- •Life in the 90s
- •Too Many or Too Few?
- •Britain Today
- •A View of the City
- •Theme one Family Life
- •The Odd Couple
- •How Battered Wives Can Learn to Leave
- •One Beating Every 15 Seconds
- •Why She Didn't Leave
- •The Double Life of Batterers
- •Making the Break
- •After the Shame: a New Life
- •Can Abusive Husbands Be Cured
- •1. Find out in the story the proof of the following statements:
- •2. Now think about and discuss the following questions and statements:
- •Civil Cases
- •Here Come the dinKs
- •Independently from their parents is changing.
- •Show Me the Way to Go Home
- •Vocabulary
- •Questions and activities comprehension questions
- •Discussion questions
- •Group activities
- •Theme two a Place to Live and Work
- •Little Has Changed on the Streets of London
- •Unemployment
- •Migration
- •Theme three work and study Equal at Work
- •Unit two Communication
- •The Press in Britain
- •Language in the News
- •Theme one Getting the Message Across Publicising the Circus
- •You Too Could Become a Communication Expert
- •In Just 15 Minutes
- •The Development of Advertising
- •Living in Portugal
- •Theme two First Impressions
- •Text a The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- •Gestures
- •«Open» and «Closed» gestures
- •Clothes
- •Text в Girl Talk - Where You Can Buy Success in the Coffee Break
- •It is from your self-image that you:
- •Language Awareness: The Language of Newspapers Special Vocabulary
- •Style in the Tabloids
- •Theme three The Media
- •Out of Print
- •The Press at Work
- •Talking Points a. Read the extract, and answer the questions which follow
- •The Internet-Ready Resume
- •Job Applications
- •Unit three Reputation
- •In meaning to:
- •Theme two Public Image Circus People
- •The Cockney Hero with a Difference
- •Chanel public fame and private enigma
- •Robert Browning
- •A Brief History of Time
- •The Hawking Story
- •Theme three Two Women
- •Mother Teresa
- •С. Read the text and answer the questions that follow. Hounding of the Princess
- •Confronted
- •Why Diana moved us so
- •It was Tony Time
- •Section two rendering
- •Render the text in English and discuss the main points. Письма в «Тайме»
- •Принцесса Анна
- •Цена славы
- •Количество смертей, вызванных насилием в семье, значительно снизилось в графстве Санта Клара
- •I. Language focus.
- •Ш. The film discussion.
- •IV. Extention.
- •I. Discussion of the film.
- •III. Discussion of the language.
- •Diana Interviewed
- •An Interview with Margaret Thatcher
- •I. Lead-in. Discuss with other students:
- •IV. Name the three factors which, according to m. Thatcher, made up Britain.
- •V. Express your own opinion of pr technologies and political views of Margaret Thatcher.
- •Section four sample tests
- •The Fast No-fuss Way To Make Your Dreams Come True
- •Incur..........
Living in Portugal
E. Listen to Jean talking about her experience of moving to a foreign country.
1. List three consequences of Jean's not being able to speak Portuguese when she first went to live in Portugal.
2. Now listen to the tape again and pick out three areas where life in Portugal improved for Jean after she had been there for some time. Indicate the nature of the change.
Theme two First Impressions
A. Discuss with a partner the following questions.
When you meet someone for the first time, what are the characteristics of that person that create the first impression?
Are these impressions based on aspects of the individual or on the stereotypes?
How far do you think the way individuals are perceived by other people is influenced by:
- sex stereotyping?
- education, upbringing and cultural norms?
- the role they are playing?
Now read Text A quickly and pick out three points that the author makes about self-presentation.
Text a The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
When an individual enters the presence of others, they commonly seek to acquire information about him or to bring into play information about him already possessed. They will be interested in his general socio-economic status, his conception of self, his attitude towards them, his competence, his trustworthiness, etc. Although some of this information seems to be sought almost as an end in itself, there are usually quite practical reasons for acquiring it. Information about the individual helps to define the situation, enabling others to
know in advance what he will expect of them and what they may ex of him. Informed in these ways, the others will know how best to act in order to call forth a desired response from him.
For those present, many sources of information become accessible and many carriers (or «sign-vehicles») become available for conveying this information. If unacquainted with the individual, observes can glean clues from his conduct and appearance which allow them to apply their previous experience with individuals roughly similar to the one before them or, more important, to apply untested stereotypes to him. They can also assume from past experience that only individuals of a particular kind are likely to be found in a given social setting. They can rely on what the individual says about himself or on documentary evidence he provides as to who and what he is. If prior to the interaction, they can rely on assumptions as to the persistence and generality of psychological traits as a means of predicting his present and future behaviour.
However, during the period in which the individual is in the immediate presence of the others, few events may occur which directly provide the others with the conclusive information they will need if they are to direct wisely their own activity. Many crucial facts lie beyond the time and place of interaction or lie concealed within it. For example, «true» or «real» attitudes, beliefs and emotions of the individual can be ascertained only indirectly, through his avowals or through what appears to be involuntary expressive behaviour. Similarly, if the individual offers the others a product or service, they will often find that during the interaction there will be no time and place immediately available for eating the pudding that the proof can be found in. They will be forced to accept some events as conventional or natural signs of something not directly available to the senses.
(«The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life» by Irving Goffman)
B. Explain the meaning of these phrases.
1. to bring into play 7. glean clues
2. socio-economic status 8. untested stereotypes
3. an end in itself 9. psychological traits
4. informed in these ways 10. conclusive information
5. sources of information 11. crucial facts
become accessible 12. can be ascertained only indirectly
6. if unacquainted with the individual
C. According to the text:
1. What do people generally want to find out when they meet someone?
2. Why?
3. How do they find out this information?
4. How can people find out about another person's beliefs and attitudes?