Кудинова Практическиы курс англиыского языка для студентов международник Ч.3 2014

Listening and Speaking: Dinner Party with a Celebrity

1. Look at the picture. How many of the people do you recognise? What is unusual about the picture? Can you guess why the people are together?

2. Listen to six people making suggestions about guests. Make notes about who each person would invite and why. Which of their suggestions do you like best? Why?

Before you listen make sure you know this vocabulary:

1) to fascinate, a throne, a tough cookie, to put up with sb, 3) to argue with sb about sth, 4) a curious human being, to affect sb/sth, 5) former, to be imprisoned, to stand up for sth = to defend sth, apartheid, courage, to endure

sth, privation, sincere.

3.Work individually. Make a list of possible guests for the dinner party. Make notes about who they are / were and why you would like to invite them.

4.Work in groups of four. Compare your lists and then choose the best ten guests from the different lists. You should try to include a fair balance of areas of interest, historical periods, men and women, and nationalities.

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5.When you have agreed on the final list, draw up a seating plan. Decide whether you will put people together who have something in common, or who might disagree, for a more lively evening.

6.Change groups and explain your guest list and seating plan to another group. Which group devised the most interesting guest list?

Vocabulary: Extreme Adjectives

Add two or three more synonymic adjectives from columns 3 and 4 to the second column. Some adjectives in columns 3 and 4 won’t match anything.

Reading and Speaking: Meet the Kippers

1.When do young people usually leave home in this country? Why do they leave?

2.Read the introduction to the article and answer these questions: Who are Kippers? What do these letters stand for? What does ‘eroding retirement savings’ mean? What does ‘fly the nest’ mean?

3.Read the text, find these words, translate them into Russian and say in which situation they were used: to move out (to move in), to get on well with

sb, apart from, to postpone, to graduate from.

Find English equivalents to these words and phrases in the text: 1)

выплачивать долг, брать плату за проживание, 2) для компании / за компанию, баловать кого-либо, угощать, не понимать, быть на мели, вносить вклад / вносить свою долю за что-либо, 3) в возрасте почти тридцати лет, плюсы пенсионного возраста, 4) проблема, не иметь смысла, сломать голову / не находить ответа на какой-либо вопрос.

4.Complete the sentences with words to do with money from the text.

Who does each sentence refer to?

1)She isn't able to r________ a flat.

2)He couldn't a________ to pay o_____ his d________.

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3)Her friends are always s________ for c________ because they have to pay h________ rents.

4)She c________ to the phone b________.

5)She doesn't c________ him r________ because he wouldn't pay it.

6)He a________ debts of 4,000 pounds.

7)He sponges o_____ his mother.

8)He can s________ all his s________ on enjoying himself.

9)He believes that m_______ isn't e________.

Meet the KIPPERS

Who are they?

They’re the children who just WON’T leave home.

Kippers is an acronym for ‘Kids In Parents’ Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings’. Or, to put it another way, it refers to all those grown up children who stay at home into their 20s and 30s, unwilling or unable to fly the nest.

THE CHILDREN

MARTIN GIBBS, 28, lives with his parents Kathy, 52, and Robert, 54.

I have to admit that I’m spoiled at home, so it’s hard to imagine moving out. My mum always has my tea on the table when I return from work. We all get on really well together – although my parents can get on my nerves when they tell me what to do. I'm sure I get on their nerves as well sometimes.

At 23, I moved out for two years. I lived with a friend for a short time, then went travelling in Australia. It was a brilliant experience but I got into debt, about £2.000, and I had to come back and live at home again so that I could afford to pay it off. My

parents don’t charge me rent, so I can spend all of my salary on enjoying myself. Sometimes girls

call me a ‘mummy’s boy’, but I think they like it. It’s a lovely, cosy place to bring girls back to because

there is always an open fire and something cooking in the oven.

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VICKI SARGENT, 30, lives with her father, Norbert, 65.

If I wasn’t living at home, I wouldn’t be able to afford to live in such a beautiful house. I would only be able to rent a room in a flat. This

way I have my father for company and money for a social life. It's just too comfortable to move out.

My dad and I get on so well. We usually have dinner together and if I’m not out. I’ll spend the evening with him watching TV He spoils me a lot and treats me at least once a week to a meal at a nearby restaurant.

My friends don’t get it. They say I’m living in a bubble

away from the real world, and I suppose they’re right, but they also admit they’re jealous – they are always so

strapped for cash because of their high rents. I don’t pay my father any rent but I buy the food and contribute to the phone bill.

Apart from three months when I went travelling in my early 20s, I have never lived away from home.

THE PARENTS

BILL KENNEDY tells why his children, Anna, Simon, and Andrew can stay as long as they like!

No one told me, but it seems I was the father of Kippers for years, without knowing it. My three children all lived at home well into their late 20s. I

know there’ll be some parents at their wits’ ends with

their ‘lazy kids sponging off them’. Actually, we don’t want an empty nest.

What puzzles me is why parents should ever want their children to leave home at 18. My wife, Judy, and I made it very easy for them to stay with us. It allowed them to postpone growing up. And it helped us postpone getting old. Honestly, I would happily forfeit any number of retirement perks – golfing, snorkelling holidays in Portugal, Paris, Peru or wherever, for just a few more years with our children at home. And

why? Because money isn’t everything. Family is.

SANDRA LANE, 49, says it’s domestic hell with her son, Alan, 27.

The fridge is the main issue, he’s always helping himself to some titbit that I’ve been saving for dinner and he puts empty milk cartons back. The phone is another cause for complaint – he's always getting in touch with his mates, but when I get angry he just says I should get a mobile phone. And he borrows the

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Speaking: Social Comment

1. Look at these cartoons, four of

which have their captions missing.

Which of them do you think is about:

-the relationship between wife and husband?

-the relationship between father and son?

-the problems of bringing up children?

-envy between neighbours? -unwelcome visitors? -loneliness?

Which four cartoons do you think need captions?

Choose one of them, and make up a caption for it.

2. These cartoons were all originally published in Britain. Imagine you were making a collection of cartoons entitled Social Comment, for publication in your own country. Which of these cartoons would you include?

Which wouldn’t you include?

Why?

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Reading: The modern servant

Nowadays young people can choose their career more freely than before, in the century of psychology what matters is job satisfaction, but not following in your parents’ footsteps or keeping the family prestige by going into a respectable profession.

1. You are going to read about three people who chose the so called nonprestigious professions and are happy in them. Split into pairs, choose any two different texts, read them individually and summarize the main points to each other. Before you read match the vocabulary units together:

Amanda Peniston-Bird, 21, is the daughter of a judge and has just completed a two-year training course to be a nanny at the Norland Nursery Training College. She and her mother talk about her choice of career.

Amanda

My father wanted me to be a solicitor.

My sister Charlotte was born when I was seven and my mother decided she needed a nanny to look after us. So we got Alison. She was very young, seventeen I think, and wonderful. I adored her. She only worked part-time with us before she started her training at Norland College. She had to dress us in the morning and take me to school. After school she made us delicious teas and read us stories in bed. On Charlotte’s birthday she organized a fantastic party.

When Alison left, we had a trained nanny who lived with us and worked fulltime. She was called Nanny Barnes by everyone, including my parents. She was older and quite traditional and wore a uniform. It was then that I realized that I wanted to be a nanny. I have always got on well with children. I have always enjoyed taking care of my sister and younger cousins. I told Mummy very firmly that I wanted to be a nanny when I grew up. At the time she laughed. I know that she and Daddy thought it was just a childish phase I was going through, but it

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wasn’t. They thought I would follow in my father’s footsteps and study law. But I didn’t. There were some terrible rows

but I didn’t go to university I left school and spent a year working at Ludgrove School, where Prince William used to go. Then I started my training course at Norland College. I finished the course

last month and I’ve applied for the post of nanny to twins aged six months.

Mummy and Daddy weren’t angry for long, we made it up before I went to college, and they have encouraged me ever since.

Amanda’s mother

Her father is still a wee bit disappointed that she didn’t take after him and study

law, but I think we’re both proud, and also pleased, that she has made her own decisions in life and done so well. We have brought her up to be an independent

thinker, so we can’t complain. Everything has turned out for the best. I had a nanny when I was a child but I never thought of being one myself, but times have changed and ‘nannying’ has been socially acceptable for a long time. It

wasn’t just Princess Diana who made it fashionable!

Giles Mildmay, 24, has been a professional cook for three years. His father, George, owns a two-hundred-acre farm in Devon. The family have farmed in Devon for over three hundred years. Giles’ younger brother Tobias is studying farm management at Exeter University. Giles and his father talk about his choice of career.

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Giles

My grandfather thinks I’m mad.

I think I’ve always been interested in food. My grandparents (on my mother’s side) lived in a huge old manor house in Lincolnshire and they had a wonderful cook. She made fantastic standard English food; her roast beef and Yorkshire pudding was out of this world. I used to love

going down to the kitchen and watching her work, and I picked up a lot of cooking tips from her. I realized that I wanted to be a cook when I was about 12. I went to a boarding school and when other boys chose to do sport, I chose cookery. By the time I was 15, I had taken over the cooking at

home for my parents’ dinner parties, and I had started to make up my own recipes. I knew my parents would not approve of cooking as a career, so I decided to introduce them slowly to the idea. I told them that I wanted to do a cookery course for fun, and I went for a month to a hotel in Torquay. I enjoyed it so much, I knew I

couldn’t put off telling my parents any longer, so I brought the subject up one night

over dinner. At first there was silence, and then my father asked me why. I explained that cooking was like painting a picture or writing a book. Every meal was an act of creation. I could see that my father was not convinced, but he

didn’t get angry, he just patted me on the shoulder and smiled. My mother kissed me. And now that I have opened my own restaurant, I think they are very

proud of me. However, my grandfather (on my father’s side) is not so kind, he thinks I’m mad to have given up farming.

Giles' father

I know that times have changed, but I was brought up with a butler and a cook to look after me, and I never went near the kitchen. I so was taken aback at first

when Giles announced what he wanted to do. His grandfather still hasn’t got over it, but his mother and I are delighted that he is doing something he enjoys. Nowadays anyone with a job that they enjoy is very lucky.

THE GARDENER

Hugo Grantchester, 26, has been a gardener and a tree surgeon for four years. He went to Oxford University to study archaeology, but he dropped out after just one term. His father, Hector, is a surveyor and his mother,

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Geraldine, is an interior designer. Hugo and his mother talk about his

переносн. смысл)

Hugo

My parents were furious.

When I was 11, we moved to a large Tudor house in East Anglia which had three acres of garden. We had a gardener who lived in a little cottage at the end of our drive. I used to spend hours watching him work and talking to him. I think I picked up a lot about gardening without realizing it. because one summer, when I was still at school. I took a job at a garden centre and I knew all the names of the plants, and I could give people advice. Then I went to university and it was a disaster. After a term I told my parents that I was going to give it up and go back to work in the garden centre. They were furious, we had a terrible row, and they didn’t speak to me for months. But I knew it was a waste of

time to carry on studying archaeology, and the moment I started gardening again, I knew I’d made the right decision. I’ve enjoyed every moment of the last four years and my parents have learnt to accept what I do, not only because they can see how happy I am, but also because a lot of my university friends have

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