- •Other Forms of Address
- •Less Common Forms of Address
- •Informal Address
- •Forms of Address within the Family
- •Making and Responding to Introductions
- •Third-Party Introductions
- •Self-Introductions
- •Responding to Introductions
- •Your relationship to the two people, and something they may have In common, according to the clues provided. You don't have to use all the
- •Information given; just use what you think would be appropriate.
- •B. Age and Ageing.
- •Do any of the words refer only to males (m) or only females (f)?
- •Skill Ex. 7 In the following dialogue, agree with the first speaker. Developing Use words from exercises 4 and 5 that mean roughly the same as the words in italics.
- •C. People's Occupation. Focus Vocabulary
- •Countries. Languages. Nationalities.
- •It's Been Long
- •The Way to Ask People about Their
- •Less Optimistic Replies
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Insert prepositions if necessary.
- •II. Rewrite and correct the sentences in which there are errors.
- •III. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Unit 2 Family Relationships Focus Vocabulary
- •1) Which two of these words can be used as a verb?
- •3) Which of the following:
- •4) Which of the word-parts in the box can be used with each of the relations below?
- •Interview with 16-year-old daughter Helen
- •Interview with 17-year-old son David
- •Interview with mother
- •Development answering the questions below. Try to use the multi-word verbs and expressions in the box in your answer as well as the verbs above.
- •When you are old
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •II. Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below.
- •III. Change the words underlined to give the sentences the opposite meaning.
- •IV. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Complimenting People
- •"It's been long", "How are you", "Complimenting".
- •1. When we describe somebody, we tend to follow this order in our description: height, build, age, hair, eyes, face, complexion, extra features, dress. Study this example.
- •2. Eyes
- •With the definitions in b.
- •A Detective Inquiry
- •Role-Play
- •Test Yourself
- •Unit 4 Character and Personality a. Focus vocabulary
- •Word Meaning Ex. 1 Match the words on the left with the closest meaning on the right.
- •We Are Not Alike a. Intellectual ability
- •Attitudes towards life
- •Attitudes towards other people
- •One person's meat is another person's poison
- •It Takes All Sorts
- •Idiomatic expressions
- •Your Stars
- •In the examples below?
- •We don't get on well
- •Likes and Dislikes
- •Test: How brave are you?
- •The Main Attraction
- •Persоnal
- •Interview the husband and the wife of the year.
- •Proposal
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Put the following adjectives in the correct order.
- •II. Use the prompts below to build up a description of a student. Before you begin think about the tenses you will use.
- •III. Cross out the incorrect word in each of the following sentences.
- •IV. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus Vocabulary
- •It would be very interesting to find out the opinion of girls and boys. Do they differ in any way?
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •Unit 2 Furnishing and Decorating Focus Vocabulary
- •Furniture in your home to your partner. Use the prepositions and adverbs to help you.
- •Flat for sale
- •Word Use Ex. 14 Complete the following sentences with a suitable idiomatic expression.
- •Estate agent
- •It needs doing, to have smth done, to do smth.
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •Something suitable.
- •Houses and Flats to Let
- •Houses and Flat for Sale
- •Sharing a Flat
- •The Noisy Neighbours
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. A. Renting a flat
- •Buying a house
- •III. Put one of the following words in each space in the sentences below.
- •Unit 4 Housework. Household Chores. Focus Vocabulary
- •Ex. 4 Make and do
- •Now collect any new expressions you can find using "make" or "do" from the dialogue below. Put them on your "make and do" list.
- •What's your attitude to untidy people?
- •Unit 5 Pets Focus Vocabulary
- •Don't Get a Dog or Puppy Until You've Checked These Points:
- •If you cannot answer 'yes' to all these questions, please think very carefully before you get a dog or a puppy. Perhaps another kind of animal would make a better pet for you.
- •Are They Not Sweet?
- •2. Are they better companions than some people may be?
- •3. Speak about your pets if any or pets you'd like to keep.
- •Vocabulary
Unit 2 Family Relationships Focus Vocabulary
Relations by birth: aunt brother child, children daughter father foster parents/brother/sister grandfather grand/dad(d)y grandmother/grandma granny grannie nanny grandparents grandchildren great grandparents great grandchildren half-sister/brother niece nephew orphan parents sister son stepmother/father twins uncle Relations by marriage: husband wife spouse father-in-law mother-in-law brother-in-law sister-in-law daughter-in-law son-in-law
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birth, to give birth to smb birthday, a birthday certificate to be born to die dead death bachelor best man boyfriend bride bridesmaid engagement fiance fiancee girlfriend groom/bridegroom marital status marriage a marriage certificate relation/relative single spinster wedding widow widower to be divorced to be/get engaged to be/get married to smb to marry smb to be related to smb to be single to be widowed to be smb's close/distant relation to fall in love (at first sight) to fall out of love to live single
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Word Ex. 1 Use a dictionary to help you answer the following questions.
Meaning
A. What differences in meaning and use are there between these words?
1) wedding and marriage
2) bride and wife; bridegroom and husband
3) to marry, to get married and to be married
4) bachelor, single, unmarried and unattached
B. What do the words below mean?
С Which of the following can be used with wedding to form a compound noun like wedding ceremony?
Ex. 2 Use a dictionary and decide which of these words refer to females (F), which to males (M) and which to both (FM). Then complete the sentences below.
widow pouse
bachelor mistress
spinster fiance
lover divorcee
fiancee widower
a) A woman's_____is the man who is engaged to be married to her.
b) _____are people who have been married but have divorced and are now single.
с) А is a woman whose husband has died. A man whose wife has died is
called a_____.
d) _____is a formal term for 'husband or wife'.
e) Someone's_____is a person other than their wife with whom they have a sexual
relationship.
f) A_____is a rather old-fashioned and derogatory word for an unmarried woman
over forty.
Ex. 3 Discuss with a partner where these family relations should be put on the ...... grid below. Which do you consider to be close to you, and which more distant?
Which are normally older, and which younger?
son |
niece |
mother-in-law |
stepdaughter |
Second cousin |
Great uncle |
ex-husband |
grand-daughter |
grandparents |
half-brother |
mother |
sister-in-law |
wife |
aunt |
sister |
father |
daughter |
nephew |
great-grandmother |
husband |
cousin |
twin sister |
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brother |
CLOSEST
YOUNGEST
OLDEST
MOST DISTANT
Ex. 4 A. Which of these words and expressions means "a child whose parents have both died'?
only child orphan unique child lonely child
B. What do the others mean?
Word Ex. 5 Use a dictionary if necessary to help you
Formation answer these questions