Иностранный язык профильного региона (английский). Учебно-методическое пособие

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Рецензент канд. филол. наук доцент кафедры иностранных языков

ФГО НГТУ В.Г. Шабаев

Матулевич Т.Г.

М 348 Иностранный язык профильного региона (английский) : учебно-методическое пособие / Т.Г. Матулевич. – Новосибирск :

Изд-во НГТУ, 2016. – 80 с. ISBN 978-5-7782-2965-5

Пособие посвящено предметно-лексическим темам «География Великобритании», «История Великобритании», «Обычаи. Праздники» и нацелено на развитие умений чтения, аудирования, устной речи. Пособие предназначено студентам, обучающимся по направлению «Зарубежное регионоведение» (профиль «Европейские исследования»), может использоваться при выполнении программ английского языка других направлений, а также желающими заниматься самостоятельно.

ББК 81.423.1-92З

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искового, аналитического чтения; понимания общего содержания и извлечения конкретной информации при слушании. Высокая информационная нагруженность, большой объём некоторых отобранных текстов обусловили необходимость применения визуального средства систематизации фактуальной информации. В качестве такого средства выступают таблицы. Составление и заполнение их облегчает освоение учебного материала, способствует оптимизации условий выполнения речевых заданий. Так, студенты учатся говорить опираясь на таблицы, что повышает культуру устной речи. Таблицы служат также овладению тематической лексикой. Работу над вокабуляром рекомендуется регулярно дополнять проверкой орфографии и знания межъязыковых соответствий через словарный диктант (spellingtranslation test), другими заданиями.

В качестве приложения в пособии приводятся 3 текста по теме «Обычаи. Праздники».

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Unit 1

THE GEOGRAPHY OF BRITAIN

-Read the physical map of the British Isles: say what it shows. Give the English-language place names (toponyms) for the geographical features on the Russian-language-labelled map.

-Compare the flags with crosses and heraldic animals on them. Are any of them similar? How? Why?

-Where would you put the flags on the map?

Reading

Do the section Physical geography [4, p. 8-9].

Vocabulary work. Oral practice

1.Arrange the proper names in the text (see above) into groups of full and abbreviated forms. Notice the models after which the latter are patterned, cf.: Great Britain – Britain; the Falkland Islands – the Falklands, the Ural Mountains – the Urals, the Rocky Mountains Скалистые горы – the Rockies; the Pacific Ocean – the Pacific; Атлантический океан – Атлантика.

2.Find the following countries and geographical features on the map. How are the various names of one and the same item different?

1 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – the “full, correct title of the country” [6, p. 1454]; “The United Kingdom or UK is a political term which includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. All of these countries are represented in Parliament in London <…>” [12, p. 4]; “But in less formal situations Great Britain is often used to mean the same as the United Kingdom.” [6, p. 1454]; Britain

2 Northern Ireland, Ulster (the latter name is often used in news reports, it is preferred by some politicians and groups [see 6, p.1454]), the Six Counties (used mostly by Nationalists [see 9, p. 435-436]) – Шесть графств

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3 the Republic of Ireland /’aiələnd/, the Irish Republic, Southern Ireland, Ireland, Eire /’eərə ||’erə/ (Irish Gaelic name)

4 the British Isles 5 Great Britain

6 Ireland (the second largest island in the British Isles), the Emerald Isle 7 the Shetland Islands, the Shetlands 8 the Orkney Islands, the Orkneys

9 the Hebrides /’hebrədi:z/: the Outer Hebrides – Внешние Гебриды, also the Western Isles; the Inner Hebrides – Внутренние Гебриды

10 the Channel Islands – Нормандские острова

11 Jersey (the largest of the Channel Islands), cf.: New Jersey (a state in the USA)

12 the Isle of Wight /wait/ 13 the Isles of Scilly /’sili/, the Scilly Isles 14 the Isle of Anglesey, Anglesey

15 the Isle of Man

16 the Island of Skye, Skye

17 the Scottish Highlands, the Highlands of Scotland, the Highlands –

Северное нагорье, Северо-шотландское нагорье

18 the Grampian Mountains (in Scotland), the Grampians, the Central Highlands

19 the Pennine mountains, the Pennine Range, the Pennines, the backbone of England

20 the Cheviot Hills, the Cheviots (between England and Scotland) 21 the Cambrian mountains, the Cambrians (in Wales)

22 Cumbria (a county of NW England)

23 the Lake District National Park, the Lake District (in Cumbria) 24 Wales /weiəlz/

25 the Cornwall peninsular /’kɔ:nwɔ:l/, Cornwall – Корнуолл

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32 the English Channel, the Channel – Английский канал, La Manche (Fr.) – Ла-Манш

33 the Strait of Dover (the narrowest part of the English Channel, 32 km wide) –Дуврский пролив, Pas de Calais (international term) – Па-де-Кале

3.1Group the proper names above according to the geographical feature and the article (definite / zero).

3.2Point to the geographical features on the physical map for the teams of your fellow students to give the place names.

3.3Find in the text Physical geography [4, p. 8-9] the English for the following phrases:

острова неподалёку от, материковая Европa, между 50˚ и 61˚ северной широты, состоять из, северо-западное побережье, менее … км в длину и … км в ширину, гористая (о местности), волнистая (о земной поверхности), сельскохозяйственные равнины Восточной Англии, совершенно плоская (нерельефная), горные области находятся по краям, судоходность, внутренняя транспортная сеть.

4. Pair work

4.1 Describe the geographical position and division of the British Isles, the relief of Great Britain. Use the words and phrases for those in (3.3) and the following ones: be located, be washed by, wash the coast of, be separated from … by …, stretch from … to, be / lie off the coast of, lie between … and … , lie to the north / west / south-west of …, originate / rise in … and flow (in)to / through … (about a river). Use the map [4, p. 9; 8, p. 31; other].

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4.2Role play. Your younger sister has done poorly in her Geography class, and you are studying the physical map together. You need to learn the location and division of the British Isles, the geographical features of Great Britain, the place names.

4.3With a physical map before you, describe the location, the relief of the USA <nationalgeographic.com/maps/atlas/plate28.html>, Russia <nationalgeographic.com/maps/atlas/plate70.html>, some other European country <nationalgeographic.com/maps/atlas/plate55.html> [23].

Aural Practice

Listen to the text Scotland [16, p. 10]. Does the author focus on the location or landscape of the country?

Reading. Vocabulary work

1.Do the section What’s a county? [12, p. 4]

2.In county names -ce-, -w- are not pronounced, -er- is often pronounced /a:/. Notice the pronunciation of the endings in them: -shire (графство,

шир) -/ʃər/, -ford -/fəd/, -folk -/fək/, -ex -/iks/: Leicestershire /’le/-, Gloucestershire /’gla:/-, Warwickshire /’wɒ/-, Derbyshire, Berkshire.

3.Study the map of administrative division of England, read the county names. Give the full forms of the abbreviations: Berks, Wilts, Staffs, Stafford, Warwick, Hants. What is New Hampshire?

4.Study the list of the geographical regions of England and the map of its administrative division [17, p. 138-139].

5.Label on the skeleton map

(1) any 7-10 county names with the endings -shire, -land, -ford, -folk, -ex in them;

(2) the boundaries of the six geographical regions of the country. Refer to the list and the labelled map.

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Aural Practice

Listen to the text London and the Home Counties (abridged) [17, p. 138140, paras 1-3]. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?

(a)In the 20th century the county named after London was shrinking.

(b)The terms Commuter Land, Home Counties, the dormitory suburbs of London refer to the same area.

(c)There are more jobs in London than townspeople.

(d)Some big cities in Home Counties are “thick with history”.

WEATHER. CLIMATE

-What do you know about British climate and weather? What reputations do they have?

Reading

1.Study the definitions below. Find the categorizing term in them. What is the difference between a climate and weather?

weather “1 the condition of wind, temperature, rain, sunshine, snow etc, at a certain time or over a period of time <…>” [6 , p.1510]

climate “1 the average weather conditions at a particular place over a period of years <…>” [Ibid., p. 233]

2.Study the following words with a dictionary:

depression n; prevailing a, prevalence n;

(a) mild, temperate, moderate, extreme; westerly (about wind), easterly, cf.: western, eastern (about location), wester v; westerly a/adv, easterly n/a/adv.

Give the English for северный ветер, южный ветер, юго-восточный ветер, северо-западный ветер.

3. Do the section Weather and Climate [4, p. 12].

Translate the weather forecast in Ex. 8 [Ibid., p. 12]. In pairs make reverse translation.

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Oral practice

Pair work

Talk about yesterday’s and today’s weather, forecast tomorrow’s; about the weather you like best in summer, in winter.

Aural practice

1.1Notice the suffixes in them, translate the derived words into Russian: moist a – сырой, влажный – moisture n; month n – monthly a; extreme a – extremes n; expose v подвергать действию (солнца, непогоды и т. п.: to be exposed to rain – находиться под дождём) – exposure n.

1.2Study the following words and phrases with a dictionary:

(a) humid, mean, rare, frequent, abundant; (n) latitude; be charged with, be due to, range from 4◦C to 12◦C.

2. Listen to the text (abridged) [13, p. 52-53].

2.1Are the statements below true (T) or false (F)?

a)South-westerly winds are not a climate-determining factor in Britain.

b)The mild climate in Great Britain is due only to the Gulf Stream.

c)The Isle of Wight is warmer than the Shetlands.

Reading. Oral practice

1. Study the map, read the paragraph [8, p. 31]. What is the notable feature of British land and climate described in it?

2.1 Read the text Climate [8, p. 32-33]. Notice how its content justifies the title.

2.2.In the sentence ‘The climate of Britain is more or less the same as that of the north-western part of the European mainland.’ that is a substitute word (слово-заместитель). What word does it substitute?

2.3.Find in the text the English for the following words and phrases:

климат в … более-менее такой же как в …; образ сырой, окутанной

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