Солнцева Практический курс английского языка Ч.2 2011

Task to Inside Out Course Book p. 39, Text “I know It‟s Bad for me…”:

1. Read the text quickly, find these words and say where they were used. Use the context to help use guess the meaning: to pocket sth, to dial sb = to

dial sb‘s number, to cure sb of sth, to quit, to struggle, to demand.

2. Match these words to their translation:

Ex. 3. Translate into English using the active vocabulary:

1.Норман Казин страдал неизлечимым заболеванием. От него не было лекарства, и Норман лечил себя позитивными эмоциями и смехом. Именно они вылечили Нормана.

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2.Осторожно, не поранься! Ну вот! Давай ты не будешь плакать, а я угощу тебя пирожным?

3.Больного лечили от малярии, а у него было другое заболевание.

4.Обращайся с ними хорошо, обещаешь?

5.Мы не хотим принимать участие в эксперименте и отказываемся от лечения не апробированными препаратами.

6.Не надо чихать и кашлять на коллег, если болеешь – болей дома. Никому не хочется смотреть на твой насморк.

7.Доктор, у меня болит ухо с тех пор, как в него попала вода примерно месяц назад.

8.Что требуют эти бастующие? – До недавнего времени их требования были весьма скромными, но теперь…

9.Опять ты? Что опять пошло не так? – Ты опять дал мне копию, а не оригинал. Единственный способ держать меня на расстоянии – отдать мне оригинал.

10.Дорога обратно займет полдня. Кстати, должен тебя огорчить – мы потерялись, так что не полдня, больше.

11.Ты повесил картину весьма оригинальным способом – вверх ногами. – Разве? Но это же абстракция!

12.Пока ты ищешь свою линзу, я продолжу есть ланч, не возражаешь?

13.Если ты решительно настроен позвонить именно этим инвесторам, я не буду удерживать тебя от совершения очередной глупости.

14.Он пережил две войны, сколько ему сейчас может быть лет? Хотя бы приблизительно?

15.Заказчик заметил, что отражение в зеркале искажено и отказался его покупать.

16.На протяжении всего доклада говорящий повторял одну и ту же ошибку, поэтому рецензент не мог не отметить этого в своей речи.

Ex. 4: Choose between the adjective and the adverb in each of the following

sentences:

1. That looks (bad, badly). 2. The room looks (different, differently) since you painted the walls. 3. He remained (happy, happily) at home. 4. Your offer sounds (delightful, delightfully). 5. We are (near, nearly) ready to go. 6. Don't say anything. She feels (awkward, awkwardly) enough. 7. Can we put the flowers over there? These flowers smell too (sweet, sweetly) to my taste. 8. He looked at the children (tender, tenderly). 9. You made it really (easy, easily) for us. 10. The situation seemed (improper, improperly) to express my feelings. 11. Chuck felt (terrible, terribly) about missing his son's game. 12. She is thinking quite (serious, seriously) about changing her career. 13. The pie tastes (delicious, deliciously) with a bit of ice-cream. 14. My brother adds very (quick, quickly). 15. The old dog walked (lazy, lazily) towards me.

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Unit 10. Genius: Inventions, Architecture, Art.

Reading and Speaking: The Nearly Men

1. What inventions do you associate these names

with?

Alexander Graham Bell W.H. Hoover

King Camp Gillette Lazlo Biro

John Boyd Dunlop Elisha Otis

Orville and Wilbur Wright (the Wright brothers)

2.Work in groups of two or three. Each of you reads the introduction and one of the texts on this page. Before reading do the matching exercises to help you with unknown vocabulary.

3.Answer the

questions.

1.Who is the text about?

2.What did the person do?

3.When did they do it?

4.Why did they fail?

5.What recent developments have there been?

4. Exchange information about your texts.

Text One: 1. a description of sth, 2. to file a patent, 3. to renew, 4. to register, 5. to sue, 6. a case, 7. to be credited with, 8. to recognise = to acknowledge.

a. признавать, b. описание, с. зарегистрировать, d. подать в суд, e. судебное дело, f. подать заявку на патент, g. возобновить, h. приписывать что-то кому-то.

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Text Two: 1. to leak,

2.to dry,

3.a leather tanner,

4.to recognise a problem,

5.to rotate,

6.a nib,

7.rough,

8.to exploit,

10. annual.

a. красильщик кож, b. пользоваться,

c. высыхать,

d. признать наличие проблемы,

e. ежегодный, протекать, f. вращаться,

g. шероховатый (неровный),

h. острие пера.

Text Three:

1.a glider,

2.to soar,

3.to disappoint sb,

4.to achieve sth,

5.a centenary,

6.a replica.

a.достигать чего-либо,

b.планер,

c.столетняя годовщина,

d. копия,

e. разочаровывать, f. парить

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Reading: Me and My Gizmo*

1. Guess the meaning of the words and words combinations:

to turn one‘s hand to sth / to doing sth, a breakthrough, a string of coincidences, a solution (to solve a problem), stress level, to retain shape in boiling water

2. Match these words and word combinations to the correct translation:

4. Read through the article quickly, and find answers to these questions:

a.What does Andrea Gordon's invention do?

b.How did she start thinking about it?

c.How does it work?

d. What was the main problem in producing it?

e. Is she going to give up acting?

Socking it to 'em**

Actress Andrea Gordon has got little feet coming out of her ears***. At least, she has since she turned her hand to invention. She is the proud inventor of a foot-shaped plastic device which keeps your pairs of socks together in the

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washing machine.

So how did the idea occur to her for such an important breakthrough in domestic technology? Archimedes would have approved of her answer.

―It was just a string of little coincidences,‖ says Andrea modestly. ―A group of us were having dinner after working all day in the studio, and we got talking about universal problems like traffic congestion and lost socks. One of the actors said he had ended up taking his washing machine apart to retrieve a sock and had to spend all day Saturday putting it back together again. The

problem was defined.‖

―I just got thinking ―Why doesn't somebody invent a peg or something just

to keep them together?‖ Indeed. I was just thinking about it and a couple of hours later I was drying up the dishes and I put the tea-towel in one of those

plastic grips you get. Eureka!‖

―It seemed so obvious that it would work,‖ she confesses, ―that I was sure someone must have thought of it already. Nobody had. So when I lost an expensive $20 silk sock, that was what finally persuaded me to go for it.‖

But was this a real problem for which people really needed a solution? MIA Marketing thought so, and took on the idea.

―I don't set out to solve the world's problems,‖ says Andrea, ―but at least it is one annoying little thing out of the way. This invention is going to reduce

stress levels, so I've done my bit.‖

Once the real need for this gizmo had been established, the process of testing began. ―It wasn't easy,‖ remembers Andrea. The first plastic cracked. They eventually settled on the more expensive thermoplastic polyurethane elastoma, a plastic that retains its shape in boiling water, and even in the rough and tumble world of sock-washing.‖

Now Little Feet are available from major shops at 1.95 pound for a pack of five. According to the advertising blurb on the packet, they are 'suitable for men's, women's and children's socks' and they come in different colours for 'all the family'.

So will this breakthrough change Andrea's life? Will she be turning down acting work to become a full-time inventor? ―Acting is what I do,‖ she insists. ―But I'm glad I saw this idea through. A lot of people have ideas and they don't do anything about them, or they are put off by people not listening to them.‖

So now you know - marketing people will listen to anything that might make money.

William Mayes

*gizmo: a device; gadget

**to sock it to sb (here: to them): to make a forceful impression on sb

***have something coming out of your ears (informal): to have more of something than you want or need: He's going to have money coming out of his

ears if he signs the deal.

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5.Find these sentences in the text and use the context to help you translate these phrases:

a.How did the idea occur to her?

b.We got talking about universal problems.

c.they come in different colours.

d.Acting is what I do.

e.I don‘t set out to solve the world‘s problems, but at least it is one annoying little thing out of the way.

f.Once the real need for this gizmo had been established, the process of testing began.

6.Study the use of the verb “to occur”:

1)происходить, случаться (= to happen): If it occurs again, I’ll fire you.

2)It + occur+ to sb – приходить в голову: It suddenly occurred to Mark that he

could find a job and that would solve all his problems. You can never guess what stupid idea will occur to him in the next moment.

7.Invent 5 sentences (questions, statements and negations) with the construction „it + occur + to + sb‟.

8.What did Andrea say about these things?

the studio, the tea-towel, a silk sock, MIA Marketing, stress levels, elastoma.

9. Translate the sentences into English:

1.Почему же вы в конце концов согласились взяться за этот заказ?

2.Когда Винни застрял в норе Кролика, тот использовал задние лапы медведя в качестве крючков для полотенец.

3.Не позволяй им расстраивать тебя критикой и не вздумай отказаться от этого проекта.

4.Как вы оказались в этом странном месте?

5.Какой выход ты предлагаешь?

6.Данное открытие оказалось прорывом для науки 19 века.

7.Джон разобрал кофемолку и не может ее собрать.

8.Почему вы не занялись разработкой данной проблематики?

9.Я отказался от этого предложения, потому что такая работа слишком нервная.

10.Откуда все эти скопления машин на дорогах?

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Speaking: Domestic Inventions

“Frida Kahlo” (Inside Out, p.91)t Match the words to correct translation: