The overall list of Examination Speaking Points
1. English as a world language.
2. English or Esperanto as a world language.
3. Variants of English.
4. How to be a good language learner.
5. The importance and characteristics of the British press.
6. Radio and TV in Great Britain.
7. The Open University.
8. Musical traditions in Great Britain. Music festivals.
9. Musical traditions in Great Britain. Folk music.
10. Personality studies (Appearance and character).
11. Modern family values.
12. The British versus the Americans.
13. British stereotypes.
14. Customs and traditions in GB.
15. Monarchy or republic in GB?
16. Air pollution (global warming).
17. Energy crisis.
18. The major environmental problems confronting Britain today.
19. The Green Movement.
20. Environmental problems in Belarus (Chernobyl).
The overall list of Examination Stories
1. R. Bradbury. All Summer in a Day
2. J. Archer. Just Good Friends
3. P. Lively. Next Term, Well Mash You
4. F. Hardy. The Returned Soldier
5. Saki. The Open Window
6. A. Maley. Gossip
7. B. Brown. The Star Ducks
8. M. Spark. You Should Have Seen the Mess
9. M. Binchey. The Garden Party
10. T. Pears. Blue
11. J. Collier. The Chaser
12. J. Archer. Cheap at Half the Price
13. R. Goldberg. Art for Hearts Sake
14. Saki. The Lumber-Room
15. Ph. Dick. Human Is
16. J. Mark. Teeth
17. E. Hemingway. Cat in the Rain
18. J. Winterson. OBriens First Christmas
19. M. Whitaker. Hannah
20. A. Cassidy. Shopping for One
The overall list of Active Vocabulary
Languages
| Standard English World language Mother tongue Accent Dialect Compounds Derivatives Mono-, bi-, multilingual Fluency To bridge the gap | Competitive edge Medium of instruction Learning incentive Level of proficiency Language skills Miscommunication Crash courses Dictionary dependence Vocabulary builder | Pick up a language Subtleties of communication Interactive programmes To get a good workout Lingua franca Cockney Esperanto Transatlantic English Contextual clue |
Mass media
| Paper round Tabloid \ Broadsheet The fourth estate Invasion of privacy Current affairs Legal action Obscene Newsworthy Entry qualifications White-\ blue-collar job | Tabloid journalism Copyright levies Pirate radio stations Attention span Academic performance Distance\part-time learning Benefit \ beneficiary Face-to-face tutorials Motto Benchmark of quality | To capture the audience Tacit agreement Dedicated following Ratings war Viewing figures Prime time License fee In-depth news Weighty topics |
Music
| Middle-ofthe-road audience Revival Treasury Accessible Worthy of attention To obey the dictum To sell like hot cakes | Music-to-work-to Conductor Busker The Proms The Last Night To cater for \ to appeal to To revive | To be traced back to To hand down from generation to generation Morris Dancing Bagpipe Lay \ layman \ amateur |
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Social Issues
| Nuclear family extended family cohabitation divorce rate maintenance | consumerism exposure to drugs callousness juvenile crime a spendthrift | a sneak a fickle friend physiognomy IQ |
British Character
| Continuity modernity irrelevant to sth. to lag behind the time English breakfast Continental breakfast | reluctant hostility a swot scruffy breach of privacy flag day | jumble sales voluntary \ volunteer hypocrisy ancestor multiculturalism stereotype |
Monarchy in GB
| The Civil List The Commonwealth The Windsor Castle | The Way Ahead Committee The primogeniture law The royal assent | anti-monarchists / anti-royalists figurehead |
Environmental Issues
| Extinct on the edge of extinction species to vanish to dwindle natural resources oil slicks marine pollution global warming greenhouse effect ice caps | ozone layer to deplete fossil fuels Ghetto blasters pea-souper reclamation recycling to have a design flaw conform to safety standards to contaminate aftermath | to be politically impartial to hit the headlines campaign a fund-raising event exhaust fumes deforestation noise offender sewage sludge to dump the wastes reproductive disorders GM food |
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Topics
1. Defining terrorism.
2. Countering terrorism. Antiterrorist policies.
3. Foreign terrorist organizations. Their aims and methods.
4. The phenomenon of a suicide bomber.
5. War and peace: what is it all about?
6. The use of child soldiers.
7. UN peace keeping.
8. Irans nuclear programme.
9. Mercy killing: for and against.
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THEORY OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR
1. Morphology and syntax as parts of grammar. Units of grammar, their functions and types of relations between them in language and speech.
2. Grammatical meaning and grammatical form. Means of form-building. Synthetic and analytical forms.
3. Structure of words. Grammatically relevant types of morphemes.
4. Grammatical categories. Method of opposition (A.I.Smirnitsky).
5. Parts of speech as lexico-grammatical classes of words. 3 principles of classifying words into parts of speech.
6. Morphological and syntactico-distributional classifications of words into parts of speech (H.Sweet, O.Jespersen, Ch.Fries).
7. Notional and functional classes of words.
8. The category of number of the English noun.
9. The category of case of the English noun.
10. The category of article determination.
11. Adjective. The category of degrees of comparison.
12. The category of tense.
13. The category of order.
14. The category of aspect.
15. The category of voice.
16. The category of mood.
17. The dual nature of non-finite forms of the verb. Morphological categories of verbals.
18. Finite and non-finite forms of the verb. The category of representation.
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19. Phrase. Principles of classification (H.Sweet, O.Jespersen, L. Bloomfield).
20. Classification of phrases according to the types of syntactic relations between the constituents.
21. Predicativity. Predication. Constructions with secondary predication.
22. Syntactic structure of the clause (simple sentence). The model of the members of the sentence.
23. Structural models of sentence analysis. Distributional model and types of distribution. IC-model.
24. Transformational model of sentence analysis. Types of transformations.
25. Semantic structure of the sentence.
26. Communicative structure of the sentence.
27. Functions of word order in English and types of inversion.
28. Principles of classification of simple sentences.
29. Compound sentence. Logico-semantic relations between clauses.
30. Complex sentence. Structural and functional classifications.
English Lexicology
1. Lexicology as a branch of linguistics. Lexical units.
2. General characteristics of the English lexicon.
3. Etymological survey of the English lexicon.
4. Types of word meaning. Word meaning and motivation.
5. Change of meaning in English.
6. Polysemy in English.
7. Homonymy in English. Polysemy vs homonymy.
8. Semantic and non-semantic classifications of English words.
9. Stylistic classification of the English lexicon.
10. Word-structure. Morphemic analysis of English words.
11. Derivational analysis of English words.
12. Affixation in English.
13. Conversion in English.
14. Compounding in English.
15. Abbreviation. Minor ways of word creation.
16. Phraseological units in English.
17. Regional varieties of the English language. American English vs British English: lexical / phraseological differences.
18. Ways of enriching and expanding the English lexicon.
19. British and American lexicography. Main types of English dictionaries.
20. Some basic problems of dictionary compiling.
Lexicological analysis:
1) Analyse the semantic structure of the word: father (n)
2) Trace the etymology of the word and comment on the semantic processes that were at work in the word: boycott (n)
3) Subject the words to the two-level analysis and state the morphemic and derivational types of these words: irrational, stagflation, handicraft
4) Classify the phraseological unit: Birds of a feather flock together
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Lexicological analysis:
1) Analyse the semantic structure of the word: tree (n)
2) Trace the etymology of the word and comment on the semantic processes that were at work in the word: knight (n)
3) Subject the words to the two-level analysis and state the morphemic and derivational types of these words: bigamy, brunch, dressmaker
4) Classify the phraseological unit: tit for tat
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Lexicological analysis:
1) Analyse the semantic structure of the word: nose (n)
2) Trace the etymology of the word and comment on the semantic processes that were at work in the word: starve (v)
3) Subject the words to the two-level analysis and state the morphemic and derivational types of these words: inexhaustible, blacklist (v), smog
4) Classify the phraseological unit: to walk on air
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Lexicological analysis:
1) Analyse the semantic structure of the word: cup (n)
2) Trace the etymology of the word and comment on the semantic processes that were at work in the word: season (n)
3) Subject the words to the two-level analysis and state the morphemic and derivational types of these words: uncomfortable, rubdown (n), dog-tired
4) Classify the phraseological unit: the lions share
1. Interethnic Relations in the USA. Assimilation and Multiculturalism.
2. Problems of the Interethnic Relations in the UK.
3. Ethnic and Cultural Identity.
4. Multilingualism in the Modern World.
5. Problems of Linguistic Minorities.
6. Personality of a Teacher.
7. The New and the Old in School Education in the UK. Types of Schools. Achievements and Shortcomings.
8. The System of Further and Higher Education in the UK.
9. School Education in the USA. Pros and Cons.
10. The System of Higher Education in the USA. Types of Educational Establishments, Basic Principles.
11. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Educational Systems of the UK and the USA.
12. National Values in the USA.
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13. National Values in the UK.
14. Families in the USA.
15. Families in the UK.
16. Family Life and Gender/Sex Roles.
17. Aging.
18. Gender Roles.
