Солнцева Практический курс английского языка Ч.2 2011

the cheeses used the race are wooden replicas). All the competitors are served with beer or port wine, the traditional accompaniment for Stilton cheese.

Fiery Foods Festival - The Hottest Festival on Earth

Every year more than 10,000 people head for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They come from as far away as Australia, the Caribbean and China, but they all share a common addiction – food that is not just spicy, but hot enough to make your mouth burn, your head spin and your eyes water. Their destination is

the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival (official slogan ‗Proud Sponsor of Global Warming‘) which is held over a period of three days every March, and is a chance to sample the world's hottest sauces, mustards and dips, and also to watch cookery demonstrations dedicated to all things hot and spicy. You might like to try a chocolate-covered habanero chili pepper – officially the hottest chili pepper in the world – or wasabi and apple sauce, or any one of the thousands of products that are on display. But one thing's for sure - if you don't like the sensation of a burning tongue, this festival isn't for you!

La Tomatina – The World's Biggest Food Fight

On the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts La Tomatina – the world's largest food fight. A week-long celebration leads up to a monstrous tomato battle as the climax of the week's events. Early in the morning sees the arrival of large trucks with their precious cargo of squishy tomatoes - official fight-starters get things going by pelting the crowd – who can be sure to retaliate.

The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50,000 kilograms of tomatoes have been hurled at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back. Then everyone heads down to the river to make friends again - and for a much-needed wash!

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.

Listening: Dinner Party with a Celebrity

Before you listen make sure you know this vocabulary:

1) to fascinate, a throne, 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.

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Talking: Social Comment

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 get on well with sb, apart from, to move out (to move in), to postpone, to graduate from.

Find English equivalents to these words and phrases in the text: 1) для компании/ за компанию, баловать кого-либо, угощать, не понимать, быть на мели, вносить вклад / вносить свою долю за что-либо, 2) выплачивать долг, брать плату за проживание, 3) в возрасте почти тридцати лет, плюсы

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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________.

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________.

5.In pairs: answer the questions:

•What's your opinion of Vicki and Martin?

•Do you sympathize more with Bill's views or Sandra's? Why?

•Is it possible to grow up while still living at home?

6.Fill in the gaps with words and

phrases from ex. 3 and 4:

1.Is it really egoism when parents want their child … and have some privacy?

2.If you are not well, let‘s … our Christmas shopping. We can do it next week.

3.It was … Christmas vacations when he

realized he hadn‘t congratulated one of his old friends.

4.You can order tea or coffee in our beauty salon, and you won‘t be …ed a cent.

5.Don‘t you think it‘s about time you …?

You said you would stay until you find somewhere to rent 2 months ago.

6.(In a café) – Oh my God, I‘ve left my

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wallet at home! Now I can‘t … to our dinner bill. – Don‘t worry, I‘m … you

(this dinner is on me).

7.Why can‘t you go alone to your acting exam? – I just want to have you with me … .

8.Do you know that man, who … 1000$ to our charity scheme?

9.I can‘t possibly see any … of being in charge of the department.

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2. In pairs discuss the answers to these questions:

1.What and who influenced her/his choice of career?

2.What did her/his parents want her/him to do?

3.What was the parents' attitude to the choice of career at first?

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4.Has the parents' attitude changed? If so, why?

5.In what ways do the parents think that times have changed since they were young?

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3. Study these examples and make up 5 sentences with the construction “ to find + it + adjective+ to do sth” – 1 positive sentence, 1 negative sentence, 1

question, 1 negative question, 1 special question:

I find it stupid to learn maths by heart, one has to understand it. – Мне кажется глупым заучивать математику наизусть, ее нужно понимать.

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His parents didn‘t find it necessary to give their son pocketmoney. – Его родители не считали нужным давать сыну деньги на карманные расходы.

4. In pairs: do you agree with the following quotation from Stephen Fry‟s

fiction book “The Liar”:

“But when boys say that they would rather be drummers than barristers,

gardeners than businessman, poets than soldiers, that they don‘t think much of examinations and authority and marriage, that when they are of age they intend to remake the world to fit them, not to remake themselves to fit the world, then

there is Trouble.‖

Listening: Retirement

Before you listen make sure you know this vocabulary:

to be used to sth, incredible, to get bored, to get out, to take up sth/ doing sth, a good excuse for a walk, to appreciate company, a package holiday, a widow, to

wish one‘s life away.

Answer these questions in pairs:

-What is the usual retirement age for men and women in your country?

-What kind of thing do people like doing when they retire?

-Are attitudes to retirement changing?

-What do you think is the best age to retire?

-When would you like to retire?

-What would you like to do when you retire?

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Listening: Karate – Self-Defence and Fitness

Before you listen make sure you know this vocabulary: 1) down in Bath, to achieve sth, to sum sth up, an impact, to measure sth, to distinguish a level, tremendous joy, to take sth a step further, floppy, sth snaps, to be down in a

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