Notes on style
1. Rhetorical questions are special syntactical SD regarded as utterances in the form of question which pronounce judgements.
They can also express various kinds of modal shades of meaning: doubt, challenge, scorn, irony.
What do you remember most about your childhood?
What did your friends talk about, at least part of the time, before class?
An item from a newspaper? An ad that you noticed in a magazine or television commercial?
2. Inversion is an expressive means, which consists in inverted word order.
Stylistic inversion is aimed at attaching logical stress to the surface meaning of the utterance.
With all this you also absorb ideas about behaviour...
Actually, a comedian does sit sometimes ..
Most of the time, the response comes in as programmed.
3. Asyndeton is the deliberate avoidance of conjunctions.
They would embark the following day. No trains, no bustle, no last-minute worries.
Then the material is written, staged, photographed with or without audio, printed....
Содержание
- В.Д. Аракин, и.А. Новикова, г.В. Аксенова-Пашковская, с.Н. Бронникова, ю.Ф. Гурьева, е.М. Днанова, л.Т. Костина, и.Н. Верещагина, м.С. Страшникова, си. Петрушин
- Isbn 5-691-00978-8 (в пер.).
- Isbn 5-691-00978-8 (в пер.)
- Предисловие
- Essential course
- Text From doctor in the house
- Commentary
- Speech patterns
- Phrases and Word Combinations
- Essential vocabulary
- Summary
- 2 Textual connectors and sequence markers
- Vocabulary exercises
- Thematic vocabulary
- Higher Education
- Text From to kill a mockingbird
- By Harper Lee
- Commentary
- Commentary
- Speech patterns
- Phrases and Word Combinations
- Essential vocabulary
- To betray smb' trust, win smb's trust
- Reading comprehension exercises
- Notes on style
- Syntactical stylistic devices
- Lexical stylistic devices
- Assignments to the analysis of style
- Vocabulary exercises
- Getting to grips with phrasal verbs
- Conversation and discussion courts and trials thematic vocabulary
- Crime and Punishment
- B) Use the material of the text and the thematic vocabulary in answering the following questions:
- 7. Juvenile delinquency is an issue about which people all over the world are concerned.
- A) Read the extracts given below which present information on the gravity of the problem:
- 11. Get ready to act out a scene from the film Witness For The Prosecution
- Characters
- Scene One
- Commentary
- Speech patterns
- Phrases and Word Combinations
- Essential vocabulary
- Paraphrase the following sentences using the phrases and word combinations:
- Make up and practise a dialogue using the phrases and word combinations.
- 12. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases and word combinations:
- Notes on style
- Vocabulary exercises
- 5. Review the essential vocabulary and translate the following sentences into English:
- Getting to grips with phrasal verbs
- 1. Read the page from a dictionary and translate the sentences into Russian.
- 2. Complete the sentences below with a suitable phrasal verb:
- Conversation and discussion books and reading thematic vocabulary
- Graham Greene: 1904-1991
- Britain's favourite books: the top 100
- Unit four
- Text From ragtime1
- By e. L. Doctorow
- Commentary
- Speech patterns
- Phrases and Word Combinations
- Essential vocabulary
- Reading comprehension exercises
- Vocabulary exercises
- 4. Paraphrase the following sentences using the essential vocabulary:
- 5. Use the essential vocabulary in answering the following questions:
- 6. Choose the right word ("to ignore", "to neglect" or their derivatives).
- 7. Fill in the blanks with postlogues:
- Make up short situations or a story using the essential vocabulary.
- Translate the following sentences into English:
- 2. Complete the sentences below with a suitable phrasal verb.
- 3. Replace the words in italics with the most suitable phrasal verbs from the dictionary entry.
- 4. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- Conversation and discussion
- Man and music
- Thematic vocabulary
- Understanding Music
- B) Find in the text the facts the author gives to illustrate the following:
- C) Summarize the text in five paragraphs specifying the development of 1) op era, 2) operetta and musicals, 3) instrumental music, 4) jazz and 5) rock.
- 2. Use the thematic vocabulary in answering the following questions:'
- 3. Below are opinions on the development of music.
- A) Spend a few minutes individually thinking of further arguments you will use to back up one of the opinions:
- 4. Group work. Split into buzz groups of 3—4 students each. Discuss the following, using the expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Afro-American Music
- The Proms: a Living Tradition
- Unit five
- The lumber-room
- By h. Munro
- Speech patterns
- Phrases and Word Combinations
- Essential vocabulary
- Reading comprehension exercises
- Notes on style
- Vocabulary exercises
- The Difficult Child
- The Bell Family Charter
- 2) Phrases worded in a straightforward way and those worded in a less categorical, polite way.
- B) Be ready to act out the dialogue in class.
- 11. Below are some quotations dealing with family life and children. Illustrate them with a short story.
- Unit six
- Growing up with the media
- By p. G. Aldrich
- Speech patterns
- Phrases and Word Combinations
- Essential vocabulary
- Reading comprehension exercises
- Notes on style
- Vocabulary exercises
- Getting to grips with phrasal verbs
- 2. Complete the sentences below with a suitable phrasal verb.
- 3. Replace the words in italics with the most suitable phrasal verbs from the dictionary entry.
- 4. Translate into English using phrasal verbs.
- Conversation and discussion
- Television
- Thematic vocabulary
- A National Disease?
- The Story So Far
- A) Find the English equivalents for the following:
- B) Answer the following questions:
- 4. Read the following and extract the necessary information.
- Internet
- Television Questionnaire
- Unit seven
- From the time of my ufe
- Commentary
- Speech patterns
- Phrases and Word Combinations
- Essential vocabulary
- 4. Read the passage beginning with "After the war I found..." up to "... Where their knowledge of the outside world is invaluable" and pay attention to tones, weak forms and rhythm.
- 5. Complete the following sentences:
- Make up five sentences on each pattern.
- Pair work. Make up and act out a dialoue using the speech patterns.
- Translate the following sentences into English:
- Notes on style
- Vocabulary exercises
- 4. A) Give the Russian equivalents for:
- B) Fill in the blanks with the verb "to make" with a preposition:
- 5. Paraphrase the following sentences using the essential vocabulary.
- 6. Use the essential vocabulary in answering the following questions. Give full answers repeating the wording of the questions.
- Make up and practise short dialogues or stories using the essential vocabulary.
- Review the essential vocabulary and translate the following sentences into English:
- Conversation and discussion
- Customs and holidays
- Thematic vocabulary
- The Field of Folklore
- Issues for Discussion
- Unit eight
- From thursday eveninc
- By Ch. Morley
- Speech patterns
- Phrases and Word Combinations
- Essential vocabulary
- Reading comprehension exercises
- Notes on style
- Vocabulary exercises
- Getting to grips with phrasal verbs
- Conversation and discussion
- Family life
- Thematic vocabulary
- The Politics of Housework
- Appendix
- Unit one
- Organization and structure of the system of education in the usa
- British and american universities
- Unit two
- The us Court System
- Unit three
- Guide to Literary Analysis. Evaluating a Story
- Analyzing the Author's Style
- (Continued)
- Unit six
- Major British and American Broadcasting Companies, Networks, News Agencies
- International Federation of Journalists declaration of principles on the conduct of journalists
- Additional exercises1
- Composition subjects
- Respond to the following situations either in a short story, using a dialogue and a description, or in an essay form.
- Conversational expressions (Units one - eight)
- Unit one
- Persuasion
- Persuasion
- Some means that can be useful in persuading others
- Attack and response
- Response
- Unit three
- Unit four
- Agreement and disagreement
- Expressions showing criticism and virtues
- Unit five
- Reacting to opinion
- Giving clarification
- Unit seven
- Correcting people
- Unit eight
- Role playing
- Giving advice
- I would advise you to do...
- What you must decide
- Role cards
- Possible follow-ups
- Discussing a textbook
- Situation
- Cast list
- What you must decide
- Possible follow-ups
- Television
- Situation
- Cast list
- What you must decide
- Possible follow-ups
- The investigation
- Situation
- Cast list
- What you must decide (after the role play)
- Role cards
- Possible follow-ups
- An incident at school Situation
- Cast list
- What you must decide
- Role cards
- Possible follow-ups
- Nick's birthday
- Situation
- Cast list
- What you must decide
- Role cards
- Possible follow-ups
- Students' wedding Situation
- Cast list
- What you must decide
- Role cards
- Possible follow-ups
- Методические рекомендации студентам, готовящимся к проведению микроуроков
- Рекомендации по проведению микроуроков по работе с речевыми образцами
- Тренировочные упражнения
- Упражнения на применение изученных речевых образцов
- Рекомендации по проведению микроуроков по работе с текстом
- Рекомендации по проведению микроуроков по работе с лексикой
- Рекомендации по проведению микроуроков по работе над экспрессивной речью
- Рекомендации по проведению микроуроков по работе с аудиотекстом
- Рекомендации по проведению микроуроков
- По работе над фонетической стороной
- Устной речи и чтения
- Рекомендации по проведению микроуроков
- По письменному контролю выработанных
- Навыков и умений
- Appendix
- 119571, Москва, просп. Вернадского, 88,