Методические рекомендации к семинарам по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 46 стр.

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Practice Assignment

I. Can the following formations be considered texts? Substantiate your answer.

(1) I bought a Ford. A car in which President Wilson rode down the Champs

Elysées was black. Black English has been widely discussed. The discussions

between the presidents ended last week. A week has seven days. Every day I feed

my cat. Cats have four legs. The cat is on the mat. Mat has three letters.

(2) A: How did you like the Harry-Potter-book you were given for

Christmas?

B: Well, I am a great believer in recycling.

II. Comment on the means of textual cohesion and coherence in the following

extract:

NEVER make forecasts, especially about the future. Samuel Goldwyn's wise

advice is well illustrated by a pair of scientific papers published in 1953. Both

were thought by their authors to be milestones on the path to the secret of life, but

only one has so far amounted to much, and it was not the one that caught the public

imagination at the time.

James Watson and Francis Crick, who wrote “A structure for deoxyribose

nucleic acid”, have become as famous as rock stars for asking how life works and

thereby starting a line of inquiry that led to the Human Genome Project. Stanley

Miller, by contrast, though lauded by his peers, languishes in obscurity as far as the

wider world is concerned. Yet when it appeared, “Production of amino acids under

possible primitive Earth conditions” was expected to begin a scientific process that

would solve a problem in some ways more profound than how life works at the

moment—namely how it got going in the first place on the surface of a sterile rock

150m km from a small, unregarded yellow star.

Dr Miller was the first to address this question experimentally. Inspired by

one of Charles Darwin's ideas, that the ingredients of life might have formed by

chemical reactions in a “warm, little pond”, he mixed the gases then thought to

have formed the atmosphere of the primitive Earth—methane, ammonia and