Basic English _Fisrt year_Булатова -31-10-11

It is someone who likes and respects you. She tells you the truth and if it hurts she helps you with it. A good friend takes care of you. A friend has good communication skills and a great sense of humor. When you are happy, sad, mad, and embarrassed you go to him.

Good friends stand by you and help you. They understand your decisions, even if they don't agree, and try to help with life's problems. Friends are there to help with life, not to make life harder. They don‘t get on my nerves.

A good friend is someone who you can trust, and who trusts you. A good friend is always there for you and sees your importance equal to theirs. She/He is not afraid to tell you if you're wrong about something. A friend is someone who you look up to. You have a lot in common with him or her.

Friends are people whom you can trust, have fun with, and be comfortable with. They enjoy your company, make you laugh, make you happy when you are around them. They don‘t have arguments with you.

Which of the people in the Internet forum do you want to make friends with? Why?

Speak about someone who takes care of you.

stands by you.

doesn‘t get on your nerves. you look up to.

has a lot in common with you. has arguments with you.

Listening: Friends help you live longer

12. You are going to listen to the article. Look at the headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

13.Listen to the article and check your answers.

14.Listen to the article again. Look at the words below. With your partner, say how these words are used in the text:

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15. Listen to the article again if necessary and write down some questions you want to ask the class about the text.

Share your questions with other classmates. Ask them your questions.

16.Give your opinion on the following questions based on the article.

What do you think of this new study?

Do you agree that friends are more important than family to help you live longer? Do you think friendships between 70-year-olds are stronger than those between younger friends?

What activities does a person do in his/her seventies?

Reading: A true friend

17.Read the text.

Socrates (c.469 / 470 BC –399 BC) was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. He is one of the founders of Western philosophy.

A True Friend

One day one young man comes to the great philosopher Socrates and says, "Do you want to know something about your friend?".

"Hold on a minute," Socrates answers. "Before you tell me pass a little test. It is called the Three Filter Test."

"Three filter test?".

"That is right," Socrates continues. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it is a good idea to filter what you say. The first filter is Truth. Are you sure that what you want to tell me about my friend is true?"

"No," the man says, "actually I am not sure that it is true...".

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"All right," says Socrates. "So you don't know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter. Is it something good or bad?" The man says, ―Mm… It is not so good.‖

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not sure that it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one more filter: the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend useful to me?"

"No, not really."

"Well," concludes Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why do you want to tell it to me at all?"

Discuss the following questions.

1.Why does a young man come to Socrates?

2.Why does Socrates stop him?

3.What is a three filter test?

a)The first filter question:_________________________________

b)The second filter question:_______________________________

c)The third filter question:_________________________________

4.Does the young man tell something about Socrates‘s friend in the end? Why?

Why not?

Speaking

18.Do you prefer to do the following activities with family or friends?

Informal letters need to be well organized. Use paragraphs to organize letter.A letter of 100 words can easily be organized into three paragraphs.

Paragraph 1 - the introduction. When we are replying to a letter we usually say something about what was in the original letter.

Paragraph 2 – the body - the main content.

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Paragraph 3 - the conclusion which usually ends with something like 'Write back soon'.

The letter below has no paragraphs. How can you organize the sentences into paragraphs?

Dear Mikel

It was nice to hear from you.

Of course I will help you with your school project! You want to know about a typical morning.

Well, on days when I go to college I usually get up about 7.00 o'clock. My mum always asks me to sit down and have breakfast before I leave. Unfortunately, I don't have much time and I eat breakfast at college.

I go to college by bus.

It takes about 30 minutes but sometimes it's longer if there's a lot of traffic. As soon as I arrive I meet my friends and get the latest news.

Anyway, give my love to your family. Write back soon.

Best wishes

Steve

Now read the letter with paragraphs and check yourself.

Dear Mikel,

It was nice to hear from you. Of course I will help you with your school project!

You want to know about a typical morning. Well, on days when I go to college I usually get up about 7.00 o'clock. My mum always asks me to sit down and have breakfast before I leave. Unfortunately, I don't have much time and I eat breakfast at college. I go to college by bus. It takes about 30 minutes but sometimes it's longer if there's a lot of traffic. As soon as I arrive I meet my friends and get the latest news.

Anyway, give my love to your family. Write back soon.

Best wishes,

Steve

The words and expressions below will help you organize your letter into clear paragraphs.

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Starting your letter (Paragraph 1)

Thanks for your letter.

How are you?

How are things?

Hope you're well.

Commenting on something (Paragraph 1)

I'm sorry to hear/learn ...

I'm so pleased to hear ...

It's great to hear ...

Moving the topic on (Paragraph 2)

Anyway, the reason I'm writing ...

Anyway, I was wondering ...

Ending your letter (Paragraph 3)

Well, that's all for now

Write back soon

Looking forward to hearing from you again

Best wishes

See you soon

Take care

Lots of love

Write an informal letter to your friend and describe your typical day at University.

Communication

19.In pairs or in small groups talk about your friends. This may help you:

Have a chat about the topics you liked. For more conversation, change topics and partners frequently.

Read the questions below. Choose a question that you like and make a one minute speech answering it. If you make a mistake your group mates stop you and then it is another student‟s turn to speak.

1. Who are your closest friends? What are they like? Describe them to your partner.

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2.What do you and your friends usually do together?

3.Who is your oldest friend? How long have you known each other?

4.Do you find it easy to make new friends? Why (not)?

5.Who is your newest friend?

6.What qualities are most important to you in a friend? Honesty? A sense of humour?

7.Have you ever made friends with someone through the Internet? Have you ever met this

person face-to-face? Why (not)?

8.What is more important to young people nowadays, friends or family? Which is more

important to you, and why?

Independent assignment

1.Search the Internet and find more information on life for 70-year-olds. Share your findings with your class in the next lesson.

2.Write a story about your best friend.

Speaking

1. Read the following questions and use them to start a conversation with your partner.

Do you come from a large or a small family? How many people are there in your family? What relation are they to your family?

Who are your favourite relatives, and why?

Vocabulary

2. Read the definitions and match them to the words in the box.

A person who lives near you

An animal that lives with the family

Your daughter‘s husband

Your closest friend

Your aunt‘s (or uncle‘s) child

Your male child

You mother‘s (or father‘s) sister

A person you work with

Your brother (or your sister‘s) daughter Your mother‘s daughter

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3. Work in pairs. Write definitions for the other words in the box.

Fill in the gaps with possessive pronouns.

Jack is married to Alice. She is his wife and he is ______ husband. They have a daughter and son. The ____ name is Henry and the ______ name is Lisa. They live next to Alice's parents, Harry and Marjorie. Harry is Alice's father and Marjorie is ________ mother. Harry is Jack's father-in-law and Marjorie is _________

mother-in-law. Henry is _____ grandson and Lisa is Marjorie's granddaughter. Alice has a sister a brother. ______ sister's name is Mary and her ______ name is Frank. Frank has two children, David and Sherrie. Sherrie is Alice's niece and David is Alice's nephew. Alice is ______ aunt and Jack is ________ uncle.

4. Write the names of four people who are close to you. Tell your partner as much as possible about these people.

Sasha is my cousin. She is nineteen and she studies at the university…

5. Read the words and phrases in column A and match them with their definitions in Column B.

6.Fill in the gaps with the words and phrases given above.

1)Do _________________ in your country receive a _____________?

2)Our ________________ lives in this house for many years.

3)A gift of music __________________ this _____________________.

4) When do you hope to ___________ ___________________?

5)He doesn‘t like being out a lot. He is a ___________________.

6)No one knows that. We discuss it only in our _________________.

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7)The cat ________________ also includes lions and tigers.

8)Only looking at their _______________________ I am able to understand how her numerous uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces are related to each other.

9)In some cultures the wives take their husband‘s____________.

Pronunciation

7. The letters th can be pronounced / θ / or / ð /. Put the following words into a correct column below.

mother father brother bath moth they

8.Listen and check. Reading: A typical British family

9.Look at the title of the text and say what a typical British family is like, then read the text and check your predictions.

A typical British family

A typical British family consists of mother, father and two children, but now family life changes. For example, the number of divorces increases. In fact, every fifth marriage ends in divorce. This means that there are a lot of one-parent families.

The majority of divorced people marry again, and they sometimes take responsibility for a second family.

Members of a family – grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins – keep in touch, but they see less of each other nowadays. This is because people often move away from their home town to work, and so the family breaks up.

Relationships within the family are different now. Parents treat their children more as equals, and children have more freedom to make decisions.

Although the family holiday is still an important part of family life (usually takes place in August) many children have holidays away from their parents, often with a school party or other organized group.

10.Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false ones.

a)There are many changes in typical British family.

b)Changes in society don‘t influence the British family.

c)In fact one marriage in every five ends in divorce.

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d)Most divorced people remarry.

e)Family members see each other less nowadays.

f)Children obey their parents without question nowadays.

g)Children spend the holidays often away from their families.

Grammar: questions, question tags

11.Here are some incorrectly formed questions. Correct them.

1.What the family to consist of?

2.Can you tell me why the number of divorces increases?

3.Do the relations within the family are different now?

4.Members of the family keep in touch, do they?

5.Are you agree?

6.How parents treat their children?

12.Here are the answers to some questions about the British family. Write the questions.

1)Who_____________________________________________________? It consists of mother, father and two children.

2)Why_____________________________________________________? It is easier to get a divorce.

3)Why_____________________________________________________? Because people often move away from their hometown to work.

4)What____________________________________________________? Christmas.

5)How____________________________________________________? They treat them as equals.

6)Why_____________________________________________________? Because the mother goes out to work.

Pronunciation

Question tags are used to check information.

Example: You‟ve got two sisters, haven‟t you?

If you are fairly sure that your information is correct, your voice should fall on the question tag.

If you are not very sure whether your information is correct or not, your voice should rise on the question tag.

13.Read the sentences as if a) you are fairly sure

b)you are not very sure.

a)You haven‘t got a car, have you?

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b)She‘s going to tell him, isn‘t she?

c)They won‘t come on Monday, will they?

d)You don‘t eat meat, do you?

e)He doesn‘t like her, does he?

14.Work with other students and check what you know about them and their family using question tags and the appropriate intonation.

Example: You‟ve got two brothers, don‟t you?

Listening

15.Match the following words with the definitions

16.Listen to the dialogue between Mary and Martha talking about their families. They know each other for a week only. Listen to the 1st part and fill in the gaps with the missing information.

Martha‘s Dad is from _____ and Mom from _____.

She has ____ in California and grandpa in _____.

Martha ____ after her Mom. They look like sisters.

17. Listen to the 2nd part and fill in the gaps with the missing information.

Mary has ___ aunts, ___ uncles, ___ cousins.

Mary‘s siblings are ___, ___, ___, ___, ___, ___, and ____ years old.

Mary sees her family _________.

18.Answer the questions:

1)What is good and bad about being an only child?

2)Would you like to have a twin? Why or why not?

3)Who do you look like in your family? Who do you take after the most?

4)On what occasions does your family get together?

Reading: Types of family

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