- •Glad to meet you!
- •1A Meeting people
- •1. Read the dialogues and guess who is speaking and where they are.
- •2. Listen to these dialogues and repeat them. Pay special attention to the intonation and sentence stress. Act out the dialogues.
- •3. Make up your own dialogues using patterns from the dialogues.
- •Местоимения (pronouns) Личные местоимения (Personal Pronouns)
- •Указательные местоимения
- •Спряжение глагола to be
- •Множественное число существительных
- •Притяжательный падеж существительных (Possessive Case)
- •4. Make these sentences plural.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •6. Choose the correct form of pronouns.
- •7. Paraphrase these word combinations and sentences using Possessive Case.
- •8. Translate into English using Possessive Case.
- •10. Translate into English using the correct form of the verb to be in Present Simple.
- •11. Put the correct form of the verb to be in Present, Past or Future Simple.
- •12. Translate into English using the correct form of the verb to be in Present, Past or Future Simple.
- •13. Listen to a dialogue and answer the questions.
- •14. Listen again and fill in the gaps in the sentences taken from the dialogue.
- •15. Study the following speech patterns. Read the translations and guess the meaning of the rest.
- •16. Read the following dialogues and spot speech patterns from ex. 13 in them. Act out the dialogues.
- •17. Translate the dialogues into English.
- •Forms of address Mr., Mrs., Ms, Miss.... What am I?
- •Other forms of address include:
- •1 B Personal details, please!
- •Describing appearance
- •Describing character
- •24. Match the adjectives from column a with their opposites in column b.
- •25. How would you describe a person in each of these situations?
- •I think that if a person is ………., ……….., because ………..
- •32. Match each word in Column a with its meaning in Column b. Write the corresponding letter in the box next to the word.
- •33. Match each word in Column a with its opposite meaning in Column b. Write the corresponding letter in the box next to the word.
- •34. Choose four out of the eight words below and make a simple sentence with each of the four words you picked.
- •35. Using information in the passage, say whether these sentences are true (t) or false (f):
- •36. Say who of the four people in the passage…
- •37. Find in the text the following sentences. Translate them into Russian:
- •Времена английского глагола
- •Группа временных форм Simple (Indefinite) Формы глагола в Present Simple
- •Формы глагола в Past Simple
- •Правильные и неправильные глаголы (Regular and irregular verbs)
- •Формы глагола в Future Simple
- •38. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct Present Simple form.
- •39. Translate into English using Present Simple.
- •40. Translate into English using Present Simple.
- •41. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct Present Simple or Future Simple form.
- •42. Rewrite the text using Past Simple.
- •43. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct Present Simple, Past or Future Simple form.
- •48. Answer these questions about yourself
- •49. Prepare to introduce yourself to the group. Think of your biography, your family, your interests and hobbies as well as your plans for the future.
- •50. Translate this text into English
- •51. Spot the error. In each sentence below you will find an error. Underline it and write a correct sentence in your copybook.
- •52. Read the task and the advertisement in exercise 55 carefully. Then read the message below, and decide if the writer has included all the requested information.
- •53. Tick the box if the information is mentioned in the email.
- •54. Rewrite David’s message, adding the information he’s missed out.
- •55. You see this advertisement in an Internet forum. Write your response in an email of 40-50 words.
- •British character
- •57. Do you know much about the uk? Choose the correct answers. Then read the text and find out if you were right.
- •59. Unscramble the words from the text in column a and find their Russian equivalents in column b.
- •60. Find in the text English equivalents of the following Russian word combinations and phrases:
- •61. Tell whether these statements are t (true), f (false) or nm (not-mentioned).
- •62. Complete the following sentences:
- •63. Final discussion on the text.
- •64. Comment upon the following utterances:
- •Test yourself
- •Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form using Present Simple, Past Simple или Future Simple.
- •5. Match each word in Column a with its meaning in column b.
- •6. Match each word in Column a with its opposite meaning in column b.
- •Fill in the gaps in the dialogue with a suitable word from a box below.
- •8. Translate into English.
- •Answer the questions about yourself.
- •10. Tell about British character. Compare and contract it with Russian character. Use proverbs and quotations you know connected to the topic.
- •11. There is a very good proverb about person’s character. Do the crossword and find it out. Say what you think about it.
- •Supplementary texts
- •Margaret thatcher
- •G eorge washington
- •Oscar wilde
- •Lewis carroll
- •C onan doyle
- •Michael faraday
10. Translate into English using the correct form of the verb to be in Present Simple.
1. Я студент. Я в университете. 2. Мой брат художник. Он не инженер. 3. Моя сестра на работе. Она врач. 4. Он студент. 5. Вы студент? – Нет, я врач. 6. Моя сестра дома. 7. Мы не в университете. Мы дома. 8. Мой брат ученик. Он в школе. 9. Ваша мама дома? - Нет, она на работе. 10. Ваш двоюродный брат дома? – Нет, он в школе. Он ученик. 11. Ваша сестра учительница? – Нет, она студентка. 12. Твой папа на работе? – Нет, он дома. 13. Твоя сестра машинистка? – Да. - Она дома? – Нет, она на работе. 14. Мой дедушка – ученый. 15. Моя мама не учительница.
11. Put the correct form of the verb to be in Present, Past or Future Simple.
1. My father ... a teacher. 2. He ... a pupil twenty years ago. 3. I ... a doctor when I grow up. 4. My sister ... not ... at home tomorrow. 5. She ... at school tomorrow. 6. ... you ... at home tomorrow? 7. ... your father at work yesterday? 8. My sister ... ill last week. 9. She ... not ill now. 10. Yesterday we ... at the theatre. 11. Where ... your mother now? – She ... in the kitchen. 12. Where ... you yesterday? – I ... at the cinema. 13. When I come home tomorrow, all my family ... at home. 14. ... your little sister in bed now? – Yes, she ... . 15. ... you ... at school tomorrow? – Yes I ... . 16. When my granny ... young, she ... an actress. 17. My friend ... in Moscow now. 18. He ... in St. Petersburg tomorrow. 19. Where ... your books now?
12. Translate into English using the correct form of the verb to be in Present, Past or Future Simple.
1. Мой брат сейчас в школе. 2. Мой брат был вчера в кино. 3. Мой брат будет завтра дома. 4. Ты будешь дома завтра? 5. Она была вчера в парке? 6. Он сейчас во дворе? 7. Где папа? 8. Где вы были вчера? 9. Где он будет завтра? 10. Мои книги были на столе. Где они сейчас? 11. Моя мама вчера не была на работе. Она была дома. 12. Мой друг не в парке. Он в школе. 13. Завтра в три часа Коля и Миша будут во дворе. 14. Мы не были на юге прошлым летом. Мы были в Москве. 15. Завтра мой дедушка будет в деревне. 16. Когда твоя сестра будет дома? 17. Ты будешь летчиком? – Нет, я буду моряком. 18. Моя сестра была студенткой в прошлом году, a сейчас она врач. - Ты тоже будешь врачом? – Нет, я не буду врачом. Я буду инженером.
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13. Listen to a dialogue and answer the questions.
a. What time of the day is it?
b. What kind of relationship do the speakers obviously have?
c. What was the reason to stop the conversation?
14. Listen again and fill in the gaps in the sentences taken from the dialogue.
How …… life?
How ……. you getting on?
And how ……. your wife?
I ……. glad to meet you!
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L a n g u a g e F o c u s
15. Study the following speech patterns. Read the translations and guess the meaning of the rest.
Let me introduce myself to you. |
Разрешите представиться. |
Let me introduce you to my father. |
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Let me do it for you. |
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Let me help you. |
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What is your trade? |
Чем Вы занимаетесь? |
What is your profession? |
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What is your occupation? |
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What are you? |
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Are you acquainted with Miss Flop? |
Вы знакомы с мисс Флоп? |
Is Miss Clark acquainted with Richard? |
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Do you want to get acquainted with Mr. Fox? |
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Are we acquainted? |
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I am sorry to here that. |
Мне жаль это слышать. |
I am glad to know you. |
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I am ready to help them. |
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I am happy to meet you. |
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There is nothing to boast of. |
Хвастаться нечем. |
There is nothing to complain of. |
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There is nothing to look at. |
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There is nothing to argue about. |
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