Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hometask for Wednesday, May 29

Double class!

1) You are to finish your work in your online individual portfolios! (Renderings, summaries, reviews of the films)

2) Be ready with all your debts (if you have any)

3) Don't forget about your interpretations on HOME READING (everyone has his own text)

4) You are to write TWO NEW topics on music:

18. Music: The Role of Music in Our Lives. (Speak on the role music plays in people’s lives.)

20. Music: Outstanding Composers and Performers. (Speak on outstanding composers and performers of the past or the present day.)

At least one of the topics is to be learnt by heart! Be ready to present it in class!

Hometask for Thursday, May 23

At last, we are starting a new topic - "MUSIC"!

As well, you are to be ready with your written and translated vocabulary on music!

Don't forget about renderings on music in your individual blogs!

Hometask for Wednesday, May 22

 First Class

1) You are to be ready with your pleasure reading:

- Summary of your book (not 4-5 sentences, but 15-20)

-200-250 words and word-expressions for your active vocabulary

-Topic

-Be ready to present your topic orally and to discuss themes and the main idea of your book!

Second class

1) You are to be ready with any of your debts (interpretations, topics, individual reading)

2) You are to prepare TWO NEW topics on CINEMA:

-15. Cinema: An Oscar-Winner Film (nominations, achievements, awards).
-17. Cinema: Movie Stars and World–famous Directors.






Be ready to present at least one of them orally!

Hometask for Thursday, May 16

Home Reading Class!!!

1) You are to prepare a full interpretation of YOUR OWN text (two persons can't have one and the same text), to learn it by heart and be ready to present it in class orally!!!

2) Be ready with your debts on your INDIVIDUAL READING!

Hometask for Thursday, April 26

Tasks to do:

1) to prepare topic on Cinema №14
Cinema and Its Production:Speak on the world's greatest dream factories.

2) to prepare topic on Cinema №16
(talk about Cannes, Berlin, Venice festivals)

World-famous Film Festivals

Hometask for Thursday, April 24

Tasks to do:

1) to prepare to discuss Individual Reading(The Moon and Sixpence by W.S.Maugham)
- topic: Individual Reading. Speak about your book in individual reading (its title, major themes and ideas, plot, key characters, language).
- summary
- vocabulary list (200 words)

2) to prepare topic №1

What is an Artist? Paradoxical does it seem to be: the artist as a man apart, as "the pilgrim to some shrine that does not exist", and the artist as a man rooted deeply in his own time, in his own society, conveying the atmosphere of his time.

Hometask for Thursday, April 18

Девочки, короче я не поняла, что у нас на четверг. Будьте готовы с индивидуальным чтением!

Hometask for Wednesday, April 17

Tasks to do:

1) topic №10. Classical and modern theatre: balancing real life and people's needs

2) topic №12. Visiting the theatre: priorities and preferences

3) The interpretation of the supreme illusion - is to be learnt by heart

4) topic №11. Actors and acting: the touchstones of greatness. Cite examples from the story "Wistful, Delicately Gay" by Irwin Shaw.

5) Cinema Vocabulary (we are starting a new theme!)

Hometask for Thursday, April 11

Tasks to do:

1) to prepare topic on Theatre №9 (with examples from "Shakespeare in love") 

Theatre: The British Theatre and Its Roots. Speak on the theatre in Shakespeare’s time. Cite examples from the story “First Night” by Moira Burgess. 

2) to read "The Supreme Illusion" ( summary + interpretation in writing without learning it by heart) 

3) to prepare topic №11 

Theatre: Actors and Acting: the touchstones of greatness. Cite examples from the story “Wistful, Delicately Gay” by Irwin Shaw.

Hometask for Wednesday, April 10

Tasks to do:

1) be ready to discuss "The Tempest"

Буря

2) be ready with the written presentation of "Wistful, Delicately Gay"

3) be ready with your debts!

4) you are to have at least 2 finished themes in your individual blogs!

Hometask for Thursday, March 28

Tasks to do:

1) You are to be ready to present topics 7 and 8 orally in class!

2) to try to read "Буря" in Russian.

3) to prepare topic on Theatre №9 (with examples from "Shakespeare in love")

Theatre: The British Theatre and Its Roots. Speak on the theatre in Shakespeare’s time. Cite examples from the story “First Night” by Moira Burgess.

4) to read "The Supreme Illusion" ( summary + interpretation in writing without learning it by heart)

5) to prepare topic №11

Theatre: Actors and Acting: the touchstones of greatness. Cite examples from the story “Wistful, Delicately Gay” by Irwin Shaw.

6) write a summary on individual reading in your individual blogs 

(you are to have 6 summaries, 1-2 reviews and 6-7 renderings)

 

Wednesday, March 27

This day is our visit to the Tretyakov Gallery!!!

Hometask for Thursday, March 21

The first lesson is our HOME READING

1) You are to present your interpretations of "First Night" by Moira Burgess

2) You are to read "Wistful, Delicate Gay" by I. Shaw and be ready for discussing it. 

Translation: 1 and 2 paragraphs

Questions to do in writing: 1-7, 11, 12. 

The second lesson is Speech Practice

You are to do:

1) learn topic №7 by heart and be ready to present it in class!

2) write topic №8 using texts from our textbook

Hometask for Wednesday, March 20

Trouble!

We are to do:

1) lab.works on paintings №3, 4

2) topic №5. You are to start writing it and finish after visiting the Tretyakov Gallery

3) topic №6. You are to write it and learn it by heart!

4) Vocabulary on Theatre!

5) Read texts p.4-13, 13-17, 17-23

7) prepare materials for the topic 7 on theatre (using texts)

8) you are to have at least 4-5 summaries on your individual reading in your blogs + 1 film review + renderings

Hometask for Thursday, March 14

The hometask is the same!

Wednesday, March 13

This week is the Students' Science Week!

The only task is to share your impressions upon the report you liked best on the forum! Go!

Hometask for Wednesday, March 6

As we have failed to check all the materials for the previous class, the hometask is the same!

It is:
1) topic 3 is to be learnt by heart
2) topic 4 is to be written!

+ you should have at least 3 summaries on your Individual Reading in your blogs!

Hometask for Thursday, February 28

Lesson 1 is Speech Practice

Tasks to do:

topics 3 and 4 are to be learnt by heart

Lesson 2 is Home Reading

The story to read is M. Burgess First Night (p. 118)

1) write an interpretation 

2) queistions to do in writing: 1-6, 14, 15

3) reading and translation of the first paragraph 

 

Hometask for Wednesday, February 27

Tasks to do:

1) Laboratory works 1 and 2!

2) Topics 3 and 4

Topic №3

Painting: Poetry and Music of the Sea. Marine Painting as represented in the works by J.M.W. Turner, Ivan Aivazovsky and Winslow Homer.

 This topic is to include:
1) definition of the movement
2) types of the movement
3) main representatives 
4) comparison of W. Turner and Ivan Aivazovsky
5) conclusion

Topic №4 

 Painting: Portrait Painting. What does an artist convey when painting a portrait with photographic detail, as flatter, as distortion of human face and body? Portrait painting in different cultures: William Hogarth, Mary Cassat, Valentin Serov.

 Things to be included in this topic:
1)definition of the movement
2) types of the movement
3) essence of the movement
4) main representatives of 3 cultures (Russia, Britain, America)
5) have a talk on one famous representative from each culture, his famous picture with brief description which can show special techniques of its painter.
6) conclusion

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