- •Астраханский государственный технический университет
- •Contents
- •Unit 1. Appearance.
- •General appearance
- •How Important Is Your Appearance?
- •Checkmate.
- •Unit 2. Character and disposition.
- •Character
- •Intellectual ability
- •8. Reveal your attitude to the types of people described.
- •Intelligence.
- •Revealing Faces.
- •Unit 3. Family life topical vicabulary
- •Mr Know-It-All
- •Unit 4. Parents and children
- •The Bell Family Charter
- •The abc’s of Happiness (by r. Vallet)
- •11. Points to ponder.
- •The Sitting of the Teachers’ Council.
- •Unit 5. Friends and friendship
- •Unit 6. Customs and traditions
- •The Field of Folklore
- •2. Discuss the following problem questions.
- •3. Read the short passages and answer the questions giving your impressions to the point.
- •Problems for Discussion.
- •Unit 7. Choosing a career. Jobs and employment.
- •3. Say what job these can belong to. Continue the list.
- •Imagine you are Andrew Foster (ex. 14) and you are looking for a new position. Fill in the job application form below. Job application form Private and Confidential
- •Unit 8. Crime and punishment
- •3. Read the text and comment on it. Methods and Measures.
- •4. Answer the following questions.
- •5.Comment on the following quotations.
- •6. Use the following proverbs in situations of your own. Give Russian equivalents if possible.
- •Unit 9. Man and arts
- •Man and arts. Painting.
- •Impression and judgement
- •Genre paintingis a painting, which represents scenes from everyday life in a more or less realistic way.
- •Man and arts. Music.
- •For or Against Pop Music
- •Man and arts. Theatre.
- •Imagine that you are in London and you have a free evening. You’d like to go to the theatre. Study the information how to book your theatre tickets in London. How to Book Your Theatre Tickets
- •The Green Table.
- •Unit 10. Women and their role in the society.
- •1.Use the proper word.
- •2. Which is the odd word out.
- •3. Complete the following.
- •Sex Roles In America
- •Imagine the life of women in the following century.
- •Unit 11. Mass media
- •Mass media. Television.
- •Major British and American Broadcasting Companies, Networks, News Agencies
- •Television Questionnaire.
- •Mass media. Press.
- •The British and American Press
- •4. Fill in the gaps.
- •Mass media. Internet.
- •The Internet – a Brilliant Source of Information or a Menace to Our Health?
- •Unit 12. Man and nature. Environmental protection.
- •What Must We Care About to Prevent Disaster?
- •Supplement conversational expressions
- •Sources
Say whether you think women in the 16th century had more problems than they have today?
Imagine the life of women in the following century.
Describe a dream woman.
Points to ponder.
Women are the last to be hired and the first to be fired.
With today’s high costs, it’s certainly true that many families need two incomes to maintain a satisfactory standard of living.
Women belong to home taking care of children.
Women should be more aggressive.
Men and women are emotionally different.
Women are inferior to men.
Women should serve in combat in wartime.
A bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.
A woman is a trap.
Unit 11. Mass media
Warming-up. Answer the questions.
What is “mass media”?
Why can’t people do without mass media?
What does the word “press” denote?
What does the press do?
Is television as old as radio?
Why are radio and TV so popular among people?
What can you say about Russia’s radio and TV?
What is a special feature in modern broadcasting?
Mass media. Television.
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
Television
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-TV;
-telly (coll.);
-the box (BE);
-the tube (AE);
-colour television;
-video (tape-recorder);
-cable television;
-satellite television;
-network;
-viewer;
-viewing;
-peak viewing hours;
-prime time (8-11 p.m.);
-theme tunes;
-TV addict;
-compulsive viewing;
Operating TV set
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-to switch on/off;
-to turn on/off;
-to turn the sound up/down;
-to switch over/ change to another programme/channel;
-to watch television;
-to see smth on television;
-a test card;
-to correct the picture;
-to have the TV set fixed;
Personnel/People in television
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-to be in television;
-announcer;
-newsreader/newscaster;
-anchorman/woman (AE);
-presenter;
-TV reporter/correspondent;
-commentator;
-interviewer;
-speaker;
-quizmaster; quizmaker;
-camera man/operator;
-editor;
-producer;
-technician;
-soundman;
-a film crew;
-a programme crew;
Programmes
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-programme;
-show;
-daily;
-weekly;
-monthly;
-the news;
-current affairs programme;
-special report;
-factual reportage;
-live footage (AE);
-talk/chat show;
-(panel)discussion;
-interview;
-documentary;
-children’s programme;
-commercial;
-wild/nature life programme;
-sports programme;
-the weather report/forecast;
-variety show;
-musical variety;
-game show;
-quiz programme;
-feature film;
-cartoon;
-educational programme;
-a regular character of the programme;
-soap opera;
-video clip;
-movie (AE);
-television play/film;
-television version of a play;
-thriller;
-serial (a play broadcast in parts);
-instalment (a part of a serial);
-sitcom (situation comedy);
-a regular feature of the programme;
-Western;
-magazine programme;
Television techniques
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-to broadcast;
-to telecast (AE);
-a live broadcast/show programme;
-to do a live broadcast;
-to be on the air;
-to go on the air;
-to broadcast speech/interview/discussion;
-to be on TV;
-to appear on the programme;
-to show on television;
-to cover smth;
-news coverage;
-to record/tape/videotape;
-recorded/taped/
videotaped programme;
-to do a television show;
-sound track;
-sound effect;
-picture;
-general view;
-still;
-library film/pictures (archives material);
-location (geographical position of an event);
-microphone;
-mike;
-neck mike;
-monitor;
-screen time;
-close-up;
-caption;
NOTE:
magazine programme – programme which is mixed of “hard” news and feature items;
wild/nature life programme – programme showing animals, birds, etc. in their natural environment;
quiz programme – programme on which members of the audience are asked questions, in case of correct answer they receive prizes;
sitcom – short film providing entertainment;
soap opera – play (an afternoon television regular feature) which originally appeared on the radio and was sponsored by soap advertisers, continuing from day to day, presenting emotional and melodramatic situations like many operas of the 19th century (thus named “soap operas”)
video clip – minifilm, about the length of a song, interpreting or dramatizing a song
Western – uniquely American film presenting myths about pioneering, courageous Americans