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Analysing the passage

Now skim the text and say if what is stated there is typical of Belarusian families. | Before listening, look at the words and expressions below that you will hear and make sure you understand them. | With a partner and then with the group, discuss the following questions. | Replace the word underlined with the most appropriate phrase from the box. | Skim the texts below and think up a title for each of them. Write down the titles in the blanks before the texts. | Read the passage below and do the tasks that follow. Pay attention to the words given in bold. | Make verbs from these words. | Read the text to learn about weddings and wedding rituals in other cultures. Compare them with those in your own culture. | Read the passage below and give answers to the questions that follow. Pay attention to the words in bold. | Read the texts below to learn about the way people in Britain date and get married. Find similarities and differences in your own culture. |


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  5. B. Find the answers to the following questions in the passage given bellow. Put the passage in the correct order to form the text (use questions as the prompt)
  6. B. Write out the informal words and word-groups which occur in the above passage and explain why you think the author uses so many of them.

 

Identify the SDs taken from the passage.

 

1. … only minutes ago he was this little baby…

2. …. he’s spending more time per day on his hair than it took to paint the Sistine Chapel.

3. …it would have been equally cost-effective for them to simply set fire to their money.

4. … a fatally attractive collection of stud muffins.

5. … a chemical substance with the natural look and feel of industrial pump lubricant.

6. …the enemy genders …

7. …and the instructor, an unfortunate middle-aged man who I hope was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars…..

8. …the chain reaction of retaliation had spread to all

boys.

9. … so that our line looked like a giant centipede having a Brylcreem-induced seizure.

10. After we boys have thoroughly failed to master these dances,….

11. …to maintain maximum separation…

12. … like miniature sports-coats-wearing versions of

Frankenstein’s monster.

13. … he strode impatiently up to me wearing new

duds…

14. … looking perfect in the hair department…

15 … a person who has never, ever shown the slightest interest in being on time for anything…

16. …a …person who was three weeks late to his own BIRTH.

17. … who strode up to us, eyes eager, hair slicked

18. You’re wearing COLOGNE! About 2 gallons, I estimated.

19. He was emitting fragrance rays visible to the naked eye.

20. …If God had wanted your parents to watch you do

the jump, He wouldn’t have made them so old.

21. …occasionally illuminated by spontaneous fireballs of raw hormonal energy shooting around the room.

 

4. How do they sound to you? Explain their usage in the passage.

 

1. …where the boys dance with actual girls. This was unheard of when I was 11.

2. …We boys would huddle defensively in one corner, punching one another for moral support…. and eyeing the girls suspiciously as though we expected them at any moment to be overcome by passion and assault us.

3. …and we each had at least one shirttail elegantly sticking out…

 

Find more devices in the passage and prepare its lexical and syntactic analysis.

 

Language focus

Find in the passage words and expressions which mean the following.

 

1. something so unusual that it has not happened or been known before.

2. bringing the best possible profits or advantages for the lowest possible costs.

3. make something start burning.

4. to hit someone or something hard with your fist (=closed hand).

5. to attack someone in a violent way.

6. to grow too big for something.

7. to put gel into your hair.

8. revenge.

9. to walk with heavy steps or to put your foot down very hard, especially because you are angry.

10 a liquid that smells slightly of flowers or plants, that you put on your neck or wrists.

 

& Reading comprehension

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