Давайте познакомимся. Кто Вы и чем Вы занимаетесь?

(Let’s get acquainted. Who are you and what do you do?)

Ответьте на данные вопросы сами и задайте их своим сокурсникам. (Answer the following questions yourselves and ask your group-mates the same ones):

 

1) What is your full name (first name, patronymic, last name)?

2) How old are you (what is your age)?

3) Are you a full-time or part-time student?

4) Where do you live (what is your native town)?

5) Where do you work?

6) Do you like your job?

7) Do you want to keep your job after graduating from the university?

8) Do you have a family of your own?

9) Is your family big or small?

10) What does your husband/wife (father/mother) do?

11) Have you got any children?

12) Have you got many relatives (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews)?

13) Is your family friendly and united?

14) What faculty do you study at?

15) What is your future speciality?

16) What academic subject do you like most of all?

17) Which course is the most difficult for you?

18) Who is your favourite teacher?

19) Is it interesting for you to study at the university?

20) What do you want to be and do in future?

21) Do you like to study English?

22) Would you like to travel abroad?

23) What countries attract you most?

24) What can you do to help your own country?

25) Do you believe in Russia’s prosperous future?

26) What should be changed and improved in this country?

27) How should we bring up our schoolchildren to make them more patriotic?

28) Do you want to be a teacher and work at school?

 

 

Read the text “ Tareta lives on an island”

Tareta Riki is thirteen years old. She is Polynesian and lives on the little island of Aitutaki in the south of the central Pacific Ocean. Aitutaki is one of a group of islands called the Cook Islands.

Tareta has two sisters and a brother. Her mother is a customs officer at the airport and her father is an ambulance driver at the island hospital. Her elder brother doesn’t live at home. He is married and lives in New Zealand.

Tareta goes to school on the island. ‘I like most subjects. I like learning new things. My favourite subject is physics but I also like gymnastics and volleyball. We have homework to do every evening.

At home in the evenings I like cooking and making clothes. At the weekend, on Saturday, I have dancing classes. I love dancing and listening to music’.

Какой ответ самый лучший? (Which is the best answer?)

1. Paragraph 1 is about Tareta’s:

a) island home.

b) family.

c) the Pacific Ocean.

 

1. Paragraph 2 is about:

a) her friends.

b) her job

c) her family.

 

3. Paragraph 3 is mainly about:

a) sport.

b) her school subjects.

c) her free time activities.

 

4. Paragraph 4 is about:

a) her free time activities.

b) her homework.

c) Saturday and Sunday.

 

Grammar tasks

1. Найдите в тексте все местоимения и переведите их на русский язык. Find in the text all pronouns and translate them into Russian.

2. Найдите в тексте все имена собственные и объясните их. Find in the text all proper names and explain them.

3. Найдите в тексте все глаголы в простом прошедшем времени. Find in the text all verbs in Present Indefinite (Simple) Tense.

4. Объясните использование артиклей в тексте. Explain the use of articles in the text.

 

Read the text “Summer work”

1) Какие из следующих мест упоминаются в тексте. Отметьте их галочкой. How many of the following places are in the text? Tick (√) the boxes.

a farm □ a hotel □ a summer camp □

a fast food restaurant □ a swimming pool □

In Britain, the United States, Australia and Canada it is quite normal for students (16 years old, and older) to take jobs during their summer holidays.

Young people work part-time (four or five hours a day) or full-time (eight hours a day) in supermarkets, fast food restaurants, hotels, at local swimming pools, and so on. They help with the work in many of these places when adult workers want to take their family holidays with younger children. They can also earn some money for their own social life during the holidays.

 

2) Какие виды работ выполняют студенты в следующих местах? Соотнесите цифры с буквами. What jobs do students do in the following places? Match the descriptions with the places.

 

1 pick fruit a at a hotel

2 organize activities b at a swimming pool

3 carry shopping c on a farm

4 sell tickets d at a supermarket

5 clean bedrooms e at a summer camp

6 clean tables f in a fast food restaurant

 

 

This is Britain

 

Прочитайте 4 текста и затем ответьте: В какой части Британии живут эти люди? (Read 4 texts and then say: Which part of Britain do these people come from?)

 

a Susan Franks is a student at the oldest university in England.

b The road signs near Margaret Evans’ house are in two languages.

c Jim Macdonald wears a kilt on special occasions.

d Chris Taylor does most of her shopping in Oxford street.

 

Text 1: The UK

“Great Britain” has several different names. Some people say “Britain”, or “the United Kingdom”, or just “UK”. There are four different countries in the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Everyone from Britain is British, but only people from England are English. People from Scotland are Scottish, people from Wales are Welsh, and people from Northern Ireland are Irish. Don’t call a Scottish or Welsh person English. He won’t like it!

Altogether more than 56 million people live in Britain, many of them in big industrial cities like London, Liverpool and Manchester, but people are often surprised by how much of Britain is open country, with lonely hills and woods, quiet rivers, lakes and farmlands.

Everyone in Britain speaks English. But in some parts of Scotland and Wales people speak an older language as well. The Welsh are especially proud of their language, and you can see road signs in Welsh all over Wales.

Everyone speaks English, but they do not all speak it in the same way. A Scottish person has to listen carefully if he wants to understand a Londoner. And when a Welsh person speaks, everyone knows at once where he comes from!

Many people think that the weather is cold and wet in Britain all the year round. But it isn’t! True, it sometimes rains and even snows for days and days, but every year there are weeks of beautiful sunny weather when the British put on their bikinis and go out to sunbathe.

 

 

Text 2: Edinburgh

 

Edinburgh is Scotland’s capital and one of the most beautiful cities in Britain. The heart of Edinburgh is the thousand-year-old castle, where the kings of Scotland lived for centuries.

From Edinburgh castle you can see for miles, north over the beautiful old streets and squares to the “Firth”, an arm of the sea that pushes inland. Far away are the mountains of Central Scotland, often covered with snow.

Edinburgh has a busy cultural life. Every year, in September, the International Festival takes place. Musicians, actors and singers come from all over the world and thousands of visitors fill the city. In the evening, the opera house, the theatres and the concert halls are full. In cafes and pubs, small groups sing, act and read poetry.

The castle is at its best in Festival time. Every night there is a magnificent military “Tattoo”. Highland soldiers wearing “kilts” play the bagpipes, and march to the music.

Tartans, the patterns of the kilts, have an interesting history. Since the fifteenth century, each Scottish family (or “clan”) has worn its own tartan as a kind of badge. It was a useful way of recognizing people, especially in times of war. Many tartans date only from the nineteenth century, but some of the old patterns still exist. “Dress” tartans, worn on special occasions, have light, bright colours. “Hunting” tartans are usually green, blue or brown.

 

Text 3: Shopping in London

London has many large department stores, which sell everything: shoes and shirts, paper and perfume, fur coats and frying pans. The most expensive department store is Harrods in Knightsbridge. You can buy almost anything in Harrods, and you know you’re getting the best. Twice a year, in January and July, Harrods has a “sale”. Some things are almost half price, and there are thousands of bargains. But on the first days of the sale the shop is very crowded. Some people stand and wait all night so that they can be first in the shop when it opens.

The smartest and most expensive shops are in Knightsbridge, but more people come to Oxford Street, London’s most popular shopping centre. Most of the hundreds of shops sell clothes or shoes. The street is more than a mile long. There are several big department stores in Oxford Street. The best known are Selfridges, John Lewis and D.H. Evans.

Oxford Street has the most shops, but in some ways King’s Road in Chelsea is more fun. This is where fashionable young Londoners buy their clothes in the many small ‘boutiques”.

You can buy what you like in the big shops, but the small markets have a lot to offer too. There are several big street markets in London, and many small ones. Some markets open only one day a week. Go to the Portobello Road on Saturday, or to Petticoat Lane on Sunday. Covent Garden market is open every day.

 

 

Text 4: Oxford

What is so special about Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest universities in England? Why do so many students want to study there?

Both of these university towns are very beautiful. They have some of the finest architecture in Britain. Some of their colleges, chapels and libraries are three, four and even five hundred years old, and are full of valuable books and precious paintings. Both towns have many lovely gardens, where the students can read and relax in the summer months.

Oxford is the older university of the two. The first of its colleges was founded in 1249. The university now has thirty-four colleges and about twelve thousand students, many of them from other countries. There were no women students at Oxford until 1878, when the first women’s college, Lady Margaret Hall, opened. Now, women study at most colleges.

Oxford is, of course, famous for its first class education as well as its beautiful buildings. Some of the most intelligent men and women in the country live and work here. Oxford gives them what they need: a quiet atmosphere, friendly colleagues, and the four-hundred-year-old Bodleian library, which has about five million books.

It is not easy to get a place at Oxford University to study for a degree. But outside the university there are many smaller private colleges which offer less difficult courses and where it is easy to enrol. Most students in these private schools take business, secretarial or English language courses.

 

Tasks

1. Найдите в 4 текстах все формы глагола “to be” и скажите, в каком они времени. (Find in the four texts all forms of the verb “to be” and say in what tense they are).

2. Найдите в 4 текстах все числительные и переведите их на русский язык. (Find in the four texts all numerals and translate them into Russian).

3. Найдите в 4 текстах все прилагательные в сравнительной и превосходной степенях и переведите их на русский язык. (Find in the four texts all adjectives in comparative and superlative degrees and translate them into Russian).

4. Найдите в 4 текстах все имена собственные и объясните, что они означают. (Find in the four texts all proper names and explain what they mean).

 

Holidays

Hallowe’en: 31October is Hallowe’en. This pagan festival celebrates the return of the souls of the dead who come back to visit places where they used to live. In the evening there are lots of Hallowe’en parties, or fancy dress parties. People dress up as witches, ghosts, devils, cats, bats or anything scary. Houses are decorated with pumpkins with candles put inside. Some children follow the American custom called Trick or Treat. They knock at your house and ask, “Trick or treat?” If you give them some money or some sweets (a treat), they go away. Otherwise, they play a trick on you, like squirting water in your face.

 

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