Basic English _Fisrt year_Булатова -31-10-11

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11.Complete this email with the reported forms of the questions below.

Dear Sandy,

Would you like to come out with me for a day? I want to celebrate some good luck. Last week our house was burgled. The burglars did not take much, just some small thing! But I……. I found a wallet lying in the yard!!! It had a lot of money in it, but no cards. I took it to the police station. The police officer asked me a lot of

and asked (d) . .................. ....... and wrote it down. He also wanted to know (e)

claimed the wallet, it would be mine. So then I didn't mind all the questions!

And guess what? No one has claimed the wallet. Where shall we go to celebrate? Regina

Questions:

a Where did you find it?

b What time did you find it? c Were you alone?

d Where do you live?

e How long have you lived there?

f Will you be at that address for the next month? g Do you have an email address?

12.Turn the underlined sentences from reported into direct speech.

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I met an ex-neighbour yesterday. I had not seen her for a long time. We talked in a café for a long time and talked about many things. I asked her where she was living. I asked what she had been doing. She asked me if I was still teaching. She asked what my new neighbours are like. She asked me if I could give her my phone number. When we left the café I told her to call me very soon.

e.g. ―What have you been doing?‖ I asked her.

13.There had been a burglary in a busy area of the city. Read the reporter‟s

questions to the owner and turn them into reported speech.

When did you leave the house?

The reporter wanted to know when I had left the house.

Who called the police?

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Does the house have a security camera?

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Where are your children?

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Is anything valuable stolen?

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Pronunciation

14.Listen to the recording. Underline the stressed word in each answer.

1 A Did you say ten 0' clock? B No, I said two 0' clock.

2 A Did you say there were five guests? B No, I said there were nine guests.

3 A Did you say we had a spelling test? B No, I said we had a reading test.

4 A Did you say you came by air? B No, I said I came by car.

5 A Did you say she was a doctor? B No, I said she was a teacher.

6 A Did you say you came from France? B No, I said I came from Greece.

15.Listen again and repeat.

16.Work with a partner. Take turns to ask questions and give answers like the ones in Exercise 1. Use the words below. Be careful of the stress in the answers.

a Did you say / live / Astana? (Almaty)

Did you say you lived in Astana? No, I said I lived in Almaty. b Did you say there / be / fifteen students? (seventeen)

c Did you say we / want / sandwiches? (cookies) d Did you say she / be / model? (actress)

e Did you say it / be / quarter to eleven? (quarter to nine)

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17. Ask the questions below to five different people in your class. Then walk around the class and tell each other what the other student asked you and what you answered.

Example: Arai asked me if I liked being at home alone. I answered that I did not like being at home alone.

Student A

1)Are you a ‗house and home‘ person?

2)Do you agree that ‗home is where the heart is‘?

3)Do you like being at home alone?

4)What are the differences between a house and a home?

5)Do you like the houses in other countries?

Student B

1)Are you house proud?

2)Are you a stay-at-home person or a going-out person?

3)Do you do homework and housework?

4)Do you get jealous of other people‘s homes?

5)Do you want to design your own home?

Now compare your answers with the rest of the class.

Writing

Think of four advantages of living in a town over living in the country. Think of four advantages of living in the country over living in a town.

18. Write a paragraph about advantages and disadvantages of living in the country/town.

Communication:

Work in small groups to discuss the following questions. Get into groups A and B. Discuss the question in pairs of A and B students. Each time you discuss a new question talk to a new person from another group.

How long have you lived where you are living now?

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How many different homes have you lived in? Which one did you like the best? Why? Which one did you like the least? Why?

How many rooms are there in your house?

If you could change anything about your present home, what would it be? Is your home in a convenient location?

What changes would you like to make to your home?

Independent assignment

1. Make and carry out a plan for a helpful activity related to homelessness. This

may include activities such as donating blankets to a homeless shelter or

volunteering as a class at a clothing distribution site or soup kitchen. Keep journals

and draw pictures of the project. Make a class book of your project.

2. Find answers to these questions.

Why wouldn‘t it be a good idea to build a house of bricks in Japan?

What is a houseboat in Hong Kong called? What are homes in tall high-rises called?

What do people in poor countries such as India build houses out of? What is a poor, dirty section of a city called?

What are the tall green grasses used to build houses near water called?

Why won‘t the houses in Australia get flooded?

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Literature: Home/Family

Going Home

1. Talk to your partner or write.

Do you often leave your home?

Do you miss home when you‘re far away?

Who do you miss more?

2.Write first 6 words that come to you when you think of your home.

3.Which of these ideas do you like best? Add your own ideas. Compare your answers with other students.

Home is a place to live.

Home is something you miss when you are far.

Home is where you always return to from anywhere.

Home is your family.

Home is your friends and neighbours.

Home is...

4. Read the story «Going home» by Peter Hamille.

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They were going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There were six of them, three boys and three girls, and they got on the bus at 34th Street, carrying sandwiches and wine in paper bags. They were dreaming of golden beaches and tides of the sea as the gray, cold spring of New York vanished behind them. Vingo was on the bus from the beginning.

As the bus passed through New Jersey, they began to notice that Vingo never moved. He sat in front of the young people, his dusty face masking his age, dressed in a plain brown suit that did not fit him. His fingers were stained from cigarettes and he chewed the inside of his lip a lot. He sat in compete silence.

Deep into the night, the bus pulled into a Howard Johnson‘s restaurant and everybody got off the bus except Vingo. The young people began to wonder about him, trying to imagine his life; perhaps he was a sea captain; maybe he had run away from his wife; he could be an old soldier going home. When they went back to the bus, one of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself.

‗We‘re going to Florida», the girl said brightly. «You going that far?» «I don‘t know», Vingo said.

«I‘ve never been there», she said. «I hear it‘s beautiful».

«It is», he said quietly, as if remembering something he had tried to forget. «You live there?»

«I was there in the Navy, Jacksonville».

«Want some wine?» she said. He smiled and took a swallow from the bottle. He thanked her and became silent again. After a while, she went back to the others as Vingo nodded in sleep.

In the morning they awoke outside another Howard Johnson‘s and this time

Vingo went in. The girl insisted that he join them. He seemed very shy, and ordered black coffee and smoked nervously, as the young people chattered about sleeping on beaches. When they went back on the bus, the girl sat with Vingo again. After a while, slowly and painfully, he began to tell his story. He had been in jail in New York for the last years, and now he was going home.

«Are you married?»

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«I don‘t know».

«You don‘t know?» she said.

«Well, when I was in jail I wrote to my wife. I said, ‗Martha, I understand if you can‘t stay married to me.‘ I said I was gonna be away a long time, and that if she couldn‘t stand it, if the kids kept asking questions, if it hurt her much she didn‘t have to write me and she didn‘t. Not for three-and-a half years».

«And you‘re going home now, not knowing?»

«Yeah,» he said shyly. «Well last week, when I was sure I was free, I wrote her. I told her that if she had a new guy, I understood. But, if she didn‘t, if she would take me back she should let me know. We used to live in this town, Brunswick, and there‘s a great big oak tree just as you come into town. I told her if she would take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and I would get off and come home, if she didn‘t want me forget it; no handkerchief and I‘d keep going on through».

«Wow,» the girl said. «Wow».

She told the others, and soon all of them were in it, caught up in the approach of Brunswick, looking at the pictures Vingo showed them of his wife and three children. Now they were 20 miles from Brunswick, and the young people took over window seats on the right side, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Vingo stopped looking as if fortifying himself against still another disappointment. Then it was ten miles, and then five, and the bus became very quiet.

Then suddenly all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying, doing small dances in triumph. All except Vingo.

Vingo sat there, looking at the oak tree. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs, 20 of them, 30 of them, maybe hundreds, a tree that stood like a flag of welcome, blowing and billowing in the wind. As the young people shouted the old con slowly rose from his seat, holding himself tightly, and made his way to the front of the bus to go home.

5. Are these sentences true or false?

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6. Read these adjectives. Group them into two:

a)characterizing Vingo

b)characterizing the students

serious, nervous, shy, reserved, understanding, sympathetic, sociable, curious, caring, inquisitive, kind, sensitive, jolly, sad

Add your own adjectives.

7. Do you

admire Vingo?

feel sympathy for Vino‘s situation?

admire Vingo‘s wife?

8. Listen to the song “ Tie a yellow ribbon on the old oak tree”

I'm coming home. I've done my time.

Now I've got to know what is and is it mine.

If you received my letter telling you I'd soon be free,

Then you'll know just what to do if you still want me,

If you still want me,

Oh, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree. It's been three long years.

Do you still want me? (Still want me?)

If I don't see a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree,

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I'll stay on the bus,

Forget about us,

Put the blame on me,

If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree.

Bus driver, please look for me,

'Cause I couldn't bear to see what I might see.

I'm really still in prison, and my love, she holds the key. A simple yellow ribbon's what I need to set me free.

I wrote and told her please,

Oh, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree. It's been three long years.

Do you still want me? (Still want me?)

If I don't see a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree, I'll stay on the bus,

Forget about us,

Put the blame on me,

If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree.

Now the whole damn bus is cheering,

And I can't believe I see,

A hundred yellow ribbons 'round the ole oak tree.

I'm coming home, mm-hmm.

(Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree. Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree. Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree.

Tie a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree.

6.Follow-up. Write a letter from Vingo‟s wife to her close friend in which she reveals her feelings about Vingo‟s coming.

These questions will help you.

-Why didn‘t she write Vingo?

-Why did she decide to hang handkerchiefs on the tree? -How did she feel the day Vingo arrived?

-How does she imagine her further life with Vingo?

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