Архитектура Великобритании - Учебное пособие

Кафедра профессиональной иноязычной подготовки УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ ДИСЦИПЛИНА: Практика устной и письменной английской речи (V курс) ТЕМА: Культура и искусство стран изучаемого языка РАЗДЕЛ: Архитектура Великобритании ЧАСЫ: 20 часов ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ Пояснительная записка Содержание УМП 1. Предлагаемый аутентичный видеоматериал предназначен для изучающий английский язык как иностранный. УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЙ БЛОК: серия заданий на основе видео STOKESAY CASTLE (2 часа) I. PRE-WATCHING ACTIVITIES 1.1. No doubt youve read some novels where the action is set in the Middle Ages. What do you think a medieval castle looks like? Share your views. 1.2. Can you guess what these word combinations mean? - a manor house - a gate house - a parish church - an architectural gem 1.3. Study these new words that will help you understand the video better. - a huddle - woodworks - a recess - elaborate - opulence II. WHILE-WATCHING ACTIVITIES 2.1. While watching the video try to concentrate on finding the answers to the following questions: a) What purpose was Stokesay Castle built for? b) Is the emphasis in Stokesay on comfort rather than on defense ? c) Does Stokesay have the right to be called an architectural gem? Share you views. 2.2. Try to single out one of Stokesay nooks that caught your fancy, give the reasons why. 2.3. Complete the following according to the information on video. Stokesay is the most _____________ early fortified manor house in England. This unique castle is ____________ hundred years old. The castle has been under _____________________ program recently. The only really-fortified part of the castle is ____________________. What is remarkable about Stokesay is that _____________________. III. AFTER-WATCHING ACTIVITIES 3.1. Think of your very own answers to the following: a) Would you prefer to live in Stokesay? b) There is a proverb: An Englishmans house is his castle Does Stokesay prove this? c) A parallel can be drawn between Stokesay Castle and one architectural relic in Belarus. Can you name this structure? Can you come up with its detailed description? 3.2. Read the description of a medieval castle taken from the book Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, paying attention to all the details. Can you feel the atmosphere of the epoch? …Clattering over the moat bridge, we passed through the main gate into the castle yard. The castle seemed like a small stone city. Huddled against the great curtain wall with its stone towers were buildings of all sizes - a slope-roofed storage shed, a kitchen with a chimney like a church steeple, the great hall, a brewhouse, thatched, barns and stables, a piggery, a smithy, and the chapel. The yard teemed with sights and sounds. Great snorting horses coming or going just milling around stirred the rain and snow dirt into a great muddy slop. Peasants held wiggling, squawking ducks and chickens by their feet, shaking them in the face of anyone who might buy. Laundresses stirred great vats of dirty clothes in soapy water like cooks brewing up some gown-and-breeches stew. Bakers ran back and forth from the ovens at the side of the yard to kitchen with great baskets of steamy fresh bread. Masons chipped stones and mixed mortar as they continued their everlasting repairs. Everywhere children tumbled over each other and everyone else, stealing bread, chasing dogs, splashing and slopping through the mud. As we drew near to the great hall, the smells overpowered even the noise - the sour smell of the sick, the poor, and the old who crowded about the door, waiting for scraps of food or linen, the rotten sweet smell of the garbage and soiled rushes piled outside the kitchen door, and above all the smell of crisping fat and boiling meat and the hundreds of spices and herbs and honeys and wines that together make a castle dinner. Does Stokesay correspond to your idea of a medieval castle? Explain, please. 3.3. There is a proverb: An Englishmans house is his castle. Stokesay seems to be the very proof of this. Do you agree? Why (not)?.