- •History through art
- •Развитие речевой способности в контексте диалога культур и цивилизаций
- •С.В. Сомова
- •Part II
- •Part III
- •Step 1: Understanding the Information Historical Background
- •Archaic Period
- •Classical Period
- •Hellenistic Period
- •Part II Words to be pronounced and learnt
- •Part III
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Ancient rome Historical Background
- •Step 1: Understanding the Information Historical Background (509 bc – ad 476)
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Part III
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 4: Shaping Ideas and Facts in English
- •Step 5: Subject and Thesis
- •Part II
- •The middle ages
- •The MiDdLe aGeS
- •Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Part III
- •Step 1: Understanding the Information Historical Background 800 bc – 146 bc
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Part III
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Step 4: Shaping Ideas and Facts in English
- •Hildegard of bingen
- •Part III
- •The renaissance
- •The renaissance
- •Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Step 1: Understanding the Information Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Step 4: Shaping Ideas and Facts in English
- •Портрет высокого возрождения
- •Vincenzo perugia
- •Part IV
- •The baroque
- •The baroque
- •Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Step 1: Understanding the Information Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Part III
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Step 4: Shaping Ideas and Facts in English
- •Giovanni lorenzo bernini
- •Part V
- •The enlightenment
- •The enlightenment
- •Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Step 1: Understanding the Information Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Versailles
- •Part II
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Thomas gainsborough
- •Step 4: Shaping Ideas and Facts in English
- •Franz joseph haydn
- •George frideric handel
- •Part VI
- •Romanticism
- •Romanticism
- •Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Step 1: Understanding the Information Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •John constable
- •Step 4: Shaping Ideas and Facts in English
- •Part VII the new times
- •Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Step 1: Understanding the Information Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Part III
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •The twentieth century Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Step 1: Understanding the Information Historical Background
- •Part I
- •Part II
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Step 4: Shaping Ideas and Facts in English
- •Step 5: Writing an Essay
- •Topics for Your Essays
- •Reference
- •1. Writing technique
- •1.1. How to Start to Write
- •1.2. How to Take Notes
- •1.3. Library Resources for Writing
- •1.4. Effective Sentences
- •1.5. Paragraphing
- •1.6. Paraphrasing
- •2. Written forms
- •2.1. Précis-writing
- •2.2. Synopsis-making
- •2.3. Composition and Essay-Writing
- •3. Elements of style. Expressive means of the english language
- •3.1. Metaphor
- •3.2. Metonymy
- •3.3. Simile.
- •Compare
- •3.4. Epithets
- •Compare
- •3.5. Hyperbole and understatement.
- •3.6. Oxymoron
- •3.6. Irony
- •4. Punctuation
- •4.4. The comma
- •4.5. The semi-colon
- •4.6. The colon
- •4.7. Quotation marks
- •4.8. Apostrophe
- •4.9. Hyphen
- •4.10. Marks of Parenthesis
- •4.11. A series of periods
- •4.12. Punctuating within the Compound Sentences
- •4.13. Punctuating within the Complex Sentence
- •5. Capitalization
- •6. Numbers spelled out or used in figures
- •Appendix 1
- •Appendix 2
- •Dictation 1 Early Years of Christianity
- •Dictation 4
- •Dictation 5 Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- •Dictation 6 The Roman Republic
- •Dictation 7 The Gladiators
- •Dictation 8 The Roman Empire
- •Dictation 9 Ancient Rome
- •Dictation 10
- •Keys to
- •Ancient Rome step 1: Understanding the Information
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Step 4: Shaping Ideas and Facts in English
- •Part II. The Middle Ages step 1: Understanding the Information
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Part III. The Renaissance
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Vincenzo perugia
- •Part IV. The Baroque
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Giovanni Lorenzo bernini
- •Part V. The Enlightenment
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Thomas gainsborough
- •Part VI. Romanticism
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •John constable
- •Part VII. The New Times
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •The Twentieth Century
- •Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
- •Step 3: Punctuation and Logic
- •Resource List
- •Contents
- •Авторы-составители:
Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary
Exercise 1: Developing spelling skills. Fill in the blanks with missing letters. Remember the spelling and the pronunciation.
C - ar - es Di - - ens, Ch - - les Da - - in, Vi - t - r Em - an - el, Ka - ser Wil - - lm, Cl - - de M - net, Pie - - e A - gu - te Ren - - -, M - ry Ca - - att, Vi - ce - t Van G - - -, P - - l G - - g - in, Pa - lo Pica - - o, Ja - - son Po - - ock, Pau - Céza - - e.
Exercise 2: Pronounce the words below. Match a word with a picture (not all the pictures have their names!)
Plate 6
Historical Costumes
a) lady [ca. 1880] ___ |
b) bustle ___ |
Exercise 3:
Word formation: adjectives ending with –ing and –ed.
What’s the difference between interesting and interested? Shocking and shocked?
Which |
describes the person’s reaction?
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is passive? |
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Which |
describes the action? |
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is active? |
Some verbs which describe people’s feelings have two adjectival forms.
Example
to interest/interested/I was interested in architecture.
to interest/interesting/The architecture of Ancient Greece was interesting.
Find other words like this in the text “The Pre-Modern Era” and make sentences of your own to illustrate the difference in the meaning of the adjectives.
Exercise 4: Guess the word from its definition and the first letter.
of the present time, modern – c_____________________;
a particular way of doing smth. – t__________________;
allowing no freedom, causing smb. to feel very uncomfortable – o__________________;
a picture that shows a view of the countryside – l___________________;
the effect that a person or thing produces on smb. else – i_______________;
connected with the sense of sight – o___________________;
a series of actions that you do for a particular purpose, a series of changes that happen naturally – p_____________;
coming before smth. else that is more important – p_____________;
not showing friendly human feelings, cold in feeling or atmosphere, not referring to any particular person – i____________________;
the art of drawing on a flat surface so that some objects appear to be farther away than others – p____________________;
to love or admire smth./smb. very much – w___________________.
Exercise 5: Put one of the linking words or phrases from the box into each gap.
and with which which |
but but inside thus |
and now which as |
actually moreover even more than |
also such as what |
The Pre-Modern Era began about 1865 _____ was a period of sweeping change.
_________________________ in the Enlightened eighteenth century, men were now trying to control the world around them.
_____________, they had the advanced tools of science and technology __________________ to work.
By the end of the nineteenth century it was industry __________ produced much of what is now considered art.
The engineer Eiffel constructed his famous tower to commemorate the great Paris Exposition of 1889, ______ he had earlier made his reputation as a builder of bridges.
________________, Romantic Byzantine domes were made of sheet metal, a product of the new industrial age.
________ prefabricated with interchangeable parts, the whole Exhibition Hall was put together in only a few weeks' time.
____ man increasingly concerned himself with the technical world, the subject matter of painting moved away from these emotion-filled Romantic scenes, _________ had predominated in the first half of the century.
_______________, the art world was even more upset by Manet's technique.
________________, the paint on the canvas was itself becoming as important as the subject.
The eye of the spectator was obliged to fill in __________ was missing.
Artists were fighting to free themselves from the artificial conventions and rules of academic art, __________ the exact duplication on canvas of every detail in the scene they were painting.
________, the pursuit of literally capturing the external and objective world had inspired scientific and technological minds like Daguerre's to the invention of the photographic process.