- •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
5. Topics for developing argumentation and rhetorical speech skills. Dwell on the following subjects.
People’s addiction to art. How does it develop? How is it bred?
Fundamental differences in two civilizations. How can we bridge the gap between two mentalities – are they destined to never be reconciled? Mental differences trigger all wars. We call to each other from opposite sides of an abyss;
The reasons for people being nostalgic;
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. – R. Davies
Should young people leave parents or stay with them?
6. Insert the right prepositions.
………………the trip down from Geneva to Rome, I dutifully visited most of the churches …………………. the list that Fabian had given me.
All the pictures were painted ………………. memory. He painted………….. …………………. loneliness.
Are you going to present me …………… the most perfect gift possible?
I was still committed ………………… what I had said to her.
You will end ……………… …………a bullet in your head.
Driving, especially ………. his speed, seemed to require all his attention, so there was no conversation.
Evelyn told me you'd turn ………….. eventually.
Will you take a check …………. a Swiss bank? - Certainly. Make it …………… to Pietro Bonelli.
When Miles called me ………….. the telephone from Gstaad, he spoke very highly ………… you.
And you hit it ……….. together just like that?
You have no idea ………………. how difficult they make it just to keep the head ………….. water.
He made an impatient gesture, as though he was annoyed ………… himself ………….. this show of pessimism.
I no longer had the feeling that she was ………… a desperate search ……………. something she would never find.
Without reflecting ………….. it, I kept …………. the pretense that I was still committed …………. what I had said to her.
7. Translate into English using your Active Vocabulary
1. Эмили души не чаяла в своем ребенке и наслаждалась каждым моментом, проведенным со своим жизнерадостным сыном.
2. Грег всегда был осмотрительным человеком. Странно, что он даже не задумался, насколько опасным может быть это путешествие.
3. В новом офисе Фрэнк чувствовал себя приниженным в окружении важных людей. Другим затруднением было адаптироваться к новым условиям работы.
4. Собственно говоря, этот обшарпанный дом когда-то был великолепным и роскошным особняком.
5. Казалось, что Фред не замечал очевидных фактов.
6. Когда Джил начала учиться в зарубежном ВУЗе, она поняла, что это было нечто совершенно отличное от всего, к чему она привыкла на Родине.
7. На рабочем месте вы обязаны быть бдительным. Кроме того, вы должны быть ознакомлены с правилами поведения в учреждении.
8. О Хэролде все очень высоко отзывались. Его обветренное лицо и живые глаза, вся его мощная фигура выдавали в нем путешественника. Его преданность своему делу вызывала уважение. Вся его судьба казалась крайне загадочной и таинственной.
9. Способы легкого обогащения почти всегда криминальны и рано или поздно разоблачаются.
10. Бюрократия настолько сильно поразила всю систему управления, что необходимы изощренные методы борьбы с ней.
11. Она была гораздо более искушенной в вопросах искусства, чем ее младшая сестра.