Английский язык: устная речь

МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

УРАЛЬСКИЙ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ

ИМЕНИ ПЕРВОГО ПРЕЗИДЕНТА РОССИИ Б. Н. ЕЛЬЦИНА

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК

Устная речь

Практикум

О. В. Степанова

Москва
Екатеринбург

Издательство «ФЛИНТА»
Издательство Уральского университета

2018
     2018

2-е издание, стереотипное

Р е ц е н з е н т ы:

кафедра теории и практики перевода 

Уральского гуманитарного университета 

(зав. кафедрой канд. филол. наук, доцент А. А. Каслова);
канд. филол. наук, доцент кафедры иностранных языков
Уральского юридического института МВД России В. В. Гузикова

УДК 811.111’24(076.5)
ББК 81.432.1я73

С79

Степанова О. В.
Английский язык: устная речь [Электронный ресурс] : 
практикум / О.В. Степанова. — 2-е изд., стер. —  М. : 
ФЛИНТА ; Екатеринбург : Изд-во Урал. ун-та, 2018. 
— 64 с.

ISBN 978-5-9765-3610-4 (ФЛИНТА)
ISBN 978-5-7996-2209-1 (Изд-во Урал. ун-та)

Практикум содержит тексты из аутентичных учебников, 
материалы из современной прессы, сгруппированные в четыре 
тематических раздела: средства массовой информации Великобритании; экологические проблемы; поиск работы; моя научноисследовательская работа. Упражнения и задания нацелены 
на усвоение студентами основных идей текстов и выводят на 
дискуссии по представленным проблемам.

Для студентов, осваивающих пороговый уровень владения 
английским языком.

УДК 811.111’24(076.5)
ББК 81.432.1я73

С79

ISBN 978-5-9765-3610-4 (ФЛИНТА)
© Уральский федеральный

университет, 2018

ISBN 978-5-7996-2209-1 (Изд-во Урал. ун-та)  © Степанова О. В., 2018

Предисловие ...........................................................4
Section 1. British Media ...........................................6
Section 2. Environmental Protection ........................ 16
Section 3. Looking for a Job ................................... 23

3.1. Рrofessions ............................................. 23
3.2. Recruitment........................................... 37
3.2.1. Process of Recruitment......................... 37
3.2.2. New Tendencies in Recruiting
People .......................................................... 40
3.3. Writing a CV and a Letter of Application .... 44
3.4. An Interview .......................................... 51
3.5. A Contract of Employment ...................... 55

Section 4. Writing a Research Paper ....................... 58

Оглавление

Данное методическое пособие предназначено для студен
тов филологического факультета, изучающих английский
язык. По окончании изучения дисциплины студенты должны освоить пороговый уровень владения иностранным языком (B1, Pre-Intermediate) и обладать следующими навыками и умениями:

— понимать основные идеи четких сообщений, сделан
ных на литературном языке на разные типичные темы, связанные с работой, учебой, досугом и т. д.;

— общаться в ситуациях, которые могут возникнуть во

время пребывания в стране изучаемого языка;

— составлять связное сообщение на известные или осо
бо интересующие темы;

— описывать впечатления, события, надежды, стремле
ния, излагать и обосновывать свое мнение и планы на будущее.

Материал пособия представлен в виде четырех темати
ческих разделов: средства массовой информации Великобритании; экологические проблемы; поиск работы; моя научно-исследовательская работа.

В пособии используются тексты из аутентичных учебни
ков, а также материалы из современной прессы. Упражнения и задания позволяют раскрыть основные идеи текстов
и выводят на дискуссии по предложенным проблемам.

Предисловие

Тексты и иллюстрации взяты из следующих учебных

пособий:

Kirszner L. G. The Concise Wadsworth Handbook /

L. G. Kirszner, S. R. Mandell. 2nd ed. Thomson Advantage Books.
“Thomson”. UK, US. 2008.

O’Driscoll J. Britain for learners of English / J. O’Driscoll.

2nd ed. Oxford : Oxford univ. press, 2009. 224 p.

Gryca D. Oxford Exam Excellence / D. Gryca, J. Sosnowska,

R. Whitehead. Oxford : Oxford univ. press, 2006. 200 p.

Taylore-Knowles S. Laser. Pre-FCE. Student’s Book /

S. Taylore-Knowles. MacMillan, 2008.

Burgess S. FCE Gold Plus Exam Maximiser / S. Burgess,

J. Newbrook, J. Wilson. Pearson Longman, 2008.

Watcyn-Jones P. Start Testing Your Vocabulary : Pearson

Education Limited / P. Watcyn-Jones. 1996. 96 p.

BRITISH PRESS

Britain’s first newspapers appeared over 300 years ago.

Now, as then, newspapers receive no government subsidy, unlike
in many European countries today. Advertising has always
been a vital source of income.

Today more newspapers are sold in Great Britain than almost

any other country. But, as in many other European countries,
Britain’s main newspapers and main TV channels are both in
long-term decline; fewer and fewer people are reading
the former or watching the latter. In the last quarter of the
twentieth century, people became richer, so that they were able
to pursue alternative forms of leisure activity. In addition,
cheaper means of production and distribution meant that
the main papers and the main channels found themselves with
more rivals. More recently, there is the internet, which gives
people not only a further form of leisure activity but also an
alternative source for news. Nevertheless, the main papers and
channels remain a central part of everyday national life.

Newspaper publication in the country is dominated by

the national press. There are more than seventy local and
regional daily papers, but the total circulation of all of them
together is less than the combined circulation of the handful
of national ‘dailies’.

The way politics is presented in the national newspapers is

an example of the fact that British political parties are

Section 1

BRITISH MEDIA

essentially parliamentary organizations, not countrywide ones.
Although different papers have differing political outlooks,
none of the large newspapers is an organ of a political party.
Many are often obviously in favour of the policies of this or
that party (and even more obviously against the policies
of another party) but none of them would ever use ‘we’ or ‘us’
to refer to a certain party.

The Two Types of National Newspaper

Conventionally, the national papers are divided into two

distinct types. The quality papers cater for the better educated
readers. The popular papers sell to a much larger readership.
They contain far less print than the ‘qualities’ and far more
pictures. They use larger headlines and write in a simpler style
of English. While the qualities devote much space to politics
and other ‘serious’ news, the popular papers concentrate on
‘human interest’ stories, which often means sex and scandal.

In the words of one ex-editor of The Times: ‘The values

of mass journalism are the traditional romantic values
of energy, intuition, personality, sexuality, excitement and myth.
The romantic element in the mass mind responds instinctively
to the energy in the mass newspaper. Readers are presented
with an exciting world of demons and temptresses, a flickering
and exotic fairy tale… By contrast the values of the serious
press are those of analysis, rationality, truth, lucidity, balance,
reality and, I would hope, compassion’.

The two types have also been known by other names:

the broadsheets and the tabloids. Not so long ago in Britain, if
you saw someone reading a newspaper, you could tell what
kind it was without even checking the title. This was because
the quality newspapers were all printed on terribly large-sized
paper known as broadsheet. The popular papers, on the other
hand, were all tabloids; that is, they were printed on much
smaller pages (which were therefore much easier to turn). But
in 2004, two quality newspapers, The Times and The Independent,
successfully adopted the tabloid format. And then, a year later,
another quality, The Guardian, broke with tradition even more
radically by adopting the Berliner format, which is halfway