Exercise 1. Give the English for:
1. e e; 2. ee ; 3. e ee ee; 4. e ee e; 5.ee; 6. e e e; 7. e; 8. e ee ; 9. ; 10. e eee e; 11. eee ; 12. .
Exercise 2. Give the Russian for the following:
1. to apply to the Amur State University; 2. to graduate from the Institute; 3. to bring changes into spheres of life; 4. to obtain a Bachelors degree; 5.to criticize the quality of education; 6. to make choice from a great amount of variants; 7. to cost a pretty penny 8. pure attempt; 9. to compete for taking priority; 10. a division into nursery, primary, secondary and secondary modern schools; 11. to look forward to obtaining the degree of a Bachelor of Science.
Exercise 3. Paraphrase the sentences using the active vocabulary:
1. The quality of education is not high. 2. Secondary school includes grammar, technical and secondary modern schools. 3. Abilities are the criteria for selecting students. 4. Nursery schools are not cheap. 5. We are facing a terrible crisis. 6. We can make a choice from the alternatives. 7. We should not only dream, waiting for the good future. 8. He tries to use every possibility to struggle his way through life. 9. The second tendency is that we try to Americanize our education. 10. Some schools become gymnasiums and lyceums. 11. They are in good relations with local people. 12. I am studying literature. 13. They like modern tendencies in education. 14. The course is old-fashioned. 15. The seminar system is a usual thing in new universities. 16. You are fortunate.
Exercise 4. Find antonymic sentences:
1. The quality of education is very low. 2. All spheres of our life are successfully developing. 3. Education in private institutions is free of charge. 4. Many people dont like nursery schools, because it is impossible to pay for them. 5. The graduates of secondary modern schools can get
higher education. 6. The results are positive. 7. Last year he entered the university. 8. It is a modern institution. 9. We have got very bad single rooms. 10. I dont like to live in a close society. 11. This building is very new. 12. There arent many courses in this university.
Communicative Exercises
Exercise 1. Speak about the difference between British (American) system of education and the system of education in Russia.
Exercise 2. Speak about advantages and disadvantages of modern tendencies in Russian education.
English Meals
Meals are really a good subject to talk about. Ways and customs in laying the table and serving dishes differ from country to country. You need time and effort to make meals tasty and perfectly beautiful. This time youll have a great deal of conversation about good table manners, ham and
eggs, biscuit and honey breakfasts, ice-cream and jelly-cake desserts, cheese-and-coffee parties. Hope you find it useful and jolly. Heres something about English meals.
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The usual meals are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner, or in simpler homes, breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. The usual English breakfast is a breakfast of porridge (made of oats and water) or cornflakes with milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs, marmalade (made from oranges) with buttered toast and tea or coffee. Lunch is served at about one oclock. We have cold meat (left over probably from yesterdays dinner), potatoes, salad and pickles, with pudding or fruit to follow. Sometimes we have a chop, or a steak and chips, followed by biscuits and cheese.
Afternoon tea you can hardly call a meal but it is a sociable sort of thing, as friends often call in then for a chat, while they have their cup of tea, cake or biscuit. In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. But in a great many English homes, the midday meal is the chief one of the day, and in the evening we have a much simpler supper an omelet, or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs and sometimes just bread and cheese, a cup of coffee or cocoa and fruit.
We have high tea between five and six oclock, and we have ham or tongue and tomatoes and salad, or tinned fish, or sausages with good strong tea, plenty of bread and butter, stewed fruit, or a tin of pears, apricots or pine-apples with cream and pastries or a good cake.
Dialogue A.
Anne is a schoolgirl; James is a schoolboy; Mr. Jones is a businessman; and Miss Eccles is a cook.
Anne: I never want any breakfast. Just a cup of tea and a piece of toast
James: I dont eat much either. Just some cornflakes, and an egg, and coffee, and toast and marmalade.
Anne: I call that a huge breakfast!
James: No, it isnt! Anyhow, I havent time for any more during the week when I have to get to school.
Mr. Jones: Well, what do you have at the weekend, James?
James: Oh, on Sundays its different. I have orange juice, then porridge, with sugar and cream, and bacon and sausages and scrambled eggs, of course and coffee and toast and honey.
Anne: What do you have, Mr. Jones?
Mr. Jones: Oh! I never change, I always have the same; bacon and eggs.
Miss Eccles: But you dont have to cook it yourself, do you?
Mr. Jones: Well, no. My wife cooks the breakfast. She cooks the most perfect bacon and eggs in the world! I can smell them cooking, while Im shaving. I just couldnt start the day in any other way!
Miss Eccles: Youre lucky. I have to cook other peoples breakfasts. I never eat any myself. Just half a grapefruit and a cup of tea for me.
Anne: Youre like me. I cant think how people eat those great huge meals at eight oclock in the morning!
Mr. Jones: You see, James, women are always thinking about their figures. Theyre afraid of getting fat
Miss Eccles: Theres just one thing: sometimes, when Im on holiday, I have a special treat
Mr. Jones: And whats that?
Miss Eccles: A lovely, fat, juicy kipper!
James: Oh, Id forgotten about kippers! Theyre the best of all!
Tasks: 1. Read the dialogue and translate it.
2. Retell the dialogue, as if you are one of the participants.
3. Reproduce the dialogue.
Dialogue B.
Ann and Fred are newly-weds, Jane, a group-mate of theirs, comes on a visit to them.
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Ann: Good morning, Jane. Come in, please.
Jane: I hope Fred is at home?
Ann: Yes, he is. So nice of you to have come. We are about to have dinner. Will you dine with us?
Jane: With great pleasure.
Ann: Thats fine. Im off to lay the table. Excuse me, please.
Jane: By all means.
(At table)
Jane: Its good to be in a company like this, I admit.
Ann: Let me help you to some salad, Jane.
Jane: Please, do. It looks so inviting. Thats quite enough, thank you.
Ann: Some soup, Jane?
Jane: Why, yes. I think I could manage a plateful.
Ann: How do you find a salad?
Jane: Awfully nice. I have never tasted such a lovely salad; will you tell me how you make it?
Ann: Im glad youve enjoyed it and its very nice of you to say so. It is quite easy to make. Ill write down the ingredients and the directions for mixing.
Jane: Thank you very much. Dont you think its lovely, Fred?
Fred: Yes, it is, indeed. Kindly pass me the salt, Ann, will you?
Ann: Here you are. Some more bread, Fred?
Fred: Yes, please. What comes next, Annie?
Ann: Chops with roast potatoes and vegetables.
Fred: And what follows that?
Ann: Wouldnt you like to make a guess?
Fred: Ice-cream, I suppose.
Ann: There you are wrong, Fred, its coffee.
Jane: Coffee? Its just to my taste.
Ann: I am happy that Ive suited your taste, Jane. Do you take milk in your coffee?
Jane: Yes, I like it milky.
Fred: Well, Jane, what about fruit?
Jane: Id be delighted.
Tasks: 1. Read the dialogue and translate it.
2. Retell the dialogue, as if you are one of the participants.
3. Reproduce the dialogue.
Dialogue C.
Mrs. Smith: How nice of you, Mrs. Brown, to drop in. Im so glad to see you. Jane and I are just having a cup of tea. Do join us.
Mrs. Brown: Thank you ever so much. Ive been doing some shopping, as you can see, and I am a bit thirsty. Id enjoy a cup with you.
Mrs. Smith: Jane, lay the table for Mrs. Brown and bring some fresh buns and rolls from the pantry. I havent any cake to offer you today, Mrs. Brown, but I can treat you to a wide choice of jams, Ive made
this year. Im especially fond of strawberry and black currant, while Jane prefers cherry. We always have several jars of raspberry jam in the house in case of colds. Its a good remedy, you know. Strong tea or weak, Mrs. Brown?
Mrs. Brown: Weak tea, please. What tasty buns you have here! Are they from the bakers?
Mrs. Smith: Jane did the baking today. She rather likes cooking.
Mrs. Brown: Would you mind telling me how to make such buns?
Mrs. Smith: Most willingly. All you need is a few cups of flour, some shortening (fat), a little yeast, four egg-yolks, a glass of milk and sugar. You knead the dough stiff, and then cut it up into tiny buns. When the dough has risen, you bake the buns in a hot oven for 20-25minutes. Its rather quick work and not much trouble. Served with tea, they are delicious. Help yourself to some more, Mrs. Brown.
Mrs. Brown: Theyre simply wonderful with strawberry jam. I must have another.
Mrs. Smith: Wont you have another cup of tea?
Mrs. Brown: Ive had quite enough, thank you.
Tasks: 1. Read the dialogue and translate it.
2. Retell the dialogue, as if you are one of the participants.
3. Reproduce the dialogue.
Vocabulary
1) a meal ,
1) midday meal
2) to lay the table
3) to serve dishes
4) tasty, delicious
5) table manners
6) ham
7) meat
8) egg
9) scrambled eggs
10) honey
11) porridge
12) cornflakes
13) buttered toast
14) potatoes
15) pickles ,
16) a chop
17) a steak
18) sausage 70
19) tongue
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20) tinned fish
21) stewed fruit
22) a pear
23) an apricot
24) a pine-apple
25) vegetables
26) juice
27) cream
28) pastry ,
29) kipper
30) to cook
31) to get fat
32) to treat smb to smth - -
33) to dine
34) fat, shortening ( )
35) to have a cup of tea (coffee) ()
36) help yourself to
37) it looks so inviting
38) I could manage a plateful
39) to taste -
40) its just to my taste
41) Ive suited your taste
42) pass me
43) to take milk in tea (coffee) ()
44) to be thirsty
45) buns, rolls
46) pantry
47) strawberry
48) black currant
49) raspberry jam
50) a good remedy
51) strong tea
52) weak tea
53) to do the baking
54) yeast
55) to knead the dough stiff
56) hot oven
