НСПК АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК СОО 2023 (ДО, СПДО, ПНК, КП, ПДО, ДОУА, СР 2 ЧАСТЬ) Практическое занятие 5

НСПК АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК СОО 2023 2 ЧАСТЬ

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Traditions and customs in Great Britain/Обычаи и традиции в Великобритании.

British nation is considered to be the most conservative in Europe. It is not a secret that every nation and every country has its own customs and traditions. In Great Britain people attach greater importance to traditions and customs than in other European countries. Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up. The best examples are their queen, money system, their weights and measures.

There are many customs and some of them are very old. There is, for example, the Marble Championship, where the British Champion is crowned; he wins a silver cup known among folk dancers as Morris Dancing. Morris Dancing is an event where people, worn in beautiful clothes with ribbons and bells, dance with handkerchiefs or big sticks in their hands, while traditional music-sounds.

Another example is the Boat Race, which takes place on the river Thames, often on Easter Sunday. A boat with a team from Oxford University and one with a team from Cambridge University hold a race.

British people think that the Grand National horse race is the most exciting horse race in the world. It takes place near Liverpool every year. Sometimes it happens the same day as the Boat Race takes place, sometimes a week later. Amateur riders as well as professional jockeys can participate. It is a very famous event.

There are many celebrations in May, especially in the countryside.

Halloween is a day on which many children dress up in unusual costumes. In fact, this holiday has a Celtic origin. The day was originally called All Halloween s Eve, because it happens on October 31, the eve of all Saint s Day. The name was later shortened to Halloween. The Celts celebrated the coming of New Year on that day.

Another tradition is the holiday called Bonfire Night.

On November 5,1605, a man called Guy Fawkes planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament where the king James 1st was to open Parliament on that day. But Guy Fawkes was unable to realize his plan and was caught and later, hanged. The British still remember that Guy Fawkes Night. It is another name for this holiday. This day one can see children with figures, made of sacks and straw and dressed in old clothes. On November 5th, children put their figures on the bonfire, burn them, and light their fireworks.

In the end of the year, there is the most famous New Year celebration. In London, many people go to Trafalgar Square on New Year s Eve. There is singing and dancing at 12 o clock on December 31st.

A popular Scottish event is the Edinburgh Festival of music and drama, which takes place every year. A truly Welsh event is the Eisteddfod, a national festival of traditional poetry and music, with a competition for the best new poem in Welsh.

If we look at English weights and measures, we can be convinced that the British are very conservative people. They do not use the internationally accepted measurements. They have conserved their old measures. There are nine essential measures. For general use, the smallest weight is one ounce, then 16 ounce is equal to a pound. Fourteen pounds is one stone.

The English always give people s weight in pounds and stones. Liquids they measure in pints, quarts and gallons. There are two pints in a quart and four quarts or eight pints are in one gallon. For length, they have inches» foot, yards and miles.

If we have always been used to the metric system therefore the English monetary system could be found rather difficult for us. They have a pound sterling, which is divided into twenty shillings, half-crown is cost two shillings and sixpence, shilling is worth twelve pennies and one penny could be changed by two halfpennies.

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The Choice of a Profession

Choice of profession and career is of great importance. On the right and timely choice of a career depends on much success in life. It decides the future success or failure. The fruits of indecision are bitter. Similarly, the wrong decision is also undesirable. Therefore, one should try to choose one s career as early as possible. It should be determined by the time one takes one s first board examination.

Life is now really complex. This is the age of much competition. Things are moving fast. There are a great variety of careers and professions. It makes matters worse. One feels confused and bewildered in choosing a right career. The lack of proper counseling and guidance worsens the situation. The young students find themselves groping in the dark. As an, It also results of all these there is much unemployment and frustration means a lot of waste of money, time and energy. The students should take the help of elders, teachers, and professionals in deciding their careers. They should choose their career according to their aptitude and resources.

Young people are ambitious, impatient and eager to achieve, good positions. They want to become high officials, executives and have top positions without considering their qualifications, skills, etc. This is a wrong attitude. One should be realistic. Making castles in the air is of no help. One may dream of becoming a super film star and end up as a mere casual artist or a help boy. Such over-ambitions lead to disillusionment and unhappiness.

It is better to choose a career at the high school level than go for higher studies aimlessly. One should go for a vocational Cloon course at this stage. It will help one to stand on one s feet in 23 years of time. There are many training institutions, polytechnics and professional colleges. There are many careers, professions and vocations to choose from. There are teaching, engineering, medical, law, technical, business, trade, computer application careers, government employment, positions in the police and army etc. One can start one s own shop, factory, workshop or small-scale industry. Then one can choose acting, commercial art, fashion designing, advertising etc. But each of these requires special aptitude, training, and resources. One may have proper qualifications and aptitude for a career of a doctor or engineer. But if there are no financial resources Cuid, one cannot choose it as his career.

Choice of a career is not simply a matter of likes and dislikes. Financial resources play a very important role in deciding to choose a profession. For lack of funds, one will have to choose a far humbler career. Change of career amidst the stream may prove risky. It is not wise to change careers now and then. Therefore, select your career carefully and wisely, once decided, stick to your decision. Use all your energy and resources to obtain your aim.

One can take to politics if one has an aptitude for public life. Politics is not always dirty. It is a profession of hard labor and perseverance. There are many ups and downs. You should be well prepared for all that. If you have strong optimism, ambition for fame and prepared to face the worst, you are best suited for politics. If you have the aptitude for books, reading, quiet life and studies, you should choose to teach. It is a noble profession. You can then become a teacher, lecturer or a professor, If you have enough money and resources and want to grow rich, you can choose business as your career.

Once you have chosen your career, it is not possible to retrace your steps. If you do, you are a great looser. While choosing a profession, you stand at a cross-road. Once a choice is made, there is no escape. Therefore, be practical, logical and reasonable in choosing your profession. This is a crucial choice. Take into consideration your liking, resources, qualifications trends, traits, and caliber, etc.

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Погода в Британии имеет плохую репутацию потому что быстро меняется. Люди никогда не могут быть уверены в том, что не будет дождя. Из-за изменчивой погоды люди носят зонтики каждый день. Британцы говорят «дождь льет как из ведра», если идет сильный дождь.

Лето в Британии не очень жаркое. А зима не очень холодная. В некоторых частях Британии зима проходит совсем без снега. Поэтому можно сказать, что климат в Британии мягкий. Британцы часто говорят о погоде. Говорят, что разговор о погоде – это хороший способ начать разговор с незнакомцем.

6.Найдите в тексте соответствия следующих слов и выражений:

И так далее; кроме того; завязать разговор; никто не имеет дел с незнакомцами; избегать сплетен; давать советы и взваливать на себя груз чужих проблем; личный опыт; действуйте по ситуации; это сработало; сводить на нет; не имеет значения; пришла к выводу; невыносимо неловко.

Talking about weather/Разговоры о погоде.

It seems to me that the English begin the day with conversation about the weather and finish it with the same theme. At home, at work, on the street — always: Today is wonderful, isn t it, dear? or Awful weather today, isnt it? Will it stop raining at last today? And so on… Like this arise a million conversations about various topics, starting with a short chat over breakfast or at the bus stop and finishing with a conversation with a friend or a colleague at work.

For me this was always fascinating. In Russia people at bus stops look at you like potential competition who could occupy your potential seat. There are no friendly conversations about the weather with strangers at the bus stop, you wouldnt even think about it. Besides, there are so many people that you would have to spend no less than half an hour walking around everybody sharing your sentiments about the weather. I think people would start to recoil from the friendly questioning potential passenger and think that one was loony.

How do people usually start a conversation with friends or colleagues in Russia? How are you? OK? or Howre you feeling? and about feelings people talk readily and always. Not only this, but they start to share their problems, and the conversation can stretch on until dinner, starting with analysis of the problem, cigarette breaks and heaps of advice from personal experience or the experience of a friend. But with strangers…no, nobody has any dealings with strangers; everybody has distressing deep thoughts about tomorrow s day. For some: What fur coat to wear — mink or fox?, for others: To buy a litre of milk or is it better two loaves of bread?

So, this kind of communication and start of a conversation I am, of course, used to, for me it was civil to ask about mood. Once, when I was in college in England, where I taught language, I asked the students about their

moods, in answer I heard deadly silence. I was lost for some seconds but recollected the advice of our lecturer in foreign languages. His main advice comprised — when entering an auditorium you need to consider yourself an actor who has walked out on stage, and be prepared for all the surprises of stage life. In his words — be spontaneous!

I immediately started talking about the weather, and it helped. I saw puzzled faces, trying to translate my questions about the weather. The English people were in a familiar situation!

From time to time I asked myself — well, from idleness of thoughts, I supposed Hmm, why are English people so worried by the weather? Maybe, it s because the weather changes several times a day? You can experience, in the course of one day, all the seasons of the year, depending on which sea the wind is blowing in from. The position of the sun in this does not play a significant role. It can be shining, and even brightly, but the wind from the North Sea brings to nothing all the sun s efforts. Or in January, for example, you can get a tan and even sweat somewhere in a corner sheltered from the wind by the sea.

I think that the initial reason for the passion for talking about the weather was precisely this bottom line. No matter how you look at it the theme in discussion is broad; anyone and everyone can blaze about it.

However, I came to the conclusion that there are also at least two more reasons for this chattiness.

One of them, I speculate, is hidden in the extraordinary / traditional / genetic politeness of the English. If they need to find something out then firstly they will cautiously utter one or two phrases about the weather and only after will present the question they crave to ask. Also, they consider it unbearably awkward to stand with puffed out cheeks at the bus stop in the company of two or three people. And… they start to twitter about the weather.

The other reason again leaks from my observations — they tried to avoid gossip. They don t like over-the-fence talk. Praise to you English! Likewise they don t like to give advice and take upon themselves the heaviness

and responsibility of other people s problems. In Russia, you just murmur your problem and you receive 33 happy answers and assurance that there are no unsolvable problems.

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1.Dear Mr. Stevens,

Mrs. M.K. Collins has applied for work as saleswoman in my drugstore. She has referred me to

you as one for whom she has done similar work. Please give me some general information as to

her fitness for this work. I shall be grateful to you for this help.

Sincerely yours,

Brian Warner

 2.Dear Mr. Olsen, 

I am writing to complain about ineffective work of your book service centre. On February the

third I ordered from you one copy of «Dandelion wine» by Ray Bradbury. The book arrived by

mail and I found that some of the pages were transposed so that the book was not usable.

As a result I was left without a needed book. I would like the privilege of returning the defective

book to you in exchange for a perfect copy. I hope it would be possible for you to replace it as

soon as possible. I look forward to your answer.

Yours sincerely,

Bill Berry

 3.Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing in connection with an advertisement for your English course. I am 19 years-old

student from Russia. I am interested in English and have been looking for a course in English at

higher level.

I would like to ask for more details about this English course. I would be very grateful if you

could inform me about payment forms and enrolment requirements.

I look forward to your answer.

Yours faithfully,

Helen Markowa