- •Ethnic groups
- •Languages
- •Religion
- •Exercises
- •I. Pronounce the following words correctly.
- •II. Give the Russian equivalents to the following English words and word combinations.
- •III. Give the English equivalents to the following Russian words and word combinations.
- •IV. Explain the following in English.
- •V. Complete the following table.
- •VII. Look at the head-line of the article and say what it is going to be about. Read the article and give your opinion on the issue using the questions given below.
- •VIII. Listen to the disc and do the following exercises.
- •Answer the questions.
- •Express your opinion on the issue.
- •2. People (part I)
- •Introduction
- •Views of Britain The official view
- •The people’s view
- •Exercises
- •I. Give the English equivalents to the following Russian words and word combinations.
- •VII. Comment on the following author’s statements.
- •VIII. Answer the questions.
- •IX. Read all the texts one more time and render their general contents in several sentences.
- •X. Read the text and list all the problems it deals with. The Telegraph
- •Ten core values of the British identity
- •Эти странные англичане Как, по их мнению, к ним относятся другие
- •Как их воспринимают на самом деле
- •Эти странные шотландцы «Извечный враг»
- •Какими они хотят казаться
- •People (part II) a foreigner view of the British
- •Exercises
- •I. Pronounce the following words correctly.
- •II. Give the Russian equivalents to the following English words and word combinations.
- •IV. Answer the questions.
- •Issues to be discussed.
- •VI. Make up a dialogue on the topic under review imagining that.
- •VII. Listen to the following piece of information of a person, who was born in Northern Ireland and now lives in England and do the following exercises.
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Make up a list of issues on which the Irish and the English have different points of view.
- •VIII. Comment on the newspaper article “White Britons will be outnumbered by 2066 if the rate of immigration continues, researchers have claimed” given below.
- •White Britons will be outnumbered by 2066 if the rate of immigration continues, researchers have claimed
- •3. The family Family structure
- •Working mothers
- •Young people
- •Exercises
- •VI. What would you do if you encountered such a situation?
- •VII. Analyze this table and say at what age in Russia you can do the following.
- •VIII. Read an extract from the book “Britain Now” and take part in discussing of the following issues. Family life in the past
- •4. Leisure Spare Time
- •How People Relax
- •Reading
- •Exercises
- •I. Pronounce the following words correctly.
- •II. Translate the following sentences into Russian and say what lexis from the texts under consideration is used in those sentences.
- •III. Search the text for the words similar in meanings to the ones given below.
- •IV. Search the text for the words opposite in meanings to the ones given below.
- •V. Ask your group-mates questions about leisure time in Britain and in Russia using the suggested words and word combinations from the texts above.
- •VI. Prepare a short talk on places and activities, which help you to have a rest with your friends or members of the family.
- •VIII. Comment on the following article from “Britain Explored”.
- •Gаmbliпg
- •IX. Scan the text for the information that will help you to answer the questions given after the text. Sports and recreation
- •X. Compose dialogues on the following topics.
- •XI. Discuss it with your group-mates.
Exercises
I. Pronounce the following words correctly.
Leisure, typical, pastime, video, to vary, rural, drama, live (adj.), romance.
II. Translate the following sentences into Russian and say what lexis from the texts under consideration is used in those sentences.
1. The loss of money is more than compensated for by the joy of having free time.
2. Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day (in North America) is an annual national holiday marked by religious observances and a traditional meal including turkey. The holiday commemorates a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 and is held in the U.S. on the fourth Thursday in November.
3. No one expects the Baltic states to naturalise young Russian soldiers, but army pensioners can be given citizenship.
4. The islands are green, peaceful and incredibly beautiful, with an unhurried pace of life.
5. In some sports or outdoor activities trials are a series of contests that test a competitor's skill and ability.
6. Volleyball has been contested as an indoor sport at the Summer Olympic Games since 1964.
7. David had been on a pub crawl with pals from his rugby club.
8. In a broadcast on state radio the government also announced that it was willing to resume peace negotiations.
9. The army sacked the city and carried off huge quantities of plunder.
III. Search the text for the words similar in meanings to the ones given below.
Comfort, intense, speed, go down, to have a right, availability, to permit, romance.
IV. Search the text for the words opposite in meanings to the ones given below.
Particularly, minor (under-age), majority sports, insignificant, to retrench, urban, to vanish.
V. Ask your group-mates questions about leisure time in Britain and in Russia using the suggested words and word combinations from the texts above.
Famous public holidays; pubs and clubs; shopping; going to the theatre; multi-screen cinemas; home videos; eating out; going abroad; foreign destination; to relax; traditional games; different sorts of entertainment; live music; welcoming to families; to be allowed in the bar; drinking habits; a general move about the dangers of drinking too much; TV watching; reading; magazines and books; great works of literature; stories of mystery and romance; ‘classics’; TV shows or dramatizations.
VI. Prepare a short talk on places and activities, which help you to have a rest with your friends or members of the family.
VII. Listen to the following interview with David Lavender, an Artistic Director of the Komedia Theatre, Brighton, who is considering the questions of why very few people go to the theatre in Britain and agree or disagree with his statements.
1. The main reason, why people don’t go to the theatre nowadays very much is that there is an easy alternative to it.
2. In the past it was understood in Britain that theatre was for a minority part of the population and the working people didn’t go to the theatre.
3. It’s very easy to put people off the theatre.