- •Лингвистический анализ текста: лингводидактические и коммуникативные компетенции и оценка (на материале романа н. Хорнби «о мальчике»)
- •035700 – «Лингвистика»
- •Педагогический университет», 2011 contents
- •Introduction
- •Sets of tasks
- •(Chapters 1-3)
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •III. Match the synonyms:
- •Task Set 2 (Chapters 4-6)
- •II. Paraphrase the following sentences:
- •III. Translate the following sentences:
- •IV. Read the following passage, in which the author vividly discloses the issue of bullying at English schools and express your opinion on the problem:
- •V. Read the passage and express your viewpoint in connection with Will’s plot:
- •Task Set 3 (Chapters 7-9)
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •III. Match the synonyms:
- •IV. Answer the following questions:
- •Task Set 4 (Chapters 10-12)
- •III. Translate the following sentences:
- •IV. Read the following passages, and express your opinion on the problem cited by the author:
- •V. Read the passage, permeated with lively humour, and express your viewpoint in connection with Will’s philosophy of filling time:
- •Task Set 5 (Chapters 13-15)
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •III. Match the synonyms:
- •IV. Decide if the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones:
- •VI. Explain what is meant by the following:
- •Task Set 6 (Chapters 16-18)
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •IV. Add more information to the following:
- •V. Review the dialogues and act them out:
- •VI. Express your attitude to the following issues:
- •Task Set 7 (Chapters 19-21)
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •III. Write a short situation (or separate sentences) with the vocabulary units.
- •IV. Decide if the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones:
- •VI. Express your attitude to the following issues:
- •Task Set 8 (Chapters 22-24)
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •V. Review the dialogues and act them out:
- •VI. Express your attitude to the ideas enclosed in the following passages:
- •Task set 9 (Chapters 25-27)
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •IV. Answer the following questions:
- •V. Think over the given proverbs and sayings and see if you can relate some of them to the ideas enclosed in the chapters:
- •Task Set 10 (Chapters 28-30)
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •II. Paraphrase the following sentences:
- •III. Translate the following sentences:
- •IV. Add more information to the following:
- •V. Prepare a brief character sketch of the two personages you’ve got acquainted with recently:
- •VI. Imagine the following situations:
- •Task Set 11 (Chapters 31-33)
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •III. Match the synonyms:
- •IV. Answer the following questions:
- •V. Express your viewpoint on the ideas enclosed in the following passages:
- •I. Study the active vocabulary:
- •III. Translate the following sentences:
- •IV. Decide if the following statements are true or false (correct the wrong ones):
- •V. Express your viewpoint on the ideas enclosed in the following passages:
- •Academic grading policy
- •Bibliography
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- •035700 – «Лингвистика»
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V. Express your viewpoint on the ideas enclosed in the following passages:
”His mum had explained him once that sometimes people needed opposites, and Marcus cold see how that might work…” (p. 247).
“ Marcus thought about whether life was shit, and whether Ellie’s life in particular was shit, and then he realized that Ellie spent her whole time wanting life to be shit, and then making life shit by making things difficult for herself…..somehow it reminded him of Will and his pictures of dead drug-takers; maybe Ellie was like Will. If either of them had real trouble in their lives, they wouldn’t want or need to invent it for themselves, or put pictures of it on the walls….” (p. 248, 249).
VI. Imagine that you are a police officer from Royston. Tell your fellow worker about the funny thing that happened to two teenagers who got off the train in your town last night.
Task Set 12
(Chapters 34-36)
I. Study the active vocabulary:
the last straw (proverb “It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back”) (p. 258)
miss smth. out = leave out, overlook, not pay attention to smth. (p. 258)
underpin verb (p. 259)
gather smth.= deduce , conclude (p. 259)
avenge (of) smth/on smb. (p. 260)
pull off infml. (p. 260)
take one’s time (p. 260)
diddums Br. interj. (p. 261)
give smb. a piece of one’s mind (p. 261)
hand it to someone (p. 263)
of sorts (p. 263)
end up (doing smth.) (p. 267)
have it both ways (p. 268)
little things (p. 268)
outing (p. 273)
snipe at smb. (p. 274)
get the hang of smth./ smb. infml. (p. 277)
flatten out (p. 278)
II. Paraphrase the following sentences (using the units from the active vocabulary):
It's Mary's own fault if she feels she is not paid attention to at the party.
After failing his driving test eight times, John at last was a success.
I could conclude nothing from his statement. It was too complicated.
Jack is double-faced. He will never criticize you openly.
I’ll say this for George – he still remains a gentleman in such a horrible situation.
The city itself is surrounded by still higher peaks, so to some extent it is in a valley.
With that man driving you never know what happens to you in the end.
But countries should choose between alternatives, it’s impossible to get the best of the two : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries.
Very often it’s trifles that make a difference.
She began to adopt those little things which the pretty woman who has vanity invariably gets.
The government should stabilize the prices.
The opposition party put people in the crowd to make caustic remarks about the speaker.
III. Translate the following sentences:
– Это была последняя капля. Теперь она непременно подаст на вас заявление в суд.
– Ничего, у меня еще будет шанс отомстить.
Не торопитесь, обдумайте все хорошенько и завтра сообщите о своем решении.
Тише! Не надо плакать! Ничего страшного не случилось.
Тогда придется отложить наш поход в боулинг до следующей недели. Ты хочешь получить два горошка на ложку – и в боулинг сходить и в ресторан? Не выйдет!
Нужно отдать ей должное – она всегда говорит людям открыто то, что о них думает.