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PREFACE
The textbook «English for Humanities» is for students and postgraduate students of Humanities departments.
It can also be used by anyone who wishes to improve his knowledge of English.
It consists of five parts. The first two parts are theoretical, supplemented with exercises. Part I focusses on
vocabulary, word formation and word usage. Special attention is paid to the use of words in different contexts.
Part II is devoted to the teaching of reading and comprehending the texts. Here much attention is paid to
sentence and text structure reading strategies per se.
Parts III and IV include rich variety of motivating humanities oriented texts which illustrate the theoretical
material of the first two parts.
Part V is entirely a set of modern exercises (open-end questionnaire, multiple choice, alternative, etc.)
aiming at better analysing and the inner structure of the texts, purposeful extraction the information.
The main aim of the textbook is to help students to understand the text itself by increasing their word power,
to teach them text analysis. The student is to increase his word power, and through the vocabulary he is to come
to an understanding of the whole text, to master the techniques of text analysis.
For students it is necessary to economize on time and the textbook teaches them to work with different texts,
trying to evaluate the general idea by skimming and scanning.
The textbook teaches a student a wide variety of skills, helps him/her answer formal and in-depth questions,
without confusing him. It provides a student with appropiate techniques and know-how which is one of its main
purposes.
User-friendly in its layout and the very structure, the textbook offers easy for marking ennumeratedly lined
texts, exercises, firmly based on the classic principles of didactics strives at combining them with modern
Western university education.
We hope that this textbook will not be the ultimate in its kind in the series but the first, and that other similar
textbooks(e.g. in grammar ) will follow.