- •Kolomna
- •Contents
- •Personal identification
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Why do people ever get married?'
- •Reading and speaking section
- •In pairs or groups, refer to the information below and on the next page, discuss to what extent the ideas are true about you and the others in your group.
- •22 December - 20 January
- •21 January-19 February
- •20 February - 20 March
- •21 March-20 April
- •21 April-21 May
- •22 May-21 June
- •22 June-23 July
- •24 June - 23 August
- •24 August-23 September
- •24 September-23 October
- •24 October - 22 November
- •23 November - 21 December
- •Friends for life
- •Modern british families
- •Families and family life
- •The extended family
- •Family life
- •In pairs or groups, look through the questions of Task 6 and report on The Modern Russian Family. Translation and rendering section
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Vocabulary work
- •Insert prepositions or post-verbal adverbs where necessary:
- •Reading and speaking section
- •A week-day in john’s family
- •Children’s chores
- •The use of leisure
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Houses and homes
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Vocabulary work Exercise 1. Write down the English equivalents for the following Russian words and word combinations.
- •Home sweet home
- •My room and welcome to it
- •Eating and drinking
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Eating out (by Clement Hardine)
- •Fast food (by Rebecca Mitchell)
- •The abc of table manners
- •Meals in britain
- •Comprehension Check
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Shops and shopping
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Exercise 2.
- •Exercise 3.
- •Exercise 5.
- •Exercise 6.
- •Exercise 7.
- •Exercise 8.
- •Exercise 9.
- •Exercise 10.
- •Vary, short, likely, freeze, success, expense, reduce, complain, polite, willing reading and speaking section
- •Marks & spencer
- •Comprehension check
- •Shop till you drop. A new disease of our time.
- •Borrowing out of control
- •Vicious circle
- •A cure for shopping?
- •I. At the millinery department:
- •II. At the shoe department:
- •Learning foreign languages
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •English today
- •Learning english is important for me
- •Learning a new language
- •Academic reasons for studying foreign languages
- •The study of foreign languages
- •How to learn a language
- •What makes a good language school?
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Пять способов выучить английский. Какой из них лучше?
- •1. Индивидуальные занятия
- •2.Занятия в группе
- •3. Лингафонный курс
- •4. Обучение под гипнозом
- •5. Суггестопедия
- •Languages. Countries. People
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Seasons and weather
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Weather Vocabulary Quiz
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Seasons and weather
- •Russian weather
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Travelling
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Translation and rendering section
I. At the millinery department:
Customer: I'd like to buy the hat in the window.
Assistant: There are several hats in the window. …
Customer: Can you show me the one over there? The leather one.
Assistant: Ah! The leather one. Now, this is another leather hat, madam. It's better than the one in the window. …
Customer: I'd rather have the one in the window. …
Assistant: Certainly, madam. …
Customer: I'm not sure.
Assistant: … It is sixteen and a half.
Customer: Thank you very much.
Assistant: …
1. What size do you take?
2. Would you like me to measure your head?
3. It's smoother leather.
It goes with my clothes.
5. Thank you for the purchase.
6. What sort of hat do you require?
II. At the shoe department:
Customer: Excuse me. …
Assistant: Certainly, madam. What can I show you?
Customer: I'd like to buy a pair of fancy dress shoes.
Assistant: … Leather, suede, glace or I can offer you glitter stiletto shoes. Customer: I like them. Can I try them on?
Assistant: Certainly. …
Customer: They're a bit tight. I have rather a broad foot and a high instep. …
Assistant: I'm afraid, not in that style. …
Customer: Then, probably, leather shoes are better …
Assistant: Yes, they'll stretch:
Customer: Very well then. Thank you for your help.
Assistant: You're welcome.
1. They will give a little after wearing.
2. Have you got them in a wider fitting?
3. Can you wait on me?
4. How do they fit, madam?
5. Would you like to see another similar style?
6. What kind of shoes do you want, madam?
Learning foreign languages
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
BASIC WORDS
abridged (adapted) text
to acquire knowledge
to attend classes (lectures)
to have classes, to stay away from classes, before/ after classes
to check (the roll, spelling)
bad (official, dead, foreign, classical, native, first, second) language
mother tongue
to cut classes/ to play (hooky) truant
to comprehend, comprehension: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
etymology
idiom, idiomatic expression
dictionary (monolingual d., learner d., bilingual d., desk d., an abridged pocket d.)
to paraphrase v, n
to recite, recitation
slang
to transcribe, transcription, transcript
to chat v, n
to converse, conversation
to curse v, n
to define, definition
to drill the class in the Present Simple
pronunciation drill
to teach (to learn, to acquire) a language
classroom notetaking
to explain, explanation
to interpret, interpretation
to misspell, misspelling
to narrate, narration
to punctuate, punctuation
to respond, response
to talk v, n
to tell
to transcribe, transcription
to cram v, n
rote learning
to speak up
to spell, spelling
to build up / to revise one's vocabulary
to translate (from, into), translation
word-perfect
learning style: visual, auditory, kinesthetic
writing implements: pen, ball-point pen, Biro, a kind of ball-point pen), pencil, crayon, felt tip, felt tip marker, typewriter, word processor
computer studies
Scotch tape (BrE) =Sellotape (AmE) (to fix with Sellotape)
language laboratory
to pronounce, pronunciation