Beginner one-piece

A:Brush, brush. Spit, spit.

B:What did they do in the old days?

A:They brushed with their fingers.

B:They also ate with their fingers!

A:Why do they call it the good old days?

B:Maybe because they didn’t have to brush and floss.

A:Who invented flossing?

B:A dentist, I’m sure.

A:I hate flossing more than brushing!

B:I can’t wait till all my teeth fall out.

9.Joyce Summers is talking about her family’s health. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs.

To have, to eat, to lose, to stop, to do, to get, to go (2), to drink

My husband, Eric, worries about his health a lot. His father had a heart attack last year and Eric …………. smoking next day. But he ……….. very stressed at work and finds it hard to relax. Eric and I don’t ……….. alcohol, but only one or two glasses of wine a day. I’m trying to

…………. weight at the moment and I ………….. some exercise every day. My son, Ian, is trying to ………… fit. He doesn’t ………….. fried food any more. He also ……………. to the gym a lot. I think he’s got a new girlfriend.

10. Read the following information and answer the questions.

A Tough Worker

Your heart is really a muscle. It’s located a little to the left of the middle of your chest, and it’s about the size of your fist. There are lots of muscles all over your body – in your arms, in your legs, in your back. But this muscle is special because

of what it does – the heart sends blood around your body. The blood provides your body with the oxygen and nutrients it needs. It also carries away the waste that your body has to get rid of.

Your heart reminds a pump or two pumps in one. The right side of your heart receives blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs. The left side of the heart does the exact opposite: it receives blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the body. By the time you’re grown up, your heart will be beating (pumping) about 70 times a minute.

How does the heart beat? Before each beat, your

heart fills with blood. Then it contracts to squirt the blood along. When something contracts, it squeezes tighter – try squeezing your hand into a fist. Your heart does this all the time. Every day, an adult heart pumps 2,000 gallons (7,500 liters) of recycled blood by filling and contracting. The heart is a rather tough worker!

Where is your heart located?

Where else can you find muscles in your body besides the heart?

Why do we need a heart?

Which organ(s) directly works with the heart?

11. Writing options. Try to make a story on the offered topics.

1.Do you ever read magazines or news articles about health? If yes, what subject(s) do you find the most interesting?

2.Do you think it is unhealthy to keep a cat in your home or pets are good for a person’s health?

3.Do you think that the tobacco companies should be held reasonably responsible for a person’s addiction to nicotine?

4.Do you normally go to one doctor in particular or any available doctor? What is the best way to find a doctor, if you’re new in the area?

5.Do you enjoy cleaning? Have you ever ended a relationship because your partner had bad hygiene?

6.In what circumstances should traditional or alternative medicine be used? Are traditional therapies compatible with modern medicine? Why or why not?

HUMOUR TIME

Doctor, Doctor, what can I do about my broken leg? – Limp.

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Patient: Doctor, you must help me. I keep losing my temper with people. Doctor: Tell me about your problem.

Patient: I just did, didn’t I, you stupid idiot!

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“Doctor, doctor, every time I drink a cup of coffee I get a sharp pain in my nose.” “Have you tried taking the spoon out of the cup?”

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A doctor and a nurse were called to the scene of an accident. Doctor: We need to get these people to a hospital now!

Nurse: What is it?

Doctor: It’s a big building with a lot of doctors, but that’s not important now!

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“I am sorry, madam, but I shall have to charge you hundred dollars for pulling your boys tooth.” “Hundred dollars! Why, I understood you to say that you charged only twenty dollars for such work!” “Yes,” replied the dentist, “but this youngster yelled so terribly that he scared out four other patients out of the office.”

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A patient came to his dentist with problems with his

teeth.

Patient: Doctor, I have yellow teeth, what do I do? Dentist: Wear a brown tie!

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Two psychoanalysts are cycling. One of them has a bad fall. Bruises, scratches, broken arm... Another runs up to him and asks in a very sympathetic voice: “How much does it hurt? Would you like to talk about it?”

LESSON 10

Hobbies and Entertainment

Fishing is the sport of drowning worms.

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.

A “hobby” is a special interest or activity that you do in your time off. Some people have animals as hobbies. They keep rabbits, or go fishing. They train dogs to do tricks, or keep pigeons to race and carry messages. Some are crazy about plants. They try to grow cacti or rare tropical flowers in their kitchens and sitting rooms.

Others are mad about their car or motorbike. They spend their Saturdays and Sundays washing them, painting them, or buying new bits and pieces to make them go even faster.

Children and teenagers are great collectors. They collect stamps, or postcards or matchboxes, or pictures of a favorite footballer or pop star.

Many people make things as a hobby. Some teach themselves at home, but a lot of people go to evening classes at their local college.

A “hobby” is usually something that a person does alone. But American (and British) families sometimes like to do things together, too.

American families often have quite a lot of money to spend on their recreation. They can all enjoy their holiday home or they boot somewhere in the country away from home.

Americans love to get out of town into the wild and many go for holidays or long weekends into the fabulous national parks. These magnificent areas of countryside include tropical forests, high mountains, dry deserts, long sandy coasts, grassy prairies and wooded mountains full of wild animals. The idea of these parks, which cover 1% of the whole area of the USA is to make “a great breathing place for the national lungs”, and to keep different parts of the land as they were before men arrived. There are camping places in the national parks as well as museums, boat trips and evening campfire meetings.

Americans really enjoy new “gadgets”, especially new ways of traveling. In winter, the woods are full of “snowmobiles” (cars with skis in the front). In summer they ride their “dune bugging” across the sands or take to the sky in hang gliders.

But Americans do not only spend their free time having fun. They are very interested in culture too. Millions take part-time courses in writing, painting and music, and at weekends the museums, art galleries and concert halls are full.

1. Find the English equivalents from the text.

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2. Comprehension questions.

1.What is hobby?

2.What hobbies do people have?

3.Are children and teenagers great collectors? What do they collect?

4.Do American families like doing things together?

5.Where do they enjoy their holiday?

6.What is the idea of the parks there (in America)?

7.Are the Americans interested in culture? What do they do to prove their interest?

VOCABULARY PRACTICE

1.Interesting or boring? Put these leisure activities in order from most interesting to most boring in your opinion.

gardening, cooking, reading, surfing the Internet, watching videos, listening to music, doing nothing

2. Fill in the gaps with the suitable words.

1.Do you prefer to go ………. cinema or to watch TV?

2.We ………. a video last night.

3.Who ………. James Bond in You Only Live Twice?

4.Was Clint Eastwood ………. Dirty Harry?

5.All the big ………. live in Hollywood.

6.Stephen Spielberg is a famous American film ………. .

4.We use many various types of equipment and clothing to play different sports. Decide whether the sport is played with the following types of equipment and clothing. Some of the words are used more than once.

6. Decide between do / go / play. The verbs may need to be conjugated or put in the infinitive or gerund form.

1.He used to ………. jogging every day when he was at university.

2.I love ………. a good game of chess from time to time.

3.She ………. gymnastics for over five years now.

4.This summer we ………. windsurfing every day on our vacation.

5.He’s quite the athlete. He ………. basketball, baseball and hockey, too.

6.My wife ………. horse riding twice a week.

7.Why don’t we ………. a set of tennis?

8.Some people think that ………. aerobics four times a week is the best possible way of keeping fit.

9.His idea of the perfect summer holiday is to rent a sailboat and ………. sailing between the islands of the Tuscan archipelago.

10.He ………. athletics for his local track club.

7.Read the following dialogues.

A:Are there any hobbies you do?

B:When I have time, I sometimes draw and paint.

A:Oh, you actually do that?

B:Every so often, I do.

A:Did you always know how to draw and paint?

B:I was taught in high school how to draw and paint.

A:You had an art class?

B:Exactly, it was my favorite class.

A:Well, it’s good that you’re so talented.

B:I appreciate that.

A:Talent is a great thing, I wish I had one.

B:Everyone has a talent. They just need to find it.

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A:What kind of music do you enjoy listening

to?

B:I enjoy listening to all kinds of music.

A:What kind?

B:I like to listen to Rock and R&B.

A:Why do you like that type of music?

B:I like the kinds of instruments that they use.

A:I think that’s an excellent reason to like something.

B:Thanks, I feel the same way.

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A:Did you go to the basketball game on Friday?

B:No, I couldn’t make it.

A:You missed a really good game.

B:Oh, really? Who won?

A:Our school did. They played really well.

B:Too bad I was busy. I really wanted to go.

A:Yeah, you should have. It was really exciting.

B:So what was the score?

A:The score was 101-98.

B:Man, that was a really close game.

A:That’s what made it so great.

B:I’ll make sure and make it to the next one.

8. Fill in the gaps with these verbs.

play, read, go (4), watch (2), take, listen (2)

I do a lot of sport and in the weekend I ………. tennis or ………. running. I always ……….

to the radio in the morning before I go to work and when I get home I usually ………. a DVD or

……….to music. On Saturdays I often ………. sport on TV and my girlfriend and I sometimes

……….dancing in the evening. Oh, and we always ………. swimming on Sunday mornings. When I’m on holiday I usually ………. skiing and ………. lots of books – and I always ……….

hundreds of photos!

9. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

Film posters

Film posters used to be considered worthless ephemera once they’d (1) ………. their purpose

– to get bums on seats. They took up too much space in warehouses and were destroyed by the thousand. No one (2) ………. it worthwhile to lay them down on acid-free paper to (3) ……….

them from discoloring, still less to (4) ………. against pinholes and creases, in (5) ………. of the day when they might be worth large sums of money. With the passage of time, however, more and more people came to regard film posters as works of art, and as the traditional art market is normally beyond ordinary people’s (6) ………. , film posters represented images they could

10. Read the information and do the activities.

Jumping across cities

Forget about expensive gyms, the new sport in cities is free-running. Since it started in a Paris suburb in the 1990s, free-running has attracted lots of fans in cities around the world. Instead of walking normally, free-runners jump over or around everything – car, buildings, trees

or streetlights – in their way.

One of the sport’s inventors told our reporter how free-running started, ‘It was boring where we lived, there was nothing for us to do after school. We had done playground games like football and basketball when we were kids but we wanted something new and exciting. We started learning how to jump and run between buildings – and we loved it. Walking is a waste of time. Free-runners have to use their imaginations. Everything – a tree, a streetlight – is part of our outdoor gym. We’re like children because we’ve never stopped plying in the street.’

The sport’s website has lots of rules, for example, not to break people’s windows, not to jump on flowerbeds or be rude to people who want to stop a free-runner. Safety is also very important. You must start with the easy

moves – you have to do thousands of small practice jumps before you try anything difficult. If you made only one mistake, you might hurt yourself badly.

A local person said, ‘It’s good that young people have something to do. But when they jump off buildings like cats they sometimes frighten other people.’

Don’t try this at home – the basics of free-running Blind jump is a jump where you can’t see the landing spot.

Tic-tac – run and put your foot on a small step, go forward and jump over the next thing.

Basic jump – run and jump, land on two feet while bending your knees. To finish roll into head-over-heels.

Cat jump – run towards a wall, put both hands on the top of the wall and jump through your arms.

a.Is free-running dangerous? What attracts people in free-running? Is it popular in your country?

b.Match these words from the article.

c.Choose the best answer.

1.Free-running started in

11. Writing options. Try to make a story on the offered topics.

1.Did you have any hobbies when you were a child?

2.Can you think of any hobbies which are popular with children and adults?

3.Do you think a hobby is different from a sport?

4.Are there any hobbies you would like to try?

5.Do you spend money on your hobby? Can you make money from doing your hobby?

6.Are there any hobbies you can do in other countries, but not your own?

7.Which hobbies do you think are the most difficult?

HUMOUR TIME

Neighbor: Haven’t I seen you on TV?

Actor: Well, I do appear, on and off, you know. How do you like me? Neighbor: Off.

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“I didn’t see you in church last Sunday, Nigel. I hear you were out playing football instead.” “That’s not true, vicar. And I’ve got the fish to prove it!”

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A guy rings his boss and says “I can’t come to work today”. The boss asks why and the guy says “It’s my eyes.” “What’s wrong with your eyes?” asks the boss. “I just cant see myself coming to work, so I’m going fishing instead...”

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A saxophone is like a lawsuit. Everyone is happy when the case is closed.