Презентация, доклад на тему Мировые религии к разделу Man the Believer УМК Английский язык. 10 класс (углубленный уровень) авторов Афанасьевой О.В. и Михеевой И.В., Изд. Просвещение

people living on it. We are different. We have different skin colour. We have different political views and rather often it leads to military conflicts. We believe in one thing or another. Some people believe in the supernatural: for them the world that can’t be explained scientifically is as real as anything. Others will argue with them and say that they believe only in those things that can be proved.

образом
тем временем
противник, оппонент
исповедовать
рассматривать, принимать
отвергать
безнравственный
противозаконный

Background
the supernatural
argue
reasoning
fatalist
predetermined
alter
therefore
meanwhile
opponent
profess
treat
reject
immoral
illegal

about superhuman beings of an earlier
age taken by preliterate society to be a true
account, usually of how natural phenomena,
social customs, etc., came into existence

a popular story handed down from earlier
times whose truth has not been cleared up

irrational belief usually founded on ignorance or
fear and characterized by obsessive reverence
for omens, charms, etc

something taken as self-evident or assumed as
the basis of an argument

the art that, by use of spells, supposedly invokes
supernatural powers to influence events and the
practice of this art

your friends or family before a trip.
If somebody praises you or your children’s appearance and success you always knock on wood or spit three times over your left shoulder.
You give only odd numbers of flowers to people; you take even numbers to funerals and for the dead.
You never shake hands or kiss over a threshold: you always step inside first.
If you forget something and have to return for it, you look in the mirror and smile or stick out your tongue.
You never give sharp objects, handkerchiefs or mirrors as gift.
If you whistle indoors you lose all your money.
You never celebrate a birthday or anniversary beforehand.

year’s end to avoid getting into debt the following year.
Flowers with five petals are lucky and you sometimes eat them.
Bus tickets with the sum of the left three numbers equal the sum of the right three numbers are lucky, so you always eat them.
It’s bad luck to walk under a ladder.
If you spill salt you may get sick or quarrel with somebody. To avoid both you must immediately throw some salt over your left shoulder to strike evil spirits in the eye.
Black cats are evil and can bring misfortune when they cross the road in front of you.
You consider Friday 13th unlucky.
Breaking mirrors bring 7 years of bad luck.
You never open an umbrella in the house because doing so would cause a death in the family or fire in the house.

One of them says that if 13 people sit down at a table to eat, one of them will die before the year is over. If you ever find yourself with 13 guests, invite one of them to leave the room so there are only 12 people. Alternatively, just poison one of the guests.
According to another superstition, never organise or do anything on Friday 13th as it’s unlucky. This is the day that Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. It’s also the day that Noah’s flood started and the day on which Christ was crucified. Number 13 is also unlucky because 12 witches plus one devil are present at satanic ceremonies - and those thirteen make a deadly combination!

every match!

The famous New Zealand rugby team, the All Blacks, perform an ancient Maori dance called the ‘Haka’ before each match. It’s very dramatic sight, and even if it doesn’t help the All Blacks to win, it’ll definitely frighten the opposing team!

way before a race. For him the left-hand side of the car is the lucky side but that is not enough: he makes certain that he puts his right foot into the car first!

Michael Jordan always wears blue shorts under his
uniform to bring him luck.

The famous tennis player Goran Ivanisevic has a
strict pre-game ritual. When in London, he books
the same table of the same restaurant and orders
the same feast of fish soup, lamb and ice cream
with chocolate sauce.
British number one, Tim Henman, has a favourite
shower cubicle at Wimbledon, which he uses
before and after his matches. He refuses to use any
other shower cubicle.

bring good or
bad luck?
Do you have your own superstitions?
Which ones?
What do you usually do to have good luck at any important event, for example, a test or exam?
Do you know anything about the origin of any superstitions?
Do you know superstitions of other countries?
Are they similar or different?
Do you believe that things
can bring good or bad luck?
Which poem from ex.5 p.53
do you like best of all and why?

mosque

A synagogue

Sacred symbols
The crescent and star
The cross
The wheel of life
The star of David

Match:

to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece. Modern scholars refer to, and study the myths in an attempt to throw light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece, its civilization, and to gain understanding of the nature of myth-making itself.

collection of narratives, and implicitly (неявно) in Greek representational arts, such as vase-paintings. Greek myth attempts to explain the origins of the world, and details the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and mythological creatures. These accounts initially were disseminated (распространены) in an oral-poetic tradition; today the Greek myths are known primarily from Greek literature.

Ancient Greece. Greeks regarded mythology as a part of their history. They used myth to explain natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities (вражда; антагонизм, враждебность, неприязнь) and friendships. It was a source of pride to be able to trace one's leaders' descent from a mythological hero or a god. Few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey. Еhe profound knowledge of the Homeric epos was deemed (считалось) by the Greeks the basis of their acculturation (воспитание ребёнка в традициях культуры конкретного общества). Homer was the "education of Greece".

gods and goddesses, in no particular order, to ever be considered Olympians.

all throughout Greece. There were oracles who (supposedly) saw into the future and delivered messages from the gods.

Hera and Zeus

Rembrandt’s Juno

Persephone and Hades

Athena from Head of Zeus

Venus de Milo

Muse

the most powerful of the Olympian gods.
Zeus turned into an animal.
Zeus showed Europa how to do sports.
Zeus took Europa to the capital of Greece.
Zeus and Europa had no children.
Europa’s name was given to the continent.
Cadmus, the brother of Europa, came to Grece trying to find her.

which of the gods or goddesses:

moved on the waters remaining dry;
had a twin brother;
was not raised by his mother;
gave the name to the capital of Greece;
made the world sparkle on the day of his birth;
supported her husband in all his deeds.

possessed:

powerful
jealous
clever strong
wise, warlike
just, faithful
brave
notorious
handsome
steady, artistic
musical
temperamental
shrewd
creative
skillful, tall
protective
caring