Express your opinion of the content and expression-plane of the text

Discuss the text in class.

Present a summary of the text.

Summarize each paragraph from the text in one or two sentences.

Use the vocabulary practiced in tasks 1 and 2 to make up situations of your own.

Fill in the blanks. Use the text for reference.

1) The question, used as the title of the present book has been discussed … … …, by leading linguists, but, unfortunately, at long intervals, and … without much influence on the actual learning of lan­guages, or the … … of modern scholars.

2) Texts like the one … by Henry Sweet, innumerable other texts which appear not only in … of English, but as books in their own right, as … … and translations of scientific treatises, are too often … ….

3) We may sound too categorical, but so far n o … solution has been offered, no way out … shown.

4) We do not … to say, of course, that the question of …, of masters of style to be studied and …d, had never been asked or answered before.

5) This brings us naturally to the more … …, that is, the scope and aims of philology - the sci­ence which … itself with everything that has ever been written or said.

6) In our University … this is … in the now generally accepted administrat­ive division: philological faculties in this country have been neatly … into two parts.

7) At the same time if the literary critic does not study the … texts, if he hopes to get away with (the usually imperfect) … which are assumed to help him to understand the ideas or ideals … in them, or the social … of this or that writer - and nothing else - he cannot be …

as a philolog­ist in the proper sense of the word.

8) At the same time, he must have a very … … of the kind of English he has decided lo­use in his own speech and writing. In other words, the philologist must know … what it is he is expect­ed to …, what kind or variety of the language he should … to produce when "performing" orally or in writing.

9) The … … … of the present manual is to provide concrete … - texts and explanations - which should enable the learner to know what it is he (or she) must … as the modelto be fol­lowed as closely as possible when using English ….

10) In this manual we are not … with fiction or imaginative writing; our practical problem is scien­tific English in the broadest sense of the word that is, the English we … when we lecture, write books and articles, take part in international conferences, etc. In all those … we use English cross-culturally: speaking English (instead of using our own language) is something unnatural, something that requires a spe­cial effort, it is an exercise in … … across cultures.

4. Make your own list of key–units and topical vocabulary

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