- •Introducing people
- •Phonetic Training
- •Training rhymes.
- •Grammar Revision The verbs “to be” and “to have”
- •Training exercises
- •Training exercises
- •English Noun
- •Training exercises
- •Introducing people
- •Training exercises
- •3. Listen to the songs, learn them by heart and sing.
- •Grammar Revision The structure of the English Sentence
- •Training exercises:
- •The plural of Nouns
- •Appearances and Traits of Character.
- •Vocabulary 1
- •Training exercises:
- •Vocabulary 2
- •Training exercises:
- •People’s appearance
- •Vocabulary 3
- •Training exercises:
- •The Brothers
- •Meet the Stewarts
- •Unit 3 Family Life and Relations
- •Phonetic Training
- •Grammar Revision The System of the English Verb
- •The System of the English Verb Forms
- •Training exercises:
- •Present Simple (Indefinite) and Present Continuous (Progressive)
- •Training exercises
- •Family Life and Relations
- •Vocabulary1:
- •Training exercises:
- •Words and expressions to be used in the translation:
- •Read the text and do the exercises after it: What Do Parents Owe Their Children?
- •Tasks to the Text
- •Read the text and fulfill the tasks after it: Work or Family: There’s a Problem
- •Tasks to the Text
- •Role Play: Family Problems
- •Grammar Revision Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
- •Training exercises:
- •III. Occupations
- •Vocabulary 1.
- •Training exercises
- •Choosing an Occupation
- •Tasks to the Text
- •Vocabulary 2. Job Titles.
- •Training exercises.
- •Accountant
- •Acrobat
- •Administrative secretary
- •Airplane-flight attendant
- •Animal trainer
- •Appliance repairer
- •Auctioneer
- •Topics for discussion
- •My Bonny
- •Intonation of different types of questions in the English language.
- •II. Grammar Revision
- •Training exercises:
- •III. Home or House?
- •Vocabulary 1:
- •Training exercise:
- •Vocabulary 2:
- •Training exercises:
- •Vocabulary 3. The interior of the house:
- •Training exercises:
- •Vocabulary 4.
- •Training exercises:
- •Vocabulary 5.
- •Training exercises:
- •Buying a House
- •Tasks to the Text
- •Tasks for discussion
- •B. Living Standards (discussion)
- •1. Let’s have a talk about the living standards. The following questions will help you. While discussing the problem make use of the words and expressions given below.
- •C. Hospitality
- •1. The Russian people are considered to be very hospitable. What hospitability is? Are you a hospitable host?
- •Topics for discussion
- •Training exercises
- •Health and Wellness
- •Vocabulary 1.
- •Training exercises
- •A. Read the text and do the given tasks. Get acquainted with Henry!
- •Keeping fit
- •B. Read and translate the text. Be ready for a discussion. Health & wellness
- •Points for discussion.
- •3. Memorize the tongue-twister.
- •Grammar Revision Present Perfect and Past Simple
- •Training exercises:
- •Then and now
- •Education
- •Vocabulary 1:
- •Read and translate the text. There are 6 parts in it. While reading it match the heading to each part of it.
- •Tasks to the text:
- •Read the text and do exercises after it. Education in the usa
- •Tasks to the text:
- •Speak on Russian Education using the vocabulary and texts a and b. Here is a passage to help you. Add more details.
- •Read the text.
- •Imperial College. London
- •Read the text "Our Institute" and prepare to discuss it. Our institute
- •Vocabulary 2:
- •Training exercises
- •Topics for discussion:
- •II. Grammar Revision Future Tenses
- •Training exercises:
- •Degrees of comparison (adverbs and adjectives)
- •III. Why Do People Travel?
- •Vocabulary 1:
- •Training exercises:
- •Vocabulary 2: the best way of travelling
- •Training exercises:
- •A. Read the text and do the tasks after it. Different means of travel.
- •Tasks to the text:
- •Vocabulary 3:
- •Training exercises:
- •B. Read the text and expand on its contents. People and Diplomacy
- •Traveling Alone
- •Traveling With Someone
- •How to Meet People
- •Tourists, Travelers, and Local Culture
- •II. Grammar Revision a. Passive Voice.
- •Training Exercises
- •Training exercises.
- •Training exercise.
- •C. Употребление артиклей с географическими названиями.
- •Training Exercises
- •Ex 5. Replace the part of the model in bold type by the following:
- •Ex 6. Read Grammar Revision c and fill in the definite or indefinite article if necessary:
- •Ex 7. Fill in prepositions if necessary:
- •Ex 8. Put the adjectives in brackets in the required degree of comparison:
- •Ex 9. Answer the following questions:
- •A. Read the text and do the tasks after it.
- •Task 1. Read the statements and decide whether they are true or false.
- •Task 2. Prepare a talk on some other traits of the English character. B. Read the text and do the tasks after it.
- •Task 1. Read each statement and decide whether it is true or false.
- •Task 2. Match the information in column a with the corresponding information in column b.
- •Task 3. Say more about Americans. Share your experience of communicating with them if you have some..
- •II. Grammar Revision. A Reported Speech (Affirmative sentences and Statements)
- •1) Утвердительные предложения.
- •Training exercises:
- •2) Imperative Sentences (повелительные предложения)
- •Training exercise:
- •3) Вопросы в косвенной речи
- •Training exercises:
- •Training exercises:
- •Revision Exercises
- •III. Business Trip. Staying at a Hotel.
- •Vocabulary 1. At the Airport
- •Airport Formalities
- •Tasks to the Text:
- •At the airport
- •Tasks to the text:
- •Vocabulary 2. At the Customs
- •Immigration and customs
- •Tasks to the text:
- •Make up your own dialogues. Before you do it study the following ways of expressing modality.
- •1. Various ways of making a request & possible replies ranging from informal to very polite:
- •3. Ways of expressing gratitude & suitable replies.
- •4. Phrases used to asked for information, ranging from less formal to more formal:
- •Vocabulary 3. Staying at a hotel.
- •Training exercises.
- •At a Hotel The Grand Hotel "Europe"
- •Tasks to the text:
- •Topics for discussions
- •Appendix
- •I. Countries & Nationalities
- •II. “Traditions and Habits of American People”
- •Introductions (Episodes 1-3) characters:
- •Formulae of introduction
- •Family life (Episodes 1-3)
- •Proper names:
- •The blind date. (Episode 2)
- •Vocabulary:
- •Grandpa’s trunks. (Episode 3)
- •Vocabulary:
- •Vocabulary:
- •Proper names:
- •Home. (Episodes 11, 7)
- •Vocabulary:
- •Episode 11 proper names:
- •Episode 7 (man’s best friend)
- •Vocabulary:
- •Proper names:
- •Education (Episode 9 “it”s up to you”)
- •Vocabulary:
- •Going abroad. Accomodation. ( Episode 15)
- •Vocabulary:
- •Proper names:
- •Elections. (Episode 18)
- •Vocabulary:
- •American traditions. (Episode 19 “I do”)
- •Vocabulary:
- •Family life. (Episode 20 “quality time”)
- •Vocabulary:
- •Episode 20 proper names:
- •Vocabulary to episode 21 “a big fish in a little pond”
- •Proper names:
- •Vocabulary to episode 22 “career choices”
- •Proper names:
- •Literature
- •Contents
Training Exercises
Ex 1. Change active forms to passive in the following sentences. Do not change the tense forms.
The milkman brings the milk to my door, but the postman leaves the letter in the hall.
In future, perhaps, they won’t bring letters to the houses, and we shall have to collect them from the Post Office.
People steal things from supermarkets every day.
Normally men sweep this street every day, but nobody swept it last week.
Someone turned on the light in the hall and opened the door.
Women clean this office in the evening, when the staff have left, they clean the upstairs offices between seven and eight in the morning.
We never saw him in the dining-room.
They are repairing my piano at the moment.
Has anyone posted my parcel?
We have sold all our copies but we have ordered more.
They will do this work in time, they promised to.
They will have done this work by the 1st of September, they promised.
I couldn’t give him a lift. They were repairing my car at the moment.
This tour is very expensive. You will spend a lot of money.
Ex 2. Put the verbs into the correct form, Present Simple or Past Simple, Active or Passive.
It’s a big factory. Five hundred people …are employed … (employ) there.
Water …… (cover) most of the Earth’s surface.
Most of the Earth’s surface …… (cover) by water.
The park gates …… (lock) at 6:30 p.m. every evening.
The letter …… (post) a week ago and it …… (arrive) yesterday.
The boat …… (sink) quickly but fortunately everybody …… (rescue).
Ron’s parents …… (die) when he was very young. He and his sister …… (bring) up by their grandparents.
I was born in London but I …… (grow) up in the north of England.
While I was on holiday, my camera …… (steal) from my hotel room.
While I was on holiday, my camera …… (disappear) from my hotel room.
Why …… (Sue/resign) from her job? Didn’t she enjoy it?
Why …… (Bill/sack) from his job? What did he do wrong?
The company is not independent. It …… (own) by a much larger company.
I saw an accident last night. Somebody …… (call) an ambulance but nobody …… (injure) so the ambulance …… (not/need).
Where …… (these photographs/take)? In London? …… (you/take) them?
Ex 3. Make sentences from the words in brackets. Sometimes the verb is active, sometimes passive.
There’s somebody behind us. (I think/we/follow) … I think we’re being followed.
This room looks different. (you/paint)? … Have you painted it?
My car has disappeared. (it/steal)! It …… .
My umbrella has disappeared. (somebody/take) Somebody …… .
Tom gets a higher salary now. (he/promote) …… .
Ann can’t use her office at the moment. (it/redecorate) …… .
The photocopier broke down yesterday, but now it’s OK. (it/work/again; it/repair) ……. .
The police have found the people they were looking for. (two people/arrest/last night) …… .
A tree was lying across the road. (it/blow down/in the storm) …… .
The man next door disappeared six months ago. (nobody/see/since then) …… .
I was mugged on my way home a few nights ago. (you/ever/mug) …… ?
Ex 4. Open the brackets using the verbs in the Future Simple and the Future Perfect of the Passive. Add suitable adverbial phrases or clauses.
Model:
The article (to be read) aloud.
The article will be read aloud at the next lesson.
The article will have been read aloud before it is discussed.
The luggage (to be packed).
The torn trousers (to be patched).
The vegetables (to be prepared).
The fish (to be stuffed).
The fruit (to be stewed).
The dough (to be kneaded).
Ex 5. Put the verbs in the correct form.
I’ve collected all the documents that …… (need) for the house sale. Can you take them to the lawyer’s office to ……(sign)?
Look here, this is a secret. Come into the garden where we ……(not / overhear).
If you hadn’t been so late for work, you ……(sack).
This office is very inefficient. The telephone ……(never / answer) promptly, no proper records ……(keep), and, worst of all, no reports ……(written) for weeks.
I was so worried about my garden while I was in hospital, but I have very good neighbours. When I got home I could see that the vegetables ……(water) every day and grass ……(cut) regularly.
Can you come to the police station? The man who ……(suspect) of stealing your wallet …… (arrest), and …… (question) at the moment. The police hope he ……(identify), either by you or another witness.
We had hoped to see several famous paintings, but the gallery ……(re-organized) at the time of our visit and most of the really valuable works ……(move) for safe keeping.
Ex 6. Put the verbs into a suitable tense in the Passive.
Mary has just arrived home from work. Neil is already there.
MARY: Hi! I’m back. Sorry I’m late.
NEIL: Hello. What kept you?
MARY: I had to use the ring road and I (1) ……… (stick) in a traffic jam for forty minutes.
NEIL: Why didn’t you use the usual route?
MARY: Because the road (2) …… (close) until work on the access road to the new hospital (3) …… (complete).
NEIL: When is it due to (4) ……………………… (finish)?
MARY: Well, the access road (5) …… (open) by the Mayor next week, according to the newspaper, and the Health Minister (6) …… (invite) to open the hospital on the same day, but they don’t know yet whether she’s definitely coming.
NEIL: A lot of money (7) ……………… (waste) if she doesn’t come.
MARY: Why’s that?
NEIL: Haven’t you seen all those rose bushes that (8) ……… (plant) round the hospital?
MARY: So? They’ll be lovely for the patients.
NEIL: But the patients won’t be able to see them, because they’re round the entrance, and the wards look out in the other direction. A lot of people protested about it, but all their complaints (9) ……… (ignore) until it was too late.
MARY: If they had money to spare, it (10) …….. (spend) on facilities for patients, not on making the front look pretty for the Minister.
NEIL: Absolutely. It’s typical of this local council. They (11) ………….. (elect) to save money, but they do just the opposite.
MARY: Perhaps they (12) ………………… (throw) out at the next election.
NEIL: I hope so. Now, are you ready for supper?
Ex 7. Put all types of questions to the following statements.
Our students are offered a wide choice of work all over the country.
Listen! An article about American college graduates is being broadcast.
Since the Great October Socialist Revolution hundreds of thousands of college graduates have been given work (jobs) in their special fields.
Lectures on medical topics are always listened to with great attention.
Nowadays much attention is being paid to the problem of bringing science closer to life.
The use of the atom in medicine has been much spoken of lately.
Ex 8. You are interested in your groupmates’ interests, studies, their progress at the University, their life as a whole. Ask them 7-8 questions (The use of Passive is obligatory).
Note 4. Иногда в пассивном залоге употребляется вспомогательный глагол “to get” вместо глагола “to be” в разговорной речи. “To get” можно употребить в следующих случаях:
когда говорящий имеет в виду, что какое-то событие происходит незапланированно, вдруг, неожиданно.
E.g. Our dog got run over by a car.
My friend got lost in the forest. There was a fight at the party, but nobody got hurt.
(Нельзя употребить “to get” с глаголами, которые не выражают перехода из одного состояния в другое.)
Нельзя!!! Jill is liked by everyone.