Function

BEING POLITE

LISTENING

1 Listen to the short conversations and say where they are taking place.

Conversation 1 ____________________ Conversation 2_____________________

Conversation 3 ____________________ Conversation 4_____________________

APOLOGIZING

Use:

Excuse me before you ask / do something.

Sorry after you've done something wrong.

Sorry? when you don't hear or understand something.

2 What do you say in these situations? Write Excuse me,…Sorry, …orSorry…?

1. You want to ask somebody you don't know for some information. _________

2. You step on somebody's foot. ____________

3. You want to pass and somebody is standing in your way._______________

4. You don't hear or understand what somebody says to you. _______________

5. You're late for class. _______________

FOLLOW UP

Say how your daily activity has changed since you became a student. Use the Past Simple speaking about your usual day at school.

Example:

Being a schoolboy, I usually got up at 7 o'clock, but now I get up at 6.30 a.m.

LESSON 11 – 12

STOP AND CHECK

Get ready for your writing and oral Test 2. Use evaluation exercises in the workbook to find out how much progress you have made in Lessons 7 – 10.

LESSON 13

ENTERTAINMENT. LEISURE ACTIVITIES

VOCABULARY AND READING

1 Say how a Sunday differs from a Wednesday or a Friday?

2 Speak about your likes and dislikes using the words from the lists below. Choose fiveactivities. Use speech patterns.

List 1 Activities

Playing football	dancing	skiing
going to the gym	watching TV	reading
sunbathing	going running	going to the cinema
taking photographs	cooking	playing computer games
sailing	listening to music	eating in restaurants
swimming

List 2 Words of emotions

all right awful boring brilliant dreadful dull exciting fun great nice OK relaxing superb terrible terrific wonderful

Speech patterns

I like reading very much (because) it’s so relaxing.

But I don’t like cooking it’s so boring!

3 Are you a couch potato? is about leisure activities. Read it and choose the best definition for a coach potato.

1. Someone who enjoys energetic sports and active hobbies.

2. Someone who takes little or no exercise, and who spends his free time doing very little.

3. Someone who doesn't like doing sports but is active in other ways.

4. Someone who likes indoor gardening.

Are you a couch potato?

Centuries ago, people didn't have much free time, because everybody was working too hard. In Britain in the 19^th century, people had more spare time, but because the Victorians hated relaxing and doing nothing, they invented football, rugby, and cricket. People took up more gentle activities too, like gardening, bird-watching and train spotting, and it was even possible simply to watch a sport and give the impression that you were actually doing something. Gradually, leisure activities have become less and less demanding, and most people have a variety of more or less energetic interests and hobbies. But now there is a new type of person who thinks that lying on the sofa watching television on Sunday afternoon or reading the newspaper from cover to cover is the most exciting activity they can manage. This is the twentieth-century couch potato. For them, every activity is too much trouble, and laziness is an art form! So how do you spend your free time?

Are you a couch potato?