- •Unit 1. Character and Behaviour
- •Vocabulary
- •3 A). Describing characters in work situations, we use the following adjectives.
- •4. Fill the gaps with a suitable word.
- •5. Which prefix forms the opposite of these words? You need three different prefixes.
- •6. What nouns can be formed from these adjectives? Use a dictionary to help you.
- •Reading
- •1. Read the following text paying attention to the words and word-combinations in italics. Write down all international words from the text. Text a Psychology and Character
- •2. Answer the following questions to the text.
- •3. Say whether these statements are true (t) or false (f) and if they are false, say why.
- •4. How would you describe the person in each of these situations?
- •5. Read the sentence, translating the words in brackets.
- •7. Fill in the columns with the proper derivatives of the following words, whenever possible.
- •8. Translate from Russian into English using your active vocabulary.
- •1. Read the texts and match them to the headlines. There is one extra headline which you don’t need to use.
- •2. Match Russian and English equivalents.
- •3. Make adjectives by combining a word from column a with a word from column b. Then complete the sentences below.
- •5. Read the text without a dictionary and explain the difference between character and temperament. Character Versus Temperament
- •Find English equivalents in the text.
- •7. Match the words with the people.
- •2. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Explain your point of view.
- •3. Give examples of ways not mentioned in the text that you might work together in or out of Academy to break down you own stereotypes and reduce your prejudices toward others.
- •6. Read the following sayings of famous people. Which of them do you agree with? Explain why.
- •7. Choose one text and translate it into English.
- •1. Read the text paying attention to the verbs with prepositions in italics. Explaining Altruism
- •Answer the questions.
- •3. Insert the following prepositions: about, at, before, by, from, of, on, with.
- •4. Read the text translating words in italics from Russian into English. Social Facilitation
- •5. Match the terms with their definitions.
- •6. Discuss the following statements with your group-mates making use of the expressions below.
- •7. Read the text choosing one suitable variant. Truth or fiction?
- •9. Choose one text to translate from Russian into English.
- •Critical thinking
- •1. Discuss the following problematic statements and questions in groups.
- •Role play
- •Listening comprehension
- •I. Women and Home Improvement
- •3. Try to answer the following questions and explain your point of view.
- •Post-Text Activities
- •4. Listen to the story “American Women Flock to Home Improvement Stores for Do-It-Yourself Class” and decide if the following statements are True (t) or False (f).
- •5. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
- •II. Men and Women in the Workplace
- •Read and remember the following words. Make up sentences with them.
- •Complete the following sentences using the following phrases:
- •Post-Text Activities
- •Writing
- •Literature
- •Unit 2. Sensations and Emotions
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Read these words and remember them.
- •2. Fill in the columns with the proper derivatives of the following words, whenever possible.
- •3. Put a suitable word from the box above into each gap.
- •4. A) Match the names of emotions and feelings in the left-hand column with their dictionary definitions in the right-hand column.
- •Reading Text a
- •Before reading the text, try to answer the following questions.
- •2. Read the following text paying attention to the words and word-combinations in italics.
- •3. A) Make up the questions using the table below and answer them.
- •4. Underline the correct verb.
- •Complete the sentences with the following words:
- •6. Arrange the following words into pairs of (a) antonyms and (b) synonyms.
- •7. Read this review of a television programme and choose between the alternatives to complete each gap. The first one (0) has been done for you. The Truth about Love
- •Before reading the text, try to answer the following questions.
- •2. Read the text without using your dictionaries and do some tasks after it. Emotional Intelligent
- •3. Answer the following questions to the text making use of expressions given below:
- •4. Read the tet again and choose the best summary of each paragraph.
- •5. Complete the sentences.
- •7 A). Check the meaning and pronunciation of these adjectives from the text in your dictionary.
- •1. Read the text and answer the question of the headline. Do Lie Detectors Really Detect Lies?
- •2. Say whether these statements are true (t) of false (f) and if they are false, say why.
- •4. Read the text translating the word combinations from Russian intо English.
- •6. Read the story written by Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), an American writer who is best known for her short stories and witty poems, and then do some tasks. The Telephone Call
- •Translate the text from Russian into English. Эмоции
- •Critical thinking
- •Role play
- •Listening comprehension The Story of Fairy Tales
- •Do you know these words? If not, consult the dictionary and use them in sentences of your own.
- •Match the words from ex.1 and their definitions. Make up your own sentences with these words.
- •Before listening to the story, try to answer the following questions.
- •Post-Text Activities
- •4. Listen to the story and match the first part of each sentence with the correct second part.
- •5. Listen to the story again, agree or disagree with the following sentences.
- •6. In groups of four, discuss the following statements adding your own thoughts and experience.
- •7. The five most common fairy-tale themes can be summarized as following:
- •Writing
- •Literature
- •Unit 3 superstitions, fears, phobias,
- •Vocabulary
- •Read the words and remember them.
- •A) Complete the table.
- •Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to the words in italics.
- •Match the beginning of the sentence with the ending.
- •Read the dialogue about superstitions and play it with your partners in class. Say what you think about the superstitions they discuss. Make a dialogue of your own about things you believe in.
- •Reading Text a
- •Are you superstitious? Before reading the text answer “yes” or “no”.
- •Black cats and broken mirrors
- •Answer the questions about the text.
- •Use the correct prepositions.
- •A) Work with your partner and write as many superstitions as you can remember.
- •Read the story about j. Dixon and discuss it with the help of the questions below the text.
- •Read the following true story. Then work with a partner and list all the coincidences you can find.
- •Before reading the text discuss some points.
- •Read the text and translate it. Fears, Anxiety and Phobias
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Look at the list of phobias. Which one would be the most difficult to live with? Why?
- •5. Read the following text and complete it with the phrases a-g- in the gaps 1-7.
- •6.Translate into English.
- •Before reading the text answer the questions.
- •How to Be an Optimist
- •Find English equivalents in the text.
- •Choose from the text all the features of an optimist and a pessimist.
- •A) Choose the correct article.
- •Find and delete seven unnecessary articles in the text.
- •Use the word or phrase in brackets instead of a word in the sentence.
- •Translate into English.
- •Critical thinking
- •Role play
- •Listening comprehension Stranger Than Fiction
- •Choose the correct answer.
- •Match the beginnings and the endings of the sentences.
- •Make up a talk between Tina and her classmate. Writing
- •Literature
- •Unit 4. Facial expression and gestures
- •1. Describing people’s appearance, we use the following adjectives. Read and translate the following information.
- •2. Complete these sentences in a suitable way. More than one answer may be possible.
- •3. Replace the underlined word with a word which is more suitable or more polite.
- •4. Match the phrase with a word “face” and its explanation in Russian. Translate the sentences after the table.
- •Reading text a
- •1. Read the text and translate it. Then write down all international words. Who in your group wrote most of them?
- •The Personology Profile
- •2. Look at the following jumbled sentences. Put the words in the correct order to form the questions and answer them.
- •3. Find English equivalents in the text.
- •4. Try to guess whether people are good-looking or not:
- •5. Match the numbers and the letters. To choose 3 of them and rthink of the situations to illustrate them.
- •Read the information and correct words in italics. Read the right variant.
- •What's In a Face: Correlations of Self, Spouse, and Stranger Ratings of Personality
- •2. Match phrases with their definitions.
- •4. Read the text at sight and choose the most suitable heading from the list below for each part 1-7 of the text. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use.
- •Face to Face
- •5. Choose a face that best describes a friend or a member of your family and say whether the descriptions in the text fit the people you know.
- •6. It is generally agreed that there are a number of basic universally recognized facial expressions. Study the pictures below and identify the seven basic emotions they show.
- •1. Before you read the text, decide if these statements are true or false for you.
- •2. Read the text and see if you were right. Choose headlines from ex.1. Make Your Image Work for You
- •4. Read the following information without dictionaries and ask ten questions. How to Spot Someone Who’s not Telling the Truth (by Wilfredo Fernandez )
- •5. Which three of the following signals are considered to be unreliable as signs of lying?
- •6. Complete the dialogue.
- •Interviewer:
- •7. Translate from Russian into English. Британский психолог намерен разоблачить фальшивые улыбки
- •Critical thinking
- •Role play
- •4. Perform these jokes in English and in Russian. Do you agree that they are insults? Why? Do you think that we can meet such situations in our everyday life? Think of real situations from your life.
- •Listening comprehension
- •1. A Tale of Two Smiles
- •1. One of the most famous smiles is the Mona Lisa Smile. But what kind of smile is it? Finish the following sentences in different ways….
- •3. Groups will take any three of their observations and posit why such a cultural difference exists. Here are some examples:
- •4. Discuss these statements as a class. Which statements meet with general agreement and which with general discord? Post – Text Activities
- •2. Listen to the text again. Read the following paragraph and find six mistakes. Write the correct variant and check your answers with your group mates.
- •3. Read the following abstract and choose one variant in italics.
- •5. Retell the story with your own attitude and conclusion.
- •Men Who Have Longer Ring Fingers Run Faster
- •1. Match the words and their translation.
- •2. Translate from Russian into English.
- •3. In pars, discuss the following questions.
- •Post-Text Activities
- •1. Listen to the text “Men Who Have Longer Ring Fingers Run Faster” from “Daily Telegraph” and answer the questions from ex.1.
- •2. Listen to the text again and complete the sentences.
- •Writing
- •Literature
- •Unit 5 stress
- •Vocabulary
- •Read these words and remember them:
- •Reading Text a
- •Before reading the text answer some questions.
- •Read and translate the text. What Can Stress Do to Us?
- •Answer the following questions about the text you have just read.
- •Translate the sentences into English:
- •Make up a short dialogue between a doctor and a patient who experiences chronic stress. Text b
- •Discuss the following issues before you read the text.
- •Read and translate the text, paying special attention to the words and phrases in italics. How to Beat a Holiday Stress
- •Agree or disagree with the following statements. Explain your point of view.
- •Fill in the gaps using the words in italics from the text.
- •Translate into English.
- •Read the text. Choose a title to it.
- •Answer the questions.
- •Match the words with their Russian equivalents. Use them in sentences of our own.
- •Use the correct prepositions.
- •Translate into English.
- •Read the text and fill in the words that were omitted.
- •7 . Render the following text into English.
- •Critical thinking
- •Role play
- •Listening comprehension
- •Find equivalents to the following phrases and words.
- •Listen to the text and answer the questions.
- •Discuss in pairs the problems of stress tackled in the text you have just listened to. Writing
- •Literature
- •Unit 6 a healthy way of life
- •Vocabulary
- •Remember the words.
- •Read, transcribe and translate the words connected with the topic “Illnesses and health”.
- •Insert the object in brackets in the correct position in the sentences.
- •Television is doing an irreparable harm
- •3. Answer the questions to the text.
- •Read the text about advantages and disadvantages of using Internet. Complete the sentences with the bare infinitive, to-infinitive or –ing form of the verbs given below. Use each verb once.
- •Complete the text with the past simple form of the verbs given below.
- •Complete the dialogue using the affirmative, negative and question past simple forms of the verbs given below.
- •Translate into English and discuss with your group mates.
- •Read and translate the text. Diet and Health
- •Complete these sentences with too much, too many, enough or more.
- •3. Choose one of the following statements and prepare an argument to support it.
- •4. Translate into English.
- •Read and translate the text. Sports and Health
- •Find in the text the equivalents to the following Russian expressions:
- •Are these statements true or false according to the text?
- •Agree or disagree with the following statements.
- •5. Express your opinion on the folloling points.
- •6.Complete the gaps with the words and phrases given below. There may be more than one answer.
- •The Cost of Smoking
- •7.Translate into English.
- •Critical thinking
- •To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.(Gustave Flaubert)
- •Role play
- •Listening comprehension writing
- •Literature
- •Grammar tenses (revision)
- •1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense
- •In the present:
- •2. Open the brackets. A) One Big, Happy Family
- •Softly…Softly
- •3. Choose the right variant.
- •4. Open brackets using Active or Passive Voice.
- •I Am Thankful...
- •Reported Speech
- •People, places, times and things
- •Tense changes
- •1. Change the following direct speech into indirect speech.
- •Ruth met a lot of students when she went to visit a university last month. Read their words, and then report what they said.
- •3. Change the dialogues below into indirect speech.
- •4. Translate the sentences with from Russian into English.
- •5. Translate the dialogue.
- •Infinitive
- •1. Translate and analyze these sentences.
- •2. Use Infinitive instead of the following sentences.
- •3. Put the following words into the sentences:
- •4. Insert “to” where necessary.
- •Герундий глагол - ing
- •1. Analyze and translate the following sentences.
- •2. Match the two halves of each sentence.
- •3. Complete the following pieces of advice with your own ideas.
- •Infinitive - gerund
- •1. Complete the mini-dialogue with the correct form of the verb in brackets. On two occasions both forms are possible.
- •2. Underline the correct item.
- •3. Complete the dialogue between two friends with the to-infinitive or –ing form of the verbs in brackets.
- •4. Rewrite the sentences using the infinitive or –ing form, as in example.
- •Modal verbs
- •Choose the correct modal verb in these sentences and say what each modal verb expresses.
- •Match a first sentence (1-10) with a second sentence (a-j) to make short exchanges.
- •Complete the sentences about road accident statistics with might, may, can, can’t, must or could. More than one answer may be possible.
- •Read the text “The Toughest Decision of their Lives” and find the sentences with modal verbs. Translate them.
- •Read what some people said about Andrew and Debra Veal. Which statement do you agree with? Why?
- •The sentences below give extra facts and opinions about the story of Andrew and Debra. Complete them with could have, should (n’t) have, or would (n’t) have.
- •Translate into English.
- •Choose the appropriate modal verb while reading the text.
- •Respond to statements by giving advice using should or ought to with a suitable infinitive form.
- •There was an accident on the road, a car turned upside down.
- •Conditional sentences
- •Use Second conditional to ask questions, then in pairs ask and answer the questions. Give reasons.
- •2. Think of some questions about different situations and ask your class mates about them.
- •3 Make Third Сonditional sentences for each of the following situations. Begin with the words given.
- •4 Fill each space in the following text with a suitable word.
- •5 Finish the following conditional sentences.
- •Translate into English.
- •Read the text about Luke Rhinehart and his novel ‘The Dice Man’. Before reading answer the questions:
- •Match the beginnings of the sentences in a with the endings in b. Use the text to help you.
- •A)Read a story about Olivia and her husband. What was the problem? How did Olivia deal with it?
- •Complete the following sentences to make them true to you.
- •Think how the life of our country and other countries would have been different if some events hadn’t taken place or had ended differently.
- •Choose the appropriate form. In some sentences two variants are possible.
- •13. Carry out an opinion poll. Pick out one question and put it to every student in your group. Use the following questions:
- •14. Make up a chain story.
- •Participles
- •A) Translate the phrases, paying attention to participles.
- •Choose the correct form of the participle.
- •Complete the following sentence with the correct form of the participle, using the verbs in the list.
- •4. Choose the correct alternative.
- •Change the relative sentences into sentences with the participle.
- •6 Make your own sentences using participles for definitions.
- •Translate into English using Participles.
- •8. Translate into Russian, paying attention to:
- •Say what books you borrow from the library. Use the following words:
- •Get ready to describe:
- •Choose the appropriate form of the participle while reading the passage.
- •Literature
7.Translate into English.
a) В задымленных сигаретами барах содержание карцирогенов в воздухе в 50 раз выше, чем на трассах и улицах в час пик. Исследование проведено учеными, которые ранее доказали, что пассивное курение является причиной тысяч случаев рака легких. Ученые надеются, что эти данные позволят окончательно запретить курение во всех общественных местах. Во время исследования ученые брали пробы воздуха в барах, ресторанах и плавательном бассейне. Было доказано, что вентиляционные системы этих заведений не обеспечивают выведение из помещений двух самых опасных карцирогенов, попадающих в легкие. Концентрация опасных веществ в кубическом метре воздуха в 49 раз превышала нормы для относительно чистого воздуха и в 15 раз – показатели для автомагистрали. В тех местах, где курение было запрещено, воздух стал чище на 90%.
b) Без сомнения, спорт дает людям много преимуществ. Он делает нас сильнее, развивает наш характер и командный дух. Люди, занимающиеся спортом, более дисциплинированы и ответственны. И, наконец, спорт может сделать спортсменов богатыми и знаменитыми.
Однако мы должны различать любительский спорт и профессиональный спорт. Первое – это хобби, которое приносит здоровье и удовольствие. Второе – бизнес, и притом жестокий. Он требует все наше время, силы, иногда и здоровье. Как ни странно это звучит, но иммунная система спортсменов слабее из-за постоянных перегрузок. Это доказано учеными. Мы часто слышим о травмах, которые получил тот или иной спортсмен. Люди были шокированы смертью 19-летнего футболиста во время матча. Постоянно происходят скандалы из-за употребления лекарств или запрещенных веществ. Ставки высоки, и спортсмены и их тренеры идут на все, чтобы завоевать титул чемпиона. Но чемпионом становится только один человек. Что чувствуют остальные? Те, кто потратил годы, потерял здоровье, получил травму? У них может возникнуть депрессия. Они разочарованы. Они умеют только заниматься своим видом спорта, но не все люди становятся тренерами или спортивными комментаторами. Часто судьба бывших спортсменов трагична. И все-таки юные спортсмены приходят в спорт, стадионы полны болельщиков. Они с энтузиазмом поддерживают любимую команду. И, похоже, спорт будет жить вечно.
Critical thinking
Translate the following article and discuss it with the help of the questions given after the text.
Quite often people would like to change their life, change their habits, but do not have time or energy. A life coach could be the answer to your problems. Life coaches help people achieve their goals, draw up realistic plans and, more importantly, help them find the strength and the willpower to put them into action. Brian Moffat is a life coach. He helps people change their life for the better. Ginny is one of his clients.
Brian’s side of the story.
Ginny was interested in giving up smoking but she was finding it hard to find necessary strength. A mutual friend told her about me and she got in touch. In our first session we pinpointed the main barriers to her stopping and the reasons, why, when she does stop, she invariably starts up again. Of course, there were no surprises, but it helps to get things out into the open. It clears the air and allows you to work on moving on and looking to the future. That’s what life coaching is all about. As a first step she declared her house a non-smoking zone. By the time we next speak, she’ll have managed to keep her house smoke free for over a month. We’ll be talking about the next step in our next session. From what we talked about last time, it seems that she wants to work on her social smoking. We’ll be exploring the options together but she’s the one who’ll be taking the decisions.
At the beginning, I think she was a bit frustrated by the coaching philosophy. She was looking for a ‘quick fix’, an overnight solution to her problem and she got quite angry when she realized that I wasn’t going to give her the answers. But now she has seen that she’s getting results, and getting them through her own strength and willpower, she’s much happier. I’m convinced she’ll have reached her goal to stop smoking for good in another month’s time at the most.
B) Ginny’s side of the story
I’ve been trying to give up smoking for the last five years. I’ve managed it a couple of times, I even gave up for six months once. But then something happens – a stressful day at work, and argument with my boyfriend, - and I start again. So when a friend mentioned life coaching I thought, why not? To start with, I thought it was a total waste of money and I almost gave up after the first session. I wanted someone to give me answers, not ask me endless questions, but I’d committed myself to five sessions so I decided to see them through, and I’m glad I did. We’ve been working together for just over three months now, and in that time I’ve given up smoking during my coffee breaks at work, I’ve given up smoking in the house and in the next session we’ll be tackling the hardest goal of all: not smoking when I’m out with my friends.
And Brian helps me feel really proud of my achievements. I’m really looking forward to telling him this week that I’ve smoked fewer than five cigarettes every day this week. And it feels so good at the end of each session to be able to say, OK, this week I’m going to do this and know that by the end of the week I’ll have achieved all the goals I’ve set myself. I’m convinced that with Brian’s moral support I’ll have given up smoking by the end of the year. And this time it’ll be for good.
Do you know anyone who has given up (or tried to give up) smoking? How did they do it? Do you think that going to a life coach is a good way to stop smoking? Have you ever made a significant change in your lifestyle? What was it? What bad habits did you try to get rid of? Did you find it difficult? Share your experience with the class.
Translate the following article and discuss it in your group.
Почему чемпионы убивают себя допингом?
Недавно известный фармаколог Юрий Тихорецкий сказал: «Спортивная медицина не стоит на месте, и рекорды без стимуляторов сейчас редкость». Всемирное антидопинговое агентство заявило, что оборот анаболических стероидов превышает оборот наркотических средств.
Допинг – тема непростая и скандальная. Жизнь спортсмена коротка. И прожить ее надо так, чтобы любой ценой достичь славы и больших денег, используя любой шанс и любыми средствами. Без витаминов и пищевых добавок не обходятся даже начинающие спортсмены. Без них ни один организм не справится со сверхнагрузками.
Если тренер видит, что ученик талантлив, он идет к врачу, чтобы вместе посчитать, как тот или иной препарат выводится из организма, в каких дозах его принимать, чтобы скрыть следы. Как сказал один олимпийский чемпион, сегодня не съел, завтра не победил и пролетел мимо кассы.
Сегодня говорят, что «кушают» все, только одни попадаются, а другие нет. Дело не только в том, что использование препарата дает спортсменам незаслуженные преимущества. Препараты наносят серьезный вред здоровью атлетов. Почему тренеры не думают об этом? Потому что заболеть и умереть спортсмены могут завтра, а победы нужны сегодня. Видимо, пока сделать здесь ничего нельзя. Где крутятся большие деньги, не до сантиментов. Правда, врачи говорят, что выход есть: длительная реабилитация после приема препаратов. Но беда в том, что это лечение стоит очень и очень дорого. А когда спортсмен профессионал уходит из спорта, он никому не нужен. И хорошо, если он успел заработать на лекарства…
What point of view would you support:
1) Diets are useless and often dangerous, they should not be used by people without a consultations with an expert.
2) All people should choose some kind of diet for themselves and keep to it, because we must take care of our health.
What do you think are the most dangerous kinds of sports? Why? Why do people want to do such kinds of sports? Should extreme kinds of sports be banned?
Read the following thoughts of famous people. Comment on them, say which of them you agree with. Translate them into Russian.