- •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
Career Prospects
I. Pre-listening task
Study the following vocabulary to clear up any difficulties of understanding:
conscientious – добросовестный, сознательный, честный
inconsistent – противоречивый, непоследовательный
to make one’s fortune at smth. – разбогатеть за счет чего-то
to make money from smth. – зарабатывать деньги на чем-то
to take up careers – начать карьеру
to be cut out for – подходить для чего-то, быть созданным для чего-то
to slave at smth. – упорно трудиться над чем-то, корпеть
to be idle (about) – быть ленивым, праздным
to force smb. to do smth. – вынуждать кого-то делать что-то
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.
1. James is older than Malcolm.
2. Both James and Malcolm are doing well at school.
3. Malcolm is going to enter Oxford University next year.
4. According to his teachers James never does his best at school.
5. James is too idle.
6. The boys are crazy about tennis.
7. It is easier these days to make money from sport than from old-fashioned professions.
8. Andy doesn’t believe in forcing boys to take up careers they’re not cut out for.
2.2. Listen to the dialogue focussing on the details and answer the questions.
1. Why is Andy dissatisfied with his sons’ attitude towards their studies?
2. Why does Malcolm deserve to do well?
3. What does Andy want Malcolm to do for a change?
4. Does James have abilities to study well?
5. What does mother expect James to do?
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
1. Prove that Malcolm deserves to do well.
2. Prove that James is too inconsistent.
SPEAKING
1. Say what kinds of work that you do in class you find:
a) the most difficult / the easiest;
b) the most enjoyable / the least enjoyable;
c) the most helpful / the least helpful;
d) stimulating / dull.
2. Share your opinions of your lectures and seminars with your fellow-student in the same way .
3. You are a first-year language student. Describe your English classes and say what you are doing to master the language.
4. You’ve fallen behind with your groupmates in English. Ask your friend who is doing well to help you catch up with the rest.
Self check
Exercise 1. Use the proper article.
1. ... seminar will begin at ... half past 8. 2. My friend Lily is ... monitor of our group. 3. Tomorrow we are having ... class in Home-reading. 4. Do you like ... Spanish? Would you like to study ... Spanish language in ... third year? 5. Do ... exercise in ... written form. 6. The teacher told us to do ... exercise 7 orally. 7. Where will you have … dinner? – At … University canteen. 8. I haven’t had bad marks in ... Linguistics so far. 9. Many students feel nervous when they speak at... blackboard, in front of ... class. 10. I’ve been looking for ... dictionary everywhere, but I can’t find it. 11. Do you find ... time-table convenient? 12. Do you always have ... time for ... relaxation after classes? 13. Are we having ... extra lesson this week? 14. Are you through with your composition? – No. I didn’t think ... composition would take me so much time. 15. Ally forgot ... simplest things at the exam. I think it’s ... result of ... sleepless night. 16. Where will you go for ... vacation? 17. What mark did you get for ... quiz? – I was given ... “four”. 18. Too much learning makes one’s life boring. One must have … fun from ... time to ... time.
Exercise 2. Choose the right preposition or adverb.
1. Jim is good ... memorizing foreign words. (at, on) 2. Can you help me ... this problem? (with, at) 3. I didn’t attend the previous lesson ... Phonetics because I mixed up the time-table. (in, on) 4. We have lectures ... Linguistics once a week. (on, in) 5. My brother studies ... the fourth year ... the University. (on, in; at, in) 6. Jane got an excellent mark ... her translation. (for, in) 7. Where can I find the Dean? – He is probably ... the University canteen. (in, at) 8. I’ve been revising ... the text... morning. (for, to; for, since) 9. Mike is loo lazy. The teacher won’t put ... with that very long. (up, in) 10. Yesterday I had my last exam. And I did well it, thanks God! (in, at) – Oh, you did! 11. Why were you absent ... the lesson? (at, from) 12. What did you do ... the lesson yesterday? (at, on)
Exercise 3. Translate into English.
Аня учится в университете уже полтора года.
Я собираюсь повторить некоторые темы к семинару по психологии.
У вас часто бывают контрольные работы по словарю?
Лена пропустила много занятий. Мне кажется, что она не сдаст экзамены по английскому языку.
Виктор готовится к экзамену по истории. Он повторяет учебник и конспектирует работы известных ученых.
Ты писала конспект на прошлой лекции? – Да. – Одолжи мне его, пожалуйста, я хочу его переписать.
Полезно делать записи, когда читаете книгу на иностранном языке.
Катя никогда не опаздывает на лекции. Она всегда приходит вовремя.
Как часто у вас бывают семинары по языкознанию?
Узнайте, пожалуйста, когда начинается собрание (лекция).
Кто читает лекцию сегодня?
Кажется, я потеряла конспект по языкознанию. – Вот он. Ты забыла, что дала его мне вчера.
Сколько времени вы учите латынь? (историю)
В этом году мы учим английский язык. На II курсе будем учить второй иностранный язык – немецкий, французский или итальянский. Мне бы хотелось выучить итальянский.
Андрей много работает над языком в этом семестре. Я думаю, что он сдаст экзамен успешно.
Люся много работает над произношением, но пока ещё не добилась значительных результатов (добилась некоторых успехов).
Аня легко справляется с домашним заданием (не успевает выполнить всё, что задают).
Ты говоришь слишком быстро, я не успеваю записывать.
Какой университет ты окончил?
Когда вы окончили школу?
Анна сдавала экзамены в политехнический университет, но не была зачислена.
Кто преподавал у вас фонетику в прошлом семестре?
Когда вы сдаёте экзамены за семестр?
Ему трудно заучивать тексты наизусть и пересказывать их в классе.
Вы пропустили много занятий, и вам нелегко будет догнать группу.
Какую оценку вы получили за изложение?
Студент хорошо отвечал, и преподаватель поставил ему отличную оценку.
У неё хорошие оценки по всем предметам.
На прошлой неделе у нас была контрольная по грамматике, и я получила «пять».
На занятиях по практике устной речи мы отвечаем на вопросы, высказываемся по ситуациям, делаем устные и письменные упражнения.
Если вы хотите избавиться от ошибок, вы должны усерднее работать в лаборатории.
Я не могу избавиться от этой ошибки в произношении и отстаю от группы.
Когда вы сдали последний экзамен? – Я сдала последний экзамен 30-го августа.
Он не сдавал с нами экзамен, так как был болен.
Мы сдаём экзамен по английскому языку в январе, я надеюсь, что мы все сдадим его (никто его не провалит).