The World and the LAnguage
2. Answer the questions.
What is a language family?
What do linguists establish comparatively?
How do linguists establish the relationship of languages?
What languages belong to the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family?
What languages belong to the Indo-European language family? Name as many languages as possible.
Which of the languages will be easier to learn as a second and a third foreign language after a person has learnt English?
What language families do you know?
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- А. Л. Казыро, а. А. Фокина, е. Л. Яндакова
- Раздел I Значение дисциплины и методические рекомендации по ее изучению
- 1.1 Значение пособия для подготовки студентов-филологов
- 1.2 Цели и задачи курса
- 1.3 Методические рекомендации по работе со сборником
- Раздел II тексты по лингвистике для студентов-филологов What is linguistics?
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Find in the text the English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- 5. Retell the text. Language as a system
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Explain the meanings of the following words and expressions:
- 5. Retell the text. Language structure and language function
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Complete the following text with the words or phrases from the box (using them in the appropriate form).
- 5. Retell the text. Language families
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Match each word or expression on the left with the correct definition on the right.
- 5. Retell the text. The languages of Russia
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Read the text again and say if the following statements are true (t) or false (f).
- 5. Retell the text. The Maris and their language
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Finish the following sentences:
- 5. Retell the text. The Finns and the Karelians and their languages
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Find pairs of words from these two lists:
- 5. Retell the text. The world language
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Complete the statements about the world language with the words in the box.
- 5. Retell the text. British English
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Work with a partner. Think of as many differences between British English and American English as possible.
- 5. Retell the text. What is American English?
- Australian English
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 4. Replace the words in italics by the words from the standard English.
- 5. Retell the text. The language competition
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Look at the suffixes of these words. Are they adjectives (a) or nouns (n)?
- 5. Retell the text.
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Read the text ‘Killer languages’ strengthen their grip. Are these statements true or false?
- 5. Retell the text. Fields and aspects of linguistics
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Match a word in a to a synonym in b.
- 5. Retell the text. Phonetics as a branch of linguistics. Phonemes
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Write the nouns connected to Phonetics.
- 5. Retell the text. The object of lexicology. Synonyms, antonyms and homonyms
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Match up the words in column a with the words in column to form meaningful phrases.
- 5. Retell the text. English Vocabulary. New words and old
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 5. Retell the text. Words and their ways in English speech
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 5. Retell the text. What are proverbs?
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 5. Retell the text. An introduction to theoretical grammar
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 5. Retell the text. Parts of speech
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Choose the right answer.
- 5. Retell the text. On the English case system
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Complete the sentence using the missing prepositions where it is necessary.
- 5. Retell the text. Syntax
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 4. Match up the words in column a with the words in column b to form meaningful phrases.
- Problems of stylistic research
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Work in small groups. Read the text and add any information to the chart you can.
- 5. Retell the text. Stylistics of language and speech
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 1. Study the vocabulary:
- 2. Answer the questions.
- 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- 4. Find synonyms of these words.
- 5. Retell the text. Список использованной литературы
- Содержание
- Раздел I. Значение дисциплины и методические рекомендации по ее изучению 3
- Раздел II. Тексты по лингвистике для студентов-филологов5