Практическое занятие - Check Up/Pronunciation/Speaking/Listening

Эти два занятия (среда/четверг) мы с Вами работаем по следующему плану:

1) Grammar - проверяем упражнения выполненные в понедельник/вторник

keys - 178 - which/whose/whose/which/whose/whose/which/which/which/which/whose
           179 - 2. where I was staying overnight
                    3. which is one of Rome's ancient sites
                    4. who'd been feeling unwell all day
                    5. who was standing nearby
                    6. where it was cooler
                    7. which was nearby
                    8. which we were all relieved to hear
                    9. whose name is David
                  10. where I studied History
         180 - 2. in which/where 3. so that 4. although/while/though 5.which/that 6. what 7. which (because of a comma) 8. since 9. so 10. when 11. so 12. what (a phrase with "like") 13. when 14. how 15. if

2) Pronunciation -  http://usefulenglish.ru/phonetics/practice-simple-vowels
3) Speaking -
What is LOVE?
Which way do you realize that you are in love?
How many kinds of LOVE are there in the air?
What is love tightly connected with?
Why are all of us in need of LOVE?
What do you hope for when LOVE comes to you?
Is LOVE a gift? Why?
Love is CHEMISTRY! Do you know WHY?

https://exploringyourmind.com/the-chemistry-of-love-why-do-we-fall-in-love/  - читаем и переводим

4) Listening -

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/health-lifestyle-love/3719576.html

In the United States, 1) ______ is Valentine’s Day -- a day to celebrate lovers and loving relationships. Images of 2) _______ are everywhere. Lovers say nice things to each other, like “I love you with all 3) ________” or “I love you heart and soul.”

After all, many 4)_______ a big, beautiful, red heart as the 5) _______ of love.

But maybe it shouldn’t be. Maybe the symbol of love should be a big, soft, 6)_____. As it turns out, love is more an 7) ______ than an affair of the heart.

Over the years, 8)_____ has shown that love affects the brain in many ways and in a number of 9) ______. Psychology Today magazine’s 10) ______ looked at some studies and noted the results.

The blog 11) _______ that researchers generally use a technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study the brain. This 12) _______can follow 13) _________ inside the brain.

When a thought, substance, movement, or anything else activates a part of the brain, blood flow to that area 14) _______. So, fMRIs can identify both the exact 15) ______ in the brain and the 16) ______ of blood.

The magazine 17) ______that these love studies note something similar: that a brain on love looks a lot like a 18) ________.

In 2010, researchers at 19) _______ University in New York 20) ______ worked with other scientists in West 20)_____ and Switzerland.

Syracuse professor Stephanie 21) ________ led this study. Ortigue and her team found that falling in love created the same "euphoric feelings as using cocaine." They found that “22) _______ areas of the brain work 23) _____ to release euphoric-inducing 24) ______ such as dopamine, oxytocin” and adrenaline.

When we are 25) ______ someone, chemicals such as adrenaline make our face turn red, our hands sweat and our heart beat faster.

The website Health.com describes dopamine as the brain’s 26) _____ chemical. It activates the reward 27) ______ in our brain and plays a role in drug 28) ______ and falling in love. Dopamine makes lovers feel happy and energetic about each other.

Oxytocin is known as the “love hormone” because it  29) _______feelings of attachment. Oxytocin is the hormone that plays a role during pregnancy, nursing and in mother-baby attachment.

Ortigue’s team also found that falling in love affected 30) _____ areas of the brain and not just the pleasure and reward center of the brain 31) ______ may begin.

As a side note, they also found that falling in love takes about “a 32) ______ of a second.”

In 2012, researchers at Concordia University in 33) _____with teams in Switzerland and the United States looked at 34) _______, or lust, and long-term attachment, or love, more closely.

They wanted to know if lust and love affected the brain differently.

The researchers of this 35) _______ asked the study subjects to look at sexy, 36) ____ of strangers and photographs of loved ones. Then the researchers recorded their brain activity with fMRIs. They found that love and lust activate “specific, but related areas of the brain.”

What they found, for the most part, is that sexual desire and love seem to affect two parts of the brain the most: the 37) ____ and the 38) ____. It’s no surprise that they found these are also parts of the brain most often affected by drug use.

But now, let’s get back to lust versus love.

Lustful, sexual desires begin in the 39) _______ of the striatum. As these feelings develop into attachment love, they appear to still be processed in the striatum but in a different area. This area is activated by love. And it is involved in the process of giving 40) ______ to things that give us pleasure, like food, sex and drugs.

Jim 41) _____ of Concordia was the lead writer of a report on that study. He told Psychology Today that, “Love is actually a habit that is formed from sexual desire as desire is 42) ______. It works the same way in the brain as when people become addicted to drugs.”

So, if you celebrate Valentine’s Day remember that your feelings of love are really a 43) _______ happening in your brain -- which if you like science -- is actually kind of sexy.

However, if your partner isn’t so scientifically-minded, maybe 44) ______to yourself and instead give them a gift of flowers or chocolate this 45) _______.

Useful Vocabulary to memorize -

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1) say nice things to each other

2) the traditional sign of 

3) the symbol of

4)a big, soft, gray brain

5) As it turns out

6) an activity of the brain

7) an affair of the heart

8) Over the years

9) research has shown

10) in a number of areas

11) online blog looks at some studies and notes the results.

12) The blog explains

13) use a technology 

14) functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI

15) follow movement of blood inside the brain.

16) identify both the exact location in the brain and the amount of blood.

17) The magazine reports that

18) researchers at University 

19) lead the study

20) work in tandem 

21) to release euphoric-inducing chemicals

22) make our face turn red

23) activate the reward circuit in our brain

24) play a role in drug addiction

25) feel happy and energetic about each other

26) deepen feelings of attachment

27) intellectual areas of the brain 

28) reward center of the brain

29)the study subjects to look at

30)researchers record  brain activity with fMRIs

31) It’s no surprise that 

32) But now, let’s get back to

34) feelings develop into attachment love

35) give value to things 

36) the lead writer of a report on that study

37) a complicated chemical reaction happening in your brain

38) scientifically-minded

Additional information on the topic discussed 
1) BBC NEWS- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7815095.stm
2) http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/