- •Предисловие
- •Some Important Things from the Educational Environment
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •College Life
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •B. Our University Active Vocabulary
- •Our University
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Self check
- •Unit 2 Our Studies. Our English Lesson Active Vocabulary
- •Introducing the new vocabulary
- •Our Studies
- •Career Prospects
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •2.1. Check your understanding of the dialogue by marking the following statements as True or False. Comment on your choice.
- •2.2. Listen to the dialogue focussing on the details and answer the questions.
- •2.3. Listen to the dialogue once again and while doing it write down all the information that may characterize the boys.
- •III. Follow up activities
- •Self check
- •Unit 3 Taking Exams Active Vocabulary
- •Taking Exams
- •A Students’ Guide to Exam Stress
- •After the Exams
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Unusual Types of Houses
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •2.1. Listen to 4 people talking about their houses and mark the statements as True or False.
- •2.2 Listen to the descriptions again and fill in the chart below.
- •III. Follow up activity
- •B. American Home
- •1. Answer these questions about yourself and, if possible, find out how someone else would answer them.
- •Self Check
- •A Letter Home
- •В. Renting a Room Active Vocabulary
- •In England many people let rooms in their houses to people who need somewhere to live. The people pay money for this and are called lodgers.
- •Imagine you are going to let / rent a room / flat. The questions below will help you get all the information you need.
- •Sharing a Flat
- •Phoning a Landlord
- •II. Listening and compehenstion tasks
- •III. Follow up activity
- •Self Check
- •Unit 3 Buying a House Active Vocabulary
- •Buying a House
- •Looking for a House to Buy
- •Unit 4 Furniture and Furnishing Active Vocabulary
- •Around the Home a. Rooms
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •House for Sale
- •III. Follow up activity
- •Self Check
- •Unit 5 Your Ideal Home
- •I. Foodstuffs
- •III. Ways of Cooking
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Use the following examples as a model.
- •В. Cooking Methods and Ways of Cooking. Recipes
- •Cooking Methods
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Giving Instructions
- •Bread and Butter Pudding
- •Cinnamon-Sugar Apple Pie
- •Salmon In Puff Pastry
- •Special Family Food
- •How do you make…?
- •2. Listen to the recording. Rearrange the instructions in the correct order. Remember that there is one extra instruction which is not given.
- •3. Compare your answer with a partner and, if necessary, listen again to settle any disagreements.
- •Self check
- •Unit 2 National Cuisines. Customs of Having Meals a. National Cuisines
- •English Cooking
- •Traditional British Cooking
- •American Food
- •Belarusian Cookery
- •B. Customs of Having Meals Active Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •The Customs of Having Meals in England
- •Daily Meals in Belarus
- •I. Take turns discussing these questions with your partner.
- •II. Make up dialogues following the models given below.
- •Listen to the interview with Yves and answer the following questions:
- •Listen to the interview once again and fill in the chart.
- •Self check
- •Unit 3 Table Manners
- •A List of Do’s and Don’ts
- •Unit 4 Eating Out Active Vocabulary
- •Eating Out
- •The Old Mill, The Quay, Wardleton, Sussex
- •Fast Food
- •(A) Lunch for Two
- •1. Listen to the conversation and complete the sentences choosing the right variant:
- •2. Listen to the conversation again and answer the following questions.
- •(B) Eating Out
- •1. Listen to the conversation and fill in the gaps.
- •Conversational Formulas.
- •Invitations. Thanks. Refusals
- •Invitation
- •In a restaurant
- •With a girl-friend in a coffee bar
- •In a cafe
- •Chocolate Nut Sundae
- •Self check
- •Unit 5 Healthy Food. Dieting Active Vocabulary
- •We Ought To Eat More Fresh Fruit
- •Nutrients That Provide Energy
- •Tips for Healthy Eating and Cooking
- •Some Facts about Diet
- •Guidelines for Slimmers
- •Self check
- •Part IV. Shopping
- •Unit 1
- •Describing Shops. American and English Shops
- •Active Vocabulary
- •Baker’s / bakery
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •At the Supermarket
- •Shopping List
- •Unit 2 Shopping for Foodstuffs
- •Why is buying foodstuffs considered to be a sort of art? Read the passage and share your opinions. Buying Foodstuffs
- •At a grocery store
- •Some Hints and Tips on Shopping for Food
- •Self Check
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •The Big Stores
- •Shopping
- •Buying souvenirs
- •The spendthrift
- •Buying a present
- •Bargaining
- •Buying Clothes
- •Listen to the first recording and fill in the relevant information.
- •Listen to the recording and answer the following questions.
- •Listen to the second recording and tick the words you’ve heard on the tape:
- •Listen to the recording again and match parts a-e with a-e.
- •Self Check
- •Unit 2 Career Prospects
- •Part II unit 1 Unusual Types of Houses
- •Unit 2 Phoning a Landlord
- •Unit 3 Looking for a House to Buy
- •Unit 4 House for Sale
- •References
A Students’ Guide to Exam Stress
As exam fever hots up, keep your cool with tips from our health correspondent Dr. Barry Lynch.
a. Stress is difficult to define but most of us know it when we experience it. We may have mental symptoms: panic, feeling trapped or overwhelmed. Or there may be physical symptoms: sweating palms, butterflies, headaches, breathlessness or sleeplessness.
b. Stress can cause us to feel overwhelmed and powerless to tackle the very things that are causing the stress in the first place. So make a carefully written plan and the problems will seem less overwhelming. Ticking off each thing as you do it will help you feel there is light at the end of the tunnel.
c. When you’re writing your revision plan, make sure you include some time off exactly an hour for whatever – before you go back to work. Look forward to your time off and do something pleasant in it. Work out little treats and rewards for yourself as you tick off each thing on your plan. The treats can be simple: an ice cream, half an hour listening to your personal stereo, or walking the dog.
d. Easier said than done, I know, but exercise is one of the best ways of relaxing: it’s the natural way to deal with adrenaline and similar hormones that are rushing around your body. A walk will help; a quick swim or half an hour of tennis or another game is even better.
e. Don’t drink endless cups of tea or coffee: although caffeine is a stimulant it will eventually only make you more tense and nervy.
Don’t try to go without sleep – sleep is a natural way of relieving stress. Don’t be tempted to use alcohol or other drugs to relieve stress. They create more problems than they solve.
TIME OFF
ACTION KILLS WORRY
RECOGNISE THE SYMPTOMS
THINGS TO AVOID
LEARN HOW TO RELAX
□ WRITING
Write a set of guidelines similar to the ‘Students’ Guide to Exam Stress’ article for your University magazine on the following topic:
Preparing for an exam.
Learning a foreign language.
♦ LISTENING
After the Exams
I. Pre-listening task
Study the following vocabulary to clear up any difficulties of understanding:
to reckon – считать, полагать
dead – полностью, совершенно
most likely – наиболее вероятно
it’s all over though – все закончилось, однако
to come out – появляться (об информации)
to deserve a break – заслужить перерыв
to get down to smth. – приступить к чему-либо
II. Listening and comprehension tasks
2.1. Listen to the conversation between Malcolm and Pete for the first time and answer the questions.
1. Were the exams dead easy for Malcolm or for Pete?
2. What subjects has Pete failed in?
3. Have the results of their exams come out yet?
4. Who does everything at the last minute?
2.2. Say how the boys did at their exams.
III. Follow up activity
Talk on the boys’ plans for the future.
SPEAKING
1. Do you remember your first big examination trial? Were you nervous? Describe it.
2. You are a school-leaver and your friend is a first-year student. Ask him for advice how to be well-prepared for your entrance exams and to beat your exam stress.
Part II. HOUSE. FLAT
UNIT 1
Homes and Buildings. English and American Home
А. Types of Buildings
Active Vocabulary
to dwell
to have a house of one’s own
to have a room to oneself
to have a single room
to inhabit
to live in a hall of residence / in a hostel
to live in digs / to live out
to live in the town centre / downtown (AmE) / in the suburbs / on the outskirts
to lodge
to look down on(to) / overlook/ face
to move house / home (BrE)
to move into a new flat / house
to move out
to reside
to share the room with smb.
to stay at smb’s (place) / with smb.
to take / find (a) lodging(s)
apartment (AmE)
flat (BrE)
a three-room(ed) flat / apartment
floor
on the ground floor (BrE)
on the first floor (AmE)
on the upper / top floor
storey (BrE) / story (AmE)
five-storey(ed) building (BrE)
five-storied building (AmE)
apartment building (AmE)
block of flats (BrE)
bungalow
cottage / chalet (Fr)
detached house
semi-detached house (BrE) / duplex (AmE)
terraced house (BrE) / row house (AmE)
villa
farmhouse
hut
mansion
amenities
neighbour / in the neighbourhood
convenience(s) / modern conveniences (mod cons)
air conditioning
central heating
chute
electricity
lift
running cold and hot water
telephone
above
behind
beside
between
downstairs
in front of
in the middle of
next to
opposite
under
upstairs