- •Практикум по формированию навыков чтения и устной речи для студентов
- •I - II курсов неязыковых факультетов
- •Часть II
- •Ing-forms
- •1.1 Hobbies
- •Vocabulary:
- •1.11 Read the dialogue & make up your own one. Spare Time
- •1.12 Read and translate these dialogues. Watching Television
- •Useful hobby
- •A talk about career
- •1.13 Read and discuss the hobbies of famous people.
- •Hobbies
- •1.16 Are you a couch potato?
- •2.4 Write at / on / in.
- •2.5 Write to or in.
- •2.6 Memorize the following word combinations. Compose your own sentences.
- •2.8 Give synonyms to the underlined words.
- •2.9 Ask your friend if:
- •2.14 Ask your partner and say what you did last weekend. Use the following:
- •2.15 Ask other students about their weekends, and complete the chart with different names.
- •2.16 Write sentences about the students in your group, using the information you have collected.
- •2.17 Tom told Richard about his weekend. Say what happened.
- •2.18 Match the parts of the story and number them in the correct order.
- •2.20 Read & translate the dialogues into Russian.
- •2.21 Holiday plans
- •3.1 Travelling
- •Vocabulary
- •3.3 Give the Russian equivalents for the following:
- •3.4 Complete the following sentences. Use the Infinitives in the box.
- •3.5 Answer the questions:
- •3.6 Translate into English:
- •3.7 Render the dialogue. Use the Present Simple Tense.
- •3.8 Translate into English and reproduce:
- •3.9 Read the text & answer the questions. A camping holiday.
- •3.10 You have to buy a visa at the airport.
- •1 True or False? Write t or f.
- •2 You don't have to have a passport
- •3.11 Discover the North Pennines
- •3.12 Finding the way
- •3.13 Read the following dialogues. Mind the conversational units. Make up your own dialogues on analogy.
- •3.14 Conversation: Asking the Way.
- •3.15 Read the dialogue "Asking the way" and answer the following questions:
- •3.17 Read the dialogue "Getting Home".
- •3.18 Find the sentences used.
- •3.19 Answer the following questions.
- •3.20 Speak on:
- •3.21 Read the dialogues below. Learn them and act them out:
- •3.22 Look at the map of a London area (p. 48). Imagine the following situations:
- •3.23 A group of tourists from Canada came to Tyumen. One of you is a guide. Lead the tourists around the city.
- •3.24 The Great Outdoors.
- •Activity Holidays
- •Walking
- •Wildlife
1.12 Read and translate these dialogues. Watching Television
Ann: I'm going to the "Progress" this evening.
Kate: What's on?
Ann: It's a western: "Cowboy Come Home".
Kate: But there's a western on television to-night. You're welcome to come in and watch it.
Ann: A wide screen and the colour will be better, I think.
Kate: Nothing of the kind. Here you can have a comfortable chair to sit in, a drink at your elbow and no journey to make. Besides there are other worthwhile programs on: a documentary on underwater swimming, a half hour sport review and an instalment of a mystery serial play.
Ann: Do you prefer seeing a story as a TV film to reading it in a book?
Kate: Oh, yes. You can actually see the characters and how they're dressed and watch their expressions.
Ann: But a film can also make everything more exciting and vivid and the darkness cuts out human surroundings completely.
Kate: But you can't choose your program and it's waste of money to walk out if you're bored. It's so easy to turn off the TV - not that I do turn it off very often.
Ann: That's just it. You're drugged by it: you've given up all your old interests. That's why I won't have a TV. I still have time to read, invite friends in for a chat or sometimes go to concerts or to the cinema or the theatre.
Useful hobby
B: - History and reading aren't bad hobbies. My father has it worse.
S: - What do you mean, Boris?
B:- Hey, Dad take it easy , - I'm talking about your hobby.
C: - Oh, and what's that, if I may ask?
B:- Well, father usually stays at home doing the cooking and washing up. He reckons it's his hobby.
C:- And what about your wife, Victor?
S: - Oh, she is a modern woman. She believes in sexual equality. She is always sitting in cafes, discussing the problem with her friends.
C:- Well, in any case, your hobby is both interesting and useful.
B:- I doubt whether it is "interesting".
A talk about career
A: - Boris, you know, your father has got a promotion. He has been offered a place as a head of the department for external economic cooperation.
B:- Congratulations, Dad. You know, I have always said that you were destined to be a VIP (very important person) and earn a lot of money.
S:- Oh, Boris, you're my greatest worry. It's about time you started thinking about your career. I'm afraid by the time you get a serious job I'll be an OAP (old aged person).
- Come off it, Dad.
S: - You don't realize how serious I am . You have done sports, played the guitar, were interested in computers ... And what has come of it all? You chop and change too much.
C:- And what do you do these days?
B:- Again - nothing very special ... . Actually I'm mad about dancing.
C: - Perhaps you can make your fortune at it. People can make more money from dancing than from a more conventional profession these days.
S:- I doubt if he can. He is too idle.
C: - I don't believe in forcing boys to take up careers they are not cut out for.
- Don't worry. Dad. One day I will marry a young and rich American widow and the problem will be solved.
- What a load of rubbish! Put that stupid idea out of your head! It' s ridiculous.