- •Карневская е.Б. Абламейко в.С. Дмитриева л.Ф. Каленик т.К. Митева т.П. Павлович н.А. Панова и.И. Таболич е.В.
- •Introduction
- •Section 1
- •2.4. Listen to the part of the recording describing the social programme and sort the pieces of information given below into two columns.
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •1.2. Make sure you know these words and word combinations.
- •1. Pre-Listening Exercises
- •1.1 Study the meaning of the words and word combinations below.
- •1.2. Read this advertisement carefully. The information will help you understand the recording better.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •Candidate c
- •3.3. Insert fairly, rather, too in the sentences from the recording.
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.2. Listen to the recording again. State the overall topic of the text using the prompts given below.
- •2.3. Listen to the text again so as to be able to outline its contents. Expand each of the items choosing the appropriate arguments from the prompts given below.
- •2.4. Listen to the text another time paying attention to the details of the contents and the language. Give answers to the following questions.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •3.3. Check your understanding of the vocabulary of the recording by matching the English and Russian word combinations in the left and right columns.
- •2.3. Write a detailed passage about one of the pieces of news.
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •Section 2
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the text as a whole. Identify the speech variety and the speech situation choosing the suitable prompt below:
- •2.2. State the general topic of the dialogues:
- •2.3. Now listen to each of the six parts of the recording separately and answer the questions that follow.
- •2.4. Listen to each part of the recording again and note down each caller’s symptoms and the doctor’s suggested remedies.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. While listening to the tape again focus your attention on the way the doctor gives advice to each caller. Note down the words and expressions:
- •3.2. Give the English equivalents for the sentences below from the recording you’ve listened to.
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •2. A day in my life
- •1. Listening Exercises
- •1.2. Say if the following statements are True or False.
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. Listen to the tape again. Pick out and note down the words which mean:
- •3.2. Give the English equivalents for the following sentences.
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.7. Listen to the speakers once more and note down the arguments for and against vivisection. Make use of the table below.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •1. Pre-Listening Exercises
- •1.2. Discuss the following situation
- •2.3. Listen to the text again and focus on the right action you have to take when an accident happens. Complete the following sentences.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •1.2. Answer the following questions:
- •1.3. Read the menu given below and say if it is a pub or a wine bar.
- •Vegetarian Crepes £3.75
- •1.4. Go through the list of words and clear up any difficulties.
- •1.5. Read some of the sentences from the interview and see if you understand them.
- •3.2. Go through the list of word combinations and phrases below and find their equivalents in the recording while listening to it again.
- •2.3. Listen to the recording again and put the questions asked in the interviews in the order they appear on the tape.
- •2.4. Listen to the interviews again and focus on the answers given to the questions from ex. 2.3. Write down the necessary information in brief.
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •3.1. In each pair of sentences given below choose the one from the recording.
- •3.2. Translation
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •2.3. Listen to the recording again and note down a) the range of sports; b) the sports facilities they had at Lake Placid at that time.
- •3.3. Listen and note down the English equivalents for the following Russian expressions and sentences.
- •3. Language Focus
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •4. Discussion
- •Consolidation 3
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •Section 4
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1.While listening focus on the essential characteristics of the towns: their having a cathedral, a market; their origin and inhabitants.
- •2.2. Check your understanding by choosing the right alternative.
- •2.3. Listen to each text separately and note down the information needed to answer the questions.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Now you will hear part of a lecture about London. State the subject matter of the text by choosing the suitable prompt.
- •2.3. Listen to the text extract by extract according to the sub-topics of the outline and concentrate on the details of the contents. Write down:
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. As you listen to the lecture now concentrate on the details of the vocabulary. Pick out and note down:
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •2. Comprehension Exercises
- •1.2. Learn the following words:
- •4. Language Focus
- •4.1. Listen to the recording again and give the English equivalents from the tape for the following Russian expressions.
- •4.2. Fill in the prepositions where necessary.
- •5. Follow-Up Activities
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •3. Intensive Comprehension Exercises
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •Section 6
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •1.2. Copy the grid below.
- •3.2. Give the English equivalents for the following Russian word combinations.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.2. Give the synonyms from the recording for the following word combinations. Listen to the recording again if necessary.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •3.1. Listen again and pay attention to the context in which these expressions are used. Get ready to reproduce it after listening.
- •3.2. Look through the chart below and state who these words belong to by ticking the right box.
- •3.3. Listen again and note down the cases of incorrect pronunciation and incorrect grammar.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •1. Pre-Listening Exercises
- •1.2. Read the information below.
- •1.3. Read the plot summary of the play. Act 1
- •1.4. Use the sentences from the ex. 1.3. To help you match a word in a with a definition in b.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •Consolidation 6
- •1. General Comprehension
- •2. Intensive Comprehension
- •3. Writing Based on Listening Recognition. Recognition Accuracy Check
- •Section 7
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the fairy tale and identify the following statements as True or False. Correct the false ones.
- •2.2. Arrange the suggested subtopics according to their order in the text.
- •2.3. Listen to the fairy tale once again and in each pair of statements tick the True one.
- •2.4. Read the sentences below and identify the speaker. Reproduce the situations which these statements belong to.
- •3. Enriching your Vocabulary
- •3.1. Recognising new vocabulary in the speech flow.
- •3.2. Making use of new vocabulary
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the tape to identify whether the fairy tale was
- •2.2. Answer the following alternative questions:
- •2.3. Say if the following statements are True or False.
- •2.4. Listen to the tape and say whose these words are? Choose the answers from the list below.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. Fill in the gaps with a) the prepositions and b) the intensifiers used in the text. Then listen to the recording again and check your answers.
- •3.2. Match the verbs in the left-hand columns with the postpositions in the right hand columns to make phrasal verbs which were used in the recording.
- •2. Listen to Alice’s song and focus on some language features.
- •2. Listen to the same extract again and focus on some text features. Pick out and put down word combinations and phrases:
- •1. Listen to a new passage of the text and trace down the events that happened to Alice here. Expand the suggested outline by making use of the key words and phrases in the brackets.
- •2. Listen to the talk between Alice and the Caterpillar and the song they perform together. Make sue you’ve grasped the contents of the conversation by completing the statements which follow:
- •3. Listen to the song “You are Old, Father William” again and focus on some language features.
- •You are Old, Father William by Robert Southey (1774-1843)
- •Literature
- •Contents
- •Карневская Елена Борисовна
1.2. Read the information below.
Oscar Wilde was actually talented as a dramatist, novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. “The Importance of Being Earnest” was first performed at the St. James’ Theatre in London in 1895, and was published in 1899.
1.3. Read the plot summary of the play. Act 1
The play opens with ‘Ernest’ Worthing visiting his friend Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff in London. By chance Algernon discovers that ‘Ernest’ is really called Jack, and that he is guardian to a young woman, Cecily, who lives in his country house. Bored with the serious example he has to set Cecily, Jack has invented a fun-loving younger brother, called ‘Ernest’, who lives in London, and whom he often visits. In London, he explains, he is ‘Ernest’, and in the country, ‘Jack’.
At this point Algernon’s aunt, Lady Bracknell, and her daughter, Gwendolen, arrive for tea. Jack is in love with Gwendolen, and asks her to marry him. She tells him that, because of the magic of the name ‘Ernest’, she will accept him. Lady Bracknell says she will interview Jack before she agrees to the marriage.
During the interview Jack confesses he doesn’t know who his parents were. He explains how he was found, as a baby, in a handbag in Victoria Station, by a gentleman called Thomas Cardew, who adopted him, and gave him the name ‘Worthing’ after the seaside town he was travelling to at the time. Lady Bracknell is not happy for her daughter to marry someone with no parents, and leaves. Although Gwendolen promises to write to him in the country, Jack is depressed at the bad news. Algernon secretly decides to visit Jack’s country home, and introduce himself to Cecily.
Act 2
Cecily is in the garden of Jack Worthing’s country house with Miss Prism, her governess, who is trying to get her to study. Dr Chasuble, the canon, comes to call, and Miss Prism goes off for a walk with him, leaving Cecily alone. Algernon arrived, introducing himself as Jack’s brother, Ernest. Cecily confesses she has long been fascinated by stories about Ernest and invites him into the house. Miss Prism and Dr Chasuble return from their walk. And Jack arrives from London announcing that his brother, Ernest, is dead. Almost at once, Cecily comes out of the house to say that Ernest has come to stay. Jack cannot believe the news, but when Algernon appeares he realizes what has happened, and angrily tries to get Algy to leave. Algernon promises to go back to London, and Jack goes to see Dr Chasuble to make arrangements to be christened as Ernest. Algernon meets Cecily again and she confesses that, although she has never met him before, she has heard so much about ‘Ernest’ that she has long been in love with him. They get engaged. Algernon goes to visit Dr Chasuble to arrange to be christened as Ernest.
Gwendolen arrives unexpectedly from London, and Cecily receives her in the garden. In the course of the conversation they discover, to their great surprise, that they are both engaged to be married to Ernest. Jack returns to be confronted by the two women and Algernon enters soon afterwards. Gwendolen and Cecily refuse to forgive the two men for their deception and retire into the house.
Act 3
Jack and Algernon are forgiven when they reveal they have both made plans to be christened as Ernest that afternoon. The lovers reconciliation is interrupted by the arrival of Lady Bracknell, who has followed Gwendolen to the country. She refuses to recognize Gwendolen’s engagement to Jack, but is delighted to discover that Algernon is engaged to Cecily when she hears how rich Cecily is. Jack, however, refuses to allow the engagement between Cecily and Algernon unless Lady Bracknell agrees to his engagement to Gwendolen.
Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen are about to return to London when Dr Chasuble arrives to inform Jack and Algernon that all is ready for their christenings. When Miss Prism’s name is mentioned by chance, Lady Bracknell becomes very excited and demands to meet her. Miss Prism enters and is horrified when she sees Lady Bracknell. After some discussion it becomes clear that it was Miss Prism who left Jack at Victoria Station when he was a baby, and that he is actually the eldest son of Lady Bracknell’s sister, and thus Algernon’s elder brother. In addition to this, Lady Bracknell remembers that he was named after his father, Ernest John Moncrieff. The play ends with the two couples in each others’ arms, and, somewhat unexpectedly, with Miss Prism and Dr Chasuble also embracing.