Is it difficult for you to learn English?

• B.: Tea or coffee, Mr. A?

• A.: Tea, please. I don’t drink coffee.

• B.: Do you want milk in your tea?

• A.: Yes, thank you, but not very much.

• B.: Are you too tired to speak English, Mr. A?

• A.: Who? Me? Oh, no. It’s always a pleasure to speak English.

• B.: Your English is very good.

• A.: I work with foreign trade companies and learn English in the office.

• B.: How often do you have lessons?

• A.: We have three lessons every week.

• B.: Your lessons are interesting, aren’t they?

• A.: Yes. At our lessons we speak, read and translate.

• B.: Is it difficult for you to learn English?

• A.: I don’t think so.

• B.: Your work helps you, doesn’t it?

• A.: Yes, certainly. I often speak English at the talks and discuss different matters with our customers. And how many foreign languages do you speak, Mr. B?

• B.: Only one – French and not very well.

Remember the words:

to want – хотеть

to be tired – уставать

much – много (с неисчисляемыми существительными)

pleasure – удовольствие

It’s a pleasure – приятно

foreign – иностранный

a foreign trade company – внешнеторговая фирма

to learn – учить, изучать

me – мне, меня

a president – президент

to translate – переводить

to translate from Russian into … – переводить с русского на …

to think – думать

(thought, thought)

difficult – трудный

many – много (с исчисляемыми существительными)

to help – помогать

talks – переговоры

to have talks – вести переговоры

at the talks – на переговорах

only – только

Exercise 6. Do you know the following proverbs? If not then learn them.

1. A busy bee has no time for sorrow.

2. Every family has a black sheep.

3. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.

4. He has a fiddle but not the stick.

5. Nothing venture nothing have.

6. Good words cost nothing.

7. Fools grow without watering.

8. Fortune favours the brave.

9. Practice makes perfect.

10. The belly carries legs.

Exercise 7. Do you know articles very well?

Ivanov has got … friend. His name is … Petrov. He is … engineer of “Belkanton”. It is … large company. They’ve got … customers in … different cities. At 9 o’clock … Petrov comes to … his office. He stays in … office all day. In … morning he reads … cables and … faxes and after

lunch he writes … letters to … different companies.

… Petrov usually finishes …his work at 6 in … evening, but sometimes he stays in …office till 7 o’clock.

Exercise 8. Read the dialogue and reproduce it.

• L. What do you usually do at weekends, Mr. Bell?

• B. Oh, at weekends we often go to Brighton.

• L. Brighton? Is it a nice place?

• B. Yes, it’s a very nice place near London. We go to Brighton in the morning and stay there all day.

• L. That sounds nice.

• B. But we don’t always go out at weekends. Sometimes we stay at home and meet our friends or watch TV.

• L. We often do the same at weekends too.

Remember the new words:

at weekends – в выходные

a place – место

there – там

near – около, возле

Your Vocabulary

Do you know all these words?

lunch

to have lunch

to know

different

seldom

a customer

every

a day

when

usually

to stay

to stay in the office

all

often

to read

to write

to do

to be busy

always

till

at 9 o’clock

to finish

to work

дом, жилище

дома

находиться дома, оставаться дома

быть дома

приходить домой

идти домой

вечер

вечером

утро

утром

иногда

проводить время вне дома, выходить

но

книга

смотреть телевизор

действительно

хотеть

уставать

много (с неисчисляемыми существительными)

удовольствие

иностранный

внешнеторговая фирма

учить, изучать

мне, меня

президент

переводить

думать

трудный

много (с исчисляемыми существительными)

помогать

переговоры

вести переговоры

на переговорах

только