- •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
B. Age and Ageing.
Focus Vocabulary
adolescence adolescent adult adulthood ancient baby childhood childish elder elderly grow grown-up immature infancy infant junior juvenile kid
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manhood mature middle-age(d) old OAP - old age pensioner retired senile senior citizen teenager toddler womanhood young youngster youth youthful
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to turn/to be twenty
to be a twenty-year-old person
to be under/nearly/over twenty
early to be in one's early/ mid/late twenties
to be three years yunger/older than somebody
to be a teenager — to be in one's teens
to be/to come of age
Word Ex. 1 Look at the example and then copy and complete the chart
Meaning using the words below. Use a dictionary to help you.
Do any of the words refer only to males (m) or only females (f)?
young
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juvenile
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adolescent |
teenager |
mature |
grown-up
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veteran
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retired |
elderly |
senile |
ancient girl
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baby toddler
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man |
boy |
lady |
citizen
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OAP
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kid |
youngster |
senior |
Example:
infancy ... childhood . .
child
lady (M)"
woman (F)"
Word Ex. 2 Use a dictionary to complete the chart. Notice, for example,
Formation that there is no noun to describe a mature person. We have to use the adjective + noun combination (mature person/woman, etc.)
State (noun)
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State (adjective) |
Person (noun) |
1) adolescence 2) 3) maturity 4) 5) 6) manhood 7) 8) childhood
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1) 2)retired 3) 4) 5) 6) 7)youthful 8)
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1) 2) 3) 4)infant 5)woman 6) 7) 8)
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Ex. 3 Say which of the following words you consider to be neutral, pleasant or unpleasant in their meaning and explain why you think.
a) young |
d) youthful |
g) mature |
b) childish |
e) grown-up |
h) old |
c) immature |
f) adult |
i) senile |
Ex. 4 What do you call a person who is: |
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- fourteen |
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- sixty-one |
- a year and a half |
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- sixty-five |
- eighteen |
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- seventy |
-twenty-one |
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- forty |
- sixty-nine |
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- twenty-five |
Ex. 5 What do the following expressions mean if the speaker is: |
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- 20? |
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- 40? |
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- 60? |
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a) He's getting on a bit.
b) She's pushing 40.
c) He's no spring chicken.
d) She's in her prime.
e) He's well past his 'sell-by' date.
f) He's a bit past it.
g) She's got one foot in the grave,
h) She's just a babe in arms.
i) He's rather young for his age.
j) He's over the hill.
Do you think these expressions are neutral, formal or informal? Can you think of any people who can be characterised like that?
Ex. 6 Open the brackets using the correct form of the following words:
- old, older, the oldest
- elder, the eldest
- young, younger, the youngest
a) - I believe Jane is as (old) as you are.
- Oh, no. She is four years (old) than I am. Actually she is (old) ©f my fellow»
students.
b) - Is your cousin much (old) than you are?
- No, it is not so. My cousin and I are of the same age.
c) - Have you got any brothers or sisters?
- I've got two brothers. I am (young) of them. My (old) brother's name is Patric. He is five years (old) than my (old) brother Paul and seven years (old) than me. As far as I remember Bob's got a (young) sister. How old is she? She is still in her teens. She is nearly 16.
- Is your friend (old) or (young) than you? - Neither, we are of the same age.
- Who is (young) in your family?
-In fact I am.