Basic English _Fisrt year_Булатова -31-10-11

TV, here in the ____ ( V R O I N I GO M L) .(2 words) Here is my ______

( S D U T Y ) , where I work on my computer or surf on the Internet. There, the _________ M R B A O T H O ). You can have a shower or a bath as you wish, and put your towels here. There is the ________ ( L T T E O I ) ; please flush after going there! This door above our heads leads to the _________

( A T I T C ) , which is empty. This is the door that leads to the _______

( A R E L L C ) , which is a cool place for the vegetables from my garden. Finally, the __________ ( E A R R T E C ) , where you can see my garden and my flowers. Oh, we can have lunch here: it's sunny today!

Pronunciation

7.Listen to the text and check the answers. Pay attention to pronunciation of the words.

Listening: Skyscrapers

8. Answer the questions

Which buildings are the tallest in the world?

How tall are they? Where are they located?

9. Look at the diagram below and check your answers to the questions.

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10.Which of the two skyscrapers in the pictures do you want to live or work in?

11.Listen to the text about two skyscrapers and complete the chart below with the missing information

12.Why do people build skyscrapers? Reading: The most expensive house in the world

13.How do you understand the famous people‟s sayings below? Do you agree or disagree with them?

East, west, home's best. - W.K.Kelly (1859)

Home is where the heart is. - J.J. McCloskey (1870)

A man's house is his castle. - Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)

Choose your neighbours before you buy your house. - Hausa (West African)

14. In pairs, tell each other what you like or don‟t like in these pictures.

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15.Match the pictures with the words below. gym, lounge, helicopter pad, ballroom, view

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16. Read the text below and answer the following questions?

How much did the house cost?

Why the house was called Antilia?

What is inside the house?

What can you see out of the windows of Antilia?

The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, has moved into his new home in Mumbai which is 27 floors high and worth 630 million£.

Ambani, his wife and three children have moved into the building which is named Antilia, after a mythical Island. It includes a health club with a gym and dance studio,

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a ballroom, guestrooms and lounges and a 50 seats cinema. There is even a garden. There are 600 workers in the building.

The roof has three helicopter pads and there is also underground parking for 160 cars, which will be used by guests at Ambani's housewarming party.

From the top floors of the 173m high building there is a fantastic view of Mumbai and of the Arabian Sea.

The 53 year-old businessman is not only the richest man in India but the fourth richest man in the world. In total there is 37,000 square metres of land, which is more than the Palace of Versailles.

(By Laura Roberts, The Telegraph)

17.Read the text again and say if the following sentences are True or False.

The house of Mukesh Ambani is located on a mythical island. To take care of house you need many workers.

Mukesh Ambani has already organized the housewarming party. Mukesh Ambani is famous not only in India.

Antilia is better than the Palace of Versailles.

18.Do you want to live in the house like this?

Grammar: Defining and nondefining relative clauses

19.Read the examples below and complete the sentences in the box with the underlined words.

The text is about Mukesh Ambani who lives in India.

He has built a house which is the most expensive in the world.

There is an underground parking in the house where they can park 160 cars.

Defining relative clauses give information about people, things and places. They come directly after the noun.

Use _________ for people. Use _________for things.

Use ________ to say what happens in a place.

You can use that instead of who or which (informal)

20.Fill in: which, where, who or whose.

Which of these words you can omit out in the defining relative clauses?

Defining relative clauses

1)I like films ________ are about teenagers.

2)Tom Cruise is the actor _________I admire most.

3)The man __________I wanted to see was on holiday.

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Non-defining relative clauses

1)Bob, ______ father is a pianist, is an actor.

2)New York, _______she lives, is a big city.

3)Tom, _______was born in Scotland, moved to Spain.

4)Astana, ______is a capital of Kazakhstan, is a beautiful city.

Which relative clauses you can omit without changing the meaning of the sentences?

21. Are the following clauses defining or non-defining clauses? Put commas where necessary.

The house which was made of wood was built in 1966. We invited the boy who Tom works with to the party.

Our friends who we met at university are coming to visit next week.

That is the building where they shot the film ―Transformers‖.

Mr Jackson whose son also goes to this school will come to the party next weekend. The author's latest book which has become a bestseller is about two children in Jamaica.

22.Complete the sentences with which, where, who or whose.

1.My parents, _______ were born in the north of England, moved to London to find work.

2.The man _________ lives upstairs is always playing music when I'm trying to get to sleep.

3.The building _________ I live in was built in the 1920s.

4.Do you remember the name of the man _________book you took?

5.The hotel _________ we stayed was very good.

23.Rewrite the following paragraph using non-defining relative clauses to make it more interesting.

A man called Tom went to Warsaw to visit a friend.

When he arrived at the house he knocked on the door, but an old man

answered. He invited Tom inside and gave him a drink. Tom sat in an armchair and fell asleep. When he woke up he was on a boat.

E.g. A man called Tom, who was 29, went to Warsaw, where he lived 10 years ago, to visit a friend, who he went to school with.

Play in groups. One group makes sentences about objects, people‘s job or places.

The other team tries to guess the answer.

E.g. Group 1: This is a place where we listen to live music.

Group2: It‘s a concert hall.

Writing: Chain story

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Work as a class. Sit in a circle and rewrite the following sentences with gaps on a paper. You are going to write a fairy tale. Each student fills in the gap and gives the paper to the student next to him/her. After you finish writing, the last person reads the whole story. Choose the best story.

1.Once upon a time there lived a prince who ______________.

2.The prince lived in the country where________________.

3.He lived a happy life until ______________________.

4.The prince decided to go to the Fairy who ________________.

5.The Fairy sent him to the castle where __________________.

6.In the castle he met a princess who ______________________.

7.The princess told him that ___________________________.

8.The prince came back home when _______________.

9.At home he saw his father, the King who___________.

10.In the end everybody ________________.

Communication

24.In pairs, describe the three kitchens below and say what are the similarities and differences.

Independent assignment

1.Search the Internet and find information about other tallest buildings in the world. Present the information to the class.

2.Make a poster of Almaty in 2050. How will it change? Tell the class what kind of buildings, roads, technological innovation the city needs.

3.Make a list of the 10 most important things you would look for when choosing a house to live in.

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1. Give your opinion on the following:

Have you ever moved house? What was the experience like? Why are homes different? (money, climate, material) Which of the following is the best to buy and why?

A second hand house / a new house / a house which hasn‘t been built yet.

Vocabulary

2.Read the words and definitions and write explanations to the rest of the words.

Dome - A rounded roof, with a circular base, shaped like an arch in all directions.

Façade - The outside ―face‖ of the building.

Balcony -_____________________________________________.

Roof - _______________________________________________. Window - ____________________________________________.

Speaking

Imagine that you and your friend are going on a holiday. You can choose an unusual house to live in during your stay. Discuss all of these options and choose one in which you want to live. You have three minutes to do the task.

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What are advantages and disadvantages of living in a place like this?

Grammar: Present Continuous for Future Plans

We normally use the present continuous to talk about action happening in the present, but if we add a future word, we can use it to talk about the future. (By "future word" we mean words or expressions like tomorrow, next week, in November. The future word may be clearly expressed or understood from the context.)

We use the present continuous only when a plan exists before we speak. Look at these examples:

We are building a new house next year.

We're buying a house on Friday.

We are meeting a real estate agent tomorrow afternoon.

They can't play tennis with you tomorrow. They're working.

3. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Continuous.

Is Ann coming…(Ann/come) with us tonight?

My son __________(go) to University in September.

What time _______(class/start) tomorrow?

Jane _____(have) a housewarming party on Saturday.

Zhanna _____(sing) in the concert tomorrow night.

4.You bought a house and are planning a housewarming party this weekend. Write about the details of a party using Present Continous tense.

Keep in mind:

the number of guests: e.g. I am inviting eight colleagues and ten classmates..

the food

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the drinks

the activities

the music

Remember:

Prepositions of time

on is used before: days, dates, my birthday

at is used before: times, the weekend, the end of the day, the moment, night, lunchtime in is used before: mounth, seasons, years, the morning, the afternoon etc.

There is no preposition before: today, tomorrow (morning, evening,etc.), this/that/ next/last week, tomoeeow(afternoon, etc.)

5.Put the correct preposition (or nothing) in each space.

a)My Dad‘s taking me fishing …….next Sunday.

b)My team‘s plaing football against yours ……… Friday afternoon.

c)I‘m visiting my grandmother in Astana ……… this summer.

d)Are you going to the theatre with me ……….. Saturday evening?

e)Parents are arriving ……… 6.30 so we must get home quickly.

f)Jake‘s taking his driving test ………. 23 March.

g)My sister‘s getting married ……… 2006.

h)This street‘s very dark ……… night.

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