Grammar
I. Add the adjectives and nouns in the brackets to the head nouns in bold in the correct order.
1. The autonomous learner is viewed as a/an, learner. (life-long /independent /self-directed)
2. Science editors play a role in publishing data. (reliable / central /research)
3. Government activity was frozen during the campaign. (general /web /election)
4. Academic English is run by the teachers in the language and learning unit. (qualified /highly)
5. development should form the basis for a vision of the future. (corporate / sustainable)
II. Complete the sentences with the appropriate article: a/an, the, no article
1. Both variants were confirmed by alternative techniques.
2. research generally starts off with hypothesis.
3. study produced one interesting piece of evidence
4. wisdom is not product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
5. medical ethics and business ethics are often intertwined.
Vocabulary
I. Replace the verbs in bold with the formal academic verbs.
cover examine consider summarize state
1. They believe that the European Community needs a common security policy.
2. The final paragraph should sum up the main points of the essay.
3. There is, regretfully, no space in this article to look at all these issues.
4. There is no need to say the obvious.
5. They are trying to widen the discussion to include environmental issues.
II. Choose the appropriate preposition.
1. Philosophers did not use to make a distinction with /about /between arts and science.
2. Calculations are based in /on /with a projection of existing trends.
3. Acid rain has a devastating effect on /in /for the forest.
4. The researchers say these changes raise questions on /to / about public education.
5. This chapter is concerned with /about /to the mental health of older people.
The main reason for the fading interest of young people in theater today is considered to be a new, modern way of life, equipped with high-tech information technologies. Indeed, many electronic devices that are present in our everyday life - televisions, computers and not only - quickly present information in such a simple and fascinating form that theatrical performances are not always able to effectively compete with them. Constantly in the media and in real life, we talk about how the world of technology has filled everything around us, making people forget about other ways of communicating with the surrounding reality and learning about it. But the world of theater, in contrast to the technological one, not only surrounds a person, but also exists inside him.
The fact is that people have always had the goal of learning to embody the emotional world into the material one without any distortions, to cognize it together with others and to excite the feelings of their “spiritual clients”. And the world of theater is a wonderful interweaving of arts, in which people creatively combine all the ways of self-expression!