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Before you start: Think it over. Agree – Disagree
“Education makes machines, which act like men and produces men who act like machines”.
Erich Fromm, 1900 - 1980, US psychoanalist, author
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” Doris Lessing, b. 1919, prose writer, dramatist
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander The Great, 356 - 323 B.C., king of Macedonia
Reading, Vocabulary & Creative Practice
1. Words to be remembered (Texts: A, B).
| adult | advertising | anticipate |
| appreciate | argument | attempt |
| communicate | consumer | contemporary |
| continue | conversation | daydream |
| debate | dramatic | dramatics |
| encounter | engage in | enjoy |
| entertain | enthusiastic | estimate |
| expose | favour | fictional |
| imaginative | influence | interest |
| literary | major | media |
| model | outlet | percent |
| period | persuasive | pointing |
| quality | receive | recreate |
| refund | research | role-playing |
| sandbox | setting | share |
| specific | speculate | target |
| tug | upset | vast |
| whine |
Translate the sentences. Pay attention to the words in italics.
1. Advertising is the business of encouraging people to buy goods.
2. This film is for adults only.
3. The conversation stopped when she made her dramatic entrance.
4. Dramatics is the study of theatrical skills such as acting.
5. We explained our plans, and he was very enthusiastic about them.
6. “Everything you can imagine is real.” (Pablo Picasso)
7. Don’t let me influence your decision.
8. Her written work is a model of imaginative mind, and neatness.
9. The car needs major repairs.
10. Her major is computer science.
11. It is difficult to recruit teachers of quality.
12. Will they publish the results of their research?
13. Sand-box is a low box holding sand for children to play.
14. The teacher gave us very specific (detailed) instructions.
15. We don’t know all the circumstances, so it is pointless to speculate.
Scan text A carefully paying attention to the words in bold type.
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