- •1. A) Work in pairs. Name any international events that take place in Belarus. (илл. 8.1.1-8.1.5 в любых местах на одной стр. Или развороте)
- •2. Listen to a brief report about the tourist events in Belarus and take notes to answer the questions below.
- •4. A) Look at the words below. What do they all have in common?
- •5. Work in small groups. Discuss the questions below and complete the tasks.
- •1. Work in pairs. What do you know about Belarus Fashion Week? (илл. 8.2.1)
- •2. A) Look at the words and phrases below. Can you guess their meaning?
- •3. A) Read an introductory article about the show. Check your answers for ex. 1 and 2a.
- •4. Look at the pictures below. What episodes of the show do they illustrate? (илл. 8.2.2- 8.2.7)
- •5. A) Look at the words below. What prefix will help make new verbs of them?
- •6. Imagine your foreign friend is coming to Belarus at the time of bfw. Write an e-mail to your friend describing the event and offer him/her to visit the show.
- •1. Discuss the questions below in pairs. (илл.8.3.1)
- •2. A) Work in groups of three (Students a, b and c). Read your piece of information about Slavyansky Bazaar in Vitsebsk and prepare to retell it to your partners.
- •4. A) Read some opinions from the visitors to the festival and complete the words.
- •5. Role-play the following situation in pairs.
- •1. Discuss the questions below in pairs.
- •2. A) Discuss as a class. What kind of news will probably mention the following:
- •8. Conductor from Hawaii Casts Belarusian Soloists for …
- •3. A) Look through the questions below. Then listen and take notes on the answers.
- •4. A) Which of the following adjectives would you use to describe the reports you’ve heard?
- •5. A) Work in groups of three. Write a piece of news to present to the audience.
- •1. Look at the comic. Discuss the questions below in pairs. (илл. 8.5.1)
- •2. A) You are going to read two articles giving tips to those who would like to take part in a Student Exchange programme. Put the tips to the right article.
- •3. A) Choose the function the modal verbs serve in the sentences below.
- •4. Work in pairs. Look at the articles in ex. 2 again. Find the modal verbs can, could, be able to in the text and discuss what functions they serve in each case.
- •5. A) Work in groups of 3. Prepare to role-play the following situations.
- •1. Discuss the questions below in pairs.
- •2. A) You are going to listen to some foreign student exchange stories. Look at the boxes below and find pairs of words with opposite meaning.
- •4. Which word stands for X in the following collocations?
- •5. A) Complete the proverbs below with 6 words from ex. 2a.
- •6. Choose one of the tasks below.
- •1. A) Look at the logos below and discuss the questions in pairs.
- •2. Look through the article below. What is it about?
- •3. Match the definitions below with the words in italics.
- •4. A) Read the article and decide whether the statements below are true, false or not mentioned.
- •5. A) Discuss the questions below in small groups.
- •1. Discuss the questions below in pairs.
- •2. Look at the phrases below. Can you guess what kind of summer school they refer to?
- •3. A) Read the advertisement in the card for one of the next year summer schools and find the information about:
- •4. Report to your classmates about your next summer plans. Then discuss the questions below.
- •1. Discuss the questions below with your partner.
- •2. You will now read a sci-fi short story “Ask a Foolish Question” by Robert Sheckley. Read the story and say:
- •3. Read the story again and answer the questions below.
- •4. Discuss the questions below in pairs.
- •5. A) Imagine that Answerer was improved and can now answer any question. Which three questions would you ask the Answerer?
- •1. A) Work in small groups. Think of as many ways as possible to find friends or make contacts with young people abroad.
- •2. You have one month to find new friends or make contacts based on common interests with young people from other countries. Then report to your classmates about the results.
4. Which word stands for X in the following collocations?
a) X king, X dress, Senior X, X ballroom
b) generous X, X family, act as X, talk-show X
c) to have nothing to X, to X a lot from the event, to X weight, financial X
d) X planning, one X to another, X to the changes, X probability
e) to be X to blame, X different, X new idea, X satisfied
f) to be X by love, freshly X juice, X stone, to have a X heart
worn out, prior to, crushed, chatty, entirely trendy, gain, unsightly, mute, servant, thrilled, brand new
5. A) Complete the proverbs below with 6 words from ex. 2a.
No (1), no pain. (English proverb)
If you don't hope, you won't be (2). (Sicilian proverb)
The one who loves an (3) person is the one who makes him beautiful. (Ganda proverb)
Give the devil your little finger, you will be taken (4). (Hungarian proverb)
To live in peace one must be blind, deaf, and (5). (Turkish proverb)
Everything is (6) with usage -- except for experience. (Turkish proverb)
b) Think of the stories you’ve heard. Could any of the proverbs be appropriate to the situations described?
c) Work in pairs. Use as many words as possible from this exercise to make a sentence. Whose sentence uses more words?
6. Choose one of the tasks below.
a) Imagine your family agrees on hosting a foreign student. You are going to write a brief welcome e-mail to the student that would choose your family to stay in. Think what the important things to mention are. Should the letter be formal or written in a casual manner?
Write your letter.
b) Imagine you’ve decided to live in a foreign family for a month. You are going to write a brief e-mail to the family that would choose you as an exchange student. Think what the important things to mention are. Should the letter be formal or written in a casual manner?
Write your letter.
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Active vocabulary: social network |
Communicative area: discussing, giving opinion |
1. A) Look at the logos below and discuss the questions in pairs.
(илл. 8.7.1-8.7.5 под иллюстрациями цифры – facebook - 700,000,000 twitter - 200,000,000, linkedIn - 100,000,000, My space -80,500,000, google plus - 32,000,000)
1. What do the logos present? What do you know about these services? Do you know any similar websites? Can you translate the names of these social networks into your language? Are they appropriate names for the services they provide? What do the numbers under the logos mean? What is the most popular social network?
2. Look through the article below. What is it about?
Making Friends in Social Networking
By PHILIPP LAAGE
On Facebook everyone is a friend, at least that’s what people call each other, but can an adolescent understand and cope with this?
The experts say yes. Social networks play an important role in forming friendships among young people by making common experiences visible to everyone participating. Outside the Internet, no-one sends a request to friend someone. But at social networking sites such as Facebook people work hard at collecting friends.
To think that young people cannot differentiate between the two is a prejudice, said Professor Jaap Denissen of Humboldt University in Berlin. “Fourteen-year-olds can do it much better than we think they can because they have grown up with the internet.’’
The notion that youths communicate primarily with strangers is as outdated as the belief that a high level of internet use causes social isolation, said psychologist Denissen. People who use the internet a lot are in their “real lives’’ more social than those who aren’t heavy users of the internet.
The basic needs of young people haven’t changed: “They form cliques and fit themselves into scenes and they do that as well in social networks.’’
Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, a social network researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute in Hamburg, said young people today have a much larger stage than in the past.
“Parties, vacations, concerts – all of these are permanently stored in photographs and other multimedia,’’ Schmidt said. Friends can continuously comment on the goings-on. “Networks such as Facebook become the collective consciousness of a clique.’’
Social networks deliver a social confirmation that the group belongs together. Young people used to sign each other’s backpacks to openly signal that they belonged together, Schmidt said. This is much easier to achieve using Facebook, but the motivation is the same.
“The photo album from a vacation taken together should express the friendship between the people involved and show that they do cool things together,’’ he added.
Juliane Stopfer, a psychologist at the university of Mainz, sees a practical use beyond keeping the memories of shared experiences.
“We can maintain contacts with friends who live far away, as well as strengthen these ties or rediscover them,’’ said Stopfer. “We learn through things like photos from a family vacation that there are sides of people who are near to us that were previously concealed.’’
Adolescence, however, means change. A 15-year-old girl might write “best friends forever’’ on a girlfriend’s wall, but in reality, friends do fall out, relationships split up, said Schmidt. Some things published in the internet stay around for a long time. “How we will deal with these things is still open,’’ he said.
Denissen expects things to change in social networking, particularly with the openness of some of the communications. He said in the future people will share some messages and photos with family only and others with friends. The new Google+ social network, for example, separates friendships into circles. That sounds a lot like the way things are structured in real life.