- •Module 1. Changing World Unit 1. Getting to know you
- •3. Complete the questions to Carly.
- •Vocabulary
- •Improve your study skills
- •1 Answer the questions
- •Introducing yourself . Meeting people
- •1. Practice this dialogue in groups. Use your real names.
- •Introduce your partner to the people in the class. Ask and answer questions with a partner.
- •1. Find examples of present, past, and future tenses in the texts above.
- •2. Which tenses are the two verb forms in these sentences?
- •3. Choose the correct verb form.
- •Unit 2. Family
- •2.1 Patterns of family life
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Families are divided into several types. Match the pictures with 1-3 with the phrases in the box:
- •I. Read the following statements and say if you agree or disagree with them.
- •II. Skim the text and check and make sure that you have guessed right.
- •III . Read the text again and answer the following questions:
- •Improve your study skills
- •Suggestions for improving your reading skills
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. . Give the English equivalents to the following words and phrases:
- •II. Make up word combinations and use them in sentences or situations of your own.
- •IV. Write out all words and word combinations related to family. Add them to your topical vocabulary . Study the examples. Expressions with family
- •2.Find a family photograph. Write a short description of it. Read your description to the class. You may start with…. This is a photograph of … when we/they were on holiday/at the party
- •How common /different families are?
- •The british Family
- •The American Family
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Translate and explain the following words and phrases. Then, use them to describe the modern tendencies in family life. You can do it in the form of the snowball game.
- •Improve your study skills
- •2.3 Russian Family: What is it Like?
- •I. In pairs, read the following statements and try to guess if they are true (t) or false (f). Then, read the text quickly to check if you have guessed right.
- •II. Now read the text in detail. Answer all the questions above. What is your family like? Russian Family: What Is It Like?
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Give the English equivalents to the following words and phrases.
- •Improve your study skills
- •It is interesting to know
- •International Day of Families
- •1. Read the text about the family tree.
- •2. Study your family history. Create your family tree. Make up presentation. Choose the best one.
- •2.4 Family values
- •4. Go on reading . Mark the statements as true (t), false (f)
- •5. Read the text once again and point out words and phrases describing values. Fill in the table as in the example.
- •1. How nouns are formed?
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Here is the list of other values. Tick which of them are important to you . Underline noun suffixes..
- •2. What is in your top values? Rank the list of values
- •Improve your study skills
- •Unit 3. Is it easy to be young?
- •3.1 Generation Gap
- •2. Before reading discuss following.
- •3.Read the title of the text. . What do you think the text is about? Scan the text to check if your guesses were correct. The Younger Generation Knows Best
- •IV. Read the text once again and mark the following statements as true (t) or false (f):
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •3.2 About Teenagers
- •What is a teenager?
- •Are teenagers a problem?
- •Do teenagers have problems?
- •II. Scan the text and fill in the table
- •III. Read the text once again and complete the sentences.
- •Improve your study skills
- •I. Make a summary of the text.
- •3.3 The problem of self-realization
- •I. Scan the text and point out the activities teenagers are engaged in. Working teens
- •Very Informal - for Friends and Family
- •Informal
- •Informal
- •Are Britain’s teenagers the worst in Europe?
- •Unit 4. Lifestyle
- •4.1 How to Stay Active and Healthy
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Check the words in the box
- •1.Go to Grammar Focus to revise the material about adverbs.
- •2. Think, pair and share.
- •A Generation of Сouch Potatoes (http://www.Teachingenglish.Org.Uk/sites/teacheng/files/potatoes
- •A generation of couch potatoes
- •1.Go to Grammar Focus
- •Module 2. International Communication Unit 1. Communication in the Globalized World
- •1. Read the following quotations about learning foreign languages. Develop the ideas suggested by the authors.
- •1. Read the definition of the communication phenomenon from Wikipedia. Translate into Russian.
- •2. Try to give your own explanation to the notion of communication. Emphasize the ultimate purpose of communication. You may find useful the following basic ideas:
- •2. Scan the text for general understanding. What it is about? Think of the title to the text.
- •2. Read the text in detail paragraph by paragraph. Find the topic sentence in each paragraph. Pay special attention to the word combinations in bold. Translate them.
- •3. Match the words and word combinations from the texts with their definitions. Use these words in the sentences of your own.
- •4. Match the words from two columns to make collocations. Try to reproduce the sentences from the text. Translate into Russian
- •5. Do you know what the acronyms from the text stand for? Explain their meaning. If necessary look up on the Internet. Match the names with the pictures where possible
- •6. Form the nouns from the verbs below.
- •7. Read the text once again and answer the questions.
- •8. Scan the text and pick up the key words that can help you to express its general idea. Give the summary.
- •1. In the text there are some sentences where Present Continuous is used. Point them out, analyze and translate into Russian.
- •2. Use the Present Continuous Tense to emphasize continual processes taking place in modern world.
- •1. Study the theory below.
- •Whether we like it or not we all belong to the global community!
- •2. Point out all international words. Check if they have got similar meaning in Russian.
- •3. Read the text below and try to answer the questions of the first paragraph.
- •4. Match the words from the text with their synonyms
- •5. Complete the sentences with the words from the previous exercise.
- •1. In the text there are some sentences where Present Perfect is used. Find them and try to reproduce.
- •2. Use the Present Perfect Tense (both in passive or active) to emphasize the impact of some actions or events on the present moment.
- •1. Summarize what changes happen to the following things from the list given below. You may develop the list. Your own ideas are welcome!
- •Effects of globalization
- •1. Match the words from different columns to make collocations. Reproduce the information from the text where these word combinations are used. Make your own sentences with these collocations.
- •2. Match the words with their definitions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
- •3. The words given below are the active vocabulary that is necessary to speak about globalization. Study them and make up a chain story with your group mate using these words. For example:
- •4. Scan the text about pros, cons and effects of globalization once again. Say whether you agree with every single point or not. Use the following conversational clichés:
- •1. Answer the questions. Use the ideas from the previous text.
- •1. Study the information below.
- •2. Write a post in your blog where you reveal the necessity of international communication and argue with an anonymous anti-globalist who has made an aggressive comment about your resent message.
- •Module 4. Life and culture Unit 1. Defining Culture
- •What culture is
- •2. Read the following interpretation of the concept “culture”. It is given in one of the Russian reference books. Compare with the definitions above. Point out differences and similarities.
- •3. Match the English word combinations with their Russian equivalents.
- •5. Using on-line dictionary find out as many colocations with the word “culture” and “cultural “ as you can. You have 10 minutes.
- •6. Mark each statement as t(True) or f (or False). If false, make corrections.
- •1. Look through the definitions of “culture” again and answer the following questions:
- •1. Split into groups. Make up the mental map of the concept culture.
- •Unit 2. Why is Understanding Culture so Important?
- •1. Read the text and decide why we can distinguish a lot of cultures in the world today, how culture expresses itself. Pay attention to the words in bold.
- •2. Match the English word combinations with their Russian equivalents .
- •5. Match the words and word combinations from the texts with their definitions. Use these words in the sentences of your own.
- •6. Read the text once again and answer the questions.
- •2.Find out different types of adjectives in the text and make up 10 sentences with them. Unit 3.What is to be a Man of Culture?
- •2. Read the text for general understanding Find the topic sentence in each paragraph. Pay special attention to the word combinations in bold. Define the main idea. Think of the title to the text.
- •3. Read the text for general understanding. Do you find all the pieces of advice useful?
- •4. Scan the text. Define the main idea. Do you agree with the author about the role of music in raising a person’s cultural awareness?
- •1. Look through the text once again and match the words and word combinations from the texts with their definitions. Use these words in the sentences of your own.
- •3. Scan the text and pick up the key words that can help you to express its general idea. Give the summary.
- •4. Find out in the text compound adjectives and make your own sentences with them.
- •2. Make up your 10 sentences using different modal verbs describing what should/ought to/must a person learn and know to be a man of culture in modern society.
- •Module 5 Unit 1. What is Xenophobia?
- •2. Match the words with their definitions.
- •Two forms of Xenophobia
- •Xenophobia, Racisms, Discrimination, Genocide, Chauvinism, Prejudice
- •Verbs of thinking and opinions
- •1. Read the text for general understanding. Think of the title to the text.
- •2. Find in the text the English equivalents of the following word combinations:
- •Team work Read and discuss
- •1. Read the message that King of Belgium delivered to the Parliament.
- •In trilingual Belgium, King stresses importance of multilingualism.
- •2. What message would you address to the younger generation if you were the ruler of the country? How would you motivate them to study foreign languages?
- •2. Match the paragraphs with their titles.
- •2. If you know some more exciting facts or amusing statistics about languages, share them with your group mates. Unit 2. Being Multilingual
- •1. Read the text for gist. Grasp the main idea
- •2. Mark each statement as t (True) or f (or False). If false, make corrections.
- •1. Read the summary of following ideas of some people who participated in on-line public opinion polls about the necessity to speak foreign languages. Say what appeals to you the most.
- •Study or research
- •Studying abroad
- •Challenging yourself
- •Project work
- •It is interesting to know…
- •1. Read the text for general understanding. Think of the title to the text.
- •2. Read the text once again. Find the key sentence in each paragraph. Make a summary.
- •3. Mark each statement as t(True) or f (or False). If false, make corrections.
- •1. In the text there are some sentences where degrees of comparison are used. Find them and try to reproduce.
- •2. Use the Degrees of Comparison to emphasize the degree or level of some quality.
- •1. Read the text. Get ready to give a detailed summary. Top Languages to Learn
- •2. Point out main ideas of each paragraph and fill in the table.
- •2. A Game-Playing Date
- •3. A Department Store
- •4. An Archeological Dig
- •5. Driving through a fog
- •Additional reading
- •Have fun
- •To make a long story short...
- •How to Make Money from Translation
- •Грамматический Комментарий
- •Времена английского глагола. Действительный залог
- •Группа простых (неопределённых) времён The Indefinite Forms The Present Indefinite (Simple) Tense
- •The Past Indefinite (Simple) Tense
- •The Future Indefinite (Simple) Tense
- •Раздел 1. Группа продолжающихся времён (The Continuous Forms) . Группа продолжающихся времён (The Continuous Forms) The Present Continuous Tense
- •The Past Continuous Tense
- •The Future Continuous Tense.
- •Группа совершённых времёню.The Perfect Forms. The Present Perfect Tense
- •Личные местоимения
- •Притяжательные местоимения
- •Количественные числительные
- •Порядковые числительные
- •Производные прилагательные
- •Префиксы
- •Суффиксы
- •От основы существительного:
- •От основы глагола:
- •Составные прилагательные
- •Предлоги (времени) At / on / in (time)
- •In September/ in October /in the 21 century
- •In 1968/ in the 1970s/ in the early (late) 30s
- •For, during, while
- •By and until
- •In, at, on (position/ предлоги места) (1)
- •In a cage/ in the sea/ in a queue
- •In, at, on (position) (2)
- •Предложение (The Sentence)
- •Условные предложения I типа
- •Условные предложения II типа
- •Условные предложения III типа
- •Союзы условных придаточных предложений.
- •Слова, заканчивающиеся на –ing
- •Признаки отглагольного существительного:
- •Признаки Причастия I:
- •Признаки герундия:
- •Communication Guide
- •Introductions and greetings
- •Informal Greetings: Arriving
1. Answer the questions. Use the ideas from the previous text.
1) Has globalization affected
your country;
your city;
your college life;
your family life;
you personally? How then?
2) Think about changes in recent years in
education;
job opportunities;
culture;
fashion;
ideas.
3) Do you think your country needs to be protected from the effects of globalization?
4) Would you support globalists or anti-globalists? Give your reason.
Writing strategies
1. Study the information below.
As we live in an information society people tend to spend a lot of time on virtual communication where they express their views, opinions, and attitudes by posting them in their blogs.
A blog (also called a weblog) is a website consisting of entries (also called posts) appearing in reverse chronological order with the most recent entry appearing first (similar in format to a daily journal). Blogs typically include features such as comments and links to increase user interactivity.
As the Internet has become more social, blogs have gained in popularity. Today, there are over 100 million blogs with more entering the blogosphere everyday. Blogs have become more than online diaries. In fact, blogging has become an important part of the online and offline worlds with popular bloggers impacting the worlds of politics, business and society with their words.
The best way to post involves breaking out the main points of your message and creating a list of everything you want to include, in the order you will address it. By creating a traditional outline, it helps you work out the flow of your post and organizes thoughts in a logical manner.
2. Write a post in your blog where you reveal the necessity of international communication and argue with an anonymous anti-globalist who has made an aggressive comment about your resent message.
Project work
Make up a PowerPoint presentation about globalization in modern world. Dwell upon the following ideas:
history
conception
advantages and disadvantages
opportunities and threats.
Module 4. Life and culture Unit 1. Defining Culture
Lead-in.
What do you think about the importance of learning about other cultures in today’s multicultural Global Village?
What do you think Global Village is ?
What is culture? Can you give any definitions on the spot?
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word “CULTURE”? Music? Art? Literature? Cultural patterns of behavior?
Are beliefs and values shared by people belonging to one and the same cultural community? Anything else?
What does this word mean personally to you?
Reading and vocabulary
What culture is
.
1. The quotations reflecting different points of view on what culture is are presented in this part. While reading try to identify the key words, related to the concept “culture”, paying attention to the word combinations in bold. Compare your list with your partners’ lists and decide what should be included into this list by all means. Ground your decision.
“What is culture? I believe, it is the way of life of a particular society or group of people, including patterns of thought, beliefs, behavior, customs, traditions, rituals, dress, language, as well as art, music and literature”. (Elizabeth Primrose)
“Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another”. (Geert Hofstede)
“Very often when we use the word "culture", we mean the customs, beliefs, art, music and add the other products of human thought which were made by a particular group of people at a particular time”. (Adam Cotte)r
“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus the history of the human spirit”. (Matthew Arnold
“Culture is the shared set of assumptions, values, and beliefs of a group of people by which they organize their common life”. (Gary Wederspahn)
“Culture is the system of information that codes the manner in which the people in an organized group, society or nation interact with their social and physical environment”. (Psychology textbook)
“Culture consists in patterned ways of thinking, freezing and reacting. The essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values”. (Clyde Kluckhohn
“Culture consists of concepts, values, and assumptions about life that guide behavior and are widely shared by people”. (Richard Brislin)
“Culture is an integrated system of teamed behavior patterns that are characteristic of the members of any given society. Culture refers to the total, way of life for a particular group of people. It includes what a group of people thinks, says, does and makes — its customs, language, material artifacts and shared systems of attitudes and feelings”. (Robert Kohls)
“Culture refers to the experience, knowledge, values, and behaviors of any one group of people”. (Carol Archer)
“Culture is a complex concept, with many different definitions, But, simply put, "culture refers to a group or community with which we share common experiences that shape the way we understand the world. It includes groups that we are born into, such as gender, race, or national origin. It also includes groups we join or become part of. Jot example, we can acquire a new culture by moving to a new region, by a change in our economic status, or by becoming disabled. When we think of culture this broadly, we realize we all belong to many cultures at once. In a world as complex as ours, each of us is shaped by many factors, and culture is one of the powerful forces that acts on us. In other words, culture is central to what we see, how we make sense of what we see, and how we express ourselves”. (Marcelle E. DuPraw and Marya Axner)
“Culture is but the fine flowering of real education, and it is the training of the freezing, the tastes and the manners that makes it so”. (Minnie Kellogg)
“Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties — it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses”. (Aime Cesair)
“Culture is to ''know the best that has been said and thought in the world."(Matthew Arnold)