Кудинова Практическиы курс англиыского языка для студентов международник Ч.2 2014

My parents helped me a lot with money, but I still have debts of about £10,000. Terrifying, isn’t it? It’ll probably rake me ten years to pay it off.

ELLIE GREEN, 24, Corporate lawyer

Young people are interested in politics, but it’s very

frustrating because you don’t feel you can really make a difference.

The thing is, a lot of social problems never seem to get dealt with properly. We still have homeless people, the

NHS doesn’t seem to work no matter how much money is

thrown at it, and more and more old people don’t have adequate pensions.

I’m buying a house with my boyfriend soon, because I

want to get on the property ladder before it’s too late. I only hope I manage to keep my job. If that goes, I’ve had

it. So I’m not very optimistic about the future.

PETER JAMIESON. 24, Trainee manager from Belfast

When my parents were young, they didn’t have to worry about finding a secure job with prospects of promotion. They seemed to be a lot more relaxed about the

future. These days we’re put under pressure to get ahead in the rat race. No wonder so many young people take drugs. One thing that really worries me is

the cost of housing. I share a house with four other blokes, and I’ll probably be living here for ever. There’s no way I’ll ever be able to afford a house of my own.

BOB WEST, 25, Plumber, London

I’ve never yet voted for the winning side in an election. Whoever I vote for, loses. So I guess I’m doing something wrong, somewhere. I still think it’s

important to vote, though. Let’s face it, people would soon kick up a fuss if they weren’t allowed to. I’m saving money, and as soon as my application has been processed, I’m going to leave the country and live in Canada. Now there’s a country that encourages young people and enterprise!

KYLIE WILLIAMSON, 24, Loans department in a bank

Politics just isn’t my kind of thing. Dry, dull people, who bleat on about the

same old things. I don’t think any of them know what it’s like to be our age nowadays.

A decent income is what matters to me, and as soon as I can, I’m going to start my own business.

JOE CASWELL, 20, Engineering student at Edinburgh

I know that if I don’t graduate, I’ll end up working in a dead-end job, just like my dad. So I know what I’m going to do – work my backside off to prove to my mum and dad that I can make it.

ALEX WILLIAMS, 24, Marketing account manager

There’s no such thing as a job for life these days. Employers can make you redundant as soon as there’s a downturn, so people don’t feel the same loyalty.

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A lot of my friends are changing jobs to boost their career prospects. I expect I’ll have several jobs before I’m 30, and I hope that in my working life I’ll have

several careers. I don’t want to do the same thing for ever. I’m going for an interview next week. More money, more responsibility. ‘Don’t put off till

tomorrow what you can do today’ is my motto.

3.Translate into English using the vocabulary from ex.1:

1.Кто бы ни пришел, меня нет дома.

2.Твое прошение о виде на жительство уже рассмотрели?

3.Естественно, его мать сразу закатила скандал.

4.Признайте, что вы не правы.

5.Как ты думаешь, можно найти себе занятие на всю жизнь?

6.На мой вопрос, когда он вернет мои лекции, он проблеял «скоро».

7.Я не требую невозможного, мне нужна нормальная посильная помощь.

8.Где бы он ни был, он всегда звонит мне в конце дня.

9.У меня нет никакой возможности придти к вам в этот день.

4. Match the first part of each sentence in the first column with the second

5. Translate into English, using possible expressions with ‘concern’:

1)Встревоженные жители дома устроили пикет.

2)Что вас беспокоит в этой ситуации?

3)Мое решение не затрагивает ваших интересов, зачем так переживать?

4) Мне не было никакого дела до вашей семьи, когда я организовывал нелепую свадьбу вашей сестры. Я думал только о вас.

5) Что касается решения комиссии, то оно было в нашу пользу. 6) Мне не все равно, что с тобой происходит.

7) Наша общая проблема в том, что пострадавшие не получают помощи.

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Problem Parents (Inside Out, p. 15):

1. Find English equivalents of these:

быть смущенным, обнимать, в свободное время, кошмар, талисман, не переносить (терпеть не мочь).

2. Match these words to their translation:

Reading and Speaking: Put That Paper Down and Listen to Me!

Read one of the texts, split into pairs and tell each other the gist of what you have read. Then listen to your partner tell you what he / she understood from your talk. The vocabulary notes before the texts will help you.

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for the occasion of sth – по какому-либо поводу particularly talkative – особенно разговорчивый to agree heartily – быть полностью согласным

to burst into laughter / tears – рассмеяться / расплакаться to run out (of sth to say) – исчерпать темы для разговора exception – исключение.

I was sitting in a suburban living room, speaking to a women’s group that had invited men to join them for the occasion of my talk about communication between women and men. During the discussion, one man was particularly talkative, full of lengthy comments and explanations. When I made the observation that women often complain that their husbands don’t talk to them enough, this man volunteered that he heartily agreed. He gestured toward his wife, who had sat silently beside him on the couch throughout the evening, and

said, ‘She’s the talker in our family.’

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Everyone in the room burst into laughter. The man looked puzzled and hurt. ‘It’s true,’ he explained. ‘When I come home from work, I usually have nothing to say, but she never runs out. If it weren’t for her, we’d spend the whole evening in silence.’ Another woman expressed a similar paradox about her husband: ‘When we go out, he’s the life of the party. If I happen to be in another room, I can always hear his voice above the others. But when we’re home, he doesn’t have that much to say. I do most of the talking.’

Who talks more, women or men?

...Women are believed to talk too much. Yet study after study finds that it is men who talk more – at meetings, in mixedgroup discussions, and in classrooms where girls and young women sit next to boys or young men. For example, communications researchers Barbara and Gene Eakins tape-recorded and studied seven university faculty meetings. They found that, with one

exception, men spoke more often and, without exception, spoke for a longer period,

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rapport – взаимопонимание to stand out – выделяться setting – обстановка

to approach sth – подойти к чему-то

a means to do sth – средство для совершения чего-либо to maintain – поддержать

to exhibit – демонстрировать to impart sth – сообщать

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. Emphasis is placed on displaying similarities and matching experiences. From childhood, girls criticise peers who try to stand out or appear better than others. People feel their closest connections at home, or in settings where they feel at home – with one or a few people they feel close to and comfortable with – in other words, during private speaking. But even the most public situations can be approached like private speaking.

For most men, talk is primarily a means to preserve independence and negotiate and maintain status in a hierarchical social order. This is done by exhibiting knowledge and skill, and by holding centre stage through verbal performance such as story telling, joking, or imparting information. From childhood, men learn to use talking as a way to get and keep attention. So they are more comfortable speaking in larger groups made up of people they know less well –

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in the broadest sense, ‘public speaking’. But even the most private situations can be approached like public speaking, more like giving a report than establishing rapport.

Reading and Speaking: Getting Together 21st Century Style

In groups of four: read the introduction and one of the texts and summarise it for your partners, then discuss your attitude to the information you’ve read / heard. Before you start reading study the vocabulary for your piece.

Getting Together 21st Century Style

Traditionally, people have found friends and partners through school, work and mutual friends. But these days there are so many other ways people can get together – not just for dating, but for marriage or just to broaden their social life!

Speed dating speed dating – быстрые свидания

that was so nineties – это было так типично для девяностых годов time-consuming – занимающий много времени

It's all about speed – все дело в скорости, здесь важна скорость in three minutes flat – ровно за три минуты

a series – серия, последовательность, ряд up to 15 people – количеством до 15 человек to fill in sth – заполнить что-либо

within – в течение

Forget about candlelit dinners and flowers. That was so nineties, and so timeconsuming. For those ready to embrace a new world of love and marriage, it's all about speed ... speed dating that is. It's fast food for starving singles and just about as romantic.

However, speed dating has other attractions. To start with, it's fun ... for those who can tell their life story in three minutes flat. The dating company hires a bar or restaurant and you have a series of three-minute conversations with up to fifteen people in one evening. You are not allowed to ask for a date, phone number or e-mail address. At the end of the conversation, you fill in a card

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saying ‘date’, ‘friend’ or ‘miss’. The company will arrange a meeting for any couple who both ticked ‘date’ within forty-eight hours.

Practical, pragmatic, less anonymous than online, less risky than blind dates, more serious than the bar scene. Synchronise your watches. Get ready. Get set. Date.

Arranged marriages

arranged marriage – брак с человеком, выбранным родителями to come up with – предложить

a CV – резюме

to be bound to be compatible – быть просто обязанным подойти друг другу

...and here we are... – и вот

a wedding anniversary – годовщина свадьбы

Maybe you associate arranged marriages with the past, but they are still very much alive and well in the twenty-first century. Rajev and Vandana are a modern couple with two incomes and two boys aged six and eight, but an arranged marriage suits them perfectly.

Rajev explains, ‘At the age of twenty-seven, I called my parents in India and told them I was ready to get married. My parents searched for a young woman who’d been raised in India, spoke good English, and was prepared to live abroad.’ They came up with more than fifty candidates and sent pictures and CVs – Vandana was the first one he liked.

Meanwhile, Vandana’s parents had been searching for a husband for her too. ‘With our similar upbringings, our values were bound to be compatible,’ she says. ‘A meeting was arranged ... and here we are ... we are getting ready to celebrate our eleventh wedding anniversary.’

They expect that their two boys will want to choose their own partners, and have no problem with that. But if either asks for an arranged marriage, they'll be happy to help.

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Friends Reunited a dot com phenomenon – интернет-феномен

Julie's mind turned back to sth – Джулия вспомнила...

to be up to sth – заниматься чем-либо to obtain sth – получить

nosiness – любопытство

to set sth up – организовать что-либо spoof – розыгрыш

a convict – отбывший срок преступник a jail – тюрьма

to be eager to do sth – гореть желанием что-то сделать apparently – очевидно

a venture – предприятие, бизнес, чаще всего рискованные авантюры

Friends Reunited was the brainchild of Julie and Steve Pankhurst, who set up this dot com phenomenon from their living room in North London. It all started when, pregnant with her first child, Julie s mind turned back to her school days. ‘I just started to wonder what my old

schoolmates were up to now.’ The idea was very simple: using a list of 40,000 schools, colleges and universities, members obtain details of old school friends who have also registered, and can then e-mail them and meet up with them if they wish. Friends Reunited is now the most visited website in the UK, with

around 3.6 million visits a day. ‘What I didn’t expect is the nosiness the site allows,’ says Steve. ‘Everybody is curious to find out what old friends are doing

now.’

There has been a surprising off shoot. When twenty-seven-year-old Mike Breach set up a spoof version called ‘Convicts Reunited’ as a joke, he received a massive response from the ex-inmates of Britain’s jails. Today it too boasts over 4,000 members, eager apparently to share memories, and work together on their latest ventures.

Reading groups

a leisure pursuit – возможности занять свой досуг to sweep through – нестись, мчаться по

to sign up for sth – подписаться на что-либо over tea – за чаем

buzz – оживленный шум

Nowadays people say that the art of reading is dead, killed off by modern media, the Internet and other leisure pursuits. Try telling that to members of one of

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Britain’s fastest-growing leisure activities – reading groups. The movement has been sweeping through Britain since the 1990s, and is still growing all the time, with an estimated 50,000 people now signed up.

The idea couldn’t be simpler – members of the group agree to read a certain book, and then, a few weeks later meet up to exchange opinions over tea, coffee, or a glass of wine. Readers meet mainly in people's homes, but also in prisons, pubs,

a zoo ... and, in one case, a dentist’s waiting room! In Britain, sixty-nine percent of the groups are all female, and very few members are under the age of thirty. So why are they so popular? ‘I love the buzz and the sharing of opinions and chat,’ one reader said. ‘I love reading and it gives me a few hours to myself away from the kids.’

Listening and Speaking: The Reunion 1. Three friends,

Alan, Sarah, and James, were all at university together in Durham, a town in the north of England. Now, ten years later, they are planning a reunion. Listen

as much as possible of the chart. The following names are mentioned.

Claypath the Lotus Garden the Midlands The County The Three Tuns

Leeds the Kwai Lam Saddler Street Sunderland

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

A: survival, Tell me about it!, a reunion, I can’t wait, to fancy, bang opposite the restaurant; B: to disturb sb, to interrupt, a get-together, to put sb up for a night

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Travelling from?

How?

Leaving at what time?

Arriving in Durham at?

Staying where?

Going to which restaurant?

Where is it?

Where are they going to meet?

What time?

2. What might go wrong with their arrangements? Or will everything work out all right?

Reading and Speaking: Facebook

1.Read the text. Match the information 1-6 with paragraphs A-E:

1.Zuckerberg doesn't live his life like a millionaire

2.His school didn't like his original project

3.It is a risk for Zuckerberg to keep the company

4.Zuckerberg wants to hold on to his company

5.Facebook is expected to keep growing

6.Zuckerberg started Facebook at university

Facebook

A. Mark Zuckerberg's life so far is like a movie script. A supersmart kid invents a tech phenomenon while attending college. Just three years later, what started as a networking site for college students has managed to become a tool for 19 million registered users. More than half of the users visit every day. It is now the sixth most visited site in the United States. It also rates as the number one photo-sharing site on the Web, with 6 million pictures uploaded daily. A recent report projected that Facebook would generate $969 million in revenue, with 48 million users, by 2010.

B. However, on meeting Zuckerberg you find it easy to stop thinking of him as the head of a world-beating organisation. He still lives in a rented apartment, with a mattress on the floor and only two chairs and a table for furniture. He walks or bikes to the office every day.

C. Zuckerberg doesn't deny starting life as a computer hacker. One night early in his second year, he hacked into Harvard's student records. He then opened a basic site called Facemash, which paired photos of undergraduates and invited visitors to determine which one was 'hotter'. Four hours, 450 visitors, and 22,000 photo views later, Harvard closed

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Zuckerberg's Internet connection. Within a short time, he had set up the Facebook template and let students fill in their own information. Thefacebook.com, as it was originally called, launched on 4 February, 2004. Within two weeks, half the Harvard student body had signed up. Before long, it was up to two-thirds. In November 2004, Facebook passed the one million users mark. By the autumn of 2005, there were five million users who visited the site at least once a month.

D.Facebook's staggering success has resulted in quite a few concerned organisations trying to buy out the owners of Facebook. For example, it was reported that Yahoo had made a $1 billion offer to buy Facebook. Zuckerberg and his partners politely told them to look elsewhere. They didn't even need time to stop and think. When asked, Zuckerberg seems uninterested in selling. ‘I'm here to build something for the long term,’ he says. ‘Anything else is a distraction.’ He and his colleagues are true believers.

E.However, hanging over the Facebook talk is the ghost of Friendsfer, the first significant social-networking site. It reportedly turned down a chance to sell out to Google in 2002 for $30 million, approximately worth about $1 billion today. Now Friendster is struggling, trying to stay with the next generation of sites. The same thing could happen to Facebook.

2. Read the text again. Are these statements true or false, according to the text?

1.Facebook is the most popular site for sharing pictures.

2.Mark Zuckerberg behaves like the owner of a major organisation.

3.The original Facebook was only for students at his university.

4.Zuckerberg illegally used university records.

5.In less than a year there were five million users visiting the site.

6.Zuckerberg thought carefully about selling Facebook.

7.The story of another website shows that Zuckerberg is probably making the right decision.

3. Write the verbs from the box under the correct heading -

verb + -ing, verb + obj + inf, verb + -ing or infinitive:

manage, stop, deny, tell, persuade, suggest, forget, try, enjoy, seem, encourage, want, remind, finish, promise , need

4. Tick the correct sentences. Correct the incorrect verb patterns.

1.Peter always forgets locking the door at night.

2.I think you should invite to come him.

3.I want to see if they have any copies left.

4.They attempted seeing him but it was impossible.

5.Do you remember walking through the park last week?

6.I am trying to practise playing the piano more.

7.Would you consider to leave early?

8.I've been trying making the TV work all night.

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