- •Philosophy Task 5
- •Word study
- •5. Find in the text antonyms for:
- •6. Give a complete definition of “Humanism”. Use the necessary word-combinations from the brackets:
- •7. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Comprehension check
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Choose the right statement:
- •3. Divide the text into logical parts and make up an outline of the text.
- •4. Speak on the meaning of Humanism. Task 6
- •Word study
- •6. Give derivatives of the following words:
- •7. Think of all possible situations where you can use the following word-combinations:
- •8. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Comprehension check
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Explain what is meant by the following statements:
- •3. Agree or disagree with the following:
- •4. Divide the text into logical parts and make up an outline of the text.
- •5. Speak on the following points:
- •Word study
- •7. Complete the sentences with correct words. Put down some questions to the text:
- •Comprehension check
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Agree or disagree with the following:
- •3. Look through the text and ask ten questions concerning the life story of Kant:
- •Immanuel Kant
- •4. Complete the following sentences:
- •5. Speak on the following points:
- •Word study
- •6. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Comprehension check
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Agree or disagree with the following:
- •3. Complete the following sentences:
- •4. Speak on the following points:
- •20Th century philosophy
- •Word study
- •6. Complete the sentences with correct words. Put down some questions to the text:
- •7. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Comprehension check
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Agree or disagree with the following:
- •3. Discuss the following quotations with your partner(s) and comment them:
- •Task 10
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •Word study
- •In relief to change one’s mind given some time to consider to advocate lonely to share a view to complain of to catch a cold
- •6. Make up your own sentences with the following words and word combinations:
- •7. Develop the following situations:
- •Comprehension check
- •1. Speak on the text as if:
- •3. Do you agree with the idea that:
- •4. Read and translate the quotations of famous philosophers. Develop the situations where they can be used:
- •Eastern Religion and Philosophy
- •Russian religious aesthetics
- •Philosophy in Ukraine
- •Text for Reading and Discussion What is Philosophy?
- •I’m Sorry
- •Moral Miscellany Do You Have to Be Scum to Get Ahead in Business?
- •Killing Bambi’s Mother
- •Business english Lesson 1 the resume / curriculum vitae
- •How to write resume:
- •Sample Resume Name
- •Lesson 2
- •Presenting Yourself Successfully – Before, During & After Your Job Interview
- •How to Give a Good Presentation
- •Discussion Questions:
- •Incoming Calls:
- •Telephone - connecting quiz
- •Telephone - wrong number quiz
- •Telephone - appointments quiz
- •Comprehension сheck and vocabulary exercises
- •Grammar
- •2. Complete the sentences with suitable infinitives which follow adjectives.
- •3. Rewrite these sentences using perfect infinitives.
- •5. Complete the sentences with the words in the list. Use possible forms.
- •6. Change the sentences into the passive.
- •7. Complete the sentences with correct form of the verbs in brackets: infinitive with or without to, -ing form.
- •9. Rewrite the sentences beginning with the given words.
- •11. Underline the correct word(s).
- •2. Complete the sentences. Use gerund phrases as subjects.
- •4. Transform the sentences according to the model. Use gerund phrases as objects.
- •5. Make up sentences from the table. You can use the same prepositions more than once.
- •6. Practice using gerunds following prepositions and answer the questions in complete sentences.
- •7. Choose the correct way of completing each sentence.
- •8. Do you know which verbs are followed by – ing forms and which are followed by infinitives? Make two lists.
- •10. Choose the correct forms of the verbs. Sometimes two answers are possible.
- •11. Supply an appropriate form of the gerund for each verb in brackets (Active, Passive or Past forms).
- •Expressing Preference (-ing forms/infinitive)– The Participle - Expressing Positive/Negative Agreement
- •2. Fill in the gaps with prefer, would prefer, would rather, as.
- •3. Complete the sentences with two to five words including the word in bold.
- •4. Transform the sentences using the perfect participle.
- •5. Transform the sentences using the past participle.
- •6. Transform the sentences using absolute construction with participle.
- •7. Transform the sentences using the present participle.
Word study
1. Give Ukrainian/Russian equivalents for:
to reject, to refer to, to clarify, issue, staple, to spawn, to contribute, to reject.
2. Find in the text English equivalents for words and word combinations. Read and translate the sentences with them. Use the phrases in the sentences of your own:
викликати зміни, течія (напрям), прийняти погляд, буди тісно пов’язаним з…, брати початок з …, значною мірою покладатися на… .
3. Arrange the following in pares of synonyms:
to cause to refer to adopt issue staple emphasis to rely on notable |
to depend on to give rise to main element to mention famous to follow importance topic |
4. Give derivatives of the following words:
to divide, analytic, to discover, history, to subject.
5. Read and translate the sentences given below. Pay attention to the meaning of words in bold type:
Olive trees have deep roots.
I'm sure you'll win. Everyone's rooting for you.
Compromise is essential if peace is to take root in this troubled area.
He decided to adopt a more radical approach to the problem.
He was 18 when he found out he had been adopted.
She has adopted Japan as her home.
Many local businesses offered to contribute to the school rebuilding fund.
He felt he had nothing to contribute to the discussion.
Speed is a contributing factor in many road accidents.
His departure was cause for celebration in the village.
He wouldn't have done it without good cause.
He has championed the cause of renewable energy since the mid-1970s.
Several different religious groups have made common cause in the campaign.
Greenhouse gases are widely believed to be causing the Earth's atmosphere to heat up.
6. Complete the sentences with correct words. Put down some questions to the text:
The 20th century brought ________ (with/in) it upheavals that produced a series of conflicting developments within philosophy over the basis of knowledge and the validity of various absolutes. It gave rise ___________ (for/to) a number of important philosophical movements from analytic philosophy to postmodernism, from existentialism to critical theory.
With classical certainties thought to be overthrown, and new social, economic, scientific, ethical, and logical problems, 20th-century philosophy was set ___________ (in/for) a series of attempts variously to reform, preserve, alter, abolish, previously conceived limits. It is characterized _______ (at/by) being postmodern in nature (no absolute truths), idealist (we can't say anything physically exists, all is a representation of the mind) and concerned with logical and linguistic analysis
Just as profoundly, historical events such _________ (like/as) the World Wars, the Russian Revolution, the near collapse of European parliamentary democracy in the 1930s and 1940s, the Holocaust, the use of atomic weapons on Imperial Japan, continued colonial violence, the foundation of the United Nations, the elaboration of new doctrines of human rights, the Vietnam War, the failure of revolutionary sentiment _______ (in/on) 1968, the collapse of the Soviet Union and its client states, continuing inequities in global development and civil society, the resurgence of "fundamental" religious identity in Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu contexts, and seemingly irrepressible if intermittent genocidal activity called ________ (up/into) question many philosophical doctrines on human rationality and created ever sharper demands ________(on/with) moral, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.