- •Архитектура строительство
- •Part I unit 1 civil engineering
- •II. Read and translate the text. Civil Engineering
- •III. A few explanations to the text
- •IV. Answer the questions
- •VI. By your own words try to explain:
- •VII. Give as many words as you can to the word engineering
- •V. Read the text and tell the group what is a home for you? What is home? (after Ernestine Schumann-Heink)
- •Unit 2 construction works
- •II. Without translating find information in the text to the following questions.
- •Construction Works
- •III. Find English equivalents in the text.
- •IV. Translate the sentences.
- •Unit 3 some building professions
- •I. Listen, read and remember.
- •II. Scan the text for about 10 minutes and find the sentences with words from I Some Building Professions
- •III. A few explanations to the text.
- •IV. Read and translate the text « Some Building Professions». Give equivalent English phrases to the following Russian ones.
- •VII. Complete the sentences according to the text:
- •VIII. Tell the class about common building professions unit 4 modern building materials
- •II. A few explanations to the text.
- •III. Read and translate the text. Modern Building Materials
- •IV. Add the missing parts of the sentences from the text.
- •V. Translate into English, and find sentences in the text with following word-combinations.
- •VI. Tell the group about any of the building materials.
- •VII. Discuss different building materials from the text finishing the following phrases:
- •IX. Answer following questions. Then read the text and check your meanings.
- •Modern Building Materials
- •X. Translate following phrases.
- •XI. Write out international words out from the text and translate them without a dictionary.
- •XII. Add the missing parts of the sentences from the text
- •XIII. Share your opinion.
- •Unit 5 silicate industry
- •Silicate Industry
- •Unit 6 asbestos
- •Asbestos
- •Vocabulary
- •II. Read and translate the text and complete the sentences.
- •II. Read the following text. Prepare several questions for discussion and discuss them in your group.
- •Unit 8 architecture: its forms and functions
- •IV. Read the text and answer the following questions.
- •Architecture: Its Forms and Functions
- •V. Talk about architecture
- •VI. Speak about architecture. Use the following words:
- •Unit 9 bioclimatic architecture
- •I. Read a few explanations to the text
- •III. Read and translate the text. What Is Meant by "Bioclimatic Architecture"
- •Unit 10 from the history of building
- •I. Read a few explanations to the text
- •III. Find in the text equivalent English phrases to the following Russian
- •From the History of Building
- •IV. Explain in English the meaning of the following words:
- •V. Translate the extract into Russian
- •VI. Make a report about the history of building ant tell it in class.
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right sentence.
- •II. Complete the following sentences.
- •Text 2 great sphinx
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the synonyms to the words in italics.
- •II. Circle a), b), or c) to complete the sentence.
- •Ancient greek architecture Warming-up
- •The athenian acropolis
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Complete the following sentences.
- •II. Choose the right adjective.
- •III. Choose the right form of the verb.
- •Roman architecture Warming up
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right sentence.
- •II. Circle a), b), or c) to complete the sentences.
- •Early christian and byzantine architecture Warming-up
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right word.
- •II. Choose the right sentence.
- •Vocabulary
- •Romanesque architecture
- •Lancet architecture Warming-up
- •Gothic cathedrals
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Complete the sentences.
- •II. Choose the right sentence.
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Complete the following sentences.
- •Text 2 The Renaissance style in England
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right form of the adjective.
- •II. Choose the right sentences.
- •III. Circle a), b), or c) to complete the following sentences.
- •Text 2.
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right verb.
- •Neoclassicism Warming-up
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Complete the following sentences.
- •The architecture of the turn of the centuries Warming up
- •Art nouveau
- •Vocabulary
- •I Choose the right sentence.
- •II. Complete the following sentences.
- •III. Answer the following questions. Only one variant is correct from the three choices.
- •The architecture of the 20th century Warming-up
- •Charles edouard (jeanneret) le corbusier
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the appropriate adjective.
- •II. Complete the following sentences.
- •British architecture Buildings: first impressions
- •British architecture
- •Richard Rogers
- •Part III Amsterdam
- •Budapest
- •Helsinki
- •Wien Vienna
- •Оглавление
Ancient greek architecture Warming-up
1. What do you know about the greatest monuments of ancient Greek architecture?
2. Why do you think these monuments are the finest models for all generations of architecture?
3. What do you know about the architecture of the Acropolis?
Read the text and describe the Acropolis monuments.
The athenian acropolis
As one of the world's oldest cities Athens boasts a wealth of splendid relics of Hellenic art, some of which are more than 3,000 years old. The Acropolis, the Greek for upper town, the gem of world architecture, stands on a low rocky hill and contains the ruins of several ancient Greek architectural monuments.
The Parthenon, a stately building with an eight-column facade, was built by Ictinus and Calibrates in 447—38 BC. The temple was designed to serve as an exquisite, imposing architectural frame for a stupendous gold and ivory statue of Athena, the goddess in the Greek pantheon watching over the city. This no longer extant statue, which stood in the anterior of the shrine, was held in deep reverence.
Next to the Parthenon is another shrine, an Ionic temple of Athena, the Erechtheum, built by an anonymous architect in 421—06 BC. Its refined loveliness and proportions are a very bit as enchanting as the monumental grandeur of the Parthenon. It has the unparalleled portrayal of a contemporary event on the frieze of the building: the procession of citizens in the yearly festival in honour of Athena built on an awkward site, it also had to serve different cults, which meant that its architect had to design a building with three porches and three different floor levels. Its Caryatid porch, with figures of women for columns, makes use of an old Oriental motif that
had appeared earlier, in Archaic treasuries at Delphi. The monumental gateway to the Acropolis, the Propylaea was designed by Mnesicles, who had to adapt the rigid conventions of colonnade construction to a steeply rising site. In the precision and finish of their execution, which complements the brilliant innovation of their design, these three buildings had no rival in the Greek world.
Vocabulary
to boast — (зд.) гордиться
gem — (перен.) драгоценный, жемчужина
exquisite — утонченный
imposing — внушительный, величественный
frame — оправа, обрамление
stupendous — изумительный, громадный
ivory — слоновая кость
anterior — передний
shrine — святилище, храм
refined — изысканный
grandeur — величие
portrayal — изображение
awkward — труднодоступный
porch — портик, крытая галерея
treasury — сокровищница
rigid — жесткий, строгий
steeply — круто
precision — точность
rival — соперник
I. Complete the following sentences.
1. The Acropolis means ...
a) upper town
b) a platform
c) front elevation
2. The Parthenon was built by ...
a) an anonymous architect
b) Imhotep
c) Ictinus and Calibrates
3. The Parthenon was a display place for a great statue of... a) Hera
b) Athena
c) Alexander the Great
4. The Erechtheum was also designed to serve different...
a) cults
b) architects
c) cities
5. The porch of the Erechtheum has figures of... for columns.
a) atlases
b) caryatids
c) sphinxes
6. In the Propylaea the rigid conventions of colonnade construction were adapted to a steeply rising ...
a) floor
b) building
c) site
7. The Propylaea was ... to the Acropolis.
a) a temple
b) the monumental gateway
c) staircase