
- •1 Feelings and Emotions. Topical vocabulary.
- •2 Talking about people. Topical vocabulary.
- •3 Discuss the following questions:
- •4 Speak about different people. Make use of the outline of a character sketch.
- •5 What’s the difference between a feeling and an emotion?
- •6 Discuss the following questions:
- •7 Learn to discuss different people. Make use of the following.
- •8 There are different degrees of anger and different ways of
- •84 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •A lonely evening
- •19Say in short what sort of person he/she is:
- •Six eyes
- •29 Topics for discussion.
- •2 Study the following text.
- •3.Read and discuss the following text, give your reasons for and against. Planning holidays
- •5 Practise the following dialogue.
- •Holiday abroad
- •11 Read the text and say if you’d like to spend your holiday is such
- •12 Read the following information. Would you like to have such
- •13. Read the following information. In groups make a project of
- •Trocadero
- •Segaworld
- •Rock circus
- •Virtual reality attractions
- •15 Would you like to spend some hours in this place? Why? Give
- •Cadbury world. The chocolate experience
- •В м. Павлоцкий
- •19. Translate the following itineraries. Which one is the best? Why? Программа для групп в Лондоне (проживание в семьях):
- •1 День:
- •2 День:
- •102 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •20 Imagine that you are on a holiday in a foreign country. Choose a place and write a postcard to some friends at home.
- •21 Study the text.
- •22 Study the following text. Travelling by air
- •104 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •23 Practise the dialogue. Airport reservations
- •24 Imagine you are one of the crew. Try to make the similar announcement. Make use of the given material.
- •25 Make up the statements using the situations below.
- •106 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •26 Disagree with the statements avoiding the simple negation.
- •27 Answer your friend’s questions.
- •Do you like travelling by air?
- •What do you think is the flying time from St Petersburg to London?
- •28 Use the following questions in a natural context of your own.
- •29Complete the following sentences.
- •30 Ask questions so that the sentences given below were the answers.
- •33 Continue the story.
- •36 Nothing can match airplanes for speed and comfort, but
- •You don’t feel the descent of the plane in your ears so badly, when...
- •42 What do you do and say when.
- •43 Retell the text.
- •I started the packing. It seemed a longer job than I had thought it was going to be; but I got the bag finished at last, and I sat on it and strapped it.
- •44 Finish the dialogues:
- •Customs Official: Good afternoon, madam, is this your suit-case?
- •Customs Officer: …?
- •Air Clerk:…
- •45 Work in pairs. Compose the dialogues on the following situations.
- •46 Render the following dialogues in English: на борту самолета
- •Паспортный контроль и таможня
- •116 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •47 Study these problem situations. Discuss and dramatize them.
- •48 Are you for or against travelling by plane. Think of more arguments.
- •53 Render in English. Хитроу
- •54 Render in English. Самолеты
- •55 Compose your own dialogue.
- •56 Make a text of a telegram you might send to your relatives
- •57 What would you do in the following situation?
- •58 Be ready to talk on one of the following topics.
- •Speak on one of the topics.
- •1 Topical vocabulary.
- •2 React to the statements you hear.
- •3 Fill in the breakfast order. Breakfast order
- •Breakfast I
- •4 Practise the dialogue.
- •5 Study the following text. Remember the following rules and regulations.
- •6 Fill the following form in. Welcome
- •7 Study the following rules of staying in the hotel.
- •8 Make up statements using these situations.
- •9 Disagree with the statements avoiding a simple negation.
- •10 What do you do or say if...
- •13 Keep these conversations going.
- •14 Compose the similar dialogues.
- •15 Study these problem situations. Discuss or dramatize them.
- •16 Study the following advertisements. Kings lodge private hotel
- •Hotel “arcade44
- •134 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •17 Look through the following ads. Discuss with your partner where to stay. V
- •18 Advertise the hotel you are living. What do you like there? I q 19 Explain what the following signs mean.
- •20 Say it in English.
- •21 Translate the following dialogue into English. Мне здесь нравится
- •22 Translate the following dialogue into English.
- •32 Be ready to talk on one of the following topics.
- •33 Compose your own dialogues for the following occasions.
- •34 Practise the following dialogues.
- •36 Explain in English the meaning of the following words.
- •37 What must I do if...
- •39 What do you do or say if...
- •142 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •39 Read the following humorous story and reproduce it in the form of a dialogue.
- •40 Compose your own dialogues.
- •The topical vocabulary.
- •I’ll treat you next time — в следующий раз плачу я Let’s go Dutch —договоримся: каждый платит за себя Where can I eat at a reasonable price? — где я могу поесть недорого?
- •Think I’ll have the same — я закажу тоже самое It’s delicious — это вкусно It tastes strange — странный вкус Let’s split it — давай пополам Menu
- •2 Practise the dialogue.
- •At dinner
- •146 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •3 Practise the following dialogue. Try to make up your own one on the topic. At the restaurant
- •4 Complete the following sentences.
- •Name 4 or 5 kinds of
- •6 Put the following names of food and drinks under the right headings on the menu.
- •7 Group the words below under the following headings
- •It’s quite nourishing. As for me, I prefer a heavy midday meal.
- •16 Fill in the missing phrases. At a hotel restaurant
- •17 Make up dialogues.
- •An irritable husband is sitting at dinner and criticizing his wife’s cooking.
- •18 Translate into English.
- •19 Render in English.
- •20 Translate the following dialogue.
- •22 Speak about table manners you should keep in mind and follow.
- •Traditional british food
- •British meals
- •Eating out
- •Take-away restaurants
- •31 Study the following. American eating habits
- •32 Make the following sweet and bring it to school tomorrow. Apple crumble
- •33 Study the following text and complete the tasks after it. Cookouts and barbecues
- •Use the words below in the sentences:
- •Fill in the blanks.
- •Complete these sentences in your own words.
- •Retell the text.
- •34 Read and retell the text.
- •39 Imagine that you own a restaurant. Make a shopping list of the many things you’ll need for one day.
- •41 Read the advertisement of a restaurant. Try to make your own one.
- •42 Develop the situations.
- •43 Make dialogues using the following situations.
- •44 Topical vocabulary. Shopping.
- •166 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •Instant coffee — растворимый кофе
- •I wear size... — у меня размер
- •Department store
- •168 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •48 Match the kinds of places where you can buy things with their definitions.
- •49 Study the following dialogue. Try to make up your own one on the topic.
- •50 Do you know the difference between a small shop and a large one? Study the following dialogue. At the corner shop
- •51 Explain in English the meaning of the following.
- •52 Comment on the changing fashions in shirts, trousers/pants, .
- •53 Say what the following shops and tradesmen sell.
- •54 Say at what shops you can buy the following.
- •55 Name some kinds of vegetables, meat, poultry, fruit, pastry.
- •56 Say what you buy when you make beetroot soup, cabbage soup, meat salad, rissoles, mushroom soup, fish salad.
- •57 Describe a big department store in your city (abroad).
- •58 Speak about your experience of shopping abroad (if any).
- •59 What do you do or say if.
- •60 When do you say or hear?
- •61 Ask questions so that the sentences given below were the answers to them.
- •172 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •62 Complete the following sentences.
- •63 Use the following questions in a natural context of your own.
- •64 What will you say if you want to know
- •65 What will you do if
- •76 Learn about the most famous British shops.
- •77 Study the following plan. Plan the best route for your weekend shopping.
- •Hair & beauty salon and health spa (lift access only)
- •I lingerie larger I sizes bridal wear
- •78 Make up dialogues.
- •79 Read the following and make a dialogue.
- •80 Retell the text. Quality
- •Vice — тиски
- •2 Study the possible types of houses.
- •3 Match the number of each drawing next to the correct word.
- •4 Do you know how to use housekeeping money? Then practise the following dialogue and discuss it.
- •A bit of gardening
- •Three developments in Spaiding. 16 miles from Peterborough.
- •Broadgate mgivies
- •Is there any admission charge? — за вход надо платить?
- •Is this the right way to ...? — я правильно иду ...?
- •It’s right down the street — в конце улицы
- •Next stop but one — через остановку
- •Request stop — остановка по требованию
- •Intersection — перекресток
- •Underpass — подземный переход
- •To the left (right) — налево (направо)
- •Is this the right bus for the National Theatre? — этот маршрут идет к национальному театру?
- •2 Learn to speak about the greatest cities of the world.
- •7 В. М. Павлоцкий
- •3 Retell the following text. The city
- •4 Read and retell the following text. Speak about any city you would like. Welcome to st albans
- •196 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •5 Study the following text. Speak about the unusual sights of the place you live.
- •Study the following texts. Prepare the similar texts about the
- •Hampton court
- •The cutty sark
- •Windsor castle
- •7 Where do you live and can you describe it?
- •9 Comment on the following quotation.
- •10 Read the following pros and cons. Think of some more.
- •It is better to live in a big city
- •It is better to live in a village
- •International road signs
- •Asking the way
- •22 Explain how to get
- •24 Make up the dialogues.
- •25 Respond the invitations.
- •26 Speak of any sight you like. Make use of the following phrases.
- •27 You are on a conducted tour. What questions would you ask your guide?
- •28 Talking topics.
- •29 The easiest way to travel in London is by Underground. Here is the central part of the London Underground plan.
- •V Warren ' Street
- •30 You work as a booking clerk in Petersburg’s tourist bureau.
- •Historic london
- •31 There are the advertisements of some new London’s tours,
- •Morning
- •Diana’s london Afternoon
- •210 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •Royal windsor & eton Morning
- •Tour Windsor Castle • Tour St George’s Chapel •
- •See Eton College (Prince William’s school) •
- •London s princess Full day
- •34 Imagine you’re going on a trip around the world! Make
- •35 Say it in English.
- •Извините, не покажите ли вы мне дорогу к вокзалу? Спасибо.
- •36 Render in English. Если вы в нью-йорке
- •37 Discuss the problems.
- •38 Write a letter to your friend about your stay in some town.
- •39 Study the following answers and add the answers of your classmates.
- •1 The topical vocabulary.
- •Vein — иена
- •Intestine — кишечник
- •2 Learn the following.
- •3 Practise the following dialogues.
- •220 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •4 Practise the following dialogue. Try to make up your own one. A bad sore throat
- •5 Give one word for the following.
- •6 Answer the questions.
- •9 Complete the sentences.
- •When she came home she complained of a headache and her mother...
- •10 The following problems and pieces of advises have got all mixed up. Can you watch them correctly?
- •11 Complete the following dialogues.
- •224 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •12 Describe your condition to the doctor who came to examine you.
- •13 Your friend looks (feels) unwell. Talk him into consulting a doctor.
- •14. Describe your gradual recovery and thank your friend who has come to inquire about your condition.
- •15 Compose your own dialogues.
- •В. М. Павлоцкий
- •16 What do you think of such kind of patients? the doctor’s recommendation
- •17 Retell and discuss the text.
- •18 Study the following. Desenfriol™ d
- •19 What advice did the doctor give for each situation?
- •20 Make up a story.
- •Over -anxious about his health
- •21 Render in English.
- •22 Translate into English.
- •: Мда. Пожалуйста, разденьтесь до пояса. Я послушаю ваши легкие.
- •23 Speak about the state of medical service in Petersburg. Do you know the possible ways of its improvement?
- •24 How do you imagine the medical care of the future?
- •1 The topical vocabulary.
- •2 Learn the parts of the book.
- •5 Complete with the right name of the part of a book.
- •6 Agree or disagree with the following statements.
- •234 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •7 Discuss the text. On reading
- •8 Answer the following questions.
- •10 Read the following text and discuss the questions after it. Why read?
- •Questions to discuss
- •Is it easier for you to memorize facts watching tv or reading books?
- •11 Share your opinions.
- •236 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •12 Retell the text. The macbeth murder mystery
- •13 Learn to order books by purchase. Order (book purchase)
- •14 Read the script and dramatize it.
- •15 Ask questions so that the following sentences could serve as answers.
- •16 Discuss the following text. The book-bag
- •17 Learn to make the synopsis of the book. Study the following material and make the synopsis of the last book you read.
- •18 Learn to make book reviews. Make use of the following text. Atlantic crossing
- •19 Learn to retell the contents of the book. Make use of an example.
- •22 Render in English.
- •2 Read and discuss the following text. What are the mass media?
- •3 Read the newspaper contents list. Which pages would you look as if you wanted to read about the following.
- •4 Choose one of the newspaper headlines below. Think of some questions to ask to find out more information about the story that goes with it. Make up the answers.
- •Look at the following headlines. What do you think the articles can be about?
- •6 This is an article from teen, a magazine for young people. Read
- •It. Create your own article for a magazine for teenagers.
- •I introduce Goode Time at 4.30 on Tuesday afternoons. It’s a video request programme. I’ve just done the last one of the present series. Now I’ll be off the air for three months.
- •I found New Zealand a bit isolated. I thought the best opportunities would be in Britain or somewhere else within the ec. You know, cable or satellite tv. That kind of thing.
- •7 Read and discuss the following text. A journalistic code
- •8 Learn the following.
- •9 Answer the questions.
- •The shock of recognition
- •16 Share opinions on the topic.
- •22 Retell the following story. Explain its title. The big switch-off
- •23 Suppose you’ve been asked to prepare a short interesting tv
- •24 Express your opinion on the following points of view.
- •25 Imagine that you are a television reporter. You are interviewing:
- •26 Say what you think about the following.
- •27 Write a television news report. In it describe the place where you are reporting. Name the person you are going to speak about and make up the quotes she/he would use while speaking to you.
- •28 Compare British television and television in your country. Pay attention to the following aspects:
- •29 A friend who is interested in advertising has asked you to interpret what this text says.
- •31 Give examples of different advertisements. Make use of the following.
- •Is your film as good as gold?
- •38 Write an advertisement for a new product. Tell why you think it is necessary for every home to have it.
- •39 Create advertisements for the following.
- •260 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •41 Comment on the following quotations.
- •42 Comment on the following quotations.
- •1 The topical vocabulary.
- •Study the following material. Learn to use the words in italics.
- •344 Topics for discussion. Conversational topics
- •In a constituency is Acted.)
- •4 Agree or disagree.
- •5 Complete the sentences.
- •6 Study the following text. What is your idea on the topic? How can you become the leader of the country?
- •7 Practise the following conversation.
- •8 Think about.
- •14 Find out how well informed you are. Make use of the following questions.
- •15 . Study the following text. Would you like to be the Queen/King?
- •The queen s working day
- •16 Present your thoughts to the government: “Pupils should be
- •17 Study the following text.
- •Nation delegates sit in alphabetical order by country, but who sits at the front is decided before every session by drawing lots
- •18 Study the following text.
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TOPICS
FOR DISCUSSION. CONVERSATIONAL TOPICS
Excuse
me, how old is your son?
I
recommend you to take this book. It enjoys great popularity among
teenagers.
What
kind of books are you interested in?
They
are over there. Have you chosen any book?
Oh,
it has been on the bestseller list for more than two months.
It
can easily be explained. There is a very great demand for it, so we
have about ten copies of the book. It is always available.
Thank
you. Come again. If you are interested in any book which is not
available. I can let you know when it comes in or I can order it
for you.
.
^
Jane
works at a shop selling records. One afternoon a middle-aged woman
hurriedly entered the shop and asked for a record. Unfortunately she
did not remember the title of the record, but she thought she could
easily recognize the music if Jane played that record for her. Jane
tried carefully to explain to her that it would take too much time
to play all the records they had. The customer said that she had
heard it in the morning over the radio and that the song was from
the play about a girl who spoke English so badly at first that it
was even shocking to listen to her and then she learnt to speak very
well. Jane easily recognized the play and gave the customer the
needed record.
I
knew him from the days of my early youth, because he made my
father’s boots. He and his elder brother lived and worked in a
small street. There was their name of Gessler on the door of their
little shop and in the window were a few pairs of boots. Those pairs
were very beautiful, each pair was a work of art.
I
remember my question one day: “Isn’t it very difficult to do, Mr
Gessler?” and his answer, given with a smile: “The boots were
made by an artist.”79 Read the following and make a dialogue.
80 Retell the text. Quality
SHOPPING
179
You
didn’t go to him very often - you could wear his boots for a very
long time.
I
liked to go to his shop. It was so pleasant and interesting, and
always the same. I went in and, sitting on an old chair, waited
because there was never anybody there. And then he would come down
from his room without his coat. And I would say, “How do you do,
Mr Gessler? Could you make me a pair of leather boots?” Without a
word he would leave me and I would continue to sit on the chair.
Soon he would come back, holding in his thin hand a piece of brown
leather. Looking at it, he would say, “What a beautiful piece.”
When I, too, had said some good words about it, he would speak
again. “When do you want them?” And I would answer, “Oh! As
soon as you can,” and he would say: “They’ll'be ready in a
week.” Then I would say, “Thank you. Good-bye, Mr Gessler.”
“Good-bye,” he would answer, still looking at the leather in his
hand.
I
cannot forget the day when I said to him, “Mr Gessler, that last
pair of boots creaked, you know.” He looked at me for a time
without answering, then said, “Send them back. I shall look at
them. Some boots are bad from birth. If I can do nothing with them,
I’ll give your money back to you.”
Once,
once only, I came to him in a pair of boots bought at some large
shop. He agreed to make me a new pair of boots without showing me
any leather, and I could feel hie eyes looking at my boots.
At
last he said, “Those are not my boots.”
He
went down on his knees and touched the place where the left boot was
not quite comfortable.
“It
hurts you here,” he said. “This is how those big firms make
boots for people. We love our boots, and they do not.”
I explained to him why I had bought those boots. But his face made such a great impression on me, that I asked him to make me three pairs, more than I wanted.
I could wear them much longer than usual. They were made by an artist. They were of good quality, you know.
(after J .Galsworthy)
81 Discuss the following questions.
What are three things in your local supermarket that are probably not sold in other countries?
What special sales technique do supermarkets and department stores have in your city?
182
TOPICS
FOR DISCUSSION. CONVERSATIONAL TOPICS
83
Compose your own dialogues on the following topics.
Discuss
with your friends why you prefer to go to self-service shops.
Discuss
with your friend why you prefer to buy ready-made clothes.
Make
up a conversation with a salesgirl in a record shop.
Make
up a conversation with a shop assistant in a toy shop. 1
84
Be ready to talk on the following topics.
Your
visit to a supermarket.
Describe
a department store.
Say
why you prefer to buy your things ready-made (or have them made to
measure).
Say
what it’s considered good or poor taste in dress.
Speak
about a holiday rush in shops.