- •Topic: My visit card
- •1. Write down and translate the following vocabulary notes and sentences. Learn the vocabulary notes by heart.
- •3. Read and translate the text. My visit card
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Now answer these questions to be ready to speak about your visit card:
- •6. Add some more information to the answers to the questions above. Be ready to speak about your visit card. Topic: My Working Day
- •1. Look through the list of vocabulary notes and try to match them with the words and phrases given in Russian.
- •3. Read and translate the following text. My Working Day
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Are you an early bird or a night owl?
- •6. Read the following situations then choose one of them and role-play it:
- •7. Compose an essay on the topic “My working day” and be ready to retell it. Topic: My favourite sportsman
- •2. Read the title of the text, try to guess and say what it is about. Read and translate the text.
- •Irina Chaschina
- •3. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary of the lesson:
- •6. Read, translate and role-play the following dialogue between two fans of calisthenics. You may choose some other kind of sport to discuss while role-playing.
- •7. Compose an essay on the topic “My favourite sportsman”. Be ready to retell it. Topic: Siberian State University of Physical Culture and Sport
- •9. Compose an essay on the topic “My University”. Be ready to speak on the topic “My University”.
- •Topic: The Russian Federation
- •Sport in Russia
- •Glossary
- •II. Fill in the gaps using the essential vocabulary:
- •III. Write o for oceans, s for seas, r for rivers, l for lakes, I for islands, p for peninsulas, Rg for regions:
- •IV. Read and translate the text. Text a Geographical outline
- •Text b Political system of Russia
- •V. Try your hand in interpreting:
- •Sport in Russia
- •1. Give English equivalents for:
- •2. Use these words and phrases in sentences of your own.
- •3. Read the statements and say whether they are true or false. You’ll sound more English if you use these models:
- •4. Write a summary of the text.
- •II. Wordshop. Translate and transcribe:
- •III. Restore the text with these questions to help:
- •IV. Read and translate the dialogue and then play it out with your partner.
- •V. Discourse.
- •VI. Role play these etudes.
- •Omsk is the city where I study
- •II. Give full answers to the questions:
- •III. Retell the text using the active vocabulary.
- •IV. Write an essay about Omsk as your native city.
- •V. Make the advertisement prospect of Omsk. Say why people should visit it! Topic: Great Britain. Sport in Great Britain.
- •Supplementary texts and tasks Sports and Pastime.
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •I advice you to go to/visit……я советую Вам пойти/посетить……..
- •Vocabulary
- •Holidays in Great Britain
- •Topic: The Olympic Games Text 1: The Ancient Olympic Games
- •1. Look through the list of some new vocabulary notes and try to match them with the Russian words and phrases given below.
- •3. Before reading the text, look through and remember the following:
- •4. Read and translate the text.
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •8. Use the text and give the English equivalents for the following Russian sentences:
- •9. Write an essay on the topic “The Ancient Olympic Games”. Be ready to speak on the topic “The Ancient Olympic Games”.
- •1. Look through the list of some new vocabulary notes and try to match them with the Russian words and phrases given below.
- •3. Before reading the text, look through and remember the following:
- •4. Read and translate the text. The Modern Olympic Games
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •8. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English. Use the topical vocabulary.
- •9. Think over 5 differences between Ancient Olympic Games (see the previous text) and Modern Olympic Games. Do you find them all advantages or disadvantages? Give your reasons.
- •10. Write an essay on the topic “The Modern Olympic Games”. Be ready to speak on the topic “The Modern Olympic Games”. Text 3: Pierre de Coubertin
- •1. Look through and remember the following vocabulary notes:
- •3. Read and translate the text. Pierre de Coubertin
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Try your hand in the following translation:
- •6. Write an essay on the biography of Pierre de Coubertin. Be ready to speak about the biography of Pierre de Coubertin. Topic: Sport and society
- •Text 1. What is better watching sports or participating in sports?
- •Healthy living
- •Text 4. Sports and Games (Sports in our Life).
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 8. Dangers of doping.
4. Answer the following questions:
1. What time do you usually wake up?
2. Do you wake up yourself or with the help of your alarm-clock?
3. Do you do your daily dozen in the morning?
4. Speak about other things you do in the morning (First I …, then I … and…).
5. Do you always have breakfast in the morning?
6. Do you prepare your breakfast yourself?
7. Do you live far from your university?
8. How do you usually get to your university?
9. How many lessons a day do you usually have?
10. Do you go in for some sport? How many times a week do you train? Do you have a coach or do you train yourself? Do you get tired after your trainings? Is it difficult for you to combine trainings and study?
11. What do you do when you have free time?
12. What time do you go to bed?
5. Are you an early bird or a night owl?
Do the questionnaire to find it out!
1. When I get up in the morning …
a) I am always happy and I have a lot of energy.
b) I am sometimes happy and sometimes I am not.
c) I am never happy and I don’t have energy.
2. At the weekend …
a) I always wake up before 9 a.m.
b) I sometimes wake up before 9 a.m. and sometimes sleep till noon.
c) I hardly ever wake up before 9 a.m.
3. When there’s a good film on TV late at night…
a) I often watch the beginning but I never see the end.
b) I may record it and go to bed or may watch it.
c) I always watch it to the end.
4. When I go to the party …
a) I never stay to the end.
b) I sometimes stay to the end and sometimes I don’t.
c) I always stay to the end.
5. When I see friends at the weekend …
a) I hardly ever see them before 9 p.m.
b) I sometimes have coffee with them in the morning.
c) I usually see them in the afternoon.
6. When a friend phones me before 8 a.m. …
a) I am always happy to talk to him/her.
b) I am sometimes happy to talk to him/her.
c) I never answer the phone at such time.
If you have the majority of “a” answers it means that you are a typical early bird.
The majority of “b” answers shows that you are neither an early bird, nor a night owl. Your regimen is not stable and you should change it to avoid problems with your health. And the majority of “c” answers means that you are a night owl.
Do you agree with the conclusion? Do you think it is possible to become a night owl if you are an early bird and visa versa? Do you want to change your regimen?
6. Read the following situations then choose one of them and role-play it:
1) You are a night owl. Yesterday you went to bed at 2 o’clock. And today, in the early Sunday morning your friend is phoning you to invite you for a run. Refuse your friend but be tactful with him/her.
2) You are an early bird. You are at a birthday party of your best friend. He/She wants you to stay for the whole night but you know that if you stay you will feel bad tomorrow. Refuse your friend but don’t hurt him/her.
7. Compose an essay on the topic “My working day” and be ready to retell it. Topic: My favourite sportsman
1. Look through the list of vocabulary notes and try to match them with the words and phrases given in Russian.
a) Sportswoman, gymnast, sport career, under supervision, sport-lover, training, gymnastics, championship, to make a deep impression, to take up sport/to go in for sport, support, lifestyle, calisthenics, flexible, train hard, merited, coach, to gain a victory/to win, combined team, tournament, multi-discipline event, hoop, skipping-rope, mace, fan, perform, regimen, disqualify, competition, to take part in/to participate in, under the strictest control, performance, elegance, grace.
b) Турнир, грациозность, тренер, любитель спорта, выступление, режим, гимнаст, тренировка, дисквалифицировать, гимнастика, изящество, под руководством, принимать участие в …, спортсменка, художественная гимнастика, чемпионат, сборная команда, гибкий, выступать, скакалка, под строжайшим контролем, спортивная карьера, фанат, заниматься спортом, поддержать, обруч, заслуженный, произвести сильное впечатление, образ жизни, многоборье, булава, завоевать победу/выиграть, усиленно тренироваться, соревнование.