Task 9. Mind-map texts A and B
Task 10. Retell texts A and B as closely as possible.
Task 11. Give a summary to texts A and B in writing (150-180 words for each).
III. SPEECH EXERCISES.
Task 1. Discuss the following questions in groups of 2-3. Make good use of topical vocabulary:
1. Do you agree with the author’s portrayal of the ways to make oneself lovable? Are they the same as those you would use? Are they really the same as those used to make oneself successful?
2. What do you think of the author’s presentation of the change of values on the personality market?
3. What type of love does the author present as not lasting and why? Do you think he is right? Why?
4. Does the author seriously suggest to study the meaning of love? Would you do what he suggests – examine the reasons for the failure in love, if you encounter one?
5. How do you like the author’s idea to compare love to art? Do you think it is right to do so? Do you find his argumentation convincing? What does it mean to be artful in love in practical terms?
6. What is the essence of the mastery of love as an art for you? What are the things one should master to be happier in love?
7. If love is an art why do people so rarely treat it as such?
8. The author finds his greatest means of attaining happiness in work and in relationship with family and friends. What is yours?
9. What factors determine an individual human activity?
10. Support or refute the ideas.
a) “The precise form of an individual’s activity is determined … by his heredity”.
b) Troubles tend to foster the most admirable human qualities – courage and its analogues.
c) What I do is simply what lies easiest to my hand.
d) Christian faith is full of palpable absurdities.
Task 2. Develop arguments to support or contradict the following points:
1. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut after”. Benjamin Franklin.
2. “Every woman should marry - and no man”. Benjamin Disraili
3. “An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband”. Booth Tarkington.
4. “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved”. George Sand.
5. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” Albert Camus
6. "It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe." Thomas Carlyle
7. "The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LESSON THREE
Text:People Aren’t Born Prejudiced
Grammar: 1. Conditionals.
2. Reported Speech. Sequence of Tenses.
Phonetics:
3. Consonant clusters.
4. Prosodic patterns.
PHONETIC EXERCISES
Task 1. Transcribe and practise the pronunciation of the following words.
Prejudice, prejudicial, comparable, psychologist, essay, author, relinquish,
wilderness, anxious, adolescence, extend, subtle, insidious, genuine,
blameworthy, thesis, sociologists, unconscious
Task 2. Mind the stress and practise pronunciation.
‘anxious an’xiety
‘parent pa’rental
se’lect(v) ,selec’tivity
com’pare ‘comparable
‘separate (adj) ‘separate (v)
‘protest (n) pro’test (v)
,hospi’tality ‘hospitable
‘wilderness wild
‘reference re’fer
Task 3. Practise reading the following word-combinations. Pay attention to
Consonant clusters.
[t] – [t] [t] – [d] [d] – [t] [d] – [ð]
not-to can’t discriminate confined to said they
that today important differences said to served them
wrote to each that dirt need to avoid the pain
get to quite different afford to found that
[t] – [ð] [t] – [θ] [s] – [ð] [t] – [p]
accept the blame can’t think it’s the need most publicity
about them about things across the country prejudiced person
fortunate that correct thinking it’s the rare example important point
that the pride prejudiced thinking treats the whole group promote prejudice