- •Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи для студентов I и II курса технических специальностей
- •Part I me and my family
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, and translate the texts. About myself
- •My family
- •III. Supplementary vocabulary:
- •3. Relationships
- •IV. Using the supplementary vocabulary and the above stories, speak about yourself and your family.
- •V. A) Give the Russian equivalents for the following English proverbs and sayings (or translate them into Russian).
- •VI. Topics for oral compositions:
- •V. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •Working day of a student
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read and translate the texts:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •Higher education
- •I . Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II . Read, translate and retell the text:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •Our university
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II .Read, translate and retell the text:
- •AltStu academic divisions
- •Institutes:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •IV. Ask your friend:
- •V. Act out the situations:
- •In the city Barnaul
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and retell the text:
- •III. Complete the text with the words and phrases from the list below.
- •IV. Underline the correct word or phrase.
- •V. Underline the correct grammar form of the verb.
- •VI. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •VII. Choose one of the prepositions.
- •VIII. Finish the sentences
- •Around the world
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Imagine some friends are coming to visit your town or city. They only have time to see three things. What three things should they see? Make a list.
- •III. Read the extract from a guide book for Cape Town.
- •IV. Put the sentences a-f back in the gaps 1-6 of the article.
- •V. Work in pairs. Imagine you have a free trip to Cape Town but you can only see three things. Which of the places would you like to visit most? Decide which three places are the best to go to.
- •VI. Match column a to column в to make sentences about things you can do in Cape Town.
- •VII. Anny and Nick are visiting Cape Town. Complete the sentences and put the adjectives in brackets into the superlative form. Where are they in each conversation?
- •VIII. Make questions with the phrases below about your native city. Use the superlative form of the adjectives. Make two more questions of your own.
- •Directions
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Fill in the gaps with up, into, through, round, onto, from...To, over or down.
- •III. Look at the pictures and speak about Robert`s driving lesson. Put a preposition from the box into each gap.
- •IV. Underline the correct word(s).
- •V. Follow the directions on the map and write down the name of the place. Try to guess where the woman wants to go.
- •Transport
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Put these types of transport in order from fast to slow.
- •III. Read the text. Can you guess which numbers go in the gaps?
- •IV. Look back at we text and choose the correct words to go together.
- •V. Which sentences are true for your country? Correct the false ones.
- •Shopping
- •I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and retell the text: Shopping
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •III. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •VI. Ask your friend:
- •VII. Act out the situations using the following words and word combinations:
- •Part II Travelling
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered
- •Going abroad
- •II. Read, translate and reproduce the text
- •III. Exercises
- •1. Give the English equivalents
- •2. Translate into English
- •3. Answer the questions
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and retell the text: Travelling
- •IV. Answer the questions:
- •V. Ask your friend:
- •IV. Words and word combinations to be remembered
- •V. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues
- •Airplane reservation
- •Booking train tickets
- •Hotel reservations
- •At a hotel
- •Shopping
- •1. Lev Shkolnik - l. S., Salesman – s.
- •2. Saleswoman - s., Olga Rozova - o.R.
- •V. Act out the situations
- •VI. Ask your friend:
- •Spending free time
- •Vocabulary 1
- •Opinions
- •Vocabulary 2a
- •Vocabulary 2b
- •Vocabulary 3
- •Eating out/ meals
- •Vocabulary 4
- •Vocabulary 4a
- •2) Translate the sentences into English:
- •The Career Ladder
- •1. Read the texts and put down new vocabulary.
- •3. Read the article and check your answers to 2.
- •4. Imagine you could do two jobs. Which two jobs would you like to do? Discuss your ideas with a partner.
- •5. Work with a partner. The beginnings and ends of these sentences are mixed up. Rearrange them to make realistic sentences.
- •6. Work with a partner. Complete the interviews with can, can't, have to or don't have to.
- •Career moves
- •2. Decide…
- •3. Practise the dialogue. What does an interactive media designer do? Does it sound interesting to you? Why or why not? Find gerund phrases.
- •4. Make up sentences as in the example. Give your opinions about the jobs.
- •5. Find phrases in the list that are usually paired with each verb.
- •6. Practise the dialogue. Find comparisons.
- •7. Match the information to make sentences. Then rewrite each sentence in a different way.
- •8. Choose two summer jobs from the list. Then use the questions to compare them.
- •9. Read this letter of application for a job at Reynold's Department Store. Use the words and expressions above to improve the parts of the letter that are underlined.
- •10. Write your own letter of application for your dream job.
- •11. Read, translate and retell the text: planning a career
- •12. Ask your groupmates:
- •The main cities of america
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read, translate and reproduce the text: New York
- •III. Exercises
- •1. Give the English equivalents:
- •2. Translate into English:
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Circle t if the sentence is true. Circle f if the sentence is false.
- •5. Discuss the answers to these questions with your classmates.
- •Part II
- •I. Words and word combinations to be remembered:
- •II. Read and translate the text Glimpses of Geography
- •III Note the pronunciation of the geographical names:
- •IV. Look at the map and describe
- •« Город Огней»
- •VI. Grammar
- •VII. Read, translate and reproduce the dialogues:
- •VIII. Ask your friend:
- •IX. Answer the questions.
- •X. Act out the situations:
- •The contents
- •In the city………………………………………………………….26
II. Fill in the gaps with up, into, through, round, onto, from...To, over or down.
1. The dog is jumping ... the table.
2. The postman has just gone ... the corner
3. How far is it ... your house ... the post office?
4. The train is going ... the tunnel.
5. The plane is flying ... the village.
6. Look! That man has climbed ...the ladder.
7. Tears are running..............his face.
8. Come.............the house and get warm.
III. Look at the pictures and speak about Robert`s driving lesson. Put a preposition from the box into each gap.
along down into out of over past through under up |
Robert's driving lesson
Robert drove ___the garage, ___the road, and ___ the bridge.
Then he drove ___ the pub, ___ the hill, and ___the hill.
Next he drove ___the river, ___ the hedge, and ___the lake!
IV. Underline the correct word(s).
1. You must go up/across/into the bridge to get to school.
2. Put the cake into/out of/through the oven.
3. The motorbike is going down/onto/through the tunnel.
4. The children ran onto/out of/over the classrooms when the bell rang.
5. I go to school on/by/onto foot.
6. The pop singer is ready to sing. He is coming through/over/onto the stage.
7. The child is running through/over/across the road.
8. The cat has jumped down/onto/across the car.
9. You must always take off your shoes when you come into/ down/ round the house,
10. He goes to work by/on/into bus every day.
V. Follow the directions on the map and write down the name of the place. Try to guess where the woman wants to go.
Walk straight on the end of the road. Then turn right. Take the second turning on the left. Go down the road till you come to a crossroad. Turn right. Then turn right again at the traffic lights. Go down the road until you come to a park. Then turn left. Keep straight on for about two hundred metres and it`s on your right.
Transport
I. Words and word-combinations to be remembered:
subway/ underground – метро
hot air balloon – воздушный шар
fast – быстрый
slow – медленный
ride a bicycle – ездить на велосипеде
wait for – ждать
get on a train – садиться на поезд
get off a train – сходить с поезда
crowd – толпа
magnetic Levitation train - поезд на магнитной подвеске
city traffic - движение городского транспорта
queue – очередь
II. Put these types of transport in order from fast to slow.
a boat a train a tram an underground train
an airplane a ship a scooter a motorbike
a taxi a bicycle a ferry a hot air balloon
III. Read the text. Can you guess which numbers go in the gaps?
1,000,000 (one million) 100,000,000 (one hundred million) 5 8 740 500,000 (five hundred thousand) 77,000,000 9,000,000 59 3 |
Transport facts!
1. People in most countries drive on the right - but people drive on the left in (a) ___ countries, including Japan, India, Australia and Britain.
2. In the USA (b) ___ people in every thousand drive car. In Japan, it's 640 and in Germanу it`s 570. More than (c) ___ people in the world ride a bicycle!
3. In Tokyo people never wait for more than (d) ___ minutes for an underground train. The only problem is it's often difficult to get on or off a train because they're sо crowded!
(c) ___ people fly to Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta, USA every year! (That's about one hundred end fifty people every minute!)
4. In Chinа, the 30 km journey from Shanghai city centre to Pudeng Airport takes only f) ___ minutes on the new Magnetic Levitation (Маg Lev) train.
5. Most people in Moscow go to work by underground. The Moscow Metro has 165 stations and about (g) ___ passengers every day. The stations in the city centre are very beautiful.
6. Every day more than (h) ___ people travel into the centre of London. About 20% drive, 77% take the train or the bus, and only (i) ___ % walk to work!
7. In Italy, a country of 57 million people. 8 million people have scooters. In Rome, (j) ___ people ride scooters so they can travel fast in the city traffic.