Task 1: Try to improve the structure of information in the following texts.

Apply thematic
fronting of sentence constituents, substitution and ellipsis, use ‘left- and right-handed
sentences’, passive/active voice alternations and any other device that can improve the
readability of the texts. Correct any structures which you think may be unacceptable.

University of Warsaw and Karol Szymanowski Music Association kindly invite to concert:
"Here's Szymanowski!". The location is not accidental. The composer’s legacy is stored in the
Archives of Polish Composers – a separate collection of the Music Department, including the
heritage of great musicians – their manuscripts, drafts, literary and commentary writings,
correspondence, memorabilia, etc. Some of them will be open to visitors during concert. The
programme: chamber works by Szymanowski, including Sonata in D minor, Op. 9 for violin
and piano. Dobra 56/66 street, November 7th, 7.00 pm.
Among the treasures of the University of Warsaw Library, the legacy of Karol Szymanowski
takes a special place. He is widely regarded as the most important (besides Fryderyk Chopin)
Polish composer. His legacy is stored in the Archives of Polish Composers. The latest
acquisition which enriched our collection is the manuscript of the 4th Symphony op. 60
called Sinfonia Concertante, purchased at the prestigious auction of musical manuscripts in
Sotheby’s Auction House in London on the 30th of November 2006. The manuscript was
bought from funds of Ministry of Culture. The first bars of this Symphony are now the UWL
sound signal played at the moment of opening and just before closing of the Library.
The University of Warsaw Library pays special attention to the collection of Karol
Szymanowski’s archive materials. The first panel decorating the façade of the Library’s
building includes the notation of the composer’s well known work – his early, neo-Romantic
Etude in E flat minor.
On 16th of November 2006, the Polish Sejm announced ‘2007 as the Year of Karol
Szymanowski’, to commemorate  the 125th anniversary of his birth and the 70th anniversary
of the composer’s death.
UWL took an active part in celebration of that jubilee. The official inauguration of the Year of
Karol Szymanowski was held in UWL on the 19th of February 2007. The ceremony was
accompanied by the first public presentation of the manuscript purchased at the auction in
London. The opening of the exhibition commemorating the great composer was another
part of the ceremony.
UWL together with the Univeristy of Warsaw Foundation have published a multimedia
publication on DVD titled Karol Szymanowski. This is the first of the kind electronic
publication widely portraying life, works and artistic heritage of the composer. The
publication was prepared in cooperation with: PWM Edition Polish Audiovisual Publishers,
National Library, National Museum in Cracow, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Radio,
Polish Television as well as eminent Polish musicologists.  The publication is bilingual (Polish
and English). DVD is accompanied by CD containing a record of Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater.
This composition is also recorded on DVD which presents the autograph of the score
(belonging to the National Library).
 The publication was financed from funds of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Polish
Audiovisual Publisher, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the University of Warsaw. This
non-profit undertaking can’t be sold. It is sent out free of charge to Polish libraries. The
foreign distribution is held by The Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

Task 2.
London Olympics: politics, pollution and plague (developed on the basis of http://www.guardian.co.uk/)
The health service is gearing up on a global scale for fear of epidemics triggered by the impending influx of
overseas visitors bearing exotic ailments, while experts on respiration have warned that should the summer
bring hazy days the capital's unwholesome air could stop champion athletes' lungs from working properly.
A study published last autumn ranked London's air some of the sootiest in Europe in terms of a category of
"particulate matter" mostly disgorged by motor vehicles. The Conservative mayor has repeatedly said he aims
to make the capital cleaner and greener.
a) Yet, the amount of traffic in the centre of the city has been increased by halving the size of its congestion
charging zone.
b) Yet, the halving of the congestion charging zone has led to increasing the amount of traffic.
c) Yet, he's increased the amount of traffic in the centre of the city by halving the size of its congestion charging
zone.
The next 800 buses added to London's fleet will include only 52 diesel-electric "hybrid" vehicles despite the
mayor having pledged that all newcomers would be hybrids by now.
a) He delayed implementing phase three of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) by over a year.
b) The implementation of phase three of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) was delayed by over a year.
c) The delay in implementing phase three of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) is over a year.
a) People criticise his air quality improvement measures as half-baked.
b) His half baked air quality improvement measures have been criticised.
c) His air quality improvement measures have been criticised as half-baked.
Meanwhile his own study has estimated that poor air quality shortens the lives of over 4,000 Londoners a year.
Boris could learn some lessons from the Chinese.
a) Extreme steps, you'll recall, were taken by their authorities to save the Beijing games from smog suffocation,
first putting a stop to all construction work then banning 50% of cars from the city's roads.
b) Their authorities, you'll recall, took extreme steps to save the Beijing games from smog suffocation, first
putting a stop to all construction work then banning 50% of cars from the city's roads.
c) Steps taken by their authorities to save the Beijing games from smog suffocation included first putting a stop
to all construction work then banning 50% of cars from the city's roads.
London's air in 2012 is nothing like as foul as the Chinese capital's was in 2008. Even so, Boris's record on air
quality gives grounds for Londoners to cast both their first and second preferences votes in the coming mayoral
election campaign for rival candidates.

Task 3. Improve the cohesion of the sentences below by applying substitution, ellipsis, parallelism in word
order, adding connecting words, etc.
a. I don’t approve of eating popcorn in cinemas. People consider the fact that I don’t approve of eating
popcorn in cinemas old-fashioned.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
b. Don’t call me again. If you call me again I will hang up.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
c. My partner can’t dance and I can’t dance.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
d. On the left you will find some dictionaries and the large encyclopaedia is on the right.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
e. The peninsula was conquered by Italians, if they can be called Italians.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
f. Greg is trying to drive a tractor. I don’t think driving a tractor is a good idea.
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g. Do you think I can write a novel? If you don’t think I can write a novel, why don’t you tell me?
.................................................................................................................................

h. He didn’t understand the play. I didn’t understand the play.

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i. Bob wants to marry Jane. He didn’t tell you that he wanted to marry Jane, did
he? ................................................................................................................................
 j. The bridge collapsed. No one was
hurt. ...............................................................................................................................
k. In December the weather was bad. The weather got awful in January.
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Task 4. Start sentences below with an underlined item. Apply inversion if necessary.
a. A lonely figure was seen on the horizon.
b. The letter was never found.
c. I hardly ever meet my cousins.
d. The patient said: “I don’t have time to waste”

Task 5. Apply the end-weight principle:

a. The idea that it is wrong to get up in the morning and go to bed in the evening will be discussed.
b. The tenor Fabrizio Dormio, famous for his appearances on world-renowned stages, sang.
c. With the death of Shakespeare the Renaissance in England ended.
d. That you have never considered moving houses is surprising.

6. Turn the following fragments into a more cohesive and less simplistic text, observing the principles
of discourse. The three items are three fragments of one text about the Wars of the Roses. Include
all the facts. You can try the following strategies:
[a] changing the order of sentences and/or constituents within sentences [b] varying the lexis
[c] changing the voice [d] adding appropriate linking expressions
[e] forming complex and/or compound sentences out of simple ones [f] applying ellipsis and substitution

The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars for the throne of England. Supporters of
two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the houses of Lancaster and York (the "red"
and the "white" rose, respectively) fought. The wars occurred in several sporadic episodes between
1455 and 1485, although they fought both before and after this period.
In 1399 Henry IV became king. He was the first Lancaster king on the English throne. The Lancastrian
claim to the throne descended from John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, the fourth son of Edward
III. Henry VI was Henry IV’s grandson. Richard, Duke of York challenged Henry VI's right to the crown.
Richard could claim descent from Edward's third and fifth sons, Lionel of Antwerp and Edmund of
Langley, 1st Duke of York. Richard of York had held several important offices of state. He quarreled
with prominent Lancastrians at court and with Henry VI's queen, Margaret of Anjou.

The two dynasties fought for many years. The throne went to York's eldest son. He ruled as King
Edward IV. King Edward died unexpectedly in 1483. His brother, Richard of Gloucester seized the
throne for himself, using the suspect legitimacy of Edward IV's marriage as pretext. Henry Tudor, a
distant relative of the Lancastrian kings who had inherited their claim, defeated Richard at Bosworth
in 1485. He was crowned Henry VII, and married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV. He united
and reconciled the two houses.

Task 7. Turn the following fragments into a more cohesive and less simplistic text, observing the
principles of discourse. The three items are three fragments of one text about J.S.
Bach. Include all the facts. You can try the following strategies:
Bach became a candidate for the post of cantor at St Thomas when the post had been vacant for half a year. Bach's
audition was on 7 February 1723. Bach's test cantatas were Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (BWV 22) and Du wahrer
Gott und Davids Sohn (BWV 23). Bach was successful and they signed a contract with him on 5 May 1723.

The St Thomas School had a choir tradition of centuries. In Bach's time it was a kind of musical institution. It
had to supply the four major churches in Leipzig with choirs on Sundays and other Christian holidays. The
churches of St Thomas, St Nicholas, St Peter, and the New Church were the four churches. The St Nicholas
church was the most important and the St Thomas church was the second most important. Four choirs had to
be formed out of the 55 pupils of the school. Each choir had minimally eight singers (two sopranos, two altos,
two tenors, and two basses) and four soloists.

Choir rehearsals were on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. On Saturday the instrumentalists joined
the boys for the rehearsal of the Sunday cantata. Very often there was practically no time for rehearsals. Bach
worked harder than ever before in those years. People believe that he wrote 5 yearly runs (i.e., 5 x 59 cantatas)
altogether. In 1724-1725 Bach almost wrote one cantata per week.