TOP CHRISTMAS MOVIES

We have agreed that you won't have to write a review on the Polar Express if you submit 4 mini-reviews to our Christmas blog.

6 of you have done it.

4 of you will have to  do it IN THIS BLOG!

1. Trushina Margarita - 4 mini-reviews
What to do: a mini-review on The Polar Express

2. Lapshina Yulia - 2 mini-reviews
What to do: 2 mini-reviews (one on The Polar Express) or a review of The Polar Express

3. Kovalenko Oleg - 3 mini-reviews
What to do: a mini-review

4. Perepelitsa Yana
What to do: 3 mini-reviews or one review of The Polar Express

Deadline: Friday, December 28th,24:00MSK

Hometask for Wednesday, December 26

December 26 is Speech Practice.

1. The remaining topics on Holidays Around the Globe (1-2)

2. The topic on Individual Reading

The deadline is Wednesday, December 26 (24:00 MSK). 

You are to e-mail them to peddesignbox@gmail.com

If you fail to meet the deadline with any of them, be ready to present them orally at our final class on December 29.

3. Home Reading. W.S.Maugham "In a Strange Land" - only interpretation in your blogs.

The deadline is Tuesday, December 25 (24:00 MSK). 

4. Laboratory work N 3

The deadline is Saturday, December 29.

5. The Polar Express review.

(For those who have not posted 4 mini-reviews (one on The Polar Express is a must) in our Christmas blog)

The deadline is Friday, December 28 (24:00 MSK). .

Hometask for Saturday, December 22

Wednesday 19 is Speech Practice.

Things to prepare:

1. 
Laboratory work 1
Part II (all the questions), Part III (all the questions)


Laboratory work 2
Part I (all the questions), Part II (all the questions), Part III (all the questions)


2. TOPICS

1. 
19. Holidays Around the Globe: Christmas in the UK (the USA) and Russia: Different yet Alike.Compare Christmas customs and traditions in the UK (the USA) and Russia.

2.
21. Holiday Around the Globe: Religious Holidays in the UK and Russia: Compare religious (Christian) holidays in the UK and Russia.



3.Draft outlines of the topics

20. Holidays Around the Globe: National Holidays in the UK (the USA) and Russia. Compare national holidays in the UK (the USA) and Russia.

Hometask for Wednesday, December 19

Wednesday 19 is Speech Practice.

Things to prepare:

1. Laboratory work 4 (FOUR!!!)
Part I (questions 2-4, 7), Part II (all the questions), Part III (all the questions), Part IV (all the questions) 

2. TOPICS

1. 
23. Home Reading: Speak on the theme of forgiveness and redemption across three generations of the same family, told in Trollope's usual lucid prose in the story Faith.

2.
24. Individual Reading: Speak about your book in individual reading (its title, major themes and ideas, plot, key characters, language)
OR
22. Holiday Around the Globe: International Unofficial Holidays. Speak on the five unofficial holidays of international significance.

3. A topic on Environment by heart
(all but Vorozeikina, Demidova, Kovalenko and Lopukhov)

6 of you come with 3 topics, 4 - with 2 topics by heart!

3. Christmas Music Project!

4. Polar Express!
2 mini-reviews are stillmissing the film is a MUST! 

5.Draft outlines of the topics

19. Holiday Around the Globe: Christmas in the UK (the USA) and Russia: Different yet Alike.Compare Christmas customs and traditions in the UK (the USA) and Russia.

21. Holiday Around the Globe: Religious Holidays in the UK and Russia: Compare religious (Christian) holidays in the UK and Russia.

Hometask for Saturday, December 15

December 15 is Home Reading.

The story to read is J. Trollope Faith, pp. 201-208

Questions to do in writing.
3-7, 9-10, 13

Interpretation in writing and be ready to present it in class.

HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS STORY?

Share the impressions in the commentaries.

Remember one of your examination topics will be based on this story.

23. Home Reading: Speak on the theme of forgiveness and redemption across three generations of the same family, told in Trollope's usual lucid prose in the story Faith.

Wednesday, December 12

What are we to do in class?

This is our final class on Environmental Protection.

1. Laboratory works 2-4

2. Interpretation (all of you will do it - in the mode introduced at our previous class)

3. Translation-Grammar Correction

4. Topic 16

Update for Saturday, December 8

Apart from the tasks listed in the first post,

you ar to have your Home Reading with you and be ready to present the interpretation in class.

What are we to do in class?

1. Laboratory works 1-4

2. Interpretation (all of you will do it - in the mode introduced at our previous class)

3. Translation-Grammar Correction

4. Discussion (the texts suggested)!

Rendering: week 12

Read a New York Times article:

A CONVERSATION WITH STUART L. PIMM

Asking ‘Why Do Species Go Extinct?’

What do you think about Stuart L.Pimm and his activities? Do you think it helps the situation?

Make a commentary in this blog.

In your blogs you are to render an article to do with ENDANGERED SPECIES, ANIMAL WELFARE  AND OTHER GREEN ISSUES (published in 2012)!

Hometask for Saturday, December 8

December 8 is Speech Practice.

Hometask:

1. Rendering: week 12

2. Laboratory work 4

Something to think about ... and comment on (in the commentaries)

Endangered Part 1

Watch the whole documentary if you feel like it.
What do you think about the preservation of the endangered species? Do you think we are doing enough?
What else can be done?

3. Text 1-4 (IV), 1-4 (V), 1-3(IV) from English-3 Part -1 pp. 101-107, 107-112, 112-115

4. Topic 16 (not 13). 
Environmental Issues: Environmental Protection Today. Speak on the major ways to protect the environment (the green movement, animal welfare, recycling)

Hometask for Wednesday, December 5

December 5 is Home Reading.

The story to read is G. Atherton The Foghorn, pp. 20-28

Questions to do in writing.
3-6, 8-10, 13

Interpretation in writing and be ready to present it in class.

HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS STORY?

Share the impressions in the commentaries.