Топики по английскому языку. Топики Тексты для чтения Экзаменационные вопросы Цветкова И. В. Клепальченко И. А
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СОДЕРЖАНИЕ TEXTS: The Hard Way (After M. Rodgers) 4 Stepmother (After J. Greenwood) 6 A Note About Witches (After R. Dahl) 8 The School-Teacher (After A. Croniri) 10 An Explosion at Night (After A. Croniri) 12 Adventure (After J. P. Priestley) 14 Under the Deck Awnings. Part I (After J. London) 16 Under the Deck Awnings. Part II (After J. London) 18 How We Kept Mother's Day (After S. LeacocK) 20 Looking Back on Eighty Years (After S. Maugham) 21 The Cop and the Anthem (After O. Henry) 22 The Problem of Thor Bridge (After A. Conan Doyle) — 24 A Sound of Thunder (After R. Bradbury)- 26 A Name on the Wall (After S. Marmorsteiri) 28 The Model Millionaire (After O. Wilde) 30 TOPICS: The English Language English today 32 Hot Issues Life in the 21st century 34 Computer revolution 36 Will we live in space? -38 Our planet Earth 40 Can we live longer? 42 Mass Media Mass media 44 TV or not TV? 46 Newspapers 48 The British press 50 About Myself My family 52 My flat 54 My working day 56 My friend 58 My school 60 How I went shopping 62 My plans for the future ; 64 My meals 66 At the doctor's 68 Hobbies and Pastimes Hobbies 70 My friend's hobby 72 Travelling 74 My last summer holidays 76 My favourite season 78 Countries and Cities Great Britain 80 Climate and weather in Great Britain 82 London 84 The USA 87 Washington, DC 90 The Russian Federation — 92 Moscow 95 St Petersburg 98 Literature and Arts Libraries 100 William Shakespeare 102 Anton Chekhov 105 Agatha Christie 107 Ernest Hemingway 109 My favourite book — 111 Tretyakov Gallery 113 Valentin Serov 115 Isaac Levitan 117 Mozart 119 My favourite singer 121 The birth of the "seventh art" 123 David Duchovny 126 Science and Scientists Albert Einstein 128 Andrei Sakharov 130 Will we live to see the first cloned human? 132 Sports Olympic Games 134 Sports in Great Britain : 136 Sports in Russia 138 Customs and Traditions Holidays in Great Britain 140 Holidays in Russia 142 SUPPLEMENTARY READER: The English Language The future of English 145 Some facts about English 146 Hot Issues What will our life be like? 147 Chips are changing the world 147 What does the future hold? 148 Why are we so excited about the Internet? 148 We may have no choice 149 Arthur Clarke predicts 150 The Earth is our home 150 What shall we do with our packed planet? 152 "Smog" was invented in Britain 152 Do we live to eat? 153 There is a danger hanging over your life 154 Game of chance 154 Mass Media What is news? 155 American press 155 Newspaper wars 156 Hooked on the Net 156 What kind of viewer are you? 157 Hobbies and Pastimes What is a hobby? 158 Video games 158 The future of travelling 159 Countries and Cities Scotland: the land of lochs and legends 160 What does the Queen do? 161 The new face of London 161 The Tower of London 162 St Paul's Cathedral 163 London's East End 164 Madam Tussaud's 164 The White House 165 New York 166 The Statue of Liberty 168 From the history of New York 168 Australia 169 Canada 170 Some facts about Moscow 171 Literature and Arts The future of the book — if it has a future 172 On books and reading 172 The Globe Theatre —173 Robert Burns 174 Mark Twain 174 Michelangelo 175 William Hogarth 176 Abstract art 176 Pablo Picasso 177 Beethoven — 178 Theatre and cinema in Britain 179 Steven Spielberg: movie wizard 180 Leonardo DiCaprio 180 Science and Scientists Great inventions 182 The gene revolution 183 Miniature revolution 183 Sports In-line roller-skating 184 Snowboarding 184 Surfs up! 185 Sport and competition in Britain 186 Baseball 187 Customs and Traditions Traditions and customs in Britain 188 Time for tea 188 British character 189 Halloween 190 April Fool's Day 190 Holidays in the USA 191 Happy birthday, America 193 Columbus Day 194 300 QUESTIONS |