Английский язык. Методические указания и контрольная работа №2 по английскому языку для студентов 1 курса заочного отделения всех специальностей. Бидагаева Ц.Д. - 22 стр.

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a) skiing, skating and shooting;
b) ocean swimming, bicycle racing and long-distance (42
kilometer) running;
c)
swimming, short-distance running and yachting.
Discussion points
1. What methods are used by Americans to stage races?
2. What sport activities were at first regarded as unusual, but
then gained the world popularity?
3. What is the origin of the most demanding sport?
4. Name some unusual sport activities introduced by Americans?
5. What is the effect of Cooper’s book Aerobics on the attitudes
of Americans to physical fitness?
6. How does one understand “a prescription for everyone’s
health?”
Text V
Pre-reading task
1. Although the scientific and technological development has
revealed and answered many mysteries of the universe,
people still come across lots of mysterious phenomena.
Make up your own list of ten mysteries of the universe.
2. Do you ever ask yourself any of these questions?
• Why are we here?
• Why are people different?
• When I lose things, where do they go?
• Is the person sitting to me a time traveler?
• Why did the dinosaurs disappear?
• Is there life on another planet?
• How did the world begin, and how will it end?
• What do animals think about?
• Will we ever find a cure for all the diseases?
3. What do these numbers refer to in the texts?
50; zero; 1.4 billion; billion; 1929; a few billion; 9 to 12
billion;
10 per cent; a third; billions of years from now; decades.
4. Here is a list of the top ten mysteries of the universe. What
is the answer to these puzzles that have plagued human
beings for thousand of years? The answer is “Nobody
knows”. Look at the questions which are used as the tittles
of the parts of the text. Are there any coincidences with your
own list?
Reading task
1. Now read the texts and answer the questions:
A. Why is it most likely that there is life on another planet?
B. Will alien life forms look like us?
C. What do comets consists of?
D. Why is it hard to find a cure for colds?
E. What three things came into existence with the Big Bang?
F. What happened before it?
G. Why could genetics explain left-handedness? What is the
reason against this explanation?
H. What do our body and brain do while we’re asleep?
I. When do we yawn?
J. What happens when we yawn?
K. According to the laws of physics, is it possible to travel in
time? 
a) skiing, skating and shooting;                                        •   Is there life on another planet?
b) ocean swimming, bicycle racing and long-distance (42                 •   How did the world begin, and how will it end?
   kilometer) running;                                                  •   What do animals think about?
c) swimming, short-distance running and yachting.                       •   Will we ever find a cure for all the diseases?

Discussion points                                                  3. What do these numbers refer to in the texts?

1. What methods are used by Americans to stage races?              50; zero; 1.4 billion; billion; 1929; a few billion; 9 to      12
2. What sport activities were at first regarded as unusual, but    billion;
   then gained the world popularity?                               10 per cent; a third; billions of years from now; decades.
3. What is the origin of the most demanding sport?
4. Name some unusual sport activities introduced by Americans?     4. Here is a list of the top ten mysteries of the universe. What
5. What is the effect of Cooper’s book Aerobics on the attitudes      is the answer to these puzzles that have plagued human
   of Americans to physical fitness?                                  beings for thousand of years? The answer is “Nobody
6. How does one understand “a prescription for everyone’s             knows”. Look at the questions which are used as the tittles
   health?”                                                           of the parts of the text. Are there any coincidences with your
                                                                      own list?

                                                                   Reading task
                              Text V
                                                                   1. Now read the texts and answer the questions:
Pre-reading task
                                                                   A.   Why is it most likely that there is life on another planet?
1. Although the scientific and technological development has       B.   Will alien life forms look like us?
   revealed and answered many mysteries of the universe,           C.   What do comets consists of?
   people still come across lots of mysterious phenomena.          D.   Why is it hard to find a cure for colds?
   Make up your own list of ten mysteries of the universe.         E.   What three things came into existence with the Big Bang?
                                                                   F.   What happened before it?
2. Do you ever ask yourself any of these questions?                G.   Why could genetics explain left-handedness? What is the
                                                                        reason against this explanation?
   •   Why are we here?                                            H.   What do our body and brain do while we’re asleep?
   •   Why are people different?                                   I.   When do we yawn?
   •   When I lose things, where do they go?                       J.   What happens when we yawn?
   •   Is the person sitting to me a time traveler?                K.   According to the laws of physics, is it possible to travel in
   •   Why did the dinosaurs disappear?                                 time?

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