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- •Contents
- •Introduction
- •3. In what situation would you use the following set expressions? Give your own examples.
- •4. Match the words and their definitions.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Violent English
- •A Confluence of Cultures
- •How to Plan a Town
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •Bungalows for sale
- •3. Look at the verbs below. Match each one with an appropriate phrase from the list on the right. Use the expressions in contexts of your own.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. The following extracts from guide books describe five of the world’s most famous cities. Work in small groups. Read the descriptions and decide which city is being described in each text.
- •2. Read the extracts again and point out the facts that helped you decide which city is being described.
- •3. Work with a partner and discuss these questions.
- •4. Complete these sentences using appropriate phrases from the text. Make any changes to the phrases that are necessary.
- •5. Look at the adverbial phrases below and decide which of them have negative or limiting meaning.
- •6. Rewrite the sentences below, starting with the word or words given.
- •7. Speak about your plans for the holidays. Use at least ten expressions from Ex. 5 and 6.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •5. Match the words to make up phrases. Explain their meaning in English.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •4. Becky is in the habit of itemizing clothes (her own and other people’s). How does she describe/speak about clothes? Compile “Becky’s clothes and fashion vocabulary”.
- •Shopaholic Abroad
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the suitable word from the box. Put the words in the correct form.
- •3. Define the following words and phrases in English. Make up sentences with these words.
- •4. Match the words and their definitions.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •Shopaholic Ties the Knot
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Match the words and their definitions.
- •3. Fill in the words from the active vocabulary list.
- •4. In what situations would you say the following? Provide your own context for these utterances. Then find them in the text and check their actual usage.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •2. Read the whole text. Do we have the press we deserve?
- •3. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •5. Explain how you understand the following idiomatic expressions: to throw out the baby with the bath water, a toothless watchdog, to get a rough ride. In what contexts can you use them?
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Publican Jailed for Assault
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text. What is the topic and the implied main idea of paragraphs 6, 7 and 9?
- •2. True or false.
- •3. Select the best answer.
- •4. Discuss the following issue: What is the most important overall message the writer wants the reader to understand about stress?
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •Bill’s Eyes
- •5. Complete each sentence with the appropriate phrase.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •4. Explain the final scene of the story. Were you shocked by it or was it quite predictable? Give your reasons.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •The Emergency Ward
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Choose the best definition of the italicized word.
- •3. Match the words to make up word combinations from the text.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Choose the best answer. Explain your choice by providing evidence from the text.
- •3. On the basis of the evidence from the text, mark these statements as accurate inferences, inaccurate inferences or insufficient evidence.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Home reading
- •2. Can we call Champagne and Jane opposites? Prove it. Do you believe such opposites could “attract”?
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the required extracts from the book “Can You Keep a Secret?” by s. Kinsella and consider the following questions.
- •2. Agree or disagree: Being stressed out is an excuse for blabbering all your secrets to a complete stranger.
- •4. Look at the expressions in bold in these sentences. Is mind a verb or a noun in each one?
- •5. Match each expression in Ex. 4 with one of these meanings.
- •II.Discussing the text
- •II. Discussing the text
- •3. Comment on the “look-alike” pattern theory. Does it work in real life?
- •II. Tasks for “Man and Boy” by t. Parsons
- •III. Tasks for “Man and Wife” by t. Parsons
- •IV. Tasks for “How to be Good” by n. Hornby
- •Reference
- •Читай и обсуждай Пособие по курсу «Практикум по культуре речевого общения»
III. Follow-up activities
1. You are participants of a panel discussion on the subject “Do we have the press we deserve?”. Choose your own part, e.g. chairman of the Press Council, an editor, a journalist working for a quality paper/tabloid, a famous politician/actor/sportsman harassed by reporters, a reader etc.
2. Conduct a mini-survey. You are to interview 10 people (chosen according to a certain principle) to find out about their reading habits. Present the results of your survey in class.
IV. Additional tasks
Task 1. Match the headings with the articles.
1. Whales have brains more complex than any species, including man
2. Jury disqualify Bay Bea: Britain go into lead
3. Pack up and go!
4. New bid to end hunger strikes
5. Missing links?
6. “What’s this, overtime?”
7. Now U.S. doctors slam civil defense
8. Small talk
9. The slim blue line
10. France rushes industry takeover
a. If half as much energy and enthusiasm were channelled into planning a holiday wardrobe as in planning the holiday itself much confusion would be happily avoided.
Packing puts even the most orderly of organisers into a panic. Each summer our fashion department is flooded with pleas for what to pack for readers who are accompanying their husbands on business trips to Europe, taking coach journeys
through the Alps or sabbatical to the Far East, and for the lucky few, planning far away cruises to the tropics.
b. Britain, who finished joint second behind the United States in yesterday’s third inshore race of the international series, took the team lead in the Admiral’s cup last night after the International Jury disqualified the American yacht Bay Bea.
c. The French government has overruled its own doubters and decided to act swiftly to nationalise industries as planned in President Mitterrand’s election programme – amounting to one fifth of French industry.
A three-stage programme to be unveiled in the national Assembly today by the Prime minister, Mr Mauroy, is expected to announce the takeover of banks (including extensive industrial holdings held by banks), armaments and steel in the autumn.
d. The government decided last night to send in a representative to the Maze prison in an attempt to end the IRA hunger strike.
An official from the Northern Ireland office is expected to read out to the prisoners a statement outlining terms for a solution.
e. They used to be the essential small accessory for the big businessman. But in the past few years, the price of pocket tape recorders has come down – and you’re now as likely to find one in a handbag or a trouser pocket as in the hand of a captain of industry. They are emerging from the business machine world to be used for shopping lists, interviews, telephone conversations – and even for listening to music.
f. More young policewomen are joining the fight against crime as growing numbers of men quit the force.
And if present recruitment trends continue eventually there could be more women officers than men, police chiefs were told yesterday.
g. They have been hunted to the brink of extinction to make mink food, margarine, cosmetics, fertilizer, whale steaks and lubricating oil.
There are cheap, plentiful substitutes for all whale products. But the massacre of the whales continues, led by Norway, Iceland, Spain and Japan. This year, more than 15,000 of these highly-intelligent marine mammals will suffer agonizing deaths as they are chased down at sea and blasted with massive harpoons.
h. Meet people in London with whom you have something in common. LINKUP offers a fresh approach to making friends in London by linking you with on going groups of members who share your interests.
LINKUP groups go out together in town and locally for meals/drinks/films/theatre/music/walks/swimming/Sunday brunches/parties etc., escape to the country or just meet at someone’s place for a coffee. Each group is different, of course, but the atmosphere is always informal and friendly.
i. “If the civil defense budget were in my hands, I would spend all $120 million on morphine,” says one American scientist who has studied the effects of nuclear war. “Civil defense money is worse than wasted now. It misleads. It may let people believe they can get away in a nuclear war. They can’t.”
Task 2. Act out the story.