3. You have a toothache and a headache. It’s Sunday. It is rainy. Your boy­friend/ girlfriend has left you. You can’t contact him/her and you are nervous. Tell your friend about it.

4. This time it’s your friend who’s depressed. Ask what’s wrong and listen sympathetically. Try to cheer your friend up. Perhaps offer some advice or suggest something to take your friend’s mind off his/her problems. When your friend is happier discuss what you did with the rest of the class.

5. You feel fine today. It’s sunny. You are enjoying yourself. Your friend doesn’t seem so cheerful, though. Find out what the matter is and be sym­pathetic.

6. Try to interest your friend in these plans: going to the cinema; spending some time studying together; reading a good book you’ve just read; help- ingyou with some shopping; watchingTV this evening; goingto a museum. If you succeeded in arousing his/her interest, discuss what you did with the rest of the class.

7. Listen to your friend’s ideas and pretend to be indifferent. All your partner’s plans seem really boring to you. Even talking to other people in the class bores you to death.

14 Work in pairs. Make up different dialogues as if you were in different moods.

15 Give a detailed description of the appearance and character of some personage from a well-known book or film. Don’t mention the name. Let your fellow-students guess who you mean.

16 Describe two literary personages who are antipodes.

17 Think what you would do, wear, look like if you were...

I ^ Read the text and discuss Bill’s mother’s emotional condition after he had gone away.

A lonely evening

By the time she had finished tidying up, Bill was almost ready to go. He was looking for his gloves.

“Yon needn’t worry about me, Mum,” he declared. “If the fog thickens, Harold will put me up for the night. In that case I promise I’ll give you a ring as soon as we decide. I give you my word I’ll take no risks.”

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“I hope not,” she said. “I shall be waiting up till you call.”

19Say in short what sort of person he/she is:

1. Robinson Crusoe was very clever in finding a way out of all his difficul­ties.

2. You could rely upon Maggie. She would never let the cat out of the bag.

3. He was wonderful. He would never grudge you anything be it money, books, ideas.

4. Rebecca easily won the hearts of all those who met her.

5. Martin never dropped any work half-way.

6. Dr Chillip hadn’t a word to throw a dog.

7. Dobbin was easy to deal with.

. 8. June always had her own way in everything.

9. Mike was never good at doing anything about the house. He was always sure to drop or break something.

10. Huckleberry Finn never let a friend down.

11. Christine was a very pleasant companion.

9. There was nothing Torn was afraid of.

10. Oliver was afraid of everybody and everything.

11. He always had a ready answer to every remark.

20 You know that emotional condition plays a decisive role in our life. Say when people feel good, great, pride and joy, uneasy, anxious, lonely, miserable, low.

21 Speak about things which have happened to you which really made you angry. Imagine they all have happened today. Tell your friend about them.

22 You have had a task to give a talk about the meaning of feelings and the importance of their public expression. The magazines and newspapers you wanted haven’t arrived. The talk begins in ten minutes. You haven’t prepared it well enough. What will you do? What will you speak about?

23 Speak about the most striking traits of people’s characters. Consider the following:

1. Your favourite traits of character in a person.

2. The traits of character you detest.

3. Your chief characteristics.

24 When Уои describe people you either criticize or praise them. When you criticize you normally try to find faults rather than positive traits of character but it certainly does not exclude the expression of praise. Here are some comments that people make when they are invited to analyse and judge:

I think I’d much prefer to…; nothing like as good (bad) as…; that’s what I thought; and that’s another thing; there is much variety in…; to be similar in…; there is a tremendous number of differences in..; to have little (much) in common.

Use these lichés in the conversations of your own when you are welcome with your criticism of people.

25 Write on the chalkboard the words, denoting different traits of character. Everyone should name the traits one appreciates most or less in one’s friend. Then speak about your friend who possesses some of these traits.