3. Опрацювання мовленнєвих формул “Побажання”.

I wish you and your family health (happiness, success). – Бажаю Вам і Вашій сім'ї здоров'я, (щастя, успіхів).

Best Wishes! – Найкращі побажання!

My best wishes to you! – Найкращі побажання!

May all your dreams come true! – Хай здійсняться всі Ваші мрії!

Have a good holiday (journey)! – Бажаю гарного відпочинку (подорожі)!

Ex.3.1. Translate the following.

Вітаю Вас з Днем народження. Бажаю, щоб всі Ваші мрії здійснилися.

Вітаю Вас з Жіночим днем. Бажаю успіхів в роботі та щастя в житті.

Бажаю Вам всього найкращого. Сподіваюсь, що Ви відразу напишете нам про себе.

Вітаю Вас з отриманням премії. Бажаю вам подальших успіхів.

Ex.3.2. Congratulate your friend on the following (adding a few words suitable for the occasion):

Model. You have done so well at the examination. Congratulations! I hope you will be as successful at the next one.

1. her (his) birthday;

2. moving into a new flat;

3. winning the basket-ball championship;

4. the New Year;

5. making a good report;

6. the wedding.

4. Текст для читання

Tastes differ

1. Review the following words.

To jog – бігати, to skate – кататися на ковзанах, to ski – кататися на лижах, competition – змагання, health – здоров'я, slim – стрункий, trim – в гарній формі, grown-up – дорослий, coin – монета, web-pages – веб-сторінки, increasingly – в більшій мірі, to knit – в'язати, to sew – шити.

2. Read and translate the text.

Tastes differ. Different people have different hobbies. Some of them like to knit very much; others spend all of their time sewing things: skirts, blouses, dresses. It is interesting to make everything with one's own hands: to repair an iron, a radio-set or a tape recorder.

If one goes in for sports he feels much better, looks much better, and sleeps much better. You'll be slimmer and trimmer and what is even more important you'll not sick often. It is very important for a man to be strong and well-built.

Many children and grown-up like to collect things: old coins, postcards, post stamps, for example. They have huge and very interesting collections of these things and spend a lot of money to buy them. In their free time they like to look at their collections with their friends.

Nowadays many people are fond of using Internet, because it has a lot of stuff on it. They design web-pages for all sorts. It is fun learning increasingly about it and experimenting and making pages, and watching them work for you. So, hobbies are not only wonderful but very useful too.

3. Agree or disagree to the matter of these sentences.

1. Hobby is a favourite occupation of a person in his free time.

2. To be in a good shape it is not obligatory to jog every morning and to do morning exercises.

3. To watch sport on TV is enough for liking sport.

4. If one goes in for sport his physical appearance will change too.

5. Collecting different things is worth a lot of money.

4. Make up sentences to illustrate the meaning of the following word combinations.

Playing computer games, to get interested in, to start one's hobby, to spend all of one's free time, to arrange new stamps in the albums.

5. Make the following sentences interrogative and negative.

1. Each stamp has a story to tell about distant countries and new people.

2. I like stamps that have pictures of animals and birds.

3. My friend likes flora and fauna stamps.

4. He started drawing when he was about 9 years old.

5. To repair different things is a very good hobby.

6. Translate the following sentences into English.

1. Я займаюся спортом й мені подобається грати в теніс.

1. Спорт є важливою частиною нашого життя.

2. Спорт не для слабих, бо він вчить програвати, а це не легко.

3. Майже кожна людина має захоплення.

4. Моя улюблена приказка – “Про смаки не сперечаються”.