Table of levels and types of reading

	BEGINNERS	INTERMIDIATE	UPPER-INTERMIDIATE
EXTENSIVE READING	1.8, 2.24 2.26 2.32 3.3 3.12 3.17 3.18 3.23 3.28 3.30 4.2 4.3 4.5 5.25 6.26	1.5 1.7 1.10 1.11 2.17 2.18 2.33 2.34 3.1 3.2 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.21 3.24 3.25 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.15 4.16 4.21 4.23 5.24 5.27 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.9 6.10 6.11 6.13 6.24 7.2 7.8 7.13 7.17 7.30	1.9 2.19 2.31 2.34 2.35 6.22 6.32 7.12 7.32
INTENSIVE READING	1.14 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.22 2.25 2.29 3.11 3.14 3.15 3.16 4.1 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.8 5.22 5.23 6.6 6.14 6.19 6.20 6.25 6.27 6.29 6.30 6.31 7.7 7.9 7.28	1.15 2.6 2.21 2.23 3.19 3.20 3.29 3.31 4.9 4.10 4.14 4.19 5.1 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.8 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 6.4 6.17 6.18 6.23 7.1 7.6 7.15 7.16 7.20 7.21	2.27 5.2 5.3 5.7 5.20 5.26 7.27 7.29
SCANNING		1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.6 2.20 2.30 3.4 3.8 3.10 3.13 3.26 3.27 3.32 4.17 4.18 4.22 4.24 5.9 5.12 5.21 6.5 6.7 6.16 6.21 7.10 7.11 7.14 7.18 7.23	1.12 5.10 7.19 7.31
SKIMMING	2.28 7.5	3.9 3.22 4.20 4.25 4.26 5.13 6.8 6.12 7.22 7.24 7.25 7.26	1.13 5.11 6.15 6.28 7.3 7.4

UNIT 1. FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FAMILY TREE

Ø 1) Read the text and draw the English language family tree.

English is a member of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. The Indo-European family includes several major branches: Latin and the modern Romance languages, the Germanic languages, the Indo-Iranian languages (including Hindi and Sanskrit), the Slavic languages, the Baltic languages of Latvian and Lithuanian (but not Estonian), the Celtic languages, and Greek.

The closest living relative of English is either Scots (spoken primarily in Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland) or Frisian (spoken by Frisian ethnic groups who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany). After those are other Germanic languages, namely the West Germanic languages like Dutch, Afrikaans, Low German, High German, and the North Germanic languages like Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese (a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken in the Faeroe Islands and in Denmark).

Ø 2) Is Russian “a relative” of English? For whom is it easier to study English as a foreign language?

Ø 3) In Russia, the most popular foreign languages to study are English, German, French, and Spanish. Which of these languages would you choose to study after English?