This war could be legal, but arrogant diplomacy could kill us

The Greek Interpreter by A. C. Doyle

The Greek Interpreter by A.Conan Doyle 

Do some listening from the audio book to train your speaking skills. 

https://youtu.be/4Ax7CKClqL8

Compulsory Assignments for 3rd year students (2nd term, Arakin) Unit 5

Compulsory Assignments for 3rd year students (2nd term, Arakin)

1.

Unit 5

1. Speech Patterns. Ex. 1-5. pp. 136-140

2. Reading: Art for Heart’s Sake (R.Goldberg) – read, translate, make a word list, word combinations and phrases

3. Listening comprehension https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/what-is-art-for-1

2.

1. Word combinations and phrases – to learn by heart

2. Back-translation of the 1st part

3. Ex. 4,5 pp. 148-149; 6/7 (at the lesson), 8 

3. 1. Glossary

2. Back-translation of the 2nd part

3. Ex. 9, 10,17 (Summarize the text), 11, 12, 13 (at the lesson)

4.

1. Vocabulary Notes – 5 words (read, translate, find additional meanings)

2. Back-translation of the 3rd part

2. Ex. 2 (A) pp. 153-154, Ex. 3 (A) pp. 154-155

5.

1. Vocabulary Notes – the first 5 words to learn by heart, 5 new words (read, translate, find additional meanings) 

2. Ex. 6, 7 (A) pp. 157-158

3. Ex. 2 (B), Ex. 3 (B)

4. Role-play retelling (Ex. 18/19)

6.

1. Vocabulary Notes – 5 last words (to learn by heart)

2. Ex. 7 (B) p.158

3. Ex. 10.

4. Stylistic devices (lexical, examples)

7.

1. Dictation-translation (voc. notes, glossary)

2. Ex. 11,12,13,14

3. Stylistic devices (syntactical, examples)

8.

1. Topical Vocabulary pp. 161-162

2. Ex. 1-3 pp. 162-165

3. Stylistic analysis of the text.

 9.

Creative task 1. visit the Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts 

2. Ex. 9, 10,12 pp.166-169 

3. Discussion: Ex. 13, 14,15 pp.169 - 171

10. Make up a project:

1. Famous galleries

2. British Art

3. Famous still life painters

4. Famous portrait painters

5. Famous landscape painters

6. The most popular art movements

7. Modern trends in Art

11.

1.Writing: for and against writing pp. 96-100 (from Crossing barriers).

2. Listening comprehension (TED video)

https://www.ted.com/talks/iseult_gillespie_frida_kahlo_the_woman_behind_the_legend

Pre-listening tasks: 

What do you know about Frida Kahlo?

Have you ever seen her paintings?

What is Frida Kahlo best known for?

Watch the video and answer the questions:

What happened to Frida Kahlo in 1925? 

In 1925, Frida Kahlo was on her way home from school in Mexico City when the bus she was riding collided with a streetcar. She suffered near-fatal injuries and her disability became a major theme in her paintings.

Where and when did she start paining?

She started practicing painting techniques in the hospital after being bedridden for months. 

What did she mostly paint?

She painted friends and family, still lives, spiritual scenes and her mesmerizing colorful self-portraits.

What did The Broken Column symbolize?

It reveals her mental and physical state. 

What movement in art was she often associated with? What was the main difference between her and the representatives of this movement?

She was often associated with Surrealism, and unlike surrealists, who used dreamlike images to explore the unconscious mind, Kahlo used them to represent her physical body and life experiences.

What was the cause of the divorce with Diego Rivera?

The cause of their divorce was infidelity on both sides.

What does The Two Fridas (1939) imply?

The two in the painting suggest a position caught between past and present, individuality and dependence. It shows her anguish of loss and a splintered sense of self.

When did she die?

She died in 1954 at the age of 47.

12.

Test-paper on Unit 5.

Covid: Travel chaos spills into new week

Covid: Travel chaos spills into new week

27^th December 2021

bbc.news.com

There have been more Covid-related flight cancellations globally as the week starts, capping off a miserable festive period for thousands of people.

More than 1,400 flights have been scrapped on Monday, with Chinese and US destinations being the worst hit, the FlightAware data tracking website says.

US airlines say the disruption is due to crews testing positive or isolating.

Hong Kong is banning all South Korea's Korean Air flights for two weeks, after positive cases among some arrivals. In all, more than 8,000 flights have been grounded over the long Christmas weekend that began on Friday.

Although the number of cancellations is a small percentage of the total, it is higher than normal and comes at a time of year when many are travelling to spend time with family and friends.

In a separate development, US authorities are monitoring dozens of cruise ships hit by Covid cases while sailing in the country's waters, with several of them reportedly denied port in the Caribbean, AFP news agency reports.

Recorded Covid cases are rising sharply around the world, largely driven by the Omicron variant.

The majority of the flights cancelled on Monday are those by Chinese companies, according to FlightAware. They include China Eastern, which cancelled 368 flights, and Air China, with 141 cancellations.

Airports in Beijing and Shanghai appear to be the worst affected, with nearly 300 cancellations combined. The Chinese authorities have not commented on the issue.

The airport in the northern Chinese city of Xi'an is also on the list. More than 13 million people in the city have been recently ordered to stay at home as authorities attempt to tackle a Covid outbreak there.

Meanwhile, the worst hit US companies are United, with 84 cancellations, and JetBlue which had 66.

United warned last week that a spike in Omicron cases had "had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation", with many employees required to self-isolate after coming into contact with those infected. Omicron now is the dominant strain in the US.

But severe weather is also a factor. A blanket of snow delayed flights and disrupted roads in the western state of Washington on Sunday, adding to the travel chaos.

In the UK, British Airways has 42 cancellations on Monday, according to FlightAware. London's Heathrow airport has 47 scrapped flights.

Nearly 5.4 million people have died with coronavirus worldwide, according to America's Johns Hopkins University. There have been almost 280 million confirmed cases.

Tasks

1. Write out the words in bold.

2. Read and translate the article.

3. Make up 5 types of questions to the logical parts of the article.

4. Analyse the headline of the article and comment on the problem the author raises in the article.

5. Go through the link and write the script of one minute news https://www.bbc.com/news/av/10462520.