- •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 4 Character and Personality a. Focus vocabulary
admirable aggressive ambitious amusing, witty arrogant, haughty boastful bold, brave, courageous, fearless boring, dull bossy, superior (to smb), snobbish cheerful, lively calm, quiet, reserved clever, intelligent, bright conceited conscientious, scrupulous contemptuous cruel cunning, sly curious, inquisitive deceitful, dishonest diligent, hard-working, industrious disobedient, naughty envious evil, wicked fair, honest foolish, silly, stupid frank, sincere
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generous gentle gloomy, moody good-mannered, well-bred greedy hypocritical ill-bred independent jealous lazy, idle mean modest noisy obstinate, stubborn patient, tolerant polite selfish sensitive shy sociable, communicative talkative unfair unbalanced vulgar warm-hearted, kind-hearted well-balanced wise |
to admire smb for smth
to appreciate smth
to be easy/difficult/hard to deal with/to talk to/to work for
to be a good mixer
to be happy to do smth
to be a person of strong/weak character
to be the kind of person you like atfirst sight
to get along/on with smb
to be pleased with smb (smth)
to be satisfied with smth
to be a sunny soul
to have a bunch of bad habits
to have a lot of faults
to have common sense
to have good/bad qualities
to have a sense of humour
to keep one's promise/word
to make friends
to make smb angry/happy/sad
to manage smb/smih
to tell lies
Likes and Dislikes
to be fond ofsmth, doing smth
to be keen on smth
to be devoted to
to be crazy about smb/ smth
to be good at smth/at doing smth
to be lazy about smth/doing smth
to get rid ofsmth
to give up smth
to like/dislike/hate doing/to do smth
to like the way one behaves
to behave oneself
Word Meaning Ex. 1 Match the words on the left with the closest meaning on the right.
1. sad 2. amusing 3. wicked 4. hard-working 5. stubborn 6. curious 7. boring 8. polite 9. angry 10. terrible 11. shy 12. brave, bold 13. bossy 14. arrogant 15. sincere
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a) courageous b) haughty c) frank d) dreadful e) industrious f) uninteresting g)reserved h) good-mannered i) inquisitive j) superior k) obstinate m)unhappy n) furious o) witty
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Ex. 2 Match the favourable adjective on the left with the corresponding unfavourable adjective or phrase on the right.
1. ambitious 2. amusing, entertaining 3. beautiful (woman), handsome (man) 4. bright, intelligent, clever 5. calm 6. cheerful 7. even-tempered 8. generous 9. good-looking 10. hard-working 11. humorous, witty 12. pleasant, charming 13. polite 14. self-confident, outgoing 15. sensitive 16. sincere 17. smart 18. tolerant 19. honest 20. obedient
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a) dim, stupid b) disagreeable c) dull, boring d) having no sense of humour e) hypocritical f) lacking in initiative g) lazy, idle h) mean i) miserable j) naughty k) narrow-minded 1) plain m) quick-tempered n) rude o) shy, reserved p) deceitful q) unfeeling r) untidy s) ugly t) moody
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Which of the five characteristics mentioned do you think are the most important in a friend? Which five characteristics do you dislike most in other people?
Ex. 3 Put the listed words in the columns which you think are most appropriate.
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Ex. 5 A. Match the following words with their definitions. Some of the words may have the same meaning.
1. naughty 2. haughty 3. obstinate 4. bold 5. shy 6. inquisitive 7. brave 8. conceited 9. arrogant 10. wicked 11. reserved 12. mean 13.cunning 14.curious 15.sly 16. stubborn
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a) having or showing too high an opinion of one's abilities b) proud and self-important in a rude way that shows no respect for other people c) a very strong word for real moral evil d) unkind, unwilling to help, of unpleasant behaviour which others dislike e) bad in behaviour (of children or their actions) f) eager to know or learn g) of a type which tries to find out (too many) details things and people (of people and their acts) h) determined, with a strong will i) not easy to change by argument, not willing to obey j) not bold, nervous in the company of others k) that doesn't like to talk about himself or to make his feelings known (typical of a person) 1) clever in deceiving m) courageous, adventurous; fearless, ready to suffer danger tolerant tactful |
A. Give Russian/Belarusian equivalents for these words. B. Make up sentences of your own using these words.
Ex. 6 What sort of person are you?
A. What are the opposites of these adjectives?
witty sociable reliable sensitive cheerful
fussy selfish ambitious moody inquisitive
B. Give Russian/Belarusian equivalents for these adjectives.
Note: Sometimes you can form the opposite using a prefix or suffix.
Prefixes: - in, - un
Suffix: - less
С Which of these do you think are positive and which are negative qualities. Discuss the problem with your partner.
Ex. 7 A. Match the adjectives with the questions:
1. tolerant |
a. Are you generally aware of other people's feelings? |
2. sociable |
b. Do you find it difficult to meet new people? |
3. reliable |
c. Do you frequently make people laugh? |
4. sensitive |
d. Does your mood change often and suddenly? |
5. tactful |
e. When decisions have to be made, do you think first of yourself? |
6. fussy |
f. Can your friends trust you and depend on you? |
7. witty |
g. Do you generally like other people's company? |
8. selfish |
h. Are there lots of things you want to do in your professional life? |
9. ambitious |
i. Can you usually understand other people's point of view? |
10. moody |
j. Do you worry and think too much about detail? |
11.inquisitive |
k. Are you usually quite a happy, smiling person? |
12.cheerful |
1. Are you interested in other people and their business? |
13. shy |
m. Do you sometimes not tell the truth because you don't want to hurt someone's feelings? |
B. Give Russian/Belarusian equivalents for these adjectives.