- •Содержание
- •Введение
- •Unit 1. About Myself
- •Vocabulary & Speech Exercises
- •Questions:
- •Answers:
- •Dialogue
- •Meeting by chance (in the street)
- •Culture Shock
- •Word list:
- •Discussion
- •Project
- •Unit 2. Daily Routines
- •Vocabulary & Speech Exercises
- •Questions:
- •Answers:
- •Insert have / has, do / does, make / makes or take / takes where necessary.
- •Dialogue
- •Asking about health (by phone)
- •How do others see Americans?
- •Word list:
- •Discussion
- •Project
- •Unit 3. Free time
- •Vocabulary & Speech Exercises
- •Questions:
- •Answers:
- •Dialogue
- •Invitation (by phone)
- •The Average Englishman
- •Word list:
- •Discussion
- •Project
- •Unit 4. Student’s Life
- •Vocabulary & Speech Exercises
- •Questions:
- •Answers:
- •Dialogue
- •Introduction (in the lecture room)
- •The Business of America
- •Word list:
- •Discussion
- •Project
- •Unit 5. Russia
- •Vocabulary & Speech Exercises
- •Dialogue
- •Discussing exams
- •The American Family
- •Word list:
- •Discussion
- •Project
- •Unit 6. My Native City (Cherepovets)
- •Vocabulary & Speech Exercises
- •The clues:
- •Dialogue
- •Complimenting
- •Valentine’s Day
- •Word list:
- •Discussion:
- •Project
- •Vocabulary
- •English tenses in Active: Formulas, examples, meanings and markers
- •English tenses in Active and Passive
- •Basic Irregular verbs
- •Retelling an Article Retelling-chart for an article
- •The steps of article retelling
- •Useful phrases
- •Retelling a Story Retelling-chart for a story
- •Useful phrases
- •Writing a Social Letter: Example
- •Writing a Postcard: Example
- •Useful Phrases
- •Рекомендуемая литература и Интернет-ресурсы
- •Использованная литература
Dialogue
Read and translate the dialogue into Russian. Practice good reading of the dialogue. Change the names in the dialogue and learn it by heart. Act it out with a partner.
Introduction (in the lecture room)
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Mark |
Is this seat taken? |
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Edward |
No, help yourself. I haven’t seen you before. Are you new in engineering? |
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Mark |
Yes, I just switched majors from computer science – too much math! |
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Edward |
Well, don’t expect it to be any better here. What’s your name anyway? |
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Mark |
Mark. What’s yours? |
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Edward |
Edward. But everyone calls me “Chip”. |
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Mark |
Well, I’m not going to tell you what my nickname is. Oh, here comes the professor. What’s his name anyway? |
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Edward |
James Carry. But we call him “Big Jim” because he is so short. |
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Mark |
To his face? |
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Edward |
No. Are you kidding? |
Text 2
Read and translate the text into Russian. Ask 10 questions on the text. Retell the text.
The Business of America
“The business of America is business”, US President Calvin Coolidge once said. When you visit one of the country’s large cities, you can see what he meant. In the center of the city, many large office buildings house banks, corporation headquarters, and government offices. Every weekday morning thousands of office workers enter these buildings and leave for their homes in the evening. Many of these people seem to be travelling all the time in buses, cars and taxi-cabs between one building and another, or in airplanes between one city and another.
The men and women who do all the office work are called white-collar workers. Secretaries, accountants and computer operators work for different kinds of companies. There are big banks that do business all over the world and little banks that serve a small town. The big insurance and industrial companies employ thousands of people, while around the corner an employment agency or another office may have five or six employees.
Many office workers dream of working their way up to the top from messenger to president of the corporation. The way lies through middle management positions. Middle management includes junior executives, who establish the policies for their companies, especially those that involve finances. The top managers of the large corporations have a great deal of power and influence.
It is still possible to start out at the bottom and go all the way to the top. Since the financial operation of business is very important, some accountants become top executives. In companies where technology is important, people with an engineering background can also rise to the top. People get promoted if they show the necessary personality and ability.
Word list:
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to mean (meant) – иметь в виду to house – располагать, вмещать government – правительство to enter – входить a white-collar worker – служащий to serve – обслуживать insurance – страховка to employ – нанимать, предоставлять работу an employment agency – агентство по трудоустройству an employee – служащий to work one’s way up – пробить дорогу the top – вершина a messenger – курьер to include – включать |
middle – средний a junior executive – руководитель младшего звена to establish – устанавливать to involve – включать a power – власть influence – влияние possible – возможный the bottom – дно, низ important – важный a top executive – руководитель старшего звена a background – зд.: образование to get promoted – получить повышение a personality – характер, личные качества ability – способность |
Make sure that you know these words. Use the vocabulary if necessary. Learn the words by heart.
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education an institute a university a college a department a branch a year to be in one’s first year a course a term an academic session (year) an examination session a degree a bachelor a master a specialist a freshman (-men) a specialty a director a rector a non-degree program |
a subject a group-mate a student’s card a student’s record book an exam(ination) in smth. a school-leaving exam a pass-fail test a diploma in smth. an assembly hall economics management information science applied information science humanities sciences success to study to study hard to study full-time to study part-time to do well in smth. |
to study by correspondence to enter university to graduate from university to attend lectures / seminars to make a report to write a course paper to take / have an exam to pass an exam to fail an exam to sit for an exam to take up smth. / Ving to make friends with smb. to last to change ones’ mind to receive a diploma to take part in smth. to congratulate on smth. to be successful in smth. to be founded to be admitted to smth. to be divided into smth. |