- •Т.В. Поплавская т.А. Сысоева
- •Ббк 81.432.1 – 923.1
- •Contents
- •Introduction
- •3. In what situation would you use the following set expressions? Give your own examples.
- •4. Match the words and their definitions.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Violent English
- •A Confluence of Cultures
- •How to Plan a Town
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •Bungalows for sale
- •3. Look at the verbs below. Match each one with an appropriate phrase from the list on the right. Use the expressions in contexts of your own.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. The following extracts from guide books describe five of the world’s most famous cities. Work in small groups. Read the descriptions and decide which city is being described in each text.
- •2. Read the extracts again and point out the facts that helped you decide which city is being described.
- •3. Work with a partner and discuss these questions.
- •4. Complete these sentences using appropriate phrases from the text. Make any changes to the phrases that are necessary.
- •5. Look at the adverbial phrases below and decide which of them have negative or limiting meaning.
- •6. Rewrite the sentences below, starting with the word or words given.
- •7. Speak about your plans for the holidays. Use at least ten expressions from Ex. 5 and 6.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •5. Match the words to make up phrases. Explain their meaning in English.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •4. Becky is in the habit of itemizing clothes (her own and other people’s). How does she describe/speak about clothes? Compile “Becky’s clothes and fashion vocabulary”.
- •Shopaholic Abroad
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the suitable word from the box. Put the words in the correct form.
- •3. Define the following words and phrases in English. Make up sentences with these words.
- •4. Match the words and their definitions.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •Shopaholic Ties the Knot
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Match the words and their definitions.
- •3. Fill in the words from the active vocabulary list.
- •4. In what situations would you say the following? Provide your own context for these utterances. Then find them in the text and check their actual usage.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •2. Read the whole text. Do we have the press we deserve?
- •3. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •5. Explain how you understand the following idiomatic expressions: to throw out the baby with the bath water, a toothless watchdog, to get a rough ride. In what contexts can you use them?
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Publican Jailed for Assault
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text. What is the topic and the implied main idea of paragraphs 6, 7 and 9?
- •2. True or false.
- •3. Select the best answer.
- •4. Discuss the following issue: What is the most important overall message the writer wants the reader to understand about stress?
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •Bill’s Eyes
- •5. Complete each sentence with the appropriate phrase.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •4. Explain the final scene of the story. Were you shocked by it or was it quite predictable? Give your reasons.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •The Emergency Ward
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Choose the best definition of the italicized word.
- •3. Match the words to make up word combinations from the text.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Choose the best answer. Explain your choice by providing evidence from the text.
- •3. On the basis of the evidence from the text, mark these statements as accurate inferences, inaccurate inferences or insufficient evidence.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Home reading
- •2. Can we call Champagne and Jane opposites? Prove it. Do you believe such opposites could “attract”?
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the required extracts from the book “Can You Keep a Secret?” by s. Kinsella and consider the following questions.
- •2. Agree or disagree: Being stressed out is an excuse for blabbering all your secrets to a complete stranger.
- •4. Look at the expressions in bold in these sentences. Is mind a verb or a noun in each one?
- •5. Match each expression in Ex. 4 with one of these meanings.
- •II.Discussing the text
- •II. Discussing the text
- •3. Comment on the “look-alike” pattern theory. Does it work in real life?
- •II. Tasks for “Man and Boy” by t. Parsons
- •III. Tasks for “Man and Wife” by t. Parsons
- •IV. Tasks for “How to be Good” by n. Hornby
- •Reference
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2. Choose the best answer. Explain your choice by providing evidence from the text.
1. Hoffmann describes the Emergency Ward of a city hospital as if it were
a) a circus sideshow; b) a college campus; c) a medieval fair; d) a movie set.
2. According to the author, the Emergency Ward patients
a) are embarrassed about their afflictions and are reticent to discuss them; b) clamor for an audience and represent their afflictions as if they were wares for sale; c) are complaining and difficult for physicians to deal with; d) reflect the violence of urban ghettos.
3. Hoffman admits that the atmosphere of the Emergency Ward is not always convivial, so that when the action picks up, the physician’s sole priority is
a) to save time, b) to get to the end of the shift, c) to minimize losses and survive, d) to ask for a transfer to another hospital unit.
4. The Emergency Ward is affectionately known as
a) “The Dump”, b) “The War Zone”, c) “The Hellhole”, d) “The Pit”.
5. Hoffman states that he became discouraged working on the wards for the acutely ill because he came to realize that
a) despite their efforts, physicians seldom had much effect on their patients’ diseases, b) physicians were not the dedicated professionals he assumed them to be, c) modern medical science has not advanced as much as the public thinks, d) the quality of medical care had deteriorated because of extensive budget cuts.
6. According to Hoffman, on the first day working in the Emergency Ward, he felt
a) despair, b) a sense of anticipation, c) cautious and wary, d) incompetent.
7. One woman, a street dweller, is admitted as a “social admission”, meaning that
a) she has no money to pay, b) she is desperately ill, c) she will be provided with food and a good night’s rest, d) she will be sent to a detoxification unit.
8. By the time his shift ended at 9:00 a.m., Hoffman states that he had
a) seen a large slice of illness and of life, b) heard every imaginable complaint and demand, c) misinterpreted medical evidence and wrongly diagnosed several patients, d) been through a combat zone.
3. On the basis of the evidence from the text, mark these statements as accurate inferences, inaccurate inferences or insufficient evidence.
1. The Emergency Ward where Hoffman worked catered primarily to poor people receiving public funds for their medical needs.
2. Despite technological advances, medical science often cannot do much for people suffering from disease.
3. The hospital discourages “social admissions” because such patients prevent those who really need medical care from getting a hospital bed.
4. Although Hoffman had never inserted a pacemaker, he had studied the procedure in medical school.
5. Hoffman occasionally finds it difficult not to allow his personal feelings about a patient interfere with his professional duties.
4. The author of the text compares the Emergency Ward to a theatre of war, a medieval fair etc., whereas doctors working in the EW are compared to pilots, air-traffic controllers etc. Scan the text once again and see how many other comparisons you can add to this list. Which of them do you think provides the most accurate description of the EW and its employees?