- •Практикум по английскому языку для аудиторной работы студентов первого курса всех факультетов
- •Содержание / contents
- •Foreword предисловие
- •Part I. The ingredients of happiness Unit 1. Personality and appearance
- •Unit 2. Family matters
- •45-Year Old Sidney Fisk near His House and the Car
- •Brothers and sisters
- •Unit 3. Career development
- •In pairs, discuss the following questions. Listen to Silvia and her friend Sophie, discussing cVs and check your answers.
- •Curriculum Vitae
- •Interests
- •Part II. Education Unit 1. Your first day at higher school
- •In the passages find information according to the headings given in the first column of the table below. Fill in the table with your findings:
- •Tuition
- •Financial aid
- •Unit 3. Siberian transport university
- •Siberian Transport University
- •Part III. Successful presentation Unit 1.Abstracts for communication
- •Editing checklist
- •Unit 2. Visual aids
- •Uk consumption of plastics by type
- •Trends in gdp & Air Cargo growth rates
- •Evaluation form (visuals)
- •Unit 3. Presenting a project
- •Handling questions
- •Evaluating checklist (Presentation)
- •Appendix 1
- •Appendix 2
- •Appendix 3
- •Appendix 7 Clichés for Using visual aids
- •Appendix 8 Clichés for presenting a project
- •Appendix 9 Clichés for handling questions
- •Список использованной литературы
Brothers and sisters
I – Interviewer, L – Louisa
L I’m the youngest of seven children. My oldest sister is still alive, age 1) …, and there are sixteen years between us. There were 2) …, two boys, and then me.
I Seven children! Wow! How did you 3) … together?
L Amazingly well. Being the youngest, my two brothers and I called our sisters 4) …, because they were either 5) … or working by the time we were born. But the seven of us all got along very well. But it’s different now, of course.
I Really? How?
L Well, when we were small, my 6) … often took care of us. Now my brothers and I are busy taking care of them.
I Tell me about your 7) … Julia. How has your relationship with her changed over the years?
L Julia was the sister who used to … on her holidays… used to take me for walks and so on. But then she became 8) … and went to Africa for twenty-three years. We wrote to one another and I was still her little sister. When she came back, it was shortly after my husband died we became very close and our whole 9) … changed and we became great friends.
I What do you see as the main 10) … and disadvantage of coming from such a large family?
L Hmm. I think it was very difficult sometimes to have 11) … , especially for a little girl like me. And I was sad that we didn’t go away on holiday like some other children. But the advantages overweighed 12) … enormously, there’s no doubt about that.
I Six out of the seven of you are still alive. How closely have you kept in touch over the years?
L Very closely. Of course we still phone each other all the time and see each other whenever we can. And we have 13) … every year. My granddaughter’s just had twins. That means we’ll have 14) … there this year. How marvelous!
Unit 3. Career development
Start-up
Tongue twisters to be remembered:
a)
b)
Listen:
Give appropriate translation to the proverbs and remember them:
e)* Make up a small proverbs-based dialogue.
a) Write down the time and dates you hear.
b) Listen to the conversations. Write down the numbers you hear.
Lead-in
a) Practice the conversations with your partner on the situations given:
a) Read, memorize the conversation and practice it with a partner (column A):
b) Have similar conversations with some of the professions from column B. Add your future profession if necessary.
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c) Which personality traits are necessary for career development in the sphere of engineering / economics / management / logistics? Add your future profession if necessary.
d) Discuss in groups the pros and cons of your future specialty.
a) Discuss the following questions:
What does CV stand for?
What is the main purpose of a CV?
What are the key qualities of a successful CV?
How many sections are there in a typical CV? What are they?
What is the best way to structure the contents of your CV?