- •Т.В. Поплавская т.А. Сысоева
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- •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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Publican Jailed for Assault
Brian S, aged 38, a publican at M was found guilty at Bristol crown Court yesterday of assaulting a “gentle tax man” who was removing bar furniture as payment of an outstanding tax debt.
Mr S was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for an assault on Mr David T, aged 42, a tax collector. Mr and Mrs S had both denied causing bodily harm to Mr T at their public house on June 15.
Unit 4
Medical Care
Laugh Your Stress Away
I. Vocabulary work
1. Study the words.
Recoil, trigger, play up, defuse, foible, maneuver, disinterested, inanimate, the butt of a joke, stress buster, belly laugh, temporary stress release.
2. Use the following word combinations in contexts of your own.
Temporary stress release, an immediate recoil, inanimate sources of frustration, disinterested observation, to be caught in a situation, to step back from a situation, to come as a refreshing shock, to take the edge off the situation.
3. Choose the right definition of the words in bold type.
1. The physiological effects of a good laugh work against stress. Exercise has psychological benefits as well as physiological ones.
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a) pertaining to emotions b) pertaining to bodily processes |
c) pertaining to nutrition d) pertaining to the lifespan of an organism |
2. After a slight rise in heart rate and blood pressure during the laugh itself, there’s an immediate recoil. After he fired the powerful shotgun, the recoil knocked him backwards.
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a) clicking sound b) winding something in loops |
c) increase d) drop or movement backwards |
3. Muscles relax and blood pressure sinks below prelaugh levels, and the brain may release endorphins, the same stress reducers that are triggered by exercise. Exercising, eating chocolate, and being in love release endorphins in the body.
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a) hormones in the brain that cause hunger b) chemicals in the brain that cause drowsiness and confusion |
c) hormones in the body that causes feelings of sadness and depression d) chemicals in the brain that reduce pain and produce a sense of well-being |
4. Muscles relax and blood pressure sinks below prelaugh levels, and the brain may release endorphins, the same stress reducers that are triggered by exercise. The rioting in the city was triggered by the judge’s unfair ruling.
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a) activated b) pulled a trigger |
c) prevented d) increased or grew larger |
5. While our cave-dwelling ancestors were stressed by actual life-threatening situations like bumping into a woolly mammoth, times have changed. Scientists do not know for sure why the mammoth disappeared.
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a) a type of large moth b) animal that looks similar to a human being |
c) extinct type of elephant once found throughout the northern hemisphere d) rare bird |
6. The same kind of disinterested observation makes the tale of your disastrous vacation seem funny – after you get safely home. Referees and umpires must be disinterested in who wins the games they officiate at.
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a) deeply interested b) uninterested |
c) knowledgeable d) impartial or free from bias |
7. The continental drift moves faster. During World War II, continental warfare enveloped nearly all of Europe.
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a) of or like a continent, a principal land mass of the earth b) pertaining to water or the ocean |
c) related to travel d) pertaining to the nations of the world |
8. This maneuver helps take the edge off the situation, redirects your tension, and helps you see things as not so impossible after all. I tried to talk the police officer out of giving me a speeding ticket by being friendly and polite, but the maneuver failed.
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a) joke b) strategy |
c) excuse d) mistaken idea |
9. Making fun of your own foibles can save face in an embarrassing situation – you’ll have people laughing with you, rather than at you. He was a practical joker and a nonstop talker, but he was so talented that we overlooked these foibles.
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a) fatal flaws in one’s character b) careless mistakes |
c) minor weaknesses of character d) humiliating experiences |
10. Inanimate sources of frustration, like computers and copying machines, are also safe objects of humor. The actor’s performance was so stiff that he seemed almost inanimate.
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a) unfamiliar
b) lively or spirited
c) like a cartoon character
d) lacking lifelike qualities