Тексты для восприятия и понимания речи на слух к учебному пособию для гимназий и лицеев Английский язык/Англійская мова. 11 класс”. Минск. Вышэйшая школа, 2015. Unit 1: Family
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- In Canada, young kids often put on their first pair of skates at a very early age. Gretzky became one of those kids when he began skating at the age of two. He started skating
Jorg: When I was a child we enjoyed skating and skiing and picking billberies, so it became a passion to protect that beautiful heritage – our Earth. 37a. Unit 6. Lesson 5 ex. 3. Jorg: As you can see, this is a normal suburban area and this is a single-family home, but it has no basement. It’s one and a half stories high. It has a livable attic to minimize the amount of heat loss and to maximize the amount of useable area. The EcoHome was built using simple construction methods and durable, environmentally friendly materials. It features a space-efficient design, a system to promote good indoor air quality and excellent insulation to minimize heat dissipation. As for energy requirements, the house primarily relies upon solar power, but does not use solar photovoltaic panels. Instead the EcoHome collects solar energy by other means. 37b. Unit 6. Lesson 5 ex.4. Helen: We have lots of windows on the south side to allow passive solar energy into the house. The passive solar provides about 65% of the heating. And then the internal heat gain from people, from lights, from computers is about 25%. On the outside we also have the dark stucco, which absorbs and stores solar energy. We use hot water solar collectors. Two of those are used for hot water and four – for space heating. It goes into mass – in the floor, in the building Jorg: To prevent heat dissipation the house’s exhaust air first passes through a heat recovery ventilator, giving its warmth to the incoming air. Efficient thermal insulation keeps the house warm in winter and cool in summer. It should be cost-effective, easy to work with. It should prevent heat loss and heat conduction from the inside to the outside and vice versa. It should act as an air barrier and as a fire barrier. Helen: To prevent heat loss through the windows we use airtight type of windows, made up of a multiple panels of glass and are filled with inert gas. They also allow a lot of natural light to pass through. We also have blinds that are light on one side and dark on the other side. In the winter the dark side generates heat if it faces the sun. In the summer you turn the blinds light not to reflect the heat from the sun. And when it is really cold, we pull down window quilts. We use a refrigerator and a freezer in the summertime, but starting October to May we use a cool closet, located on the outside wall and well insulated. They have two openings there: one at the bottom to let cold air in, and one at the top to let warm air out. The temperature in the closet is 7 Degrees, like in a fridge. Jorg: We have two water systems in the house. One is rainwater coming from the roof and stored in a cistern. This water is filtered through three filter systems and is used for drinking, cooking and washing. The other is a gray water system which reuses the water from bathing, washing the dishes and washing clothes. We treat gray water in the air-lock green house. The gray water goes through layers of sand, gravel and earth in planter boxes. Helen: We compost human waste, vegetable waste and leftover food and later use it as a fertilizer in our organic garden, which we have instead of a lawn. We prefer to grow our own vegetables, edible flowers and medicinal herbs. The compost toilet instead of a flush toilet helps to save 200,000 litres of drinking water per year. It’s a sustainable solution to the problem of drinking water globally. Jorg: We try to promote home/office where possible because in this case there is less driving. We try to use our house not only for sleeping, but for working in it as well. We have a smart car, which we use once a week when we have meetings outside our home office. We do our shopping on the same day. We always think carefully about how our actions affect the biosphere. 38. Unit 6 Lesson 6, ex. 1b Earth song By Michael Jackson What about sunrise? What have we done to the world? What about rain? Look what we've done! What about all the things What about all the peace That you said we were to gain? That you pledge your only son? What about killing fields? What about flowering fields? Is there a time? Is there a time? What about all the things What about all the dreams That you said were yours and mine? That you said were yours and mine? Did you ever stop to notice Did you ever stop to notice All the blood we've shed before? All the children, dead from war? Did you ever stop to notice Did you ever stop to notice The crying Earth, The crying Earth, the weeping shores? the weeping shores? Aaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaah 39. Unit 6 Lesson 7, ex. 3a, 3b Water facts Water is extremely important. A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water. It regulates the temperature of the human body, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, cushions joints, protects organs and tissues, and removes wastes. Water also regulates the Earth’s temperature. Water covers 70.9% of the Earth’s surface. Nearly 97% of the world’s water is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. That leaves just 1% for all of humanity’s needs – all its agricultural, industrial, community, and personal needs. The water found at the Earth’s surface in lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, and swamps makes up only 0.3% of the world’s fresh water. 68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is trapped in glaciers. 30% of fresh water is in the ground. There is more fresh water in the atmosphere than in all of the rivers on the planet combined. This resource needs protection!
FACT: 75% of the human brain is water and 75% of a living tree is water. Water makes up between 55-78% of a human’s body weight. ACTION: Drink your daily recommended 8 glasses of water per day. FACT: There is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when the Earth was formed. The water from your faucet could contain molecules that dinosaurs drank. Nevertheless, today there are many more people using the same amount of water than 100 years ago. ACTION: Don’t waste water. Use it wisely and cut back wherever you can. FACT: Water is part of a deeply interconnected system. What we pour or dump on the ground ends up in our water – so garbage and waste can contaminate the sources of our drinking water. ACTION: Take used motor oil and other automobile fluids to an automobile service center that recycles them. Take leftover paint, batteries, solvents and toxic household products to special collection centers. FACT: A dripping faucet can waste up to 2,000 gallons or 7,600 litres of water a year. A leaky toilet can waste as much as 200 gallons of water a day. At one drip per second, a faucet can leak 3,000 gallons per year. ACTION: Check your pipes and repair any leaks as soon as possible. FACT: Lawn and garden herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers can contaminate the water. ACTION: Reduce your use of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers and look for safer alternatives to control weeds and bugs. For example, geraniums repel Japanese beetles; garlic and mint repel aphids; and marigolds repel whiteflies. FACT: Taking a bath requires up to 70 gallons of water. A five-minute shower uses only 10 to 25 gallons. ACTION: Take a shower instead of a bath. FACT: Americans use more water each day by flushing the toilet than they do by showering or any other activity. ACTION: Use the light option of the dual-flush loo whenever you can. FACT: The average faucet flows at a rate of 2 gallons per minute. ACTION: You can save up to 4 gallons of water every morning by turning off the faucet while you brush your teeth. FACT: In one year, the average American residence uses over 100, 000 gallons (indoors and outside). On average, 50%–70% of household water is used outdoors for watering lawns and gardens. ACTION: Make the most of the water you use outdoors by never watering at the hottest times of the day or when it’s windy. Plant low-water use grasses and shrubs to reduce your lawn watering by 20%–50%. 41. Unit 6 Lesson 8. Listening Reporter: Hi, everybody. Here today in the studio we talk with Kimberly Russell, an invertebrate zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. I’ve invited Russel to help us understand the causes of the bee crisis which a lot of beekeepers are facing here, in the US. Should it be everybody’s concern? Russel: Actually, yes. With more than 20,000 different species, bees alone represent a substantial component of global biodiversity. Next to the wind, they are the main transporters of pollen, making them critically important for crops, fruit and vegetable production. Reporter: But as far as I know, for years they have been in steady decline, with the number of colonies in the US dropping by 57% between 1985 and 1997. Previous studies have shown that bees' behaviour changes near high voltage power lines. Have scientists found more proof that power lines kill bees? Why do you think it was going on? Russel: Normally regarded as blots on the landscape and accused by many of producing cancer-inducing low frequency electromagnetic fields, high voltage power lines are not typical candidates for conservation sites. Overhead power lines may be reviled by most people but for the humble bee they may be a saviour. Reporter: Good news. Power lines cover vast areas of land? Don’t they? Russel: They do. More than 5 million acres. That is more land than almost every national park in the US. Reporter: What you said just now is that the millions of acres of land-strips beneath power lines represent an untapped conservation resource for bees. Why? What’s changed? Russel: Yes, and not only for bees. For other threatened creatures too, because there have been changes in management practice of this land. In the past, these areas were periodically mown and sprayed with non-selective herbicides to prevent vegetation from encroaching upon or damaging equipment. But some companies have now switched to simply removing tall vegetation and using safer, more selective herbicides. To see what impact this alternate management practice had on native bee populations we compared bees collected from unmown power line sites with those of nearby grassy fields. The statistics showed that the bees collected in the power line scrubs were more diverse than those in the grassy fields. The power line scrubs tended to have rarer species and more bee-parasite species, which is normally an indication of a healthy bee community. Reporter: Bees must have adapted to the new environment. But there is a new troublesome fact. Whole populations of bees have simply disappeared. All the hive's occupants suddenly disappear (nobody knows where), leaving just the queen, her eggs and a few immature workers. Russel: Yes, and colony collapse disorder (CCD), as the mystery bee demise is known, is a serious problem, with as many as 80% of bees affected in some parts of the US. The bizarre and sudden vanishing of bees that started in the US, has now spread to Europe. Experts have put forward several theories including a cold snap felling swarms of bees, or bee viruses resulting in what scientists are calling a “colony collapse disorder”. A further possibility is that the bees are stressed out. With the factory-like, intensive farming methods used in the USA, bees are put to work much more often than nature intended. This may have lowered their immunity to viruses and harmed the ability of queen bees to produce eggs. Now, researchers in Germany have come up with an explanation that, in the absence of a better theory, will probably be seriously considered: cellphones. Reporter: How do they influence bees? Russel: Radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the insects from finding their way back to the hive, according to a preliminary study by Jochen Khun's team at Landau University in Germany. Reporter: If it is true, it's difficult to know what can be done about it, since cellphones are now so ubiquitous. But let us hope that we will find a solution to this mystery and save bees, as they save us, you know. Unit 7 42. Unit 7 Lesson1, ex. 2a, 2b Man: Hello. In our programme today we continue visiting the countries of the English speaking world. Today we’re off to Canada. Woman: And as usual in the very beginning we’ll give you a brief description of the most important facts about Canada. Canada is a North American country. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Looking at its map one can say it’s huge! And it is indeed. Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area. Man: The country was populated by various Aboriginal peoples till the late 15th century. That was when British and French expeditions explored, and later settled on its territory. After about a century France passed nearly all of its colonies in North America to the United Kingdom. But French influence was still very strong. One more century later in 1867 four British North American colonies united and formed Canada with its government, parliament and prime minister. And finally in 1931 Canada became an independent nation. Woman: A lot of people are surprised when they find out that constitutionally Canada’s head of state is Queen Elizabeth II. In Canada she is represented by a governor general. But of course there’s a parliament and a prime minister who’s the head of Canadian government. Man: The red maple leaf is a Canadian symbol . You can see it on the flag of Canada. An interesting fact is that Canada actually got its flag only around 60 years ago in 1965. Woman: The largest and the best-known city in Canada is Toronto. But it’s not the capital. Ottawa is the capital. Man: The population of Canada is approximately 35 million people. Canada is home for both English and French speakers, so as a result, there are two official languages: English and French. The country is officially bilingual and multicultural. 43. Unit 7 Lesson 3, ex.2a, 2b Host: Hello and welcome to “I went and saw” radio show for people who love travelling and are ready to learn from other tourists’ mistakes. Our experts have visited a new destination for you and prepared a report to help you have a safe journey. So our first expert is Emma. Emma: Hello, this time I went to Canada and I saw... oh, actually I saw lots of amazing things. “Lonely Planet” information was really useful for me. So first I started with Ottawa which is the capital of Canada. Unfortunately, the city itself is smaller than other cities of Canada, but it has its own charm. I went to the Parliament Hills. It’s the home of the Parliament of Canada. As I went in summer I had a chance to see a ceremonial Changing of the Guard. Host: Oh my goodness. This picture reminds me of something! Emma: Yes, that’s the Peace Tower, the central tower of the Parliament Hills… and yes, it does look like Big Ben. And like Big Ben it’s a bell and a clock tower. After that I decided to go to the Ottawa’s star attraction, the Rideau Canal. Running right through the heart of the city, this wide canal becomes the world’s largest ice skating rink in winter. And in summer I could get a boat ride which was also cool. Soon I decided that I was hungry and treated myself to the traditional Beaver’s Tail pastry. Host: What??? Do they eat beavers in Canada??? Emma: Don’t worry, it’s only a name, there’s no beaver meat in it. It’s fried dough pastry which is baked in such a form that resembles a beaver’s tail. It can be topped with whipped cream, banana slices, chocolate, well, lots of delicious stuff you can possibly imagine! Host: Yum-yum! Emma: And the second day was spent at Niagara Falls. Actually it’s a series of three magnificent waterfalls situated on the border of Canada and the United States. There are several ways to experience Niagara Falls. One of the most popular is the Maid of the Mist boat tour that brings visitors close enough to feel the spray from the cascades. Host: Oh, lovely! Emma: Yes, and on board of the Maid of the Mist I got a lovely blue raincoat that I brought with me as a souvenir! Host: Very good! Oh, that’s a good shot! So you went with Phil? Phil: Yes, we went together… and that was probably the best thing that happened to me in Canada. Host: Oof, you don’t sound particularly excited. What did you do then? Phil: Well, first I went to Niagara Falls with Emma. To be honest it was cold and wet and I got a cold the next day, but at least the view was spectacular. Then I went to Toronto. They say it can be compared to Chicago or New York in that all are big, lively, multicultural cities that offer a lot to visitors. Toronto is Canada's largest city and financial center and probably the best-known city in Canada. When I arrived it turned out to be super busy and crowded and hectic. I really found it hard to move in those endless streams of people. Toronto is not only the most populated city in Canada, but also one of the world’s most culturally diverse cities. There’s a large number of ethnic districts like Chinatown, Little India or Little Italy. Host: Sounds like fun to me! Phil: Well, not for me. Anyway, I decided to go and see the famous CN Tower. I was looking forward to go up in one of the famous glass elevators and get a brilliant view! Unfortunately, I first had to wait in a queue to the elevator which was about an hour! When we finally started to go up it turned out to be quite misty up there and I didn’t manage to see a thing. Host: Oh, bad luck! Phil: True. To somehow cheer myself up I thought it can be nice to visit the fairy tale castle of Casa Loma. It was originally a residence for a financier built in the beginning of the 20th century. It looked fantastic from outside, but I got inside together with a group of noisy children, so it was impossible to hear or see anything. I was extremely disappointed! Host: Sorry to hear that, Phil! Right, I guess now our listeners have learnt enough and we’re ready to listen to your phone calls and your experiences of Canada… 44. Unit 7 Lesson 5, ex.3a, 3b When We Stand Together By Nickelback One more depending on a prayer And we all look away People pretending everywhere It's just another day There's bullets flying through the air And they still carry on We watch it happen over there [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] We must stand together [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] Тhere's no giving in [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] Hand in hand forever [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] That's when we all win [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] That's, that's, that's when we all win That's, that's, that's when we all win
And we just go along How can we fall asleep at night When something's clearly wrong When we could feed a starving world With what we throw away But all we serve are empty words That always taste the same [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] We must stand together [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] There's no getting even [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] Hand in hand forever [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] That's when we all win [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] That's, that's, that's when we all win That's, that's, that's when we all win
Is right here inside us No one can divide us When the Light is leading on But just like a heartbeat The drumbeat carries on... And the drumbeat carries on... [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] We must stand together [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] There's no getting even [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] Hand in hand forever [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] That's when we all win [Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah...] That's, that's, that's when we all win That's, that's, that's when we all win Jenny'>45. Unit 7 Lesson 6, ex.2a, 2b Jenny: Hi Alison. Alison: Hi there! Jenny: Oh my! What are those pictures lying around?? Bears? Why on earth do you need so many bears? Alison: That’s for our school project. We’re collecting money for the endangered species of Canada. And I’ve chosen bears. Did you know Canada is the home for three different types of bears: the black bear, the grizzly bear, and the polar bear. Jenny: Sure I knew that. Come on, you can run into a grizzly bear or a black bear almost anywhere. Like we went on a hike with dad and his colleagues and saw a huge grizzly bear. I was scared ’cause I’d heard they eat meat. But dad said they are perfect at fishing and would prefer a salmon for dinner, not a me… Ha-ha Alison: Yep, and you can even see one in a suburb of Montreal or Ottawa. They can be looking for food in the local dumps. Jenny: See, happy and full! Who can call them ENDANGERED?? Alison: Well, the actual project is about polar bears. They are really about to get extinct. We want to get money and go to Churchill, the capital of polar bears, and help local ecologists. Jenny: I see, helping white Winnie-the-Poohs? Ha-ha! Alison: Don’t be that sarcastic. By the way, did you know that Winnie-the-Pooh is actually Canadian? Jenny: What?? How come it’s Canadian? Alison: You see, a bear cub named Winnipeg was exported from Canada to the London Zoo back in 1915. A little boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved to visit Winnipeg (or Winnie for short) and his love for the bear cub inspired the stories written by his father, A.A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh. Jenny: Now that’s why I loved Winnie-the-Pooh stories when I was a child, it’s simply Canadian!! 46. Unit 7 Lesson 8. LISTENING Wayne Gretzky is a legendary Canadian sportsman who was named the greatest hockey player of all-time. He was born on January 26, 1961 in the town of Brantford, Ontario province. In Canada, young kids often put on their first pair of skates at a very early age. Gretzky became one of those kids when he began skating at the age of two. He started skating in the hockey rink his father had built in their back yard. Wayne would practice up to four or five hours a day with his brothers. When he grew up in his interviews he often says "All I wanted to do in the winters was be on the ice. I'd get up in the morning, skate from 7:00 to 8:30, go to school, come home at 3:30, stay on the ice until my mom insisted I come in for dinner, eat in my skates, then go back to the rink". Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2014 2014 -> For want of a nail 2014 -> Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act of 2014 2014 -> Ihbb asian Championships 2014 middle school bowl Round 4 First Quarter 2014 -> Ihbb european Championships 2014 Bowl Round 4 First Quarter 2014 -> International History Bee and Bowl 2013-14 Asian Division Question Set Bowl Round Six 2014 -> United states patent and trademark office 2014 -> Coffs harbour eisteddfod vocal syllabus 2014 -> Listen News Programs Schedule pledge now 2014 -> Slow club announce third album complete surrender Download 411.32 Kb. Share with your friends:
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