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Приложение 2.1.
Quiz: the texts you read.
For each question, choose the best answer:
a) You come across an article about a film you’ve seen and you want to know if the writer enjoyed it as much as you did. How do you read it?
1. By looking for individual words and/or numbers.
2. By looking for any vocabulary that is unknown to you and checking it in a dictionary.
3. Quite quickly to get a general idea of the writer’s opinion.
b) You have just received a contract for a new job. Before you sign it, how do you read it?
1. Very thoroughly, focusing in detail on all the information in the contract.
2. Intensively, looking for spelling or punctuation mistakes.
3. By scanning to count the number of clauses in the contract.
c) A newspaper article you are interested in includes a few words you don’t know the meaning of. How do you read it?
1. Stopping and standing to look up each new word in a dictionary.
2. At a normal rate, trying to guess the meaning of the new words.
3. At a normal rate, skipping the sentences that contain difficult words.
d) You want to know what time the next train home is. How do you read your local train timetable?
1. From the beginning until you find the relevant page.
2. By flicking through the pages to locate the specific piece of information you need.
3. Quickly to find out the different places the timetable refers to.
e) You are doing some research into different viewpoints of a key historical event. You come across an article by an unknown writer. How do you read it?
1. Quite quickly to look for any facts.
2. By searching the text, looking for any difficult words.
3. Quite carefully to find out whether you can detect any political bias.
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Приложение 2.2
Economy wasted.
A tourist was staying in Norway for a couple of weeks and spent all his money. He could pay his passage back to England. He thought: “ It`s only a two-days` journey and I can go to England without food.” So he went on board of a ship and bought a passage. He closed his ears to the sound of the lunch bell and when dinner time came he did not go to the restaurant. He shared his cabin with an Englishman and he said to him: “ I am sea- sick, I don`t feel well.” The next morning he did not have breakfast. And at lunch time he again stayed in his cabin. At dinner time he was so hungry that he said: “ I am going to eat even if they throw me overboard afterwards.”
At the dinner table he ate everything put in front of him. Then he asked for the bill.
“The bill, sir?” asked the steward.
“Yes,” answered the tourist.
“There isn`t any bill,” was the answer.
“On the ship meals are included in the passage.”
a) Divide the class into groups of 3-4 pupils.
Students quickly read the text and after it they choose two sentences which express the main idea of the paragraph.
b) Choose the best and the most correct sentences.
Приложение 2.3.
Read the article about men and unemployment. Chose the most suitable heading from the list A-I for each part (1-7) of the article. The is one extra heading which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning. (0)
| A | University of women |
| B | Women will make the choice |
| C | More jobs for young people |
| D | Men's jobs disappearing |
| E | New jobs - wrong skills |
| F | Schoolgirls racing ahead |
| G | The increasing importance of learning |
| H | Part-timers on the increase |
| I | Changing pay and increasing power |
