- •Topic: My visit card
- •1. Write down and translate the following vocabulary notes and sentences. Learn the vocabulary notes by heart.
- •3. Read and translate the text. My visit card
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Now answer these questions to be ready to speak about your visit card:
- •6. Add some more information to the answers to the questions above. Be ready to speak about your visit card. Topic: My Working Day
- •1. Look through the list of vocabulary notes and try to match them with the words and phrases given in Russian.
- •3. Read and translate the following text. My Working Day
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Are you an early bird or a night owl?
- •6. Read the following situations then choose one of them and role-play it:
- •7. Compose an essay on the topic “My working day” and be ready to retell it. Topic: My favourite sportsman
- •2. Read the title of the text, try to guess and say what it is about. Read and translate the text.
- •Irina Chaschina
- •3. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary of the lesson:
- •6. Read, translate and role-play the following dialogue between two fans of calisthenics. You may choose some other kind of sport to discuss while role-playing.
- •7. Compose an essay on the topic “My favourite sportsman”. Be ready to retell it. Topic: Siberian State University of Physical Culture and Sport
- •9. Compose an essay on the topic “My University”. Be ready to speak on the topic “My University”.
- •Topic: The Russian Federation
- •Sport in Russia
- •Glossary
- •II. Fill in the gaps using the essential vocabulary:
- •III. Write o for oceans, s for seas, r for rivers, l for lakes, I for islands, p for peninsulas, Rg for regions:
- •IV. Read and translate the text. Text a Geographical outline
- •Text b Political system of Russia
- •V. Try your hand in interpreting:
- •Sport in Russia
- •1. Give English equivalents for:
- •2. Use these words and phrases in sentences of your own.
- •3. Read the statements and say whether they are true or false. You’ll sound more English if you use these models:
- •4. Write a summary of the text.
- •II. Wordshop. Translate and transcribe:
- •III. Restore the text with these questions to help:
- •IV. Read and translate the dialogue and then play it out with your partner.
- •V. Discourse.
- •VI. Role play these etudes.
- •Omsk is the city where I study
- •II. Give full answers to the questions:
- •III. Retell the text using the active vocabulary.
- •IV. Write an essay about Omsk as your native city.
- •V. Make the advertisement prospect of Omsk. Say why people should visit it! Topic: Great Britain. Sport in Great Britain.
- •Supplementary texts and tasks Sports and Pastime.
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •I advice you to go to/visit……я советую Вам пойти/посетить……..
- •Vocabulary
- •Holidays in Great Britain
- •Topic: The Olympic Games Text 1: The Ancient Olympic Games
- •1. Look through the list of some new vocabulary notes and try to match them with the Russian words and phrases given below.
- •3. Before reading the text, look through and remember the following:
- •4. Read and translate the text.
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •8. Use the text and give the English equivalents for the following Russian sentences:
- •9. Write an essay on the topic “The Ancient Olympic Games”. Be ready to speak on the topic “The Ancient Olympic Games”.
- •1. Look through the list of some new vocabulary notes and try to match them with the Russian words and phrases given below.
- •3. Before reading the text, look through and remember the following:
- •4. Read and translate the text. The Modern Olympic Games
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •8. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English. Use the topical vocabulary.
- •9. Think over 5 differences between Ancient Olympic Games (see the previous text) and Modern Olympic Games. Do you find them all advantages or disadvantages? Give your reasons.
- •10. Write an essay on the topic “The Modern Olympic Games”. Be ready to speak on the topic “The Modern Olympic Games”. Text 3: Pierre de Coubertin
- •1. Look through and remember the following vocabulary notes:
- •3. Read and translate the text. Pierre de Coubertin
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Try your hand in the following translation:
- •6. Write an essay on the biography of Pierre de Coubertin. Be ready to speak about the biography of Pierre de Coubertin. Topic: Sport and society
- •Text 1. What is better watching sports or participating in sports?
- •Healthy living
- •Text 4. Sports and Games (Sports in our Life).
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 8. Dangers of doping.
5. Answer the following questions:
1. What opportunity do the Olympic Games provide sport-lovers today?
2. The Olympic Games were never abolished, weren’t they?
3. Who banned the Olympic Games? What was the reason for it?
4. When did the renewal of the Olympic Games come?
5. When was the International Olympic Committee set up?
6. What motto did the International Olympic Committee adopt?
7. What is the International Olympic Committee?
8. What is one of the most important Olympic ceremonies?
9. What happens after the head of the host country declares the Games open?
10. What other Olympic ceremonies take place before the beginning of the Games?
11. When did Russia join the Olympic movement?
12. What are the achievements of the Russian sportsmen and sportswomen?
6. Say if the given below statements are true or false. If the statement is correct, you should say “It’s true” or “I agree”. If the statement is not correct you should say “It’s false” or “I disagree” and correct it.
1. Today the Olympic Games are visited by many people.
2. In 394 AD the Roman Emperor Theodosius banned the Olympic Games because he thought they were not so very interesting and exciting.
3. Pierre de Coubertin managed to revive the Olympic Games.
4. The International Olympic Committee was set up in 1894 and soon adopted the Olympic motto: “Faster, Higher, Wider”.
5. It doesn’t take great efforts to arrange everything for the Olympic Games.
6. At the beginning much attention is usually paid to spectators.
7. There are summer, winter and spring Olympic Games.
8. The Olympic flag has 5 colours: blue, yellow, green, black and purple.
9. Sportsmen usually decide themselves where and when the Olympics take place.
10. Pierre de Coubertin once said: “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is to win, and not to take part, just as the most important thing in life is the triumph, and not the struggle”.
7. Make up your own three statements, using the information from the text. One of your statements should be false. Read your statements to the students. Their task is to say which of the statements is false and correct it.
8. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English. Use the topical vocabulary.
Сегодня Олимпийские Игры посещают тысячи любителей спорта. Мало людей знают о том, что однажды Олимпийские игры были запрещены римским императором Феодосием I, который посчитал их языческим ритуалом. Пьер де Кубертен сумел убедить народ возобновить Олимпийские Игры. Международный Олимпийский Комитет был основан в 1894 году и в 1896 году прошли первые современные Олимпийские Игры. Международный Олимпийский Комитет это центральный орган, определяющий политику Олимпийского движения, именно он выбирает страну и город, в которых проходят Олимпийские Игры. Страна-хозяин тщательно готовится к организации Олимпийских Игр: строятся новые спортивные сооружения, реконструируются спортивные центры.… Много внимания уделяется церемонии открытия Игр. Сначала появляется представитель страны-хозяина и объявляет открытие Олимпийских Игр. Затем поднимается олимпийский флаг, исполняется гимн и зажигается Олимпийский огонь, который горит до самого окончания Олимпийских Игр. Церемония произнесения клятвы – также одно из важнейших событий Олимпиады, при котором спортсмены обещают соревноваться честно. Важность Олимпийских Игр была хорошо сформулирована Пьером де Кубертеном: «Самое главное в Олимпийских Играх не победа, а участие, подобно тому, как самое главное в жизни не победа, а борьба».