- •Life in the 90s
- •Too Many or Too Few?
- •Britain Today
- •A View of the City
- •Theme one Family Life
- •The Odd Couple
- •How Battered Wives Can Learn to Leave
- •One Beating Every 15 Seconds
- •Why She Didn't Leave
- •The Double Life of Batterers
- •Making the Break
- •After the Shame: a New Life
- •Can Abusive Husbands Be Cured
- •1. Find out in the story the proof of the following statements:
- •2. Now think about and discuss the following questions and statements:
- •Civil Cases
- •Here Come the dinKs
- •Independently from their parents is changing.
- •Show Me the Way to Go Home
- •Vocabulary
- •Questions and activities comprehension questions
- •Discussion questions
- •Group activities
- •Theme two a Place to Live and Work
- •Little Has Changed on the Streets of London
- •Unemployment
- •Migration
- •Theme three work and study Equal at Work
- •Unit two Communication
- •The Press in Britain
- •Language in the News
- •Theme one Getting the Message Across Publicising the Circus
- •You Too Could Become a Communication Expert
- •In Just 15 Minutes
- •The Development of Advertising
- •Living in Portugal
- •Theme two First Impressions
- •Text a The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- •Gestures
- •«Open» and «Closed» gestures
- •Clothes
- •Text в Girl Talk - Where You Can Buy Success in the Coffee Break
- •It is from your self-image that you:
- •Language Awareness: The Language of Newspapers Special Vocabulary
- •Style in the Tabloids
- •Theme three The Media
- •Out of Print
- •The Press at Work
- •Talking Points a. Read the extract, and answer the questions which follow
- •The Internet-Ready Resume
- •Job Applications
- •Unit three Reputation
- •In meaning to:
- •Theme two Public Image Circus People
- •The Cockney Hero with a Difference
- •Chanel public fame and private enigma
- •Robert Browning
- •A Brief History of Time
- •The Hawking Story
- •Theme three Two Women
- •Mother Teresa
- •С. Read the text and answer the questions that follow. Hounding of the Princess
- •Confronted
- •Why Diana moved us so
- •It was Tony Time
- •Section two rendering
- •Render the text in English and discuss the main points. Письма в «Тайме»
- •Принцесса Анна
- •Цена славы
- •Количество смертей, вызванных насилием в семье, значительно снизилось в графстве Санта Клара
- •I. Language focus.
- •Ш. The film discussion.
- •IV. Extention.
- •I. Discussion of the film.
- •III. Discussion of the language.
- •Diana Interviewed
- •An Interview with Margaret Thatcher
- •I. Lead-in. Discuss with other students:
- •IV. Name the three factors which, according to m. Thatcher, made up Britain.
- •V. Express your own opinion of pr technologies and political views of Margaret Thatcher.
- •Section four sample tests
- •The Fast No-fuss Way To Make Your Dreams Come True
- •Incur..........
I. Discussion of the film.
1. Is the film up to your expectations?
2. Do you think the cast is well chosen?
3. Does the scenery deserve your praise?
4. What is your impression of the costumes?
5. What is the work of the artistic director aimed at?
6. What contemporary ideas are foregrounded in the screen version?
7. What are the advantages of the screen version in comparison with a stage presentation?
П. Discussion of the play.
1. «The time is out of joint! Oh, cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!» Do you see the message of the play in these words, pronounced by Hamlet?
2. Different epochs saw different approaches to the tragedy: S. Coleridge saw Hamlet as a philosopher and a poet, having no bonds with reality. I. Turgenev believed that Hamlet's passive behavior is the result of his egocentrism and disillusionment. A. Anikst emphasizes the tragic substitution of a revenge motive by a task of «taking arms against a sea of troubles». How is the problem of Hamlet's dramatic indecision tackled in the film?
3. What do you think of the «ghost scene»? Is a mystic element in keeping with the general trend of the genre of the tragedy?
4. What was «rotten in the state of Denmark»?
5. What makes you think that the Prince of Denmark was a mature person, seeing all the schemes of his enemies? What scenes from 'he tragedy show that Hamlet knew no «seems»?
6. «Frailty, thy name is woman». What are Hamlet's feelings towards Ophelia? Why is he so merciless to Gertrude, the Queen, his mother? Must he really «be cruel only to be kind»?
7. Monologues were very efficient means of expressing the author's thoughts in the tragedy. What monologues in Hamlet seem most impressive and appealing to you? What ideas do they convey? Try to interpret «To be or not to be» in the paradigm of the Renaissance philosophy.
8. Insanity was often used in classical pieces as a device of masking real feelings and voicing otherwise hidden ideas. What do you think of Hamlet's madness? Compare it with Ophelia's tragic end.
9. One of the most fundamental ideas of the Renaissance was the idea of kinship with life. Did Hamlet realize that human nature showed the shaping touch of divinity? How can his speculations on putting an end to all sufferings with «a mere bodkin» be considered in this context? How are people of action (Laertes, Fortinbras) opposed to people of thought (Hamlet, Horatio)?
10. The principle of duality, so characteristic of the Renaissance culture is easily traceable in Hamlet. It is revealed in character drawing, in presentation of ideas and in the very construction of the plot. Analyze some examples and state the function of the device.
11. Shakespeare is said to hold the mirror up to nature, employing various styles for his characters. Prove it, using the text of the tragedy.
III. Discussion of the language.
Certain models of thought in Hamlet have crystallized in phrases. What are your favourite expressions you can instance from Hamlet?
A. Recall the situations in which the following quotations are used.
1. All that lives must die, passing / through nature to eternity.
2. The meals that had been served for the funeral table, were still good enough to serve the marriage feast.
3. Adieu, adieu, remember me!
4. There I will inscribe that a man can smile and yet remain a villain. At least it may be so in Denmark.
5. Denmark is a prison.
6. There's nothing either good or bad, / but thinking makes it so.
7. О shame! Where is thy blush?
8. We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.
9. When sorrows come, they come / not single spies, But in battalions.
10. Brevity is the soul of wit.
B. Find the English equivalents for the following pieces translated by M. Losinsky.
1. Он человек был, человек во всем;
Ему подобных мне уже не встретить.
Act I, S.2
2. Бренность, ты зовешься женщина.
Act I, S.2
3. Держи подальше мысль от языка,
А необдуманную мысль от действий.
Будь прост с другими, но отнюдь
Не пошл.
Act I, S.3
4. Что за мастерское создание - человек!
Как благороден разумом!
Краса вселенной!
Венец всего живущего!
Act II, S.2
5. Что он Гекубе? Что ему Гекуба,
Чтобы о ней рыдать?
Зрелище - петля,
Чтоб заарканить короля.
Act II, S. 2
6. Назовите меня каким угодно
инструментом - вы хоть и можете
меня терзать, но играть на мне вы не
можете.
Act III, S.2
7. Из жалости я должен быть жесток;
Плох первый шаг, но худший недалек
Act III, S.4
8. Ее любил я, сорок тысяч братьев
Всем множеством своей любви со мною
Не уравнялись бы.
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Я умираю;
Могучий яд затмил мой дух;
Дальше - тишина.
Act V,S.I
10. Отлично, ей-же-ей, живу на
хамелеоновой пище, питаюсь воздухом,
Пичкаюсь обещаниями; так не откармливают
и каплунов.
Act III, S.2
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