Read the text and translate it into Russian. <...> Sometimes, they are the worst teachers a child might have. 5 Ex. 2. <...> Do you agree or disagree with that statement? <...> Use specifi c examples and reasons to explain your answer. <...> Read the text and translate it into Russian. <...> The answer must be no. Of course, advocates of a well-funded sports program may argue that it is needed to attract contributions from alumni. <...> A successful athletic team provides effective publicity and creates an image of vitality and ability. <...> A team may have a winning season, but future success in sports cannot be guaranteed, however much the school may spend on athletics. <...> A well-stocked and well-maintained library, on the other hand, generates predictable and sustained benefi ts, by ensuring a ready sup6 ply of the universal resource: information. <...> That is why investment in a university library is far more important, in the long run, than support for even the most successful athletic team. <...> What does a successful athlete team provide and create? 5. <...> What kind of library, generate predictable and sustained benefi ts? 7. <...> Do you think that investment in a university library is for more important than support for even the most successful athlete team? <...> Do you agree or disagree with that view? <...> Use specifi c examples and reasons to explain your answer. <...> Read the text and translate it into Russian. <...> On the whole, a high school is not a desirable thing to have in one’s neighborhood, for many reasons. <...> If such 7 areas are inadequate, then residents of the neighborhood may fi nd themselves competing with students for parking. <...> Add the infl uence of drugs to this situation, and a new high school becomes a serious liability to the community, which may have to cope with drug dealers in its midst after a school arrives. <...> Gang life is a reality of high school, and fi ghts among gangs are not necessarily restricted to the school grounds. <...> No one seriously wishes to fi nd corpses on the street. <...> Even if most high school students have no involvement with gang violence, gangs — in addition to the other factors listed above — are nonetheless <...>
Daily_Thoughts_учебно-практическое_пособие.pdf
УДК 802.0(075.8)
ББК 81.432.1-923
А 91
Р е ц е н з е н т ы :
кандидат педагогических наук, доцент И.А. Вишневецкая;
кандидат филологических наук О.И. Романова
Утверждено редакционно-издательским советом университета
в качестве учебно-практического пособия
Астафурова, Т.Н.
А 91
Daily Thoughts : учебно-практическое пособие / Т.Н. Астафурова,
А.А. Петий, О.П. Корниенко ; М-во образования и науки
Росс. Федерации ; Волгогр. гос. архит.-строит. ун-т. Волгоград :
ВолгГАСУ, 2012. 156 с.
ISBN 978-5-98276-481-2
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Unit 1. Education and study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Unit 2. Experience and everyday life .
Unit 3. Success and career. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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Unit 5. Communication and society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Unit 6. City and country life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
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