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Level A
the oor. He needed hospital treatment aer the (6) _______________. He
(7)____________ at how “brutal” the police were. e police and the hotel have apologised for the incident. e UAE's Ministry of Foreign Aairs
(8)___________________ Emiratis to avoid wearing the country's national
dress when travelling abroad. It said citizens had to think about their safety outside of the UAE. Mr. Al Menhali (9) ____________ blamed Donald
Trump, for making people hate Muslims. e Council on American Islamic
Relations said it was worried about what (10) ____________ to Al Menhali.
Task 3. Listen to the text “UAE tells citizens not to wear national
dress abroad”. Guess if a‑e below are true (T) or false (F).
A.e United Arab Emirates government has issued some travel advice. T/F
B.A UAE businessman was mistaken as an ISIS member in a USA hotel. T/F
C.e Emirati businessman was from the UAE capital city Abu Dhabi. T/F
D.e man did not suer any harm when the police came to the hotel. T/F
E.e man is still waiting for an apology from the police and hotel. T/F
! Check yourself
Task 1.
1. C 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. A
6. C 7. C 8. B 9. B 10. C
Task 2.
(1) citizens, (2) businessman, (3) Abu Dhabi, (4) headdress, (5) wrestled,
(6) incident, (7) was shocked, (8) advised, (9) reportedly, (10) happened.
Task 3.
A— T B— T C— T D— F E— F
Section 2. Speaking
Task 1. Answer the questions.
1.Who apologized to the man?
2.What did the Ministry of Foreign Aairs say people had to think about?
3.Who did the Emirati man blame for what happened to him?
4.What did the police say was a criminal sign in their report?
5.What kind of training did an Islamic group say the police needed?
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Practice test 4. History, culture, traditions
Task 2. Discuss the questions with your partner.
1.In his book 1984, George Orwell says: “He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.” Do you
agree? Does this apply to countries today?
2.What period of history would you like to go back and live in?
3.Napoleon Bonaparte said “History is a set of lies agreed upon”. Do you
agree with this?
4.“Half of writing history is hiding the truth.” What do you think of this
quote in relation to what was in your school history books?
5.Do you think history repeats itself?
Task 3. Comment on a quotation on history. ink of the following:
1.What does this make you think of?
2.Do you agree or disagree and why?
3.How does this relate to the theme of the class or class discussion?
4.Any reections?
5.Is it surprising and why or why not?
6.Use the words: I think that…; It seems to me that…; is implies that….
Quotations:
“History is written by the victors.” (Winston Churchill)
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” (o-
mas Jeerson)
Section 3. Translating from Russian into English
1.Традиция, как известно,— сложившаяся анонимно истихийно система норм, представлений, правил иобразцов, которой руководствуется всвоём поведении довольно обширная истабильная группа людей.
2.Считается, чтотрадиции передаются изпоколения впоколение
ивыступают одним изрегуляторов общественных отношений.
3.Помнению Энтони Гидденса, современное значение традиции
развивалось в эпоху Просвещения впротивовес современности
ипрогрессу.
4.Полагают, чтотрадиция может также относиться кдревним веро-
ваниям или обычаям сутраченным или загадочным происхождением,
существующим снезапамятных времён.
5.Именно вэпоху Просвещения понятие традиции находилось вцентре дискуссий, связанных спроблемой социально-политической эмансипации третьего сословия.
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Level A
Section 4. Translating from English into Russian
1.Culture is considered a central concept in anthropology, encompassing
the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies.
2.Cultural universals are found in all human societies; these include ex-
pressive forms like art, music, dance, ritual, religion, and technologies like tool
usage, cooking, shelter, and clothing.
3.It is the concept of material culture that covers the physical expressions
of culture, such as technology, architecture and art, whereas the immaterial
aspects of culture such as principles of social organization (including practices of political organization and social institutions), mythology, philosophy,
literature (both written and oral), and science comprise the intangible cultural heritage of a society.
4.In the humanities, one sense of culture as an attribute of the individual
has been the degree to which they have cultivated a particular level of sophistication in the arts, sciences, education, or manners.
5.e level of cultural sophistication has also sometimes been used to dis-
tinguish civilizations from less complex societies. Such hierarchical perspectives on culture are also found in class-based distinctions between a high culture of the social elite and a low culture, popular culture, or folk culture of the
lower classes, distinguished by the stratied access to cultural capital. (Ma-
cionis, John J; Gerber, Linda Marie (2011). Sociology. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall. p. 53.)
Section 5. Writing
Task 1. Write an essay/ a magazine article/ a letter.
1. Write an essay about traditions.
Topics:
1.1. Traditions are important for our society.
1.2. How do we dene tradition, culture and identity?
2. Write a magazine article about Islamophobia. Include imaginary interviews with people who have experienced it and those trying to ght it. Read
what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new
words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).
3. Write a newspaper article about the next stage in this news story. Read
what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.
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4.Write a letter to an expert on racism. Ask him/her three questions
about it. Give him/her three of your ideas on how to reduce it. Read your
letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer
your questions
Instructions
To write an essay/ a magazine article/ a letter., there are three stages you
need to follow:
Preparation: Decide on your topic, do your research, and create an essay
outline.
Writing: Set out your argument in the introduction, develop it with evi-
dence in the main body, and wrap it up with a conclusion.
Revision: Check the content, organization, grammar, spelling, and format-
ting of your essay.
Level B
Section 1. Listening comprehension
(Use the audio le: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/
2002/200211-mass-wedding.html)
Task 1. Listen to the text “Mass wedding goes ahead in Korea despite
coronavirus” and choose an appropriate answer.
1. Six thousand couples decided not to let the coronavirus ____________.
A.defer them
B.dater them
C.deter them
2. e multiple brides and grooms attended a mass ____________.
A.wedding ceremony
B.wed in ceremony
C.weeding ceremony
3. e couples jetted in from sixty countries around the world ____________
wedding.
A.to attend their
B.tier tend their
C.two attend their
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4. e newlyweds were joined by 24,000 guests; some renewing their marriage
vows and others watching friends and family ____________.
A.try the clot
B.time the not
C.tie the knot
5. e church seemed well prepared for such a large-scale event as sta hand-
ed out hand sanitizer and ____________.
A.surgical masks
B.surgically masks
C.surgery masks
6. e Unication Church is famous for holding the ____________.
A.mast weddings
B.massive weddings
C.mass weddings
7. e communal weddings started in 1961 and have seen hundreds of thou-
sands of couples walk ____________.
A.down the all
B.down the I'll
C.down the aisle
Level B
8. He told the Reuters news agency: “I'm very happy to attend this deeply
____________ wedding.”
A.blessed jointly
B.blessed joint
C.blessed jointed
9. Since coronavirus is going around these days, I wore a mask to be on
________________________ the safely side
A.the safe side
B.the strafe side
10. A 23-year-old bride from Benin said: “I didn't put ____________.”
A.on a masked
B.on a mark
C.on a mask
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Task 2. Listen to the text “Mass wedding goes ahead in Korea despite
coronavirus”, ll in the gaps. Six thousand couples decided not to let
the coronavirus celebrating their happy day.
Six thousand (1) ____________ decided not to let the coronavirus de-
ter them from celebrating their happy day. e multiple brides and grooms
attended a mass wedding (2) ____________ in South Korea's Unication
Church on Friday, in spite of the health scare from the coronavirus in neighboring China. e couples jetted in from sixty countries around the world
to attend their wedding. e newlyweds were joined by 24,000 guests; some
(3)____________ their marriage vows and others watching friends and fa mily
tie the knot. e church seemed well prepared for such a (4) ____________
as sta handed out hand sanitizer and (5) ____________ masks to all attendees. ey also checked the temperature of the couples. e Unication
Church is famous for holding the mass weddings. It was founded in 1954 by
(6) ____________ Sun Myung Moon. e (7) ____________ weddings started in 1961 and have seen hundreds of thousands of couples walk down the
aisle. In many cases, the bride and (8) ____________ had been matched and
met for the rst time at the ceremony. One newlywed spoke about marrying
amid the global spread of the coronavirus. He told the Reuters news agency: “I'm very happy to attend this deeply (9) ____________ joint wedding.
Since coronavirus is going around these days, I wore a mask to be on the safe
(10)____________.” A 23-year-old bride from Benin said: “I didn't put on a
mask because I wanted to be beautiful for my husband.”
Task 3. Listen to the text “Mass wedding goes ahead in Korea despite
coronavirus”. Guess if a‑e below are true (T) or false (F).
A.Six thousand couples got married at a mass wedding. T/F
B.e wedding took place in the capital city of North Korea. T/F
C.Couples from sixteen dierent countries were married at the ceremo-
ny. T/F
D.e church ran out of surgical masks to give the guests. T/F
E.e mass weddings have been taking place since the early 1960s. T/F
! Check yourself
Task 1.
1. C 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. A
6. C 7. C 8. B 9. B 10. C
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Level B
Task 2.
(1) couples, (2) ceremony, (3) renewing, (4) large-scale event, (5) surgical,
(6) self-declared messiah, (7) communal, (8) groom, (9) blessed, (10) side.
Task 3.
A— T B— F C— F D— F E— T
Section 2. Speaking
Task 1. Answer the questions.
1.What did the church check about the couples?
2.When was the Unication Church founded?
3.What started in 1961?
4.Where did the article say hundreds of thousands of couples had walked?
5.Why did a groom wear a mask?
Task 2. Discuss the questions with your partner.
1.What are some things that dene a culture? For example, music, lan-
guage.
2.Have you ever felt confused by the actions of someone from another cul-
ture? If so, tell me about it.
3.Have you ever experienced reverse culture shock?
4.If you could choose three aspects of your culture to put in a “time box”
for the future, what would you put in it?
5.Have you ever felt confused by the actions of someone from another
culture?
Task 3. Comment on a quotation on history. ink of the following:
1.What does this make you think of?
2.Do you agree or disagree and why?
3.How does this relate to the theme of the class or class discussion?
4.Any reections?
5.Is it surprising and why or why not?
6.Use the words: I think that…; It seems to me that…; is implies that….
Quotations:
“e crucial dierences which distinguish human societies and human be-
ings are not biological. ey are cultural.” (Ruth Benedict)
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“Cultural dierences should not separate us from each other, but rather
cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benet all of humanity” (Robert Alan).
Section 3. Translating from Russian into English
1.Культура, как известно,— понятие, имеющее огромное количество значений вразличных областях человеческой жизнедеятельности.
2.Именно культура является предметом изучения философии, культурологии, истории, искусствознания, лингвистики, политологии, этнологии, психологии, экономики, педагогики идр.
3.Восновном, подкультурой понимают человеческую деятельность
веё самых разных проявлениях, включая все формы испособы человеческого самовыражения исамопознания, накопление человеком исоциумом вцелом навыков иумений.
4.Кроме того, культура предстает также проявлением человеческой
субъективности иобъективности (характера, компетентностей, навыков, умений изнаний).
5.Считают, чтовзначении самостоятельного понятия «культура»
появилось втрудах немецкого юриста иисторика Самуэля Пуфендорфа (1632–1694).
Section 4. Translating from English into Russian
1.e concepts of tradition and traditional values are frequently used in
political and religious discourse to establish the legitimacy of a particular set
of values.
2.In the United States in the twentieth and twenty-rst centuries, the concept of tradition has been used to argue for the centrality and legitimacy of
conservative religious values.
3.Similarly, strands of orthodox theological thought from a number of
world religions openly identify themselves as wanting a return to tradition.
4.More generally, tradition has been used as a way of determining the political spectrum, with right-wing parties having a stronger anity to the ways
of the past than le-wing ones.
5.Here, the concept of adherence tradition is embodied by the political
philosophy of traditionalist conservatism (or simply traditionalism), which
emphasizes the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral
order, hierarchy and organic unity, agrarianism, classicism and high culture,
and the intersecting spheres of loyalty.
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Level B
Section 5. Writing
Task 1. Write an essay / a magazine article / a letter.
1. Write an essay about traditions and culture.
Topics:
1.1. If a group of people just came to your country from overseas, what
advice would you give them?
1.2. If you could change one thing about your culture, what would it be?
2. Write a magazine article about banning all public events until the coronavirus is no longer a threat. Include imaginary interviews with people who
are for and against this. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next
lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your
partner(s).
3. Write a newspaper article about the next stage in this news story. Read
what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.
4. Write a letter to an expert on mass weddings. Ask him/her three questions about them. Give him/her three of your opinions on mass weddings.
Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will
answer your questions.
Instructions:
To write an essay/ a magazine article/ a letter., there are three stages you
need to follow:
Preparation: Decide on your topic, do your research, and create an essay
outline.
Writing: Set out your argument in the introduction, develop it with evi-
dence in the main body, and wrap it up with a conclusion.
Revision: Check the content, organization, grammar, spelling, and format-
ting of your essay.
Practice test 5
Feelings and emotions
Level A
Section 1. Listening comprehension
(Use the audio le: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/
1709/170919-hair-loss.html)
Task 1. Listen to the text “Bald men are more attractive and con‑
dent” and choose an appropriate answer.
1. According to new research, men who are bald or going bald should not
worry ____________________.
A.about their locks
B.about their looks
C.about their rooks
2. e research also showed that people thought bald men were ______
_________.
A.more condent
B.more condence
C.more condante
3. ey had to judge each picture ____________ categories
A.based on three
B.based in three
C.based one three
4. ey had to rate attractiveness, condence and dominance. Bald men came
top ____________.
A.in a very category
B.in every category
C.in ever category
5. Bald men were viewed as nearly an inch taller and 13 ____________.
A.per cent stronger
B.per cent strong
C.per cent strongest
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