Кудинова Практическиы курс англиыского языка для студентов международник Ч.4 2014

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2. Read the article quickly. Who or what are the following:

3-D is Back

Although the filmed or photographic image has come a long way, it is still constrained by two dimensions – the height and width of the flat screen (l)

__________ . But humans do not see things in two dimensions. Because we have two eyes we see everything from two slightly different viewpoints. For us the real world is not flat, it has depth. In other words we see the world in three dimensions or 3-D.

For years film-makers have longed to be able to recreate that feeling of depth in movies but have been frustrated by the lack of technical progress. We would all now be watching 3-D films, even on our own televisions, if camera technology had developed at the same rate as computers. In fact, the first 3-D system was developed in the 1950s. If it (2) __________ more sophisticated it might have been more popular, but the quality of the images was poor and audiences had to wear special glasses which were uncomfortable and

could cause headaches. Now, developments in the field of digital imaging have made high-quality 3-D films a practical possibility, at least in cinemas fitted with the latest state-of-the-art equipment.

In the last few years many movies (3) __________ 3-D technology have appeared around the world. Some of the biggest studios in Hollywood have begun to release 3-D versions of their hit films, including Disney's Meet the Robinsons and Journey 3-D, a spectacular new version of Jules Verne's Journey

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to the Centre of the Earth, (4) __________ Brendan Fraser. The rock band U2 has made a film of their latest tour of South America called U2 3D, (5)

__________ on nine special cameras. More than 700 US cinemas have invested in the technology and hundreds of other cinemas have (6) __________the equipment.

But the existing technology is not sufficient for everyone. James Cameron, (7)

__________ is best known for directing Titanic, has actually made his own cameras for Avatar. He (8) __________ fed up waiting for the latest technology to be incorporated into cameras and insisted on (9) __________ his own 3-D cameras for the film. If Avatar makes as much money at the box office as Titanic did, then 3-D movies (10) __________ here to stay.

Grammar: Relative Clauses

Rewrite the text using relative clauses:

According to legend, the famous labyrinth in Crete was built by Daedalus. The Minotaur was imprisoned in the labyrinth. Daedalus was a master craftsman from Athens. Afterwards,

Daedalus was not allowed to leave. Daedalus’s son Icarus had come with him. So they decided to escape using two enormous pairs of wings. Daedalus had made the wings out of feathers.

Unfortunately Icarus ignored his father’s warning about not flying too close to the sun. Icarus was a typical teenager. The sun melted the wax and Icarus fell to his death. The feathers had been attached to the wings with wax.

Reading and Vocabulary: Scene by Scene

1.These texts are from a list of the one hundred most memorable film moments of the twentieth century. Match each text (1-5) to a film poster (A- E). What kind of film do you think each one is?

2.Match the summary titles (a-e) to the texts.

a)We don't take no for an answer

b)A new world over the rainbow

c)A man alone

d)Emotion on the ocean

e)They’re behind you

3. In groups. Which adjectives from the box would you use to describe each scene (1-5)?

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1)Hiding in her bedroom, Dorothy watches, terrified, as her house rises high into the air. Things fly past her window and the scene becomes more and more surreal. Old Elvira Gulch from the village appears on her bicycle and turns into a terrifying witch. There’s a crash and Dorothy’s black-and-white world turns into a world of spectacular colour. “Toto,” she says to her little dog, “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

2)With no help from the townspeople, it’s clear that Sheriff Kane will have to stand alone. When the clock strikes twelve, he gets up and walks out into the street. But even then he’s no fighting machine: he’s an anxious, middle-aged man, looking nervously around. That’s what makes him so heroic.

3)Melanie is sitting with her back to the school playground, waiting for the children and smoking – unaware of the crows gathering on the climbing frame behind her. The camera stays on Melanie for a long time, as we hear the children singing in the classroom. The suspense is maintained with the camera cutting back and forth from Melanie to the climbing frame as the crows gather. Finally she turns, sees the climbing frame covered in birds and rushes to the classroom. The crows attack.

4)Hagen is in Hollywood to convince producer Mr Woltz to put Sinatra-esque singer Johnny Fontaine into a movie. Woltz entertains Hagen in style, showing off his $600,000 stud horse, but refuses to give Johnny a part. Hagen tells him that Don Vito “neVer asks for a seconD faVour”. the next day, in the early morning light, the camera moves slowly towarDs woltz’s huge california mansion. in his beDroom,

Woltz gradually wakes up, looking confused. He sees blood on his sheets. He pulls them back – and there is the head of his $600,000 horse.

5)Rose has told Jack that she cannot go on seeing him because she’s engaged, but she cannot stop herself from secretly meeting him once more At the ship’s bow under the reddening evening sky,

Jack persuades her to step up onto the railings, stretch out her arms and lose herself in the ocean air. “Jack, I’m flying!” she exclaims To the music of worldwide chartbuster “My Heart Will Go

On”, Jack moves in for a long, slow kiss.

Adapted form The Observer

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4. Underline the verbs in these sentences from the texts in (1-5). Which tenses are used?

1.Dorothy watches as her house rises high into the air.

2.Sheriff Kane will have to stand alone.

3.Melanie is sitting with her back to the school playground.

4.Woltz gradually wakes up.

5.Rose has told Jack that she cannot go on seeing him.

To increase the drama when we describe the plot of a book or film, or tell jokes, we often use present and future tenses:

Michael has spent the whole day searching for Annie. He comes out of the lift and she’s standing there.

As soon as they see each other they know they’ll always be together.

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Reading: Artists

1. You are going to read about the lives of three famous people, Agatha Christie. Pablo Picasso, and Scott Joplin. Discuss the following questions in small groups.

1)Why were they famous?

2)Look at and /or listen to their most popular works.

3)Do you know any more?

4)What nationality were they?

5)Which century were they born in?

6)Which one do you know most / least about?

3. Complete each of the sentences with a verb in the right tense and a noun:

1.Agatha Christie __________

many famous __________.

2.I couldn't put the book down until I __________ the last __________ .

3.The only __________ I can

__________ is the piano.

4.Picasso often __________ unusual

__________ of his girlfriends.

5.Before I painted the picture I ____ a quick___ in pencil.

4. Work in groups of three.

Student A: Read about the writer. Student В: Read about the painter. Student С: Read about the musician. For your text do the following:

1)Do the matching task.

2)Find English equivalents for the given Russian words.

3)Retell your story to your partners answering the following questions:

1.Where was she / he born?

2.When was she / he born?

3.What do you learn about her / his childhood?

4.Which people played a part in her / his career?

5.What do you think were the most important events in her / his life?

6.What do you learn of her / his works?

7.When did she / he die?

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8.Which of the following numbers or dates relate to your person? What do they refer to?

Find equivalents to these: длиной до талии, пункт раздачи бесплатных лекарств, химические вещества и яды, оказаться полезным, нервный срыв, пожилой, страдать, быть решительно настроенным что-то сделать.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is possibly the world’s most famous detective story writer. She wrote 79 novels and several plays. Her sales outnumber those of William Shakespeare. However, behind her 4,680,000 words was a painfully

shy woman whose life was often lonely and unhappy.

She was born in 1890 in Devon, the third child of Clarissa and Frederick Miller, and grew into a beautiful and sensitive girl with waist-length golden hair. She

didn’t go to school but was educated at home by her mother. Her father died when she was 11 and both she and her mother were grief-stricken.

During World War I, while she was working in a hospital dispensary, she learned about chemicals and poisons, which proved very useful to her in her later career. She wrote her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920. In it she introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective who appeared in many subsequent novels. Her other main detective was an elderly spinster called Miss Marple.

In 1914, at the beginning of the war, she had married Archibald Christie but the

marriage was unhappy. It didn’t last and they divorced in 1926. That year there was a double tragedy in her life because her much-loved mother died. Agatha suffered a nervous breakdown and one night she abandoned her car and

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mysteriously disappeared. She went missing for 11 days and was eventually found in a hotel in Harrogate, in the North of England. It is interesting to note that it was while she was suffering so much that she wrote one of her masterpieces, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Agatha desperately wanted solitude and developed very bitter feelings towards the media because the newspapers had given her a hard time over her breakdown and disappearance. She was determined never to let them enter her private life again and she buried herself in her work. On 25 November 1952 her play The Mousetrap

opened in London. Today, over 40 years later, it is still running. It is the longest running show in the whole world.

She enjoyed a very happy second marriage to Max Mallowan, an archaeologist. Her detective skills were a help to him in his excavations in Syria and Iraq. By successfully staying out of the limelight she ultimately found happiness with her beloved husband. She died peacefully in 1976.

Find equivalents to these: баловать кого-то, любительский, палитра, с тех пор, картина работы Пикассо, случайно.

On 25 October 1881 a little boy was born in Malaga, Spain. It was a difficult birth and to help him breathe, cigar smoke was blown into his nose! But despite being the youngest ever smoker, this baby grew up to be one of the 20th

century’s greatest painters – Pablo Picasso.

Picasso showed his truly exceptional talent from a very young age. His first word was lapiz (Spanish for pencil) and he learned to draw before he could talk. He was the only son in the family and very good-looking, so he was thoroughly spoilt. He hated school and often refused to go unless his doting parents allowed

him to take one of his father’s pet pigeons with him!

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Apart from pigeons, his great love was art, and when in 1891 his father, who was an amateur artist, got a job as a drawing teacher at a college, Pablo went with him to the college. He often watched his father paint and sometimes was allowed to help. One evening his father was painting a

picture of their pigeons when he had to leave the room. He returned to find that Pablo had completed the picture, and it was so amazingly beautiful and lifelike that he gave his son his own palette and brushes and never painted again. Pablo was just 13.

From then onwards there was no stopping him. Many people realized that he was a genius but he disappointed those who wanted him to become a traditional painter. He was always breaking the rules of artistic tradition and shocked the public with his strange and powerful

pictures. He is probably best known for his ‘Cubist’ pictures, which used only simple geometric shapes. His paintings of people were often made up of triangles and squares with their features in the wrong place. His work changed our ideas about art, and to millions of people modern art means the work of Picasso. Guernica, which he painted in 1937, records the bombing of that little Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, and is undisputedly one of the masterpieces of modern painting.

Picasso created over 6,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures. Today a

‘Picasso’ costs several million pounds. Once, when the French Minister of

Culture was visiting Picasso, the artist accidentally spilt some paint on the

Minister’s trousers. Picasso apologized and wanted to pay for them to be cleaned, but the Minister said, ‘Non! Please, Monsieur Picasso, just sign my

trousers!’

Picasso died of heart failure during an attack of influenza in 1973.

Find equivalents to these: работать сверхурочно, на слух, заметить кого-то, импровизированный, неспокойная / небезопасная часть города.

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Ever since it was the musical theme in the film ‘The Sting’, there are few people who have not tapped their feet to the hit piano tune, ‘The Entertainer’ – the

most famous composition of the American musician, Scott Joplin.

Scott was born in Texas in 1868, into a poor but musical black family. His father, who was a freed slave, played the violin, and his mother played the banjo and sang. Scott played the violin and bugle but his favourite

instrument was his neighbour’s piano. His father worked extra hours to buy him a battered old grand piano, and soon Scott was playing by ear negro tunes, blues, and spirituals. Music flowed naturally from his fingers, and he quickly became the talk of the town.

Scott didn’t learn to read music until he was 11, when an old German music teacher spotted his talent and gave him free, formal piano lessons. He learned to play the works of such composers

as Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart as well as his improvised music. Thus when he started to write music, his tunes were a wonderful mixture of classical European and African beat. This unique style was known as Ragtime, and was played everywhere in the USA in the early 1900s by both black and white musicians.

In 1882, when Scott was 14, his mother died and he left home to seek his fortune in St. Louis. In the 1880s, St. Louis was noisy and bustling with life. The waterfront of the Mississippi River was full of gangsters, gamblers, and sailors. The sound of music was everywhere – black, white and mixed. The hot steamy nights were filled with blues, working songs, banjos, and honky tonk pianos. Scott was soon playing Ragtime piano in cheap bars on the waterfront.

This was a rough, tough area of the city where arguments over girls, whisky, and money were settled with fists and guns. Scott grew up very fast and his musical talent continued to develop. All in all he wrote about 50 piano rags.

Scott Joplin died in 1917. Today he is the undisputed King of Ragtime, thanks to his natural ability, his unusual musical education, and the popularity of the film,

The Sting.

Reading, Speaking and Listening: Persuasive advertising

1.Here are some methods used in persuasive advertising. Read them quickly. Decide which appeal to you and which don't:

1.Repetition: the simplest kind of advertising. A slogan is repeated so often that we begin to associate a brand name with a particular product or service.

2.Endorsement: a popular personality is used in the

advertisement.

3. Emotional appeal: advertising often appeals to basics such as mother-love, sex, manliness, femininity.

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4. Scientific authority: sometimes the advert shows a person in a white coat (i.e. a scientist) telling us about the product. More often it mentions ‘miracle

ingredients’ or ‘scientific testing’ to persuade us.

5. “Keeping up with the Jones’s”: an appeal to pure snob value. You want to appear to be richer or more successful than your neighbours.

6. Comparison: the advert lists the qualities of a product in direct comparison with rival products.

7.An appeal to fear or anxiety: this type is similar to 3, but works on our fears.

8.Association of ideas: This is usually visual. Until it became illegal in Britain, cigarette advertising showed attractive, healthy people smoking in beautiful rural situations.

9.Information: if a product is new, it may be enough to show it and explain what it does.

10.Special offer / free gifts: this is a very simple and direct appeal – it's half price!

11.Anti-advertising: this is a modern version which appeals to the British sense of humour. It makes fun of the techniques of advertising.

2.In pairs: think of an example for each type from your country.

3.Listen to the advertisements on the recording. What types of persuasion do you think they are using in each one? Write the number of persuasion for each advertisement, or two numbers if you feel an advertisement is

using two types of persuasion.

Before you listen make sure you know this vocabulary: a) to entertain a lot, instant coffee, b) to do one’s washing, detergent, c) aroma, a cigar, d) to be bored, a health drink, vitality, e) that depends, f) mightier, free number plates, g) to run out of sth, it’s not that bad, i) talcum, j) hair-conditioner.

4. Discuss in groups what these advertisements are selling. Who might they appeal to?

Reading, Speaking and Writing: A Film Review

1. Have you seen any good films recently either in the cinema or on video / DVD? Tell your partner about what you have seen.

2.Read a review of the film Bend It Like Beckham and complete it with

(a) __________ recently is Bend It Like Beckham. It's a British film, and it's nice to have a change from Hollywood movies! (b) __________ was the title first of

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