2 Listen and repeat. Add more words.

[ə:] return, work, learn, prefer, homework, university

[o:] fall, short, abroad, morning

[a:] far, hard, park

[w] one, once, twice, question

[] then, they, there, these, either

[] teeth, theater

[ʒ] usual, usually

[t] lecture, picture, future, culture

Oral exercises

3 Practice the following sentences with the words given below. Listen and repeat the sentences until you can say them fluently.

a) 10 minutes: I am there in 10 minutes.

20 minutes, half an hour, an hour

b) read texts: During our English lessons we read texts.

do translations, ask and answer questions, do all sorts of

exercises

c) 11: At 11 I go to bed.

10, midnight, 1 a.m.

d) cinema: I prefer to go to cinema.

theater, park, skating rink, riverside

e) visit my friends: If I have free time I visit my friends.

go for a walk, listen to music

f) busy: He is rather busy.

handsome, short, funny

4 Cross out the activity that doesn’t belong.

a) have lunch have dinner listen to music have breakfast

b) do laundry play basketball play guitar go skiing

c) brush teeth walk the dog take a shower comb my hair

d) go to work come home get dressed go to school

e) watch TV read a novel wash cars listen to music

5 Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to the phrase either … or.

a) On weekends he either does laundry or goes to the gym.

b) On Sundays I either go for a walk or visit my relatives.

c) If I have free time I either watch TV or listen to music.

d) My mother gets up either at 6.30 or at 7.

e) In fall it is either windy or rainy.

f) She usually has either red or black hair.

g) You may take either a bus or a trolley.

h) I prefer to live either in the village or in a small town.

6 Make up two sentences in Russian with “или … или” for your group mates to translate.

Remember! В английском предложении можно использовать только одно отрицание. Например, если вы используете фразу neither … nor, то использовать отрицательную частицу not уже нельзя: I like neither oranges nor lemons.

7 Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to the phrase neither … nor.

a) He learns neither French nor Spanish.

b) I have neither brothers nor sisters.

c) It is neither snowing nor raining these days.

d) I can come neither at 6 nor at 7.

e) He is neither tall nor short.

f) There is neither living room nor study room in our apartment.

g) I want to go neither to museum nor to theater.

h) We live neither in an apartment nor in a house, we live in the hostel.

i) I go neither running nor swimming.

8 Make up one sentence in Russian with “ни … ни” for your group mates to translate.

Grammar

Adverbs (Наречия)

Remember! Наречие – это часть речи, отвечающая на вопрос как? каким образом? Наречия в английском языке могут образовываться от имен прилагательных путем прибавления суффикса –ly. Например: easy – easily, loud – loudly. Наречия частотности often, sometimes, never, usually, always занимают место перед глаголом. Например: I often go skiing in winter. He never speaks loudly.

9 Fill in the blanks with the correct word from the box above adding adverbs of frequency (often, never, sometimes, usually, always, seldom).

сlean wash watch play have brush listen comb cook get take do

Example: My husband sometimes cleans the house.

a) My sister ______________ the laundry.

b)I ______________ a shower.

c) My grandmother ______________ TV.

d) I ______________ the dishes.

e) I ______________ my teeth.

f) My mother ______________ the guitar.

g) My brother ______________ dinner.

h) I ______________ ready for the classes.

i) My father ______________ to music.

j) I ______________ my hair.

k) We ______________ four classes a day.