- •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
A Detective Inquiry
The Detective must question several students (each of them is given either a picture or a card with a description of a person). The Detective holds a duplicate of one of the pictures to discover which of the students has the picture (the description) of the wanted person.
Task3
How do you respond to physical appearance?
Work in pairs, complete the following questionnaire, then discuss the results in groups. Use the verb phrases:
- I can tell by his expression that he is ...
- He strikes me as being rather ...
- He seems to be ...
- He appears to be fairly ....
-He looks as if he is ...
1. When you first meet someone, what do you look at first?
a) their hair e) the front of their body
b) their face f) the back of their body
c) their eyes g) the clothes they are wearing
d) their mouth h) other (please specify)____
2. Which of the following will make you think most positively about someone? (Choose one only.)
a) They are well-groomed. c) They have a good physique.
b) They are well-dressed. d)They look interesting.
3. Think of two people that you find very attractive. What is the physically attractive thing about them?
a). b).
4. Think of two people whose appearance you find unusiual or striking. What is the most unusual/striking thing about them?
a). b).
Task 4
Role-Play
Role card A Role card В
Somebody had come to see you at home/in the office/at your lodging, etc. while you were away. Unfortunately s/he didn't introduce himself. You ask your mother/sister/colleague/landlady, etc. several questions so that to guess who it was.
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You tell your son/daughter/colleague/ lodger, etc. that somebody had come to see you while you were away. S/he didn't introduce himself. You are asked a lot of questions. Try to describe his/her appearance and the general impression s/he had produced on you. Say whether you liked him or not.
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Task 5
Role-Play
Role card A
Your friend asks you to meet his/her aunt at the station and gives her description.
Role card В
You ask your friend to meet your aunt at the station and your aunt's description to your friend.
Task 6
Group Improvisation
Note: The group is split into two or three teams.
You make an arrangement to meet at the airport smb who comes to company on business. You haven't seen the person before. Your colleagues his/her descriptions which don't coincide. At last you call him/her on the phone and ask how you can recognise him/her. Describe yourself as well so that the visitor could recognise you.
Writing
Paul Sanders is going on a business trip to Edinburgh. This is his letter to Mr Bell, a person who is to meet Paul in Edinburgh at the station.
Ex. 1 Study Paul's letter and then answer the following questions:
1. Is it a friendly or formal letter?
2. Where do you put your address and the date when you write a formal letter?
3. Should you write your name at the top of the letter?
4. Where should you write the salutation?
5. Where should you begin the first paragraph of your letter?
Ex. 2 A letter usually contains the following stages:
SALUTATION (Dear Sir/Madam/Mr Bell etc)
REASONS FOR WRITING
DEVELOPMENT
CLOSING REMARKS
SIGNATURE/NAME
You should use at least one paragraph for each of the main stages.
Ex. 3 Notice that Paul's letter is a formal letter so the vocabulary and the students are formal:
Dear Mr Bell, Yours sincerely.
Always think who you are writing to before you begin уour letter. Mistakes in style make your letter look odd or impolite.
Ex. 4 Imagine that you are going on a holiday or business trip to ather country. Write a letter to a person you don't know, asking him/her to meet you at the station and giving a description of yourself.
Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English