НЕМТИНОВА_МП (СГИ)
.PDF4. Read the questions 1–6 and find the answers in the texts A-G. One text is extra.
1.Does Brad Pitt have any sisters or brothers?
2.What was the name of the British royal family before 1917?
3.Where did the ancestors of the Trump family come from?
4.Who of Pierre and Marie Curie’s descendants were also physicists involved in the study of radioactivity?
5.Where did the Brontë family live all their lives?
6.Who of the Kennedy family was elected President of the USA?
A)
Five years after King George V took over as the ruler of Great Britain First World War started, and tension grew between the peoples of Britain and Germany. In March 1917, the Imperial German Air Service bombarded the city of London. As King George V was a descendant (потомок) of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the use of German names could cause bitterness among the people of Britain. The royal family took on the new name – The House of Windsor – after the town of Windsor and Windsor Castle. After the death of King George V, his son, ascended to the throne as King Edward VIII. His reign lasted for only 326 days as he abdicated his throne (отрекся от престола) to marry Wallis Simpson, who had had two divorces, and both her husbands were still alive. Due to the abdication of King Edward VIII, his younger brother became King George VI on December 11, 1936. His struggles and eventual triumph over his speech impediment was the subject of the 2010 Academy Award-Winning movie – «The King's Speech». Upon his death in 1952, his eldest daughter Elizabeth became the constitutional monarch of the United Kingdom. Her eldest son Charles, Prince of Wales, is the heir to the throne.
B)
The Brad Pitt family began with his childhood in the midwestern United States to becoming the most famous multicultural family today. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie both carry spectacular acting careers, model as loving parents, and share their enormous fortune with an array of international charities.
At home, three lovely adopted children, Maddox Chivan from Cambodia, Pax Thien from Vietnam, and Zahara Marley from Ethiopia, and three biological children, Shiloh Nouvel and twins Knox and Vivienne call the super couple mommy and daddy.
Angelina and Brad wish to raise their children with influence from different cultures in order to as Angelina stated in a recent interview, give them a mature outlook on the world.
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Brad Pitt's siblings live a much quieter life, than their movie star brother, Doug Pitt, owns a computer repair business and sister, Julie Pitt Neal, is a homemaker.
C)
The Donald Trump family, including the three eldest Donald Trump children, proudly takes its place in United States history as the true self made American royalty.
After Donald Trump's grandfather emigrated from Austria in the late 1890s, he realized the American dream and started a restaurant which allowed him to invest in real estate. Continuing this Trump family success, Frederich Trump over time built the Trump family empire, now called the Trump Organization
Now, as the fourth child of five in the Frederic Trump family, Donald Trump has expanded the operations of the Trump Organization to include casinos in Atlantic City and other entertainment vehicles. The Trump family name is its own brand. The home of the Trump family empire is in the Trump Tower located on 5th Avenue.
D)
Marie Sklodowska and Pierre Curie, both prominent scientists, met and married in Paris in 1895. In 1903 they received the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of radioactivity. Not only their scientific partnership but also their marriage was a happy one. The Curies were also good, loving parents. They had two daughters, Irene and Eve.
After Pierre Curie tragically died in a street accident in Paris on 19 April 1906, Marie was in shock. She felt like half a person with Pierre gone, but she was strong and able to continue their work. In 1911 she was again awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Pierre and Marie Curie's daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and their son-in-law
Frédéric Joliot-Curie were also physicists involved in the study of radioactivity. They were awarded the Nobel prize for their work as well.
The Curies' other daughter, Ève, wrote a noted biography of her mother. Their granddaughter Hélène Langevin-Joliot is a professor of nuclear
physics at the University of Paris, and their grandson Pierre Joliot, who was named after Pierre Curie, is a noted biochemist.
E)
Nikita Mikhalkov, perhaps the most internationally famous living Russian filmmaker and actor was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great – grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess. Nikita's father, Sergei Mikhalkov, was best known as writer of children's literature, although he also wrote lyrics to his country's national anthem on three different occasions
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spanning nearly 60 years – two different sets of lyrics used for the Soviet national anthem, and the current lyrics of the Russian national anthem. Mikhalkov's mother, poet Natalia Konchalovskaya, was the daughter of the avant-garde artist Pyotr Konchalovsky and granddaughter of another outstanding painter, Vasily Surikov. Nikita's older brother is a well-known filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky. Nikita Mikhalkov's first wife was a renowned Russian actress Anastasiya Vertinskaya. They had a son, Stepan Mikhalkov. With his second wife, Tatyana, he had a son and two daughters.
F)
The Brontës [´brontei] were the world's most famous literary family and Haworth Parsonage (дом приходского священника) in Yorkshire, now the
Brontë Parsonage Museum, was their home from 1820 to 1861. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were the authors of some of the best-loved books in the English language. Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre (1847), Emily's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) were written in this house over a hundred and fifty years ago, yet their power still moves readers today. And both their father, Patrick Brontë, and brother Branwell also saw their own works in print. To find two writers of genius in one family would be rare, but to find several writers in one household is unique in the history of literature. But fame came to them late, and this talented family all died young. In spite of the sadness of their lives, the Brontës have passed on their experience of beauty and passion. In their novels, you can breathe the atmosphere of the moors (вересковые пустоши) and feel the powerful personalities of these famous novelists.
G)
The Kennedy family is a prominent family in American politics and government. The wealth, glamor, and photogenic quality of the family members, as well as their extensive and continuing involvement in public service, has elevated them to iconic status over the past half-century, with the Kennedys sometimes referred to as «America's Royal Family».
Soon after John F. Kennedy was elected President in November 1960, he and his younger brothers, Robert and Edward, all held prominent positions in the federal government. From 1947, when John became a member of Congress, to 2011, when Patrick Joseph Kennedy II departed Congress, there were 64 years with a Kennedy in elective office in Washington. This spans more than a quarter of the nation's existence
The family has suffered a series of tragedies, sometimes called «the Kennedy curse», including the assassination of brothers John and Robert, some scandal crime incidents (e.g. Chappaquiddick incident), and four airplane crashes (three of them fatal).
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5. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give true information about yourself.
1.We are three in my family – my parents and me.
2.I am an only child in a family.
3.I have a lot of close and distant relatives.
4.I see my relatives very rarely, only on some special occasions.
5.My parents are in their late forties.
6.My mother is an economist and father is an engineer.
7.My parents have been married for 20 years.
8. I can’t remember when I last saw my grandparents.
9.I take after my mother – I have red hair and green eyes.
10.I have hardly ever had any arguments with my parents.
11.My mother is fond of classical music, but my father prefers rock.
12.We used to fight with my brother when we were younger.
13.Everyone in our family is very busy, but we always look forward to a possibility to spend some time together.
14.Every summer we go to the seaside.
15.New Year is our favourite family holiday.
6.Read and reproduce the following dialogues. Make up your own ones.
1.– Well, Sam, I'll tell you how it is. You see, I married a widow and this widow had a daughter. Then my father, being a widower, married our daughter, so you see, my father is my son-in-law.
– Yes, I see.
– Then, again, my step-daughter is my step-mother, isn't she? Well, then her mother is my grandmother, isn't she? I'm married to her, ain't I? So that makes me my own grandfather, doesn't it?
2.– Hi, Alan! How are you?
–Not bad, Jane, thanks. And you? How's your family?
–Oh, we are surviving! Now my husband isn’t working. We’re really under pressure to keep up with our debt repayments and everything. It’s stressful.
3.– How are your daughters, Mrs. Adams?
–Thank you, everything's OK. Julie has just been made a managing director of their company. She's certainly the carrier girl of the family.
–And how's Jane and her kids?
–She's a happy housewife. You see, four children fill up almost all her
time.
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4.– Jane, what book are you reading?
–«We are family» – it’s about how our position in the family affects our
personality. For example the psychologists say that only children, like you, are spoilt by their parents and grandparents. As a result they can be quite selfish. Is that true?
–Yes, I’m an only child, but I don’t think I was spoilt,… but maybe I was. I don’t consider myself to be selfish, but I’m probably not very good at seeing things from other people’s point of view.
5.– I didn't know that your brother had got married.
–Yes, he and Helen, his wife, have been married for two years already. And they have a daughter, my little niece.
7. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
1.У меня много близких и дальних родственников. У меня есть две бабушки, дедушка, четыре тети и множество двоюродных братьев и сестер.
2.У Джона довольно большая семья: он сам, его жена Линда и трое очаровательных детишек – двух, пяти и семи лет. Кроме того, вместе с ними живет мать его жены – его теща. Она прекрасная бабушка для своих внуков и всегда присматривает за ними, когда родителей нет дома.
3.– Ты читал «Сагу о Форсайтах» Джона Голсуорси(«The Forsyte Saga» by John Galsworthy)? – Нет, я только слышал об этом романе. – А я его сейчас читаю, и мне он нравится, хотя иногда я путаюсь (to get confused, to fail to understand) в родственных отношениях между героями. У некоторых из них одинаковые имена, поэтому иногда трудно сразу сказать, кто из них прадед, кто дед, внук или правнук. Ведь в романе описаны несколько поколений семейства Форсайтов.
4.Семья моего друга – пример того, как разные поколения могут неплохо ужиться (to get along with smb). В их 4-комнатной квартире живут дети, их родители, дедушка с бабушкой, да еще и кошка с собакой. – А мне все-таки кажется, что жить так очень трудно. Нужно жить отдельно. Но встречаться чаще и помогать друг другу.
5.По традиции наша семья собирается в полном составе первого января. Мы накрываем стол, дарим подарки, обмениваемся новостями. Такие семейные встречи особенно нравятся нашим детям.
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IV. Writing
Write a composition on one the following topics.
1.Advantages and disadvantages of being an only child.
2.Advantages and disadvantages of living with parents or living separately
3.Problems of young families.
4.Problems of large families.
5.My family traditions.
6.Some interesting stories about your family's history.
7.The role of my parents in my life.
8.Reminiscences from my childhood.
9.Many things – good and bad – have their beginnings in a family.
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UNIT 3
I. Text.
Our University
Now let me tell you about my university – Far Eastern State Transportation University. I am really glad to study here. It is one of the best country's higher education institutions.
Our University is quite large and old. It was founded in 1937 as Khabarovsk Railway Engineering Institute. In those days the institute had only 3 faculties: the Mechanical, the Railway Engineering and the Operational faculties. Since that time the institute has undergone many structural changes and grown into a large modern institution of higher learning. In 1997 it received a university status.
The university is well known for its high standards of education and research. It trains competent and creative specialists for different branches of engineering, transportation and economy of our country.
Our university is a large school where about 15 thousand students study currently. Most of them are full-time students, like me; there are also many part-time students. Besides, there are many post-graduate students, who carry out research work and conduct classes or deliver lectures as well.
Every year about 5 thousand people get enrolled in the university. Young people who are interested in science and technology may enter the Institute of Traction and Rolling Stock, the Institute of Operation, Automation and Telecommunication, the Institute of Transport and Civil Engineering, the Power Engineering Institute, the Institute of Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Air Communications. The Institute of Economics trains economists, accountants and other specialists in finance, management and commerce. The Humanitarian Faculty prepares specialists in social service, psychology, tourism management.
The course of training at the university lasts 4–6 years. The academic year is 9 months or 2 semesters of 4 and a half months each. Studies begin in September and end in June. Students take exams at the end of each semester. Twice a year students have vacations.
During the first two years the students study general engineering subjects, such as higher mathematics, physics, chemistry, basics of computer engineering, social sciences and the humanities. In the third year the students begin to take specialized courses. Great importance is given to practical training. Students work in well-equipped laboratories, workshops and computer centres of the university and in the fourth and fifth years they work at railway and industrial enterprises of the Khabarovsk Territory.
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More than 600 highly-qualified professors and instructors work at 50 departments of the university. Teaching is only part of their activity, they are also involved in scientific work. Gifted students can take part in research activities under their tutors' guidance.
Our university covers a large territory. On the campus there are three buildings for classes, six hostels, sports facilities, residential houses for teachers, a cafeteria, a polyclinic for teachers and students, and a club house.
Higher education is not free now. Most of the students have to pay for their tuition. Those students, who pass their entrance examinations well, study free of charge.
It's very interesting to study at the university. You have a chance not only to get a higher education but also to make a lot of friends and develop your special talents and skills.
ACTIVE VOCABULARY
1.Khabarovsk Railway Engineering Institute – Хабаровский Институт Инженеров Железнодорожного Транспорта (ХабИИЖТ)
2.the Railway Engineering faculty –факультет Строительства Железных Дорог
3.the Operational faculty – факультет Управления Процессами Перевозок
4.education – образование
secondary education – среднее образование higher education – высшее образование
vocational training – профессионально-техническое обучение
5.higher education institution , institution of higher learning –
высшее учебное заведение
6.found (establish, set up ) a university – основать университет
7.research – исследование, научно-исследовательская работа do research –заниматься научной деятельностью
8.train – учить, обучать, готовить (специалистов)
9.teach somebody – учить, обучать кого-либо
teach something – учить чему-либо, преподавать что-либо
10.learn – учиться, учить что-либо,узнавать learn by heart – учить наизусть
11.study – изучать, заниматься, учиться
study for (sit for, read for, revise for) an examination – готовиться к экзаменам
12.study hard – упорно, напряженно учиться
study by fits and starts – учиться урывками, нерегулярно
13.full-time student – студент, занимающийся на дневном отделении part-time student – студент, занимающийся без отрыва от производства
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14.apply for admission – подавать заявление о приеме
15.applicant (зд.) – абитуриент
16.get (be)enrolled (in) – быть зачисленным (в)
17.be admitted (into, to) – быть принятым(в)
18.be expelled (be dismissed) from – быть отчисленным (из) (Am.E.) flunk out – исключить за неуспеваемость
19.enter the university – поступить в университет
20.entrance exams – вступительные экзамены
21.academic year – учебный год
22.semester (term) – семестр
23.pass an exam (get through) – сдать экзамен
24.fail an exam (Am.E. flunk an exam) – не сдать экзамен
25.attend classes – посещать занятия miss (cut) classes – пропускать занятия
26.fall behind – отставать
catch up with – догонять кого-либо
27.vacation – каникулы
28.subject – предмет, (учебная) дисциплина
general engineering subjects – общетехнические предметы
(the) humanities – гуманитарные науки
natural subjects (sciences) – естественные науки social subjects (sciences) – общественные предметы
29.gifted (talented, capable) student – талантливый (способный) студент
30.campus – территория университета
on the campus – на территории университета
31.hostel (Br.E. hall of residence, hall) – общежитие (Am.E.) dormitory, dorm – общежитие
32.tuition (teaching) – обучение
tuition (tuition fee) – плата за обучение
33.free (of charge) – бесплатно
34.first (second, third,…)-year student – первокурсник (второкурсник,…)
35.graduate from university – заканчивать университет a graduate – выпускник высшего учебного заведения
36.time-table (schedule) – расписание
37.credit – зачет
38.methods of teaching – методы преподавания
39.classroom – аудитория
40.lecture hall – лекционный зал
41.well-equipped laboratory – хорошо оборудованная лаборатория
42.(work)shop – мастерская, цех
43.course of studies – курс обучения
44.department (chair) – кафедра
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45.head (chief) of a department – зав. кафедрой
46.dean – декан
47.teaching staff – штат преподавателей
48.undergraduate student – студент 1–5 курсов (post)graduate student – магистрант, аспирант
49.freshman (Am.E.) – первокурсник sophomore (Am.E.) – второкурсник
junior (Am.E.) – студент предпоследнего курса senior (Am.E.) – студент последнего курса
50.curriculum – учебный план
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
1.What university does Andrey study at?
2.When was it founded?
3.What were the first faculties of our university?
4.How many students study at the university?
5.Do only full-time students study here?
6.What institute does Andrey study at?
7.How long does training at the University last?
8.How many semesters are there in the academic year?
9.How often do students take exams?
10.Do they have any vacations?
11.What subjects do the first and second-year students study?
12.When do students begin to take specialized lectures and practical courses?
13.Where do students get practical training?
14.Can students take part in research activities?
15.What facilities are located on the campus?
16.Do all students pay for their education?
II.VOCABULARY PRACTICE EXERCISES
1.Give English equivalents to the following words and wordcombinations:
высшее образование, учиться в университете, учить иностранный язык, обучать студентов, учить наизусть, готовиться к экзамену, студент дневного отделения, студент вечернего отделения, поступить в высшее учебное заведение, быть отчисленным, учебный год, посещать занятия, пропускать занятия, способный студент, территория университета, заканчивать университет.
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