How many ways are there to learn a language?
Грамматические темы: 1) Past Perfect 2) Reported Speech (косвенная речь) Вопросы для собеседования: 1. Do you enjoy learning English? Why (not)? 2. What do you find most difficult in learning English? 3. Would you like to learn another language? Which one? 4. Why is learning foreign languages important? 5. What are you going to use your English for? 6. Which country would you like to visit and why? 7. How long have you known your best friend? Where did you meet? 8. What does your best friend look like? 9. What is your friend like? 10. What does your friend like doing? What are his/her hobbies? 11. What do you and your friend have in common? 12. Why is a healthy life style important? 13. Do you do sport? Do you keep fit? 14. What is your daily routine during the week? 15. What do you usually do at the weekend? 16. How often do you travel? When and where did you travel last time? 17. What did you do during your last trip? 18. Have you ever been to a concert (sport event)? Who (What) did you see? What was the concert (sport event) like? 19. Where are you going next weekend? (next holiday)? 20. When did you last go to the cinema (watch a film)? What did you see? What was the film like? 21. What social networking sites (SNS) do you use most often? 22. What do you use SNS for? What do you use the Internet for? 23. What academic subjects are related to your future profession? Which subjects do you find the most interesting and useful? 24. What is your future profession? What does a producer do? What are his duties? 25. What sphere are you going to work? Where would you like to work?
Тексты на пересказ (12-15 предложений)
Is technology bad for our brains?
By James Sanders
Nowadays, many useful gadgets (small machines) are advertised as ‘smart’. This ‘smartness’ generally means that the machine can change how it works to suit the user’s needs, learn our preferences, and make intelligent choices for us. Smartphones can now take photos, play songs, send emails, and do a thousand other useful things, such as shopping online or assisting us with our homework. We used to need lots of machines to help us to do these things, but not any more. They fit in our pockets, but contain more data than we could ever possibly need, or remember.
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If you asked most people, they would say that smart machines have improved life. Not everyone agrees, however. A few scientists are worried about the effect of using machines to do things that we used to do for ourselves. For example, we don’t have to remember people’s contact details any more, as our phones store this information. We can also find information instantly, via internet search engines like Google. A few studies have shown, surprisingly, that people in their 50s and 60s are better than teenagers at studying and memorizing information, because they’ve always worked this way.
Technology has changed our expectations and made us very impatient. Now we want our news in tiny soundbites, and get bored if we actually have to read or listen for more than a minute or two. Scientists reported recently that the internet was changing how we think and learn. One author even said that Google was making us stupid! It’s certainly true that we often do two or three things simultaneously when we are online, and it’s harder and harder to focus on one thing. Maybe technology is bad for our brains, and our memories, and we should stop depending on it all the time. But if you tell me to give up my smartphone, sorry, I won’t!
READING (Variant 1)
1 Read the article and tick (ü) A, B, or C.
Is technology bad for our brains?
By James Sanders
Nowadays, many useful gadgets (small machines) are advertised as ‘smart’. This ‘smartness’ generally means that the machine can change how it works to suit the user’s needs, learn our preferences, and make intelligent choices for us. Smartphones can now take photos, play songs, send emails, and do a thousand other useful things, such as shopping online or assisting us with our homework. We used to need lots of machines to help us to do these things, but not any more. They fit in our pockets, but contain more data than we could ever possibly need, or remember.
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If you asked most people, they would say that smart machines have improved life. Not everyone agrees, however. A few scientists are worried about the effect of using machines to do things that we used to do for ourselves. For example, we don’t have to remember people’s contact details any more, as our phones store this information. We can also find information instantly, via internet search engines like Google. A few studies have shown, surprisingly, that people in their 50s and 60s are better than teenagers at studying and memorizing information, because they’ve always worked this way.
Technology has changed our expectations and made us very impatient. Now we want our news in tiny soundbites, and get bored if we actually have to read or listen for more than a minute or two. Scientists reported recently that the internet was changing how we think and learn. One author even said that Google was making us stupid! It’s certainly true that we often do two or three things simultaneously when we are online, and it’s harder and harder to focus on one thing. Maybe technology is bad for our brains, and our memories, and we should stop depending on it all the time. But if you tell me to give up my smartphone, sorry, I won’t!
Example: Gadgets nowadays can be very useful.
A True cü B False c C Doesn’t say c
1 ‘Smart’ gadgets work differently for different users.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
2 Gadgets can do more things now than in the past.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
3 Most people don’t have many machines any more.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
4 Most people think that ‘smart’ technology is bad for us.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
5 Younger people depend too much on ‘smart’ technology.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
6 Teenagers are always better than older people at remembering information.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
7 We are less happy to wait for things than we used to be.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
8 Using the internet changes young people’s brains more than older people’s.
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A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
9 We find it more difficult to concentrate on one thing than we used to.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
10 James Sanders wants to stop using modern gadgets.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
READING (Variant 2)
1 Read the article and tick (ü) A, B, or C.
Is technology bad for our brains?
By James Sanders
Nowadays, many useful gadgets (small machines) are advertised as ‘smart’. This ‘smartness’ generally means that the machine can change how it works to suit the user’s needs, learn our preferences, and make intelligent choices for us. Smartphones can now take photos, play songs, send emails, and do a thousand other useful things, such as shopping online or assisting us with our homework. We used to need lots of machines to help us to do these things, but not any more. They fit in our pockets, but contain more data than we could ever possibly need, or remember.
If you asked most people, they would say that smart machines have improved life. Not everyone agrees, however. A few scientists are worried about the effect of using machines to do things that we used to do for ourselves. For example, we don’t have to remember people’s contact details any more, as our phones store this information. We can also find information instantly, via Internet search engines like Google. A few studies have shown, surprisingly, that people in their 50s and 60s are better than teenagers at studying and memorizing information, because they’ve always worked this way.
Technology has changed our expectations and made us very impatient. Now we want our news in tiny soundbites, and get bored if we actually have to read or listen for more than a minute or two. Scientists reported recently that the Internet was changing how we think and learn. One author even said that Google was making us stupid! It’s certainly true that we often do two or three things simultaneously when we are online, and it’s harder and harder to focus on one thing. Maybe technology is bad for our brains, and our memories, and we should stop depending on it all the time. But if you tell me to give up my smartphone, sorry, I won’t!
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Example: Gadgets nowadays can be very expensive.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say cü
1 Different people use ‘smart’ gadgets in different ways.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
2 Smartphones can help us do many things.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
3 They are also cheaper to buy these days.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
4 Most people think that ‘smart’ technology makes things easier.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
5 One result of smartphones is that we remember more.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
6 The memory test results show that young people have quick memories.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
7 Older people have more smart gadgets than teenagers.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
8 We have less patience now than we used to have.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
9 On the internet, we do one thing at a time.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
10 James Sanders likes using modern gadgets.
A True c B False c C Doesn’t say c
READING (Variant 3)
1 Read the article and tick (ü) A, B, or C.
How many ways are there to learn a language?
Do you want to learn a language? We interviewed three people who learned a language in very different ways.
June is 36 and a mother of two. She went to evening classes.
‘I gave up working when I had my first child, but a year ago I joined a French evening class. At first, it was quite difficult. We had to speak French all the time in the classroom and I didn’t understand anything. Also, when you only have one lesson a week, you have to do a lot at home. I studied when the children were in bed and I listened to French tapes in the car. At the end of the year I could speak French quite well.’
Tim is 23. He went to Italy to learn Italian.
‘When I finished university, I wanted to travel and learn a language. I already knew a bit of Italian, so I decided to go there. I didn’t want to do formal lessons, so I bought some tapes and listened to them before I went. I travelled around the country for six months. It’s the only way to learn! I didn’t have much money, so I worked in bars. That meant I met a lot of people and learned a lot of Italian. I also had a great time. I’d definitely recommend it.’
Sasha is 29. She did an intensive course in London.
‘I studied French and Spanish at university and got a job with computers. I missed learning a language, so I asked my boss for a month’s holiday and enrolled on an intensive German course in London. We did six hours of lessons every day, so it was quite hard work. We all communicated in German. The problem was when I went home, I spoke English again. The course was fun and I learned a lot, but I’d like to do a course in Germany next time.’
1 June found learning a language _____.
A easy B boring C hard
2 She did a French class _____.
A once a week B every evening C during the day
3 She did extra studying when she was _____.
A looking after the children B driving C in bed
4 Tim went to Italy because he _____.
A could speak Italian very well B knew some Italian C studied Italian at university
5 Before he went, he _____.
A took some lessons B practised at home C bought a home-study book
6 When he was travelling he, _____.
A met a lot of English people B spent a lot of money C spoke a lot of Italian
7 Sasha learned German _____.
A at work B in Germany C at a language school
8 When she was in class, Sasha spoke _____.
A a lot of English B German all the time C in different languages
READING (Variant 4)
1 Read the article and tick (ü) A, B, or C.
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