Role-play

Arrange an excursion around your native region (town) for your group-mates. Imagine that you are a guide and they are tourists visiting your region (town) for the first time.

Get ready to speak about your native region (town) according to the plan:

1. The geographical position.

2. Some facts from the history.

3. The economy (industry).

4. My hometown as the administrative, cultural centre and centre of science.

5. Places to see.

6. Famous people (use the text from the supplement p. 74.)

Listening

Ex. 1. Listen to the words and repeat them:

Bridge, busy, accommodation, crowd, concert hall, dangerous, district, fresh air, dirty, industrial, supermarket, expensive, museum, noisy, park, picturesque, river, smart, theatre, crowded, concrete, noise, pollution, excitement, fountain, straight, dusty

**Ex. 2. Make a list of adjectives from the words given in ex.1. Which of them can be used to describe your town?

**Ex. 3. Listen to the dialogue and mark the words (from Ex. 1.), used in the dialogue.

Peter: Andrew! I've got a new job' I'm going to live in Kemerovo!

Andrew: Are you? Oh, I lived there five years ago.

Peter: Did you like it?

Andrew: Not very much.

Peter: Why not? Andrew: Well, there were too many people, and there was too much noise. Peter: Oh, I love crowds and noise!

Andrew: Well, I don’t . . . and I don't like pollution.

Peter: What do you mean?

Andrew: Oh, there isn't enough fresh air in big towns.

Peter: But there are a lot of parks…

Andrew: Yes, I know . . . but it’s not quite the same.

Peter: I wonder why?

Andrew: You know, peaceful country life with all its beauty cannot be compared with all the fuss of the cities.

Peter: It may be so, but I still prefer big cities.

Andrew: Why?

Peter: I was born in a small country village. It was too quiet.

Andrew: You were lucky!

Peter: I don't think so. There wasn't much to do. That's why young people went to big towns.

Andrew: But they are too expensive for young people.

Peter: But they still go... they want excitement.

Andrew: Hmm…I don't want excitement. I just want a quiet life, that's аll.

**Ex. 4. Listen to the dialogue once again and think over the advantages and disadvantages of life in town and in the country.

TOWN	COUNTRY
Too many people	Too quite

Ex. 5. Answer the questions:

1. Where is Peter going to live?

2. Does he like crowds and noise?

3. What is the air like in big cities?

4. Why does Andrew want to live in a small village?

Ex. 6. Where would you personally like to live? Write a few sentences about pros and cons of life

a) in a large city b) in the country.

Begin your sentences with:

There is too much (there isn’t enough) …

I’d like to live in a big city (in the country) because ...

Keys

*Ex. 3. р. 50. Crooked, boulevard, embankment, gallery, museum, exhibition, stadium, skating-rink, straight, bridge, avenue, suburb, administrative, district, residential, locality, region

*Ex. 5. р. 50.Way, to make, light, factory, city, thoroughfare, coach, to set up, to set up, country, frontier, to call, prospect, cab, to get in

*Ex. 11. р. 52. House; street; sightseeing; department store; picture gallery

*Ex. 12. р. 53. Park; zoo; school; stadium; coach

*Ex. 13. р. 53. By, by, by, by, for, on