Самостійна робота № 10

Тема для самостійного опрацювання: «На пошті. Поштовий сервіс» (4 год.)

Література: В.К.Шпак «Англійська для повсякденного спілкування», Т.М.Гужва Reason to speak. Сучасні розмовні теми, О.М.Павліченко «Граматичний практикум», двомовний англо-український, українсько-англійський словник

Хід роботи:

1.Прочитати, перекласти текст «The post-office»

2.Прочитати, перекласти текст «At the post-office»

3. Прочитати, перекласти діалог «At the post-office»

4.Скласти опорний словник за темою « At the post-office »

5.Приступити до виконання завдань, що подані у вигляді лексико – граматичних вправ

Вправи:

Exercise 1. Read and translate the texts and the dialogue:

Text 1. Post-office

When he wants to send a letter, we must write the address on the envelope and stick the required stamps on it. For a registered letter, an air-mail letter or an ordinary letter to another country, we must stick more stamps on the envelope. To send a postcard we do not need an envelope.

We buy stamps; send letters, parcels and telegrams at the post-office. The post-office clerk weights letters or parcels, or counts the number of words in telegrams, then tells us how much we must pay. We can drop ordinary letters into a pillar-box in the street. The postman collects the letters into pillar-boxes in the street. The postman collects the letters out the pillar-boxes. When the letter arrives at its destination another postman delivers it to the address; he drops it into the letter-box. A telegraph boy delivers telegrams to our house.

Text 2. At the post-office

If you want to buy stamps, postcards, envelopes, to send a telegram or money order, to subscribe to newspapers or magazines, you have to go to the post-office.

At some post-offices there is a special window where you may pay your rent, telephone, gas and electricity bills.

Yesterday I had a send parcel to my friend in another city. So I went to the nearest post-office. I handed the package to the clerk at stamps which she tuck on the package.

Then I went to the next window marked “Stamps”. I had to queue up there. When my turn came, I bought writing paper, envelopes and a few stamps. I sat down at a desk and wrote a letter. When the letter was ready, I wrote the address on the envelope, stuck a stamp on it and dropped it into the nearest letter-box.

Dialogue №1 «At the post-office»

Mr Hunt: Hello, I want to buy some stamps. My wife’s got something to send to Switzerland. She wants to send some letters to Scotland, too. Can she post them here?

Post-office man: Yes, she can. How many stamps would you like?

Mr Hunt: I’d like ten three penny stamps and five air-letters, please.

Post-office man: Here they are. IS this the packet for Switzerland?

Mr Hunt: Yes, it is.

Post-office man: Air-mail or ordinary mail?

Mrs Hunt: Air-mail please.

Post-office man: Are these the letters for Switzerland?

Mrs Hunt: No, they’re not. Those are going to Scotland.

Post-office man: First class or second class?

Mrs Hunt: First class, please.

Mr Hunt: How much is that, please?

Post-office man: That’s eighteen pence (18 p.)

Mrs Hunt: Do you sell parcel labels?

Post-office man: No, I’m sorry, we don’t sell them.

Dialogue №2«At the post-office»

Nick: Where is the nearest post-office? Do you know?

Pete: Yes, there is one in Gronchar Street.

Nick: How late is it open?

Pete: Until eight. But wait a minute. Is it Saturday today?

Nick: Yes, it is.

Pete: Today it closes at five.

Nick: I must hurry then. I have to send a parcel.

Pete: You can make it. It’s only a ten-minute walk from here.

Exercise 2. Match the following English words with their Ukrainian equivalents:

1) printed matter	a) чекати на лист
2) money order	b) написати адресу
3) stick a stamp	c) бандероль
4) post a parcel	d) грошовий переказ
5) post a letter	e) наклеїти марку
6) write an address	f) відправити посилку
7) expect a letter	g) відправити листа

Exercise 3. Translate the following words into Ukrainian and remember them:

Post office ________________________________________________________

Stamp ___________________________________________________________

Envelope _________________________________________________________

Postcard __________________________________________________________

Mail _____________________________________________________________

Letter-box ________________________________________________________

Pillar-box _________________________________________________________

Rate _____________________________________________________________

Label ____________________________________________________________

Exercise 4. Answer the following questions:

1.What can you do at the post-office? _________________________________

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2.What department must you go to send a telegram? ______________________

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3.What is it necessary to do before dropping a letter into a pillar-box? ________

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4.Where is the General Post-Office in your city? _________________________

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5.Do you like to write letters? ________________________________________

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6. Do you often get letters? _________________________________________

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7. What newspapers have you subscribed to? ___________________________

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Exercise 5. Complete the dialogue using following words:

(is, where, can, must, opened, send, walk)

A: ………………. is the nearest post-office?

B: There ………… one in Schorsa Street.

A: How late is it ……………………………… ?

B: Until six p.m.

A: I ………………….. hurry then. I have to ………………………… a parcel.

B: You ……………………… make it. It’s only five-minute ………………….. from here.

A: Thank you very much.

B: Not at all.

Exercise 6. Make up the sentences using following words:

1.Want, we, to send, must, address, the envelope, stamps, stick.

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2. To send, we, do not, a postcard, need, an envelope.

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3.At the post-office, buy, we, stamps, letter, send, parcel, telegrams.

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4.Clerc, the post-office, weight, or, counts, letters, parcels, the number of words, in, telegrams. _______________________________________________________

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5.Collects out, the postman, the letters, of, the pillar-boxes.

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Exercise 7. Read and translate the story “At the post-office”. Write this story using Present Indefinite and Present Continuous Tenses.

This is what happened to a Frenchman who lived in England and did not know English very well.

One day he went into the post-office with a letter. He bought a stamp and gave it together with his letter to the girl. «OH, no”, she said, “you must stick the stamp on yourself”.

He was very much surprised. He said “Why must I stick the stamp on myself?” She answered “I said that you must stick the stamp on the letter and must do it yourself”.

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Exercise 8. Translate sentences given below into English, using verbs in the Future Indefinite form:

1.Ми будемо грати у футбол після занять?

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2.Вони підуть завтра в спортивний центр.

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3.Макс допоможе бабусі знайти її окуляри?

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4.Ріта піде завтра з нами в кіно.

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5.Завтра буде дощ?

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Exercise 9.Fill in the following chart using verbs in the right form:

Infinitive	Past Indefinite Tense	Infinitive	Past Indefinite Tense
fall		read
	fought		gave
wake up		find
	spoke		told
sit		bring
	went		was, were
have		make
	spoke		did
run		get

Exercise 10. Write a business letter using the examples from Business Course.

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