Funny professor

Mr Jones woke early one morning, before the sun had risen. It was a beautiful morning, so he went to the window and looked out. He was surprised to see a neatly dressed, middle-aged professor, who worked in the university just up the road from Mr Jones’s house, coming from the direction of the town. He had grey hair and thick glasses, and was carrying an umbrella, a morning newspaper and a bag. Mr Jones thought that he must have arrived by the night train and decided to walk to the university instead of taking a taxi.

Mr Jones had a big tree in his garden, and the children had tied a long rope to one of its branches, so that they could swing on it.

Mr Jones was surprised to see the professor stop when he saw the rope, and look carefully up and down the road. When he saw that there was nobody in sight, he stepped into the garden (there was no fence), put his umbrella, newspaper, bag and hat neatly on the grass and took hold of the rope. He pulled it hard to see whether it was strong enough to take his weight, then ran as fast as he could and swung into the air on the end of the rope, his grey hair blowing all around his face. Backwards and forwards he swung, occasionally taking a few more running steps on the grass when the rope began to swing too slowly for him.

At last the professor stopped, straightened his tie, combed his hair carefully, put on his hat, picked up his umbrella, newspaper and bag, and continued on his way to the university, looking as quiet and correct and respectable as one would expect a professor to be.

Questions:

1. Answer the following questions using your own words but taking into account the

Information in the text.

a. When Mr Jones looked out of the window, what did he see?

b. What had happened to the tree that Mr Jones had in the garden?

Office hours: Read the text and do the tasks a, b, c, d “Never give up” [1. 46-47]

References

Main literature

1. Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig “New English File”. Intermediate level Student’s book. Oxford. 2010.

2. Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig “New English File”. Intermediate Work book. Oxford, 2010.

Additional literature

3. Sue Kay and Vaughan Jones “Inside Out” Intermediate level. Student’s book. Macmillan, 2012

4. Raymond Murphy. English grammar in use . Cambridge University Press, 2012.

5. Audio discs of “New Headway” for Intermediate level, Disc-1,2.

6. “Objective” by Michael Black, Wendy Shar. Intermediate.Cambridge University Press, 2010

Hand out

Discipline: English as a foreign language Term: First

Practical lesson: № 5 Credits:2

Level- Intermediate 2013-2014

Lexical theme: Relationships

Grammatical theme: Usually and used to

Assistant professor Moldabayeva M.K.

FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

CharlesDickens

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle  What more can you ask God for, if you have already been gifted a good friend? True friends are difficult to find.

Do you know any other quotes about love and friendship?

Exercise 1 Listen to people three talking about friendship [1, p.63]. Fill in the test.

		True	False
1	Men keep their friends longer than women.
2	It’s more difficult to keep in touch with friends than it used to be.
3	You should never criticize you friend’s partner.
4	Men only talk about sport r superficial things.
5	Women’s friendship is less intense.

Exercise 2 Answer the questions.

1. Is it possible to see your really good friend very often?

2. How long has Tim’s brother known his old friend?

3. Are men’s friendships less intense?

4. Do you agree that men keep their friends longer than women?

5. What is the quickest way to lose friendship?

Exercise 3 Finish the following sentences

1. I’m still in touch with some:

2. If you don’t like a friend’s girlfriend, you should just keep:

3. Now we aren’t friends:

Exercise 4 Before you read match the phrases with the definitions. [ 3, p.73]

1. legend a sexual relationship between two people or pain

2. brave an old story about famous people and events in the past

3. devotion a substance used for killing or harming people

4. poisoned great love, admiration, or loyalty

5. affair capable of dealing with danger

1. Kyz-Zhybek and Tolegen

Kyz-Zhibek - Kazakh poetic folk legend of the 16th century. There are many versions of this legend but all agree on the essential details of this story of lovers. It tells about the period in the Kazakh nations history when people suffered from bloody feuds. In those times each province of the Kazakh nation had its own Khan and each tried to supersede the other. The love story of Tolegen, the brave warrior, and the beauty Zhibek ends tragically because of inter-family strife. Tolegen is deceitfully murdered by Bekejan (the batyr, or nobleman of the rival family), who earlier competed for the hand of Zhibek. Zhibek commited suicide after learning about the death of Tolegen.