- •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
C. Употребление артиклей с географическими названиями.
Артикль не употребляется с большинством географических названий: континентов, стран, штатов, городов, улиц, площадей, парков, станций метро, аэропортов, а также островов и озер.
Africa, America, Europe
Scotland, Russia
Texas, Alaska, Ohio
New York, London
Main Street, 42 Street
Times Square, Red Square
Central Park
Hawaii, Long Island
Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan
Мы употребляем the с названиями:
океанов, морей, рек, водопадов, каналов, проливов
the Atlantic Ocean
the Baltic sea
the Hudson river
the Niagara Falls
the English Channel
the Suez Canal
the Panama Canal
горных хребтов
the Appalachians
the Rocky Mountains (the Rockies)
the Andes, the Alps
NB: названия одиночных гор и вершин обычно употребляются без артикля.
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Everest
Kilimanjaro
Elbrus
Snowdown
Mount Cook
Ben Nevis
пустынь
the Sahara
the Gobi
the Kara-Kum
групп островов
the Bahamas
the West Indies
the British Isles
the Shetland Islands
the Canary Islands (the Canaries)
NB: мы не употребляем артикль с названиями одиночных островов.
Tenerife
La Gomera
North Island (New Zealand)
Corsica
Bermuda
НО: Tenerife Island – the island of Tenerife
La Gomera – the island of La Gomera
Corsica – the island of Corsica
вулканов
the Teide (Tenerife)
некоторыми названиями равнин, плато
the Atlantic Coastal Plain (America)
the Arctic Coastal Plain (Canada)
the Piedmont Plateau (the USA)
the Great Western Plateau (Australia)
некоторых районов
the Middle East
the Far East
the South of France
the North of England
the Crimea
стран, городов и деревень, если они употребляются с уточняющим определением или со словами republic, kingdom, state.
The United States of America
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Petersburg of the 18th century
The England of Middle Ages
The Dominican Republic
NB: the Netherlands, the Philippines, the Ukraine, the Congo.
уникальными названиями
the North Pole
the Equator
the Moon the South Pole
the Sun
the Earth.
III. Countries and Nationalities
A country is a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory or piece of land. For example, China, France, Iraq and Japan are all countries.
"Country" is a political term, not geographical. In theory, all countries are sovereign, meaning that they are independent and decide their own laws (though they may sometimes surrender or modify certain rights by treaty).
The noun for a country's language usually comes from the adjective for that country (study grammar references 1), for example:
He speaks Polish.
Is French difficult?
In English, all words (nouns and adjectives) relating to countries or nationalities begin with a capital letter, for example:
France (not france)
French (not french)
a Frenchman (not a frenchman).
Training Exercises
Ex 1. Imagine you are members of the National Geographic Society. You know everything about countries, capitals and languages (study APPENDIX “Countries & Nationalities”). Why not try these tests then?
What languages do they speak in the following countries?
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Ex 2. Can you find a COUNTRY (not City) for each letter of the alphabet?
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Ex 2. Can you find a CITY (not Country) for each letter of the alphabet?
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Ex 4. Read and translate the dialogue.
Alex meets a group of foreign students.
Alex: Excuse me, what country are you from?
Voitek: I am from Poland.
Alex: Do you live in Warsaw?
Voitek: No, I don’t. I live in a small town in the North of Poland. Let me introduce you to my friend Lucy.
Alex: I am ever so glad to meet you.
Voitek: Lucy is from France, from Paris. She is French. By the way, do you speak French?
Alex: I am afraid I don’t. I speak only two foreign languages, English and Spanish. And I prefer to speak Spanish, as I know it much better than English.
Voitek: Oh, that’s fine! Lucy speaks Spanish rather well. Her mother is from South America. As for me I can’t speak Spanish but I understand nearly everything. Lucy and I are pen friends.
Alex: Would you like to join me and my fellow-students? We can have a good time together.
Voitek: That’d be lovely.
Alex: Come on, then.