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TEXT 1

Doctor sandford's family

Doctor Sandford's family is not very large. There are five of them. The five members of his family are: his mother, his sister-in-law, his son Benny, his wife Helen and himself. Helen has no parents.

Old Mrs. Sandford is fifty-eight. Helen is twenty-six. Doctor Sandford is thirty. Benny is an only child and there are no boys or girls in the family for him to play with.

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TEXT 2

About benny's cousins

"Granny, have I any cousins?" "Yes Benny! You have two."

"Whose children are they? How old are they? Are they boys or girls?"

"Not so many questions at once, please, Benny! Your cousins are: a five-year-old boy, Georgie, and a four- year-old girl, May. They are your Aunt Emily's children. They are in Canada now with their parents: your Aunt Emily, my daughter, and her husband, Mr. Thomas Brown."

"In Canada? What's Canada, granny? Where is it?"

"Canada is a far-away country. It is in the North of America." "In the North of America? Where is it? Is it as far as London?" "Oh, no Benny! It's much farther."

"But, granny..."

"Come along, my dearest. It's just the time for your midday milk."

Vocabulary notes

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come along

it's just the time

Topical vocabulary

What's your occupation? What do you do (for a living)? worker (mechanic, turner, locksmith), farmer, engineer, teacher, doctor, surgeon, dentist, soldier, sailor, pilot, officer, salesman, saleswoman (shop-assistant, shop-girl), research worker, architect, lawyer, journalist, typist, driver, actor, actress, composer, painter, writer, poet, playwright, musician, conductor, chemist, physicist

Conversational phrases

Opening remarks: Oh, it's you. Ah, there you are! Well, if it isn't old Jack! I say... Excuse me... Sorry to trouble you... Hello!

Parting remarks: Bye-bye / See you / See you tomorrow (then); Love to... Regards to ...

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T a b l e N o . 1

there

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T a b l e N o . 2

Numerals

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and.

2.hundred, thousand, million .

. : hundreds of thousands of people.

3.:

1900 - nineteen hundred,

1909 - nineteen nine nineteen hundred and nine,

1977 - nineteen seventy-seven nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.

year , : in the year nineteen twelve.

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25th January, 1912 the twenty-fifth of January, nineteen-twelve January 25th, 1912 January the twenty-fifth, nineteen twelve. January 25, 1912.

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Prepositions of time

at, past, to, from, till.

e. g. Come at five o'clock. Go there at seven. The train arrives at seven thirty-two. It is half past two. It is a quarter to three. Leave your place at a quarter to six. He is at home from three till four.

Exercises

I. a) Study Substitution Table No. 1 and compose as many sentences as you can. b) Let the members of the class ask and answer questions as in the model. Give a short answer and add a sentence of your own with the introductory there.

M o d e l : Is there any clock on your desk?,

There is. And there is also a lamp on it.

c) Respond to the negative sentence of your fellow-student as in the model. Use contracted forms in speech.

M o d e l : There aren't any knives on the table.

No, there aren't. There are only forks here.

d)Study Substitution Table No. 2 and compose as many sentences as you can.

e)Use the same sentences in short situations.

II. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules:

boot, prepare, ball, book, mere, meat, good, store, bread, care, palm, cure, cold, last, plant, text, exam, rather, germ, hurt, hare, grasp, staff, bald, calf, chalk, clasp, a talented dancer, a broken branch, a stone wall, a dull day, a wise man, a cheap car, a big ship, a fat sheep, a naughty girl, a lazy boy, a rare plant, a strict lady, a cold lake, a birthday present, Bertha's basket, spare time, pure water.

III. Write the plural form of the following nouns. Transcribe them:

country, saleswoman, match, boy, sister-in-law, man, tooth, handkerchief, potato, deer, piano, knife, lady, suffix, foot.

IV. Before you start working at the text, practise the sounds in the following words and word combinations:

1.[ ] - cousin, at once, husband, country, London, much, but, come; [ ] - large, aunt, farther, as far as;

[ ] - daughter, Georgia, four, North.

2.a) Linking r: your aunt, are in Canada, where is it, faraway, as far as; b) No voicing before voiced consonants: Thomas rown, it's just, it's much;

c) No devoicing before voiceless consonants: Benny's cousins, whose children, Emily's children; d) Loss of plosion: but granny, mid day.

V. a) Listen to the recording of the text "Doctor Sandford's Family". Mark the stresses and tunes. b) Practise the text for test reading. Listen to the text very carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way. c) Listen to the recording of the dialogue "About Benny's Cousins". Mark the stresses and tunes. d) Practise the dialogue for test reading. Listen to the text very carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way. e) Memorize the dialogue and dramatize it.

VI. Read the following:

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1. Old Mrs. 'Sandford is 'fifty-\eight, | Helen is 'twenty-\six, | Doctor Sandford is \thirty. 2. There are alot of /exercise-books, | /pens | and \pencils on the desk. 3. There are not so 'many /parks, | /gardens | and \squares in the town. 4. Show all the /rivers, | /lakes, | and \seas on the map.

VII. Answer the following questions:

A.1. Is this a classroom? 2. Are there many desks in it? How many? 3. Are there any chairs in the room? How many? 4. Are there any lamps in the room? 5. Are they on the walls? 6. How many lamps are there in it?

7.How many windows are there in the room? 8. What colour are the walls? 9. What colour are the desks? 10. What colour are the chairs? 11. Is there a blackboard on the wall? 12. What colour is the board? 13. Are there any sentences on it? 14. How many books are there on your desk? 15. Are they English or Russian? 16.How many exercise-books are there in your bag? 17. Are they thick or thin? 18. Is this book thick or thin? 19. What is there on this table? 20. What is there in that box?

B.1. Is the box on the desk? 2. Are the pencils in the box? 3. Is the bag on the desk or under it? 4. Is the fountain-pen on the bag or in the bag? 5. Is the notebook in my hand or under it? 6. Are the notebooks on the desk or under it? 7. Are the letters on the book or under it? 8. Where is the picture? 9. Where is the chair? 10. Where are the pens?

C.1. Is Dr. Sandford's family large? 2. Has he a wife? 3. What is her name? 4. Has she a sister? 5. Has Dr. Sandford a father? 6. Has he a mother? 7. Has Dr. Sandford a daughter? 8. Has he a son? 9. What is his name?

10.So how many people are there in Dr. Sandford's family? 11. How old is Dr. Sandford? 12. How old is Helen? 13. How old is Mrs. Sandford? 14. How many cousins has Benny? 15. Whose children are Georgie and May? 16. Where are Benny's cousins?

VIII. a) Write sentences using there is, there are and the words given below:

1. bus, street; 2. lamp, room; 3. chalk, blackboard; 4. bread, table; 5. tea, tea-pot; 6. coffee, coffee-pot; 7. money, bag; 8. paper, box; 9. soap, shelf; 10. water, jug.

b) Make up micro-dialogues with the same sentences.

IX. Fill in prepositions:

1. Don't be late. Come ... nine o'clock. 2. What time is it now? It is half ... six. 3. We are going to leave ... a quarter ... ten. 4. It is twelve o'clock now. Come here in ten minutes, ten minutes ... twelve. 5. Is it a quarter ...

three? In a quarter of an hour, ... three o'clock we must be ... the University. 6. He must work ... seven ... eleven o'clock. 7. They live ... the North ... our country.

X. a) Rewrite the following in the plural:

1. There is a sentence on the blackboard. 2. Is there a desk in the room? 3. There is not any book on the table. 4. Is there a dictionary on the chair? 5. There is a match in the box. 6. There is a girl in the picture. 7. There is no child in their family.

b) Change the sentences using the construction given in Table No. 2 on page 87. XI. a) Write the interrogative and negative forms of the following sentences:

1. There is a telegram on the table. 2. There is a cinema near our house. 3. There are many mistakes in his dictation. 4. There is much paper in his bag. 5. There are two sofas in the room. 6. There are a lot of children in the park today.

b) Express your surprise asking questions as in the model. Note the distribution of sentence stress in the replies.

M o d e l : There is a dog in the room.

/Is there ? Is there really a /dog in the room ? I say there \is.

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c) Respond to the same statement in the negative.

M o d e l : There is a dog in the room.

Oh, no. There is \no dog there.

Are you sure?

Quite.

XII. The following statements are not true to fact. Correct them.

M o d e l : Doctor Sandford's family is large.

No, that's wrong. It's not large.

1. Doctor Sandford has two sons and one daughter. 2. There are seven people in Doctor Sandford's family. 3. Doctor Sandford is eighty. 4. There are many girls and boys for Benny to play with. 5. Benny has no cousins. 6. Benny's cousins are in Africa. 7. Benny's cousins are schoolchildren.

XIII. Describe Doctor Sandford's family as if you were Doctor Sandford, his wife or Benny.

XIV. Work in pairs. Ask your fellow-student logical questions on the given statements and answer them.

M o d e l : There are two tables in the room. What's there in the room? (There are) some tables.

How many (tables are there in it)? (There are) two.

1. There is a green notebook on the desk. 2. There is little milk in the bottle. 3. The Browns have a very large family. 4. My parents are at home. 5. Benny's cousins are in the North of America.

XV. a) Make questions beginning with What ... and How many ... and answer them.

M o d e l 1 : What is there in your street?

M o d e l 2 : How many high buildings are there in your street ?

1. There are two tables in the room. 2. There are eight notebooks in her bag. 3. There are ninety-five students in the hall. 4. There is a clock on the desk. 5. There are twelve cassette-recorders in the laboratory. 6. There are six sentences in this exercise.

b) Make your own questions on the same models and answer them. XVI. a) Make questions beginning with How much ... and answer them.

M o d e l : How much milk is there in the jug?

1. There is a lot of coffee in the coffee-pot. 2. There is a little water in the glass. 3. There is too much salt in the soup. 4. There is little money in the bag. 5. There is a lot of tea in the tea-pot. 6. There is not much butter on the plate.

b) Make your own questions on the same model and answer them.

XVII. Translate the following sentences into English:

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XVIII. Write 4 examples on each of the models.

XIX. Translate into English the words given in brackets:

1. There is ( ) paper on the desk. 2. There are ( ) students in the classroom. 3. There is ( ) milk in the jug. 4. There are ( ) newspapers oh the shelf. 5. There is ( ) time left. 6. There is ( ) butter on the plate. 7. There are ( ) notebooks in the bag. 8. Give me ( ) water, please. 9. Can you give him ( ) coloured pencils? 10. May I take ( ) sheets of paper? 11. There are

) families in this house. 12.I have not ( ) money. I cannot buy this coat. 13. There are not ( ) sentences in this text. 14. Put ( ) salt into your soup.

XX. Make up questions as in the models. Add something using the topical vocabulary to Lesson Six. (People's age).

M o d e l 1 : How old is Jane? - She is twenty.

M o d e l 2 : How old are these boys? - They are eighteen years old.

XXI. Translate the following into English using the preposition at:

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XXII. a) Write down the following numerals in words:

134, 298, 355, 948, 3526, 9011, 193, 561, 7 506 017, 35 616 234.

b) Read the following numerals and telephone numbers quickly:

104, 151, 175, 189, 1012, 1017, 1038, 2568, 4083, 5993, 6410, 10 784, 257 629, 841 403, 2 184 001; 134- 86-78, 253-64-92, 289-47-30.

XXIII. Translate the following sentences into English:

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XXIV. a) Write a short composition about your family (your friend's family), the family of a well-known person you are interested in. b) Make up dialogues using the topical vocabulary and conversational phrases of Lessons Five, Six, Seven.

XXV. a) Bring your family photo in class and get ready to tell your fellow-students of all the members of your family. b) Ask and answer questions on the photo. Describe it.

Additional phonetic exercises

1.Read the exercises several times before the mirror.

2.Record your reading and listen to it, detect your errors.

3.Listen to your fellow-student reading the exercise. Detect his errors in sounds and intonation and tell him what he must do to get rid of them:

Laboratory work

I. a) Listen to the questions and record your answers in the intervals. d) Listen to the key and correct your mistakes.

II. a) Make the sentences interrogative and negative. Record your sentences.

b) Check your sentences with the key.

III. a) Make questions beginning with What ... using the statements. b) Make questions beginning with How many ... using the combinations of words. c) Make questions beginning with How much ... using the combinations of words.

IV. Form special questions using the statements. (The questions should be formed to the given word.)

M o d e l : My sister is at the University. (my sister) Who is at the University?

V. Listen to the sentences. Supply short questions expressing surprise, doubt.

VI. Change the sentences as in the model.

VII. Give sentences opposite in meaning to the given ones.

M o d e l : There are a lot of pens in the box.

There are few pens in the box.

VIII. Listen to the disjunctive questions. They are not true to fact. Correct them.

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Lesson Eight

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