- •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
Describing character
A Positive traits |
B Negative traits |
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active |
boastful, critical, selfish |
ambitious |
cold and unfriendly |
attentive |
dishonest |
cheerful |
horrible, unpleasant |
clever, bright, smart |
impractical |
determined |
inattentive |
flexible |
inflexible, stubborn |
generous |
insensitive |
hard-working |
lazy, undisciplined |
honest |
light-minded |
kind |
mean |
nice, pleasant |
miserable |
optimistic |
not very punctual, always late |
patient |
passive |
polite |
pessimistic |
practical |
risky |
punctual |
rude |
relaxed and easy-going |
self-assured |
reliable, trustworthy |
stupid, silly, dim |
self-confident |
tactless |
sensitive |
tense |
strong |
unambitious |
tactful |
unkind |
timid |
unreliable |
warm and friendly |
weak |
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?
He never bought me a drink all the time we were together.
He often promises to do things but half the times he forgets.
She’s always here on time.
I don’t think he does any work, he rests all the time.
She finds it difficult to meet new people and talk to strangers.
She’s aware of what other people feel or think.
Bob always makes people angry or upset because he doesn’t consider their feelings.
He wants to become the boss of our department as soon as possible.
She thinks only of her own interests.
He always hopes for the best and keeps smiling.
She never says the truth.
He is not nervous or worried, that is why it is easy to deal with him.
You can tell him any secret, he won’t let the cat out of the bag.
He keeps rebuking others all the time.
She will never speak about her achievements, she speaks little but does much.
He is happy and cheerful.
She is very unwilling to change her mind, even when she knows she is wrong.
He has good manners and behaves in a way that is socially correct and not rude to other people.
They talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
26. Use the following model to speak about your ideas of traits of character.
I think that if a person is ………., ……….., because ………..
Example: I think that if a person is selfish, people wouldn’t like him, because he thinks only of himself. I think if a person is kind, people would like him, because he thinks a lot about others and is always ready to help them.
27. Discussion.
Describe yourself using positive and negative qualities from the table. Is there a quality you do not have but would like to have? What, in your opinion, is the worst quality?
Compare and discuss you answers with a partner.
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R e a d i n g
Pre-text exercises
28. Check if you remember the following verbs from the text:
to introduce, to finish, to try, to think, to say, to know, to find, to give, to swim, to walk, to take, to enjoy, to meet, to watch, to play, to agree, to change.
29. State to what part of speech the following words belong:
weigh, student, seventeen, am, always, should, passionate, skin, myself, boring, at, you, music, have, completely, years, take after, TV, a, dark-haired, my, watching.
30. Form the derivatives from the following words:
technology, interest, optimism, plays, overweight, person, conserve, outgoing, every, rely.
31. Read the following ideas of teenagers about their features of character and choose a person you would like to make friends with.
Alex
L et me introduce myself. I am Alex Sidorov. Alex is my first name and Sidorov is my surname. I am seventeen years old. In spring I finished school and now I am a student at Kazan National Research Technological University. This is my first year, I enjoy studying here and I do my best to get only “fives”.
I think I take after my father. I'm tall and medium build, in fact I am 1 metre 80 and I weigh about 75 kilos. I have got short red hair, brown eyes and freckles.
People say I am warm and friendly. I hope I am. I also think I am polite, cheerful and optimistic. I always try to be in a good mood.
Jane
I’m about one metre seventy, or something like that. So I am medium height. I’m overweight I think though my friends say I am not. I don’t know how much I weigh, ‘cause I always find it too depressing to weigh myself. I don’t think I take as much exercise as I should. I used to go to a gym, but I found it really boring. My main exercise is walking – I walk everywhere – and swimming, which is fine for giving you good stamina and it’s good for your heart, spine and lungs.
I have got dark skin and long straight black hair which I wear loose. I am calm. My hobbies are music and literature.
Oscar
I have quite an outgoing personality, really. I make friends very easily. I can mix quite well with people that I’ve never met before and with people from different walks of life. I like to be friendly to the people around me. My friends and I often spend time together watching movies and playing outdoor games.
I have a passionate interest in sports, especially football. I play football with my friends every weekend, and I watch all matches of my favourite football team Barcelona on TV.
I am a dark-haired guy with black eyes. I am honest and reliable and I value these qualities highly. I am a second-year student at Medical University.
Kate
W ell, actually it is very difficult to speak about yourself, but I will try. I think that I am home-loving, kind and patient. I can get on well with people, because I always try to help them and they trust me. I am very active, although my parents say that I am lazy, because I don’t like to do the things they want me to do. Also I am very conservative, they say, and I completely agree with it. I never change anything in my life: ideas, principles, friends. And the proverb “Old friends are best friends” is my motto.
V o c a b u l a r y S t u d y
do one’s best |
сделать всё возможное |
take after |
быть похожим на (своего близкого родственника) |
freckles |
веснушки |
used to |
имел обыкновение |
stamina ['stæmɪnə] |
the ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort |
loose |
зд. распущенные (волосы) |
mix with |
общаться |
walk of life |
общественное положение |
value ['væljuː] |
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actually ['ækʧuəlɪ] |
фактически, на самом деле, в действительности |
get on well with |
хорошо ладить |
conservative [kən'sɜːvətɪv] |
консервативный, противящийся новому |
motto |
девиз, лозунг |
V o c a b u l a r y b u i l d i n g