- •Topic 1 My Biography
- •1. Vocabulary focus
- •1. Read and learn the following words:
- •2. Read and translate texts 1,2: Text 1 (Elementary level)
- •Text 2 (Pre-Intermediate Level)
- •Introducing Myself
- •3. Speaking comprehension skills
- •3.1. Answer the following questions: (Text 1)
- •3.2. Tell about your family:
- •3.3. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words: (Text 2)
- •4.4 Write the short answers for the questions:
- •4.5.Write ’s in the correct place in the sentences, as in the example:
- •Vocabulary:
- •5.1. Find these sentences in the text:
- •5.2 Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words:
- •5.3. Complete these sentences:
- •5.4 Answer the following questions:
- •6.2.Does she give the answers to these questions in the text? Write y or n in the boxes.
- •6.9.Read the text 5 and match the questions with each paragraph. There is one extra question.
- •6.10. Which paragraphs give specific information about Corinne’s family? Which paragraphs give more general information?
- •6.11.Complete a family tree ...
- •6.12.Read about four people.
- •Magnus Mills
- •Allan, Doug, Richard and Kirsty are Plankton …
- •6.13. Read the text about the Iglesias family: Text 6
- •6.14. Complete the information in the family tree about the Iglesias family:
- •7.1.Fill box 1 on the card below about yourself, then interview five other people in the class. Only tick (γ) the box if they answer yes. (You will also be asked questions.)
- •7.2.Fill box 1 on the card below about yourself, then interview five other people in the class. Only tick (γ) the box if they answer yes. (You will also be asked questions.)
- •Topic 2 my working day Warm up
- •1.Vocabulary focus
- •1.2. Pay attention to the difference of the meanings of the words
- •1.3. Study the time:
- •1.4. Match the words in the left-hand column with the definitions in the right-hand column:
- •2. Read and translate the text:
- •3. Grammar focus
- •4.Communication skills
- •4.1. Fill in the blanks with prepositions when necessary:
- •4.2. State the type of question and answer them:
- •4.3. Complete the sentences:
- •4.4. Put down the questions to the following answers:
- •4.5.Carolina Da Cruz is a radio dj. Look at what she usually does every day. Then use the words in the box to complete the description.
- •4.6. Look in the Grammar Focus and study the present Simple verb endings. Now compare yourself with Carolina. Make true sentences.
- •4.7. Make an interview with Carolina. Write the questions and answers.
- •4.8. Tell what time is it and what you do at this time.
- •5.4. Amy talk to her Net pals*. Read her notes about what they do on Saturday . Talk about each person.
- •5.5. Interview each person in your group and make notes about them in form of the table.
- •5.6. Read about special day in Sandra’s life. Remember a special day in your life and write a composition about it:
- •A special day in my life
- •6.Time for fun
- •6.1.Look at the Pluto’s Day an tell about it.
- •6.2. Meet the Different Family:
- •6.2.1.How is the Different Family different?
- •6.2.2.What does Deila Different do?
- •Check yourself.
- •Topic 3 our university
- •1. Vocabulary focus
- •1.1 Pay attention to the stress and the pronunciation of the words.
- •1.2 Check the meaning of the words in the box
- •2. Read and translate the text Text № 1 “Our University”
- •3.Grammar focus
- •3.1 Find in the text examples of the verb forms
- •3.3 What of these subjects do you study? Which do you like? Which ones don’t you like and why?
- •3.4 Compare subjects.
- •3.5 Translate the sentences into English
- •4.Communication skills
- •5.Use of English
- •6. Additional Materials Text №2 History of the University (some historical facts)
- •Reading
- •6.2 Ask and answer about the most important events.
- •7.5 Make up a talk with your group-mate.
- •Interview your partner and ask him what interesting things does he do at
- •8. Use of English
- •9. Text №3. History of the building
- •Vocabulary
- •300 Tutors
- •1.2. Practice your pronunciation studying geographical nouns:
- •4. Grammar focus
- •3.1.Complete the dates used in the Text a and match them with the events in the right-hand column :
- •5. Speaking comprehension skills
- •4.1. Complete the sentences according to the text choosing the right variant:
- •4.2. Decide whether the statements are true or false. Use the following expressions of
- •4.3.Check up your memory:
- •6.Additional materials Text 2
- •6.1. Read about the history of Tyumen and ask each other about the most important events. Start so: Did you know that…? Pay attention to the words after the text:
- •Vocabulary
- •6.2. Read the text and make the review about main higher educational establishments in town.
- •6.3.Read the text and tell about the most important places of interest in Tyumen.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Communicational skills to the texts 2,3,4.
- •6.4.1.Complete the sentences using the information from the texts:
- •6.4.3. Translate the sentences into English:
- •Group work
- •2. Higher educational establishments
- •6.6.2. Read, translate and play out the dialogues.
- •Stranger:Will it take me to the centre of the city?
- •6.6.3. Fill in the blanks in the dialogue using the appropriate phrases:
- •6.6.4.Translate into English:
- •6.6.5.Make up dialogues of your own to the situations:
- •7. Writing a resume
- •7.1. Read the following text, try to understand the main idea of it, then read and translate the example of resume of it: Oil: Siberia on the international scene
- •Resume of the text “Oil: Siberia on the international scene”
- •Topic 5
- •3.Use of English
- •1.What is a teenager?
- •2. Are teenagers a problem?
- •3. Do teenagers have problems?
- •4.1.Try to understand the text with the help of the following words and expressions:
- •4.2..Fill in the gaps with suitable words and expressions.
- •4.3.Translate into English:
- •Vocabulary
- •5.2.Translate into English:
- •If you think it cool, think again
- •Vocabulary
- •5.8.Use of English.
- •5.8.1.Fill in the gaps with suitable words and expressions.
- •5.8.2.Say in other words:
- •5.8.3.Translate into English:
- •5.9.Grammar focus
- •5.9.3.Make up a dialogue. Choose some situation:
- •Vocabulary
- •6.1.Translate into English:
- •Vocabulary
- •6.6.Translate into English:
- •6.7.Complete the sentences:
- •6.8.Give the equivalents of the following words:
Vocabulary
impressive
design
Exhibition
Merchants
Serve
hostel complex
professional training
10. Group work
Make 4 groups. Each group should give a short account of:
- General information about the University
- Out-of-class activities
- History of the University
- The University as a scientific centre
Use the Vocabulary from and after the texts.
11. Scheme
Read the text №1 again. Then complete the scheme.
Tyumen State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Was founded in ______
R
Headed
by the rector Vice-rector
responsible for academic activities Vice-rector
responsible for economy and finances Vice
rector responsible for public relations Vice-rector
responsible for out-of-class activities
Vice-rector
responsible for scientific and research activities
Vice-rector
responsible for branches and representations
Vice-rector
responsible for new information
F
Headed
by DEAN
_______
technical
specialities ________
chairs
300 Tutors
8000
students
Topic 4
TYUMEN
East or west home is best.
Proverb.
Warm-up
a)Do you like your native town? What town would you like to be born?
b) What associations do you have with the word Tyumen? Fulfill the scheme.
1586
1.Vocabulary focus
1.1.Read and learn the following words:
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a plain
province
a founder
to establish
a fortress
trans-shipping point
to be unyoked
to originate
ancient
incredible
a marsh
wastelands
diversified
a deposit
a pipeline
to pump
refinery
magnificent
a skill
20.to attract attention
-равнина
-губерния
-основатель
-основывать, создавать
-крепость
-перевалочный пункт
-быть освобождённым от ига
-давать начало
-древний, старинный
-невероятный, огромный
-болото
-невозделанные земли
-разнообразный
-месторождение
-трубопровод
-перекачивать
-очистительный завод
-великолепный, прекрасный
-мастерство
-привлекать внимание
1.2. Practice your pronunciation studying geographical nouns:
West-Siberian Plain
Austria
France
Tatar
Chingi-Tura
Shayom
Samotlor
Trinity Monastery
Read and guess what the following words mean:
District, region, ordinary, century, station, decorate, image, permanent, architectural ensembles, multinational, electronics-engineering, agricultural.
2. Use of English
2.1. Make different parts of speech from the words as it is shown in the example. Translate them into Russian:
originator(noun)
to originate original(adjective)
originating(Participle I, Gerund)
to educate
to found
to decorate
deposit
diversified
2.2. Match the synonyms in the right- and left-hands columns. Make up sentences with them:
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lowland to originate
area skill
originator ancient
to set up incredible
castle magnificent
age-old prosperous
to begin diversified
unbelievable to establish
swamp medieval
various plain
wonderful fortress
mastery province
to carry founder
successful marsh
of the Middle to bear
Ages
3. Read and translate the text:
TEXT 1
1. The Tyumen region is located on the West-Siberian Plain. On the western district of it there is Tyumen, the capital of oil and gas region which is as large as France, Italy, Spain and Austria taken together. The name of this town is known all over the world. Tyumen, the first Russian town of Siberia – “the mother of Siberian towns”, “the gate to Siberia” - was an ordinary town of Tobolsk province and only in 1944 it became the centre of the largest in the country Tyumen region.
2. The founders of the town chose a wonderful place for it. Its history goes back to 1586. Tyumen was established as a fortress on the Tura river on the place of Tatar town, called Chingi-Tura. Chingi-Tura was founded in the 14th century and was unyoked by Yermak from Tatar-Mongol in 1581.
3. In the early 17th century the first road was built and in the end of the 18th century Tyumen became a trans-shipping point from the Urals to Siberia. Tyumen was also the first station of Trans-Siberian Railway built in the late 19th century and the place where Siberian shipbuilding originated. At that time Tyumen was a little dirty town with wooden houses.
4. But it was born anew on June 21, 1960, the day when the oil was found near a little forest village Shayom. Further discoveries showed that the northern part of Western Siberia possessed incredible quantities of oil and natural gas. A fine modern town with wide streets, high-rise blocks and lots of greenery has risen on the wastelands and marshes.
5.Nowadays Tyumen is not only an oil town, it is a cultural, industrial and educational center of Western Siberia with a highly developed and quite diversified industry. Its plants are well-known in Russia and abroad. Among them there are machine-building, electronics-engineering, medical equipment, motor-building plants.
6. Tyumen is also a scientific and educational centre. It has three Universities, Agricultural, Medical, Military Academies, International Institute of Economy and Law, Institute of Culture and Arts. There is a great number of secondary schools, lyceums, colleges and gymnasia.
7. There are more than 40 research and design institutes mostly working on problems connected with the development of the gas and oil deposits. Due to their work 323 deposits had been discovered of which Samotlor (oil) and Urengoy (gas) are the largest in the world. Some pipelines pump Siberian oil to refineries in the east and west of our country and abroad.
8. Since the discovery of oil and gas deposits Tyumen has considerably grown. Now it covers the area more than 86 square kilometers and the multinational population of Tyumen is about 600.000 people. Many beautiful parks, squares and historical memorials decorate the improving image of the ancient town.
9. Some museums, libraries, 5 magnificent Houses of Culture, the Puppet and Drama theatres, the Concert Hall, the Picture gallery make Tyumen a cultural center. Permanent exhibitions of Siberian national art and skills attract tourists attention. There are many places of entertainment in Tyumen. Different cafes, bars, casinos, cinemas such as “Kinomax”, “Temp”, “Sovremennik” are often attended by people. The town also has a range of night clubs such as “Manhattan”, “Batman”, “Hollywood”, “Ultra”, “Piramida” which are popular with people of different ages.
10. Tyumen is famous for its places of interest: numerous monuments, architectural ensembles, historical places, medieval churches are mostly situated in the old part of town. Znamenskaya Church built in 1800, the Trinity Monastery, the first stone building in the town, Peter and Paul’s Church, Blagoveshchenskaya Church are very attractive. The marvelous building of the Museum of History and Ethnography and a lot of wooden houses, bearing the Siberian architecture traditions, decorate our town.
11.Tyumenians like their town. They are proud of its history and people.Tyumen region is a birthplace of Mendeleyev, a great Russian chemist, Alyabjev, a composer, Ershov, a fairy-tale teller. Thousands of people work hard to make their region prosperous.