Exercise 2 Answer the following questions

1. What happens to a person’s body temperature during the day? 2. How are ‘owls’ and ‘larks’ different? 3. What advice will chronobiologiests give to a person who has to type some papers? 4. What do you do when you feel drowsy in the afternoon? 5. When do you feel the most energetic? 6. Why do you think this is so? 7. Do you think chronobiologyis a useful field of study? Why or why not? 8. Do you agree that coffee makes some people feel more alert? 9. Are you a ‘lark’ or an ‘owl’?

Exercise 3 Translate and memorize the following words from the text.

Lark, owl, waste, workaholic, schedule, hour and a half, body temperature, blood pressure, cycle, drowsy, alert, determine, sharply, in the morning, at night, decrease, rise, carpentry, in some cases, comparison.

Exercise 4 Find synonyms among the following words.

creative (adj), do (v), waste (n), employ (v), period (n), timetable (n), use (v), report (v), reach (v), involve (v), awaken (v), determine (v), various (adj), pull in (v), alert (v), spending (n), make (v), hardly (adj), drowsy (adj), sleepy (adj), different (adj), decide (v), ready (adj), sharply (adj), prepared (adj), imaginative (adj), schedule (n), achieve (v), term (n), describe (v).

Exercise 5 Write a summary of the text, presenting the content of each paragraph in 2-3 sentences. Use the expressions:

The main idea of the text is... The text deals with one of the most important (urgent) issues... Much attention (consideration) is given to (classification, description)... It focuses on the matters of … The text gives an overview of... The text is mainly concerned with... The aim of the survey is to show (demonstrate, find)... Particular emphasis is given to the analysis of... The text gives a detailed analysis of (reports on)... To sum up... In conclusion...

Индивидуальное задание для студентов заочного отделения к курсу

«Английский язык»

Вариант № 18/1c

Exercise 1 Read the text and translate it in written form.