Test II Use the correct form of the verbs given in brackets.

Friends in business

A rich businessman was dying. He ⁽¹⁾ (to ask) all the members of his family to leave him alone with his business partner who had been running the business with him for years. The dying man⁽²⁾ (not to want) anybody to hear their conversation. "George," he ⁽³⁾ (to whisper) when they⁽⁴⁾ (to remain) alone, "I⁽⁵⁾ (to die) soon, I can't wait... I must tell you... Listen... When you ⁽⁶⁾ (to be) away on business five years ago I ⁽⁷⁾ (to take) eighty thousand dollars from the safe and have never put the money back... I always ⁽⁸⁾ (to try) not to let you be successful in business. I⁽⁹⁾ (to dislike) you greatly all my life…You^(l0) (to remember) that plan of yours which ⁽¹¹⁾ (to end) in failure? You ⁽¹²⁾ (to explain) the failure by changes in business conditions, but the real reason ⁽¹³⁾ (to be) quite different: I had sold your secret to McKay and Co. for 150 thousand dollars... Forgive me, George..."

"Don't worry, Jim," George ⁽¹⁴⁾ (to say). – "It ⁽¹⁵⁾ (to be) all right. I've also got to tell you something. I⁽¹⁶⁾ (to put) some poison into your soup at dinner yesterday."

Answer the questions on the text.

1 Do you think they were real friends?

2 Were they good businessmen?

У р о к 6

Grammar: 1 The Future Indefinite Tense.

2 The Article.

3 Indefinite Pronouns MUCH, MANY, A LOT OF, LITTLR, FEW, A LITTLE, A FEW.

Oral Topic: Education.

Первичные тренировочные упражнения

Difficulties of letter-sound correlation in English due to the presence of ‘silent’ consonant letters:

b	h	p
comb [kəum] dumb [d^m] thumb [^m] debt [det] doubt [daut]	exhaust [ig`zo:st] exhibit [ig`zibit] whisper [`wispə] whist [wist]	psychic [`saikik] psychiatrist [sai`kaiətrist] receipt [ri`si:t] coup [ku:] corps [ko:]

Ex. 1 Read the following words:

cupboard, psalter, psalm, psychic, receipt, psychiatrist, corps, psychologist, sapphire, psychotherapy,bomb, comb, crumb, dumb, numb, plumb, plumber, tomb, limb, climb, thumb, debt, lamb, doubt,subtle, whip, whim, honest, honour, vehicle, rhythm,rhyme, whale, exhibit, exhaust, exhort, whirl, whist, whisper, wheeze, prohibition.

Ex. 2 Practise reading the following sentences. Mind the pronunciation and intonation:

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Jane What do you| do, /Mark?

Mark I’m a ^vstudent| but I'm 'working with `Tim for the \summer.

Jane You 'won’t be `here for /long ^will you?

Mark ₄No. ] I'll only be ^vhere \ until the 'end of ` August \ and

`then I'll |go `home.

Jane You 'won’t have a \holiday \ will you?

Mark Oh ^Ayes, | I'll have 'three 'weeks /holiday in `Wales. I’m 'going to the 'Welsh `mountains.

Jane And /then?

Mark "Then I'll 'go to `Coventry.

Jane 'Why will you 'go `there?

Mark To 'study at the 'University of `Warwick.

Jane ⁴Oh, \ I'll be very ⁴near /there.

Mark 'Where will you be?

Jane I'll be at `Birmingham University. 'What are you 'going to study?

Mark 'Economics. I `hope to /work for an `advertising agency`one /day. And 'what about you? 'Will it be your first

year?

Jane `<sup>4</sup>Yes. I'm 'doing 'modern \languages. I 'don't `know what I 'want to \/be. I think I'd 'like to be a teacher.

Mark "Do you 'know what you'll /teach?

Jane I’m 'not 'really ^Asure \ ...perhaps I'll teach `Spanish.

Mark Do you 'speak /Spanish?

Jane ~Oh `yes. ) I've studied it ] for 'four years.

Mark I can’t speak the language \ but I can understand it.

(from London Lingaphone Course)