Кудинова Практическиы курс аглиыского языка для студентов международник Ч.1 2014

4)What is the subject of the phone-in?

5)What do we learn about Kerry’s opinions?

6)What is the cause of the delays on M4?

7)Is the situation on the M6 better or worse than before?

8)What is the young man trying to say to the young woman?

9)Does she believe him? Why?

Speaking: Using Active Vocabulary:

1a. Do you like T-shirts with funny inscriptions? This is a T-shirt which is supposed to tell the people surrounding you who you are. It comes with a special pen which you can use on textile to write your name in the gap.

Instead of the word “shopaholic” you can choose other “diagnoses”.

1b. In pairs: take turns to guess what your partner is. Use this model:

Are you a shopaholic? – No, I am not addicted to shopping. I don’t think shopping is addictive.

Here is the list of possible variants. You can invent your own “diagnoses” if you will.

Chocoholic, workaholic, videogames-holic, iPhoneholic, discoholic, coffeholic, cityholic, dachaholic, Yogaholic, filmoholic, bookaholic, moneyholic, Blogoholic, scienceholic, beautyholic, hardrockholic, jazzoholic.

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2. What words from the list in 1b can you find in a dictionary? Will people understand those which are not to be found in a dictionary? What words have equivalents registered in a dictionary?

Reading and Speaking: Giving Up TV

1.Discuss the following questions in small groups.

a)How important is television to you personally? How many hours of TV do you watch in an average week?

b)Do you consider yourself, or anyone you know, a 'telly addict'?

c)Why might someone decide to give up TV?

2.Read the text quickly. Which sentence best describes the attitude of the writer towards television?

a)He adores TV, but decided to give it up because it was dominating his life.

b)He's found it virtually impossible to reduce the amount of TV he watches.

c)He finds himself less and less devoted to television, but still can't stop watching it completely.

d)He's totally disillusioned with television and has lost all interest in it.

3.Read the text again. Say whether these statements are true or false:

a)He slowly reduced the amount of television he watched.

b)He spent more than an hour looking for something interesting to watch.

c)He watched television twenty-four hours a day as a child.

d)He found it hard to find other things to do instead of watching TV.

e)He stopped following the news on TV.

f)He stopped watching his favourite TV programme, The Simpsons.

Giving Up TV

First off, I have to admit the falseness of the title. You can't give up television. You might want to. You might try. You might even succeed for about twenty-four hours. But, eventually you will go back. I know. I've spent the last three years trying to wean myself off the box in the corner.

It started simply. I have satellite TV, and therefore have, at the best guess, some 200 or so channels available, eighty percent being completely devoted to shopping. Of the remainder, some I felt I couldn't live without. There were channels offering comedy, a host of BBC entertainment programmes I had previously enjoyed, drama, a huge choice of instant headline news to gorge upon, historical documentaries ...

Then one day I found, with an audible start, I had been sitting for over an hour flicking listlessly through all seven million or so channels, resting on each programme for no more than thirty seconds or so.

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A thought suddenly occurred to me. I was falling out of love with television. I've been in love with television now for almost my entire life. When I first fell in love, television needed frequent breaks from me. Then came twenty-four-hour television. The satellite revolution brought more delights I couldn't get enough of. More awful talk shows. More cheap adverts. A twenty- four-hour diet (though most go off between three and six a.m., thus giving me a chance to grab some sleep) of television without limits.

And we both lived happily ever after.

Until that day, when I had wasted an hour of my life on television without actually finding anything to entertain, inform or educate me.

Never mind. The next night, I was back, lying in front of The Box in the corner, idly flicking. And finding nothing. At that point, I decided to give up television. It's been nice knowing you, but it's over. So long, and thanks for all the eyestrain.

But it isn't possible. I didn't manage to give up. But I did manage to detach. If I missed a programme I had read about I didn't mourn or worry. I let the programme go. Next I gave up surfing. Easy. It was never rewarding - proof not only that television had fallen out of love with me at the same time I had fallen out of love with television, but that television had come to hate me personally. Finding other things to do was easy.

I went back to reading, devouring a whole book in an evening. Finally came news. I love news, possibly more than I love television. So this was the hardest to give up. But television actually helped. Ceefax gave me instant, always-on news at any time, better written and more succinct than television or radio has ever managed. But that leaves a single gap. “The Simpsons”. I can't tear that final link. The equivalent of keeping a wedding album years after the divorce is, for me, “The Simpsons”. Whilst every other programme has dropped away, “The Simpsons” remains. One day, I know I'll give that series up too. At that point television will be part of my history. I'll remain forever fond of the good times, and sour at how I was betrayed. But I'll be free.

Some time after the next episode of “The Simpsons”.

5. Find English equivalents of these vocabulary units in the text:

1. удаваться; 2. в конце концов; 3. по приблизительной оценке; 4. Всего хорошего! (=пока!); 5. горевать о; 6. поглощать целую книгу за вечер; 7. лаконичный; 8. сжечь последний мост, связующий с чем-либо.

6. Split into pairs and discuss these questions:

What are the three items of technology you use most often? Are you technologically minded or are you a technophobe?

What do you think is the greatest technological innovation? Give your reasons.

Study the information in the box, then complete the questions with some of the words from the box:

apparatus (sng=pl) 1) прибор, инструмент; аппаратура; агрегат, блок, машина inhalation therapy apparatus —аппарат для ингаляционной терапии

oxygen breathing apparatus — кислородно-дыхательный аппарат, респиратор

2)анат., физиол. органы, система digestive apparatus — органы пищеварения

vestibular apparatus — вестибулярный аппарат

3)органы управления

The state apparatus has become corrupt. — Гос. аппарат

appliance (сущ.) аппарат, прибор; приспособление, устройство – domestic electric appliances – кухонная техника

equipment 1) оборудование; оснащение; оснастка office equipment — офисное оборудование, оргтехника sports equipment — спортивные снаряды

device 1) устройство, приспособление; механизм; аппарат, машина, прибор listening device — подслушивающее устройство

2) метод, методика, способ

labour-saving device — рационализаторский приём, прием, экономящий усилия

gadget (разг.) приспособление, техническая новинка

kitchen gadgets including toasters, kettles and percolators — кухонные приспособления,

включая тостеры, чайники и кофеварки an expensive car full of gadgets

machine 1) машина, механизм; станок answering machine — автоответчик

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cash machine (амер.) — банкомат sewing machine — швейная машина

washing machine — стиральная машинаcoffee machine

2) а) аппарат, управленческая машина state machine — гос. аппарат

engine 1) машина, двигатель; мотор to run/start the engine — запускать, заводить двигатель. to warm up the engine — прогревать двигатель 2) локомотив, паровоз

1.How many household ____ can you name?

2.How often do you use a cash ____ to get money?

3.What do you think is the most useful labour-saving ___?

4.What other clever ___ can you think of, e.g. satellite navigation system, compass, can-opener, MP3 player?

5.What is the name of the breathing ___ which divers use so they can stay underwater?

6.How long do you need to warm up a car ____?

2.Work in pairs to ask and answer the questions in ex. 2.

3.Match synonyms together, translate them, try to show the difference

5.In pairs. Look at the pictures. What adjectives would you use to describe them? Discuss a piece of technology you like or dislike.

6.Before you listen make sure you know these words and phrases:

1.to detest, an emergency, a pest, to loathe sb/sth, a pain in the neck, to put one’s headphones on, state-of-the-art, to drown out the noise, inconsiderate, to take a call.

2.a chrome surface, durable, right away, to be handy for sth, a fellow-traveller, to sneak a look at sth.

3.a shredder, to keep doing sth, identity fraud (uncountable), user-friendly, to be green, to recycle.

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7. Listen to three people describing technological equipment and make notes to answer the questions with details:

1.What piece of technology is mentioned by each speaker?

2.What do they like or dislike about the technology they mention?

3.Is the first speaker a technophobe? Prove it by quoting him.

4.Is the second speaker a fashion addict? Prove it by quoting her.

5.Is the third speaker an important person in the world? Does he take care of the environtment? Prove it by quoting him.

Grammar: Auxiliaries

1.Look at the two women in the photo below. Who or what do you think they are talking about?

2.Choose the correct auxiliary in the conversation below.

3.In this kind of conversation, how do people show interest in what the other person is saying?

Liz: I suppose you've heard the latest about Ian and Patsy?

KATE: NO, what's happened?

Liz: Oh, haven't you heard? They've split up!

KATE: (1) Are they? / Do they? / Did they? / Have they?

Liz: Yeah, I thought everyone knew.

KATE: Hmm ... well, I suppose it’s not really surprising, (2) does it? / doesn't it? / is it? / isn't it? I mean they never

really seemed to have that much in common. Liz: How do you mean?

KATE: Well, their interests, for a start, he's really into his computers and computer games and things like that, but she (3) does / doesn't / is / isn't. She prefers something a bit livelier, going out to clubs and things, having a good time ...

Liz: Yeah. She (4) does / is / isn't / was like going out more than him, that's true. KATE: Has she told you anything about it?

Liz: Yes, (5) she did / she has / she is / she was. Actually, she phoned me on Friday. It seems that it all came to a bit of a crisis when they ...

Grammar, Listening and Speaking: Auxiliaries 1. Write B's answers in the gaps:

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Vocabulary, Reading and Speaking: Smart Stuff

1.How do you understand the title of the text?

2.Study the dictionary information in the box then do the translation:

staff – штат служащих, служебный персонал, личный состав, кадры, штаты.

member of the staff – сотрудник, to be on the staff – быть штатным сотрудником, skeleton staff – основной состав, hospital staff – персонал больницы, coaching staff –

команда тренеров, teaching staff – учительско-преподавательский состав (в школе), профессорско-преподавательский состав (в университете).

stuff – 1) материал, вещество – What stuff is this chair made of? 2) разг. ерунда, хлам, дрянь – What is the stuff we are eating? Please come, we would like to introduce you to the office staff, show our building, sign some documents – stuff like that. 3) штука, штуковина (заменяет все существительные) Have you seen the stuff I bought while I was on holiday?

sweet stuff - сладости

green stuff – зелень (укроп, петрушка, кинза и т.д.)

to stuff (sb/sth with sth) – 1) набивать – to stuff one’s pockets with sweets; 2)

фаршировать – stuffed turkey; 3) пичкать, перекармливать – Don’t stuff the child, he’ll eat as much as he needs. 4) переполнять, перегружать – The student stuffed his report

with long difficult words which he couldn’t pronounce. a stuffed animal – чучело животного

a stuffed toy – мягкая игрушка

a stuffed shirt – напыщенное ничтожество

stuffy - душный

1.Так кто у тебя в штате (сотрудников)?

2.Всех сотрудников просили подписать документы на отпуск.

3.Так как же ты нашел всю эту ерунду про Марка?

4.Похоже, Мари тут свои вещи оставила.

5.Сладкое – моя слабость.

6.Давай приготовим фаршированный кабачок (vegetable marrow).

7.Из какого материала ты собираешься делать этот проект?

8.Какие работы Мишель собирается представить на своей выставке?

9.Пожалуйста, никогда не дари мне мягких игрушек.

10.Ну и какой он, наш новый сотрудник? – Сноб, напыщенный сноб.

11.Не пытайся засунуть в чемодан весь свой гардероб, это лишнее.

12.Положи побольше зелени в салат.

13.Здесь слишком душно, давай откроем все окна.

14.После такого ужина хочется засунуть в рот побольше фаст-фуда, таким он был диетическим.

3.Try to guess the meaning of the following vocabulary units, then read the introductory paragraph of the text. What do you think it’ll be

about?

to come under the heading “…”, a heart-rate monitor, an accessory, a pocket sized computer = a hand-held computer.

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4.Split into pairs and read one piece of the text each. Use the matching exercise below to help you with unknown vocabulary. Then summarise

Smart Stuff

Introduction

Increasingly over the last few years, we have become familiar with the range of small electronic gadgets that come under the heading 'smart' accessories. Joggers, for example, run with heart-rate monitors, and shop assistants carry pocket-sized computers. But these are just the first examples of a whole range of new products that promises to change our lives in all sorts of surprising ways.

Part A

As a scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Rosalind Picard tries out all kinds of smart accessories before they go on the market. One of these was the so-called 'frown headband'. It came as a shock to Rosalind to realise just how often she frowned. Stuck in a traffic jam recently, waiting for the cars to move forward, Rosalind kept hearing the sounds of the tiny sensor inside the band worn around her forehead - each time she frowned in frustration, the sensor gave out a signal.

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Headbands that check facial expressions are just one of the things she and her colleagues have designed. Their aim is to make ready-to-wear items that both look good and give the wearer useful feedback. Body sensors, like those in Rosalind's headband, can detect physical changes that the wearer might not otherwise be aware of. Hidden inside watches, rings or shoes, these sensors can check for signs of stress, give information and offer advice.

Part B

Another computer scientist, Steven Feiner, is working on a pair of glasses that will do more than help you to see. Imagine you want to try a restaurant in a foreign city but you're not familiar with the dishes on the menu. If you are wearing a pair of Steven's glasses, all you have to do is glance above the restaurant's doorway and your glasses will immediately become windows to the Internet, offering you full details of the meals served inside. Are you one of those people who lack confidence when giving a talk to an audience? Look to the right and the glasses will flash your notes in front of your eyes.

They could also prove useful for cooks who want to check a recipe without leaving sticky fingermarks all over their cookery books. At the moment, Steven's invention looks more like a pair of ski goggles than a pair of glasses. It's a headset connected to a hand-held computer and a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, which tracks the wearer's position. Students who don't mind being stared at have tried out the Star Trek-like device on campus. But Steven says that these head-worn displays will eventually get smaller, lighter and smarter as technology improves. As they will be relatively cheap, he foresees them replacing the notebooks and manuals that workers have to carry. He predicts that they will be useful to surgeons, giving them instant access to a patient's medical notes while carrying out operations.

Conclusion

And of course, new technology has a fashionable as well as a useful application. A chemical engineer named Robert Langer has invented a newmicrochip that, if put inside a ring, can give off different scents according to a person's mood. That, of course, may or may not appeal to you. And, in the end, it is shoppers, not scientists, who will determine which of these smart accessories will succeed as fashionable items and which are destined to join history's long list of crazy inventions. Steven Feiner, concerned that vanity may prevent some people from wearing his glasses, is already working on the idea of contact lenses with the same features.

It is clear, however, that as small computer displays get brighter and cheaper, they will pop up in all sorts of easily-wearable accessories, even in the buttons on your coat. What's more, this is something that's going to happen a lot sooner than we all expect.

5. Now do the matching exercise for the conclusion of the text and read it:

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