Task 1. Give the detailed summary of the film.

Task 2. Match the names of new fields of science with their definitions:

1. genetic engineering	a) the study of the structure and functions of the organic molecules associated with living organisms
2. molecular biology	b) the study of the way can be made useful
3. cybernetics	c) the study of the way information is moved and controlled by the brain or by machinery
4. information technology	d) the study of the artificial manipulation of the make-up of living things
5. bioclimatology	e) the study of physical systems at temperatures less than 183C
6. geopolitics	f) the study of climate as it affects humans
7. nuclear engineering	g) the application of physical laws and theories to stars and galaxies
8. cryogenics	h) the study of technology related to the transfer of information (computers, digital electronics, telecommunications)
9. astrophysics	i) study of the way geographical factors help to explain the basis of the power of nation states

Task 3. Use the following expressions in your own sentences. Translate them:

push back the frontiers, push smb’s findings, harnessing technology, cutting-edge design, run smoothly, install equipment, wear and tear, system, crash, power cut, production may be halted, power is restored, shut down.

Task 4. Make a report and presentation about outstanding scientists who were Nobel Prize winners. Don’t forget to tell about their inventions, their lives, etc.

“THE INTERPRETER”

Release date: 2005

Director: Sydney Pollack

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Summary.

Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words " The Teacher will never leave this room alive, " in an instant, Silvia's life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia's world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitnesses' past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her. Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else entirely? And can Tobin, coping with his own personal heartache, keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another...

Task 1. Make a report and a presentation about UNO. Find information about a structure of United Nations. Tell the audience about main functions of each principle organ.

Task 2. Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences. Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.

intractable / uprisings / launched a campaign / ally / veto

1. Turkey used to be a close ________ of Syria, but has recently joined calls for Mr Assad to implement reforms.

2. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told me at the end of March that Turkey feared the chaos that might well follow the fall of President Assad. This is not like Egypt or Libya, he said. It has the potential to become an ___________ sectarian conflict, more like Iraq.

3. But that proposal came with a caveat - a promise from Mr Obama that he would ____________ any bill eventually passed by Congress that cut healthcare but did include new taxes on the rich.

4. Six months after they started their ___________, Syrian opposition groups have for the first time agreed on a single body to represent them.

5. Roald Dahl's family has ___________ to save the hut in which the late author wrote many of his best-loved stories.

Task 3. Match the following words with their definitions and then use them in the report.

1. UNESCO	a) features belonging to a particular society, such as traditions, languages, buildings or works of art, which still exist from the past, are unique and therefore have a historical importance
2. a great deal of	b) taking action aimed at achieving a goal
3. legends	c) old stories presented as history but unlikely to be true
4. valuable cultural heritage	d) short for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
5. native speaker of	e) to make sure people are encouraged to speak rare languages, so those languages can survive
6. campaigning	f) many, a lot of
7. to preserve its linguistic diversity	g) someone whose first language, or mother tongue, is
8. to reverse the trend	h) to save the great number of languages currently spoken

b)use the words in phrases in the following report:

The United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, says more than a third of the world's six thousand languages are in danger of extinction. Of those two thousand, it says, about two hundred are spoken by only a handful of people.

When a language dies, __________ says the world loses ______________ - ___________________, poems and the knowledge gathered by generations is simply lost. In 2008, Alaska's last _______________ Eyak died, taking the language with her.

Chief Marie Smith Jones, praying here for the survival of the Eyaks. She died at the age of eighty-nine, ______________ to save her people's heritage.

UNESCO says government action is needed if the world is ___________________________. People must be proud to speak their language to ensure it survives.

In the last five years, the governments of Mexico, New Zealand and the United States managed ________________ locally. But UNESCO says the phenomenon of dying languages appears in every region and in very diverse economic conditions.

Leonardo Rocha, BBC

“ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE”

Release date: 2007

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Genre: Biography | Drama | History

Summary.

Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Is treachery or heroism at his heart? Does loneliness await her passionate majesty?

Task 1. Match the words with their definitions:

1. accession	a) the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea
2. retaliation	b) the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power
3. piracy	c) protective armour of metal plates, especially as worn in medieval times by knights
4. lady-in-waiting	d) murder (an important person) for political or religious reasons
5. assassinate	e) the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something
6. plate armour	f) a woman who attends a queen or princess
7. torture	g) send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment
8. banish	h) the action of returning a military attack; counter-attack

Task 2. Remember the episodes where are the following words and expressions are used. Write down your own sentences with these words.

was executed, illegitimate, bequeathed the crown, reign, imprisoned on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels, the Supreme Governor, the English Parliament had refused to grant him much real power as co-monarch of England, to take revenge and launches the Spanish Armada, the throne will pass to her next of kin, suitors, enthralled by his tales of exploration, ponder, Babington Plot, invade England, to quell any possible revolt, is beheaded, ascending the block in a blood-red dress, liturgical colour for martyrs, Enraged, royal consent, imprisoned for the crime of seducing a ward of the Queen, plan is shattered

Task 3. Make a presentation about the epoch of Elizabeth’s reign. How did the Queen change her country? What was the worst during her reign to your point of view?

“BECOMING JANE”

Release date: 2007

Director: Julian Jarrold

Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance

Summary.

The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends and fortune.

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