- •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
15
What
facilities would your ideal town have?
16
Compare two cities or towns you have been from the point of view of
their size, climate, historical monuments, places of interest, etc.
17
You are awarded a 10-day tour of Russia or any country abroad. You
can choose only one city to visit. Give your reasons where to go.
Present information on:
the
place the city is situated in;
what
important historic events took place in it;
when
it was founded;
places
of interest there are in it;
cultural
centres of the city;
sport
facilities which there are in the city;
what
places you are going to visit;
what
means of transport you are going to take to get there.
18
If you had the opportunity to create a city, what would you make it
look like?
19
Imagine that it is the year 3000. The mayor has asked you to design
the perfect city. Use this idea to write an outline for the
assignment.
Ask
yourself: What
will I do first? What will the city be called? What will it look
like? What kinds of buildings will I design? How will the people in
the city live, work, play, and travel?
20
Speak about any city you’d like. Make use of the following words
and expressions:
to
discover the treasures, magnificent cathedrals, museums and
galleries, medieval buildings, tranquil green spaces, the historic
atmosphere, a shopper’s paradise, a market, the charming side
streets, independent shops and boutiques, mouthwatering gifts,
amenities, a warm and friendly welcome.
21
Practise the following dialogue.
Excuse
me, maam. Could you tell me how to get to Carnegie Library from
here?
Of
course. It’s on Tenth Street just across from the Armoury.
Asking the way
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SIGHTSEEING. ASKING THE WAY. ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS 205
On
Tenth?
That’s
right. You know where that is?
I’m
afraid, I don’t. I’m new in town.
Well,
do you know where the old Post-Office is?
No,
I don’t. But I do know where Sears is.
I’m
not sure that’s going to help us. Let me see... Why don’t you
follow this street, Paddington Way, until you get to the stoplight.
Take a right turn there, that’s Elm Street, and go up about 2 or
3 blocks, until you get to Tenth. Then turn left. The Library is on
your right about 3 blocks down.
That’s
right, 2 or 3.
...
turn left on Tenth, and the Library is on the right-hand side, 3
blocks down.
That’s
right.
Well,
thank you very much, maam. You’ve been very helpful.
That’s
quite all right.
from
the suburbs to the centre of your city; to the central library; from
the railway station to the central hotel; to the stadium; to the
airport.
23
You are lost in the streets of Edinburgh. You are going to ask ~ a
passer-by to show you the way. You are in Dairy Road. Ask a
passer-by to show you the way to the Royal Mile.22 Explain how to get
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TOPICS
FOR DISCUSSION, CONVERSATIONAL TOPICS
—
...24 Make up the dialogues.
Certainly. Go down Regent Street to Picadilly Circus and then go down the Haymarket. Turn to the left at the bottom and in less than a minute you’ll be in Trafalgar Square.
If you walk, it’ll take you 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour.
There’s sure to be. But you’d better ask the policeman over there. He’ll give you the information you want.
Welcome.
— Excuse me, can you tell me the way to Palace Square?
Thank you very much. Is there a bus?
Well, I see a crowd of people there...
Thank you very much. I’ll follow your advice. On my way back I’ll take a trolley-bus.
At Grand Hotel “Europe". Does any trolley-bus go there?
You have been most helpful. Thank you.
25 Respond the invitations.
I’m going on a sightseeing tour. Would you like to keep me company?
Let’s go to some historical museum on Sunday.
Why not to go to some suburbs, today, Peterhof or Pavlovsk?
I’ve got 2 tickets for the American exposition in the Art gallery. Would you care to come with me?
How about going to the Zoo? It’s so much fun!
Would you like to see a most impressive building of the new hotel? Everybody admires it greatly.
Have you seen the new bridge across the river? Why not go and see it?
What about going to see the new monument to...?