Солнцева Практический курс английского языка Ч.1 2011

Reading and Speaking: Do You Want To Communicate Confidently?

2 b Read the text again and find the equivalents to these words and phrases:

не мочь ни словечка вставить; быть нацеленым на что-либо; оставаться (каким-то, где-то – stay); поддерживать=соблюдать; сохранять; вовлечь =

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заинтересовать кого-либо (тем, что вы говорите); осанка; уверенный; участвовать; учитывать=рассматривать; учиться на магистра

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5с. Find these words and phrases in the text and use the contexts to help

5d. Which of the words in 5c are synonymous to these:

to be well aware of sth, suitable, without a stop, an attempt, to work hard to do sth

5e. Translate each of these combinations with the word „to fulfil‟ into

Russian:

to fulfil + sb‘s expectations / a promise / the terms of a contract / one‘s

dreams / sb‘s trust / one‘s potential / conditions / sb‘s needs / a duty / ambitions / a command

5f. What other words can be put into the phrase „a fellow-citizen‟ in place of the word „citizen‟?

5g. Translate into English:

1) Ваш сын оправдал ваши надежды? 2) Какие слова могли бы быть подходящими в этой ситуации? 3) Улыбка модели должна освещать все вокруг, а не быть всего лишь рекламой ее стоматолога. 4) Эти люди привыкли к притеснению и не приветствуют перемен. 5) Вы прекрасно знаете, братство пытается прекратить этот конфликт, они работают над этим без отдыха. 6) Думаю, в следующем году мне удастся воплотить мою мечту. 7) Как вы думаете, нас ждут приятные известия? 8) Не уклоняйтесь от ответственности за этот инцидент.

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Reading and Speaking: Parents and Kids

2. Find words that mean:

text A: good for your health and having a pleasant taste (3 words), You don‘t care at all, do you? (7 words), very surprised or shocked (2 words).

Text B: to enter suddenly and with a lot of energy (phrasal verb), to be useless,

the 50th wedding anniversary, to come so that sb didn‘t feel lonely (3 words), to earn a lot of money.

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3. Find equivalent to these and say in what situations they were used: Text A: при свете свечей, ни с

того ни с сего, подчиненный.

Text B: продержаться (phrasal verb), взвешивать, стиснуть зубы.

4. How would you traslate the phrase “What on earth are you doing, silly?” What is the role of “on earth” part? Look it up in a dictionary if you have no idea then compose 5 sentences starting with

“where/ who/ when / how/ (with/ for/about) whom on earth…”

5. What annoys each parent and child in these situations?

Speaking: Telephone Quiz

1. Work with a partner. Test yourself with this quiz.

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Reading: Do Parents and Teenagers really talk?

1. Read and translate the text, find these words and phrases, say where they

2. In ex. 1 find synonyms to these:

in some way, a worry, bad-tempered, moreover, to take sth, to be usual, to have good relations with sb, to want to do sth, to make sb do sth

3. In which paragraph does the author talk about…

1) teenagers not listening to parents?

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2)examples of things parents shouldn‘t say?

3)what listening parents should do?

4)a different language that teenagers speak?

5)whether parents talk with or at their children?

4. Say whether these statements are true or false:

1)Parents who talk at teenagers fail to communicate effectively.

2)Parents often don‘t understand what teenagers are saying.

3)Parents wish teenagers would listen more and speak less.

4)Parents should listen with emotion.

5)There is nothing wrong with what parents say to teenagers.

6)Most teens who get along well with their parents want them to listen more

and talk less.

7)Parents feel that their teenage kids criticise them too much.

8)Parents who talk at teens use only commands.

9)Parents who talk with teens try to accept their points of view.

10)Teenspeak is another reason why communication between teens and parents breaks down.

5. Translate into English:

1)Для нее забыть про встречу – обычное дело.

2)Более того, количество жалоб снизилось.

3)Но мы действительно хотели вам помочь!

4)Не разговаривай со мной так пренебрежительно.

5)Эти ботинки мне жмут (слишком тесные).

6)Они приняли наше приглашение.

7)Это действительно большая проблема для общества.

8)Как вы ладите с новыми соседями?

9)В последнее время ты не в духе, что случилось?

Grammar Revision: Tenses

Open the brackets using an appropriate tense:

I. Jim (walk) along the High Street when he (notice) someone behind him. Actually, he (follow) him since he (get off) the bus. Jim (stop) at a shop window. The man (come) closer to him. Jim (have) the feeling he (see) him before, so he (go) up to him and (ask) : " (not/I/know) you? Why (you/follow) me?" The man (smile) and (say). "Smile! You (be) on Candid Camera!"

II. Julie (always/want) to be famous, ever since she was young. She (take) acting classes for years and last week someone (offer) her a part in an advertisement. They only (need) her voice, though because it's going to be on the radio. At least her career (start).

III. Next month I (visit) my friend who (live) in Brazil. The flight from London (take) about fifteen hours and I (never/be) on a plane before. I (feel) quite nervous about the journey but my friend (keep) telling me that there (be) nothing to worry about.

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Reading: A Common Problem

1. Answer the questions before/after reading the text.

Have you ever experienced lack of understanding on the part of adults? Where do you come across it most often? At school? At home? Elsewhere?

Why do many teenagers seem to have problems with their parents and other adults?

2. Match the vocabulary units to their correct translation to help you read

A Common Problem

(This is part of a letter sent to a newspaper by a teenage-girl.)

It is not just a problem with you or me, him or her, but a vast majority of teenagers - the grown-ups simply fail to understand us. What I can't understand is why they fail to understand that we are not any different from any other normal human being.

One moment we are a bunch of wild kids -jumping, laughing, screaming and wailing, doing so many weird things that elders feel like locking us up in a big cage and fixing on the door a sign reading - BEWARE OF TEENAGERS as if we were specimens on display. The next moment we are serious children, so responsible and submissive that we are eyed suspiciously. So unpredictable is an adult's mind!

The grouse that they have is that we are irresponsible and too easy going and fun loving, we are not really worried about our studies, career or future. Who has the guts to point out that weren't they also like that during their teenage years? Did they never feel like expressing their emotions loudly and boldly? But then, the only thing they succeed in doing is finding loopholes and snags with our work, whatever it be. Any reason, according to them is dismissed as a lame excuse. On the one hand one hears that experience is the best teacher and one learns best from the mistakes one makes and on the other, gauging from the attitude of our elders one wonders if this holds good! Many of them raise a hell out of such a trivial matter, curse the poor youngster vehemently, lecture for a long time on the do's and don'ts and finally cool down. But instead of all the

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screaming and fuming, raving and ranting, isn't it best to handle the situation as calmly and sternly as possible (like an adult) and to gracefully accept us as young adults with minds of our own.

Another problem with us is that when elders scold us, they expect us to be meek, with our chins buried in our chests, while what is happening is usually " the reverse. It is a matter of a hurt pride and a belittled ego, so instead, the result is a nose high up in the air and eyes defying those of the adult's.

Perhaps the generation gap is at work. This is what causes a difference of opinion among the old and the young. If only the grown-ups weren't so harsh, if only they realized that they had done exactly the same things during their youth, if only they compromised with us, if only..., if only...Ah! The number of "if onlys" is maddening, but then again I wish - IF ONLYTHE GROWN-UPS UNDERSTOOD US.

5. Distribute the following words into two groups according to whether they are used in the text to describe the reactions and attitudes of adults or

teenagers. Make sentences to justify your choice.

Jump, responsible, submissive, laugh, easy going, scream, fun loving, wail, fume, meek, harsh, unpredictable, rave rant, scold, curse, irresponsible, worried.

6. Translate into English using the vocabulary from ex. 1:

1. Как-то не хочется мне смотреть этот фильм, он такой странный. 2. Кучке туристов удалось пройти в музей бесплатно.

3. Позволь указывать тебе на то, что твои отговорки неправдоподобны. 4. Что ты так на меня странно смотришь?

7. Make all possible word combinations with the words that follow:

Grammar: Verb + ing/ infinitive

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