Солнцева Практический курс английского языка Ч.1 2011
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Vocabulary: Countries, Nationalities and Languages
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Complete these sentences with the name of the people from the country above.
Reading and Listening: Defining Culture
1a. What do you understand by “a culture”? What comes to your mind?
1b. What do you think are the typical features of your own culture?
2a. Read the information from a website quickly and choose a heading for each section from the box:
Architecture, Climate, Cuisine, Customs/traditions, Geography, Historical events,
Institutions, Language, Life rituals, Religion, Rules of behaviour, the arts, Values
2b. Before you read the text “What is Culture?” match the following vocabulary units to their Russian equivalents to help you understand the
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1. terrain |
a. средний, среднестатистический |
2. physical features |
b. средство, способ |
3. average |
c. относительно, касательно |
4. appropriate |
d. событие, повод |
5. means |
e. основной рацион |
6. specialty |
f. отношение |
7. staple diet |
g. общаться |
8. attitude |
h. местность, территория, район |
9. relative |
i. празднование; торжественная церемония |
10. regarding |
j. относительный |
11. to socialise |
k. фирменное блюдо |
12. tipping |
l. свойственный, присущий |
13. commemoration |
m. тип правления |
14. occasion |
n. природные особенности |
15. type of government |
o. дача чаевых |
2c. Read the text again and find the equivalents to these words and phrases.
1. близость, 2. береговая линия, 3. засуха, 4. произношение, 5. суеверие, предрассудок, 6. религиозные верования/убеждения, 7. мужчина, 8. женщина, 9. праздничный день, 10. юбилей, 11. нашествие, вторжение, 12.
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голод, 13. стихийное бедствие, 14. зрелость, 15. законодательство, 16. соотношение, 17. искусственная среда, 18. наследие
6. Before you do the listening task, make sure you know the following
vocabulary units.
a prayer, mosque, hospitality, a cycling path, superficial, a toboggan, fluffy snow, processing (of food), artificial stuff, to chase the chicken, a snack, to keep
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slim, a tin, a roof, a lullaby, a variety (of sth), precisely, a long time in advance, to sip, a tribe, to pass round a pipe of peace, bonding.
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Grammar: Verbs and Determiners
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Grammar: Active and Passive Forms of the Verb
2. Transform the sentences into 2 passive ones as in the example:
E.g. They think he‘s lying. It’s thought that he is lying. He’s thought to be lying.
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They believe he got lost in the forest. |
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They said she was wrongly accused. |
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They say she has been very ill. |
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They believe he is leaving soon. |
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They said the president had been shot. |
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They say his health is very poor. |
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They believe she was taking drugs. |
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They report that some papers have |
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They expect he will pass his exams. |
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been stolen. |
3. Write these sentences in another way, beginning in the way shown:
They didn't give me the information I needed. – I wasn’t given the information.
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1.They asked me some difficult questions at the interview.
2.Linda's colleagues gave her a present when she retired.
3.Nobody told me about the meeting.
Grammar: Quantifiers and Determiners
4.How much mil they pay you for your work?
5.I think they should have offered Tom the job.
6.Has anybody shown you what to do?
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Reading: Culture shock
2a. Look through the text again and find equivalents to the following words: influence (noun), well-known, definite, to influence sth, surroundings, to be divided into sth, to come to, agitated, inquisitive, embarrassed, lonely, instantaneously, to face, to be aware of, assured, to believe, regarding sth.
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