Міністерство освіти і науки, молоді і спорту України

Житомирський технологічний коледж

Завдання для практичних робіт Для студентів 1 курсу всіх спеціальностей

Житомир 2010

Методичні вказівки до виконання практичних робіт з англійської мови для студентів 1 курсу всіх спеціальностей.

Методичні вказівки складаються з 36 уроків, розрахованих на певну кількість годин аудиторних занять.

Методичні вказівки містять тексти з оригінальної літератури за фахом: систему вправ до текстових і післятекстових. Вправи призначені для усного і письмового виконання.

Методичні вказівки призначені для студентів 1 курсу.

Укладач: Мартенюк В.А., викладач англійської мови 2 категорії Житомирського технологічного коледжу.

Методичні вказівки розглянуто і схвалено цикловою комісією з гуманітарних дисциплін:

Протокол № ____ від «___» ___________20__ р.

Голова циклової комісії з гуманітарних дисциплін Шишук А.Ф.

Term 1 lesson 1

Introduction

1. Read and translate the text ‘English Language’, try to give your own ideas that concern your study of English.

Language belongs to each of us. Everyone uses words/ there is almost nothing in our lives that is not touched by language. We live in and by language. We all speak and we listen.

Everyday we can see that it is very important to know foreign language. The Internet and the satellite TV enable us to get information from all over the world. We are able to get education or a job in any country of the world. But we all know that we have to know the language of the country we want to study or work in.

English is the world’s first truly universal language. The rise of English is a story of wonderful success. When Julius Caesar landed in Britain nearly two thousands years ago, English did not exist. Five hundred years later, in the 5^th century, English was already spoken by the people who inhabited Great Britain but they were not many, and their English was not the language we know today. Nearly a thousand years later, at the end of the 16^th century, when William Shakespeare created his works, English was the native language of about 6 million Englishmen. At that time English was not used anywhere else except Great Britain.

Today English is more widely spoken in written than any other language has ever been. There are more than 1.5 billion English speakers in the world. At any station or airport in the world we can find instructions in English. Pilots and air traffic controllers, sailors speak English at all international airports and ports. Three quarters of the world’s mail and its telexes and telegrams are in English. More than half of the world’s scientific periodicals and eighty per cent of the information in the world’s computers are also in English. Business and trade can’t exist now without English. It is the language of sports: the official language of international air organizations, such as Oxfam and Save the Children, as well as of UNESCO, NATO and the United Nations.

If we listen to the talk of young people we’ll hear the words like ‘rap music’, ‘bodybuilding’, ‘windsurfing’, ‘computer hackers’ and others. English has become a part of youth culture all over the world and in Ukraine too.

If we want to feel ourselves comfortable in our modern world we must know English. But it’s not the limit. The knowledge of one foreign language extends our mind more than twice. So let’s not put limits on our minds and souls and study more foreign language. You know that those who control the information, those control the world.