Unit one

WE ARE STUDENTS NOW

L e s s o n 1

Meeting and Introduction

Phonetic Exercises

Основные правила чтения гласных

Тип слога	a	e	i / y	o	u
I	[eI] name	[I:] Pete	[QI] nine, my	[əu] nose	[(j)u:] use
II	[x] cat	[e] реt	[I] six, gym	[O] hot	[A] bus
III	[R] car	[W] her	[W] girl	[L] port	[W] turn
IV	[Fə] care	[Iə] here	[aIə] fire	[L] more	[(j)uə] cure

Чтение некоторых согласных

c		g		th		w
[s] face city bicycle	[k] cut cool class	[dZ] fridge origin gym	[g] game got glad	[T] thick think Thursday	[D] this they father	[w] window white warm	[-] write wrong who

Read the following words:

take, main, see, fine, eve, cap, cell, kind, close, fork, soon, tube, year, watch, wrong, knit, thick, then, singer, age, god, fair, fire, pure, burn, quarter, exact, new, hall, night, chess, yeast, mind, warm, who, glove, noise, grass, July, row, party, cake, stamp, mean, dear, tie, give, find, brown, fog, took, food, floor, cheese, which, wrist, knee, quit, lace, lack, clay, shirt, nurse, endure, hire, hare, mere, world, want, few, sight, expect, exist, grow, down, boil, mild, sugar, social, official.

Read and learn the following tongue-twisters:

1. A black cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat.

2. I can think of six thin things,

And of six thick things, too.

3. Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?

4. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream!

5. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.

Speaking

Some Necessary Greetings Some Phrases of Parting

Hi! Hello! How do you do? – Здравствуйте! How are you? – Как поживаешь? Glad /nice to meet you – Рад познакомиться с вами. Meet my friend – Познакомься с моим другом.

Good-bye / Bye-bye / Bye. So long – Пока! See you again / soon / later – Увидимся (позже). I must be going. – Мне нужно уходить. All the best. – Желаю удачи.

Sample Dialogue

A: Hello!

B: Hi! Meet my friend Nick. He is a first-year student. He is Russian.

A: Nice to meet you. My name is Alice.

C: I’m glad to meet you too. And where are you from, Alice?

A: I am from France. But I’m in a hurry now. So long.

B and C: See you soon.

Exercise 1. Make up dialogues putting the sentences in the right order.

A. He is married. Is he our new manager? I don’t know. What is his name? What is his E-mail address? Is he married or single? His name is Dick. Yes, he is.

B. Yes, she is. She is Spanish. She lives in Madrid. Is she Italian or Spanish? And what is her occupation? Is Alice your friend? And can she speak English? Yes, she can. She is a guide. She can speak three foreign languages.

*Exercise 2. Read the answers. What were the questions?

1.________________________? – I’m fine, thanks.

2.________________________ ? – They are from Italy.

3.________________________ ? – My girl-friend is in Greece.

4.________________________ ? – Our names are Kate and Sally.

5.________________________ ? – No, I am single.

6.________________________ ? – No, I’m a student.

7.________________________ ? – It is 543 442 661.

8.________________________ ? – It is 17 Pushkin Street, Perm.

*Exercise 3. Complete the dialogue and make up your own dialogues using the previous patterns.

• Hello, Ted.

• …, Helen. …?

• I’m fine, thanks. … my friend Sam. He is … London.

• Oh! … an Englishman?

• Yes.

• Glad … .

• … too.

• What do you do (for living)?

• … a doctor.

• But we … now. … soon.

• All … .