Illustrative Situations

/. Listen and learn the imperatives:

1. Please, take the textbook out of your bag, Mary. Open it to page 45 and read text 4. Thank you. Close the book. Go to the black­board. Don't take the book with you. Put it on the desk. Take a piece of chalk and write the new English words on the blackboard. Thank you. Your mark is excellent. Sit down, please.

2. Don't copy out this text now. Do it at home, please. Write ten questions on the text, too. Listen to the text in the sound labora­tory. Learn the text.

3. Jack, take that book and give it to Peter. Now take the pen­cils from him and put them into your bag. Take your exercise-book out of the bag and put it on the table in front of me.

4. — Take this hat and show it to Ann, please. Now take it from her and give it to me.

— Here it is.

— Thank you. Now give us that blue tie, please.

— Here is the tie. Take it, please.

— Thanks. And give us that red one, too.

— Here you are.

Practice

/. Change the following sentences as in the example:

_e a. Give me that vase.

Give that vase to me.

I. Show me that picture. 2. Give her those flowers. 3. Send George that letter 4. Give Mrs. Jones these books. 5 Give the children these ice-creams. 6. Please, bring John that chair. 7. Take her these newspapers. 8. Pass him the salt, e g. Show that dictionary to him. Show him that dictionary.

1. Give that pen to her. 2. Bring that book to me. 3. Take this par­cel to Mary. 4. Send that telegram to Peter. 5. Show your bicycle to them. 6. Pass the bread to Helen. 7. Give that pencil to her. 8. Show your album to us. 9. Take that newspaper to Bob.

//. Put in me, him, her, us or them:

e.g. Give Tim this shirt. Give ... this one, too. Give Tim this shirt. Give him this one, too. 1. Give Jane this watch. Give ... this one, too. 2. Give the children these ice-creams. Give ... these ones, too. 3. Give Tom this book. Give ... this one, too. 4. That is my passport. Give ... my passport please. 5. That is my coat. Give ... my coat please. 6. Those are our umbrellas. Give . . our umbrellas please. 7. That is Jane's dictiona­ry. Give ... the dictionary please.

///. Respond to the following turning indirect orders and requests into direct ones:

e.g. Tell John to come at 5. John, come at 5.

1. Tell Mary to wash the dishes. 2. Tell Fred to bring the record-player. 3 Tell your sister to phone me tonight. 4. Tell Lucy to type this letter. 5. Tell Kate to sweep the floor. 6. Tell Helen to dust the wardrobe. 7. Tell Mike to fix the bicycle. e.g. Tell Alec not to be late. Alec, don't be late.

1. Tell Mary not to close the window. 2. Tell Mike not to go out. 3. Tell Jack not to come in. 4. Tell Bob not to work so hard. 5. Tell Lucy not to miss the lecture. 6. Tell Roger not to make so much noise. 7. Tell Betty not to take the typewriter. 8. Tell Jack not to open the window.

IV. Fill in the gaps with prepositions:

1. Take the books ... the table and put them ... your bag. 2. Show me this map. Show it... me. 3. Go ... the room ... the corridor. 4. Take that pencil ... the box and put it ... front ... you. 5. Come ..., please. 6. Give these notebooks .. Lucy. 7. Take the magazine ... her and show it ... us. 8. Go ... the blackboard.

Fluency

/. Listen to the conversations and learn them: 1. Steve: I've got a headache and a temperature.

Jill: Oh, dear. Stay at home then. Perhaps you've got flue.

Go back to bed and take some tablets. Steve: Yes, that's a good idea. Jill. Or phone Dr Ray.

2. Mrs. Jones: Come in, Bessie.

Shut the door, please.

This bedroom's very untidy. Bessie. What must I do, Mrs. Jones?

Mrs. Jones: Open the window and air the room.

Then put these clothes in the wardrobe.

Then make the bed. Dust the dressing-table.

Then sweep the floor.

3. Man: Give me a book please, Jane. Woman: Which book? This one?

Man: No, not that one. The red one. Woman: This one? Man: Yes, please. Woman: Here you are. Man: Thank you.

4. Man: Give me some glasses please, Jane. Woman: Which glasses? These glasses? Man: No, not those. The ones on the shelf. Woman: These?

Man: Yes, please. Woman: Here you are. Man: Thanks.

//. Situation: You are asking your daughter to do some work about the house.

Situation: You are the teacher. Give your students some instruc­tions.

Self check

/. Use the proper prepositions:

1. Please, take the cup ... Jane and put it ... the table. 2. Please

close your book and put it... your bag. 3. Please go ... the door and close it. 4. Send the telegram ... Mr. Smith. 5. Please take the _cnalk ... the box.

//. Use the proper pronouns:

\. The children are hungry. Give ... something to eat. 2. We are students. This is ... classroom. 3 Take the book from the table and put ... into your bag. 4. Betty has a temperature. Give ... some tablets. 5. Ted is a schoolboy. . marks are good. 6. Those are our books. Give ... our books, please.

///. Translate into English:

1. Дай мне тот карандаш, пожалуйста.— Черный? — Нет, красный. 2. Возьми вазу из буфета и поставь ее на стол. 3. Лек­ция очень интересная. Не пропусти ее. 4. Позвони Лене. Она сейчас дома. 5. На столе грязная посуда. Вымой ее. 6. Не бери мой словарь. Возьми словарь Ани. 7. Покажи нам свой но­вый велосипед.— Вот он.

UNIT 7

TOPIC. THE TIME. DAYS AND WEEKS.

THE MONTHS. DATES. GRAMMAR: BE (PRESENT). NUMERALS.

The Time

This is a clock There are two hands on the face of the clock. One hand is long and the other hand is short. The long hand is the minute hand. The short hand is the hour hand.

What time is it' It is twenty minutes to three. Look at the clock faces. What time is it?

1. It is three o'clock. (3.00)

2. It is six o'clock. (6.00)

3. It is nine o'clock (9.00)

4. It is ten minutes to seven. (6.50)

5. It is five minutes to six. (5.55)

6. It is twenty-five minutes to one. (12.35)

7. It is twenty minutes past nine. (9.20)

8. It is twenty-five minutes past twelve. (12.25)

9. It is ten minutes past ten. (10.10)

From one o'clock to two o'clock is one hour.

From one o'clock to six o'clock is five hours.

There are twenty-four hours in a day. How many minutes are

there in an hour? There are sixty.

Thirty is a half of sixty. (30='/₂60)

Fifteen is a quarter of sixty. (15='/4 60)

Look at the clock faces again.

10. It is half-past seven. (7.30)

11. It is half-past twelve. (12.30) 12 It is half-past nine. (9.30)

13. It is (a) quarter-past twelve. (12.15)

14. It is (a) quarter-past six. (6.15)

15. It is (a) quarter past eleven. (11.15)

16. It is (a) quarter to one. (12.45)

17. It is (a) quarter to five. (4.45)

18. It is (a) quarter to two. (1.45)

Days and Weeks

There are seven days in a week. The first day of the week is Sunday. The last day of the week is Saturday. The other days of the week between Sunday and Saturday, are Monday, Tuesday, Wed­nesday, Thursday and Friday.

Monday is the second day, Tuesday is the third day, Wednesday is the fourth day, Thursday is the fifth day, and Friday is the sixth day. Saturday is the seventh day, the last day.

There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year.

The Months

There are twelve months in a year. The names of the months are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, Sep­tember, October, November and December. January is the first month and December is the twelfth or last month.

What is May? May is the fifth month. What is August? August is the eighth month. What is November? November is the eleventh month

In Great Britain March, April and May are the spring months; June, July and August are the summer months; September, Octo­ber and November are the autumn months; December, January and February are the winter months.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter are the four seasons

Questions: How many months are there in a year? What are the names of the months? What is the first month? December is the last month, isn't it? Is May the fifth or the eleventh month? What are

th spring (summer, autumn, winter) months? What are the four seasons?

Dates

Look at this picture. What is the date? Today is Wednesday, the seventeenth of January. What was yesterday? Yesterday was Tuesday, the sixteenth of January. And tomorrow? Tomorrow is Thursday, the eighteenth of January.

I st. January 1915 ... the first of January (January^the first), nineteen (hundred and) fifteen.

22nd October 1911 ... the twenty-second of October (October the twenty-second), nineteen (hundred and) eleven.

Jan.-January; Feb.-February; Mar.-March; Apr.-April; Aug.-August; Sept.-September; Oct.-October; Nov.-November; Dec.-December.

Practice

/. Read the following dates:

15 August 1432; 18 December 1683; 5 October 1156; 27 March 1745; 14 April 1832; 23 November 1935; 22 June 1937; 26 May 1567; 3 August 1432; 8 January 1965; 23 February 1918; 16 Septem­ber 1667

//. Say what time it is:

9.35; 11.30; 12.44; 2.15; 4.20; 8.50; 6.10; 5.30; 3.25; 7.15; 9.55; 5.45; 4.30; 2.45; 3.17; 1.40; 7.12; 1040; 12.50; 11.27; 8.25; 2.15

///. Read the numerals;

40; 60; 100; 90, 31; 57; 171; 365; 1583; 5 505; 75000; 13 407; 433; 45 672; 324 456; 95 655; 478 932; 1 342 458; 5 879 453; 432 258; 575; 48 260; 768 354; 7 245 672; 278; 439; 2 439; 66 769

IV. Name the days of the week.

V. Name the months of the year.

VI. Read the dialogues and make up similar dialogues.

I. — What day is it today?

— Today is Monday.

' — What day was it yesterday?

— Yesterday was Sunday.

— What day is it tomorrow?

— Tomorrow is Tuesday.

— What date is it today?

— Today is the eighth of October.

— What date was it yesterday?

— Yesterday was the seventh of October.

— What date is it tomorrow?

— Tomorrow is the ninth of October. 2. — What time is it by your watch?

— It is twenty minutes to eleven.

— By my watch it is half past ten.

— The right time is twenty-five minutes to eleven. So my watch is five minutes fast and your watch is five minutes slow

Self check

/. Translate into English:

1. Который час?— 10.45. (11.30; 12.15; 8.20; 5.40; 12.30; 4.10; 8.55; 9.05; 7.45). 2. Сколько времени по твоим часам?— 10.50. Мои часы отстают на десять минут,— А мои часы спешат на пять минут. 3. Какое сегодня число? — Сегодня вторник, 25 января. (Сегодня пятница, 9 июня. Сегодня среда, 12 июля. Сегодня суббота, 23 мая).

UNIT 8 GRAMMAR: PRESENT CONTINUOUS