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Question 1. In what ways, in your opinion, has life changed?
Question 2. How do you think life will be different for the next generation?
ROLE 1. Discuss the questions first as if you were a couple of old people (friends since their childhood) convinced that life is getting worse all the time.
ROLE 2. Now discuss the questions as if one of you was a young person convinced that things are getting better. The other person is his elderly grandfather, who feels that most, if not all, things are worse than they used to be in his youth.
ROLE 3. Finally, discuss the questions as if you were two strangers of much the same age meeting on a train. Neither of you has a particularly strong opinion about the subject but you are keen to keep the subject going to help the long journey pass more quickly.
TASK II. Do the following in groups of four. One student in each group is a monitor who writes the final version.
Exercises.
1. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
Up to now, historians (assume) that calendars (come) into being with the advert of agriculture, for then man (face) with a real need to understand something about the seasons. Recent scientific evidence (seem) to indicate that this assumption (be) incorrect. Historians long (puzzle) by dots, lines and symbols which (engrave) on walls, bones, and ivory tusks of mammoths. The nomads who (make) these markings (live) by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age which (begin) about 35,000 B.C. and (end) about 10,000 B.C.
2. …it is connected with. Put with or for after the following verbs: agree, account, mistake, cope, correspond, apologize, blame, reason, satisfied, quarrel, wait, search.
3. … between these paintings and the markings. Write two sentences illustrating the difference between the words “among” and “between”.
4. Choose two of the answers which you think are correct in each of the following:
(1)Early men drew pictures….. they still hadn’t learnt to write.
A. though B. for C. because D. even if E of which
(2)The people who lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age….
A. wandered from place to place
B. lived in villages
C. first learned to write
D. learned how to farm the land
PART IV. WRITING
In not more than 250 words describe some of the things future historians will be able to learn about us. Use the ideas given below. Do not write more than four paragraphs.
Title: Studying the Past.
Introduction: The future historians’ sources: newspapers, magazines, books, films, recorded sound, existing building, etc.
Development: Social and political history; how we dressed – what we ate – what houses we lived in – what our cities were like – the forms of entertainment we enjoyed – the news day by day – the way we fought our wars – great moments in history – leading figures of the time as well as ordinary people.
Conclusion: Study of history will provide interest and excitement – the past will be brought to life.
Использованная литература
1. Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture. – Longman: British National Corpus, 2000. – 1270p.
2. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Special Edition. – М:Рус.яз., 1992. – Т. 1-2.
3. First Certificate Avenues: Course book: / D.Foll, A.Kelly. – Cambridge: University Press, 1996.-110p.
4. New Headway English Course: Intermediate Student’s Book / Liz and John Soars. – Oxford: University Press. 2004. – 98p.
Alexander L.G. Developing Skills: An Integrated Course For Intermediate Students: - М. Изд-во Проспект, 2004. – 160 с.
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