped noted modeled reconstructed revived
- •The lighthouse of alexandria, egypt
- •The coliseum
- •Teotihuacán
- •The greatest architectural monuments
- •Pangaea
- •Aurora borelis
- •Isthmus and peninsula
- •Ethnic native physical considered separated joins country inhabitants isthmus landbridge projection region subcontinent
- •Perception of geography
- •Errors in geography
- •Do you know where the kong mountains are?
- •Polar exploration
- •Arctic encounter
- •Great discoveries and tragedies
- •I. Captain cook
- •Survey charted natives continent passage coast
- •II. Lieutenant bligh
- •Boat explorer conspiracy navigated voyage adrift circumstances feat crew instruments
- •Hot springs and geisers
- •From the history of toponymy
- •I. Horse latitudes
- •VI. Australia or antarctica?
- •Confusing geographical terms
- •Quizz 1. Words of geographical origin
- •Apple casual city glossy goat headwear inhabitant jeans leather pattern porcelain race slot steel
- •Quizz 2. “national brands”
- •Natural selection
- •Mutualism in nature
- •Brainy crows learn how to upgrade tools
- •Interfering with nature
- •Invaders
- •Unwelcome gifts
- •Camels in america
- •Fatal frogs
- •Ants united
- •The grizzly bear
- •Appearance flesh nature reputation temper avid cautious frosted terrifying classed destroyed observed
- •Spiders
- •Crocodiles, blood and carbon dioxide
- •MBreeding long mass mysterious only particular regular return sure steadily bodies causes efforts guideposts landmarks ysterious migration
- •Curious facts about animals
- •Balance in nature
- •Hunting
- •Nature’s last resorts
- •Golden lion tamarin
- •The american eagle
- •Vanishing horses
- •The coelacanth
- •Analysis fossils coast decomposed prevented presumed exciting enabling carrying ancient common extinct hollow peculiar
- •Crocodiles: scary but lovely to watch
- •Extinct species
- •Dinosaurs
- •Existent features prehistoric powerful principal vegetarian era hind period range
- •Stegosaurus
- •Mammoth
- •The phoenix: extinct or never existed
- •Number one factor
- •Keeepng fit
- •Feeling happy against all odds
- •Keeping warm in winter
- •Wake up, it is summer!
- •Medical smile
- •Sleep is vital
- •A breath of fresh air
- •Is smoking beneficial for you?
- •Living a long time
- •Good news for baldies
- •Running
- •Exercise – the case against
- •Mountaineering
- •Evolution of nutrition
- •Food: quality vs. Quantity
- •Canned food
- •A short history of beef
- •Worcestershire sauсe
- •Retirement order safe local wonderful original manufacturers horrible clearing stuff natural annually
- •It takes your breath away!
- •Ice cream
- •Margarine
- •CPhysical sequence combined brewed substance range resist unknown currency addiction explorers divine powers similar energized hocolate
- •Coca-cola
- •The sandwich
- •Existed sense advertising established incident gambling drag toast lump original portable
- •Eat more fruit and vegetables
- •Learning strategies
- •Intellegence and learning languages
- •Advantage animal approach genius intelligence habit measure mistakes question solution way word
- •The unique role of language
- •Iq (intelligence quotient)
- •Age and performance
- •Midlife crisis
- •Eq (emotional intelligence)
- •Rapport
- •How to be in high spirits
- •Caused claimed overcome improved guilt damage suicide hesitation shift coloured fed undervalued
- •Ways to successful learning
- •English spelling
- •Alarming tendency
- •Television and reading
- •Listening
- •Who invented writing
- •Invention in literature
- •Backgammon
- •Popular board games
- •I. Monopoly
- •II. Scrabble
- •The piano
- •Central combine central early impressive irritating
- •The origins of photography
- •Farewell to darkness
- •How television was invented
- •Available commercial convinced determination exploring earnings live living origin outline overnight persuaded recognizable transmitted spare
- •Gilletee, men’s best friend
- •The can opener
- •Inventions in sport
- •I. Frisbee
- •II. Basketball
- •Named after their creators
- •Boots cloth footwear hat instrument jacket pen raincoat revolver tuba
- •Technology and human history
- •Information revolution
- •A new generation of mobile phones
- •Indespensable device?
- •Telephone calls
- •Intelligent home
- •Satellite tv
- •Identity cards
- •Credit cards
- •Multycard
- •Refrigerators and environment
- •Technology and crime
- •Contribution of thieves
- •The microwave
- •Traffic lights
- •The world’s most loved car
- •Life behind the wheel
- •Housed humble luxury obsession response
- •Shortages traced used waiting working
- •6 . The car of the future
- •In Search of the Ideal Car
- •Deadly driving
- •Bicycles
- •Vanadium in automobile industry
- •Analyzed beaten discovered found invited made mined picked revolutionized remained unknown used
- •What does it take to be an astronaut?
- •Early years of space exploration
- •Board cooperation countdown joint mission orbit space risks crewed astronautics traveler scientist
- •Crewed space station
- •I. Salyut
- •II. Skylab
- •Challenger disaster
- •Weightless and heavenly happy
- •Apollo 13
- •Moon walk
- •Alone attention captured circling collective eternity fault historic link slipped surface uttered witnessed
- •In and out of space
- •Moon colony
- •Shelters explore determined attempts survival speculating permanent maintain steps conquering serve expand manufacturing extreme require
- •Sustaining life in space
- •Interstellar travel
- •Список использованной литературы
- •Useful words and facts текстовые задания по словообразованию и словоупотреблению
- •Часть I
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Eat more fruit and vegetables
A more recent report on the eat (1) habits of children in Britain suggests that children from the age of three to sixteen show a strong like (2) for vegetables and only eat suffice (3) amounts of fruit at Christmas. One researcher says not eating proper (4) may have serious consequences for a child’s speak (5) and physical development, resulting in poorer perform (6) at school.
One solve (7) is to give children extra iron and vitamins but in the long run it is more effect (8) if children get the right ingredients in their day (9) diet.
Fortunate (10), parents choose food for their children that is quick and convenience (11) to prepare, rather than food which is fresh and healthy. Consequence (12), it is difficult later to get children to change their habits.
JOKES
Progress is the continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink and wear as good as they used to be.
Appetizers are little things you eat until you lose your appetite.
I had supper with friends last night and was served an entirely vegetarian meal. So I said, ‘I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain in order to eat vegetables’.
My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight, but she is now extremely good at climbing trees.
1. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.
Learning strategies
Do you spend hours trying to memory (1) lists of words? Do you look up in the dictionary the mean (2) of every word you don’t know? If you do, you may not be doing yourself a favourite (3). Research suggests that the best way of build (4) up your vocabulary is by seeing words in context, and the obvious way to do that is to read extend (5). Regular expose (6) to written English, say, fifteen minutes every day, will be much more use (7) than working really hard only one evening weekly. This is count (8) for by the brain’s ability to remember information best when it is associated with other mean (9) information. The more you enjoy reading, the more you will read. Pop songs, TV programs, videos, films and even computer games (as long as they are in English) will help you in the same way. Who says that learning can’t be an extremely enjoy (10) activity?
2. Заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу словами из предложенного списка.
Intellegence and learning languages
Advantage animal approach genius intelligence habit measure mistakes question solution way word
Human being may be the most intelligent (1) ___ species, but most of us are not too sure what we mean when we talk about intelligence. One moment we use the (2) ___ to describe someone who knows the answer to a difficult (3) ___, and the next we will say that someone is intelligent because he has made a lot of money.
Intelligence is the ability to come up with a new (4) ___ to solve the problem, as opposed to doing things out of (5) ___ or conditioning. Rats in a maze can learn from (6) ___ that they made, but this is not intelligence.
A good example of intelligence is the (7) ___ that humans use tools to make life easier for themselves. One (8) ___ of intelligence is the ability of learning, or how long it takes to find a (9) ___ to the problem.
However, the ability to learn a language isn’t directly related to (10) ___. As children, we are programmed to learn to speak and it is not that intelligent children always speak at a younger age. Take a well-known example of the
(11) ___ Einstein who did not start speaking until he was 3 years old. But as we grow older, intelligent people have an (12) ___ because they find ways of making the most of the intelligence they have.
3. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.
