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Listening task "England's Newest Tourist Attraction"

Listen to "England's Newest Tourist Attraction" podcast and do the tasks below.

Task 1.Read the sentences below, if the sentence is true  put T, F if the sentence is false or N if there is no information given.

1.     England’s newest tourist attraction is the M25 Motorway. (T/F)

2.     M25 Motorway is England is 18 kilometers long. (T/F)

3.     M25 Motorway is Britain’s busiest motorway, and one of the busiest roads in Europe. (T/F)

4.     Some people call the M25 the “largest car park in Britain”. (T/F)

5.     There are twenty two possible ways that we can travel around the M25. (T/F)

Task 2. Match the words (left column) with their Russian equivalents (right column).

coach	перекресток
slip road	Дорожный знак
clockwise	по часовой стрелке
junction	въезд на автомагистраль, съезд с автомагистрали
road sign	одноэтажный автобус

Individual reading

Class: Individual Reading
Students: B1-B2
Topic: The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle
Task: Read the text of the short story The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle pay special attention to the end of the story.  Look through the questions below, find blogs on related topics using Google search engine, then blog your answers to the questions below.

1.      “White lie,” good or bad?

2.      Fear that prevents you from telling the truth.

3.      Family life, private or public?

*Задание сформулировано на базе учебных пособий:

1.      Кучина С. А. Mystery Greats (original mystery and crime stories): учебное пособие по комментированному чтению : учеб. пособие / С. А. Кучина. - : НГТУ, 2010. - 150 с.

2.      Mystery Greats. Multimedia Guide for Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate English Learners [Электронный ресурс]: сборник упражнений / С.А. Кучина – Электрон. текстовые, и прикладная прогр. (5.69 Мб). Новосибирск, 2009. : учеб.-метод. пособие / С. А. Кучина. - : НГТУ, 2009.

Individual Reading

Class: Individual Reading
Students: B1-B2
Topic: The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle
Task: Read the text of the short story The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle and do the exercises below, then blog your answer.

Exercise № 1

Look at the statements numbered 1-10; if the statement is true put T, F if the statement is false or N if there is no information given.

1.      We had an inn and two houses a little above us, and a single cottage at the other side of the field which faces us, and except those there were other houses until you got halfway to the station.

2.      My business took me into town at each season, but in summer I had less to do, and then in our country home my wife and I were just as happy as could be wished.

3.      There's one thing I am to tell you before I go further.

4.      'Oh,' said she in her playful way, 'you said that you were only my banker, and would  never ask questions.'

5.      So I had to be content with that, though it wasn’t the first time that there had ever been any secret between us.

6.      I told you just now that there is a cottage not far from our house. There is just a field between us, but to reach it you have to go along the road and then turn down a lane.

7.      Just beyond it is a nice little grove of Scotch firs, and I liked to stroll down there, for trees are always a neighborly kind of thing.

8.      I was some little way off, so that I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face.

9.      I stood for five minutes thinking the business about and trying to analyze my impressions.

10.      I could not tell if the face was that of a man or a woman.

Exercise № 2

Choose sentences which have no factual and grammar mistakes.

a)      Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's sake.

b)      The man must value the pipe highly but he prefers to buy a new one with the same money rather than mend it.

c)      My friend threw out the information in a very in a free and easy manner, but I saw that he cocked his eye at me to see if I had followed his reasoning.

d)     "You think a man must be well-to-do if he smokes an eighty four pence pipe?" said I.

e)      As he might get an excellent smoke for half the price, he is in need money.

f)       It seems frightful to discuss the conduct of one's wife with two men whom I have never seen before.

g)      I am a married man and have been so for third years.

h)      During that time my wife and I have loved each other as fondly and lived as happily as any two that ever were joined.

i)        She had only been six mouse at Pinner when I met her; we fell in love with each other, and we married a few weeks afterwards.

j)        It was of a livid chalky white and with something set and rigid about it which was shockingly unnatural.

Exercise № 3

Choose the correct answer to complete each sentence according to the information given in the first 11- 16 reading passage of the short story.

1.      I was _______, so that I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face.

a)      missed

b)      wrong

c)      wide of the mark

d)     erred

2.      She was __________ and breathing fast, glancing furtively towards the bed as she fastened her mantle to see if she had disturbed me.

a)      white as a sheet

b)      wan

c)      dim

d)     dull

3.      I said nothing in reply, but turned my face to the wall, sick at heart, with my mind filled with a thousand _______________.

a)      genial doubts and suspicions

b)      gracious doubts and suspicions

c)      spiteful doubts and suspicions

d)     benevolent doubts and suspicions

4.      My wife seemed to be as ______  as myself.

a)      impaired

b)       out of tone

c)      blithe

d)     despondent

Exercise № 4

Look through the passage and complete the following statements with your own words as briefly as possible.

1.      But if I __ not __________ I hear him upon the stair, so we shall have something more interesting than his pipe to study.

2.      "I beg your pardon," said he with some ____________, "I suppose I should have knocked. Yes, of course I should have knocked.

3.      The fact is that I am a little upset, and you must ____ it all ______ to that." He passed his hand over his forehead like a man who is half dazed, and then fell rather than sat down upon a chair.

4.      He spoke in little, sharp, jerky outbursts, and it seemed to me that to speak at all was very painful to him, and that his will all ________ was overriding his inclinations.

5.      It seems _________ to discuss the conduct of one's wife with two men whom I have never seen before.

6.      If you wish to preserve your incognito," said Holmes, smiling, "I would suggest that you ________ to write your name upon the lining of your hat, or else that you turn the crown towards the person whom you are addressing.

7.      Then suddenly, with a ________ gesture of his closed hand, like one who throws reserve to the winds, he began.

8.       She loves me with her ________ ______ and soul, and never more than now.

9.      She ________ _____ to America when she was young and lived in the town of Atlanta, where she married this Hebron, who was a lawyer with a good practice.

10.      This _________ her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex.
*Задание сформулировано на базе учебных пособий:

1.    1.Кучина С. А. Mystery Greats (original mystery and crime stories): учебное пособие по комментированному чтению : учеб. пособие / С. А. Кучина. - : НГТУ, 2010. - 150 с.

2.      Mystery Greats. Multimedia Guide for Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate English Learners [Электронный ресурс]: сборник упражнений / С.А. Кучина – Электрон. текстовые, и прикладная прогр. (5.69 Мб). Новосибирск, 2009. : учеб.-метод. пособие / С. А. Кучина. - : НГТУ, 2009.