Debates: Attitudes towards lifestyles and healthy living
Do you agree or disagree with these statements?
- Young people are naturally fit and healthy and don’t need much exercise
- Eating fast food is OK if you don’t eat it every day
- Older people always say negative things about teenagers’ habits
- Sport is good fun
- Teenagers don’t have enough time to do sports because they have too much homework
- Schools should make all students do at least 2 hours of PE a week
- Can you add 2 statements?
- Do your friends agree with you?
Grammar Spot
Go to Grammar Focus
Revise the material about modal verbs.
- Work out recommendations how to be active and healthy.
Module 2. International Communication
Unit 1. Communication in the Globalized World
Lead-in
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Do you agree that the number of international contacts is obviously increasing or mass media exaggerate the importance of global communication? Give your reason.
Ø Is globalization the tool to open the doors into the universal cultural, educational, scientific, and business common space or that’s the way to lose the national integrity and disappear as a nation? Prove your idea.
Ø Do you share the opinion that knowing a foreign language is a tool that helps to survive in a “global village”? Dwell upon it.
Ø Is bilingualism or further multilingualism a necessary requirement for a modern person who wants to achieve success? Does the ability to speak several foreign languages increase a personal competitiveness while searching for a job?
Ø Can language ignorance cause problems while visiting a foreign country? Give some examples.
Ø How many and what languages do you want to learn to speak? Explain your choice.
Reading
Read the following quotations about learning foreign languages. Develop the ideas suggested by the authors.
“Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.” Roger Bacon (English Franciscan philosopher and educational reformer)
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” Nelson Mandel (South African politician and a anti-apartheid activist)
“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. Mark Amidon (Popular American blogger)
“If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.” Author Unknown
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“Learn a new language and get a new soul.” Czech Proverb
Reading and vocabulary
Read the definition of the communication phenomenon from Wikipedia. Translate into Russian.
Communication is the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior.
This word is derived from the Latin word "communis" which means to share. Communication requires a sender, a message, and a recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.
2. Try to give your own explanation to the notion of communication. Emphasize the ultimate purpose of communication. You may find useful the following basic ideas:
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