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- •5. Use these words to complete these expressions with age:
- •6. Now use the expressions in the sentences below:
- •7. Find the mistake in each sentence. Write the correct sentence into the box.
- •Read the text and do the assignments.
- •How do you understand the expression in bold? Define it using the text and the examples below:
- •Answer the questions in the last passage.
- •Vocabulary – The Stages of Life
- •1. Now add the correct words to complete the sentences:
- •2. Vocabulary Quiz
- •3. Put these words into the following sentences:
- •Use these words in the patterns below:
- •5. Match the beginnings of these sentences with the endings below:
- •6. Important events in people's lives.
- •7. The best day of my life.
- •Family Vocabulary
- •Describe a family tree:
- •Different types of family
- •Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences below:
- •Family by Vivien.
- •Explain the meaning of the words and expressions in bold. Use them in your own sentences.
- •Choose the correct answer. There can be more than one variant.
- •Each paragraph of the text is an answer to a certain question. Ask these questions and let your group mates answer them.
- •Speak on Vivien’s family as if you were one of her brothers. Family by Thomas.
- •Say: What do they do? Where do they work?
- •2. Unscramble the letters to find the jobs:
- •3.What are they?
- •Related terms: translate and make up your own examples.
- •3. Choose the best (most logical) response to complete each of the following sentences:
- •There are many different ways to express leaving or losing a job.
- •4.Act out a dialogue: a Job Interview
- •Vocabulary – Friends
- •He's my best friend
- •2.Other words for friend
- •3. Making friends
- •4. Why people are friends
- •Friendship by Vivien
- •Say whether the following statements are true or false. In case they are false give the right answer.
- •Speak about Vivien’s friends. Friendship by Thomas
- •Explain the meaning of the words and expressions in bold. Use them in your own sentences.
- •Each paragraph of the text is an answer to a certain question. Ask these questions and let your group mates answer them.
- •Choose the right answer.
- •Say whether the following statements are true or false. In case they are false give the right answer.
- •Comment on the italicized parts of the text. Do you agree with all Thomas’ ideas concerning friendship.
- •Point out the main factors which are important in friendship.
- •Problems in a friendship. Complete the following letters to a magazine problem page with these words and phrases:
- •Vocabulary – Love and Romance
- •Complete the following text with the words and phrases below:
- •Starting a relationship
- •Read the following sentences and put the words and phrases into the correct column below:
- •4.Match the beginnings of the phrases on the left with the endings on the right:
- •5. Use these expressions in the situations below:
- •3. Before the wedding
- •4. People at the wedding
- •5. The vows
- •Love, Marriage, Romance, Flirting.
- •6. Choose the right word and complete the sentences.
- •Celebrity Divorce
- •9. Study the new vocabulary before you read the dialogue.
- •10. Read the introduction and comment on it.
- •11. Read the dialogue between Marni and Mason talking about celebrity divorce.
- •12. Whose viewpoint appeals to you more, Mason’s or Marni’s? Share your opinion of the ideas given in the text.
- •Vocabulary – Appearance
- •Match the pairs of sentences with the pictures on the right:
- •3. Put these descriptions in the correct order:
- •Vocabulary – Head and Face
- •Vocabulary – Hair and Face
- •1. Basic vocabulary
- •2.Hairstyles
- •Face - distinguishing features
- •If a man always shaves, we say he is clean shaven.
- •Vocabulary – Houses and Homes
- •1. Different kinds of house
- •Vocabulary – In the living room
- •2. Paying a compliment
- •3. Dinner conversation
- •4. Make up a small dinner conversation using the phrases mentioned above.
- •Vocabulary – In the Kitchen
- •1.Entitle each object:
- •2. What Kitchen appliances do you know?
- •3. Kitchen equipment
- •4. Test yourself
- •Vocabulary – In the bedroom
- •1.What do you wear in bed?
- •Saying how you slept
- •Vocabulary – In the bathroom
- •Vocabulary – Accommodation
- •3. Things/items around the house - Talking about things that are located in your house or apartment. Choose the best answer:
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •Accommodation by Vivien
- •Explain the meaning of the words and expressions in bold. Use them in your own sentences.
- •Find English equivalents in the text:
- •Choose the right answer.
- •Say whether the following statements are true or false. In case they are false give the right answer.
- •Each paragraph of the text is an answer to a certain question. Ask these questions and let your group mates answer them.
- •What is Vivien’s idea of an ideal flat? Does it have anything in common with the flat of your dream? accommodation by Thomas
- •Explain the meaning of the words and expressions in bold. Use them in your own sentences.
- •Find English equivalents in the text.
- •Choose the right answer.
- •Say whether the following statements are true or false. In case they are false give the right answer.
- •Answer the questions.
- •Vocabulary – Housework and Household Chores
- •4. Need / could do with
- •5. Asking for help
- •6. Answer the questions:
- •Household chores by Vivien
- •Explain the meaning of the words and expressions in bold. Use them in your own sentences.
- •Find English equivalents in the text:
- •Choose the right answer.
- •Say whether the following statements are true or false. In case they are false give the right answer.
- •Answer the questions.
- •Literature
3. Put these words into the following sentences:
childhood adolescence birth puberty
Was he present at the of his son?
I think I had a very happy
Girls usually reach about a year before most boys.
4. can be the best or the worst years of your life.
Now use these words, which relate to the later years of life:
old age retirement marriage middle age
5. My first unfortunately only lasted a couple of years.
6. Now that I'm over 40, I can feel approaching.
I want to stop work when I'm 60 and have a long and happy
In his my father wrote a book about his wartime experiences.
Use these words in the patterns below:
growing up at school teens kid
at university child twenties single
childhood teenager student young
a. in my …………………………………….
b. when I was a…………………………………….
c. when I was ……………………………………...
Now use the correct form of these verbs:
have spend bring up grow up
1. I my childhood in the country. I loved walking home from school across the fields. 2.I was .in the country so it took a long time to get used to living in London. 3.I in the country so when I moved to London it was quite a shock. 4.I a very strict upbringing. I had to study for two hours after school and had to be in bed by 9.
5. Match the beginnings of these sentences with the endings below:
I don't want to go to university
I'm going to spend more time with my grandchildren
Will you still love me
We won't be able to go out as much
At least we'll have some peace and quiet
a. when the kids grow up and leave home.
b. when I'm old and grey?
c. when I leave school.
d. when I retire.
e. when we have children.
6. Important events in people's lives.
Match the verbs with the words on the right:
leave a. your wife / your father
get b. schools / jobs / your career
change с a baby / children
have d. engaged / married / divorced
move e. school / home
lose f. house
Now use some of the expressions in the sentences below. You might need to change the form of the verb or the pronoun.
7. I'm not sure what I'll do when I It depends on my exam results.
8. I wasn't surprised when I heard that they'd decided to……………………….. I never really understood why they got married.
9. When we move to Bristol the children will have to…………… I'm worried
that it might affect their studies.
10. Bill's never really recovered from .…….in a car accident two years ago.
They'd been married for twenty years.
I want to find my own flat but my parents think I'm too young to…………….
The place we're in now has only got two bedrooms. We'll have to think about……………………..soon.
7. The best day of my life.
Complete the following sentences with the expressions below:
my lucky break the best day of my life turning-point the lowest point
I'll never forget the day I got married. It was
The day I decided to change my career was the big in my life.
Being offered that job in Las Vegas was I've never looked back!
I've had some bad times, but in my life was probably when I lost my job at IBM.