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Unit 1 Making Introductions
Active vocabulary
| to come of age | |
| to marry smb | / |
| to be married to | / |
| to propose to smb | |
| to accept ones proposal | |
| to refuse ones proposal | |
| to divorce | |
| wife | |
| husband | |
| child / children | / |
| son | |
| daughter | |
| twins | |
| sister | |
| brother | |
| aunt | |
| uncle | |
| niece | |
| nephew | |
| cousin | |
| to keep smb happy | - |
| to take after | } . |
| to look like | |
| to resemble | |
| single-parent family | |
| double-parent family | |
| to be pregnant | |
| to fall in love | |
| to cheat on smb | - |
| to date smb | - |
| to get acquainted | |
| to be of school age | |
| to be under school age | |
| to be on pension / retire | |
| to take care of | |
| to bring up | |
| to grow up | |
| to keep house | |
| to spoil smb | - |
| Task 1.Describe yourself My name is I am twenty (thirty, forty). I live in . I am tall (not very tall, short, middle-sized). I am thin (not very thin, rather fat). My face is round (square, oval). | 
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I have large (small) blue (black, grey, hazel, green,) eyes.
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My hair is black (fair, dark, blonde, chestnut), straight (curly, wavy) and long (short, not very long).
Task 2. Describe your best friend. Pay attention to his (her) character.
Persons character
| bright | silly | ||
| calm | fussy | ||
| cheerful | depressed | ||
| faithful | greedy | ||
| noble | common | ||
| polite | rude | ||
| reasonable | light-minded | ||
| tactful | lazy | ||
| attentive | absent-minded | ||
| modest | boastful | ||
| kind | cunning | ||
| even-minded | envious | ||
| cordial | hot-tempered |
Task 3. Read and translate the text.
My family
A few words about myself. My name is Ann. I was born in 1994 in Yekaterinburg. I live here with my family which is not very large: my mother, my father, my sister and I.
Im seventeen/eighteen. Im a student of the Ural State Pedagogical University (USPU), Im going to be a teacher. I like studying here very much, though its sometimes difficult.
As you can see, Im of a medium height and rather slim. My hair is dark, short and straight. I have brown eyes. They say I took after my mother in appearance.
As far as I can see my character is cheerful in general. Im normally a happy and an optimistic person. I have a good sense of humor and consider myself a good mixer. I think my main shortcoming is that Im hot-tempered sometimes, but this normally doesnt affect my relations with people.
As for my preferences, I like watching good films, reading detective and love stories. As for sport Im not very fond of it.
I try to do all the job about the house. I go shopping, clean the rooms and so on, but its not difficult for me. Id like our home to be clean and tidy. I think home is the nicest place. And Im sure that there is no place like home and there are no people dearer than your relatives.
My father is a businessman, he is very practical. As for my mother she is a housewife she keeps house. My younger sister Helen is of school age, she is eleven. She resembles our parents very much. We get together every weekend to go for a walk or simply to talk.
Task 4. Speak about your own family.
The following questions and information will help you.
1. How large is your family?
2. Are you the eldest in the family?
3. Do you have any special duties?
4. Who do you most take after, your mother or your father?
5. Who are you like in character?
6. Who is the head of your family? Why?
Task 5. Use the information about your relatives or friends.
| AGE | |
| adult, grown-up | |
| teenager | |
| youngster | |
| baby | |
| old | |
| aged, elderly | |
| middle-aged | |
| young | |
| elder brother / son / sister, etc. | / / .. |
| at the age of | |
| to be over 20 | 20 |
| JOBS | |
| journalist | |
| architect | |
| doctor / physician | / |
| nurse | |
| surgeon | |
| dentist | |
| secretary | |
| teacher | |
| waiter / waitress | / |
| cook | |
| engineer | |
| driver | |
| worker | |
| shop-assistant | |
| actor / actress | / |
| librarian | |
| clerk | |
| musician | |
| psycologist | |
| lawyer | , |
| accountant / book-keeper | |
| office worker | |
| manager |
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| WHERE THEY WORK | |
| office | , |
| hospital | |
| school | |
| restaurant | |
| factory / plant / works | |
| department store | |
| theatre | |
| library | |
| bank |
Task 6. Make up short situations based on the model.
Model: Its Robert Brown. Hes 26.
Hes a journalist. Hes American.
He comes from New York.
| Name | Age | Job | Nationality | Residence |
| Mary Smith | secretary | English | London | |
| Tom Stuart | architect | Irish | Dublin | |
| Jerry Brown | doctor | Canadian | Ottawa | |
| Clair Jones | mechanic | Australian | Sydney | |
| Robert Grey | actress | American | New York | |
| Andrew Smith | lawyer | Scottish | Edinburgh | |
| Mark Black | driver | Jew | Tel Aviv | |
| Jee Li | nurse | Chinese | China | |
| Ivan Smirnov | teacher | Russin | Russia |
Task 6. Study the Family Tree
Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
Max + 
Mary
Clair Tom+ Elis Robert+ Jane Helen 
Ben Donald Laura
| 1. Mary is Helens mother. 2. Max is Eliss father. 3. Tom is Janes husband. 4. Clair is Toms wife. 5. Ben is Donalds brother. 6. Laura is Bens cousin. 7. Helen is Lauras aunt. 8. Tom is Bens uncle. 9. Donald is Janes nephew. 10. Laura is Clairs niece. 11. Elis is Clairs sister-in-law. 12. Tom is Helens brother. 13. Helen is Maxs daughter. 14. Elis is Janes sister. 15. Max is Donalds grandfather. 16. Laura is an only child. 17. Helen has two children. 18. Mary is Lauras grandmother. 19. Ben is Marys grandson. 20. Helen is single. |
Revision
Complete the sentences, using the correct word from these:
| aunt bride bride bridegroom bridesmaid brother cousin | engaged honeymoon husband invitation marriage niece orphan | parents restaurant relatives son stepfather uncle wedding |
A wedding I attended
My ______, Harold, got married last weekend and I was a _____at the _______. All the family were happy because we have known the _____, Mary Surrdife, for a long time and Harold went out with her for a year before they became _______.
Marys ________ died in a car crash when she was very young, so she became an ________, but her ______ Tom is a kind man and has always looked after her. When Harold and Mary were making the list of ______ for the wedding, of course they invited all the ________ and some friends, but we wondered if my mothers first _______, my _________ Mr. Page, would accept, because he lives in Newcastle. But he did come, perhaps because my brother Ian is his ________.
Everyone was very happy during the ______ service, except my ______Charles, the _____s father. He was a little sad I suppose because of my ______ Elise died a few years ago.
Afterwards, we went to the ________at the Kings Arms and had a big lunch and everyone made speeches. Then the _______ cut the cake, with Harold helping her, and they went to their ______ in Ibiza. My uncle Charles came up to me and said: I must come and dance with my ______, the prettiest girl in the room, so I felt very pleased.
Jane Quick
Home Reading
He always reminds me of my poor Uncle Podger. You never saw such a commotion up and down a house, in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job. A picture would have come home from the frame - makers, and be standing in the dining-room, waiting to be put up; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it, and Uncle Podger would say:
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Oh, you leave that to ME. Dont you, any of you, worry yourselves about that. ILL do all that.
And then he would take off his coat, and begin. He would send the girl out for sixpenorth of nails, and then one of the boys after her to tell her what size to get; and, from that, he would gradually work down, and start the whole house.
Now you go and get me my hammer, Will, he would shout; and you bring me the rule, Tom; and I shall want the step-ladder, and I had better have a kitchen-chair, too; and, Jim! you run round to Mr. Goggles, and tell him, `Pas kind regards, and hopes his legs better; and will he lend him his spirit-level? And dont you go, Maria, because I shall want somebody to hold me the light; and when the girl comes back, she must go out again for a bit of picture-cord; and Tom! wheres Tom? Tom, you come here; I shall want you to hand me up the picture.
And then he would lift up the picture, and drop it, and it would come out of the frame, and he would try to save the glass, and cut himself; and then he would spring round the room, looking for his handkerchief. He could not find his handkerchief, because it was in the pocket of the coat he had taken off, and he did not know where he had put the coat, and all the house had to leave off looking for his tools, and start looking for his coat; while he would dance round and hinder them.
Doesnt anybody in the whole house know where my coat is? I never came across such a set in all my life upon my word I didnt. Six of you! and you cant find a coat that I put down not five minutes ago! Well, of all the
Then hed get up, and find that he had been sitting on it, and would call out:
Oh, you can give it up! Ive found it myself now. Might just as well ask the cat to find anything as expect you people to find it.
And, when half an hour had been spent in tying up his finger, and a new glass had been got, and the tools, and the ladder, and the chair, and the candle had been brought, he would have another go, the whole family, including the girl and the charwoman, standing round in a semi-circle, ready to help. Two people would have to hold the chair, and a third would help him up on it, and hold him there, and a fourth would hand him a nail, and a fifth would pass him up the hammer, and he would take hold of the nail, and drop it.
There! he would say, in an injured tone, now the nails gone.
And we would all have to go down on our knees and grovel for it, while he would stand on the chair, and grunt, and want to know if he was to be kept there all the evening.
The nail would be found at last, but by that time he would have lost the hammer.
Wheres the hammer? What did I do with the hammer? Great heavens! Seven of you, gaping round there, and you dont know what I did with the hammer!
We would find the hammer for him, and then he would have lost sight of the mark he had made on the wall, where the nail was to go in, and each of us had to get up on the chair, beside him, and see if we could find it; and we would each discover it in a different place, and he would call us all fools, one after another, and tell us to get down. And he would take the rule, and re-measure, and find that he wanted half thirty-one and three-eighths inches from the corner, and would try to do it in his head, and go mad.
And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another. And in the general row, the original number would be forgotten, and Uncle Podger would have to measure it again.
He would use a bit of string this time, and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine musical effect being produced by the suddenness with which his head and body struck all the notes at the same time.
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And Aunt Maria would say that she would not allow the children to stand round and hear such language.
At last, Uncle Podger would get the spot fixed again, and put the point of the nail on it with his left hand, and take the hammer in his right hand. And, with the first blow, he would smash his thumb, and drop the hammer, with a yell, on somebodys toes.
Aunt Maria would mildly observe that, next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped hed let her know in time, so that she could make arrangements to go and spend a week with her mother while it was being done.
Oh! you women, you make such a fuss over everything, Uncle Podger would reply, picking himself up. Why, I LIKE doing a little job of this sort.
And then he would have another try, and, at the second blow, the nail would go clean through the plaster, and half the hammer after it, and Uncle Podger be precipitated against the wall with force nearly sufficient to flatten his nose.
Then we had to find the rule and the string again, and a new hole was made; and, about midnight, the picture would be up very crooked and insecure, the wall for yards round looking as if it had been smoothed down with a rake, and everybody dead beat and wretched except Uncle Podger.
There you are, he would say, stepping heavily off the chair on to the charwomans corns, and surveying the mess he had made with evident pride. Why, some people would have had a man in to do a little thing like that!
Jerome K. Jerom
Three Men in a Boat
1) Do you haveUncle Podger among your relatives?
What is the main problem in communication with this person?
2) Try to ac out this scene.
Unit 2 House
Active vocabulary
| dwelling house | } |
| block of flats | |
| a two-room flat | |
| sitting-room | } |
| living-room | |
| dining-room | |
| bedroom | |
| nursery | |
| study | |
| bathroom | |
| lavatory / toilet | |
| kitchen | |
| to furnish the flat | |
| furniture | |
| house-hold objects | |
| central heating | |
| gas | |
| electricity | |
| wall unit | () |
| dining / writing table | / |
| bookcase | |
| wardrobe | |
| cupboard | |
| built in | |
| chair | |
| armchair | |
| stool | |
| divan | |
| sofa | |
| TV-set | |
| piece of furniture | |
| hanging lamp | |
| curtains | |
| carpet | |
| to vac the carpet | |
| mirror | |
| sink | |
| towel | |
| fridge / refrigerator | |
| microwave oven | |
| ceiling | |
| floor | |
| wall | |
| parquet | |
| linoleum | |
| to be painted (green) | ( ) |
| to be papered with wallpaper | |
| to be white-washed | |
| tiled wall | |
| in the middle | |
| in the left/ right hand corner | / |
| to the right of | |
| on the right | |
| opposite |
Task 1. Read, translate, and retell the text.
The House
A house may be built of wood, stone, brick, concrete. A building may be one-, two-, three- or four-storeyed and higher. There are many multi-storeyed houses in our town now.
American multi-storeyed buildings are called skyscrapers. London houses have mostly 2 or 3 storeys (and only 5% have from 8 to 10 storeys). Our first floor is usually called the ground floor in England. And our second floor corresponds to the English first floor. The Americans call the floors as we do: first, second, etc.
The house we live in is our home. The house may front a street, a park, or a square. It may have a southern, northern, eastern or western aspect. The windows of my room overlook a lane.
When people move into a new flat they usually have a house-warming party.
There may be a one-room flat, a two-room flat, etc. Most of the flats nowadays have all modern conveniences such as: running water, gas, electricity, central heating.
The entrance to the house from the street is called the front-door. There is sometimes another entrance too, leading into the house from the yard, the back-door.
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The staircase leads to the upper floors. We go upstairs or downstairs. The staircase consists of stairs (steps). The steps between two landings are called a flight of stairs, and the door of the flat usually opens on to the landing.
When the visitors come, they knock at the door or press the bell. Then one of the inhabitants answers the door (the bell) and the visitor asks if the person he wants to see is in or out.
Task 2. Learn the dialogues by heart.
Dialogue A
- So, you moved into a new flat, didnt you?
- Yes, last Saturday we had our house-warming party. Now we have a nice three-room flat with all modern conveniences in a new block of flats in the center of the city. Here is the front entrance.
- Shall we mount the stairs?
- No, there is a lift to take us up. This is our landing By the way, Peters flat is two flights down.
Dialogue B
- Let me help you out of your coat. Hang your hat on the peg. Now Ill show you round the flat. This door leads to the living-room.
- What a spacious room! Whats the floor-space?
- About 25 square meters.
- I like the pattern of the wall-paper. It makes the room look cosy.
- The room is not well-furnished yet. The sofa fits in very well, but the writing-desk looks out of place here.
- But dont crowd the room with furniture. There must be space to move about. I dont like heavy pieces of furniture.
- You are quite right. An overcrowded room doesnt show good taste.
- You get a fine view from the balcony.
- On the right you see a service-block and shops. Everything is close at hand.
 
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Task 3. Describe your flat, or retell the text.
My home
We have a nice flat rather far from the centre of the city. It is in a new sixteen-storeyed high-rise building in Gagarin Avenue. As there are so many storeys in the building it has two lifts.
Our flat is on the fourth floor. It has all modern conveniences. There are three rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a hall in our flat.
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is a piano with a piano stool before it. Between the two large windows there is a little table with a TV-set on it. Near the TV-set there are two cosy armchairs. A small round table, a divan-bed and a standard lamp are in the left-hand corner. This table is for newspapers and magazines. The walls of the living-room are light-green and there are a few water-colours on them.
