- •1. Read and learn these words and expressions.
- •2. Read and translate the text. My Family
- •3. Answer the questions to the text above.
- •4. Tell the students in your group about yourself using speech patterns.
- •5. Act out the situation “Acquaintance with your groupmates”. Use the questions below.
- •6.Read and translate speech patterns.
- •Introducing People and Answering an Introduction
- •7. Tell about a person using the topical vocabulary:
- •11. Read and translate the dialogue about the Lamberts. The Lamberts. An Interview
- •12. Read the dialogue again and decide whether the statements are true or false.
- •13. Read and translate the dialogue. What does she do?
- •14. Read and translate these descriptions. Can you match Philip’s relatives with their description?
- •15. Describe your friends/groupmates. The others will try to guess who you are describing. Does the person agree with your description?
- •16. Now in the same way, describe somebody very famous, e.G. A movie star and see if someone else can guess who you are describing.
- •17. Role play the conversation and make up similar ones. Missing person
- •18. Imagine that you’re talking to a detective. You think you saw the people who’ve robbed your neighbor’s flat. Describe them.
- •19. Turn the following descriptions into dialogues.
- •20. Show the difference in meaning between these sets of adjectives by placing them in the correct position on the scale.
- •21. Comment on the following proverbs and sayings. Give Russian equivalents for the popular sayings if there are any.
- •22. Answer the questions. Give your reasons.
- •23. Read and learn these words and expressions.
- •24. Read and translate the text. Hobbies
- •25. Answer the questions.
- •26. Read, translate and memorize speech patterns.
- •27. Act out your own microdialogues in pairs using the words below.
- •28. Read and translate. My Friend’s Hobby
- •Vocabulary
- •29. Answer the questions.
- •30. Imagine the end of the situation.
- •31. Read the dialogues in pairs. Act them out changing the underlined words with other expressions.
- •32. Read and translate the text. Sports
- •33. Answer the questions.
- •34. Translate from Russian into English.
- •35. Describe the situations. Discuss and develop them.
- •36. Develop the situations:
- •37. Do you know what are the typical hobbies of Englishmen (Americans)?
- •38. Tell about your hobbies or interests using the topical vocabulary.
- •39. Read and translate the text. The Vologda State Technical University
- •41. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give reasons for your opinion.
- •42. Read and translate the text. My Studies
- •43. Find the words and expressions with the similar meaning:
- •44. What can you tell about studies?
- •45. Tell about yourself.
7. Tell about a person using the topical vocabulary:
a) your friend or relative
b) a famous person
Name: surname / family / second name, forename / last name, first / given / personal / Christian name, patronymic / middle name, full name, pet name, nickname, pen-name, pseudonym, married / maiden name namesake, name, call, give / bear / use a name, be christened, be baptized, take one's name from, under the name of.
What is his name? How is it spelt?
Origin: race, be from, come from, foreign, foreigner, native.
Where is he from? / Where does he come from?
Birth: be born, place, give birth (to), date, be alive, be dead, birthday, region, area, district.
When and where was he born? What is his native town / country of residence? What is his nationality? – He’s Russian/ American/ German.
Relations by birth: parent, mother/mom/mommy, father/dad/daddy, daughter, son, sister, brother, twins, triplets, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, cousin, grandparent, grandmother/grandma/granny, grandfather/grandpa/granddad, great grandfather, great grandmother, grandchild, grandson, granddaughter, etc.
- How many are you in the family? -We are four. I have a mum and a younger brother.
Marital status: (un) married, single, divorced, separated, widowed, bachelor, marry, get married, be married (to), be engaged, divorce, give a divorce
Relations by marriage: husband, wife, spouse, fiance, fiancee, relative, be related, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, stepsister, stepbrother, stepparents, half-brother, half-sister, etc.
- Are you related to Mr. Dickson? - Yes, he is my father-in-law. - Are you and Mary relatives? -Yes, she is my niece.
Sex: male, female, man, woman, member of the opposite sex, gentleman, lady
Age: baby, toddler, kid, child, teenager, adult, grown-up, generation, young, old, middle-aged, elderly, be in one's early/mid/late 40s, be under/over 40, at the age of, be/come of age
John has (got) two elder brothers, Jim and Tom.
Jim is three years older than John. Tom is the eldest in the family.
- Is your brother of age yet? How old is he? -No, he is 18. They come of age at 21 in Great Britain.
Appearance: attractive, good-looking, pleasant-looking, slim, sturdy, lean, fat, plump, stocky, pretty, tall, short, middle-sized, well-built, short-sighted, etc.
Character: active, cheerful, calm, serious, clever, smart, educated, talented, timid, strict, sociable, good-natured, well-mannered, responsible, lazy, talkative, honest, etc.
Religion: Orthodox, Catholic, Christian, Presbyterian, Muslim, trust, believe (in), God, service, faith
8. Say how do you call a person:
who is 10 months; who is about a year; who is a year and a half; who is 16 who is 18; who is 25; who is 38; who is 42; who is 70
(in his mid twenties; in his late thirties; in his early forties; an elderly person; a baby; toddler; a kid; a teenager, in his teens; he has come of age)
9. Translate the following collocations with the prepositions by and of. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Example: A relative in-law means a relative by marriage.
a) by name, by birth, by origin, by marriage, by nationality, by profession, by telephone, by himself, by mistake;
b) of your own, of the same age, of the opposite sex, a friend of mine / his / ours, a family of his own, at the age of six, a kid of two.
10. Explain the meaning of the following words and word combinations: to be separated, to be divorced, to remarry, to be related, an immigrant, a foreigner, a widowed woman, to be in one's twenties.
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