Glossary

English	Russian	Kazakh
wake up	просыпаться	ояну
get up	вставать	тұру
do homework	делать домашнее задание	үй тапсырмасын жасау
have dinner	ужинать	кешкі асты шшу
have lunch	обедать	түскі тағам ішу
finish classes	закончить занятия	сабақты аяқтау
go to bed	идти спать	ұйықтау

Home assignment

1. Learn by heart new words and make up the dialogue about your working day.

2. Read and translate the text:

My daily routine

Every person on the planet has his own life and obligations. Some of them have a difficult life and other an easy one, but that depends on the jobs they have. Mine is very complicated and I have free time “Once in a blue moon“, but when I have some free time I write poems like this one. Now I will start to write about my daily routine.

My day starts as an ordinary morning. I tidy my bed, brush my teeth, take a shower, have breakfast bla bla ... The breakfast is the best time to communicate with your parents. When we sit down we start talking about our dreams and about whether, that dream is a message from the future. After we share our thoughts every one of us goes to work (except me). I sit down and start doing my homework. After two hours practicing my lessons I start phoning all my buddies. At one p.m I go to school where I study so hard, that when I come back from there I feel dizzy. At school I am very serious (well, sometimes to be honest) and I am concentrated on my work. After a day of hard work at school I go home and relax. When my head calms down me and my family sit down for dinner and share our daily work and experience throughout the day. At half past eight I turn on the TV and watch “Big Brother”. My favorite person is Naiden but that is not important. At eleven o’clock I go to bed and start dreaming about my next day and pray to be alive.

As I said before, every man has his own life, but some of them dream of it. I dream of a world full of peace and no war. I wish that my days are happy and lovely. Do not worry about the past; pray that you will be alive tomorrow.

SIW

Working on lexica-grammar exercises from Workbook File 3 B.[1]

Office hours

Write down an essay about your daily routine (about 100-120 words).

References

Main literature

1. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig. New English File. Elementary. Student’s book, Oxford, 2010.

2. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig . New English File. Elementary. Workbook. Oxford , 2010.

Additional literature

3. John and Liz Soars “New Headway” Elementary, Oxford, 2009.

Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Hand out

English as a foreign language Department of General Humanitarian

Elementary level training

2 credits Academic year 2012-2013

Practical lesson №11 The 1^st term

Lexical theme “Health”

Grammar “Adverbs of frequency”.

Assistant professor Sultanbayeva Zhaina Ubaidullayevna

Grammar: adverbs of frequency

♦ Use of adverb of frequency to answer the question How often …?

♦ Adverbs of frequency go before all verbs (except be). But after be.

I always have toast for breakfast.

Do you usually go to work by bus?

She doesn’t often go to bed late.

They are sometimes late.

She hardly ever watches TV.

He is never stressed.

Consolidation of grammar

Complete the sentences with an adverb of frequency.

never always hardly ever sometimes usually

They never drive - they don’t have a car.

1 I ____________ drink champagne – only at Christmas

2 She __________ eats meat. She’s a vegetarians.

3 He doesn’t have a watch so he is _______ late.

4 We _______ get up at 7.30, except at weekends.

5 I don’t do a lot of exercises but I __________ go swimming.

Reading

a) Read the second paragraph of the article. What is unusual about Okinawan people? What do you think their secret is?

b) Read the rest of the article. Put a heading in each gap.

ALWAYS ACTIVE

LOW STRESS

EXERCISE

A HEALTHY DIET

c) Read the article again. In pairs, guess the meaning of the highlighted words and phrases. Check with your teacher or a dictionary.

d) Do people in your country live like the Okinawans? What’s different? What’s the same?

“The mystery of Okinawa”

Takinashi always walks three kilometres a day, and he sometimes rides a motorbike. He often works in his garden, and he usually does martial arts in the morning. He is never stressed, and he is hardly ever ill. Not unusual you think? But Takinashi is _____ years old.

Takinashi lives on the island of Okinawa in Japan. In Okinawa people live a very long time. They are hardly ever ill. Many people live to be 100 – more people than in other parts of the world. Why? What is their secret?

1 __________________________________________

The Okinawans eat vegetables, fruit, fish, soya, and rice. They usually have seven portions of fruit and vegetables a day. People don’t usually drink much alcohol or smoke. They don’t eat much meat or fast food.

2 __________________________________________

Physical activity is very important for the people of Okinawa. Martial arts, walking, traditional dancing, and gardening are very popular with people of all ages.

3 __________________________________________

In many countries people have healthy diets and do exercise. But the unusual thing about the people in Okinawa is that they are not stressed. They are relaxed and take their time. Buses are hardly ever on time, and people often arrive an hour late for meetings. Every evening hundreds of people, young and old, go to the beach to watch the beautiful sunset. People often meditate to relax.

4 __________________________________________

Another important thing is that people often work until they are 80 – sometimes they until 90! In the Okinawan dialect there is no word for ‘retired’. They are busy and active all their lives. Old people don’t stay at home – they go out and meet friends.

When journalists ask people “What is the secret of your long life?”, they answer “We are happy, we are always positive, and we are never in a harry”.

Speaking