1. The exhibition stand was decorated in red, white and green – the company’s special colours.
2. The left-handed can opener won a design award for its practicality and usefulness.
3. Young people are very influenced by advertising. It is amazing how many special symbols children can recognize from different companies.
4. My flat is full of things I bought on the spur of the moment. I never plan to go shopping, but if I see something I like, I can\t resist it.
List of vocabulary.
Top of the range CD player
Cited
DIY
Dichotomy
Preoccupation with personal appearance
Narcissism
Passivity
Implication
Crop up
Predilection
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. The livery of the company is really stylish.
2. Several factors have been cited as the causes of the unrest.
3. There is a dichotomy between his public and private lives.
4. His passivity was unbearable.
5. This election has profound implication for the future of our democracy.
6. Your name kept cropping up in the conversation.
7. Mrs. Lane’s predilection for gossip was unbelievable.
8. There is a lot of DIY staff in their shed.
9. My parents bought a top-of the range CD player for my birthday, which was very expensive.
10. Preoccupation with personal appearance is often defined by the term Narcissism.
LISTENING FOUR
SPONSORSHIP
List of vocabulary.
A patchwork of logos
Rub off on sb.
Lubricant
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. She refused to give up, and her confidence rubbed off on the others.
2. When they used this lubricant the door stopped creaking.
3. When we came to the fair we saw the whole patchwork of logos there.
4. The area was a patchwork of local industries.
5. It was a patchwork of woods and fields, typical of the English countryside.
6. There has been a shift of employment from manufacturing to service industries.
7. Slow sales have cut profit margins.
8. A number of companies were forced into liquidation during the recession.
9. Banks and finance companies continued to trade profitably despite high interest rates.
10. Several Internet start-ups saw their share prices rocket in the first few years, but many failed to survive the first few months.
LISTENING FIVE
ADVERTISING
List of vocabulary.
scruffy clothes
prosperous clothes
plush trainers
wafer-thin
leather soles
toes
air pocket
sprung supports
consumer tool
sheer wealth of titles
stockists
at random
to give a new momentum to
to lug the gear in and out of halls
money is tight for sb.
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. Don’t even dare to wear these scruffy clothes of yours to an interview.
2. I have chosen the card at random.
3. It’s an effective consumer tool.
4. I saw her wearing prosperous clothes the other day. She can’t be poor.
5. Their casino is the plushest in town.
6. The bed had the sprung mattress.
7. This should be done to give momentum to the reforms.
8. Call us to order or to get details of local stockists.
9. These were wafer-thin chocolates.
10. It’s a huge book, not something that you would like to lug around.
MODULE 3.
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION.
WORD LIST
Investigative journalism
Chequebook journalism
Gonzo journalism
Journalist correspondent
Columnist
Reporter
Editor
Circulation
Edition
Tabloid
Broadsheet
Compact
Colour supplement
Editorial
Feature
Column
Review
Scoop
Broadcast
Televise
Transmit
Frequency
Commercial
Episode
News bulletin
Airtime
Cable TV
Satellite TV
Pay-per-view
Digital TV
Network
LISTENING ONE
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Before you listen
1. In what ways do electronic media and telecommunications enhance our lives?
2. Can you think of any ways in which they have lowered the quality of life?
List of vocabulary.
To start off with
Declarative memory
Language capabilities
Frenetically-paced
Bizarre elements
Trigger
To prime reflexes
Rational thought
Inhibit
Regular exposure to sth.
Desensitisation
A numbing effect on sth.
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. His action triggered a massive response from the government.
2. The drug had a numbing effect on him.
3. Regular exposure to direct sunshine can have detrimental effect.
4. An unhappy family life may inhibit children’s learning.
5. Does TV desensitize people to violence?
6. There was no rational thought behind his explanation.
LISTENING TWO
THE INTERNET
List of vocabulary.
widowhood
not resist the lure of sth.
in excruciating detail
to track down
to show up for a date
tedious
a computer nerd
get off lightly
a sales rep
tele-work
titbits
to no avail
to have no concept of time passing
hunched
to be at one’s wits with
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. Her widowhood really depressed her. She felt extremely lonely.
2. If your husband is a computer-nerd, you will spend little quality time with him.
3. A sales rep must have a certain number of traits to do his job well.
4. I could see a hunched figure sitting by the fire.
5. Detectives had tracked him down in California.
6. In the end he got off lightly because there was not enough evidence against him.
7. We searched the whole area but to no avail. Robby had disappeared.
LISTENING THREE
MOBILE PHONES
List of vocabulary.
Humph!
I take it …
Bloke
A loony
Brain tumours
Showing off
To fall into a high risk category
To beep sb.
Prolonged exposure
To press for further research
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. He’s a nice bloke.
2. He had a brain tumour which kept him in excruciating pain.
3. Her brother is a complete loony.
4. People who suffer from such a disease fall into a high risk category.
5. The death rate presses for further research.
6. I am sick and tired of his manner to show off.
7. Humph! You don’t think that I believe you, do you?
8. I take it you have heard that Rick’s resigned.
9. Prolonged exposure to the sun can cause serious skin problems.
10. He is kept in the loony bin.
LISTENING FOUR
LANGUAGES
List of vocabulary.
Language variety
Creole
Pidgin
Dialect
Patois
Vernacular
Tone language
Sign language
Artificial language
Natural language
Language family
Romance languages
Slavonic languages
Germanic languages
Semitic languages
Indo-European languages
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. A lot of British expatriate families live in Spain.
2. He lapsed into the local vernacular.
3. Esperanto is an artificial language.
4. Deaf people use a sign language.
5. Can you name some of the Slavonic languages?
List of vocabulary.
Expatriate families
Most notably in…
Settled Anglophones
Expats
Peer pressure
To surface
Incoming pupils
To be held up as…
Straitjacketed
To dissect the language
Downgraded
To be fostered
Faculty
Marked
Counterbalance
Asset
Hindrance
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. The floods have been a major hindrance in the relief efforts.
2. School authorities talk a lot about peer pressure.
3. Riskier investments counterbalanced by high rewards.
4. She had a great faculty for absorbing information.
5. A sense of humor is a great asset in his business.
6. Police often downgrade the seriousness of violence against women in the home.
7. Rumours about the killings have begun to surface in the press.
8. He became really violent and they had to put a straightjacket on him.
Translate into English.
1. Ходять чутки про його надзвичайну працездатність.
2. Процедура усиновлення-це довготривалий процес.
3. Пацієнти психіатричної клініки часто носять гамівні сорочки.
4. Головною перешкодою для нього була його соромязливість.
5. Які штучні мови ви знаєте. Лише Есперанто.
MODULE 4.
EDUCATION.
WORD LIST
Tertiary education
Higher education
Further education
Adult education (continuing education)
Educational
Academic
Vocational
Pedagogical
Degree
Course
Program
Evening class
Module
Subject
Discipline
Major
Minor
Lecture
Class
Seminar
Tutorial
Laboratory work
Fieldwork
Distance learning
Self-study
Undergraduate
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Postgraduate
Major
Academic
Dean
Professor
Full professor
Senior lecturer
Associate professor
Lecturer (assistant professor)
Instructor
Tutor
Research fellow
Teaching assistant
School (faculty)
Department
Tuition fees
Student loan
Grant
Financial aid
Scholarship
Academic adviser
Mock exam
Recess
Expulsion
Skip classes
Play truant
Optional
Religious Education
Deputy Head
Head teacher
Edutainment
Excel at
Sail through exam
Borderline candidate
Truancy
Register
Vocational
Locker science lab
LISTENING ONE
TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
Before you listen.
1. What do you understand by the expression “mind over matter”? Give some examples from your own knowledge or experience.
2. What physical and mental preparation do athletes and sportspeople do?
3. Can you give any examples from your own experience of how mental preparation has helped your physical performance, or vice versa?
List of vocabulary.
a horrific childhood
carry the weight of bitterness
to go to pieces
to be taken into care
to be fostered out
dysfunctional
to sink in single-handedly
a down-payment
perseverance
Translate into Ukrainian
1. Dysfunctional family relationships are causing more and more concern in the society.
2. It took perseverance to overcome his reading problems.
3. He just went to pieces after his wife died.
4. We have almost got enough money to make a down payment on a house.
5. He paused a moment for his words to think in.
6. Mike is a graduate of Kent University.
7. Her Beginner’s Swimming Certificate is framed on the wall
8. Our policy is not to allow borderline candidates to take the Higher Exam.
List of vocabulary.
Whiz through
To take a turn for the worse
To let on
To bang one’s head against a brick wall
Scratches and bruises
To pick a fight
Placid
Confront tormentors
To get back at sb.
He’ll come round
To be picked on
Fend off the bullies
Put an end to sth.
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. Let’s just whizz through it one more time.
2. The big guy was trying to pick a fight.
3. I am going to put an end to such disgraceful conduct of yours.
4. Why don’t you pick on someone else for a change?
5. The problems confronting the new government were enormous.
6. She sat still, placid and waited.
7. I’m sure he knows more than he is letting on.
8. He’ll probably go out with her just to get back at me.
9. Emily threw up her arm to fend the bullies off.
10. It took him a while to come round to the idea.
11. She dropped out of Oxford, having spent less than two terms there.
12. Some people would say that computer games are edutainment.
13. Steven lectures in Roman Law at Exeter University.
14. He won a scholarship to Cambridge.
15. I passed my mock proficiency exam, so I am sure that I will do well in the real thing.
LISTENING TWO
EXAMS.
List of vocabulary.
A topical issue
To put sth. bluntly
Iconoclast
To assess attainment
A means to an end
A continuum
Gauged
To confine the issue to sth.
To have the merit of
To cram
Familiarity
Operant conditioning of sth.
Discount sth.
Ably
To take the time to do sth.
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. She was ably assisted by her team of researchers.
2. The Creole language is really various dialects on a continuum.
3. The thermostat will gauge the temperature and control the heat.
4. He is a real iconoclast.
5. After the assessment carried out, they realized a low level of educational attainment.
6. A lot of information has been crammed into his book.
7. General Hausken had not discounted the possibility of an aerial attack.
8. He treated her with an easy familiarity of an equal.
9. The merit of the report is its realistic assessment of the changes required.
10. Social conditioning makes crying more difficult for men.
LISTENING THREE
ABILITIES AND TALENTS.
List of vocabulary.
slot
to conduct research into sth.
to duplicate
to devise
to delve deeper into sth.
succinctly
outer layer of eardrum
scenario
short of utopian
Speak for yourself!
Joking apart…
Riveted
Guise
Blot out
Sideline
To tackle
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. A new comedy is scheduled for the 9p.m. time slot.
2. New copies of the form can be duplicated from a master copy.
3. She devised a method for quicker communication between the offices.
4. “We don’t want to go”. “Speak for yourself!”
5. Anderson put the same point more succinctly.
6. Joking apart, you will have to memorise the whole poem.
7. This research delves deeply into the issue of urban crime.
8. They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
9. She said she took drugs to blot out her problems.
10. After a few weeks everything riveted to normal.
11. Zoe does a bit of freelance photography as a sideline.
12. It took twelve fire engines to tackle the fire.
MODULE 5.
MAN AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
WORD LIST
The biosphere
Habitat
Biodiversity
The food chain
Climate change
Soil erosion
Desertification
Pollutant
Hazardous waste
Acid rain
Toxic waste
E-waste
Fossil fuels
Fumes
Deforestation
Carbon emissions
Overfishing
Overgrazing
Invasive species
Food miles
Intensive farming
Renewable
Sustainable
Wind farm
Biofuel
Bottle bank
Eco-warrior
Biodegradable
Renewable
Selective recycling
Drought
Returnable
LISTENING ONE
Natural disasters
Before you listen.
1. How does man affect the environment?
2. How does the environment affect man?
3. Do you have any personal experience of natural disasters/
List of vocabulary.
To rip across
Stir up deadly tornadoes
Knock out power
Scores of buildings
To place the death toll at …
To sustain injuries
Tornado drill
Clean-up operation
Disaster-stricken area
To uproot trees
To down power lines
Skyward
Theme parks
To reduce to rubble
To tear to pieces
Façade
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. The bird soared skywards.
2. He tore her arguments to pieces.
3. After the earthquake they tried to remove the rubble as quickly as they could.
4. It was an impressive building with a red brick façade.
5. The official death toll stands at 53.
6. The clean-up operation of the oil spill took months.
LISTENING TWO
NOISE POLLUTION.
List of vocabulary.
To raise public awareness of sth.
Premature and underweight babies
A high incidence of sth.
Decibels
Deafness
To get action to do sth.
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. Noise pollution can cause deafness among locals.
2. We should raise public awareness of the threat which this scheme poses on our health.
3. There are noise levels here exceeding 85 decibels.
4. You could have caused a major diplomatic incident.
5. The rainforest has its own ecosystem.
6. The Greens aim to bring in environmental policies to protect the future of the planet.
Translate into English.
1. Через погані екологічні умови багато дітей народжуються недоношеними і з малою вагою.
2. Глухота - це одна з фізичних вад.
3. Діти люблять ходити до парків атракціонів і кататись на качелях.
4. Шумове забруднення це вид небезпеки про який часто пишуть в пресі.
5. Слід розповідати громадськості про екологічні загрози в цій місцевості.
LISTENING THREE
ENERGY CONSERVATION.
List of vocabulary.
Kilowatt hours
Hot-water heater
Thermostat setting
Insulating fleece
Thermos flask
Dimmer switches
Fluorescent bulbs
A full load
Electric tumble drier
Drop through the flap
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. They often use dimmer switches which can change the brightness of the light.
2. A pile of letters dropped through the flap.
3. The plane was carrying a full load of fuel.
4. A fluorescent light contains a tube filled with gas, which shines with a bright light when electricity is passed through it.
5. When I go hiking I always carry a thermos flask.
6. A lot of households have hot-water heaters installed in their houses.
7. The wires were insulated with the special insulating fleece.
8. Thermosetting plastic becomes hard and unbendable after it has been heated.
9. Cars are a main source of Greenhouse gases.
10. We do not want diseased animals entering the food chain.
11. There are many recycling points all over the city where you can take old newspapers.
12. Solar power is a renewable resource.
13. Wind farms produce energy without harmful emissions.
14. The higher costs of organic farming means tight financial pressures on those who practice it.
LISTENING FOUR
NUCLEAR POWER.
List of vocabulary.
Inadvertently
Beleaguered nuclear power
Upturn
Consensus
Dream up
To offset targets
Revitalise
Sustainable development
Mitigate
Foist (v)
Hedge (v)
To hold up
Energy efficiency
Translate into Ukrainian.
1. Measures need to be taken to mitigate the environmental effects of burning more coal.
2. You are hedging again- have you got the money or haven’t you?
3. I keep getting work foisted on me at the last minute.
4. They hope to revitalize the neighborhood by providing better housing.
5. Cuts in prices for milk, butter, and cheese will be offset by direct payments to farmers.
6. There is a consensus among teachers that children should have a broad understanding of the world.
7. He was continually dreaming up new schemes to promote and enlarge the business.
8. There has been an upturn in the housing market.
9. Viruses can be spread inadvertently by email users.
10. Supplies are brought into the beleaguered city.
Final Test.
(Sample)
