- •Английский язык getting on in english Учебное пособие
- •Часть 1
- •Часть 1
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- •Предисловие
- •Chapter 1 personal identification Part 1: Describing people
- •Before you read
- •How important is your appearance?
- •Comprehension/Interpretation
- •Language focus
- •Give English equivalents of the words and word partnerships used in the text.
- •Identify the word by its meaning. Make your own sentences with these words.
- •3. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words in a proper form from the list below.
- •Make new words by adding suffixes or prefixes to the italicized words. Translate into Russian.
- •Dis / able /ly / ment
- •Ician / ful/ ly
- •6. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •7. What's your attitude to the problems discussed:
- •8. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Comment on them.
- •9. Make up a dialogue:
- •14. Video:
- •15. Writing
- •Language functions Addressing People
- •Forms of Address within the Family
- •2. Choose the best words to complete the short conversations below.
- •4. Address the following people, adding an opening sentence to your greeting address.
- •Introducing People and Answering an Introduction
- •5. Choose the right answer.
- •Listening
- •4. Learn the dialogue by heart.
- •5. Listen to someone describing two famous people and answer the questions.
- •6. Listen again to check your answers. Who do you think the two people are? Part 2: Family
- •Before you read
- •4. What do you think the advantages and disadvantages of each type of family are? Use the following: I think ..., It can be ..., I don't think ... .
- •5. Read the text quickly and tell your partner what it is about. Families
- •Sibling conflict
- •Comprehension/Interpretation
- •Language focus
- •1. Give English equivalents of the words and word partnerships used in the text.
- •2. Identify the word by its meaning. Make your own sentences with these words.
- •3. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words in a proper form from the list below.
- •5. Make new words by adding suffixes or prefixes to the italicized words. Translate into Russian.
- •6. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •7. Answer the questions. Choose at least five questions to discuss with your partner.
- •13. Writing.
- •Develop your writing skills
- •Composition development
- •1. Read this composition question and do the exercises that follow.
- •2. Write a letter to your penfriend, describing typical weather conditions where you live and suggesting what items they should bring with them.
- •Practise your writing skills
- •Language functions Small Talk
- •Exercises
- •1. Video:
- •2. Read the following illustrative dialogues and define the situations as formal, neutral, informal.
- •3. Make a natural response to the following remarks, remembering that you should both answer and develop the conversation:
- •4. Start and develop conversations in the following situations:
- •Listening
- •1. Listen to Alan telling how his mother and father treated the children when they did something wrong.
- •3. Listening for main ideas. Listen to the conversation. Answer the following questions.
- •4. Listen a part of the conversation. Some of the words are missing. During each pause repeat the phrase; then fill in the missing words.
- •5. Prepare good reading of the dialogue.
- •7. Here is a sample outline of the lecture. Listen to the lecture again and fill in the missing information: Topic: Changes in the American family
- •8. Discussing the lecture. Discuss the following questions about the lecture and your own experience.
- •9. Listen to the dialogue and fill in the missing forms.
- •Prepare good reading of the dialogue.
- •Chapter 2
- •Problems of a big city
- •Part 1: Megacities: Two Views
- •Before you read
- •Megacities: two views
- •Language focus
- •1. Give English equivalents of the words and word partnerships used in the text.
- •2. Identify the word by its meaning. Make your own sentences with these words.
- •Give synonyms to the following words. Make up your own sentences.
- •4. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •5. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words in a proper form from the list below.
- •6. Make new words by adding suffixes or prefixes to the italicized words. Translate the sentences into Russian. -ing /-ment / -ed / -ly/dis-
- •7. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Comprehension/Interpretation
- •Listening Europe's Population Now Half a Billion
- •Gap fill: Fill in the missing words.
- •Passed clear fell
- •27 Tank lead
- •1.4 Anger five
- •Search the Internet and find out more about population. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson. Language Functions Compliments
- •Exercises
- •1. Video:
- •2. Read the illustrative dialogues in pairs, then compliment your friends on the points listed in the box below.
- •3. For each situation that follows, read the clues given, then discuss the relationship among the speakers and the level of formality. Using this information, complete the dialogues orally.
- •4. Discuss the situation with your partner and decide on the proper level of formality. You can use suggested expressions if you want to.
- •Part 2: Sick Building Syndrome
- •Before You Read
- •Sick-Building Syndrome
- •Language focus
- •1. Give English equivalents of the words and word combinations from the text.
- •2. Match the words with their meanings.
- •3. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words in a proper form from the list below.
- •5. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- •Building Vocabulary and Study Skills
- •3. Looking up for part of Speech.
- •Language Functions Stating Likes, Dislikes and Preferences
- •1. Video:
- •Ask your partner about his/her likes, dislikes, usual habits. Make use of the words listed below.
- •Write two sentences about your likes and two sentences about your dislikes. Exchange your papers and guess who has written them.
- •Replace these formal phrases with less formal ones.
- •Replace the informal phrases with more formal ones.
- •Read the dialogue below. See if you can guess what the problem was with expressing likes and dislikes. Then, with your classmates, answer the questions that follow.
- •9. Make short conversations in the following situations.
- •10. Make up sentences using prefer and the words given.
- •11. Reply to the following, expressing your preference or lack of preference. Explain your choice.
- •12. Ask your friend what he/she prefers to do and say in a couple of words what kind of person he/she is.
- •Loss of nature will damage economies
- •Discuss the following questions.
- •Make the prompts formal
- •Think about the prompts
- •Think beyond the prompts
- •Write a paragraph
- •Read your partner’s writing
- •Discuss
- •Appendixes
- •Writing a Letter (Образец написания письма (Informal letter)
- •Useful vocabulary
- •Asking for Advice. Письма с просьбой дать совет.
- •Informal
- •Informal
- •Giving advice. Письма-советы.
- •Informal
- •Informal
- •Informal
- •II. Informal letter (Model)
- •III. Word-building (Словообразование)
- •Конверсия. Словосложение. Изменение ударения
- •2. Сложные прилагательные
- •3. Сложные глаголы
- •Словообразование с помощью аффиксации
- •Before you read
- •5. Discuss the following questions in small groups.
- •6. Read the text quickly and tell your partner what it is about. Parallel lives.
- •The remarkable “Jim Twins”.
- •Comprehension / Interpretation
- •Sources
6. Translate the following sentences into English.
1. Я не знала, что у тебя есть сводный брат. Ты ладишь с ним?
2. Их брак закончился разводом в 2005 году.
3. Эта история передается в нашей семье из поколения в поколение.
4. Наша семья состоит из 5 человек: папа, мама, старший брат, младшая сестра и я.
5. Ты единственный ребёнок в семье? – Нет. У меня есть младший брат.
6. Это Мэри. Она моя двоюродная сестра из Америки.
7. У неё очень близкие отношения с сестрой.
8. Что ты знаешь о своём прадедушке и прабабушке? – К сожалению, я знаю о них очень мало.
9. Мы с сестрой очень похожи. Наши друзья нас часто путают.
10. Мама моего друга умерла в прошлом году. Вскоре его папа женился вновь. Сейчас у моего друга есть сводная младшая сестра.
11. Многие факторы влияют на отношения членов семьи.
12. Его родители не понимают его. Они относятся к нему как к ребёнку.
13. У тебя много родственников? – Да, у меня 2 тёти, 3 дяди и 4 двоюродных сестры.
14. Согласно этому исследованию форма семьи изменилась.
15. Число неполных семей увеличилось в двое.
7. Answer the questions. Choose at least five questions to discuss with your partner.
1. What type of family do you come from?
2. What's your family like?
3. What's something unusual or special about your family?
4. What are some rules that people have to follow in your family?
5. How does your family celebrate birthdays?
6. Is there a holiday your family always celebrate together?
7. Who do you talk to in your family when you have a problem?
8. What's the best thing about spending time with your family? What's the worst thing?
9. If you have any brothers or sisters, what things do you enjoy doing together?
10. Do you have a close relationship with the other members of your family?
11. What's an advantage of being close to one's family?
12. Who takes care of the children in your family?
8. Prepare a list of sentences (up to 10) for translation from the British National Corpus with the use of the following words from the above text: generation, prediction, to grow up, to divorce, relationships. Use the site www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ .
9. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.
10. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out about a family of a famous person (actor, film star, etc.). Share what you discovered with your partner(s) at the next lesson.
11. GENERATION TREE: Make a poster about as many generations of your family as you know. Show your work to your classmates and tell about it in the next lesson.
12. VIDEO: Watch the video “Talking about a family” and get ready to discuss it at the lesson.
13. Writing.
A. Write a magazine article about your interviews with successful people. It can be a politician, sportsman, etc. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).
B. Read the diary entry. Imagine you also share your thoughts with your diary. Write about your family.
Dear Diary,
I love my family – all of them, my parents and my four brothers and sisters. However, sometimes they drive me crazy. There are good and bad things about coming from a large family. One of the advantages of coming from a large family is that I always have someone to talk to. Unfortunately, one of the disadvantages is that I never have my privacy. And of course the biggest problem with not having any privacy is that I never have any space I can call my own...