LABORATORY EXERCISES (II) 1. Listen to the text "Different Means of Travel", mark the stresses and tunes. Repeat it following the model. 2. Listen to the conversation "At the Station", mark the stresses and tunes; repeat after the tape, learn the text by heart. 3. Listen to the dialogue "A Voyage Round Europe", mark the stresses and tunes. Repeat the text following the model and record your variant. Compare your variant with the model and correct your pronunctalion mistakes. 4. Write a spelling-translation test: a) translate the phrases into English; b) check them with the key. 5. Listen to some text on the topic "Trawelling", Retell it in class. 6. Listen to some anecdotes. Put down the word combinations you find useful. Act them out in class (oral and written work). 7. Listen to the poem "From a Railway Carriage". Mark the stresses and tunes. Repeat after the tape. Learn it by heart. CURIOSITY QUIZ FOR EAGERS What do you know about 1. Christopher Columbus and the history of his discovery? Why wasn't America named in his houour? After whom was it named and why? 2. Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake, Roald Amundsen, Mlckloukha-Macklay, the Papanin expedition? 3. The Mystery of the Atlantis, the Mystery of the Bennudian Triangle, the Mystery of the Easter Isle, the Loch Ness Monster?