3. Your friend is finishing school. He/she doesn’t know what university to choose. Advise the university to enter.

• Hello, Natalie!

• Hi, Svetlana! I’m glad to see you! How are you?

• It’s fine! I returned from my trip!

• Where did you spend your trip?

• I visited to Moscow by train. I like to travel by train.

• Why?

• I think a train to be the safest kind of the transport.

• What were you doing there?

• I went to the theatre. The theatre is the legendary Bolshoi theatre! There was doing a new play. I was fascinated by the play of actors and itself of theatre. We had a super time. That is just super!

• How did you pass your exam?

• Thank you! Passing these exams was a very heavy work, but I stood this test. I’m faced with a difficult choice. I must choice my future university and my future profession.

• It’s very important choice in everyone's life. I can tell you about my choice of university.

• Oh! It will be interesting. Please, tell you about your choice.

• Ok. I go to a good university. I'm studying at the linguistic University. Studying at this university is very difficult. We have very much homework, we are learning English. I have many complications of study English.

• What education provides the linguistic university?

• The university provides a well rounded education. There is a wide choice of departments. It is the English, the French, the German department and that of the Interpreters.

• The university is said to be very well stocked! Please, tell me! Is it true?

• Oh, yes! A well-stocked library center is equipped with a wide range of literature to meet the needs of students and to support the teaching and the research. There are language laboratories with audio-visual equipment and computers.

• Will I know the language after studying at the University?

• If you choose to study a modern language at Nizhniy Novgorod you will have every opportunity to receive intensive language training and to acquire near-native competence in the language. And are you chose your future profession?

• I would like to be a journalist.

• Are you sure in your future profession?

• Yes! I’m sure. I think this profession is very interesting. I can travel and work in different cities. Has anybody influenced your choice?

• Yes! My teacher has influenced my choice! This is a good professional. She is competent in everything what she teaches us. She is very tactful! And are you chose your future profession?

• I want to be a teacher.

• My school teacher has influenced my choice. Our teacher was an example for us. I study at this university. We are lucky to have such a nice teacher of English.

• Why did you choice this university?

• I’m sure every well – educated person should speak a foreign language! The best teachers of the language are working in this university!

• You convinced me! I will enter to this university.

4. Discuss your household chores with your partner. Speak about the way you share your duties at home.

• Hi!

• Hi! How are things going?

• Getting by. Could be better.

• What is the matter?

• I am very busy; I can't help my parents much in keeping the house. But still I have some household duties.

• Is it tiresome and troublesome for you?

• I would not say so. But it is no easy matter to manage a house. I consider that housecleaning may be done quicker and easier if all the members of the family attend to the duties.

• Our flat always looks neat and tidy. What should the members of a family do to keep the house in order?

• You may do the housecleaning on Saturday and Sunday may be your day of rest.

• What are you doing during the housecleaning?

• To begin with, I change the bedclothes, make the beds, collect the dirty linen and do the washing.

• Don’t you have the linen washed in the laundry?

• No, I don’t.

• It is dangerous for your skin. You soak the clothes, rinse it, and use washing powders. I must admit that housekeeping is much easier nowadays than it used to be. When I do not have enough time I visit everyday services: hairdresser, shoemaker, tailor and dry-cleaner.

• Service is generally good, but in some cases it leaves much to be desired.

• But they make the job easier.

• After washing the linen I dust and polish the furniture, mop the floor and clean the carpets with a vacuum-cleaner.

• What do other members of your family do?

• My father helps to fix and repair some things. For example, he repairs electrical appliances when they are out of order.

• What about Mom?

• My mother scrubs the gas-range and the kitchen, washes the sink and the bath-tub.

• OK. You must be tired and exhausted after all this.

• When everything looks shinning and spotless we feel quite happy about it. You don't think the household chores should be shared equally in the family, do you?

• Why? It’s not difficult to keep the flat tidy if you do your rooms regularly. This is my usual round of duties.

• I’m not so sure.

• It’s really so! But I don't know what I should do without my vacuum-cleaner, washing-machine or refrigerator to say nothing of the radio, television and a telephone.

• All right. All these things are very helpful indeed. But I will not persuade my family to buy labour-saving devices or send the washing to the laundry. It is very expensive.

• There is no point in doing so much work with my own hands. But sometimes I have some other things to do. When my mother is ill or away from home, I do the cooking and the washing up, the buying of food and the planning of meals.

• What would you like to cook?

• I am not a good cook, but my vegetable soup is always tasty. Sometimes I help my mother to bake cakes and pies, to lay the table for meals.

• Amazing! In the end, there exist hundreds of ways to look after the house.

• Of course. And If I'm too busy or cannot do these things, all the duties are organized among other members of our family.

• Well, it's time for me to leave.

• It was nice to meet you.

• Let's keep in touch. Goodbye!

• Have a good day! Bye!