- •Other Forms of Address
- •Less Common Forms of Address
- •Informal Address
- •Forms of Address within the Family
- •Making and Responding to Introductions
- •Third-Party Introductions
- •Self-Introductions
- •Responding to Introductions
- •Your relationship to the two people, and something they may have In common, according to the clues provided. You don't have to use all the
- •Information given; just use what you think would be appropriate.
- •B. Age and Ageing.
- •Do any of the words refer only to males (m) or only females (f)?
- •Skill Ex. 7 In the following dialogue, agree with the first speaker. Developing Use words from exercises 4 and 5 that mean roughly the same as the words in italics.
- •C. People's Occupation. Focus Vocabulary
- •Countries. Languages. Nationalities.
- •It's Been Long
- •The Way to Ask People about Their
- •Less Optimistic Replies
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Insert prepositions if necessary.
- •II. Rewrite and correct the sentences in which there are errors.
- •III. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Unit 2 Family Relationships Focus Vocabulary
- •1) Which two of these words can be used as a verb?
- •3) Which of the following:
- •4) Which of the word-parts in the box can be used with each of the relations below?
- •Interview with 16-year-old daughter Helen
- •Interview with 17-year-old son David
- •Interview with mother
- •Development answering the questions below. Try to use the multi-word verbs and expressions in the box in your answer as well as the verbs above.
- •When you are old
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •II. Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below.
- •III. Change the words underlined to give the sentences the opposite meaning.
- •IV. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Complimenting People
- •"It's been long", "How are you", "Complimenting".
- •1. When we describe somebody, we tend to follow this order in our description: height, build, age, hair, eyes, face, complexion, extra features, dress. Study this example.
- •2. Eyes
- •With the definitions in b.
- •A Detective Inquiry
- •Role-Play
- •Test Yourself
- •Unit 4 Character and Personality a. Focus vocabulary
- •Word Meaning Ex. 1 Match the words on the left with the closest meaning on the right.
- •We Are Not Alike a. Intellectual ability
- •Attitudes towards life
- •Attitudes towards other people
- •One person's meat is another person's poison
- •It Takes All Sorts
- •Idiomatic expressions
- •Your Stars
- •In the examples below?
- •We don't get on well
- •Likes and Dislikes
- •Test: How brave are you?
- •The Main Attraction
- •Persоnal
- •Interview the husband and the wife of the year.
- •Proposal
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Put the following adjectives in the correct order.
- •II. Use the prompts below to build up a description of a student. Before you begin think about the tenses you will use.
- •III. Cross out the incorrect word in each of the following sentences.
- •IV. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus Vocabulary
- •It would be very interesting to find out the opinion of girls and boys. Do they differ in any way?
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •Unit 2 Furnishing and Decorating Focus Vocabulary
- •Furniture in your home to your partner. Use the prepositions and adverbs to help you.
- •Flat for sale
- •Word Use Ex. 14 Complete the following sentences with a suitable idiomatic expression.
- •Estate agent
- •It needs doing, to have smth done, to do smth.
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •Something suitable.
- •Houses and Flats to Let
- •Houses and Flat for Sale
- •Sharing a Flat
- •The Noisy Neighbours
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. A. Renting a flat
- •Buying a house
- •III. Put one of the following words in each space in the sentences below.
- •Unit 4 Housework. Household Chores. Focus Vocabulary
- •Ex. 4 Make and do
- •Now collect any new expressions you can find using "make" or "do" from the dialogue below. Put them on your "make and do" list.
- •What's your attitude to untidy people?
- •Unit 5 Pets Focus Vocabulary
- •Don't Get a Dog or Puppy Until You've Checked These Points:
- •If you cannot answer 'yes' to all these questions, please think very carefully before you get a dog or a puppy. Perhaps another kind of animal would make a better pet for you.
- •Are They Not Sweet?
- •2. Are they better companions than some people may be?
- •3. Speak about your pets if any or pets you'd like to keep.
- •Vocabulary
The Way to Ask People about Their
How are you?
How are you doing?
How are things?
How is you father these days?
How are you getting on?
How is your mother keeping?
How's business?
> How goes it?
> How's tricks?
> How's life treating you?
> How are you feeling?
> How's it going?
> How about yourself?
> And you?
Optimistic Replies
> Great, thanks. > Just great. > Grand, thank you. > Very well indeed, thank you.
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> Fine, thank you. > Fine. You? > Quite well, thank уоu. > Thank you, pretty good. > Never better.
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Less Optimistic Replies
> Not bad, thanks. > Might be better, you, anyway. I'm afraid. Thank
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> So-so, thanks. > Fifty-fifty. Thank you. > Middling. > Could be worth.
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Giving Regards
> My best regards to your family. > Give him my regards. > My best wishes to her. > She asked to be remembered to you. > Remember me to them.
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> Pass my love to your mother. > Kiss her for me. > Will you give Carol a kiss from me? > Say hello to your sister (from me). > Tell Betty I said hello. > Could you send my love to the family?
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The most common reply is: I will, thank you.
Class Communication
Task 1. Getting to know each other better
All students write three interesting things about themselves on sheets of paper and stick them on the wall. Then the students read all the information about the others and make notes about the things that surprise them or the things they have in common with someone. Then they discuss the things together.
Task 2 Role-play
Role-card A
You run into your former schoolmate/ fellow-student/ colleague in the street/ in a cafe/ in a foreign town. You haven't seen each other for a long time.
Role-card В
You are walking along the street/sitting in a cafe/visiting a foreign town. Somebody calls you by name. You recognise your former schoolmate/fellow- student/colleague whom you haven't seen for a long time. Make small talk with him/her.
Exchange the news about your families, jobs, etc.
Writing
Susan Kelly is a journalist. She works for one of the big daily newspapers in Fleet Street and her work often takes her abroad. Susan's passport runs out this year, so she is applying for a new one.
Study the information she gives on her application form, then use the following prompts to ask questions about her:
Where/she/born? Married? What/date/birth? Which town/born in? How old?
What/surname? What/Christian names? What/address/telephone number? Which country/live in? What/job?
Now find out similar information about your partner. Write down the questions your will need to ask in full, then interview your partner, note down his/her answers, make an application form and fill it in. Don't forget to ask for the spelling of names or towns when necessary!
Use Susan's application form as a model.
Please write in CAPITAL LETTERS and in ink
TO BE FILLED IN BY ALL APPLICANTS
KELLY
Your surname__
Tick correct box
Mr Mrs
Miss Ms or title
Christian names or forenames
Maiden surname (if applicable).
Married Single
Tick correct box
SUSAN CLARE
Widowed Divorced Separated
Age last birthday 23
Country of birth ENGLAND
Present address 17 ENFIELD COURT. ENFIELD ROAD. TWICKENHAM. MIDDLESEX
Postcode MV6 3PQ
Daytime telephone no 894 - 0556_
(We may need to get in touch with you urgently)
Job/occupation JOURNALIST_______
Town of birth______LEICESTER__________
Date of birth______5 - 8 - 1961________
Country of residence_______ENGLAND