- •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..........
Britain Today
What do people in your country do when they are not working? Do you think the British spend their time differently? Listen to the tape and make notes about the things mentioned in the list below. Make use of any statistical information given to you.
1 Eating 6 Telephones 11 Books
2 Drinking 7 Central heating 12 Newspapers:
3 TV watching 8 Washing machines national
4 TV ownership 9 Cars regional
5 Video 10 Cinema 13 Smoking
Complete each sentence with one of the words or phrases given.
shanty towns commute debt violence
battering booming tough recession
racial tension hostel image racist
high-flyers status slum suburbs
rural depopulation ghetto subsistence squats
1. In Britain today many young graduates want to get a job with high......... .
2. The.............of high earners is enhanced by the purchase of a luxury car such as a Porche.
3. The financial centre of London, the City, is full of highly-motivated young............. who are eager to make a lot of money a quickly as possible.
4. All successful business people know how ............. lite a the top is.
5. When the economy is............., everyone seems to benefit.
6. In times of .............. it's the poorest that seem to suffer most.
7. The ease with which British citizens can get credit has led to increasing.............within society at large.
8. For those living at.............level, even buying essentials is a struggle.
9. Mary lives in a(n).............with sixty other students.
10. Penniless students in large cities try to save money by living in............., that is, houses which they find to be empty.
11. Financial problems can lead to stress within the family and.............between family members.
12. Wife-............. is a particularly unpleasant form of violence.
13. In certain inner-city areas............. sometimes occurs between different ethnic groups.
14. Members of ethnic minorities trying to find jobs often complain about ....... attitudes on the part of employees.
15. A poor, densely populated area of a town or city lived in mainly by one racial group is called a(n).............. .
16. In Third World countries .............have grown up on the outskirts of major cities to house poor workers who have migrated from the countryside.
17. In the developed world run-down and derelict housing in the inner city where people still live is called a(n)..............
18. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century there was a steady move to the cities. In many areas this led to..............
19. People working in large cities often like to live away from the centre in pleasant............ .
20. People who work in the city centre but live outside have to.............to work everyday.
Complete the text using the words and phrases given.
emulate allure doorstep self-image
accommodation veneer social life rush hour
stuck provinces made the break keep your wit
metropolis pace landmarks