Пәннің оқу-әдістемелік кешенін құрастырушы: Абадилдаева Ш. К

Reading activity E

Here are some more statements in which there are masculine-or feminine-gender words .Which of these refer only to men or women, and which refer to people in general?
Man who hesitates is lost.
The average working man earns almost twice as much as the average working woman.
Man can do several things which animal cannot do ...Eventually, his vital interests arc not only life, food, access to female, etc., but also values, symbols, institutions...
Englishmen are said to prefer tea or coffee.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he'll eat forever.
Rewrite as many as you can, avoiding the words man and men.
• Adapted from Reading2

Reading activity F
Now work in groups of two, each group
having only one of the passages that follow.
In your group follow these .steps:

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  Read the passage carefully;
  

• 
  Sum up what it is about for the other
  groups;
  
• 
  Try to guess how it is situated in the
  whole
  

text (e.g. does it come before or after the passage just summed up by one of the other groups? Why? What words,
expressions or ideas can help you to justify
your opinion?);
• Discuss with the other groups
until you can reconstitute the whole
story, from the beginning to the end.
Taken from Developing Reading Skills.
Reading activity G
You are thinking of buying a collage in the Cotswolds (or North Cotswolds). This is what you want

• 
  Three bedrooms or more
  

• 
  An old house you could modernize
  yourself
  

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  In a small village
  
• 
  Price under 540,000
  

Look at the following раge and circle the advertisements corresponding [ to what you are looking for (if any). Try to do this as quickly as you can.
Taken from Developing Reading Skills.