Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Культура"

Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите текст “ What is Culture? Defining Culture, Thinking about Culture” by Jorden A. Cummings and Lee Sanders from https://openpress.usask.ca/introductiontopsychology/chapter/culture/

Задание 2. Ответьте на вопросы. Перескажите текст.

1. What is a broad definition of culture?
2. What features of culture are central to understanding the uniqueness and diversity of the human mind?
3. What are the three ways to parse the concept of culture?
4. What examples are given in the text about cultural differences as sources of tension?
5. Are you a cultured person? Why yes or no?

Задание 3. Выпишите значения слов и выражений из словаря.

1. to collect
2. to accomplish
3. to predict
4. to appreciate
5. to compete
6. a similarity
7. to emphasize
8. to parse
9. to interact

Задание 4. В предложениях заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу словами из Задания 3, поставив их в правильную грамматическую форму. Переведите предложения.

1. Contemporary youth culture … the same goal through the use of instant text messages on smart phones.

2. Understanding the changing nature of culture is the first step toward … how it helps people.

3. Culture is a … understanding of the way the world works, shared by members of a group and passed down from one generation to the next.

4. Enculturation is a fluid and dynamic process that … that culture is a process that can be learned.

5. The concept of culture can be … using progressive cultivation, ways of life and shared learning.

6. There are … in culture between Japan, China, and Korea, for example, even though politically they are very different.

7. When someone says, “My company has a … culture,” does it mean the same thing as when another person says, “I’m taking my children to the museum so they can get some culture”?

8. Modern youth culture, for instance, … with technologies such as smart phones using a different set of rules than people who are in their 40s, 50s, or 60s.

9. There are systematic and … ways of behavior or thinking across members of a culture.

Задание 5. Посмотрите видео“Cultures of learning - vital feature of international education” по ссылке https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LsZ_-wp0nA

Задание 6. Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски словами, подходящими по смыслу, переведите предложения.

granted, expectations, threatened, behaviour, participating, memorise, encouraged, to impose, reciprocally, participation, explicit

1. It is easy to take learning styles for………….. we do it all the time.
2. We all have ……………..about how teachers should teach and how students should study.
3. People may feel ……………. by alien ways of learning.
4. In an international class students and teachers can observe some unexpected …………...
5. A western teacher may be concerned that an eastern student isn't …….. with the others.
6. In Chinese learning tradition students will often ………… views of famous academics.
7. In British learning tradition students are ………… to express their own views.
8. It is a bad idea to ………. judgements based on our own cultural experience.
9. It is a good idea to value the exchange of cultures and learn …………..
10. For international students learning by………… extends their learning repertoire.
11. These three steps help us to make cultures of learning and teaching.