- •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
Likes and Dislikes
Ex. 32 Each student gets a card with the task 'Find someone who ...'. Moving from one person to another he asks questions about their likes/dislikes.
a) likes going to the dentist
b) likes to be the centre of attention
c) likes making fun of other people
d) is fond of doing nothing
e) likes speaking in public
f) likes everything about his/her character
g) has a bunch of bad habits
h) likes his/her studies at the University
i) dislikes being laughed at
j) is fond of smoking
k) likes pets
1) is fond of chocolate
Ex. 33 Read these comments about smoking and say which you sympathise with and why.
a) I really dislike the habit.
b) I would hate to think that a child of mine would start smoking.
c) People seem to detest me just because I smoke. Well why not? I like smoking.
d) I don't care for cigarettes. They are extremely unpleasant.
e) I get a kick out of smoking. I'd like to see someone try to stop me!
f) I used to be a smoker, but now I've taken an intense.
g) There's nothing 1 loathe more than people who've given up smoking. They're so self-righteous. I'm not that keen on it, but yes, I enjoy the occasional cigarette.
h) I have a love-hate relationship with cigarettes. I mean I love smoking but I hate
what it might do to me.
i) Cigarettes do not tempt me in the slightest. They never have. And I can't stand being in public places which are full of smokers.
Ex. 34 A. Say what habits you think are good, bad. Do you have any bad habits you would like to get rid of? Is it easy? Use the following expressions to share your opinion:
- I think/believe/suppose ...
- To my mind ...
- In my opinion ...
- If you ask me ...
- As for me ...
- Actually/in fact...
- What concerns smoking/drinking, etc ...
You may also use the following words connected with liking and disliking. Make sure you understand the meaning of the words. Say which of them express liking and which express disliking.
revolting be fond of charming
detestable loveable adorable
captivating tempting enticing
hateful disgusting enchanting
B. Translate these words into Russian/Belarusian. С Use them in sentences as examples.
Class Communication
Task 1
Test: How brave are you?
How brave are you? How do you react (or how do you think you would react) to the following experiences?
Note your reactions as follows: very frightened 2; frightened 1; not frightened 0.
Take away one point from your total for each experience that excites you; take away two points for each experience that excites you very much.
1. being driven very fast
2. flying in a big passenger plane
3. going down in a submarine
4. climbing a high ladder
5. climbing a difficult mountain
6. looking down from the top of a
7. being lost in a dark forest
8. being alone in the dark
9. being in the middle of a big crowd
10. being in a small tunnel
11. being in a lift that has broken down
12. learning a dangerous sport (e.g. shark-hunting, motor-racing, sky-diving)
13. speaking in public
14. taking an exam
15. being alone with a drunk in a railway carriage
16. seeing a big dog coming towards you
17. touching a non-poisonous spider
18. hearing a fire alarm in your hotel
19. seeing an injured person pouring with blood
20. having a non-dangerous operation
When you have finished the questionnaire, find out the scores of different
people in the class. What are the highest and lowest scores? What is the
average score? How does your own score compare with the average? Are you
surprised by your result? What kind of scores do you think show that people
are: very brave; quite brave; quite nervous; very nervous?
Task 2
Work in groups and make up a questionnaire to find out something else about people - for example how generous they are, or how sociable, or how honest, or how hard-working.
Example: Do you lend money to your friends?
Task3
Do you know each other well?
Speak about the character, habits, likes and dislikes of one of your groupmates without mentioning his/her name. The others will try to guess who is/he is.
Task 4
Recollect the September 1 when you came to school as a first-former. What
were your impressions of your first teacher? Recollect your first impressions of the fellow-students/the language teacher at the University.
Who's special in your life at the moment? - ME.