Basic English _Fisrt year_Булатова -31-10-11

Advice:_____________________________________________

4) Mike: When is Tim going to finish his book? He has written only 3 chapters.

Advice:_____________________________________________

Grammar: Present Perfect Tense

15.Look at the underlined sentences in exercise 14 and answer the questions.

1)What tense is I shouted at her? Do we know when the action happened?

2)What tense is He has written? Do we know when the action happened?

16.Complete the rules about the Past Simple or Present Perfect.

Use the ____ to talk about an action or experience at a specific time in the past. Use the ____ to talk about an action or experience in the past when the time is not important or unknown.

17.Complete the table.

18.Put the verbs into the correct form in Present Perfect Simple.

I (not/work) haven‟t worked today. We (buy) ___ a new lamp.

We (not/plan) ___ our holiday yet. Where (be/you) ____?

He (write) ____ five letters.

She (not/see) ___ him for a long time. (be/you) ____ at school?

School (not/start) ____yet. (speak/he) ____ to his boss?

19.Put the verbs into the correct tense. Past Simple or Present Perfect Simple.

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Similarities

Spring weather in Almaty is similar to spring weather in Astana.

Both Almaty and Astana have rain in the spring.

Almaty also has a rainy spring season.

Astana has a rainy spring season, too.

As well, Astana has rainy spring season.

Differences

On the other hand, winter is much colder in Astana.

However, winter is much colder in Astana.

Almaty has a mild winter, but Astana has a cold one.

In contrast to Almaty, Astana has a cold winter.

Astana differs from Almaty by having a cold winter.

While Almaty has a mild winter, Astana has a cold winter.

20. Look at the pictures below, choose two pictures and write a compare and contrast paragraph on how family life has changed in the last 50 years.

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Communication

21.Interview your classmates.

1) Have you ever won a prize?

What? What did you do?

Name: _____________________________________________

2)Have you ever been in the hospital? Why?

Name: _____________________________________________

3)Have you ever had a broken heart?

When? Why?

Name: _____________________________________________

4)Have you ever felt very, very, very, very worried or scared? About what?

Name: ___________________________________________________

5)Have you ever almost got married?

What happened?

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Name: ___________________________________________________

6)Have you ever studied for 12 hours? For what? How did you feel?

Name: ___________________________________________________

7)Do you or someone in your family have a special talent?

What?

Name: ______________________________________________________

8)Have you ever played a joke on someone? Describe what happened.

Name: _____________

22.Discuss the interview results with the class.

Independent assignment

1.Interview one of your parents asking the following questions. Write down the responses and report back to the class. Compare your interview results.

Did you get any pocket money as a child? What were your duties?

Did you have any argumentsvwith your parents when you were young? How old were you when you started living on your own?

As you grew up did you start to understand your parents better? When was it more difficult to bring me up?

2.Interview ten teenagers about their reasons of arguments with their parents. Make a top ten list.

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1.Write the words that come to your mind first when you hear about traditional or modern families.

Compare your chart with other students. What is similar and what is different?

Reading: Traditional vs. modern

2.Read the text and decide if the following statements are True or False.

1)Modern families have less members than traditional families.

2)In traditional families people meet their relatives rarely.

3)Traditional families have few rules to control their children.

Women need to wake up early to prepare breakfast for everyone in their families. On the other hand, we don't see this event a lot in modern families. Women can wake up at the same time with their husbands and don't prepare anything.

This is one example that shows the difference between traditional families and modern families.

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One important difference is the size of family. Size of traditional families is larger than modern families. Normally they have more than ten people in their families, whereas modern families have only three to four people.

Modern families have one or two children and don't live with their relatives. They only meet them on special occasions, such as birthdays and New Year.

Another difference between traditional families and modern families is the head of family. Men are always heads of traditional families. Women usually take care of children at home, whereas men work outside.

Modern families don't have the head of family because women and men are equal. Both women and men work outside. They share ideas with each other.

The last difference is discipline. Traditional families have many rules that directly influence their children. Parents of traditional families are always strict because they have a lot of children to look after. On the other hand, modern families have few rules to control their children. Parents of modern families work outside. They don't have enough time to take care of their children, so they don't have time to make rules also. They always spoil them. They hire someone to take care of their children while they are working outside.

When societies change, families also change. Some people like traditional families while others prefer modern ones, but one thing is obvious: families are important for everybody.

3.With your partner write out similarities and differences between traditional and modern families.

4.Share with a partner your opinion on changes in traditional and modern families. Use the following structure.

“I think that modern families have changed greatly.” “So do I.”

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I do not think that modern families have changed greatly.” “Neither do I.”

If someone says something negative and we agree with them we can use neither. If someone says something positive and we agree with them we can use so.

We must also remember that the verb in the statement needs to agree with the verb in the response:

"I am excited about the party." "So am I."

The verb you use depends on the tense. Present Simple: I study English. - So do I.

Past Simple: I didn't like the film. - Neither did I.

Can: I can play the piano. - So can I.

Past Simple with be: I wasn't very interested. - Neither was I.

Present Perfect: I've been to Japan. - So have I.

5. Choose a response that agrees with the following sentences

I‘m a student. – So am I.

I went on vacation last year. -

I didn‘t go to the cinema. –

I‘ve seen that movie.

I like pizza. –

I‘m not watching TV.

I don‘t like coffee. –

6. Correct mistakes in the sentences below.

1)She‘s tired and so I am.

2)He isn‘t sad so neither am I.

3)He doesn‘t speak Chinese and so do I.

Listening: Families in France

7. Match the following words with the correct definitions:

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8.Answer the questions:

1)What does the word family mean to you?

2)What is the role of family in Kazakhstan?

3)What types of families are there in Kazakhstan?

9.Now listen to a woman speaking about families in France and answer the questions:

What is the role of family in France? What types of families are there in France?

Reading: Changes

10.Here is the personal essay of Wan L. Lam, an American student from Hong Kong. Read it quickly and say what two types of family the essay is about.

11.Read the essay again and choose the most suitable heading (A-D) below for each of the numbered paragraphs. There is one extra heading you do not need to use.

AAll obey one

BFreedom!

CBad changes in the family

DTraditional families

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We do not have the traditional family structure in the modern world. We have modern family structure. My family, for example, changed from traditional to modern in which I can feel freedom.

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In traditional families men are dominant. When I was born, my grandfather told my mother to throw me into the sea or give me to my aunt and uncle. Under the pressure of my grandparents, my mother gave me to my aunt. But she brought me back a few hours later because she did not want to give me away.

2

In my childhood, all my family members and relatives lived in a big old house in Hong Kong. In my family, my grandpa had the power of making all decisions. He stopped my father, an outstanding student, from going to high school. So my dad worked as a skilled worker in ivory sculpture.

My mother also obeyed the men. She had to do all the housework by herself without any help or any machines. She had to take care of the children and the elderly parents as well.

Children had to obey what the older people said. They went to bed by nine o‘clock exactly, came home right after school, and did not walk alone or with other children in the streets. We, my siblings and I, did everything my father said without question.

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Things changed when we moved out of the old building. My grandpa died. My mother began to work to support the family. We learnt to share the housework when my mother was out.

But things really started to change when we came to the United States two years ago. My father began to think about his children and tried to communicate with us. We now can make individual choices and have a certain freedom. We have grown up.

For me personally, the modern family is better than the traditional one. There is a great improvement in the relationship between family members, and everybody plays an important role in the family.

12.Read the sentences, mark each one true (T) or false (F).

b) The author thinks that in modern world the traditional family has disappeared.

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