- •1.1 Study these words if they are new to you:
- •1.2 Read these questions before you hear the recording. Then listen to the recording once and answer the questions.
- •1.3 Listen to the recording a second time and say whether these statements are true or false. Use the following conversational formulas of:
- •1.4 In the class ask one another about the episodes you didn't understand.
- •1.5 Answer the following questions:
- •1.6 Study the following sentences and try to guess under what circumstances they might have been said:
- •1.7 Complete the sentences:
- •1.8 Suggest solutions, contradict or give advice to someone who tells you that:
- •1.9 Exchange your opinions on the following problems. Make use of the words given in 1.8
- •1.10 Explain the meaning of these proverbs; speak of your personal experiences proving that:
- •1.11 Suppose you find yourself in the following situations:
- •1.12 Choose a partner and act out one of the situations below:
- •1.13 Write a letter to your friend (or parents) describing your impressions of the city shortly after your arrival.
- •Part 2.
- •Intensive reading
- •2.1 Points to consider
- •2.2 Read the text
- •2.3 Answer the following questions:
- •2.9 To make sure that you understand the story answer these detailed questions:
- •2.10 Transcribe, mark the stress and read the following words and word combinations:
- •2.11 Explain the meaning of these words and word combinations to your groupmates. When speaking use:
- •2.12 Match the synonyms in the right and left columns:
- •2.13 Find in the text synonyms for the following:
- •2.14 A) Study the difference between the verbs. If necessary use an explanatory dictionary.
- •2.25 Look at this sentence:
- •2.26 Express the same idea in other words substituting for the italicized words and expressions:
- •2.27 Review the following structures:
- •2.28 Study these sentences and say under what circumstances they might have been said.
- •2.29 Complete the sentences given below:
- •2.30 Say whether these statements are true or false When giving your arguments use sentences of unreal condition like this:
- •2.35 Make up the summary of the text.
- •2.36 Get into groups of 2 or 3 and discuss the text. Use conversational formulas and the expressions given below:
- •2.37 Imagine you are a detective following a man (it might be Sonny) that aroused your suspicion. Write a short description of the physical layout of the place/town. These words may help you:
2.37 Imagine you are a detective following a man (it might be Sonny) that aroused your suspicion. Write a short description of the physical layout of the place/town. These words may help you:
to be run down, dilapidated, apartment houses, to dominate the landscape, a long way off (from), to make for, lively, vivid streets, well- (badly-) kept, downtown, lawns, flower-beds, shady streets, tree-lined avenues, in the suburbs.
1 blues - a) melodies originally of Negroes in the Southern USA;
b) condition of being sad, melancholy.
2 subway - a) in the USA it is an underground electric railway;
b) in Great Britain it means an underground passage or tunnel,
especially for people to get from one side of a busy street to another.
Note: USA - subway, Great Britain - underground, tube(colloq.)
3 downtown - the main or business part of a town (esp. in the USA).
4 Harlem - the area of New York City mainly known for its Negro population.
1 to go down - to degrade, to come to nothing.
2 How you been keeping? = How have you been keeping?
1 the park - (here) the Central Park; it is situated in the centre of Manhattan
Island in New York City.
2 apartment building (house) - USA; a block of flats - Great Britain.
3 killing streets - (here) splendid streets.
4 housing projects - new construction sites, modern housing developments.
5 uptown -the residential, non- business, non- commercial part of a town.
6 110th Street - it is a peculiar feature of New York City that streets are
running parallelly from south to north whereas avenues are crossing the streets from east to west.
7 run down - old, dilapidated.
8 to play at jacks - to play a game of bowls (small white balls towards which bowls are rolled).