- •Чебоксары 2011
- •Предисловие
- •Topic: getting acquainted text a. Just good friends?
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text b. The “name game” winners
- •Text c. Ageism turned her into a liar
- •Conversational practice dialogues
- •Getting acquainted
- •Talking points
- •Topic: family text a. The american family
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text b. Family life
- •Text c. Nuclear family, extended family
- •Additional exercises
- •Conversational practice dialogues a. A hardworking mother
- •B. A lovely bride
- •C. Mr. Cliff’s family
- •D. An arranged marriage
- •C. A career for robert
- •Talking points
- •Topic: appearance and character
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text a. Beauty
- •Text b. Body size and body parts
- •Text c. Physical description
- •Text d. Personality
- •Text e. Who are these? people describing
- •Do you have a “Type a” or “Type b” personality?
- •Additional exercises
- •Conversational practice dialogues a. Describing people
- •B. Missing person
- •He is very forgetful
- •Steven or Rod
- •Victorian Family
- •The Office Party
- •Talking points
- •Topic: our english lesson text a. Learning foreign languages
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Idioms and sayings about education:
- •Exercises
- •What makes a good language learner?
- •Text b. At school for 17 hours a day
- •Higher education
- •Conversational practice dialogues
- •Talking points
- •Topic: home text a. Our flat
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Our House in the Country
- •Text b. Feng shui
- •A House with a Difference
- •Text d. Flat-sharing – the inside story
- •Additional exercises
- •Conversational practice dialogues a. Looking for a new apartment
- •B. Renting a room
- •E. Discussing new apartment
- •In pairs talk about Circle 1, 2, 3. Ask at least one more question. Get as much information as you can.
- •Topic: plant and animal life text a. Plant life and animal life in the uk
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text b. Animal telepathy
- •Text c.
- •Additional exercises
- •Are our zoos cruel to wild animals?
- •Conversational practice dialogues a. А bit of gardening
- •B. A conversation with jack hanna
- •Talking points
- •1. You are in the Zoo. Speak about the animals you and your friend see there and you have at home.
- •Литература
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Idioms and sayings about education:
To be a bookworm (= someone who reads a lot) "He's always reading. He's a real bookworm."
To be a copycat (= someone who does or says exactly the same as someone else) "She always copies my work, she's such a copycat."
To learn something off by heart (= to learn something in such a way that you can say it from memory) "I learnt all the vocabulary off by heart."
To learn the hard way (= to have a bad experience) "I told her not to marry him. But she had to learn the hard way."
To learn the ropes (= to learn how to do a job) "She's new here and is still learning the ropes."
To learn your lesson (= to suffer a bad experience and know not to do it again) "I got very drunk once and was really sick. I won't do it again, I learnt my lesson."
To live and learn (= said when you hear or discover something which is surprising ) "I never knew that she was married. Oh well, you live and learn."
The school of hard knocks (= often said about people who haven't had an easy life) "He learnt the hard way at the school of hard knocks."
Exercises
Ex. 1. Give the opposites to the following words.
Active, attentive, back, broad, busy, clean, clever, closed, complete, correct, difficult, expensive, fair, fast, foreign, greedy, ill, lazy, low, modern, negative, shallow, simple, strange, warm.
Ex. 2. Give the English equivalents.
Согласный звук, точка, глагол-связка, оценка (за что-либо), абзац, правила чтения, смысловая группа, высказывание, слог; канцелярская кнопка, дырокол, классный журнал, расписание, точилка для карандашей; альвеолярный, хвастливый, удобный, правильный, отличный, беглый, неопределённый, нечёткий, энергичный, умственный, отрицательный, старомодный, фонетический, бесполезный, неисчисляемый; описывать, учить что-либо наизусть, помнить, пересказывать, подчёркивать, интонировать, отсутствовать; Откройте ваши книги на странице 89. Время вышло. Говорите громче. Работайте самостоятельно.
Ex. 3. Answer the following questions.
1. What do we take when we want to write something down? 2. What do we write at the end of a sentence? 3. What do we hear at the end of a lesson? 4. What do we write on (in)? 5. What does a word consist of? 6. What do we call a sound which we pronounce with the tip of the tongue between the teeth? 7. What do we use when we want to draw margins? 8.You have a pencil and a pen on the desk, haven’t you? 9. You have no list of our students in the bag, have you? 10. Your deskmate has a notebook, a pad and a textbook in the bag, hasn’t he/she? 11. You have no map on the table, have you? 12. We have a date on the blackboard, haven’t we? 13. We have no hostel near the university, have we? 14. We have a stop near the university, haven’t we? 15. Our university has a café, hasn’t it?
Ex. 4. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English.
1. У меня отчётливое произношение. - Как плохо, что ты этим хвастаешься! 2. Что делает Артур? – Он выполняет домашнее задание. – Он – лучший ученик в классе, не так ли? – Вовсе нет! Он очень ленивый и всегда делает много ошибок в тестах. 3. Моя племянница не говорит ни по-английски, ни по-французски, но она умеет хорошо считать, вычитать, складывать, делить и умножать. 4. Что мы используем, когда хотим начертить поля? – Линейку и карандаш. 5. Мне интонировать текст? – Не нужно. Вам нужно включить магнитофон, заправить плёнку, перемотать её вперёд, найти текст 9 и послушать его. – Ты не мог бы помочь мне включить магнитофон в розетку? – С удовольствием. 6. Ты слушаешь музыку? – Нет, я готовлюсь к уроку английского языка. Учитель даёт нам большие задания, и мне требуется много времени, чтобы их выполнить. Мы должны слушать текст 8. – А его нужно транскрибировать? – Нет, не нужно. 9. 2 прибавить к 4 будет 6, 12 отнять 2 будет 10, 12 умножить на 2 будет 24, 40 разделить на 2 будет 20. 10. Билл, сядь прямо! Не шуми! Не болтай на уроке! Не играй указкой и ластиком!
Ex. 5. a) Read the text below. Match the topic sentence with a paragraph of the text.
a) The good language learner thinks about how she is learning.
b) The good language learner is willing to experiment and take risks.
c) The good language learner is realistic.
d) The good language learner is independent.
e) The good language learner is organized and active.
f) The good language learner balances communication and not making mistakes.