2nd year Theatre

These are materials about theatre for practical classes.


A folder for phonetics classes.

Lessons for academic writing can be downloaded here.

London's theatreland video.




Photo by Peter Lewicki on Unsplash

1st year City and transport, shopping

1. Linking in English

• Learn when to use linking /j/ and /w/ 
• linking /r/ 
• and another video on linking /w/
• a separate video on linking /j/
• Consonant-vowel linking (practice it).

2. Find out when intrusive /r/ is used.

3. What allophones does /l/ have? Find out.

4. When is /h/ not phonounced?

Recordings of the dialogues:
NEC p. 202 ex. 26
NEC p. 246 ex. 11

Self-study (deadline 11.05)

Dialogue with the marks (reading).

Credit questions for the 2nd semester in phonetics.

2nd year Travelling

Follow the link to find materials for classes in phonetics.

• elision of /t/
• elision of /d/
• elision of /h/
• /t/ + /j/
• Would you?
• and
• /nd/
• /np/

Self-study in phonetics (deadline 2.05).

World Map – Abstract Acrylic by Nicolas Raymond, license CC BY 2.0                                       
Materials for practical classes.
Revise car parts doing these interactive exercises.
Read the article "Behind the Wheel" and answer the questions after it.
"Driverless cars" - video about them?
The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars.
Listening about electric cars.

Revise words related to airports by solving the crossword.
On the road - crossword.
Travel - crossword.

Decide on the best means of transport to get to different places voting for them and commenting on your choices here.

Article about ecotourism.
An interesing thought-provoking video about tourism.

Academic writing is here.                                                                                                                                         

Complaint letter tool online

1st year Weather and weekend

Whether the weather be fine
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not. 

http://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/nature-travel/why-do-we-have-seasons   

Listen to these poems, choose one and learn it by heart imitating the speaker's intonation:

Summer Sun by R.L.Stevenson or here and the poem.
The Wind by R.L.Stevenson or another link to mp3 and the text.
Daffodils by  W.Wordsworth and the text with another recording.
The Rainy Day by H.W. Longfellow or this version. (NEC p. 124)
Snowflakes by H.W. Longfellow. (NEC p. 124)

                                         

Linking:

• linking /w/
• linking /j/
• linking /j/ and /w/ together
• linking /r/ 
• Consonant-vowel linking (practice it)
• Find out when intrusive /r/ is used.
• What allophones does /l/ have? Find out.
• When is /h/ not phonounced?

NEC p.115 ex.1
Recording of the dialogues p. 116 ex.3.
Dialogue (free time).
NEC p. 156 ex. 32.

1st year Live and Learn

Here are the books you'll need for the classes.
Make sure you have all of them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 .

A nice quiet afternoon  (track 038).
Letters to the editor (track 043).
Peter Parker (track 051).

You can download some texts with the marks here.
Learn more about syllables.

Self-study 2.1 (deadline 28.03)

Interactive resources to practice different aspects of your pronunciation can be found on

• http://www.cambridge.org/elt/resources/skills/interactive/pron_animations/index.htm
• https://www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/free-english-pronunciation-lessons?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

2nd year Cities and countries

You will find a variety of materials on the UK here.
Below I'm going to post links to videos and texts on the topic:

• Climate and geography of the UK
• UK vs Great Britain?
• Four nations
• Read about politics in the UK
• Interactive map of Royal Britain
• Countryside is Great (part 1)
• Countryside is Great (part 2)
• Heritage is Great (part 1)
• Heritage is Great (part 2)
• How London has changed over the years

An online quiz on London sights

Materials related to the USA are here. 

US national parks

Scenic views

Yosemite

the Smoky Mountains

Grand Canyon

Yellowstone

Washington DC

Take a holiday walk through Washington

New York City

New York quiz.

Australia and New Zealand

Materials to talk about Australia and New Zealand.

The map of Australia and other useful info.
Crossword on Australia.
Interesting facts.
Read about Sydney's history.

Link to an example of an animal fact file.
Here's the map of New Zealand.

Check your knowledge of different countries with these online quizzes.
Self-study (cities and countries) (deadline 4.04).
Materials related to Ukraine.

Materials for phonetics are in this folder.
Videos on phonetics are listed below:

• plosives
• assimilation of /t/ before /p/
• assimilation of /d/ before /g/ or /k/
• assimilation of /d/ before /b/
• assimilation of /t/ followed by /k/
• gemination /t/
• assimilation of /s/
• gemination of /s/

          Betty Batter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
          If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
          But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
          So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
          Put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
          So’t was better Betty Batter bought some better butter.

Sarah sitting in her Chevrolet, 
All she does is sits and shifts, 
All she does is sits and shifts.

And this is the link to writing materials. 

"How to" articles: instructions and examples

1st year Food

Reading tasks can be reached here.

Watch Alfred Hitchcock's film Lamb to the Slaughter.

These online tasks will help you learn the words for food.

1. food
2. fruit
3. vegetables
4. vegetables 2
5. meat and fish
6. drinks
7. meals and cooking
8. restaurants

Practice reading transcription and learn the words.

1. fruit

2. vegetables

Online exercises to practice some aspects of pronunciation:

1. -ed ending 
2. -(e)s ending
3. letter 'g'
4. letter 'o' and one more test
5. letter 'a'
6. 'th'

Credit questions!

Watch these videos to learn more about Christmas traditions.

2nd year Sport

 Materials in phonetics are here.
Credit questions (1st semester).

Academic writing.

Materials for practical English on sports and reading.

Listening about benefits of sport.

Self-study (deadline December 10).

Learn more about Olympic Games with this lesson.

A video about Usain Bolt

Here is a sports interview about two extreme sports.

1st year Home

Self-study in Phonetics 2.

Credit questions in phonetics (1st semester).

Intonation of politeness.

Practice transcribing and spelling the words on different topics online.

1. house
2. bathroom
3. -ed ending 
4. -(e)s ending
5. letter 'g'
6. letter 'o' and one more test
7. letter 'a'
8. 'th'

Elementary vocabulary related to the topic (interactive exercises with pictures and pronunciation)

1. home

2. bathroom

3. bedroom

4. kitchen 1 and 2

Tasks for reading.

Materials for Academic Writing.
Video materials about paragraphs

Descriptive paragraph

2nd year Health and Medicine

This folder contains copies for practical classes.

You will find necessary materials for phonetics classes here.
Self-study in phonetics.

A video lesson on how stress affects your body.
Another TED lesson on AIDS/HIV.
A disease from the past (video with tasks)

Videos about great discoveries:
Aspirin
Marie Curie's discovery
Conquering smallpox 

Listening - A Doctor's View

Academic writing: download lessons here.

Watch this to learn a little bit about the NHS

CPR in films

Learn about bad habits and addictions from TED-lessons:
Smoking
 Drugs

1st year Personality

You will be able to find materials you need for the academic writing classes here.


Tasks for reading are in this folder.

Download a copy about a diphthong here.

NEC (book and audio).

Self-study 1






Tongue twister
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Note-taking method

Time Management - TED talk (extra)

Halloween

Subject-Verb Agreement

Infographics competition

You can find infographics from different groups following the link. Vote for the best ones liking them or leaving comments. The winners will be announced on October, 8.

2nd year students - Choosing a Career

Hello!
I hope you've enjoyed your summer holiday and will come refreshed and eager to work and learn something new. This is a short post to remind you to bring your summer reading books (either paper or e-books) and vocabularies with you on Monday.
I will be adding necessary materials over the month. But you can already download a short e-version of the 1st topic from the textbook if you wish. You should also get a printed book from the library. I hope you can bring e-books from the 1st year - they will be useful.
I will post all the materials on the topic in this folder.
See you soon!


Parts 1 and 2 of the short story The Verger by W.S. Maugham.

You can also listen to the original short story recording.

Who gets the best jobs?

Watch the video and make a list of 5 good and bad things about living and working abroad. Complete the list with your own ideas.

Watch this short video about paramedics and do the tasks.

Videos on job interviews : 1 and 2. 

Additional videos

A great Ted talk about which jobs we could lose to machines (highly recommended)!

What is employability?

Materials in phonetics will be posted in this folder. You are  going to need these books: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Academic writing can be found here.

Introduction 1st year students

Вітаю зі вступом!
На вашу першу пару ви маєте принести з собою зошит у КЛІТИНКУ (24 аркуші і більше), ручку, олівець, лінійку, гумку та ДЗЕРКАЛЬЦЕ!
На цьому блозі будуть розміщуватись матеріали, які знадобляться в процесі навчання. Прошу завантажити їх заздалегідь.
Починаємо з матеріалів для роботи над вимовою.

Перш за все, це книжки та аудіо до них.
Також ми з вами будемо користуватися цією методичкою.
Інші підручники з фонетики ви можете завантажити тут.
Зверніть увагу на табличку фонетичних символів справа.
Крім того, пропоную кілька посилань на гарні електронні словники, якими я закликаю активно користуватися:
http://www.ldoceonline.com/
http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?a=1&SHL=2.

Відео для самостійного відпрацювання звуків ви знайдете тут: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/.
Відео про schwa.
Аудіозапис тексту зі scwa.

Наполегливо раджу приєднатися до безкоштовного онлайн курсу англійською мовою про підготовку до університету за посиланням ! Цей курс не вимагатиме від вас багато часу, ви можете до нього звертатися у зручний для вас час, але він допоможе вам зрозуміти основні відмінності між навчанням у школі та в університеті та сформувати власні ефективні стратегії навчання з самого початку!!!

Розклад занять ви можете дізнатися за посиланням - предмети та аудиторії даються окремими документами з правого боку сторінки (аудиторний фонд +розклад занять).

Академічне письмо.
Запис (діалог Unit 1)
Diphthong (copy)
Cамостійна робота 1 (до 27. 09)
Самостійна робота 2 (до 2.10)
Запитання до заліку!
Посилання на опитування про курс.

До зустрічі!

Exam

Here is a link to the story we've read during the last class.

Coming back up.
I advise you to listen to the recording of the story and imitate its reading.
You will find a variety of stories on the same website. You can practise you reading, translation and retelling with their help.
And don't forget to revise your active vocabulary and demonstrate your knowledge in the exam.
Good luck!

City, transport, shopping - materials in phonetics

Here is a collection of video links concerning different isssues:

1. Linking in English

• Learn when to use linking /j/ and /w/ 
• linking /r/ 
• and another video on linking /w/
• a separate video on linking /j/
• Consonant-vowel linking (practice it).

2. Find out when intrusive /r/ is used.

3. What allophones does /l/ have? Find out.

4. When is /h/ not phonounced?

Recordings of the dialogues:
NEC p. 202 ex. 26
NEC p. 246 ex. 11

Self-study (deadline 11.04)

Credit questions for the 2nd semester in phonetics.

City / shopping

Here are the materials related to the topics transport and cities.

These exercises can help you learn

• car related vocabulary
• words about streets and roads
• around town
• air travel
• sea transport

Short useful videos 

• about traffic rules for pedestrians
• a short story in two parts

A folder with the materials on shopping.

Video Shopping is Great (part 1) with tasks and part 2.

Materials on academic writing

Please, complete this survey concerning your impressions of the course in academic writing.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GTZZDYR

Weather/weekend (materials in phonetics)

Listen to these poems, choose one and learn it by heart imitating the speaker's intonation:

Summer Sun by R.L.Stevenson or here and the poem.
The Wind by R.L.Stevenson or another link to mp3 and the text.
Daffodils  by  W.Wordsworth.
The Rainy Day by H.W. Longfellow or this version. (NEC p. 124)
Snowflakes by H.W. Longfellow. (NEC p. 124)

                                         

retrieved from:

http://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/nature-travel/why-do-we-have-seasons   

Linking:

• linking /w/
• linking /j/
• linking /j/ and /w/ together
• linking /r/ 
• Consonant-vowel linking (practice it).

Recording of the dialogues p. 116 ex.3.
Dialogue (free time).
NEC p. 156 ex. 32.

Weather /weekend

                                                                                Materials on the topic WEATHER are here. 

Watch this video about British weather and do online tasks.

Do these online exercises to find out more about weather forecasts: activities 1 - 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/lower-intermediate/unit-16/session-1

The Rainy Day by H.W. Longfellow or this version.
The Months by S. Coleridge.
Rain in Summer by H.W.Longfellow.
Snowflakes by H.W. Longfellow.

Materials on the topic FREE TIME are here.
Videos Literature is Great (parts 1 and 2).
Video Creativity is Great (part 1).
Video Sport is Great (both parts).
Video about Extreme Sports.

Academic Writing Videos

Comparison and Contrast Essays

Six websites that help with your writing: http://www.cristinacabal.com/?p=6434

Cause and Effect Essays

Learning (phonetics)

Here are the books you'll need for the classes.
Make sure you have all of them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6, 7. 

A nice quiet afternoon  (track 038).
Letters to the editor (track 043).
Peter Parker (track 051).

You can download some texts with the marks here.

Self-study (deadline 27.03)