- •Практика устной речи (коммуникативное обучение) Методическое пособие для студентов I курса
- •Short forms and labels
- •Text I My Family
- •Text II Meet the Clarks Word Study
- •Text III
- •I. Use the proper article:
- •II. Fill in prepositions if necessary:
- •Troublesome Points
- •Translate into Russian:
- •Language Check Ages and Stages
- •What stage of life are these people at?
- •Dialogue № 1
- •Dialogue № 2
- •Dialogue № 3
- •I Prefer a Big Family
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •Listen to the recording and note down the reasons why:
- •Chose the sentence that doesn’t contradict the sentence from the recording.
- •III. Auditory memory check
- •IV. Follow up activites
- •Relationships
- •Role-Play a Talk with a Psychologist about Family Problems
- •Information sheet
- •Become Proficient
- •Quiz Yourself
- •Joke Time
- •Say what you mean!
- •Guesswork
- •House and flat
- •Text I Our New Flat
- •Text II The House
- •Text III a Flat in our Country
- •House and Flat
- •Building a House
- •A Room to Let
- •Flatmates
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •Listen to the conversation between Rod and Jim and mark the statements below as True or False.
- •Listen to the dialogue again paying attention to the details and complete the chart below as in the example. Note that four items in the list are not mentioned by the speakers.
- •III. Auditory memory check
- •IV. Follow up activites
- •I. Discussion Points Apartments for Sale
- •Read these newspaper ads and find five differences between the apartment complexes. Spring garden
- •Regency towers
- •Find words in the passages that mean:
- •Which complex would you prefer to live in? Give your reasons.
- •II. Translate the following proverbs and comment upon them:
- •Country Life versus City Life
- •Joke Time
- •Text I My Meals
- •Text II Meals in Russia
- •Text III Meals in England
- •Text IV Meals in the usa
- •British Food
- •IV. Follow up activity
- •Text V The story of Mr Eat
- •Text VI Dinner at the Browns’
- •Focus on Vocabulary
- •I. Reading Practice Dialogue № 1 Ordering Dinner at a Restaurant
- •Dialogue № 2
- •Dialogue № 3
- •II. Discussion Points
- •III. Make up and Act out Dialogues:
- •IV. Situations for Written Compositions and Group work
- •Joke Time
- •Практика устной речи
- •Часть 1
- •620017 Екатеринбург, просп. Космонавтов, 26
Role-Play a Talk with a Psychologist about Family Problems
Information sheet
Tony and Sue. She is very demanding; he is a busy doctor with no time for her. She has had a string of affairs, the most recent with Martin. Tony complains she wastes his money, she says he is stingy. No children. She is bored, spends her time shopping and in parties.
Martin and Rachel. Martin has been having an affair with Sue, which he has made no effort to hide. Rachel still loves him, but is deeply hurt by his selfishness and unfaithfulness. There is one six-year-old child. Martin is an architect, good at his work, a good father. She is a teacher, but her home situation is affecting her work badly.
Jerry and Ada. A rich couple. She has had a mental breakdown, and she is in hospital, but they had decided to separate before this. She is not polite to his business colleagues: this is bad for his career. He married her for good looks, soon regretted it, and has had several discreet affairs.
Bert and Cathy. He is a bus driver, she is a nurse. They are by now on very bad terms, quarrel all the time. He is affectionate and conventional, wants her to be a good housewife. She loves her work, is always at the hospital. No children: he wants, she doesn’t.
Larry and Edith. They have three children, but have been virtually separated (though living in the same house) for two years. Edith is fully occupied being a housewife and mother. Larry is a clerk in an office. The children are disturbed and problematic. Larry has been in love with Ada for many years, but has not tried to approach her, for moral and religious reasons. He is stable, but rather stuffy and conventional.
Nina. Young, attractive, well-dressed, capable, wants to be a lawyer, mainly because of the social status this will give her; but it is doubtful if she has the patience to study.
Will. Aged 30, a widower. He is an explorer, constantly going off on dramatic, rather dangerous expeditions. Would like a wife, but cannot promise any kind of stable home life, doesn’t want children.
Topics for Essays and Compositions
“Many men can make a fortune, but very few can build a family” (J. Bryon).
“Marriage is mutual misunderstanding” (Oscar Wilde).
“All happy families resemble one another, every unhappy family is unhappy in is own way” (L. Tolstoy).
My aunt knows the key to happiness.
Men make houses, but women make homes.
A humorous story about a young father who has to cope with the children while his wife is away.
Write a letter to a friend discussing married life.
There are secrets in all families.
The effect of divorce on children.
Pair Work. Skill Development
Make up dialogues on the following situations:
Mother and an old friend of hers – about her daughter’s setback in married life:
a) mother backs up her daughter:
b) mother backs up her son-in-law.
Your marriage is a failure. A talk with a bosom friend about married life, its joys and pitfalls.
Discuss how domestic chores should be divided between husband and wife or shared by all the members of the family.
You are going to get married. Your Mum is against your marriage.
Discuss the problem of the generation gap.
Teenage marriage.
Leadership in the family.