Read and translate the following passages, then describe yourself, your friends and members of your family.

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I’m five foot height. I’m not sure what that is on the metric scale – I think it’s one meter seventy, or something like that. So I’m quite tall. I’m overweight I think, although people say I’m not. I don’t know how much I weigh, cause I always find it too depressing to weigh myself. I don’t feel I take as much exercise as I should. I used to go to a gym, but I found it really boring. My main exercise is walking – I walk everywhere – and swimming, which is fine for giving you good stamina and broad shoulders, and it’s good for your heart and lungs. I have very short hair. I had it cut recently because if you go to swimming every day, which I try to, then it’s much more convenient to have really short hair. It doesn’t get in the way, you can dry it really quickly, you don’t have to take gel and all sorts of hair products to the swimming pool every time you go. It’s light brown. It’s much fairer in the summer, and in the winter it gets darker. I have blue eyes. I wear contact lenses – well I wear one, in one eye.

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I think I’m quite easy-going. I get more stressed out than I used to, but I think it’s just the pressure of work, as journalism can be quite stressful. As a journalist, you always have deadlines. You have to write something by a certain time and if you don’t get it done, then the editor gets really mad. I think I’m quite shy, I never really used to like meeting people, and got quite shy and nervous and had nothing to say for myself, but now I feel much more comfortable. If you have a job or something you can tell people about, you can have self-confidence.

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I’m not particularly religious. My family isn’t religious at all. We never went to church. The only times I’ve been to church recently were weddings and funerals. I remember when I was little though, I used to really love singing. At the age of about seven, I wanted to go to church because I wanted to sing the hymns, as they have good tunes. So my attitude to life is not particularly religious, although I do believe in some kind of spiritual life. In the spiritual world. I find the Eastern religions much more appealing. I think reincarnation is a fascinating subject and I believe in it to some extent. I feel you always have to keep an open mind, be prepared to learn new things and meet new people, and always try to live in the best way that you can and not hurt other people.

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Maria has a very gentle personality. She has a passionate interest in music, and also in poetry and literature. She is very open-minded, and assimilates new ideas very easily. I’m not as disciplined as her, and I am not so good at being tidy in appearance, or keeping my clothes in the right place, or putting all my things away, and I think that on the whole, I’m not such a tidy person as she is. It seems natural to her to keep everything in its place. When she does something, she does it very carefully, precisely and accurately. I think that I’m more lazy than her overall.

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My father is very hard working, but I think that he uses this as a shield against other parts of his life. For a long time, he cut off his feelings by pouring all of his energy and attention into his work. Generally, he has quite a depressive personality. He lets things get on top of him, things make him sad very easily, and he finds it very hard to let go of his sadness. He has quite and addictive personality. He smokes a lot of cigarettes, and drinks a lot of coffee and tea all day. He has very unusual sleeping patterns. Sometimes he stays up all night working, and in the daytime he sleeps.

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One of my friends, Anita, is a Tibetan Buddhist, and has a very strong personality. Indeed, she is quiet a special person. She is 23 years old, has 2 children aged four and three, and somehow manages to fulfill all of the responsibilities of being a mother, a career woman, and a full-time student at a Buddhist University. Sometimes she has to hire a baby-sitter during the day-time, but these instances are getting rare now. She seems to have so much energy, and never stops doing things. I really don’t know how she can fit so much into her life. She is a really full-power person. In all situations she seems to be able to keep a level head. She is younger than me but she is very wise, and if I’m in trouble of feeling sad, or if I need adviсe, I always go to talk to her. In business matters, she’s also a very wonderful person to know. She’s very straightforward, clear, and very honest. I’ve known her for 3 years now. Our friendship doesn’t stop growing.

2. Interview your partner and your teacher and find out as much as possible about him/her? Then find out (asking questions) which of the students:

Text B:

Pre-text activity 2:

Do you know:

1. The origin of the word “psychology”?

2. The subject-matter of psychology?

3. The place of psychology in the system of sciences?

4. The primary activities of a community psychologist, an engineering

psychologist and a personality psychologist?

1. Read and translate the text:

SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology as a science studies mental activity and human behaviour. Psychologists study basic functions such as learning, memory, language, thinking, emotions, and motives. They investigate development throughout the life span from birth to death. They are involved in mental and physical health care. They treat people who are emotionally distressed.

Psychology occupies a strategic position between natural and social sciences on the one hand, and between sciences and humanities, on the other.

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