- •Т.В. Поплавская т.А. Сысоева
- •Ббк 81.432.1 – 923.1
- •Contents
- •Introduction
- •3. In what situation would you use the following set expressions? Give your own examples.
- •4. Match the words and their definitions.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Violent English
- •A Confluence of Cultures
- •How to Plan a Town
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •Bungalows for sale
- •3. Look at the verbs below. Match each one with an appropriate phrase from the list on the right. Use the expressions in contexts of your own.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. The following extracts from guide books describe five of the world’s most famous cities. Work in small groups. Read the descriptions and decide which city is being described in each text.
- •2. Read the extracts again and point out the facts that helped you decide which city is being described.
- •3. Work with a partner and discuss these questions.
- •4. Complete these sentences using appropriate phrases from the text. Make any changes to the phrases that are necessary.
- •5. Look at the adverbial phrases below and decide which of them have negative or limiting meaning.
- •6. Rewrite the sentences below, starting with the word or words given.
- •7. Speak about your plans for the holidays. Use at least ten expressions from Ex. 5 and 6.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •5. Match the words to make up phrases. Explain their meaning in English.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •4. Becky is in the habit of itemizing clothes (her own and other people’s). How does she describe/speak about clothes? Compile “Becky’s clothes and fashion vocabulary”.
- •Shopaholic Abroad
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the suitable word from the box. Put the words in the correct form.
- •3. Define the following words and phrases in English. Make up sentences with these words.
- •4. Match the words and their definitions.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •Shopaholic Ties the Knot
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Match the words and their definitions.
- •3. Fill in the words from the active vocabulary list.
- •4. In what situations would you say the following? Provide your own context for these utterances. Then find them in the text and check their actual usage.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •2. Read the whole text. Do we have the press we deserve?
- •3. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •5. Explain how you understand the following idiomatic expressions: to throw out the baby with the bath water, a toothless watchdog, to get a rough ride. In what contexts can you use them?
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Publican Jailed for Assault
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text. What is the topic and the implied main idea of paragraphs 6, 7 and 9?
- •2. True or false.
- •3. Select the best answer.
- •4. Discuss the following issue: What is the most important overall message the writer wants the reader to understand about stress?
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •Bill’s Eyes
- •5. Complete each sentence with the appropriate phrase.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •4. Explain the final scene of the story. Were you shocked by it or was it quite predictable? Give your reasons.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •The Emergency Ward
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Choose the best definition of the italicized word.
- •3. Match the words to make up word combinations from the text.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Choose the best answer. Explain your choice by providing evidence from the text.
- •3. On the basis of the evidence from the text, mark these statements as accurate inferences, inaccurate inferences or insufficient evidence.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Home reading
- •2. Can we call Champagne and Jane opposites? Prove it. Do you believe such opposites could “attract”?
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the required extracts from the book “Can You Keep a Secret?” by s. Kinsella and consider the following questions.
- •2. Agree or disagree: Being stressed out is an excuse for blabbering all your secrets to a complete stranger.
- •4. Look at the expressions in bold in these sentences. Is mind a verb or a noun in each one?
- •5. Match each expression in Ex. 4 with one of these meanings.
- •II.Discussing the text
- •II. Discussing the text
- •3. Comment on the “look-alike” pattern theory. Does it work in real life?
- •II. Tasks for “Man and Boy” by t. Parsons
- •III. Tasks for “Man and Wife” by t. Parsons
- •IV. Tasks for “How to be Good” by n. Hornby
- •Reference
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2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
1. Describe Becky’s room. What can the contents of the room tell us about the person who lives in it?
2. What are Becky’s plans for the future? What is she planning to take up? Is it going to work? What plans will be (or will never be) carried out and why?
3. Does Becky buy only the things she needs? Did she really buy that much luggage because she believed it was a good investment?
4. What tips was Becky following when she was packing? Where did she get them from?
5. What kind of list did Becky make? Did it help?
6. Is capsule approach working really well with Becky?
3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
1. Does the principle “Buy Only What You Need” work with Becky? Do you think Becky could do just with one pair of shoes?
2. Becky’s new job on TV pays well. Why is her overdraft higher than it used to be? What recommendations were given to Becky by her bank manager?
3. How did Becky behave on the walking tour around New York and why? Did she hit it off with the tour guide and the other tourists in the group?
4. Describe Becky’s visit to the sample sale and its aftermath.
5. Did Becky manage to visit the Guggenheim Museum in the end? Describe her impressions of visiting the Guggenheim Museum Store.
4. Find evidence in the text proving that Becky is a mad collector and sometimes behaves like a real weirdo. (a) Think of the arguments you could use to talk Becky out of buying everything she sees. (b) Help Becky to find an item she really needs. (c) Explain to Becky how many pairs of shoes a regular person living in Great Britain/the USA/Belarus needs.
5. Now that you have read the second book of the Shopaholic series, expand “Becky’s clothes and fashion vocabulary”. Categorize the items, e.g. colours, articles of clothing and accessories, designs, etc. Working in small groups, see who can provide a more “emotionally coloured” description of a bag/dress/pair of shoes.
6. As Becky’s friend Suze points out, the quicker they eat a box of KitKats, the quicker they’ll be gone – so in a way, it’s more healthy just to stuff in as many as possible. Does this sound logical? Think of counterarguments to dissuade Becky from carrying out her plan.
7. Is Becky good at telling lies? Comment on the episode in the gift shop, when Becky is telling a story about her godson. How could Becky have avoided the embarrassing situation she was confronted with in the shop?
8. Comment on the episode where Becky is having a conversation with her bank manager Derek Smeath. Can you call this communication successful on Becky’s part? Give your reasons.
9. Describe a typical “culture-conscious” tourist. Is Becky a person of the kind? What is her ridiculous idea of acclimatizing to a new city and customs and traditions of a foreign country? Explain to Becky how “normal” people acclimatize themselves in similar cases.
10. Do you agree with Becky that shopping abroad has its advantages? How many advantages does Becky mention and does she manage to convince you? Can you think of more items to add to this list?
11. Shop-assistants often use canny gimmicks to make their customers stock up on things they don’t really need. Are these ploys effective? Recall Becky’s visit to an avant-guard fashion shop as an example.
III. Follow-up activities
1. You are Becky’s friend. Work out some useful tips for Becky on how to be organized.
2. You are a bank manager. Explain to your client what the key to controlled shopping is.
3. You are a tour guide. Work out some useful tips for a person who is going to take part in a walking tour in a foreign town or city.
4. Itemize advantages and disadvantages of shopping at home vs. shopping abroad. Role-play an argument between a) a British shopaholic and an American shopaholic; b) a British shopaholic and a Belarusian shopaholic as regards the best shopping opportunities.
5. Agree or disagree: “You don’t actually need to see a piece of art in flesh to appreciate it.” Support your point of view.
6. Role-play an argument between a culture conscious person and a shopaholic as regards the best places to visit in a foreign country.
7. In pairs, role-play the following situation. A shopaholic has made an appointment with their psychologist. (a) The shopaholic suffers from their addiction greatly and would like to break themselves of this bad habit. They ask the psychologist for assistance. (b) The shopaholic will not acknowledge the fact that something is wrong with them and it takes the psychologist a lot of effort to persuade the client to discard their bad habit.