«Контрольная работа № 5 Exercise 1. A. Read the text. All people know the name of Charlie Chaplin, a popular American actor. He was born in 1889 in London. His ...»

Задания для студентов з/о социологического факультета (спец. - регионоведение)

3 курс 5 семестр. Иностранный язык.

Контрольная работа № 5

Exercise 1. A. Read the text.

All people know the name of Charlie Chaplin, a popular American actor. He was born in 1889 in London. His father and mother were actors. He had an elder brother. His name was Sidney. Charlie Chaplin spent his early years in England. At eight he was already an actor. In 1913 he came to America and started working for the cinema. In all his films Chaplin played the part of "a man of the people". The last 25 years Chaplin lived in Switzerland. He had a large family: his wife, five sons and five daughters. He died on the 25ih December in 1977 when he was 88 years old.

B.Ask questions on the text.

C.Say what you have learned from text about Charlie Chaplin.

Exercise 2. Read and retell the joke.

A young Englishman came to America. He stayed in New York with his friends and saw very many interesting places in and outside the city. On the last day he bought a large TV-set for his family in London,

"Why have you bought a TV-set in America? I think you've got very good TV-sets in England, haven't you?' his friend asked him.

"Our TV-sets are good, but TV programs in England are not as good as American programs", the young man answered.

Exercise 3. Answer the following questions:

What film did you see last?

Is it a color or a black-and-white film?

At what cinema was it on?

Did you see a trailer or a new street before the feature film?

How long did the film last?

What popular actors played in the film?

What do you think of the film?

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Do you like screen versions of novels?

What screen version have you seen lately?

Was it close to the original?

What actors were there in the film?

Was the film as good as the novel?

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Who is your favorite Russian film actor?

In what film have you seen this actor lately?

What is the film about?

What part did the actor play in it?

Did he play this part very well?

Exercise 4. Speak on the topics.

Your favorite film.

Your last visit to the cinema.

Exercise 5. Write down questions on the situation: My friend saw an interesting film yesterday.

Exercise 6. Translate the following sentences:

В прошлом месяце мой друг получил квартиру в новом районе.

На днях мы заключили контракт на химическое оборудование с фирмой "Уайт&К0".

Три месяца тому назад этот завод начал выпускать новую модель оборудования,

Вчера я очень устал, так как у меня было много работы.

На прошлой неделе наши инженеры ездили на завод, чтобы посмотреть новое оборудование.

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Мне очень нравятся уроки английского языка. Во время уроков мы читаем новые тексты и обсуждаем много интересных проблем. Мы очень много говорим по-английски на занятиях, но мало пишем. Мы много занимаемся дома, так как хотим знать английский хорошо.

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1. На прошлой неделе я был в кино. Шел новый цветной детектив. Я не очень люблю детективные фильмы, но этот фильм мне понравился. Он очень интересный, в нем играют многие популярные актеры. Я рекомендовал всем моим друзьям посмотреть этот фильм.

2. – Вы видели фильм "Гамлет" ("Hamlet")?

– Да, я смотрел его по телевидению два года тому назад.

– Что вы думаете об этом фильме?

– Это очень хороший фильм. В нем играют многие популярные актеры.

Exercise 7. Write about the film you saw last.

Основной язык изучаемого региона.

1. Translate the text. Make up seven questions to it.

TEXT 7

Foreign students often think that English is a simple language. "Look how easy it is lo address somebody -in English," they say, "There's only one word -'you'. In my language it's more-difficult."

The tact that the English language has only one form "you" doesn't mean that Englishmen see no difference between friends, people they don't know, people they respect and so on.

For example: "What lime is it, John?" can become: "Excuse me, could you tell me the time, please?" if addressed to a person you don t know. Here is another example. Л woman in a shop suddenly feels unwell and is helped to a chair. Her husband may ask: Are you all right, dear?" A person who doesn't know her may say: "Are you all right?" And the shop owner may ask: "Are you all right, madam?"

The English address system has intimate, neutral and polite forms-

There are many different intimate vocatives. Among these there is the person's first name. Other intimate vocatives are "dear", "love", "old boy", "old man", etc. The word "old" here doesn't really mean old. It simply shows you're friendly to a person.

It is difficult to give the rules which explain the use of the vocatives. (Tie use of no vocative at all, as in "Are you all right?", is easier to explain. It is neutral.

A polite vocative is used to show some special respect. The polite vocatives' are "madam" or "sir", "Mrs. Smith" or "Mr. Smith", "ladies and gentlemen". There are many other polite vocatives, for example, professional words such as "Doctor", "Professor" and so on.

So the question of addressing a person in English is not as simple as it seems to be. Pay attention to these vocatives when you are speaking to an Englishman or reading an English dialogue. They are strange words, but are very important for you.

1. Translate the text. Make up seven questions to it.

TEXT 8

Why isn't English spelling logical? The answer is that it isn't really the spelling that is "wrong". Many centuries ago the English pronounced words as they spelt them, but with time the pronunciation has changed. So people thought that it was necessary to change the spelling to fit the new pronunciation.

In 1843 a new alphabet of forty symbols was proposed, 'Го make spelling fit pronunciation you need a different symbol for each sound. You can use the traditional alphabet with just a few new symbols. And then, leaving out silent letters tike the "k" in "knife", you just write the words as they sound.

Another idea is lo use an alphabet which is quite different - a phonetic alphabet. This is what George Bernard Shaw wanted. When he died, he left money lo pay for this, and in 1962 one of his plays came out in a phonetic alphabet which had fort}-eight symbols. But the English alphabet hasn't changed. It will take a lot of money to change it. Think of alt the books in schools and libraries.

In fact, there is one new alphabet in use, the I.T.A., or Initial 'teaching Alphabet. The idea is that children learn to read more quickly without the problems of English spelling. Learning to read early is important because by reading we can learn about a lot of things. In many schools children learn to read with this new alphabet and learn the traditional alphabet later. But (here are teachers who don't tike it. They say that the children will never learn to spell.

Some people think that English is becoming one of the most important languages in the world and so it needs logical spelling. They hope to publish a book explaining their ideas and proposing another new alphabet of forty-four symbols.