Getting Ready For Exams

Задание по словообразованию на базе УМК Solution Intermediate, Unit 7C рабочая тетрадь, стр.60, упр.1

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W B Yeats is best known as a poet, but he also wrote plays.

When they lived in England, his _B10_IRLAND___mother used to tell her children stories about their homeland.

 In 1889, Yeats fell in love with a political _B11_ACTIVE___called Maud Gonne.

The most _B12_IMPORTANCE___influences on his poetry were earlier Romantic poets and Irish__B13_NATIONAL___.

 His early poems are _B14_MOST__about love, beauty and Irish folk tales.

When Yeats died, he was buried in France and then his remains were moved to Ireland.

Reading Circle

Hello!

Making children read and speak on what they have read is always problematic. On one of the seminars I came across this activity. It really works but needs time. If you have your students read the same short story, you can do a reading circle activity with them. Reading circles usually have four members in each group, and each member performs a different roll. All students actively participate in the group and talk about the story, but each has a unique roll to play which keeps the discussion interesting:

One student is the:

Discussion Leader

He or she keeps the discussion going by designating who should speak next or by asking interesting questions when things go quiet. The leader should read the story twice and prepare at least five general discussion questions about it.

-makes sure that everyone has a chance to speak and joins in the discussion.

-calls on everyone to perform their role.

One student is the Summarizer:

She or he summarizes the story (in one or two minutes) for the group.-finds the key points that everyone must know to understand the story.

The Word Master:

is asked to look up words and provide definitions for them--explain the meaning of difficult vocabulary to the group;

-chooses five words that are important and defines them for the group in English.

-tells the group why these five words are important.

-answers questions about vocabulary

The Culture Collector & Connector:

-looks for both differences and similarities between his/her own culture and the culture found in the story.

--makes notes to show examples of these cultural points form passages in the story.

--asks the group questions about cultural points

As Connector:

-looks for connections between the story and the world outside--asks the group if they can see any connections themselves.

One of the best aspects of the reading circles is they incorporate all four skills, reading, writing, speaking and listing. Though perhaps best of all, they are fun.

The Word Master:

is asked to look up words and provide definitions for them--explain the meaning of difficult vocabulary to the group;

-chooses five words that are important and defines them for the group in English.

-tells the group why these five words are important.

-answers questions about vocabulary

The Culture Collector & Connector:

-looks for both differences and similarities between his/her own culture and the culture found in the story.

--makes notes to show examples of these cultural points form passages in the story.

--asks the group questions about cultural points

As Connector:

-looks for connections between the story and the world outside--asks the group if they can see any connections themselves.

One of the best aspects of the reading circles is they incorporate all four skills, reading, writing, speaking and listing. Though perhaps best of all, they are fun.

Getting Ready For Exams

Тренировочное задание по словообразованию УМК Solution Intermediate, рабочая тетрадь стр. 86, упр. 2

Gilbert, born in Italy, and George, from England met at art college in London in 1967. Soon after they started working together as performance artists, whose show 'The Singing Sculpture' consisted of them standing on a table sprayed in gold paint, miming a well-known song.

From this moment on, Gilbert and George adopted the identity of 'living sculptures' in both their art and their daily lives. They are always to be seen wearing their trademark suit and tie, and they never appear separately in public. In front of the camera they walk with robotic movements, and their voices sometimes sound unnatural when they speak. As for their art, their most famous works are huge, brightly-coloured photo montages on a black grid. Gilbert and George often feature in these works themselves, along with friends, flowers and other symbols. In their later work they have experimented with more unusual materials, which has attracted a great deal of media attention.

Some people question Gilbert and George's talent and refuse to see the value of their work. However, in the world of contemporary art they are regarded as two of the very best. At the age of 65 they are still going strong, as their success in the 2007 exhibition at Tate Modern shows.

1.        Make nouns from verbs using  –ance, -ment, -ion:

perform     

move        

attend         

exhibit      

2.   Use un-, dis-, in-  to change the words:

Known          

appear          

famous           

usual            

attract          

attentive       

successful    

natural          

3.   Match the words to make a compound noun:

Trade                times

Well                   ever

How                 mark

Some               known

4.   Find 4 words which have the same form as nouns and verbs:

5 .Fill in the gaps

verb	noun	adjective	adverb
	performance
Work
		famous
attract
		natural
appear
		attentive
	Experiment
			separately
	exhibition
move
Question
		successful
	attention
		robotic

Inductive and Deductive

Hi everybody!

Today I'm concerned about Grammar. As I have some students who can't understand the difference between English Tenses and find it complicated I want to ask you: How do you cope with this problem?

First a quick definition: Inductive is known as a 'bottom up' approach. In other words, students discover grammar rules while working through exercises.

For example:

A reading comprehension which includes a number of sentences describing what a person has done up to that period in time.

After doing the reading comprehension, the teacher could begin to ask questions such as: How long has he done this or that? Has he ever been to Paris?  And then follow with: When did he go to Paris?

To help the students inductively understand the difference between the simple past and the present perfect, these questions could be followed with which questions spoke about a definite time in the past? Which questions asked about the person's general experience?

Deductive is known as a 'top down' approach. This is the standard teaching approach that has a teacher explaining rules to the students. For example:

The present perfect is made up of the auxiliary verb 'have' plus the past participle. It is used to express an action which has begun in the past and continues into the present moment...

Which one do you prefer in your work? And, which is more important, which really works?

Great People of Russia

Multimedia Scrapbook

Pictures:

http://www.audio-music.info/htm/v/Vysotsky_Vladimir.htm

http://www.theplace2.ru/photos/gallery.php?id=2889

http://www.fanpix.net/gallery/vladimir-vysotsky-pictures.htm

http://viola.bz/vladimir-vysotsky-and-marina-vlady.php

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Vladimir_Vysotsky

Video:

http://www.videosurf.com/video/vladimir-vysotsky-your-friend-1349303472

http://www.videosurf.com/video/vladimir-vysotsky-to-poets-english-subtitles-106934906

http://video.dainutekstai.lt/w.php?a=UYgFE3ZDZ5M

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Установите соответствие между заголовками A-F и текстами 1-5. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок.

A .   Rediscover books and the art of reading             D. Get out your writing paper

B.   Take a walk around the supermarket                    E. Match a voice to a name               

C. Go back to traditional fun                                     F. Go to other people’s homes                                     

                                                                                          

Life without the Internet

1.     Recently, an earthquake in Taiwan destroyed Internet lines in Asia, upsetting the lives of millions of people dependent on the web for their work and social relationships. Here are some hints on how to cope if a similar situation occurs where you live.

2.     With no chatrooms or games sites, you'll have to find your own entertainment. Take out the games boards you put away when you were given your first PC and play Monopoly or Cluedo with your friends and family. You'll be surprised at how much fun it is.

3.     Instead of e-mailing your friends, you'll have to talk to them on the phone. And perhaps you can get to know some of the many friends you made in the chatroom and find out if they're actually anything like they said they were in their profiles.

4.     As an alternative to picking up the phone, you could visit your friends in their own houses, instead of chatting to the every night from your room. That way you could find things do together and maybe even meet an interesting older brother or sister. You will also be burning off calories, which will help keep you fit and healthy.

5.     The art of letter-writing died with the advent of the Internet and with it, the joy of receiving letters from others. Write some letters to your friends in foreign parts, and experience the pleasure of getting a letter back.

6.     Discover where your local library is and remind yourself w research was like before the age of the online search. Remember, many others will be doing the same as you, so it will be an ideal meeting place for people of your age.

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Текст взят из учебника Solution Intermediate Workbook, авторы Jane Hudson, Tim Falla, Paul A Davies

            

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The Giant's Causeway

If you are sightseeing in Belfast and are tired of the city, you might want to consider a fabulous day trip to one of Ireland's most amazing natural wonders, the Giant's Causeway. It is only one and a half hours by car and the views along the north coast are unforgettable. It is an attraction no tourist visiting Northern Ireland should miss.

The Causeway is a mass of basalt columns standing very close to one another. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. There are 40,000 of them and most have six sides. The tallest are about 12 metres high. They were formed 60 million years ago by lava from a volcano which cooled and shrank as it came into contact with the atmosphere. The columns are blue and black, with some red. Each one is separate, and each could be removed without causing any damage to the causeway.

One old legend says that the Giant's Causeway was built by the great Irish giant, Finn McCool. He wanted to use it to get to Scotland to fight with a rival giant. When he got there, he saw that the Scottish giant was asleep and much bigger than he was, so Finn quickly turned around and ran back home. When the Scottish giant woke up, he came across the causeway to find Finn. But Finn's wife had dressed her husband up as a baby and said 'Finn is not home and be quiet or you'll wake up the baby.'

When the Scottish giant saw the 'baby', he thought to himself that if the baby was that big, Finn must be huge. He was terrified and quickly ran home across the causeway destroying everything but the ends, here at the Giant's Causeway and in Scotland, where similar formations are found. Now the Causeway gets around 500,000 visitors annually from all around the world since it can be reached easily by train, bus or car. And best of all, the Giant's Causeway is open all year round.

A5 The Giant's Causeway is one of the tourist attractions in Belfast.

1)    True                    2) False                            3) Not stated

A6 The Causeway would not collapse if a column was taken out.

2)    True                    2) False                            3) Not stated

A7 About half a million people visit the Giant's Causeway every year.

3)    True                    2) False                            3) Not stated

A8 Finn and his wife had children.

4)    True                    2) False                            3) Not stated

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Текст взят из учебника Solution Intermediate Workbook, авторы Jane Hudson, Tim Falla, Paul A Davies