- •Chapters 1-2
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects:
- •6. Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary.
- •Chapters 3-4
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.
- •3.Answer the questions.
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •6. Insert the right prepositions:
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary.
- •Chapters 5-6
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •Insert the right prepositions.
- •Chapters 7-8
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •6. Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary.
- •Chapters 9-10
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •6. Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary.
- •Chapters 11-12
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •6. Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary:
- •Chapters 13-14
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary.
- •Chapters 15-16
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •6. Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary
- •Chapters 17-18
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •6. Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary
- •Chapters 19-20
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •6. Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary.
- •Chapters 21-22
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters:
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •6. Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary
- •Chapters 23-24
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Do you agree or disagree with the following? Quote the text to prove that.
- •5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
- •6. Insert the right prepositions.
- •7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary.
- •1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
- •Final discussion
7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary
1. Никто не решался затронуть его репутацию, хотя все признавали его крайнюю самонадеянность.
2. Все художественные произведения Ван Гога обречены на успех.
3. Норман был занят размышлениями о своем будущем.
4. Странно, что с такой безупречной репутацией Нед решился участвовать в таком опасном и рискованном предприятии и вложил деньги.
5. Морис понял, что попал в дурацкое положение, но ему все было нипочем, благодаря его оптимизму.
6. Родители Мартина стремились дать ему самое лучшее образование, он понимал, что он всем обязан им.
7. Лили очень хотела откровенно высказаться по поводу этого дела, но сдержалась, не желая обижать ничьих чувств.
8. Английский автомобиль Мини очень быстро вошел в моду.
9. Джон больше не хотел быть вовлеченным в дела Лена. Он полагал, что и так уже сделал достаточный вклад в этот проект.
10. Лизе не удалось получить банковскую ссуду, но ей никто не объяснил, что же было препятствием.
11. По ее слегка высокомерной манере поведения сразу было понятно, что она принадлежит высшему обществу.
12. Перенаселение – одна из самых актуальных проблем, с которыми человечество сталкивается в наши дни.
13. К этому доктору очень трудно записаться на прием – всегда большая очередь.
Chapters 19-20
Words and expressions to remember
a breakfast tray
an intrusion
a warrant
incredulous
embarrassing questions
to frown
to break the news
Johnny-on-the-spot
a touch of reproach
to count on
on a small scale
to hurt feelings
to be a credit to
to infuriate
hand-me-downs
inevitable
hostile
trap / to trap sb
the premises
an IOU
contented
to eliminate
1. Reproduce the situations from the chapters where these lexical items are used.
2. Comment on or paraphrase the following sentences from the chapters.
The water was getting deep;
He was the sort of man who could destroy relations between friendly nations in the space of a half-hour;
Partially against my will he had established himself in my imagination as a looming father-figure, capriciously powerful, solver of problems and mysteries, mover of men and laws;
Being in wine is like having a license to steal;
I don’t like to worry you about projects until they ripen;
We’ll have to try to uproot the old Puritan in you…
As the plane disappeared westward I felt deserted, left behind, the only one not invited to the party.
3. Answer the questions.
Why did Eunice decide to leave Gstaad?
What happened in the morning?
What was all that fuss at the hotel about?
How can you describe Grimes’s feelings when he was being questioned by the police?
What factors made Grimes and Fabian’s relationships so complicated?
What happened to Sloane?
Do you think Grimes was struck (shocked) by Fabian’s act when he took out the IOU from dead Sloane’s pocket?
Why did Fabian decide to accompany Sloane’s dead body to the USA?
What kind of business did Fabian decide to do?
Why did Grimes ask Fabian to call his brother?
What amazed Grimes about Fabian?
Why did Grimes feel so hopeless after Fabian had left?