- •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
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III. Supplementary vocabulary:
1. Appearance (beautiful, lovely, nice, (un) attractive, good-looking, plain, ugly).
Built: (lean, skinny, stocky, slim, slender, overweight, stout, fat, narrow-shouldered, to be of medium built).
Head: (bald, beard [biэd], moustache, dimples, mole, freckles, wrinkles, scar, chin, stubble).
Complexion: (fair, dark, ruddy).
Nose: (straight, turned up, aquiline, hooked).
Lips: (thick, thin).
Eyes: (deep-set, bulging, short-sighted, far-sighted).
Hair: (it) (thick, thin, dark, brunette, fair, blonde, red, grey, chest-nut, papper and salt hair, long, short, to have short hair-do, to wear hair-cut, wavy, straight, curly).
2. Character (trait, characteristic feature)
Positive (merits): clever (intelligent), bright, witty, wise, shrewd, well-read, hard-working (industrious), careful, gentle, calm (quiet), merry (cheerful), honest, fair, sincere, faithful (reliable), king, sociable (friendly), generous, modest, shy, strong-willed, resolute, firm.
Negative (faults): silly, dull, bore, naive, lazy, absent-minded, careless, harsh, hard-hearted, hot-tempered, nervous, irritable, changeable, dishonest, unfair, insincere, rude, greedy, taciturn, disobedient, strict (severe), insolent, stubborn, arrogant.
Neutral: optimistic/pessimistic, extroverted/ introverted, self-assured, ambitious.
3. Relationships
Positive: like, love, adore, worship, respect, admire, to feel equal and valued, tolerate.
Negative: dislike, hate, can't stand, despise, to separate, divorce, to part, split up, suppress.
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).
b) Explain in English the meaning of each proverb.
c) Make up a dialogue (or think of situations or short stories) to illustrate one of the proverbs and sayings.
1. Every day is not Sunday.
2. Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
3. As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.
4. Every family has a black sheep.
5. There is no place like home.
6. Like father like son.
7. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
8. A little pot is soon hot.
9. Men make houses, women make homes.
10. Не got out of bed on the wrong side.
11. A good name is better than riches.
12. As like as two peas in a pod.
13. Blood is thicker than water.
14. He that has no children knows not what is love.
15. Love in a cottage.
16. Love me, love my dog.
17. Marriages are made in heaven.
18. Marriage goes by contrasts.
19. Out of sight, out of mind.
20. They are hand and glove.
21. То be up to ears in love.
22. To wash one's dirty linen in public.
23. A good husband makes a good wife.
24. Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
25. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
26. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
27. It’s a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.