Английский язык в публичной речи и дебатах / English for Public Speaking & Debating

Основная цель учебника - обеспечить развитие навыков чтения, говорения и письма на базе тщательно отобранного англоязычного материала. Учебник может рассматриваться и в качестве перспективного дополнительного ресурса для овладения публичной речью.
Структура учебника и логика изложения материала в нем позволяют проводить занятия в форме творческого диалога/по-лилога/дискуссии, что поможет студентам формулировать самостоятельные высказывания с использованием соответствующих убеждающих стратегий, применять корректные языковые, смысловые и связующие средства риторического воздействия, совершенствовать вербальные и невербальные навыки ораторского искусства, принимать участие в дебатах.

Team - March 2016

A magazine for English learners at intermediate level (B1). Helps students to emerge as independent readers of English and inspires them to read and discuss in English for pleasure as well as purpose. TEAM expands students’ vocabulary and grammar and presents the English-speaking life and culture as it is in 2016 as well as debating topical teen issues. Regular Features: The Twitter Page; The Journey; Five Teens – Five Lives; What Britain thinks about.

Team (September-October 2009)

A magazine for English learners at intermediate level (B1). Helps students to emerge as independent readers of English and inspires them to read and discuss in English for pleasure as well as purpose. TEAM expands students’ vocabulary and grammar and presents the English-speaking life and culture as it is in 2013-14 as well as debating topical teen issues. Regular Features: The Twitter Page; The Journey; Five Teens – Five Lives; What Britain thinks about.

Debating the Highland Clearances

Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem.

Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential or Human Illusion?

Despite ongoing and repeated attempts to prove or disprove the existence of parapsychological events, there are still no conclusive findings—and certainly no consensus across the worldwide community of scholars, scientists, and proponents of psychic phenomena. Still, there is no shortage of information about this fascinating topic to allow everyone to draw their own conclusions.This book has been exly written to make each chapter and topic accessible to a general audience, despite containing a vast amount of theoretical material.