1. Answer the following questions:

1. What are your household chores? 2. Are they difficult? 3. What are your parents' household chores? 4. Who will fulfil household chores in your future family? 5. What is an ideal situation concerning household chores in the family? 6. Who shares responsibility in your family? Why?

Dialogues

l.

— Hello!

— Hello! Do you have grandparents?

— Yes, I'm a lucky one. I have two grannies and two grandpas. And you?

— So do I. Let's talk about our grandparents.

— OK. I'd like to tell you about my mother's father. He is a very interesting man for me. He has a very big garden, and he keeps bees, five bee hives. Once I organized an excursion to his hives. It was interesting to watch his work with his hives.

— Did you taste honey?

— Sure. He gave us fresh honey with tea. All my classmates were very glad to taste it.

— It's very interesting. And I'd like to tell you about my father's mother. She has a piano, and she is a very good musician. When she was young, she used to go to different parts of our country with the concerts. I think that my musical ability comes from her. Now she doesn't have concerts, she daily teaches me to play the piano. I'm very thankful to her.

— OK. Thank you for our talk. Maybe I'll come to your place to listen to your granny.

— Maybe. And I'd like to go to the country to see your grandpa's hives. Bye.

— Bye-bye.

2.

— What flat do you live in?

— It's rather large and comfortable. And a good thing about our flat is that the kitchen is rather big.

— Who do you live there with?

— I live there with my parents and my elder sister. And you?

— I live with my parents and grandparents.

— Are they still working?

— No, they are on pension.

— And where do they live?

— In a country house, not very far from Moscow. It takes me 35 minutes to get to the downtown.

— Do you have all modern conveniences?

— Sure. And our house is rather big. It's a two-storey building. I have a room of my own there. There is a big living room and a kitchen, but the bathroom is not very large.

— I'd like to come to your place. Can I do it tomorrow?

— Of course. Write down my address. See you tomorrow at 5 pm.

— Bye-bye.

Unit II. Study at college. Learning foreign languages Text 1. Ann’s college

Vocabulary

currently — в настоящее время

to be enrolled — числиться в списках студентов

full-time students — студенты дневного отделения

part time-students — студенты вечернего отделения

course of study — курс обучения

industrial automation — промышленная автоматика

robotics — робототехника

plastics — пластмассы

machine-tools — станки

metalworking — металлообработка

noisy — шумный

to chat — беседовать, болтать

to be equipped with — быть оборудованным

up-to-date equipment — современное оборудование

carry on — проводить

research work — исследовательская работа

one-storeyed — одноэтажное

tasty — вкусный

affordable — доступная (to afford — позволять)

classroom — класс, аудитория

lecture hall — лекционный зал

laboratory — лаборатория semester (term) — семестр school year — учебный год course of studies — курс обучения

teaching instructor (TI) — преподаватель teaching staff, faculty members — преподавательс­кий состав

student of distant education — студент(ка) «заочник»

Hello! Now let me tell you about my Polytechnical College. I am really glad that I study here. It is one of the finest country's polytechnical colleges. Many famous people have graduated from my college. Studying at our college gives a solid background in all spheres of knowledge and prepares for practical work.

Our college is quite large and old. It was founded in 1973. It is a large school where more than 3,000 students are currently enrolled. About 2,000 are full-time students, like me, and the rest are part time-students.

The course of study at my college lasts four years. There are many departments in my college. Here are some of them: the department of industrial automation and robot­ics, the department of plastics, the department of machine tools and the department of metalworking.

Our college is large and we have several buildings. One of the buildings is for lessons only. There are many large halls there so that students of 3-4 groups together can fit in there. And that is more than 100 people. The acoustics in such large halls is very good but sometimes it is very noisy when students chat during the lesson.

We have two laboratory buildings which are equipped with up-to-date equipment and there students can carry on lab works and conduct various experiments. Many students from my group do their own research work.

There are several cafes at the academy. My favourite one is situated in a separate one-storeyed building and people say that this is the oldest canteen or student's cafe. The food there is tasty and very affordable.

There are also several dormitories or hostel buildings where students from other cities live. I don't live in a dormitory — I rent an apart­ment.