- •Glad to meet you!
- •1A Meeting people
- •1. Read the dialogues and guess who is speaking and where they are.
- •2. Listen to these dialogues and repeat them. Pay special attention to the intonation and sentence stress. Act out the dialogues.
- •3. Make up your own dialogues using patterns from the dialogues.
- •Местоимения (pronouns) Личные местоимения (Personal Pronouns)
- •Указательные местоимения
- •Спряжение глагола to be
- •Множественное число существительных
- •Притяжательный падеж существительных (Possessive Case)
- •4. Make these sentences plural.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •6. Choose the correct form of pronouns.
- •7. Paraphrase these word combinations and sentences using Possessive Case.
- •8. Translate into English using Possessive Case.
- •10. Translate into English using the correct form of the verb to be in Present Simple.
- •11. Put the correct form of the verb to be in Present, Past or Future Simple.
- •12. Translate into English using the correct form of the verb to be in Present, Past or Future Simple.
- •13. Listen to a dialogue and answer the questions.
- •14. Listen again and fill in the gaps in the sentences taken from the dialogue.
- •15. Study the following speech patterns. Read the translations and guess the meaning of the rest.
- •16. Read the following dialogues and spot speech patterns from ex. 13 in them. Act out the dialogues.
- •17. Translate the dialogues into English.
- •Forms of address Mr., Mrs., Ms, Miss.... What am I?
- •Other forms of address include:
- •1 B Personal details, please!
- •Describing appearance
- •Describing character
- •24. Match the adjectives from column a with their opposites in column b.
- •25. How would you describe a person in each of these situations?
- •I think that if a person is ………., ……….., because ………..
- •32. Match each word in Column a with its meaning in Column b. Write the corresponding letter in the box next to the word.
- •33. Match each word in Column a with its opposite meaning in Column b. Write the corresponding letter in the box next to the word.
- •34. Choose four out of the eight words below and make a simple sentence with each of the four words you picked.
- •35. Using information in the passage, say whether these sentences are true (t) or false (f):
- •36. Say who of the four people in the passage…
- •37. Find in the text the following sentences. Translate them into Russian:
- •Времена английского глагола
- •Группа временных форм Simple (Indefinite) Формы глагола в Present Simple
- •Формы глагола в Past Simple
- •Правильные и неправильные глаголы (Regular and irregular verbs)
- •Формы глагола в Future Simple
- •38. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct Present Simple form.
- •39. Translate into English using Present Simple.
- •40. Translate into English using Present Simple.
- •41. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct Present Simple or Future Simple form.
- •42. Rewrite the text using Past Simple.
- •43. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct Present Simple, Past or Future Simple form.
- •48. Answer these questions about yourself
- •49. Prepare to introduce yourself to the group. Think of your biography, your family, your interests and hobbies as well as your plans for the future.
- •50. Translate this text into English
- •51. Spot the error. In each sentence below you will find an error. Underline it and write a correct sentence in your copybook.
- •52. Read the task and the advertisement in exercise 55 carefully. Then read the message below, and decide if the writer has included all the requested information.
- •53. Tick the box if the information is mentioned in the email.
- •54. Rewrite David’s message, adding the information he’s missed out.
- •55. You see this advertisement in an Internet forum. Write your response in an email of 40-50 words.
- •British character
- •57. Do you know much about the uk? Choose the correct answers. Then read the text and find out if you were right.
- •59. Unscramble the words from the text in column a and find their Russian equivalents in column b.
- •60. Find in the text English equivalents of the following Russian word combinations and phrases:
- •61. Tell whether these statements are t (true), f (false) or nm (not-mentioned).
- •62. Complete the following sentences:
- •63. Final discussion on the text.
- •64. Comment upon the following utterances:
- •Test yourself
- •Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form using Present Simple, Past Simple или Future Simple.
- •5. Match each word in Column a with its meaning in column b.
- •6. Match each word in Column a with its opposite meaning in column b.
- •Fill in the gaps in the dialogue with a suitable word from a box below.
- •8. Translate into English.
- •Answer the questions about yourself.
- •10. Tell about British character. Compare and contract it with Russian character. Use proverbs and quotations you know connected to the topic.
- •11. There is a very good proverb about person’s character. Do the crossword and find it out. Say what you think about it.
- •Supplementary texts
- •Margaret thatcher
- •G eorge washington
- •Oscar wilde
- •Lewis carroll
- •C onan doyle
- •Michael faraday
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35. Using information in the passage, say whether these sentences are true (t) or false (f):
1. Alex is a schoolboy.
2. He tries to receive good marks.
3. Alex is a teenager.
4. Jane is a blonde.
5. Jane reads a lot.
6. Oscar is shy.
7. Oscar plays in Barcelona football team.
8. Kate isn’t trustworthy.
9. Kate changes her mind quite often.
10. Kate doesn’t always follow her parents’ instructions.
36. Say who of the four people in the passage…
1. … plays a team sport?
2. … always tries to help others?
3. … is a freshman?
4. … likes to listen to music?
5. … tries to achieve good results in studies?
6. … is going to be a doctor?
7. … is critical about his/her build?
8. … values his/her friends and way of life?
9. … states his/her precise height?
10. … likes going on foot?
11. … thinks it is important not to tell lies?
12. … loves his/her place of living?
13. … is a future engineer?
14. … is a sports fan?
15. … doesn’t find it easy to describe himself/herself?
37. Find in the text the following sentences. Translate them into Russian:
This is my first year, I enjoy studying here and I do my best to get only “fives”.
I’m overweight I think though my friends say I am not.
My main exercise is walking – I walk everywhere – and swimming, which is fine for giving you good stamina and it’s good for your heart, spine and lungs.
I can mix quite well with people that I’ve never met before and with people from different walks of life.
I am honest and reliable and I value these qualities highly.
Well, actually it is very difficult to speak about yourself, but I will try.
I am very active, although my parents say that I am lazy, because I don’t like to do the things they want me to do.
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