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Strategy Points

ü Spend a minute thinking about the topic below and making brief notes.

ü During a minute decide how you will introduce and link your ideas, and then talk for a minute (!).

ü Remember to include some examples to support or illustrate what you say.

ü Use a variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures.

ü Make sure you keep to the topic.

ü Learn useful phrases and expressions. These give you time to think, and also act as signposts which help listeners follow your arguments.

Giving an example: for instance, if we take the example of X, X serves as a good example of this

Sequencing words: firstly, secondly, finally, lastly, last but not least

Introducing a new idea: the first thing (I'd like) to mention, to begin with, another point to consider is, which leads me on to another point, and, of course, we shouldn't forget

Bringing an idea to its conclusion: to sum up, in the final analysis, on balance, taking all the arguments into consideration, in conclusion

1. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

2. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

3. You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

4. Energy and persistence conquer all things.

5. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

6. Experience teaches only the teachable.

7. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

8. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

1 Look through the NOTES and watch the Episode “Affairs with French”. Мультимедийный каталог 1559 →Заклятые друзья. Фильм 1)

2 Explain their meanings of the underlined words and comment on the sentences.

1. The Duke of Wellington said, “We should not really be happy unless we are detested in France.”

2. Napoleon, for his part, used to refer to “the perfidious English”.

3. “If you were God and were trying to create a nation with characteristics which would most get up the British nostrils, it would be the French.”

4. Tony Blair had come to power as the most francophile of the British Prime-Ministers.

5. “The Good Lord in His wisdom did not see fit to create the Frenchman in the image of the Englishman”.

6. “The greatest Cross I have to bear is the Cross of Loren”.

7. His almost mythical presence still looms large in Anglo-French relations.

8. We took the initiatives in order to reconciliate with the Germans.