English for academic and scientific purpose
Шрифт:
Match the words with similar meaning.
Task 8
Give the Russian equivalents to the following.
It is important to recognize, go through the exact same electrical process, difference between imagination, a single grain of sand, source of happiness and misery, immovable rigid memory structure, expansion of consciousness, emotional response.
Task 9
Translate the following word combinations into English.
Реагировать
Task 10
Match an adjective (A) and a noun (B).
Task 11
Match these sentences halves (as given in the text).
Task 12
Which preposition goes with the following verbs?
Task 13
Look at the expressions below. Use a dictionary to check any words and phrases you did not understand.
1. the country suffered a brain drain
2. he is really brainy
3. can I pick your brains later?
4. we need to do some brainstorming
5. I have had a brainwave
6. he went out of his mind(with anger)
7. cast your mind back
8. he put it out of his mind
9. have/keep an open mind on difficult issues
10. put your mind to it
11. she is not in her right mind
12. he is in two minds
13. the job was completely mindless
14. I can see it in my mind’s eye
15. it was totally mindless vandalism
Task 14
Replace the phrases in bold with an expression from the previous exercise. You may need to change the form of the words or phrases to fit the sentence.
a) All the people in the office met to share their ideas.
b) He is a little bit crazy and unstable.
c) I am sure you can solve the problem if you really try hard.
d) The residents all agreed the attack on the library was without any reason whatsoever.
e) I have never seen her so angry, she completely lost control.
f) There was a huge number of skilled and professional people leaving.
g) I do not know the answer myself so I would like to get some of your ideas.
h) He decided to consider all the possibilities and not decide on one answer immediately.
i) This work is the most boring, repetitive thing I’ve ever done. I don’t have to use my brain at all.
j) She was always really clever at school.
k) The policeman asked me to remember something that happened a long time ago.
l) There are a couple of things that I am unable to decide about.
m) She’d never been there but when I described the island, she could imagine what it looke like.
n) It was taking a long time to think of something but suddenly I had a fantastic idea.
o) She couldn’t change wht had happened so she decided not to think about it any more.
Speaking:
Task 15
Answer the following questions.
1. What did you think when you read the headline?
2. What springs to mind when you hear the words “brain” and “mind”? 3. What do we keep in mind? 4. The mind is not the brain. Yes? No? 5. What are the four parts of the mind?
6. Where are our memories kept?
7. What are five sensory perceptions people possess?
8. When does brain memory disappear and why?
9. Only people have mind and brain. Yes/No
Task 16
Make a list of mind and memory functions.
Task 17
Speak on brain using the mind map.
Reading B
Task 18