Saturday, 24 November 2018

Causes and Effects of Climate Change | National Geographic



What are the main causes and consequences of climate change? Base your answers on the video above.

Sunday, 11 November 2018

Jon Lansman tells Owen Jones: We have failed to deal sufficiently deeply with antisemitism



What do you think of antisemitism? According to you, is there an actual need to define it as a separate problem or was it exaggerated? Watch the video and comment below.

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Examination topics for 3rd year students


1. Different means of travelling
2. Theatre
3. British Isles
4. Sport
5. Russia
6. The book I've recently read
7. My favourite movie star
8. My favourite film
9. Internet in our life
10. The city of my dreams
11. Happy topic

Thursday, 26 April 2018

Questions for Seminar 4 in Stylistics


1. Asyndeton
2. Polysyndeton
3. Antithesis
4. Suspense
5. Aposiopesis
6. Represented Speech
7. Litotes
8. Periphrasis

Lecture 4 (continuation)

Seminar 4

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Questions for Seminar 3 in Stylistics



1. Expressive Means
2. Stylistic Devices
3. Metaphor
4. Metonymy
5. Simile
6. Epithet
7. Pun
8. Zeugma
9.Violation of phraseological units
10. Semantically false chains
11. Nonsense of non-sequence
12. Irony
13. Antonomasia
14. Hyperbole
15. Oxymoron
16. Anaphora and epiphora
17. Chiasmus
18. Climax and anticlimax
19. Stylistic inversion
20. Ellipsis

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 4 (continuation)


Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Questions for Seminar 1 in Stylistics



1. The definition of Style and Stylistics
2. The issues that Stylistics deals with (8)
3. Stylistics and other linguistic disciplines.

The link to Lecture 1

Sunday, 7 January 2018

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s first TV interview in full

Topics for the 3rd year students


1. Choosing a career
2. Illnesses and their treatment
3. London
4. Moscow
5. My meals
6. Education in England
7. Education in Russia
8. The film I have recently watched
9. The book I have recently read
10. Happy topic
11. Sport in our life
12. My favourite TV-series
13. My favourite celebrity
14. The city of my dreams

Angelina Jolie receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2013 Governors Awards

  Watch the interview and answer the question: What problem does Angelina raise in her acceptance speech?