- •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.
25. Answer the questions.
Tastes differ. Can you say the same about hobbies?
Which hobby groups do you know?
The most popular hobby group is doing things, isn't it? What kind of activities does this group include?
Do you know any hobbies of the famous people?
What can be collected?
Do you know of any private collections that were given to museums or art galleries?
Do you agree that learning can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby? Why?
26. Read, translate and memorize speech patterns.
1
What is your hobby? My hobby is collecting old coins.
What is your hobby, Jane? Dancing. I'm crazy about dancing.
What is your favourite hobby? I like chatting with my old friends.
2
I usually stay at home in the evening reading books and papers.
She usually stays at home after work watching television.
He usually stays at home cooking and cleaning.
3
Do you often go fishing? No, not really. About once a month.
Do you often go skiing? Oh, yes. Almost every Sunday.
Do you often go shopping? Of course. Every other day.
4
It's the process of collecting that is important.
It's the process of collecting that interests me.
It's the process of driving that matters.
5
Your hobby seems to be very useful.
Your pastime seems to be both practical and interesting.
He seems to be carried away with his hobbies.
She seems to be sick and tired of collecting these useless things.
27. Act out your own microdialogues in pairs using the words below.
- What is your hobby, Bill?
- My hobby is cooking. I enjoy it very much.
(sports, motoring, music, dancing, collecting postage stamps, reading, fishing, football, gardening)
-They say you are a famous collector. What do you collect (if it isn't a secret)?
- I collect postage stamps.
(post-cards, old coins, badges of different countries, match-box labels, old books, old medals and orders)
-What do you usually do in the evening?
- I usually stay at home cooking and washing up.
(watching television, playing chess with X., reading books and papers, listening to records, making things of wood)
-Why did you choose hiking as a hobby?
- It's difficult to answer, it seems healthy.
(reading, skiing, carpentry, fishing, travelling; interesting, useful, practical, instructive, entertaining)
28. Read and translate. My Friend’s Hobby
My friend Nick is very busy and he doesn't have much time to spare. He is free only on the weekends. A few years ago Nick was fond of collecting stamps. I know that his mother had started collecting stamps long before he was born. When he was five years old his mother had six albums of stamps. She didn't let him touch the stamps until he was twelve. She gave him the albums as a birthday present and he continued collection on his own. He learned a lot about other countries and other peoples' traditions, the world's flora and fauna. Maybe that's why he was good at geography and biology at school. He used to bring the albums to school and we looked at his stamps with great interest and envy. Sometimes he exchanged stamps with his schoolmates.
Last summer Nick's parents bought him a CD player and Nick decided to collect CDs. He is fond of listening to music. Nick has a good ear for music and likes jazz very much. Besides jazz, Nick also likes rock music, pop music, classical music. He doesn't like techno, metal and rap. He himself says that he likes any good music. Now Nick collects CDs of his favourite groups and singers, he carefully studies the information printed on the disc booklets. He also tries to find out everything about the singers he likes. That's why he reads a lot of specialized magazines and never misses MTV shows. He thinks he must keep up with what’s happening in the world of music. He even send e-mails to some fan-clubs in other countries, so he has to brush up his English. He never misses a concert of his favourite groups (if they come to our country). He brings his CDs to the concert and asks the singers for their autographs.
In spite of his new hobby, Nick sometimes sits in his room and looks through his albums of stamps (with his earphones on, of course).