Н.Э. Шарабарина, Л.В. Кулик - English for Junior Students of the Humanities - UNIT 1 (1109869), страница 8
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All of this is implicitin the well-known phrase ,"Style is the man ."No two men are identical; no two styles arethe same. If this be true of but two persons, the potential of difference resident in alanguage spoken by more than 200 million truly staggers the imagination.(from Carole Robinson, Themes for Proficiency, Oxford UniversityPress, 1994)I . According to the author it could be said that. ..a) more people speak Chinese dialects than Englishb) more people speak English as an auxiliary language than as a first language.c) About one-seventh of the world's population speaks Russian .d) More people speak English in the UK than in Ireland.2. The extract implies that ...a) a little less than half the native English speakers in the world live in the USA.25r------~==~~~~~~J\b)The 55 million inhabitants of the British Isles speak like the 30 million inhabitants ofthe ex-British dominions and colonies.c) About one-tenth of the total English-speaking world population lives in ex-Britishdominions and colonies.d) To suppose 230 million people speak English as a native language would certainly bean underestimate.3.
One reason given for why English is the closest approach to a world language is that. ..• a) Chinese and Indic languages are mutually unintelligible.b) Chinese is too complex to be a world language.c) Russian is only spoken on two continents.d) there are more native speakers of English than of any other language.4. According to the author the fact that the same individuals will notpronounce his vowels and consonants identically every time shows that. ..a) everyone has their own literary style.b) mutual intelligibility is a myth.c) peoples vocabulary vary.d) no two people speak the same language in exactly the same way.5.
According to the author, style is ...a) significant when comparing only two people.b) a question of grammatical and syntactic correctness.c) the particular way an individual uses language.d) a ·strange type of language.EXERCISE 7 In groups discuss the following statements:1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.The ideal accent is to have no accent at all.Being affected is even worse than having a regional accent.There are no problems of communications between members of the same social class.It's what people eat that betrays their social background, not their table manners.Complaints about the language, are as old as complaints about the weather.R.P.
is usually identified with power, education and material success.The last Englishman left will be an Indian." Teachers cannot teach a language. They can only create the conditions in which it islearned," Von Humboldt.9. One of the greatest appeals of English as the world language is that it is easy to speakbadly.• 10. Computer can teach the language, better than any teacher.11. "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some otherEnglishman despise him," G.B. Shaw.12. " Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better thafl non<!, and the best cannot beexpected to go quite true," Dr.
Johnson26'WRITING.To learn to write to have ideas. (R. Frost)The ideas may be represented in three ways:I. Mind mapWrite the topic in the middle of a piece of paper. Write down all the other ideaswhich this suggests at suitable places on the mind map.2. BrainstormingMake quick notes about anything that comes into your head about the topic.3. Asking questionsWrite down the questions that a reader of your passage might want to ask aboutthe topic, after looking at the ideas you have collected, decide which ones you willuse in your passage and which order you write them in.Some Basic Rules to Start WritingI.
Choose the subject. Discuss it with your groupmates.2. Select all possible information on the subject.Rule I: You must work from plenty of information, notfrom scarcity.3. Narrow down the subject to a particular thesis statementwhich you will develop in detail.Rule 2: Better say much about little, than little aboutmuch.4. Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence.5. Use facts, examples, statistics to support your ideas.EXERCISE 1 Choose one of the statements from exercise 7 and develop into aparagraph of 100-150 wordsEXERCISE 21.2.3.4.5.6.7.Write an essay on one of the following topicsGlobal spread of English.Advertising industry and the problem of mass consumerism.Language is for life.English is a way to better education and better career.Import of English in your society- advantages and disadvantages.All foreigners must learn RP.Ideal English- what is it?\27'-.
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