Faces in History, or History in Faces (1500,00 руб.)

Структура уроков  предполагает поэтапное овладение лексикой, расширение культуроведческой компетенции и, в конечном счете, формирует умение извлекать из текста максимум необходимой смысловой и лингвистической ин формации. <...> Who painted the famous portrait of a woman with a mysterious smile? 6. <...> Who was born in England, lived in the USA, died in Switzerland and was one of the greatest comic actors of all times? 7. <...> Who was born in Austria and became the music wonder of the world by the age of 10? 9. <...> UNIT I SOCRATES: THE MAN OF CHARACTER Socrates, who was born 2500 years ago, can be called the patron saint of all who want to know the truth about life. <...> When he was forty, Socrates was told that the oracle at Delphi said that no one at Athens was wiser than he. <...> Finally, Socrates was publicly tried and sentenced to death. <...> This unfortunate woman’s name has gone down in history as the proverbial type of shrew and nagging wife. <...> Socrates drank it, walked about for a little until his legs were heavy, than lay down, and, reminding his friend Crito that they owed a sacrifice to the god of medicine, covered his face with the cloak and died. 10 FOR YOU TO BE DONE Exercise I. Answer the following questions to see if you understand the text. 1. <...> The company reimbursed him the money he spent on his business trip. 17 UNIT II LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452—1519) Part I The history of western civilization records no man as gifted as Leonardo da Vinci. <...> Before Leonardo, there had been two parallel trends in Italian painting: the monumental scientific side represented by Masaccio and the more decorative, linear and poetic side, expressed by Botti celli. <...> Leonardo achieved a combination of these two trends. <...> The most characteristic device of almost all High Renaissance artists is to fit the figures into a specific geometrical pattern: a pyramid in the conception of the Madonna, a circle in Botticelli’s pictures, a paralle logram or a circle in Raphael’s. <...> This gives a systematic and ordered quality to the works of the High Renaissance. <...> Why is it said in the text that the history of Western civilization <...>