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The guidelines for writing summary of the text.
1.the text is headlined… - текст озаглавлен…
2.It is written by … - текст написан (кем-то)…
3.The text under consideration is published in the magazine… - рассматриваемый текст опубликован в журнале…
4.The text deals with/touches upon… - в тексте освещается…
5.The aim of the text is to give the readers some information on… - целью текста является информировать читателей о…
6.The purpose of the text is to provide the reader with some material on… - цель текста – дать читателю информацию о…
7.The author begins/starts by saying that… - в начале автор говорит о том, что…
8.He points out/stresses/singles out the fact concerning questions… - он подчеркивает/акцентирует/выделяет факт, касающийся вопросов…
9.The text describes… - в тексте описывается
10.The text shows that… - в тексте показано…
11.Judging by this we can say that… - на основании этого мы можем сказать, что…
12.From the very start we can see that… - с самого начала мы видим что…
13.The text reveals… - текст раскрывает…
14.It is interesting to note that… - интересно отметить что…
15.The point of the text is… - суть текста заключается в том, что…
16.The attraction of this text lies in the fact that… - текст привлекает тем фактом, что…
17.What strikes me as unusual is… - что поражает меня своей необычностью, это…
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18.The text gives a vivid description of … - текст дает яркое описание…
19. The author comes to the conclusion that … - автор приходит к выводу о том, что…
20.Finally text says that … - в конце текста говорится о том, что…
21.Summing it all up the author says that... – подводя итог, автор говорит о том, что…
Text 2. A FEMALE BODYGUARD FIGHTS BACK
1. Answer these questions:
- Are there any typical "male jobs" and "female jobs"?
-What male professions aren't seen as an abnormality within female ones?
- Is it odd to see a woman doing a "man's job"?
- Read the text and check if you were right.
A FEMALE BODYGUARD FIGHTS BACK
Women doing a "man's job" are often viewed with suspicion. Some of them are obsessed by the idea to become bodyguards. Even being young girls they often fight to protect their classmates or wrestle in sport clubs. They feel a strong need to protect people. They are simply born that way though it's atypical for the most of women. One woman — bodyguard recalls getting furious when she saw girls being endlessly tormented — pinched, pushed, and kicked by the boys. So she fought back.
But what amazed her even more was seeing the boys immediately back off when they met with a rebuff. She's never looked boyish. She has long, brightly painted nails and long, elegantly done hair. Her clients are generally wealthy women, so when she is accompanying them, she should look like one of their friends or relatives, like a person from the same circle of society. Answering the question about her long nails she says that conflicts rarely grow into physical fight so she can allow herself to take liberties. She learned karate in a private school and she took up classes in wrestling and shooting, she also learned how to dress and apply make-up. She took a special course at the Bodyguard Agency, which subsequently hired her. The Heads of the Bodyguard Agencies say that female bodyguards are not seen as an abnormality within the profession, and most of the clients who ask for a female bodyguard are women in business. Female bodyguards are purposeful, self-disciplined, confident and mature. Their lifestyle often makes it difficult to have families, as most husbands would want their spouse to be at home regularly. Men tend to be skeptical about female bodyguards. Most female bodyguards say that there are two typical reactions when men find out what the women are doing for living. "They either retreat almost immediately or treat us as some kind of exotic fruit", the women say. But what both reactions have in common is that men don't really try to find out what sort of people the women are. In private lives of female bodyguards their profession has become something of a litmus test for their admirers. Women arc surprised with their profession as well, but it takes them so much less time to get used to it than it takes men. As usual female bodyguards don't keep their profession until the retirement age. After forty they start looking for something else.
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Vocabulary Notes
mature - зрелый
a spouse - супруга
to back off - отступать
to meet a rebuff - получить отпор
atypical - нетипичный
to take liberties - вольности
abnormality - аномалия
a litmus test – лакмусовый тест
to be obsessed by – быть одержимым
to fight to protect - обороняться
to be endlessly tormented – быть бесконечно униженным
to look boyish – выглядеть как пацан
What is the main idea of the text and the key points of the passages?
4. Write down all the words referring to such issues as:
a) a need to protect people,
b) a female bodyguard,
c) conflicts grow into physical fight.
Read out the sentences they are used in and translate them into Russian.
Look back at the text, find out and write down the answers to the following questions.
- Why are some girls obsessed by the idea to become bodyguards from their early childhood?
- What is the reaction of some boys on girls who fight back?
- How should a female bodyguard look like and why?
- Why are not female bodyguards seen as an abnormality within their profession?
- Why men tend to be skeptical about female bodyguards?
- Why is it difficult for a female bodyguard to start a family?
- What are future prospects of female bodyguards when they are growing older?
6. Give English equivalents to the following words and expressions:
относиться с подозрением, зарабатывать на жизнь, удивляться чему-либо, вспоминать, привыкать, пенсионный возраст, состоятельный, испытывать сильные чувства, нанимать на работу, давать отпор, круги общества, сопровождать, относиться как к экзотическому растению.
