Путешествие в страну устных тем

I. Give Russian equivalence to the following English words.

Incredible pressure, growing demands, rat race, meet demands, sophisticated taste, commercials, cable and satellite TV, quiz show, soap opera, cartoon, sitcom, coach potato, a viable alternative, box-office, spectacular widescreen effects, multitrack stereo sound, sense of overwhelming reality, appeal to imagination, live performance, absorb stress.

II. Complete sentences 1-13 using each of these words only once reviews script audience performance casting scene

shot release plot pictures screen edit suspence

1.Americans usually talk about going to the movies rather than to the cinema or the…………………...

2.Her great acting……………….will surely win her one of this year’s Oscars.

3.Best of all is the …….where, just for a second, he sees Callaham waiting on the bridge.

4.She is not really a film critic but she often does the MTV film………on Fri-

days.

6.One of the jobs of a film studio is to ………a film by putting together different parts of it.

7.The…….is a written version of what people say, sometimes called the screenplay.

8.The connected events in a film – the story – is often called the…….

9.Spectacular films like that are so much better on a big ……….than shrunk

onto TV.

10.We didn’t know whether she would escape till the last moment: the……was incredible.

11.Her latest film is due for……..in May and should reach local cinemas by the

summer.

12.At the end of the film’s premiere many people in the…………..stood and applauded.

13.Choosing the right actors to play the right parts is known as………...

UNIT IX. MASSMEDIA

Answer the following questions:

1.What is the role of mass media in the life of contemporary society?

2.What kinds of mass media do you know?

3.What was the earliest kind of mass media?

4.What role do newspapers play today?

5.What is the difference between a newspaper and a

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6.magazine?

7.When was TV invented?

8.Why is the television so exciting?

9.When did radio appear?

10.Did it take radio long to be a reality?

11.What is the reason for widespread use of radios?

12.What do you know about the Internet?

Read and translate the text, learn the italicized word combinations.

The role of mass media in the life of the present society is difficult to overestimate. They have become a daily and essential necessity with contemporary men. Mass media report about various aspects of life, form and affect public opinion. Mass media are one of the most characteristic features of modern civilization. People are united into one global community with the help of mass media. People can learn about what is happening in the world very fast using mass media. The mass media include newspapers, magazines, radio,television and the Internet.

The earliest kind of mass media was newspaper. Newspapers appeared in many European countries in the 17th century. They developed from newspapers and booksellers' catalogs. Newspaper are usually issued daily, weekly, or at other regular times. They provide news, views, features, and other information of public interest and often carry advertising. Today people have a chance to have full information about political, economic and cultural events in their own country and abroad.

Magazines do not focus on daily, rapidly changing events. They provide more profound analysis of events of proceeding week. Magazines are designed to be kept for a longer time so they have cover and binding and are printed on better paper.

TV experiments to create a workable television system began in the late 19th century by Paul Nipkow, a German scientist. Today almost every family in the civilized world has a TV set. Television plays an important role in our society, not only as an entertainer and informant, but also because of the grip it has on many people. Television channels easily go into people's home taking in their time and life.

Radio appeared earlier then TV. Radio first became a possibility when the English physicist Michael Faraday demonstrated that an electrical current could produce a magnetic field. In 1864 James Clerk Maxwell, a professor of experimental physics at Cambridge, proved mathematically that these electrical disturbances could be detected at considerable distances. Maxwell predicted that this electromagnetic energy could move outward in waves travelling at the speed of light. In 1888 Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that Maxwell's prediction was true for transmissions over short distances. In 1901 an Italian physicist named Guglielrno Marconi received wireless telegraphic messages sent from Cornwall to Newfoundland. It was hailed as a triumph, but few discerned its full meaning: the birth of a communications revolution. Radio is widespread for its portability. It means that radios can easily be carried around. People like listening to the radio on the beach or picnic, while driving a car or just walking down the street. The main kind of radio entertainment is music.

The Internet was created in 1983. Since that time it has grown beyond its largely academic origin into an increasingly commercial and popular medium. The

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Internet connects many computer net works. It is based on a common addressing system and communications protocol called TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). By the mid-1990s the Internet connected millions of computers throughout the world. Many commercial computer network and data services also provided at least indirect connection to the Internet. The World Wide Web, which enables simple and intuitive navigation of Internet sites through a graphical interface, expanded during the 1990s to become the most important component of the Internet. It's impossible to say now what the Internet will be like in the future or how it will change our lives. But we must admit that the World Wide Web offers people great opportunities, and we must try to make the best use of it.

Language work

1. Practise saying and learn the vocabulary

to overestimate – переоценивать,

contemporary – современный,

feature – черта,

mass media – средства массовой информации,

bookseller – книготорговец,

entertaining – развлекательный,

portability – портативность,

newcast – обзор новостей,

to focus – сосредоточиваться,

grip – умение овладеть вниманием,

current – ток [эл.],

profound – глубокий,

magnetic field – магнитное поле,

prediction – предсказание,прогноз,

portability – мобильность, переносимость,

to hail – приветствовать,

to discern – разглядеть, распознавать,

popular medium – популярное средство,

Transmission Control Protocol – протокол управления передачей (интер- нет-протокол, который отвечает за разбиение данных на пакеты, которые протокол IP передает по сети),

data services – услуги передачи данных,

graphical interface – графический интерфейс,

admit – признавать.

2. Complete the sentences and use them as a plan for your future talk on the Mass media

The role of mass media in the life of the present society is_____

The mass media include_____________________________.

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The earliest kind of mass media________________________.

Magazines provide more profound analysis________________

Television plays an important role in our society___________

Television channels easily go into people's home__________

Radio first became a possibility when____________________.

Radio is widespread for its____________________________.

Internet is based on a_____________________________.

By the mid-1990s the Internet connected________________

The World Wide Web offers people______________________

UNIT X. HEALTHY WAY OF LIFE

Give the following a score of 1-5 how good you think they are for your health (1= not good, 5= excellent)

Read, translate and retell the text

Health is one of the burning issues of today. It is claimed that the health of whole nations is endangered. But what does it mean to be healthy? Researches agree that there are four components which identify how healthy you are: your diet, your daily routine, your pastime and your way of thinking.

People’s diets today are getting worse and worse. Many don’t have enough time to cook, so they just heat up a frozen meal or order a takeaway. Besides, with so many chains of fast food restaurants, which offer a variety of delicious food, fast service and low prices, people don’t have to spend a mass of time at the cooker and, instead, can relax and enjoy themselves. Fast food is especially popular with children and students who are crazy about burgers, French fries, chicken nuggets, fizzy drinks, milk shakes, corndogs, doughnuts with different fillings, cookies and various sandwiches which make our mouth water and keep us going through the day. This obsession with fast food seems quite strange because we have a lot of information now about how bad fast food is for you. But at the same time many people are trying to improve their diets, but they are doing it in the wrong way by following diets which are based on cutting out entire groups of food like carbohydrates. On the other hand, even if you don’t have time or facilities to cook, there are a lot of places where you can eat healthily; Japanese and Indian restaurants serve a range of fresh salads, fish, soups, salads and sushi. What you eat is the same important as when you eat. Nutritionists say that breakfast should be the most sufficient meal of the day (about 60% of what you eat) as all these calories are burnt by 12 o’clock.

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Another thing to worry about is your daily routine or, in other words, what you do in a typical day. The ideal scenario is that you walk to and back from work, work for not more than 8 hours a day, have a lunch-break, go in for sport and have a good night’s sleep. Physical training should be an essential and vital part of our daily routine, because a human’s body with its system of muscles and joints was designed to perform a system of movements, rather than stay motionless in an office’s chair. The choice of physical activity depends on the goal you want to achieve. Doing morning exercises is enough to stay fit and awake throughout a day. Martial arts are for those who are attracted by the benefit of self-defense and increased selfconfidence combined with a high level of fitness, speed and strength. If you like the spirit of competitiveness, take up one of team or individual games (football, basketball, tennis, golf, etc).

Psychologists state that our routine should be changed on weekend, that is the time when we take time-off. Every weekend should be remembered by some new experiences and activities which can be minor.

Finally, the way we perceive the world around us and react to the events happening to us determines how healthy we are. There are a lot of elaborated stresscoping strategies which help you keep things in control.

Language work

1. Give Russian equivalents to the following English words from the

text.

burning issues, endanger, diet, daily routine, pastime, way of thinking, heat up, frozen meal, order a takeaway, fast food restaurants, fast service, burgers, French fries, chicken nuggets, fizzy drinks, milk shakes, corndogs, doughnuts with different fillings, cookies, make one’s mouth water, to improve diets, cut out entire groups of food, nutritionists, sufficient meal, the ideal scenario, system of muscles and joints, to stay fit, martial arts, self-defense, self-confidence, fitness, speed, strength, spirit of competitiveness, perceive the world, stress-coping strategies, keep things in control.

2. Match the items with the idioms below:

Go downhill, off colour, as strong as an ox, full of beans, be taken with a pinch of salt, at death’s door, nothing but skin and bone, a shadow of one’s own self, up and about, ripe old age.

a)Unwell,

b)Very thin,

c)To get worse in health,

d)About to die,

e)To be doubted,

f)Active after an illness,

g)Very lively and energetic,

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h)Very strong and fit,

i)Weaker or less capable than one used to be,

j)Very old age.

3. Fill in the gaps with the phrases from the list

1.As soon as your is out of the cast, you’ll be…….in no time.

2.John has a reputation of a being a liar, so whenever he tells me anything, I take it with a ……..

3.Peter didn’t go to school today because he was feeling a bit………….

4.The recession will affect industry badly and many companies will………….

5.My grandfather lived to a ………... He was 104 when he died.

6.- Can you have a look at my dog? He’s usually so ……….but he’s been refusing his food for a week now and he’s nothing…………...

- Oh! He’s just………, isn’t he? Don’t worry! I don’t think he’s ………..just yet. Give him one of these tablets three times a day and he should be ………in a week or so.

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