Practice

I. Express your feelings on the following situations:

1. Your neighbour pokes his/her nose into your private life.

2. It's your day off and the weather is bad. It's pouring.

3. There are mice about the house.

4. You live on the 7th floor and returning home late at night you found there is no lift

service.

5. You have gone out and. remembered you've left at home the key from your car.

6. You are leaving for work. You see a spot on your blouse.

7. It has been a hot day and the milk has gone sour.

8. You sit up reading an interesting book. Suddenly the whole house is plunged in darkness.

9. A wife scolds her husband because he is clumsy at doing things about the house. 10. You are carrying shoppings when your bag gets torn.

Communication activity

II. Translate the following:

1. – Вы читали этот детектив?

– Да. Какое глупое содержание, не правда ли?

– Конечно. Халтура! Дальше идти некуда.

2. – Что за щенок! Все кругом оборвал. Что же будет дальше?

3. Три месяца как он уехал - и ни строчки! Хорошенькое дело!

4. – Помилуйте? За кого вы меня принимаете? Неужели вы думаете, что я мог

так поступить?

– От вас можно ожидать чего угодно. Вы - чудовище!

5. Все! Это последняя капля! К черту все! Еду отдыхать!

6. – Пропустите! Пропустите!3то очень важная персона!

– Вы с ума сошли? Это же известный игрок! Он - хулиган!

– Черт возьми! Уберите этого человека. .Пропустите! Пропустите!

7. Ну и сон! Это какой-то кошмар!

8. Кто вы такой, чтобы делать мне замечания!

9. Посмотри на эти картины! Художник такой халтурщик!

10. Ну что это за фильм! Кошмар!

III. Give examples from literary works or from cinema works of personages whom you may characterize as:

the wretch, the beggar, the stinker, the blackguard, the bully, the pot-boiler, the lazybones, the monster, the cokoo, the scoundrel, the swindler.

Communication activity situations

Act out a dialogue:

1. Your ball pen doesn't work.

2. You are in a part of town you don't know.

3. You haven't got a watch.

4. Your doctor has told you not to carry heavy things.

5. You have just opened the window.

6. Your friend likes chocolate.

7. You don't smoke. Your friend does.

8. You have cut the advertisement out of a newspaper. Persuade your partner to spend his/her money on this.

9. Persuade your partner to agree with your opinion that

– household pets are disgusting;

– advertising is great fun;

– machines should do routine jobs;

– traveling by air is very dangerous;

– English grammar is very difficult.

10. Your friend has agreed to spend the weekend with you.

11. Find out why your friend looks depressed.

12. Your neighbour keeps on parking his/her car in front of your windows.

13. Ask your friend to pay back the 10 pounds he or she owes you.

14. You feel fine today. Your friend doesn't seem so cheerful.

15. You are аn expert on the career of the Beatles (Rolling Stones, Ivanushki International, Uhma Turman...) Youг friend isn't.

16. Your cellphone is out of order.

17. Try to find out today’s date and time.

18. Your arms are full and you want to turn off the light.

19. You are dying for a drink.

20. Your group has a test on…

21. Your friend didn’t get a job. But you did.

22. You've been to the doctor.

23. Your neighbour's dog barks all nights.

22. You are very busy. Your partner isn't.

25. You have just been cheated by your partner.

26. Find out why your mother is cross.

27. Your nose is running and you haven't got a handkerchief.

28. You can't read a sign on the other side of the road.

29. You need 5c for a phone.

30. Your car won't start.

31. Тrу to interest your friend in these ideas:

– going for a fast drive in a new car;

– having a discussion about a political situation in the world;

– watching an interesting TV program this evening;

– writing cribs for the exams;

– reading a good book you've just read.

32. You have several pieces of bad news for your friends.

33. You try phoning your friend to invite him/her to the cinema.

34. You have a sweet tooth.

35. You were late for work. Your boss is angry.

36. You have to work late tonight. Your mother is waiting for you.

37. You've just dropped coffee on your lap.

38. You are in a bus. You remembered that you've come out without any money,

39. All your friend's plans seem really boring to you.

40. Your friend wants to give you a lift.

41. You can't open the door. You need help.

42. You want lemonade but you have no change.

43. Ask your partner to help you with your work.

44. Your partner is speaking very fast. You can't understand anything.

45. Convince your friend that automation means unemployment.

46. Study one of the banknotes from your purse and speak on it.

47. Your only pleasure in your life is your computer.

48. You and. your partner have a lot of problems at work.

49. You want to borrow your friend's dictionary for a minute.

50. You are boss. Your partner is one of the most reliable workers.

Использованная литература:

1. Leo Jones. Functions of English. “Students’ new edition book”. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

2. Michael Swan, Catherine Walter “The new Cambridge English Course”, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

3. Conversational formulas, М. А. Серафимова и др., Ленинград, 1960

Contents

Presentation 1: Arresting someone’s attention 3

Presentation 2. Modes of address 4

Presentation 3. Greetings 5

Presentation 4: Words of parting 6

Presentation 5. Introducing people 7

Presentation 6: Congratulations and wishes 8

Presentation 7: Invitations, arrangements, offers 9

Presentation 8: Thanks 11

Presentation 9: Requests 13

Presentation 10: Apologies 15

Presentation 11. Agreement, approval, solidarity 17

Presentation 12: Disagreements, refusal, protest, disapproval 19

Presentation 13: Doubt, hesitation, disbelief 21

Presentation 14: Surprise 23

Presentation 15. Encouragement, consolation, sympathy, regret, urging 24

Presentation 16. Advice, prohibition 26

Presentation 17: Warnings 28

Presentation 18: Threats and reprimands 29

Presentation 19: Anger, indignation, irritation 30

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