- •Please and thank you.
- •Formal and informal manners
- •Punctuality
- •Ex. II Read and translate the information about informal greetings and leaving.
- •Informal greetings
- •Hello —Hello
- •Ex. Ill Read and translate the following dialogues.
- •Ex. IV Read and answer the following:
- •Ex. V What would you say to somebody:
- •Ex. VII Reproduce the following dialogues.
- •Практичне заняття № 2
- •Знайомство, звертання ”
- •Introducing a speaker
- •Ladies and gentlemen, Professor Borrowdale
- •Miss Lloyd: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. They say there’s a lot of flu about just now, so I expect that’s what (On which comforting note we will leave them.)
- •Mr n. Mrs Smith, I’d like to introduce my friend from Greece, Milos.
- •Milos. How do you do?
- •A. My friend, Mr k. В. …
- •A. May I introduce my girl-friend Mary to you?
- •Практичне заняття № 3
- •Agreement
- •Disagreement
- •Ex. IV Read the examples under Disagreement and agree with them, e. G.
- •Ex. V Read the following and answer them with one of these remarks. Note where more than one remark would be suitable:
- •Ex. VI Read and disagree politely with the following.
- •Практичне заняття № 4
- •B. For help
- •C. For permission
- •D For information
- •Практичне заняття № 5
- •Thanking
- •Replies to thanks
- •As an answer
- •Ex. VI Answer the questions, using the prompt.
- •Indicate the names of the islands and parts of the country, oceans and
- •Ex. IX Translate the following words into Ukrainian. Cornish, dialect, the British Isles, alternative, Welsh, to contain, Gaelic, Manx, complete.
- •British government
- •1. What three sections of the government in Britain do you know?
- •2. What political parties in Britain do you know?
- •Тема 1.2 “Історія та сьогодення Лондона”
- •Тема 1.2 “Пам‘ятки історії та культури Лондона”
- •Gradually – поступово
- •London, the capital
- •The following are also associated by Ukrainian people with their nation.
- •Ex. V Find the right word for
- •Ex. VII Are the following statements true or false? Give your reasons.
- •Практичне заняття № 25
- •Практичне заняття № 26
- •Ex. IX Think and answer the following questions.
- •Практичне заняття № 27
- •Практичне заняття № 28
- •Тема 1.3. “Політичний устрій України”
- •State structure of ukraine
- •Ex. IV Find out.
- •Ex. VI Choose the right answer.
- •Практичне заняття № 30
- •Ex. I Read and learn new words and word-combinations by heart.
- •Ex. II Read and translate the text.
- •Ex. III Answer the following questions.
- •10. What does Ministry for Diaspora aim to? Ex. IV Translate these word-combinations into English.
- •Ex. VI Translate the following sentences into English.
B. For help
Would you come and help me buy a new hat? — I’m afraid I haven’t got
time just now.
Could you spare me a few minutes? — I’m sorry, but I’m really very busy
just now.
Would you do me a favour? — Well, that depends what it is (half-
humorously).
I wonder if you could help me move this table? — Oh, d’you think we can
manage it? It looks rather heavy.
C. For permission
Do you mind if I smoke? — No, of course not.
Would you mind if I closed the window? — No, please do.
May I come a little later? — Yes, that will be quite all right.
I’m taking the car today, if you don’t mind. — No, that’s all right.
D For information
Excuse me, but could you tell me the way to the station? — Yes, it’s not far
from here. Go
Straight down here, and take the first turning to your left (Note the use of the
imperative)
(To someone you know well) How do I get to the airport from here? - I should take a
Greenline bus — a number three, I think.
Could you tell me the time, please? Let me see I make it about ten to eight
I wonder if you could tell me what time the shops close here? — I’m sorry,
but I’m a stranger here myself.
How does this bottle-opener work? — Just press that little lever down.
That’s right.
How does one unlock this door? — Try turning the key the other way.
Ex. III Read and translate the conversation.
Mr Surabhai is having breakfast at his boarding house Mr Lewis enters.
Lewis: Good morning. Do you mind if I sit here?
Surabhai: No, please ‘do.
Lewis: Nice morning, isn’t it? Er, would you pass me the sugar please?
Surabhai: Yes. Here you are.
Lewis: Thank you. Going sight-seeing today?
Surahbhai: As a matter of fact, I have to go for an interview. I wonder if you
could tell me how to get there? The address is 23 Ridgeway
Avenue.
Lewis: Oh, yes, that’s not very far from here. You can take a number 12
bus and ask the conductor to put you at Ridgeway Cemetery It’s
ten minutes’ ride I should say.
Surabhai: Thank you very much
Lewis: It’s a pleasure
Mr Surabhai gets off the bus and asks a woman standing nearby:
Surabhai: Excuse me, but could you tell me how to get to Ridgeway Avenue?
Woman: Let me see — um —go straight down here, and take the second
turning to your right, then keep straight on as far as the traffic lights
and you’ll be on Ridgeway Avenue. It’s about five minutes’ walk
from here.
Surabhai: Thank you very much.
Woman: That’s all right.
Ex. IV Make requests by completing the following.
I wonder if...
Would you mind...
Excuse me, but...
Could I...
Do you mind…
I’d like...
May I...
(h) Would you...
Ex. V One student reads the requests in this chapter, another answers them.
Ex. VI Make requests of each kind (a, b, c, d) and give replies.
Ex. VII Make requests using the polite imperative.
Ex. VIII Act out the following situation.
One student asks the way to some familiar place (e.g. the Post Office). Another student explains the way.
Remember to use the imperative when explaining: Go down this street... turn right...
Other phrases:
Cross the road at the traffic lights.
Take a number 4 tram. Get off at the next stop but one.
It’s on the opposite side of the road.
Ex. IX Read the dialogue. Give another variant of the dialogue changing the
place you want to go to (performance, theatre, cinema, film, etc.).
Alice. I would like to go to the concert to-night
Barbara. I’d like to get tickets to this concert too. I’d try to get them by all
means.
A. I wonder if Alec could help us. He plays in the orchestra there.
I am afraid he can’t do that. A lot of people want to listen to
Stravinsky’s symphony.
Ex. X Read the dialogue with your fellow-student. Compose a dialogue
changing the situation: Your friend will help you with pleasure and
you go together.
Helen. I want you to get me an invitation to the exhibition of impressionists.
Irene. I am sorry I can’t help you. I wish I were there myself now.
H. Still I’ll try to get to the museum without an invitation at any price.
Will you try the same?
I. Certainly not. It’s out of the question.
Ex. XI Read the dialogue with your fellow-student. Compose a dialogue
changing the situation. Object to your friend’s opinion using as many
formulas of disagreement, as you can.
Cora. Have you been to the ‘new performance this week?
Ann. Yes, I’ve been.
C. Have you enjoyed it?
A. Not at all. It’s dull.
С You are right. I fully agree with you.
Ex. XII Reproduce the following dialogues with your fellow-students. Ask
the same in another way.
1.
A. Is there any chance of borrowing the music of the first concerto by
Tchaikovsky from you?
B. How long for?
A. Until the end of the week.
B. Yes, I think, it is possible. I don’t play that concerto from music, I play it by
heart.
2
Student: Would your mind if we play these variations and fugue on a theme by
Mozart at the concert?
Professor: When exactly?
S.: In a month.
Prof.: Let me think it over, and I’ll tell you later.
S.: I wish we played it.
Ex. XIII Compose dialogues of your own taking the dialogues given about as
models.