- •Unit 1 art or entertainment? lead-in
- •1 Discuss the following questions.
- •2 Complete the text using the words and phrases given. A charge on the National cuLture
- •3 Vocabulary Work
- •6 Use the words and phrases which you heard in the listening to complete the sentences below. (The sentences are not connected with text!)
- •7 Speaking points .
- •Snatched from northern climes
- •12 Panel discussion
- •13 Read the following text. The Museum Wars
- •14 Answer the following questions and sum up the information provided in the text.
- •15 Vocabulary
- •16 Projects and presentation skills
- •If you are curious for the Sample Presentation, this is a very interesting site of Coca Cola Museum http://www.Woccatlanta.Com/
- •Part 3
- •17 Read the text, summarize it and render Part 1 into English. The maximum length for the task is 300 words. What parts would you divide the text into?
- •Музей: искусство или развлечение?
- •18 Role-play
- •Unit 2 global issues lead-in
- •1 Discuss the following questions.
- •2 Complete the text using the words and phrases given. The legacy of the baby boom in australia
- •3 In the text find the information as referring to
- •5 Vocabulary Work
- •6 Summary Writing
- •7 Listening 1
- •8 Speaking
- •Part 1
- •The other population crisis
- •10 Summarize what each whole paragraph is about and write a paragraph heading and a summarizing sentence for each paragraph.
- •11 Panel discussion
- •12 Read the following text. Unlikely boomtowns?
- •14 Complete the sentences with the underlined words from the text. Suggest synonyms for them or explain them.
- •16 What are the implications of the following sentences. Translate underlined phrases.
- •18 Projects and presentation skills
- •Part 3
- •19 Read the following article and render it into English The maximum length for the task is 300 words. Make use of the words form Tasks 13, 14,15. Город для людей
- •20 Role-play
- •Unit 3 science approach lead-in
- •2 Complete the text using the words and phrases given.
- •Killer blow
- •3 Find the linking words used in the text. Study the way they organize the structure of the text.
- •5 Listening 1
- •Part 1
- •7 Read these comments about space exploration and discuss how far you agree with each opinion.
- •8 Read the following text. Exploration through the ages
- •9 Complete the sentences, summing and paraphrasing the information in the text.
- •Part 2
- •14 Read the text and complete the tasks that follow it. Science vs. Pseudoscience
- •Vocabulary work
- •16 For the words 1-7 find the appropriate definitions a-f.
- •17 Complete the following sentences using words from the above right column.
- •18 Define five factors why pseudoscience may cause problems for the society.
- •19 Summing up - Make a direct comparison: Science vs. Pseudoscience.
- •20 Panel discussion
- •Part 3
- •21 Read the text, summarize and render it into English. The maximum length for the task is 300 words. Интернет. Дефрагментация мозга
- •22 Panel discussion
2 Complete the text using the words and phrases given.
Paragraph 1 surges gouges plunges hurtles blocks smashes sweep Paragraph 2,3,4,5 spells matter wiped out species acrimonious extinction triggered aftermath |
Killer blow
A meteor as big as the city of San Francisco 1)…………………… towards the Earth at 20 km per second, 2) ………………….. into the tropical lagoons of the Gulf of Mexico and 3) ……………………… a fathomless hole. As a result, a tidal wave 4) ……………. outwards. Fires 5) …………………. across North and South America and fallout 6) ………………… the sun and 7) ……………………….. the Earth into permanent gloom.
This catastrophic event is the classic answer as to why dinosaurs were 8) ……………… 65 million years ago, but does the theory hold water? Everyone agrees that the Earth suffered a large meteor strike towards the end of the Cretaceous period, yet more than 20 years after the Chicxulub impact was proposed as the cause of mass extinction, scientists are still arguing over what really killed the dinosaurs.
On one side are the 'catastrophists', who say the impact snuffed out the majority of life on Earth in a 9) ………………… of months or a few years. On the other are 'gradualists', who point out that the fossil record shows a steady decline in the number of species, starting several hundred thousand years before the end of the Cretaceous period. The gradualists don't deny the Chicxulub impact happened, but maintain that it wasn't responsible for the mass10) ……………….. .
The debate between the two sides has been polarised and 11) ………………., but thanks to a feat of engineering, scientists may finally be able to find out exactly what happened to our planet on that fateful day 5 million years ago. By boring through solid rock, drilling contractors have pulled out a core, 1112 metres long and 7.6 cms in diameter, which records the full story of the impact and its 12) ……………………. . Geologists (mainly catastrophists, of course) are queuing up to analyse the core. In so doing, they hope to confirm whether the impact was devastating enough to kill the dinosaurs.
For the catastrophists, however, there are two big problems. First, they don't know how intense and widespread the meteor's effects were and would have to provide evidence of an extreme global change that lasted for at least a year. Secondly, it wasn't just meteors that were stirring up unrest. At that time, an area known as the Deccan Traps in what is now Western India was enduring one of the most intense 13) ………………….. of volcanism in Earth's history. A 'hot spot' deep in the mantle was producing plumes of superheated lava that burst through the crust, inundating 2,5 million square km of land.
Greenhouse gases and water vapour emerged with the lava and, in 1981, Dewey McLean proposed that the Deccan Traps 14) ………………….. severe global warming and a mass extinction. In support of this theory, the gradualists point out that this is not the only episode of supervolcanism that has occurred simultaneously with a mass extinction. At the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million years ago, over 90% of marine 15) ………………….. became extinct just as the region that is now Siberia was being flooded with lava.