- •Министерство образования Республики Беларусь
- •Кафедра белорусского и иностранных языков
- •Гомель 2003
- •Vocabulary and Speech Exercises
- •Read the words and study their meaning:
- •Read the word combinations, give their Russian equivalents
- •Read the following sentences with new words
- •Insert the suitable word from active vocabulary:
- •5. Make up sentences using new words and expressions.
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •A home in england
- •Food and eating habits.
- •Vocabulary and speech exercises.
- •1. Read the words and word combinations and memorize them.
- •1. Places to eat:
- •2. At a restaurant/ cafe/ pub:
- •3. Meals and courses:
- •4. Quality of food / general appearance:
- •4.Make up sentences of your own, using the following expressions:
- •Eating out
- •1.After you read these texts, answer the questions:
- •2. Ask your groupmates all kinds of questions concerning eating traditions in Belarus and abroad:
- •3. Look through the text “At a pub” and compose a dialogue, discussing pubs:
- •4.1. Read the dialogues and answer the questions:
- •4.2. Read and reproduce the dialogues, using the prompts in the boxes.
- •I should very much like some cookies, please.
- •4.3. Each reply from the given list is a waiter's reply. Imagine you're a visitor of a restaurant and answer it.
- •4.4. Discuss the following situations in pairs:
- •5. Speak on the topic. Travelling and tourism
- •Vocabulary and speech exercises.
- •Read the words and study their meaning.
- •6. Entertain развлекаться, забавляться.
- •25. To board one/s plane (boat, ship), on board
- •Read the words combinations, give their Russian equivalents
- •3 Read the following sentences with new words
- •4 Insert the suitable word from the active vocabulary.
- •5 Make up sentences.
- •Vocabulary and speech exercises.
- •1. Read the words and study their meaning.
- •2. Read the word-combinations , give their Russian equivalents and memorize them:
- •3. Read the following sentences with new words and put all kinds of questions to them:
- •4. Insert the suitable word from the active vocabulary.
- •5. Make up sentences with new words.
- •Spending Money : Shopping
- •2. Read the text again. As you read it note down any thing about ways in which shopping in our country differs from that of Britain and other English – speaking countries.
- •3. Speak on the topic “Shopping” ecology. Environmental pollution
- •Vocabulary and speech exercises.
- •1. Read the words and study their meaning.
- •2.Read the word combinations, give their Russian equivalents and memorize them
- •3.Read the following sentences with new words and put all kinds of questions to them
- •5. Make up sentences :
- •1.Read the text and answer the following questions.
- •3. Give answers to these questions.
- •4. Look through the text and discuss the problem of:
- •Vocabulary and Speech Exercises
- •2. Read the word-combinations, give their Russian equivalents and memorize them:
- •3. Read the following sentences with new words and put all kinds of questions to them:
- •4. Insert the suitable word from the active vocabulary:
- •5. Make up sentences with the following words:
- •1.Read the text and be ready to answer the questions that follow it: mass media
- •2.Ask your groupmate all kinds of questions about a key role of mass media in shaping our views.
- •3.Look through the text and discuss advantages and disadvantages of all the mass media.
- •4.1.Read the text and answer the questions:
- •4.2.Read the text and speak on the following:
- •4.3.Read the text and say what new facts you have found in it:
- •5.Speak on the topic “Mass Media”.
- •Vocabulary and speech exercises.
- •Engineering – инженерное дело; техника
- •Практическое пособие
- •Авторы - составители: Пузенко Иван Николаевич
Read the word combinations, give their Russian equivalents
and memorize them:
at home, to leave home, to feel (at) home, a block of flats, to rent a
flat, to furnish a flat, to redecorate a flat, to live in the hostel for a long time, to share a room in a hostel with smb., to share a bathroom (a kitchen) with two (three) other students, a hosteller; to sweep (to wash) a floor, to dust a room (furniture, books), the ground / first floor, on the second floor (storey), a comfortable hostel, to enjoy a comfortable life in the hostel, to feel quite comfortable, to have all modern conveniences, a hostel with all modern conveniences;
2.2. to clean up (to tidy up), to clean up a mess (привести всё в
порядок), to keep the living (sitting) room tidy, to tidy up one ‘s room; to clean a rug (carpet, shelves, fridge, stove, furniture); to wash the dishes (pans, plates, bowls, kettles, glasses, spoons, forks); to put a kettle on; to turn off (to turn on) the gas; to take a cold shower in the morning; a bath (face, hand, paper) towel; to furnish a new flat (house, summer cottage, weekend cottage).
to match cups and saucers (wardrobes and bookcases, curtains and
walls, carpets and rugs, wallpaper and a high ceiling, a suite of modern furniture and built-in wardrobes, divan-beds (sofa-beds) and armchairs, to face north (south, west, east; the park, the yard, the busy/crowded, quiet/street ); to chat about renting (furnishing, redecorating) a room, to buy a new alarm clock (stove, fridge, lampshade, dressing-table); to keep the house; to keep a room (living-room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, lavatory) clean; to have three meals a day; to cook (to prepare) delicious (nice) meal, to have a heavy (light) meal.
Read the following sentences with new words
and put all kinds of questions to them:
A
Our house is situated in a busy street.
She has a very nice flat in a quiet street.
They live at 34, Krapotkin Street.
Last year we moved to a cosy little house.
We have a very nice hostel which is rather far from the centre of our town.
You will live in a new district of our town.
Our hostel is a many - storied (nine-storeyed) building in the suburb (в пригороде).
Last month he enjoyed a comfortable life in this two-storeyed house.
They rented this living-room two years ago.
My room is on the seventh floor. It faces west.
Adam polished the kitchen floor yesterday.
Our house has all modern conveniences: running (cold and hot) water, electricity, gas, a lift, a rubbish chute and telephone.
There are four rooms in our flat, two of them look out onto the town ‘s Main Street, the others look out on a big pine forest (сосновый бор).
Some days ago they gathered opposite the fireplace and had a friendly and pleasant chat.
Yesterday Tom took his vacuum-cleaner (vac) and cleaned his furnished room.
B
Mary will tidy up her room and the entrance hall next week.
Robert used to clean his rug every day.
Next month my mother will hang new white curtains in my bedroom and study.
In a month Mr. Black will buy a comfortable dressing-table and a new dressing-stool.
George will sell his old lampshade, fridge, vac, sofa, cupboard, wardrobe, bookcase, 4 chairs, 2 armchairs and shelves in a week. His wife is going to buy a new colour TV-set, washing-machine, electric cooker and sewing-machine. George will present his son with a good cassette-recorder (video, CD-player, microwave oven).
Tomorrow or in three days I shall change all our kitchen utensils; I am going to buy a set of dishes – pans, frying-pans, kettles, tea-pots, cups, glasses and knives.
In spring my balcony will serve me as a bedroom.
On Saturday I shall invite my guests for a meal. My wife will cook meat.
Ann will keep the house in our family. She is a good hostess . I hope she will keep our flat clean.
The day after tomorrow they will furnish their flat elegantly and tastefully.
The square table will be in the middle of the room; two armchairs will be next to the divan-bed. In the right hand corner there will be a colour TV-set. The wall unit will be on the right opposite the divan-bed.