- •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
Sharing a Flat
Sharing a flat certainly has some advantages. To begin with, it should be cheaper, and if you are sharing with people that you get on well with, it is nice to liive some company at home rather than being alone and on your own. Also the household chores are shared and that is very important. Particularly, when you are younger, and you are living apart from your parents for the first time, it can be very enjoyable to live with people of your own age, whose interests and life-style you share.
However, sharing a flat does have some distinct disadvantages, and the main one is that the flat is not your own. So you cannot do what you want in it. What happens if your flat-mate wants to play music? To a certain extent you have to be unselfish. What is more, there can be little privacy.
I would say that as you get older, it is probably better to live on your own. Having had my own flat for a few years, I would not like to have to share again.
B. How is the text organised? What is the purpose of each paragraph?
Which of the words underlined could be replaced by one of the following:
on the other hand/ in my opinion/first of all/ especially/ moreover/another point is that.
Writing Use the text as a model to write your personal opinion of sharing a flat.
Class Communication
Task 1
Role-play
Work in pairs. Suppose one of you is a landlady who has a room to let, the other is a student who is in search of a room.
The Landlady shows you round the flat. Use:
I've just come to see the room. You are welcome. Shall I...? I'm wondering . What about . You don't have to ... |
That's great (lovely) ... Do you want me to ... That sounds fair (interesting) I.. That's fine ... It looks attractive ...
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Task 2
You've just seen the room. A friend of yours asks you about the impressions both of the room and the landlady. The impressions are favourable. Use:
- How do you find the room? (a beautifully modernised flat, convenient).
- How much do you have to pay?
- What do you think of the landlady? What does she look like? What is she like (talkative, sociable, a smiling type of a person, ...)
Task 3
You are speaking with your mother (father) over the telephone. You are very unhappy about the lodgings. Prompts: the roof is leaking, it faces North, a great deal of noise, a kindergarten in front of the house, the bed is creaking, the roommate is too much talkative).
Task 4
You try to persuade a friend of yours that it's very enjoyable to share a room
with people of your age. Your friend is of a different opinion.
Prompts: cheaper, to have a lot of fun, nice to have company, to share household chores,have meals together, to have much in common, etc.
Some people say you are indecisive. Do you think you have iilhi-iilty in making up your mind?
Well, yes and no.
Task 5
Look at the picture story with your partner. Practise telling the story. Describe what happens in the picture. How do you think the story ends? Try to use some of the following phrasal verbs and expressions.
To be fed up with |
to be in two minds |
to do up |
To put up with |
to think over |
to see to |
To look put onto |
to make up one's mind |
to throw out |
To get on someone’s nerves |
to move out/ in |
to put up |
To look through |
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to put in |
To come across |
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Do you like the story? Why? How much truth is there in it?
Note: The following phrases will be helpful when you do Tasks 6 and 7.
Saying you are displeased or angry:
> I'm very annoyed ...
> Oh no!
> Oh dear!
> Oh bother!
> What a nuisance!
> How infuriating/irritating!
> ... really makes me cross/ angry etc.
> ... annoys/ irritates etc. me.
> ... really isn't good enough.
> ... isn't very nice/ pleasant etc.
> I really hate ... (very strong)
> Oh, that's great! (sarcastic)
> Oh, hell, no.
> Oh bloody hell! (swear words)
> Oh damn!/ blast!/ hell! (swear words)
> Hell's bells!
> Oh no, what next?
> ... (really) makes me mad/ see red/ my blood boil.
> What an idiot/ fool etc.
> Why on earth/ Why the hell didn't he...
> I' ve had (just about) enough of....
> I can't stand ... .
> I'm fed up with ....
> That's the last straw!
> Look here, ....
> This is extremely irritation.
> Yes, I'm sorry, but there have been unforeseen problems.
> ... is most/ very/ extremely etc. annoying/ exasperating etc.
> I'm extremely/ very/ most etc. displeased/ unhappy/ angry etc. about
> I can't say I'm at all pleased about/ by ...
> I will not put up with ....
Saying you are sorry.
> I'm/1 really am so/ very/ terribly/ awfully sorry (for/about)
> I'm sorry, it/ that was (entirely) my fault.
> I feel bad about....
> Please accept my apologies for ...
> Not at all. May I say I quite understand your feelings about...
> (Please) forgive me (for ...).
> I'm extremely sorry (for ...).
> I can't tell you how sorry I am (for ...).
> I (really) do/must apologise (for/about...).
> May I offer you my profoundest/ sincerest apologies (for ...)
Work in pairs
Landlady
You have an argument with your tenant. You want him/ her to move out.
Tenant
Your Landlady wants you to move out. You find it not fair.
Read the dialogue and complete task 7.