- •Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи для студентов I и II курса технических специальностей
- •Part I me and my family
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, and translate the texts. About myself
- •My family
- •III. Supplementary vocabulary:
- •3. Relationships
- •IV. Using the supplementary vocabulary and the above stories, speak about yourself and your family.
- •V. A) Give the Russian equivalents for the following English proverbs and sayings (or translate them into Russian).
- •VI. Topics for oral compositions:
- •V. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •Working day of a student
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read and translate the texts:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •Higher education
- •I . Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II . Read, translate and retell the text:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •Our university
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II .Read, translate and retell the text:
- •AltStu academic divisions
- •Institutes:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •In the city Barnaul
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and retell the text:
- •III. Complete the text with the words and phrases from the list below.
- •IV. Underline the correct word or phrase.
- •V. Underline the correct grammar form of the verb.
- •VI. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •VII. Choose one of the prepositions.
- •VIII. Finish the sentences
- •Around the world
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Imagine some friends are coming to visit your town or city. They only have time to see three things. What three things should they see? Make a list.
- •III. Read the extract from a guide book for Cape Town.
- •IV. Put the sentences a-f back in the gaps 1-6 of the article.
- •V. Work in pairs. Imagine you have a free trip to Cape Town but you can only see three things. Which of the places would you like to visit most? Decide which three places are the best to go to.
- •VI. Match column a to column в to make sentences about things you can do in Cape Town.
- •VII. Anny and Nick are visiting Cape Town. Complete the sentences and put the adjectives in brackets into the superlative form. Where are they in each conversation?
- •VIII. Make questions with the phrases below about your native city. Use the superlative form of the adjectives. Make two more questions of your own.
- •Directions
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Fill in the gaps with up, into, through, round, onto, from...To, over or down.
- •III. Look at the pictures and speak about Robert`s driving lesson. Put a preposition from the box into each gap.
- •IV. Underline the correct word(s).
- •V. Follow the directions on the map and write down the name of the place. Try to guess where the woman wants to go.
- •Transport
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Put these types of transport in order from fast to slow.
- •III. Read the text. Can you guess which numbers go in the gaps?
- •IV. Look back at we text and choose the correct words to go together.
- •V. Which sentences are true for your country? Correct the false ones.
- •Shopping
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and retell the text: Shopping
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •VI. Ask your friend:
- •VII. Act out the situations using the following words and word combinations:
- •Part II Travelling
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered
- •Going abroad
- •II. Read, translate and reproduce the text
- •III. Exercises
- •1. Give the English equivalents
- •2. Translate into English
- •3. Answer the questions
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and retell the text: Travelling
- •IV. Answer the questions:
- •V. Ask your friend:
- •IV. Words and word combinations to be remembered
- •V. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues
- •Airplane reservation
- •Booking train tickets
- •Hotel reservations
- •At a hotel
- •Shopping
- •1. Lev Shkolnik - l. S., Salesman – s.
- •2. Saleswoman - s., Olga Rozova - o.R.
- •V. Act out the situations
- •VI. Ask your friend:
- •Spending free time
- •Vocabulary 1
- •Opinions
- •Vocabulary 2a
- •Vocabulary 2b
- •Vocabulary 3
- •Eating out/ meals
- •Vocabulary 4
- •Vocabulary 4a
- •2) Translate the sentences into English:
- •The Career Ladder
- •1. Read the texts and put down new vocabulary.
- •3. Read the article and check your answers to 2.
- •4. Imagine you could do two jobs. Which two jobs would you like to do? Discuss your ideas with a partner.
- •5. Work with a partner. The beginnings and ends of these sentences are mixed up. Rearrange them to make realistic sentences.
- •6. Work with a partner. Complete the interviews with can, can't, have to or don't have to.
- •Career moves
- •2. Decide…
- •3. Practise the dialogue. What does an interactive media designer do? Does it sound interesting to you? Why or why not? Find gerund phrases.
- •4. Make up sentences as in the example. Give your opinions about the jobs.
- •5. Find phrases in the list that are usually paired with each verb.
- •6. Practise the dialogue. Find comparisons.
- •7. Match the information to make sentences. Then rewrite each sentence in a different way.
- •8. Choose two summer jobs from the list. Then use the questions to compare them.
- •9. Read this letter of application for a job at Reynold's Department Store. Use the words and expressions above to improve the parts of the letter that are underlined.
- •10. Write your own letter of application for your dream job.
- •11. Read, translate and retell the text: planning a career
- •12. Ask your groupmates:
- •The main cities of america
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and reproduce the text: New York
- •III. Exercises
- •1. Give the English equivalents:
- •2. Translate into English:
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Circle t if the sentence is true. Circle f if the sentence is false.
- •5. Discuss the answers to these questions with your classmates.
- •Part II
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read and translate the text Glimpses of Geography
- •III Note the pronunciation of the geographical names:
- •IV. Look at the map and describe
- •« Город Огней»
- •VI. Grammar
- •VII. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •VIII. Ask your friend:
- •IX. Answer the questions.
- •X. Act out the situations:
- •The contents
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Opinions
Vocabulary 2a
touching/ to touch – трогательный/трогать
striking/ to strike (struck, stricken) – потрясающий/потрясать
scaring/ to scare – пугающий/ пугать
shocking/ to shock – шокирующий/ шокировать
exciting/ to excite – волнующий/ волновать
fascinating/ to fascinate – увлекательный/ увлекать (завораживать)
boring/ to bore – скучный/наводить скуку
disgusting – отвратительный
funny – забавный, смешной
senseless – бессмысленный
marvelous – великолепный
impressive/ to impress – впечатляющий, впечатлить
to produce a good (bad/ no) impression on smb – произвести хорошее (плохое/никакого) впечатление (-я) на кого-то
It (he, she, etc.) is worth seeing (listening to, etc.) – Это (его, ее..) стоит увидеть (услышать и т.п.)
the plot/the story of a film ( a book) – сюжет фильма (книги)
the plot of the film goes around… – главная идея фильма …
to take place – происходить, разворачиваться где-то
actor/actress – актер/актриса
leading (starring) actor/actress – актеры, исполняющие главную роль
to star in a film – играть главную роль в фильме, предоставлять главную роль (о режиссере)
director of a film/ producer of the show
costumes –
scene, episode –
special effects –
to last several hours – продолжаться в течение нескольких часов
to release a new album (film, etc.) – выпустить новый альбом (фильм, и т.д.)
to shoot (shot, shot) a film, to record a musical album – снять фильм, записать альбом
Text 2. Writing a Review
a) Before reading answer the questions:
What do you like best: theatre or cinema? Why? Do you often go to the cinema (theatre)?
What was the last film (theatrical performance) you saw? Did you like it or not?
b) Read two opinions on the film “Titanic”. Find out which of the authors liked the film and which didn’t, and why.
“I heard about this film from my friend. He said it’s worth watching because it had been awarded so many Oscars for actors’ play, directing, music and of course – the special effects. The director of the film – James Cameron is said to be the king of special effects and that is true, in my opinion. I have never thought that a model ship – and I heard that in reality Cameron had sunk not a real cruise-ship, but a model – could look so real. These episodes when the ship was slowly going under water were truly scaring and shocking. The actor’s playing was also wonderful and so expressive. Cameron starred really marvelous actors in his film: all the audience were crying all together compassioning the poor lovers who lost their chance for happiness because of this catastrophe. The scenario had been written by a master too: the film lasted over two hours but I was never bored. The dialogues were lively; all the scenes had been thought through so as to hold the attention of the viewer up to the end. I liked the costumes too: the beautiful dresses of the main heroine – the part played by Kate Winslet especially. So I anybody asks my advice, I will strongly recommend to see this film.”
“Go watch this film only if you are a sentimental girl whose favourite occupation is reading silly sentimental love-stories, crying over different silly “poor things” who have nothing to do but fall in love with inappropriate people, and then suffer because they can never be together. Well, to be fair enough, I should say that Cameron, the film-director, has done a really great job – his film is really epic because of all this strikingly real scenes of the ship sinking. This view was really impressive. And the sound-track is also good. But the actors starring in the film didn’t produce any special impression on me. So frankly speaking I was bored and glad when this long film ended finally. If you ask me, I would never go to see this film again.”
c) In the reviews the authors used different words that show their attitude to the film. Find them all.
d) Here are some expressions that can help you to express your feelings about or your attitude to a show, a film, a book or a situation.
touching, scaring, shocking, disgusting, funny, senseless, boring, exciting, fascinating, incredible, marvelous |
Make up your own examples with these words.
Model 1: “Yesterday I saw a film “Romeo and Juliette”. It was so touching – I cried about the poor lovers all night”.
e) Try to remember a film you have recently seen. Discuss your impressions about it with your partner – speak about acting, voices, staging, the set, the costumes, the music and the characters. Say what struck or fascinated you most of all.
to strike (struck, stricken) to touch to make smb laugh to shock to surprise to fascinate |
Model 2: “What struck me most about this film was that they both died in the end.”
f) Read the dialogues below. Pay attention to the following ways to express your attitude to what your partner is saying:
Unbelievable! (Невероятно!), You must be kidding (joking)!, (Да ты шутишь!), Really? (В самом деле?), Sure! (Конечно!), Good idea! (Отличная идея!), Agreed (Договорились), Totally agree (Полностью согласен), (Have) no objections (Не возражаю) |