Note-taking. List the TV channels available in Great Britain

Do you agree or disagree with the following quotation? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. Truth is always strange,- stranger than fiction.

So the question is now of technique. How can parents create the kind of brain growth that leads to expertise in reading math, gymnastics, and the like? Say you want to teach your six-month-old how to read. Write down a series of short, familiar words in large, clear letters of flashcards. Show the cards to your infant five or six times a day, simultaneously reciting the word written on each one. With his extraordinary retentive powers he’ll soon be learning hundreds of words, then phrases. The idea is to try to treat the baby’s mind as a sponge. By the age of three, Doman guarantees, you child will be entertaining himself and amazing your friends by reading ‘everything in sight’. In like manner he can learn to perform staggering mathematical stunts, or to distinguish and thoughtfully analyze the works of the Great Master or the classical composers.
1. Does the article describe?
a. an event
b. a process
c. a location
2. Make a flow-chart illustrating the stages of teaching a baby how to read.
3. Find and correct the false statement.
a. Parents teach their children reading through songs.
b. Doman treats the baby’s mind as a sponge.
c. Parents should show the baby words on flashcards and simultaneously pronounce them.

What is the most effective method of learning from textbooks? Which methods do you personally favour?

Write a definition to the word. You may use any definition structure:
static electricity

Give no less than five reasons to support the statement:
Living on campus for a student is more advantageous than living in an apartment.

Give the Russian equivalent to the English word combination:
to formulate one’s idea

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Broadly speaking the system rests on individual registration with a family doctor, known as a general practitioner, or GP. Today most GPs operate within a group practice of three or four GPs. People may with any GP they choose, as long as the GP is willing to register them. A GP with a full register might refuse extra patients. Beyond the group practice lies the whole arrangement of hospitals and community health services, for example health visitors who monitor the health of vulnerable categories of people, such as those with newborn babies, or the old and infirm.
1. Write a naming definition of a GP.
2.Write the words to match the definitions.
a. An institution providing medical treatment for persons ill or injured.
b. Soundness of body.
c. Physically weak.
3. Note-taking. List the elements of the health service system of Great Britain.

Compare these two approaches. Which approach do you prefer? Explain why.

People can avoid catching a cold by taking certain precautions. Perhaps the most important precaution is to avoid people who already have colds … that you are not exposed to cold germs. You should … get plenty of sleep so that … resistance is strong. Eating nutritious food will ensure that you have the vitamins that can help fight cold germs. …. , you could try taking vitamin C supplements, which may help prevent your catching a cold.
1. Fill in the gaps with linking words.
2. Identify the topic and the controlling idea.
3. Make an outline of the paragraph.

Success in study depends not only on ability and hard work, but also on effective methods of study. Which methods do you personally favour?

Write a definition to the word. You may use any definition structure:
a student

Give no less than five reasons to support the statement:
A person should have one or two close friends.

Give the Russian equivalent to the English word combination:
a description paragraph

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A basic reason so many town dwellers wish to live in the suburbs is to have a garden in which to grow flowers. Indeed, many suburban houses imitate a cottage style. Even in the heart of London, its great parks, such as St. James, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, are informal, recreating rural ideal, and city-dwelling children often know the names of wild flowers and birds.
1. Note-taking. Find the examples which prove that British town dwellers have a nostalgia for rural life.
2. Find the synonyms of the following words in the paragraph.
a. resident
b. country (adj.)
c. сentre
3. Put the parts of a sentence in the correct order.
of the countryside (A)
aspect of popular mainstream (B)
culture in Britain (C)
one of the most striking (D)
is the love (E)

Do you agree or disagree with the following quotation? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Methods of giving up smoking:
A. Medical treatment.
B. Eating sweets or chewing gum.
C. Convincing themselves that they can do without smoking.
1. Read the outline and with a topic sentence for the paragraph.
2. Fill in the gaps with a linking word.
Everyone knows that smoking is harmful. _______ only few people can give it up.