Basic English _Fisrt year_Булатова -31-10-11

6.go on a date

7.go out with someone

8.have things in common

9.love at first sight

10.meet people online

Now, complete the sentences below with the best answer:

1. Mark and his girlfriend finally __________ after going steady for eight months. The wedding is next month.

2. Cindy really ___________ Tim, but I don't think the feelings are mutual.

3. My parents are really compatible with each other because they ____________, and thus, they see eye-to-eye on most things.

Сommunication

18.Work in groups and discuss the following questions.

Group A

What are the main causes for people getting divorced?

Who should get the children in a divorce?

What effect does divorce have on children?

Do people get divorced too easily and quickly today? Why?

Group B

Is divorce a big problem in your country?

Why are divorce rates increasing around the world?

Why do celebrity marriages end in divorce so quickly?

Would you date someone who had been divorced several times?

19.Work with a student from a different group and share your ideas discussing

your questions

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20. Agree or disagree with the following. Are the sentences true about your

country? Have a round table discussion.

The number of children living with both parents decreased.

About half of all children see the breakup of a parent's marriage. Of these kids, nearly half will also see a parent's second divorce.

Children who are raised in single-parent homes are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce.

Independent assignment

1.Study the divorce statistics and find information about divorce in your country. Write a compare and contrast paragraph.

World Divorce Statistics

Divorce rates do vary substantially in different countries.

In Sweden, 64% of marriages end in divorce.

In Canada, 45% of marriages end in divorce

In France, 43% of marriages end in divorce.

In Israel, 26% of marriages end in divorce.

In Greece, 18% of marriages end in divorce.

In Italy, 12% of marriages end in divorce.

Divorce in the United States

In the United States, 49% of marriages end in divorce.

Although 82% of all married couples reach their fifth wedding anniversary, only 52% will celebrate 15 years of marriage.

The average length of first marriages that end in divorce is slightly less than eight years.

Most people will wait about three years after a divorce to remarry.

Literature: Family/Childhood memories

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Two Stories by Alan Maley

1. a) Spend a few minutes thinking back over your childhood.

-What sort of child were you?

-Were you «good», «naughty» or «somewhere in between»?

b) Work in groups and share your thoughts about your childhood.

Work out your criteria about what you mean by being a «good», «naughty», «somewhere in

between» child.

Report back to the whole class.

3. You are going to read the beginnings of two different stories.

Work in two groups A and B.

Group A

It was evening in the private room at the hospital. I moved to put on the light.

‗No. Not yet. I can‘t talk to you with the light on‘. My father lay with tubes stuck in his nose and arm. His face looked grey and his voice was weak. I sensed his fear. I had always feared him when I was young; now he was old, it was his turn.

Group B

‗You had Miss Grant as your teacher, didn‘t you?‘ wheezed my mother. ‗She‘s just died. Look.‘ She pointed at the obituary notice in the local paper. Suddenly it all came back to me.

4. Discuss the following questions in your groups.

1)Who are the characters?

2)What are they talking about?

3)What do you think the story is going to be about?

5. Read the whole story and check your predictions.

Group A

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Words Long Unspoken

It was evening in the private room at the hospital. I moved to put on the light.

‗No. Not yet. I can‘t talk to you with the light on.

My father lay with tubes stuck in his nose and arm. His face looked grey and his voice was weak. I sensed his fear. I had always feared him when I was young; now he was old, it was his turn.

‗There‘s something I want to say to you,‘ he said. ‗Do you remember that time when Judy threw you off?‘

Did I remember! I had never lived it down. I had grown up with horses. We kept some farmwork and others for riding. My father rode a huge, grey hunter. He‘d just bought a smaller horse for my tenth birthday. She was a black, mean-looking mare called Judy. Whenever I went into the stable she tried to kick me or bite backside. She was bad-tempered and stubborn. The very first time I mounted her, I‘d felt the angry energy in her; a bubbling volcano under me.

Yes, I grew up with horses; the smell of them still comes to my nostrils when I think of our farm. But I never completely lost my fear of them. I could feed them, clean them, harness them. Yet when it came to riding them, I always felt butterflies in my stomach. I sensed that they might do anything at any moment. And perhaps they sensed my fear too.

Anyway, that Sunday my father had an important visitor. I can‘t remember who. After showing him round, my father told me to saddle up Judy.

‗Joe will put her through her paces,‘ he told the man proudly.

I mounted, my heart beating fast and my hands sweating.

‗Just walk her round the top field, then let‘s see her trot. Keep her on a tight rein, right‘.

Under me I felt the suppressed power in the mare and her rising anger. After walking along the bottom of the field, we turned up the side. I touched her flanks with my heels. She broke into a smart trot. By the time we reached the top of the field, the trot had become a canter. I tried to slow her to a trot again but she was stronger than me. I saw my father and his visitor way down the field watching me. As

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we turned back towards them, the canter became a gallop. I knew I had lost control. All I could do was to hold on tight.

She galloped onto a rough track, her hooves drumming loudly. Next to the track was a pile of bricks and rubble. My feet came out of the stirrups and I felt myself slipping. Judy threw me off onto the bricks and careered off into the road. The visitor ran after her.

I got up. I was cut and bruised but no bones were broken. As I stumbled towards my father, he hissed, ‗You bloody fool! You‘ve made us all look stupid. Get indoors!‘

I looked down at my father. ‗Yes, I remember, Dad.‘

I still recalled the humiliation I felt. We had never mentioned it again, until

today.

‗I‘ve had it on my mind all these years,‘ he said. ‗I always regretted what I said to you but I never told you. I‘m sorry I was always so hard on you, Joe. I‘m so ...‘

It was the first - and the last - time I saw my father cry. I reached out and took his hand.

Group B

Bluebells and Autumn Leaves

‗You had Miss Grant as your teacher, didn‘t you?‘ wheezed my mother. ‗She‘s just died. Look.‘

She pointed at the obituary notice in the local paper. Suddenly it all came back

to me.

That first day at school my mother had left me in the playground, surrounded by other children - all bigger than me. A whistle blew. The noise stopped and the children filed into the school building. I did not know which row to join so I simply followed a girl with pigtails. When I entered the classroom everyone looked at me. A large motherly lady took me by the hand and said, ‗You‘re in the wrong class. You‘ll be in Miss Grant‘s class. Come on, I‘ll show you.‘

Miss Grant was tall and thin, with dark eyes and sallow skin. She had a highpitched nasal voice which made everything she said sound threatening. She pointed to a seat next to a boy with a runny nose.

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‗Sit with George. He‘ll tell you what to do. Children, this is Joe Green. Say hello to him.‘

I tried very hard to please Miss Grant but somehow everything always turned out wrong. In the autumn she drew a tree on a sheet of brown paper pinned to the wall.

‗Now children. It‘s autumn. The leaves turn yellow and red and brown. Then they fall off the trees. Here is some coloured paper. I want you to cut out some nice leaves. Then we‘ll paste the leaves on the tree and make a nice picture.‘

We cut out our leaves then went one by one to paste them onto the tree. I was one of the last. Miss Grant gave a little cry of alarm.

‗But you‘ve stuck them upside down, Joe. Can‘t you see?‘

By then the leaves were stuck fast; it was too late. I had spoiled her tree.

Just before Christmas, we made paperchains from strips of coloured paper as decorations. I made a longer chain than anyone else in the class. Surely she would be pleased with me.

But when she came to my desk her voice rose in a wail.

‗But you‘ve stuck them the wrong way round,‘ she whined. ‗Can‘t you see?

The coloured part has to be on the OUTside not on the INside! How can we see the pretty colours if they‘re on the INside? What am I going to do with you?‘

In the spring she told us about flowers. Obviously she liked flowers a lot.

‗So what wild flowers do we find in spring? Violets, yes? Anemones, yes.

Anything else? Do you know my favourites? Yes, bluebells! But we have to respect nature. Lots of people pick them. That‘s wicked. We should leave them in their natural home.‘

So - she liked bluebells. That was all I remembered. The next Sunday I went into the woods and picked enormous bunch which I put in a bucket of water till Monday morning. I entered the classroom full of pride. Now she would bo pleased.

‗Joe!‘ she screamed. ‗I told you NEVER to pick the flowers. Don‘t you ever LISTEN?‘

And she threw my lovely bluebells into the wastepaper basket.

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Next day I went to the cemetery. There were a few bunches of faded flowers on her grave. Smiling to myself, I replaced them with an enormous bunch of bluebells!

(from «Musical Cheers» Alan

Maley)

6.In your groups write out ten key words and phrases from the story. Exchange your lists with the other group.

7.Try to predict the content of the story of another group using the key words given by them. Tell each other your stories.

8.Choose a secretary from your group to present the original (your) story to the whole class.

9.Write out the underlined phrases from the stories and give their definitions. Use your dictionary to help you.

10.List as many common features of these stories as possible.

Model. 1) Both stories are about childhood memories.

2)In both of them ...

3)____________________________________

4)____________________________________

11.Follow-up.

Group A. Write a page of Joe‟s diary of the day he visited his father at the

hospital.

What did he feel after his father‘s apology?

Group B. Write a page of Joe Green‟s diary of the day he visited the cemetery.

What were his feelings?

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1. How many different homes have you lived in?

Which one did you like the best? Why?

Which one did you like the least? Why?

2.Look at the pictures of different houses. In pairs, describe every picture and choose one you like the most.

house

Pronunciation: types of houses

3.Read the types of houses from exercise 1 and listen to the tape to check the pronunciation.

Vocabulary: Parts of the house

4. Match the words below with the different parts of the house in the picture.

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Gate

Garage

Fence

Door

Wall

Chimney

Roof

Garden

5. Houses come in many different shapes and sizes. They are made of many different kinds of materials. Answer the questions. Look at the pictures below to find answers to some of the questions.

1)Where do the Kings and Queens live?

2)Which house stands on a tropical island?

3)What kind of house is in Alaska?

4)Which house can travel down the river?

5)Which house belongs to birds?

6)Which type of house students live in?

7)Which house belongs to Land Rover?

8)Which house Native Americans live in?

9)Which house stays with its owner all the time?

10)Which house is where astronauts live while they are working in space?

11)Which house has wheels and can travel all over the country?

12)Which house is found in a big city and can have lots of houses inside

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