Читаем и обсуждаем. Домашнее чтение. Учебно-методическое пособие

О.Н. Нестеренко, И.А. Иванова

ЧИТАЕМ И ОБСУЖДАЕМ

ДОМАШНЕЕ ЧТЕНИЕ

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УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ

Волгоград

2015

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МИНОБРНАУКИ РОССИИ Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение

Высшего профессионального образования

«Волгоградский государственный социально-педагогический университет» ФГБОУ ВПО «ВГСПУ»

О.Н. Нестеренко, И.А. Иванова

ЧИТАЕМ И ОБСУЖДАЕМ

ДОМАШНЕЕ ЧТЕНИЕ

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УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ

Волгоград

2015

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Читаем и обсуждаем. Домашнее чтение: учеб-методич.пособие // О.Н.Нестеренко, И.А.Иванова. – Волгоград, 2015. – 32 с.

Настоящее пособие ставит своей целью ознакомить студентов с некоторыми рассказами английских и американских авторов для развития навыка чтения, говорения и начала анализа.

Пособие рассчитано на студентов, изучающих английский язык как дополнительную специальность (средний уровень).

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SIMILARITIES, COINCIDENCES

Speech Patterns:

I.

1. Oliver lives in London. – My friends live there, too. So do my friends.

2. Liz is very helpful. – Her sisters are helpful, too. So are her sisters.

3. Emma’s birthday was in April. – So was mine.

II.

1. I didn’t like the song. – I didn’t like the song either.

Neither did I.

2. She couldn’t speak English then. – Ann couldn’t speak English either.

Neither could Ann.

3. I wouldn’t like to live abroad for long. – Neither would they.

Practice

Exercise I. Read the e-mail from John telling his friend about his family. Choose the correct answer. Use so, too, either, neither.

Dear Alice,

You asked me about my family, so here is some information. I go to secondary school in Manchester, and _______do my brothers, Jake and Nathan. I love my school, and they do _____.

I don’t like art, and Jack doesn’t _____ . I prefer science and _____ does Nathan. You said you enjoyed swimming and I do _____ . You also said you didn’t like football. I don’t _____ and

_____ do my brothers. We all hate it! My father likes it and _____ does my mother. But they only watch it on TV, they don’t play it. I’m going on holiday next week and I think you are

_____ .

Write to me when you get back.

Love,

John.

Exercise II. Two students have just met at University. Complete the gaps with so/ neither and the correct auxiliary.

Sarah: - Hi, I am Sarah. Where are you from?

Helen: - I was born in Wales.

Sarah: - That’s funny. _______________ I.

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Helen: - But I didn’t like my town.

Sarah: - _______________.

Helen: - When is your birthday, Sarah?

Sarah: - In May.

Helen: - _______________.

Sarah: - But I don’t really like birthday parties.

Helen: - _______________. I prefer to go to the cinema with a few friends.

Sarah: - _______________. Though I don’t know many people here yet.

Helen: - _______________. I’d like to join the basketball team.

Sarah: - _______________. Did you play at school?

Helen: - Yes, I played for my school at the Welsh team.

Exercise III. A) Two teachers are talking about their pupils. Complete the sentences using the words in brackets and the correct auxiliary.

Mr Reid: - My class this year is better than last year.

Ms Pike: - __________ (mine, so), though the students aren’t as quiet as I’d like.

Mr Reid: - __________ (mine, neither). How many have you got? I’ve got 31.

Ms Pike: - __________ (I, too). I think that your class has one or two brothers and sisters of some of my pupils.

Mr Reid: - __________ (I, so). For example, I have Billy Jarvis, who’s very good at maths.

Ms Pike: - __________ (his sister, too), Holly, who’s in my class. Then there’s Isabel Pinter, who writes wonderful essays.

Mr Reid: - __________ (her brother, too). But he can’t draw at all.

Ms Pike: - __________ (Isabel, either). A lot of these things run in families. Last year I had a boy who drew very good faces and __________ (his elder sister, so). She was in my class two years ago.

Mr Reid: - Have you got anybody called Smithson? I’ve got Phillip Smithson and he doesn’t take interest in anything.

Ms Pike: - _____ (his brother, neither). Well, they can’t all be brilliant.

Mr Reid: - No, but they could all show a bit of interest.

B) Reproduce the talk.

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C) Make up a dialogue in analogy.

Exercise IV. A) Read the text and answer the questions.

1.Who are Jim Springer and Jim Lewis?

2.Why didn’t they know each other?

3.What did Jim Lewis decide to do when he was 39?

4.How long did it take him?

‘I’m Jim’. ‘So am I’.

In the USA, the identical twin brothers were adopted soon after they were born. One brother was adopted by a couple named Lewis in Lima, Ohio, and his brother was adopted by a couple named Springer in Dayton, Ohio. By coincidence, both boys were called ‘Jim’ by their new parents. When Jim Lewis was six years old, he discovered that he had an identical twin brother. when he was thirty-nine, he decided to find and contact his brother. six weeks later, he met Jim Springer in a café in Dayton, and they probably had a conversation something like this.

A:- Hi! I’m Jim!

B:- So _____ I. Great to meet you. Sit down. Are you married, Jim?

A:- Yes…well, I’ve been married twice.

B:- Yeah? So _____ I. Do you have any children?

A:- I have one son.

B:- So _____ I. What’s his name?

A:- James Allen.

B:- That’s amazing! My son’s name’s James Allen too!

A:- Did you go to college, Jim?

B:- No, I didn’t.

A:- Neither _____ I. I was a terrible student.

B:- So _____ I. Hey, this is my dog Toy.

A:- I don’t believe it! My dog’s called Toy too!

B:- He wants to go outside. My wife usually takes him. I don’t do any exercise at all.

A:- Don’t worry. Neither _____ I. I drive everywhere.

B:- What car do you have?

A: - A Chevrolet.

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B: - So _____ I!

A + B: - Let’s have a beer, Jim.

A:- What beer do you drink?

B:- Miller Lite.

A: - So _____ I!

B) Cover the dialogue. Try to remember things they have in common. Which coincidence do you think is the most surprising? Why? Complete the gaps with suitable words.

C) Read about some more similarities between the two Jims. Complete the text with a word from the list.

as both identical like neither similar so

As schoolboys, the two Jims looked exactly _____ each other. They _____ liked maths and carpentry – but hated spelling. After school they had _____ jobs: Lewis was a security guard and Springer was a deputy sheriff. Jim Lewis first married a woman called Linda, and then a woman called Betty, exactly the same names _____Jim Springer’s first and second wives. Even their tastes in sports are ______ - Jim Springer likes baseball and _____ does Jim Lewis. Jim Lewis doesn’t like basketball and ____ does Jim Springer.

Exercise V. Make up some sentences which true for you. Pronounce your sentences and try to find someone like you, find some things they have in common with you.

e.g. I like rap. – What a coincidence! So do I! I am not very good at poetry. –

I have to look after my younger sister. –

….

Home-assignment

1.Read the text ‘An Incredible Coincidence’. Get ready to retell it paying attention to the underlined words.

An Incredible Coincidence

And our last story on today’s News Hour is about an incredible coincidence. Have you ever put your name into Google or Facebook to see what comes up? One evening last April, an American woman, Kelly Hildebrandt, did just that. She was feeling bored so she put her name into Facebook. She has quite an unusual name, so she was amazed to discover that there was another person with exactly the same name and surname as hers – but with one big difference. The other Kelly Hildebrandt was a man, and he lived in Texas. Kelly sent him a message and they began to e-mail each other. Later they started to phone each other every day, and finally they met in person. They discovered that they had more in common than just their name – they both love the beach, and they both really enjoy cooking. Soon they realized that they were in love. At first they were worried that they might be related, but they found out that there was no

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family connection at all, and in October Kelly asked Kelly to marry him. The two Kelly’s call each other ‘Kelly girl’ and ‘Kelly boy’, and they say that having the same name often causes confusion – once when Kelly boy booked travel tickets for them the travel agent almost cancelled one ticket because he thought that booking two tickets with the same name was a mistake. But there is one thing that the two Kellys are very clear about – if they have children they definitely won’t call them Kelly!

2.Read the text ‘Heart Couple’s Amazing Coincidence’ and answer the question: what was the amazing coincidence? Do exercises after the text.

Heart Couple’s Amazing Coincidence

When Suzanne met Alistair Cotton at a swimming pool in the UK in 1995, they were amazed to discover that they both suffered from the same extremely rare heart condition. They started going out together and fell in love, but several months later they discovered an even bigger coincidence.

Almost twenty years earlier when they were children (Suzanne was seven and Alistair was fourteen) they had both had a life-saving heart operation in the same hospital, on the same day performed by the same heart surgeon. After their operations they had spent several days recovering in the same hospital ward (although they have no memories of seeing or speaking to each other.) They certainly had no idea that twenty years later they would meet and fall in love.

Suzanne, now 43, said, ‘We were very shocked by the coincidence. We were obviously destined to be together.’

After Alistair and Suzanne moved in together Alistair continued to have difficulties with his heart and he had to have another major heart operation. As soon as he woke up after the operation, he proposed to Suzanne and the couple got married in 2002.

The following year Suzanne became pregnant and baby Hannah was born in 2004 and is now a happy, healthy child who shows no signs of having inherited any heart problems from her parents. Suzanne said, ‘Many heart patients can’t have children or their children are born with heart problems themselves, so for our amazing story to have such a happy ending is just wonderful’.

A.Number the events in the order they happened

Their daughter was born.

They both had a heart operation in the same hospital. Alistair had another heart operation.

They got married.

They discovered that they had been in the same hospital twenty years earlier. They met at a swimming pool.

Alistair asked Suzanne to marry him.

B.Look at the highlighted words or phrases in the text. Guess the meaning from the context. Make up an exercise to practise them.

3.Writing (to hand in): a) A story of your own using so, too, neither, either. (app.180 words)

b)Do you believe in coincidence? (mind! No plural)

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POSITIVE THINKING

Exercise I. A) Read an article about the actor Hugh Laurie. What two things do Hugh Laurie and Dr House have in common?

A Pessimist Plays a Pessimist

Dr Gregory House, the main character in the hit TV series House M.D., is famous for being a pessimist. But it is not only Dr House who is a pessimist. Hugh Laurie, the actor who plays him, is a pessimist too.

Laurie never thought that House M.D. was going to be a success. Even after seven series he still fells pessimistic about it. He said in a recent interview, “If we do a bad show next week, feels they’ll say, ‘That’s it. No more.’ It’ll just stop. I am of course someone who is constantly expecting a plane to drop on my head, if not today then tomorrow.”

Like Dr House, Laurie is also a talented musician and is passionate about the blues. He recently went to New Orleans to record an album in which he plays 15 of his favourite songs.

But of course he doesn’t think that people will like it.

When he was asked on a TV show why he was so pessimistic about life, Laurie said it was because he is Scottish. ‘I definitely think that’s where it comes from.’

Because of his reputation as a pessimist, people always talk to him about positive thinking. He says that complete strangers come up to him in the street and say ‘Cheer up, mate, it’ll never happen!’

B)Read the article again. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false). Say why.

1.Hugh Laurie always thinks the worst will happen.

2.He thinks they will make many more series of House M.D.

3.He doesn’t think his album will be successful.

4.He thinks that Scottish people are optimistic.

5.People often try to make him feel happier.

C)Paired Activity. Ask and answer with a partner. Which of you is more

optimistic? (Sum up the answers)

ARE YOU A POSITIVE THINKER?

Do you think…

You’ll have a nice weekend?

You’ll pass your next English exam?

You’ll get a good (or better) job in the future?

You’ll get an interesting email or message from someone tonight?

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