CULTURES

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 550.

ART

Relative Clauses

Main clause, +(about which,-which,-that,-who,-to/with whom) relative clause, main clause

Giving advice:

I'd advice you to..;Why don't you..;You might consider..;

It's vital that you..;It might be a good idea to..;

I think you need to..; You could also..;If I were you,I'd..;

It's essential that..;

Responding to advice:

Great,thanks very much. That's helpful,thanks a lot.

That's sounds good to me. All right, I'll think about that.

Ok,I'll think it over.

Peer Pressure

PP can happen,when we are influenced to do smth we would not usually do,because others do this,and we want to be liked,to fit in and to be accepted by the majority(peers,friends). We try to conform to the peer group with whom we socialize.PP can influence how people dress,their behaviour&attitudes.PP can lead to bullying because some bullies are popular and liked by many of their peers, which means that others do the same things to their targets.

Controversial-causing a lot of disagreement

Thought-provoking-causing people to think

Groundbreaking-involving new methods=progressive

Retrospective-a show of the past work of an artist

Preview show-an occasion to see smth before the public

Masterpeace- a very good peace of art

To be impressed by smth

I'm not really into that sort of things

Live up to smb's expectations

It wasn't worth the effort or the entrance fee for that matter.

Entirely unexpected; completely different/wrong; deeply moving

Utterly-sovershenno; devastated-opustoshennyj

Good-excellent-brilliant-outstanding

Interesting-fascinating-absorbing-complelling-gripping-thrilling

Stupid-crazy-absurd-ridiculous

Funny-humorous-amusing-exhilarating-hilarious-laughable-witting

Bad-terrible-appalling-awful-dreadful-nailbiting-terrific

Boring-dull-heartbreaking-monotonous-repetitive-tedious

Exciting-dramatic-moving-touching

1.It was such an intriguing story,so unusual and mysterious.

2.They hope the students will feel stimulated by the talk.

3.She's quite angry at the moment and feels hostile(vrazdebno) towards British culture.

4.The old people felt so lonely and isolated.

5.The teacher made us feel inadequate and stupid if we made mistakes.

6.I get really frustrated an impatient with my computer sometimes.

REPORTED SPEECH

He said he had emigrated to Chicago just over ten years before.

He said that he didn't enjoy living there.

He said the countryside outside the city was stunning and the people were wonderful.

He said he is just not fitting in at the moment.

Today=then/that day; Yesterday=the day before

Tomorrow=the next dat/the day after;Last week=the week before

REPORTING VERBS

Infinitive with to-offer,refuse,agree,promise

Object+inf.+to-advise,invite,warn,tell,encourage,persuade

-ing form-admit,regret,consider,deny,insist on,apologise for(v.+prep)

VOCAB.

Prefixes:anti,counter,inter,mis,multi,post,pre,sub

Suf.:able,ible,ism,less,logy,ment

ART Vocabulary:

Art and Artists: abstract,artist,art lover,collector,contemporary, controversial,critic,grounbreaking, masterpiece, modern,painter,preview, realism,realist,retrospective,culptor,thought-provoking