Exercise 5. So do I. So am I. So have I. So can I.

1. Pooh, Jack and Jill are on the beach. 2. Pooh is lying in the sun. 3. Jack and Jill want to build a sand castle. 4. Jill has got flippers. 5. Jack can row.
6. Helen always spends her summer holidays at the seaside. 7. The children want to go to the Honey Island. 8. Jack has already read the bottle post.

 

 

Exercise 6. What's the weather like?

Fine, good, excellent (отличный), beautiful, pleasant (приятный), bad, wet, rainy, warm, hot, cool (прохладный), cold, so-so (так себе), cloudy, windy, changeable (переменный).

The weather turns cold (/warm, cool). The grass and the trees turn green. The flowers start blooming (bloom – цвести). The sky is blue. The sun is shining brightly (ярко). There are (no) clouds in the sky. Summer (winter …) is a very nice season. I like it very much. It's my favourit season. The days are getting longer and the nights shorter. It often snows (rains). It is freezing. The river is frozen. The snow is melting. It is getting warmer. It's foggy.

 

 

Answer the following questions:

1. What's the weather like in summer (/autumn, winter, spring)?

 

 

Exercise 7. Use the Present Simple in the following text:

My sister (get up) at eight o'clock. She (be) a school-girl. She (go) to school in the afternoon. She (do) her morning exercises every day. For breakfast she (eat) two eggs, a sandwich and (drink) a cup of tea. After breakfast she (go) to school. She (speak) French well. It (take) her two hours to do her homework. My working day (begin) at seven o'clock. I (get up), (switch on) the radio and (do) my morning exercises. It (take) me fifteen minutes. My father and I (leave) home at eight o'clock. My mother (be) a doctor. She (leave) for work at 9 o'clock. In the evening we (gather) in the livingroom. We (watch) TV and (talk). At seven o'clock we (have) dinner. At ten o'clock we (go) to bed.

 

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The Present Simple образуется следующим образом:

Повествовательное предложение – I (/you.we,they) learn English.

He (/she, it) learns English.

Вопросительное предложение - Do I (/you, we, they) learn English?

Does he (/she, it) learn English?

Отрицательное предложение - I (/you, we, they) don't learn English.

He (/she, it) doesn't learn English.

The Present Simple употребляется:

1. для обозначения постоянного или повторяющегося действия в настоя­щем – After summer comes autumn. Every day I get up at 7 o'clock.

2. для характеристики умственных или физических способностей человека – She speaks English very well. He plays football very well.

3. с глаголами, которые нельзя употребить в Present Continuous: see, hear, understand, believe, know, want, hate, need, forget, like, belong, have, be, remember и др. – I don't understand it. Do you know it? I need your help.

Signal words: always, often, regularly, every day, from time to time, on Mondays, usually, in general, sometimes, seldom.

Part 3.On the island

Jill: Where are you going?

Jack: To the castle. Look, there are footprints.

Jill: And here's a ladder.

Jack: Let's climb up the ladder.

Jill: Can you see Pooh?

Jack: Shhhh!

Jill: What can you see?

Jack: Look.

Pooh: I eat my peas with honey,

I've done it all my life.

It makes the peas taste funny,

But it keeps them on the knife.

Jill: I'm so hungry.

Jack: So am I.

Helen: I'm hungry too.

Look, I've got some peas here and some honey. Come and sing Pooh's song with me.

 

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I eat my peas with honey,

I've done it all my life.

It makes the peas taste funny,

But it keeps them on the knife.

 

Thank you, Pooh. Let's look at some pictures from our story now.

Jill wants to go swimming. "Let's go swimming!" Jack wants to go rowing. "Let's go rowing." Pooh's lost on Honey Island. Jill wanted to find Pooh. "Let's go and find Pooh." Jack and Jill are on Honey Island. Jill asked Jack, "Can you see Pooh?" Look and listen again to Jack and Jill. Oh, where's my boat? Can you see my boat?

…………..

Jack: Where is our boat?

Helen: Oh, my boat! I've got it back.

Our time is up. Goodbye, children. See you next Playtime.

 

 

Words:

footprints – отпечатки ног, следы ног; climb [klaɪm] – карабкаться; peas - горошек; life – жизнь; taste – 1. вкус, 2. иметь какой-либо вкус; keep – дер­жать, хранить; knife – нож; song – песня; get – 1. получать, 2. стано­вить­ся, get back – получать обратно.

 

Exercise 8. Make questions to every sentence using the Present Simple:

1. He has (got) new trainers. 2. They go to the seaside every year. 3. She wants to go to the toy museum. 4. He likes surfing the internet. 5. You understand this problem. 6. They need help. 7. This boat belongs to Helen.
8. He is at home.

 

Exercise 9. Make the following sentences negative:

1. He has got new trainers. 2. They go to the seaside every year. 3. She wants to go to the toy museum. 4. He likes surfing the internet. 5. You understand this problem. 6. They need help. 7. This boat belongs to Helen.
8. He is at home.

 

Exercise 10. Whoknows it? / He doesn't know it. Translate into English:

1. Кто любит читать книги? 2. Кому нужен словарь? 3. Кто хочет кататься на лодке? 4. Кто знает эту пословицу? 5. Он не хочет играть. 6. Она не ве­рит ему. 7. Мы её не понимаем. 8. Это не принадлежит мне.

 

Proverb:

Tastes differ – О вкусах не спорят. (Дословно: вкусы различаются)

 

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THE CLOWN

 

Helen: Hello, everybody! Welcome to Playtime. Can you hear the music? Listen. The circus is in town. Do you like going to the circus?

What do you like best? The elephants, the monkeys, the tigers, the lions or the clowns? I like the clowns best. So does Jill. Her new school friend is a clown.

Clown: Can you spell your name?

Jill: J-I-L-L. Jill.

Can you spell your name? Look, Cornflake. C-O-R-N-F-L-A-K-E.

Helen: Cornflake is in Jill's class. He knows a lot of magic tricks. And he's very good at juggling. But he's not very good at spelling.

Jack: Hi!

Cornflake: Hi!

Jill: This is my brother Jack.

Jack: Who are you?

Cornflake: I'm a clown.

Jack: Where do you come from?

Cornflake: I come from Scotland.

Jill: No. Scotland.

Jack: Where do you live?

Cornflake: I live in Edinburgh.

Jack: I want to be a clown.

Helen: Our clown comes from Scotland. He lives in Edinburgh.

Let's go and watch the clowns now.

Cornflake: What's the time? It's nearly three o'clock.

(Jack and Jill are laughing hard.) Shhh! Dad is sleeping. Come in here. Let's get dressed.

 

 

Words:

clown – клоун, don't play the clown! – не паясничай!; lion – лев; cornflakes – кукурузные хлопья; class – класс; a magic trick – волшебный фокус, трюк; juggle – жонглировать; nearly – почти; let's get dressed – давайте одеваться.

 

 

Exercise 1. Make questions and answer them:

1. Whom, Jack and Jill, meet, do, the street, in? 2. What, the name, the clown, is, of? 3. What, the clown, good, is, at? 4. What, the clown, good, is, not, at?
5. Where, Cornflake, come, does, from? 6. Where, he, live, does? 7. Who, a clown, be, wants, to? 8. What, the time, is? 9. What, Cornflake's, is, father, doing? 10. What, the children, going, are, to, do?

 

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