UNITATEA 4. ADVERTISEMENTS

La sfârşitul acestui curs, studentul va putea: − să dezbată asupra impactului psihologic pe care publicitatea îl are asupra

oamenilor − să exerseze utilizarea diferitelor forme de viitor în limba engleză

Cunoştinţe privind formarea interogativului pentru viitor

Engleza pentru admitere, Bantaş, Andrei, Ed. Teora, Bucureşti, 1995, vol. 1; Practise Your Tenses, Adamson, Donald, Longman, 1996; Exerciţii de gramatica limbii engleze, Gălăţeanu-Fârnoagă, Georgiana, Editura Albatros, Bucureşti, 1987:

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Pre-reading Discuss about the quality and the psychological impact of advertisements on ordinary people. (in groups or individually). Reading Advertisements (see the texts below). LANGUAGE FOCUS New Vocabulary: tuition; staff; range; accomodation; outstanding, remarkable; effective; race (speed contest; categories of people and animals with the same physical traits). To praise Price Prize To advertise Advertisement = ad Clipped words Refrigerator – fridge Autobus – bus Advertisement - ad Laboratory - lab Practice 1.Identify the verb forms that express future time in the advertisements below and talk about their use. Text 1 RUN FOR THE MONEY Every year at least 1000 runners begin their marathon race around cities in the world. Most of them usually stay in the race to the end. The prize is money. The runners will finish the race at different times. Some will have run for three hours; some will have run for three and one-half hours; and some will have run for much longer. Each runner will have used his own special method to keep going. There are old athletes who will have run every marathon race for thirty years. They haven’t ever

won any prizes for speed, but they’ll have finished more races than other participants. 2.Ask questions starting with: When will……..………………………………………………………………? How long……………………………………………………………………...? How often……………………………………………………………………...? Text 2 RIPOFF COLLEGE CENTRE FOR ENGLISH ORGANIZES COURSES FOR JUNIORS (aged 6-17) AND ADULTS (18+) 4 hours tuition mornings highly qualified staff wide range of teaching techniques excellent family accomodation Courses start on June, the 15th. Text 3. Objects in virtual reality are produced by a computer, and they appear three-dimensional. Virtual reality in video games and cartoons is already widely used. In the future, we will see more serious uses of it. An outstanding surgeon is planning to practise an operation on a virtual patient. Virtual-patient surgery is about to become a method for the effective training of medicine students and for research in this field or in the related ones. Engineers and architects are going to use virtual reality to make their own projects to work better. Follow-up activity Write an essay about the impact which virtual reality will have on the social sciences (psychology) of the future.

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