4. Follow-Up Activities

4.1. Write a passage describing places of interest given in the recording. Get ready to reproduce it in class.

4.2. Choose a bus (boat, tram) route in your native place and write a speech of a guide. Use the expressions given in ex. 3.2 to point out the various sights and to attract the attention of the tourists.

UNIT 3

Lesson A. IN-CLASS LISTENING

Text Title: Mount Rainier and Olympic National Parks

Videofilm

1. Pre-Viewing Tasks

1.1. You are going to watch an episode from the Reader’s Digest videofilm “Mount Rainier and Olympic National Parks”. Before you start watching the video try to discuss the topic answering the questions that follow.

1. Do you know what a national park is?

2. Have you ever been to a national park?

3. What national parks in other countries do you know?

1.2. Go throughout the list of words below and clear up any difficulties.

Mount Rainier [] Mount St. Helen

Olympic National Park Seattle

glacier [] - ледник

volcano [] - вулкан

v.eruption [] - извержение вулкана

wilderness [] - дикая местность, девственная природа

collision [] - столкновение

jokulhlaups [] - потоки ледниковой воды

flora [] - флора

fauna [] - фауна

mountain range - горная цепь

lava [] - лава

crevasse [] - расселина, глубокая трещина ледника

moraine [] - морена, ледниковое отложение

summit [] - вершина

monitory station - сейсмическая станция

residue [] - остаток

snout (of a glacier) [] - язык (ледника)

grandeur [] - великолепие, грандиозность

tame [] - покорять

moisten [] - увлажнять

anchor [] - ставить на якорь

be engulfed by [] - быть засыпанным

install [] - устанавливать

jagging [] - в острых выступах

formidable [] - грозный, страшный, огромный, внушительный

glistening - сверкающий

rough [] - неровный, труднопроходимый

diverse [] - разнообразный

primeval [] - первозданный

lofty - очень высокий

volatile [] - капризный

imposing - впечатляющий, внушительный

immutable [] - неизменный

haughty [] - величественный

staggering [] - ошеломляющий, поразительный

devastating [] - разрушительный, опустошительный

awesome [] - внушающий страх

profusional [^] - роскошный, богатый

2. Comprehension Exercises

2.1. Watch carefully and pick out the relevant information to answer these questions.

1. What state are the parks situated in?

2. How did Mount Rainier get its name?

3. Is Mount Rainier old or young in terms of geologic time?

4. What happened to a picnic area of Mount Rainier National Park in July 1988?

5. Why was the Northwest area of the country turned into National Parks?

2.2. Watch the episode once more and take notes about some details of the description.

1. What part of the territory of the park does Mount Rainier itself sit on?

2. What distance can the mountain be seen from on a clear day?

3. In what year did Mount Rainier get its name?

4. What is Mount Rainier’s height?

5. What territory do the glaciers of Mount Rainier cover?

6. When did the volcanic activity of Mount Rainier first start?

7. Are there any volcanic eruptions of Mount Rainier now?

8. What forces cause jokulhlaups?

3. Language Focus

While watching the episode this time note down:

a) derivatives of the following words:

wild glisten seem

impress wonder bottom

awe young glacier

mass fright burst

b) words close in meaning to the following:

devastating frightening

profusional rough

peak

c) the adjectives from the pre-viewing word list together with the nouns they are used with in the text;

d) metaphors which add to the expressiveness of the description.

4. Follow-Up Activity

Give your opinion of the role of national parks in the life of a society.

Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING

Text Title: Mount Rainier and Olympic National Parks

Videofilm

Tape Dictation

Choose an episode of the film “Mount Rainier and Olympic National Parks” you like best. Try to write down its transcript as close to the text of the recording as possible. Get ready to sound the episode in class, acting as the speaker of the videofilm.

CONSOLIDATION 4

Lesson A. IN-CLASS LISTENING

TEST

Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING

Text Title: The Smithsonian

Cassette: From TOEFL Tests, by P.Sharpe

1. Writing Based on Listening. Recognition Accuracy Check

Tape Dictation

1.1. Before you listen study the following proper nam

es to avoid any difficulties of understanding.

Orville Wright

Charles Lindbergh

1.2. Listen to the recording about the Smithsonian museums. Now listen to the text once more and write it down in the pauses provided. Check your dictation by listening to the tape again.

SECTION 5

TOPIC: TRAVELLING

UNIT 1

Lesson A. IN-CLASS LISTENING

Text Title: Planning a holiday

Cassette: From Synthesis, by W.Fowler, J.Pidcock

TEXT 1

1. Pre-Listening Tasks

1.1. Look through the list of geographical names which you will hear in the recording:

Tunisia [] - a country in the North of Africa

Tunis [] - the capital city of Tunisia

Monastir [] - a town in the country of Tunisia

Dover [] - a British port in the Southeast of England

Toulouse []

Lourdes []

Pau [] - cities in France

Bordeaux []

Calais [] - a port in the Northwest of France

Andorra [] - a town on the border between France and Spain

Gatwick airport - an airport in London

the Sahara [] - a desert in Africa

the Pyrenees [] - a chain of mountains