- •Введение
- •Chapter 1. Family. Home Text 1. Oleg Kirillov Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Substitutional patterns:
- •2. Fill in the form:
- •3. Translate the following into English:
- •4. Act the following conversational situations:
- •5. Answer the questions on the text:
- •6. Speak about:
- •Text 2. Oleg’s family Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the questions on text 2:
- •2. A) Say all you know about the hair, eyes, lips, eyelashes, the nose, the forehead, the figure, the mouth.
- •3. Listen to the following statements and respond them.
- •4. Agree if the statements are true to life or disagree if they are not.
- •5. Describe your group mates, let the students guess who the person is:
- •6. The plan will help you to describe one of your friends.
- •7. Act out the following conversational situations:
- •8. Speak about:
- •Text 3. The Kirillovs’ flat and a place of residence Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the questions on the text:
- •2. Be ready to speak about:
- •Additional texts for reading Text 1. Jackie’s family Read the text with a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 2. The House of an Englishman Read the text and be ready to discuss the difference between an English house and a Belarusian one.
- •Chapter 2. Meals. Shopping Text 1. Meals Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •1. Oleg’s daily meals
- •2. At the University dining room
- •Exercises
- •Text 2. Shopping Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the questions on the text:
- •2. Ask your friend:
- •3. Name the following by one word:
- •4. Be ready to speak about:
- •Additional texts for reading Text 1. Meals in England Read the text and compare meals in England and in our country.
- •Text 2. Shopping in the uk Read the text and say why Marks & Spencer store is famous all over the world.
- •Text 1. Oleg’s student life Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •1. About the University
- •2. Oleg’s studies
- •Exercises
- •1. Use the text to find synonyms for the following words:
- •2. Use the text to complete the sentences:
- •3. Use the information from the text to expand the following sentences:
- •4. Use the text to put 2–3 questions beginning with the words:
- •5. Use the text to fill in the blanks with prepositions if necessary:
- •6. Use the text to find the English equivalents for the following words and word combinations
- •7. Put questions to the following sentences:
- •8. Use the text to add some more information to the following statements:
- •9. Be ready to speak about the University and your studies there. Text 2. Oleg’s ordinary working day Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •5. Use the text to put 2–3 questions about Oleg’s working day with the words:
- •6. Find in the text words to speak about Oleg’s day:
- •7. Be ready to speak about your working day.
- •Additional texts for reading
- •Text 1. Student life in Great Britain
- •Read and translate the text with a dictionary. Say what you think about it. Study the following vocabulary before reading the text:
- •Text 2. An account of a typical day
- •At oxford University
- •Read the text about Christina’s studies at Oxford University.
- •Say what new information you have gained from the text.
- •Chapter 4. Free Time. Travelling Text 1. Oleg’s free time Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •1. Oleg’s day off
- •2. Oleg’s winter and summer holidays
- •Exercises
- •1. Reproduce the sentences using the following words and word combinations:
- •2. Complete the following sentences:
- •3. Agree to the following statements and add some more information:
- •4. Fill in the missing parts in the following dialogues:
- •5. Answer the questions on the topic:
- •6. Ask your friend:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Speak on the way you usually spend your day off‚ your winter and summer holidays
- •Text 2. The Kirillovs’ week-end
- •Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Study the following vocabulary before reading the text:
- •Exercises
- •1. Use the text to put questions about:
- •2. Decide if the following statements are true or false.
- •3. Add some more sentences from the text to expand the following statements:
- •4. Look through the text once again and speak on:
- •5. Be ready to speak about your last week-end. Text 3. Oleg’s trip to Minsk Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Expend the following statements. Add information from the text:
- •2. Answer the questions on the text:
- •3. Speak on:
- •Additional texts for reading Text 1. Sunday in England Read the text with a dictionary and be ready to answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 2. Adventure holidays at Beacon Park Read the text with a dictionary and be ready to answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 3. Travelling Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •1. A trip by air
- •2. A trip by railway
- •3. A sea voyage
- •Exercises
- •1. Say what we call the place where:
- •2. Discuss with your group-mates the advantages and disadvantages of travelling by:
- •Chapter 5. Future profession Text. Oleg’s future profession Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the questions on the text.
- •2. Speak on:
- •3. Be ready to speak about your future profession. Use the text as a help to your topic.
- •Additional texts for reading
- •Text 1. School teacher
- •Read the text using a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 2. Economist Read the text using a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 3. Philologist Read the text using a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 4. Historian Read the text using a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 5. Ecologist Read the text using a dictionary and discuss the vital ecological problems this profession deals with. Study the following vocabulary before reading the text:
- •Text 1. Oleg is a teenAger Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Develop the following ideas:
- •3. Speak on:
- •Additional texts for reading Text 1. Problems of young people’s unemployment Read the text and express your opinion about the consequences of youth unemployment.
- •Text 2. Leisure activities of youth
- •Text 1. Belarus Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •1. Geographical situation
- •2. Industry, agriculture, science
- •3. Political set-up
- •Exercises
- •1. Use the text to complete the sentences from the text:
- •2. Decide if the following statements are false or true:
- •3. Answer the questions on the text:
- •4. Be ready to speak about Belarus. Use information from the text as a help to your topic.
- •Text 2. Minsk
- •Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Study the following vocabulary before reading the text:
- •Exercises
- •1. Use text 2 to reproduce the sentences with the following words and word combinations:
- •2. Use the text to complete the sentences:
- •3. Decide if the following statements are true or false:
- •4. Answer the questions on text 2:
- •5. Be ready to speak about the capital of our republic. Use text 2 as a help to your topic. Text 3. Mozyr Read the text and do the exercises that follow it:
- •Exercises
- •1. Replace the following definitions by one word from text 3:
- •2. Reproduce the sentences from the text in which the following word-combinations are used:
- •3. Answer the questions on the text:
- •4. Be ready to speak about your home town (village, settlement). Use the following outline on the topic:
- •Additional texts for reading Text 1. From the history of Belarus Read the text with a dictionary and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Use the text to complete the sentences from the text:
- •2. Decide if the following statements are false or true:
- •3. Answer the questions on the text:
- •Text 2. From the history of Minsk Read the text with a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it. Study the following vocabulary before reading the text:
- •Chapter 8. Great Britain. London
- •Text 1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain
- •And Northern Ireland
- •Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •1. The geographical situation of the uk
- •2. British industry
- •3. Political set-up
- •Exercises
- •1. Choose the right variant to complete the sentences according to the text:
- •2. Use the text to complete the sentences:
- •3. Answer the questions on the text:
- •4. Use the text and your background knowledge to answer the questions of the quiz on Great Britain:
- •5. Be ready to speak about Great Britain. Use text 1. As a help to your topic. Text 2. London Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the questions on the text:
- •2. Speak about London. Use the information from text 2 as a help to your topic.
- •Additional texts for reading
- •Text 1. From the history of Britain
- •Read the text with a dictionary and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Read the text and arrange the following statements in correct order:
- •2. Answer the questions on the text:
- •Text 2. From the history of London Read the text with a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 3. Museums of London Read the text with a dictionary and after each paragraph form a question on the main fact or information contained in it.
- •Text 4. London parks Read the text with a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 5. English character Read the text with a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 6. Customs, holidays and traditions
- •In Great Britain Read the text with a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Chapter 9. The systems of education in Belarus and Great Britain Text 1. The System of Education in Belarus Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •2. Higher education
- •Exercises
- •1. Reproduce the sentences from the text using these words:
- •2. Express your agreement or disagreement.
- •3. Answer the questions on the text:
- •Exercises
- •Additional texts for reading
- •Text 1. The history of development
- •Of education in our Republic
- •Read the text and do the exercise that follow it
- •Text 2. Teachers’ training in Belarus Read the text and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Text 3. Comprehensive education in scotland Read and translate the text with a dictionary.
- •Text 5. Famous Universities of the uk Read the text with a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
- •1. Oxford
- •2. Cambridge
- •3. Oxbridge specific system of education
- •Chapter 10. Famous people of Belarus and Great Britain Text 1. Famous People of Belarus Read the text and answer the questions that follow it.
- •1. Literature
- •2. Theatre
- •3. Music
- •5. Sport
- •6. Space
- •Text 2. Famous Britons Read the text and answer the questions that follow it.
- •Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
- •Additional texts for reading Text 1. Who was Dr. Skaryna?
- •Text 2. Efrosinya Polotskaya Read the text with a dictionary and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Complete the sentences using the following variants:
- •2. Arrange the items of the given outline in the order according to the text:
- •Text 3. Zhores I. Alferov Read the text with a dictionary and speak on Alferov’s youth, his discoveries and career.
- •Text 4. Isaac Newton Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Exercises
- •1. Use the text to complete the sentences:
- •2. Answer the following questions on the text:
- •3. Be ready to speak about Newton’s life and his discoveries.
- •Text 5. James Watt
- •Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Study the following vocabulary before reading the text:
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the following questions on the text:
- •2. Be ready to speak about Watt’s life and his discoveries.
- •Text 6. William Shakespeare
- •Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Study the following vocabulary before reading the text:
- •Text 7. Robert Burns Read the text and do the exercises that follow it. Study the following vocabulary before reading the text:
- •Exercises
- •1. Decide if the following sentences are true or false:
- •2. Answer the questions on the text:
- •3. Be ready to speak about Burn’s life and his works.
- •Text 8. ChaRleS darwin
- •Read the text and do the exercises that follow it.
- •Study the following vocabulary before reading the text:
- •Exercises
- •1. Put questions to the words in italics:
- •3. Make an outline of the text and be ready to speak about Darwin’s life and his theories. Содержание
2. Speak on:
– your choice of the speciality;
– its significance;
– your views on upbringing of a younger generation.
3. Be ready to speak about your future profession. Use the text as a help to your topic.
Additional texts for reading
Text 1. School teacher
Read the text using a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
Teaching is a very responsible and specific job. Not everyone has enough courage to accept this responsibility. Most young people prefer to choose a more rewarding and better paid job. However there are many young people who consider teaching as a career. For them the main attraction is not money, but job satisfaction and the belief that education is of vital importance for the success and progress of any society.
The success of educating and upbringing of children depends to a great degree on the personality of the teacher, his professional skills, moral principles, erudition and cultural background. This noble and challenging profession demands from a teacher constant creativity, enthusiasm, understanding of children and love for them, complete dedication to his cause.
The teacher must be a model of competence, so he is a person who is learning as well as teaching all his life. Most jobs can be done within the usual office hours, but teacher’s work is never done and evenings are mostly spent marking exercise-books and preparing for the next lesson. It is also a stressful job because you have to encourage your pupils and keep them interested. A good teacher treats his pupils with respect and values them as individuals. He understands that each child is a unique and has special talents and capabilities. He helps children to develop their critical and creative thinking. He teaches them to work independently and cooperatively, to be helpful and useful.
A good teacher will do his best to bring up honest and considerate, patient and tactful.
Answer the questions on the text:
1. What establishments train teachers in our country?
2. Are teachers trained only on one subject?
3. What can you say about Mozyr State Teacher’s Training University?
4. Teaching is considered to be a very demanding and challenging job, isn’t it?
5. What does this profession demand from a teacher?
6. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of this profession?
7. What makes many young people take teaching career?
8. What personal qualities and moral principles should a teacher have?
Text 2. Economist Read the text using a dictionary and answer the questions that follow it.
The profession of an economist is one of the most important nowadays in view of the situation in our republic.
What makes a good economist? Whatever he does, an economist should have a thorough training in economic theory, mathematics and statistics. Students who chose the profession of an economist are taught various general and special subjects, such as Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Management, Accounting, Marketing, Advertising, Money and Banking, Economic Theory, Econometrics, Statistics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Business Ethics, Foreign Languages, etc.
An economist needs some knowledge of the world outside his own country because both business and government are deeply involved in the world economy. Some knowledge of political and economic history will help him to expect changes and always look for basic long-run forces under the surface of things.
The profession of an economist is quite diversified. The graduates of this faculty work at educational institutions, various research centres and laboratories, in industry, business, banks, etc. He may continue his studies at the Post-graduate Courses or Doctorate if he has a desire and abilities to become a scientist or a professor. Scientists in the field of Economics create new theories and models, test their hypotheses and carry out economic researches.
Being employed in industry and business, graduates work as managers, as an executive manager, a sales manager, a financial manager. Some of them work as accountants. An accountant is one of the most prestigious and widely required professions of an economist in any society. Don’t mix an accountant and a book-keeper. While a book-keeper is mostly involved in calculations, like balance sheets, income statements, invoices, an accountant is responsible for designing the financial policy of a company.
Some of them work at the banks, at the Stock Exchange as brokers, others work for the government or are employed by various agencies and by military services.
Knowing the economic laws of the development of the society, economists can solve many problems facing our Republic.
Answer the questions on the text:
1. Why is the profession of an economist one of the most important nowadays in our Republic?
2. What makes a good economist?
3. The profession of an economist is quite diversified, isn’t it?
4. In what way do accountants differ from book-keepers?
5. What kinds of specialists are graduated of Economics Faculty?
6. How can you continue your studies after graduating from the Economics Faculty?
7. What does the profession of an economist contribute to?