III. Speaking

You’ve been invited to a formal buffet dinner, but you do not know anybody. You should spend a few moments talking to each of the guests and then move on and talk to another person. These are some useful gambits you can use.

1. Greet each other, comment on the party and introduce yourselves:

Hello, are you enjoying yourself?

It’ s a great/lovely/nice/….party, isn’t it?

These ………..are really delicious, aren’t they?

This really is a lovely/nice/magnificent house/flat/room, isn’t it?

Haven’t we met before somewhere?

May I introduce myself, I’m ……….

I don’t think we’ve been introduced. My name’s ………

Hi/Hello, I’m …………

How nice to meet you.

Pleased to meet you.

2. Talk for a few moments:

How well do you know our hostess/host?

Do you know that lady/man/girl/fellow over there?

What do you do (for a living)?

Do you come from this part of the country?

3. Make an excuse, take your leave and find another guest to talk to:

Well, it’s been very nice/enjoyable/interesting talking to you.

Well, I suppose I’d better circulate.

I’ve just seen someone I haven’t talked to for ages, will you excuse

me?

Excuse me, I must just go and have a word with our host/hostess.

I think I’ll just go and get another drink/some fore to eat – can I

get you something?

Well, see you later, I hope.

IV. TALKING POINTS:

1. Food addiction

2. Chef’s duel

3. Can we say that famine in future is to become our reality?

4. Over 40000 children in the majority world die from malnutrition every day

5. Formal/Informal language

Unit 5. Travellers or Tourists?

Vocabulary

1. zealous

1. He was a zealous anti-smoker.

2. Politically she was very zealous.

2. endorse

to be endorsed

1. The Germans and Italians endorsed the plan.

2. He was endorsed to pay a fine of $200 and his license was endorsed.

3. entrepreneur

He is a creative entrepreneur.

4. patronize

1. She seemed to think that experience gave her the right to patronize.

2. Don’t patronize me!

3. She tried to persuade people not to patronize the store until it agreed to hire black assistants.

5. elite

He belonged to a small intellectual elite.

6. inclusive

It's a fully inclusive price.

7. benefit This will be a benefit to the country as a whole.

w.c. to do sth for the benefit

He smiled for the benefit of the assembled reporters.

8. settlement

He lives in the jungle in a settlement by a river.

9. rugged The coastline is wild and rugged.

10. penetrate

1. That was the territory of enemies, penetrated only for the purposes of trade and war. 2. They penetrated into the territory where no man had ever gone before.

11. to gear oneself up for sth (to)

1. They are gearing up to a civil war.

2. Martin and Liz are gearing themselves up to a full-time job.

11. to rocket 1. His profits rocketed. 2. Land sales rocketed.

13. stay - over visitor

14. conjure up

1. To many people the name Kalahari conjures up images of a desert of unrelenting aridity. 2. They listened in astonishment while James conjured up pictures of fantastic machines.

15. a breeze

16. on sb's terms

w.c. on the same terms

on equal terms

on unfair terms

on unequal terms

on friendly terms

on visiting terms

1. She certainly wanted his money but on her own terms.

w.g. to make terms

to come to terms

17. enclaves

The original population was now reduced to a tiny handful of islands and enclaves.

18. to stem from (a root of the problem stems from)

1. Their aggressiveness stemmed from fear. 2. ... customs which stemmed from circumstances that have long since changed ...

19. disaffection

He was accused of sowing dissent and disaffection among the troops.

20. gulf

1. ... the widening gulf between the leaders of the party and the ordinary members. 2. The gulf between the cultures was too great to be easily bridged. 3. There was a gulf of ten years between him and his younger sister.

21. (export) - oriented

1. The union is oriented towards welfare capitalism.

2. Education was oriented to theory and distant facts.

3. We have been too much oriented towards the Americans.

22. alternative

But still people try to find the alternative explanation.

23. integrate

1. He took pains to integrate me into the group.

2. He campaigned for the integration of immigrants into British Society.

24. mainstream

1. We feel isolated from the mainstream of social life in the community. 2. He felt that he was entering the American mainstream.

3. He brought even mainstream Democrats to their feet.

25. impact (n) The new seeds have an immediate impact on food production.

26. fuel 1. This budget fuels inflation and cuts our living standard.

2. ... rumors of street fighting and violence fuelled by the press.

27. on top of that You don’t want to give the poor man ulcers on top of all the problems.