- •Basic English Course
- •Рецензенты:
- •Содержание:
- •Tape script 158 От авторов
- •Балльно-рейтинговая карта студента
- •Module 1
- •4. Fill in the correct question tag.
- •5. Fill in the question tags and match the answers to the questions.
- •Wh- questions
- •6. Fill in the gaps with one of the question words from the list.
- •7. Put these words in the correct order to make questions.
- •8. A) Put the words in the correct order to make questions.
- •9. Match these question words with the answers.
- •10. Ask your partner questions to get these answers. Tick each answer when you hear it.
- •4. Listen and check your ideas.
- •5. Listen to two more dialogues. What decisions do the people make?
- •6. You don't always want to accept an invitation. Listen to these four dialogues.
- •7. Listen to the dialogues in exercises 4 and 5 again and tick the expressions you hear
- •8. How many invitations and suggestions can you make?
- •2. Underline the words connected with appearance and personality. Add them to the chart.
- •7. Put the words/phrases in the box in groups. Can you add any more words?
- •8. Choose four people from Ex.7. Describe your relationship with them to a partner.
- •Grammar Part
- •1 A) Complete the questions with these words: What, How long, When, Which, Where, Why, How, Who, How much, How many.
- •2. Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences/questions.
- •3. A) Make questions for these answers.
- •4. A) Complete the questions below using the prepositions from the box.
- •5. A) Make questions from the prompts.
- •6. Complete the sentences with words and phrases from the box.
- •7. A) Find ten mistakes in the e-mail.
- •8. A) Read the following task and the answer that a student wrote.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Self test 1
- •Text 2 Divorce: a Fifty-Fifty Chance?
- •Text 3 Family Life
- •Text 4 Character and Appearance
- •Module 2 Travelling
- •3. Correct the underlined mistakes in each question (lexical mistake).
- •Grammar Note:
- •1. A) Look at the words in the box. What do you think the text is about?
- •2. Read the text again. Put these events in order.
- •9. Make more conversations using words from ex. 4 and the following phrases.
- •1. You're planning a holiday. Which three things are most important for you? Number them from 1 to 3. Which things are least important for you?
- •2. What do you like doing on holiday? Is there anything that you don't like doing?
- •3. Tell your partner about a really good holiday. Use the How to... Box to help you.
- •Grammar Part
- •1. Rewrite the sentences in Past Simple Tense.
- •2. Open the brackets using verbs in Present or Past Simple.
- •3. Open the brackets using verbs in Past Simple or Past Continuous.
- •4. What was John doing at these times yesterday? Complete the sentences.
- •5. Ask your partner questions about his/her early childhood.
- •6. Open the brackets using verbs in Past Simple or Past Continuous.
- •7. Match the sentences on the left with the related sentences on the right.
- •8*. Fill in the right word from the word column.
- •9*.. Fill in the blanks with the corresponding English word or phrases and pay attention to the use of tense forms.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Self test 2
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 2 Travelling on British Railways
- •Module 3
- •3. Find out if these statements are true or false by doing a class survey. If they are false, change them so that they are true.
- •Part 2 Grammar Note
- •1. Listen. What happens to have and has? What happens to been?
- •5. Give your partner a number and a letter. Your partner makes a sentence in the present perfect or the past simple: e.G.: She didn't phone me last week.
- •6. Read these messages. Decide if they are from an answer phone, an e-mail, a letter, or a postcard. How do you know?
- •7. Complete the gaps in the messages. Compare your ideas with a partner. What verbs did you use?
- •4. Make short statements for and against satellite television. Try to use these words and phrases.
- •Do not confuse the following words!
- •5. Correct the mistakes in these sentences.
- •6. Put to watch/to see/to look.
- •7. Choose between to say/to tell/to speak
- •Grammar Part
- •2. Open the brackets using Present Perfect or Past Simple.
- •3. Put in been or gone.
- •4. You are asking somebody questions about things he or she has done. Make questions from the words in brackets.
- •5. Complete answers. Some sentences are positive and some negative. Use a verb from this list:
- •6. Complete these sentences using today/this year/this term etc.
- •7. Read the situations and write sentences as shown in the examples.
- •8. What has happened in these situations?
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Self test 3
- •I. Complete the sentences with one of the verbs below.
- •Text 2 Online Dating Goes Mainstream
- •Module 4
- •1. Look at the list of food and complete the task.
- •2. Answer the questions with words from the box in exercise 1.
- •3. Look at the vocabulary below and match it to a container
- •5. Choose words for each question, as in the example. One word is left. What is it?
- •6. Work in groups. Read the text quickly and find the foods in exercise 1. How many other foods can you find?
- •7. Read the text again and answer the questions.
- •6. Read and translate the instructions for making a fried egg sandwich.
- •3. What types of restaurant would you recommend to:
- •9. What are the questions about?
- •10. Listen to this pattern. Repeat the questions. Try to sound exactly the same.
- •11. Practise the pattern with these words.
- •12. Look at this dialogue. Take out as many words as you can.
- •13. Act out a restaurant situation. Student a, you are a visitor. Student b, you are the waiter. Try to describe the dishes. Use the following menu.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •1. First conditional
- •Second conditional
- •2. Put in if or when.
- •3. Jill and Sue are waiting at the bus-stop. They are on their way to the cinema. Complete their story. Use the end of the previous sentence to make the beginning of the next sentence.
- •5. Answer the questions.
- •6. Correct the mistakes in these sentences.
- •Self test 4
- •Text 2 Meals and cooking.
- •Module 5 Human body and mind health
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. What do you think of it?
- •8. Work in pairs.
- •2 Word formation.
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Answer the questions.
- •3. Find in the text sentences with Indirect (Reported) Speech. Comment on the structure of the sentences.
- •4. Render the text into Reported Speech and retell it.
- •Grammar part
- •1. Underline the correct item.
- •2. Turn the following sentences into Reported Speech.
- •3. Turn the following into indirect questions.
- •4. Change the following from Direct into Reported Speech.
- •5. Rewrite the following conversation in Reported Speech.
- •6. Read , translate and render the dialogue in indirect speech.
- •7. Correct the mistakes.
- •8. Translate into English.
- •9. Turn the following sentences into Direct Speech.
- •10. Word formation. Fill in the right form of the word in brackets.
- •11. Phrasal verbs.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Self test 5
- •Text 2. Medical Advances.
- •Module 6
- •4. Match the words with the definitions.
- •5. Match the jobs with the qualities you think people need in your opinion.
- •6. Complete the sentences with the correct word below.
- •Part 2 Present Simple Tense and Present Continuous Tense
- •1. Compare these sentences and state the functions of the present simple and present continuous tenses.
- •1. Do you agree with these statements?
- •2. Read the text. Which of the statements above would Mike and Tina agree with?
- •3. Discuss these questions.
- •2. Which of these words are connected with jobs, being a student, or both?
- •3. Use the words to talk about yourself.
- •4. Look at this newspaper article. What's Susan's problem? What advice would you give her?
- •5. Now read the advice. Which do you think is better? Why?
- •6. What advice would you give Susan's husband?
- •4. Look at the vocabulary below. Match the headings with the groups of words. Add more words from the adverts.
- •5. Make as many sentences as you can about your job (or a job you'd like to have), using the words in the chart.
- •6. Look at the job adverts again. Complete these words.
- •Applying for a job
- •1. Complete the text using the words in italics below.
- •Writing a cv (Curriculum Vitae)
- •5. Writing. Think of one of the jobs in the advert. Write a list of reasons you might be suitable. Then use your ideas and write a cv and a letter of application. Job interview
- •2. Look at these ideas about how to be a good interviewer.
- •9. Role-play. Choose one of the job adverts above or any other job vacancies and have an interview.
- •10. Speaking about work. Ask and answer the questions and check the meaning of the words in bold.
- •Grammar part
- •2. Open the brackets and put the verbs in to the correct form.
- •3. Choose the correct verb form.
- •4. Put the verbs in present simple or present continuous.
- •5. Fill in the gaps with Present Simple or Present Continuous.
- •6. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate verb in correct tense.
- •7. Put the verb in the most suitable form.
- •10. Complete this story using either the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs in the box. Each verb should only be used once.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •1 Add do, does, is, or are to make complete questions.
- •2. Match the problems with the advice in exercise 1.
- •2 ____________
- •3____________
- •4 ___________
- •5___________
- •6___________
- •2. For questions (1-8) choose the answer (a, b, c or d) which you think fits best according to the text.
- •4. Match the jobs with the duties. Use dictionary to help you.
- •1. Which workers normally do these things?
- •2. A) Read the introduction to the text. Who is Ricardo Semler? What problem did he have?
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •Listening 2
- •Listening 3
- •Part 4 Listening 1
- •Listening 1
- •Listening 2
- •Interview 1
- •Interview 2
2 Word formation.
allergy allergic |
fit unfit, fitness |
poison poisonous, poisoning |
aware unaware, awareness |
ill illness |
recover recovery |
benefit beneficial |
inject injection |
strong strength, strengthen |
comfort discomfort, (un)comfortable, (un)comfortably |
injure injury, injuries |
surgery surgeon, surgical(ly) |
emphasis emphasise (-ze), emphatic |
operate operation, operator, operating, cooperate,cooperation, (un)cooperative |
treat treatment |
Fill in the right form of the word in brackets.
Scorpion Fish.
Have you ever had of scorpion fish? I was completely _______ (aware) they existed until I trod on one in the sea. I can’t ________ (emphasis) enough how painful it was! The fish has a spike which gives you an _______ (inject) of a ______ (poison) substance. It’s not dangerous, but you begin to feel extremely ______ (comfort), and the pain just gets worse and worse. Luckily, there was a doctor on the beach – she was a _______ (surgery) at the local hospital – and she told me what the best ______ (treat) was. I had to bathe my foot in warm, salty water and then apply an ammonia-based solution. After my holiday, my foot still seemed to be a little infected, so my local GP gave me a ________(prescribe) for antibiotics. Unfortunately, it turned out I was______ (allergy) to them, so I came out in a red rash all over my body. It was over a week before I had made a complete _____(recover).
3.Complete the dialogue. Fill in the blanks with the following words and word-combinations:
have a temperature, throat lozenges, swelling, throat, redness, sick leave , taken, my voice, prescription, symptoms.
D = Doctor P = Patient
D: Good morning. What seems to be the trouble?
P: Good morning doctor. I think I’m losing ________.
D: Yes, it sounds like it. When did this start?
P: A couple of days ago. After I got back from holiday.
D: Right… Any other ________ ?
P: My ______is dry and I am tired all the time.
D: Okay. Let me have a look at your throat. Open wide please… Say “Ah”...
P: Ahh…
D: There isn’t much ______ , but there is a little ______. Have you _______ anything for it?
P: Just some _________ .
D: Well you don’t _________ , so it’s nothing serious.
P: That’s a relief. Do I need to take anything for it?
D: You don’t need a ________, just keep taking your throat lozenges.
P: What about work? I work on the telephone a lot.
D: Take a couple of days off, I’ll give you a _______.
P: Thank you doctor.
D: Here you are..
P: Thank you doctor, goodbye.
D: Goodbye…Get well soon!
Next please…
Good morning, Mr. Parsons…
4. Role - play. Work in pairs. Using different information, make a similar doctor/ patient dialogue and act it out.
Part 3
Grammar Note
Direct Speech |
Reported Speech | ||
Tenses | |||
Present Simple My friend said, "I have a headache." |
Past Simple My friend said that he had a headache. | ||
Present Progressive(Continuous) He said, "My temperature is going up." |
Past Progressive He said that his temperature was going up. | ||
Present Perfect He said, "I’ve caught flu." |
Past Perfect He said that he had caught flu. | ||
Present Perfect Progressive (Continuous) She said, "I have been coughing for about 4 days |
Past Perfect Progressive (Continuous) She said that she had been coughing for about 4 days. | ||
Past Simple He said, "I gave up smoking a month ago." |
Past Perfect He said that he had given up smoking a month before. | ||
Past Progressive (Continuous) He said, "I was gargling. |
Past Perfect Progressive (Continuous) He said that he had been gargling. | ||
Past Perfect He said, "I had drunk hot tea with lemon" |
Past Perfect He said that he had drunk hot tea with lemon. | ||
Future Simple The doctor said, "I’ll give you a sick leave”. |
Future-in-the Past The doctor said that he would give her a sick leave. | ||
Note: the tenses do not change if the speaker expresses general truths, permanent states and conditions. “Water turns into ice,” he said. He said (that) water turns into ice. | |||
Time words | |||
now |
then | ||
here |
there | ||
this /these |
that / those | ||
today |
that day | ||
tomorrow |
the next day (the following day) | ||
yesterday |
the day before | ||
ago |
before | ||
next week / year |
the following week / year | ||
last night |
the previous night | ||
Questions | |||
1) His dentist said, “Does this tooth hurt you now?” |
1) He asked if (whether) that tooth hurt him then. | ||
2) He said, “When did it happen?” |
2) He asked when it had happened. | ||
Suggestions, requests, commands | |||
His said, “You should go to a doctor.” |
He advised me to see a doctor. | ||
He said, “Don’t talk to me in medical terms.” |
He asked me not to talk to him in medical terms. | ||
We can use such introductory verbs as asked, advised, offered, suggested, told, ordered | |||
Modals | |||
can |
could (could lift weights); would be able (to do it next day ) | ||
may |
might | ||
must |
must / had to | ||
shall |
should | ||
need |
didn’t need to | ||
should |
should | ||
Say and Tell Say is used in Direct and Reported Speech. The doctor said (said to me), “ You have to get an X-ray.” Tell is used in Reported Speech. Tell is followed by a direct object - me, them, her. He told me (that) my temperature is all right. |