- •Т.В. Поплавская т.А. Сысоева
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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
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Introduction
The book is the second part of “Read and Talk” and is designed to provide guidance for advanced students majoring in English and Intercultural Communication. It comprises pieces of reading in which issues worth discussing are raised. The book contains short stories and extracts from novels by modern authors, magazine articles, essays, jokes arranged topically in several units and is devised to provoke argument. Each unit consists of texts (or references to the required texts) and exercises: vocabulary drills, specific tasks and assignments aimed at developing deliberation skills and thus assisting to reach a higher standard of language acquisition – that of intellectual communication. The activities suggested focus on the English language as a tool of intelligible communication (rather than language as a structure).
It is the authors’ intention to provide motivation in debating the issues of Modern Lifestyle, Aspects of Culture, The Press and Medical Care and to equip those who have chosen language as a career with due linguistic skills.
The book offers a selection of stories and extracts from novels for home reading and tasks for non-guided reading. The texts assembled in the book are either unabridged short stories and articles or extracts from novels. In both cases, the spelling, punctuation and specific graphic elements of the original are saved.
Unit 1
Aspects of Culture
English Is a Crazy Language
I. Vocabulary work
1. Study the words.
To be well/better/best off, indispensable, vagary, purport, marvel, rigid, misperceive, engender, spoof, lunacy.
2. Choose a suitable word from Ex. 1 to fill in the gaps. Make sure to use it in the appropriate form.
1. His wealth fluctuates with the … of the stock market.
2. It is a … of engineering, still functioning today.
3. The law is moral and … .
4. The main … of my writing is to tell you that we have found a house for the next half year.
5. Our teacher is a … disciplinarian.
6. His idea was considered total … .
7. It’s not a good idea to change jobs; you’re … where you are.
8. Such policies have … controversy.
9. The letter … to express people’s opinion.
10. One cannot but ... at these stunning cathedrals.
11. Mike Myers’ comedy flop The Love Guru has dominated the Golden Raspberries, the … prizes awarded to the worst Hollywood movies of the year.
12. People who … social reality in this way tend to feel lonelier and less satisfied with life.
3. In what situation would you use the following set expressions? Give your own examples.
To be mad about smth/smb, every nook and cranny, taken aback, kit and caboodle, spick and span, a near miss, go back and forth, innocent bystanders, a hit-and-run play, in fine fettle, daylight savings time, annals of history, hue and cry, might and main.
4. Match the words and their definitions.
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loopy
beam pretentious
insanity rigid inescapable paradox |
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claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified marked by a lack of flexibility, rigorous and exacting a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true extreme foolishness, folly to emit or transmit ineluctable, unavoidable offbeat, crazy |