My family

My family is not large. There are four of us: my mother, my father, my elder sister and me. My father is a man of 45, tall, handsome with short dark hair and brown eyes. He looks strong, young and full of energy. He is a doctor. He is generous, gifted and hard-working. He also has a very good sense of humour. He is fond of sport and computers.

My mother is a pleasant-looking woman with fair hair and big blue eyes. She is 41. She is a teacher. She is kind-hearted, creative and optimistic. She enjoys listening to classical music and gardening. She often gives me good advice. For me she is the best mother one can imagine.

My sister is 20. She has brown hair and green eyes. She is a student. She wants to be a designer. She is talented, creative but sometimes very stubborn and bossy. We have a lot in common (у нас много общего) and we are very good friends as well.

We have many relatives: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces (племянницы) and nephews (племянники). We get on well together (Мы хорошо ладим).

• What does her father do?

• What does he look like?

• What is he like?

• What does her mother do?

• What does she look like?

• What is she like?

• What does her sister do?

• What does she look like?

• What is she like?

1. Pair work. Answer the following questions using the vocabulary from exercise 7.

• Is your family large?

• What do you parents do?

• What does you father look like?

• What is he like?

• What does you mother look like?

• What is she like?

• What does your sister/brother look like?

• What is your sister/brother like?

• What relatives do you have?

9 . How do you spend your free time? Match the A phrases with the B phrases opposite in meaning.

I (absolutely) love… I’m really into… I’m very interested in… I really enjoy… I spend a lot of time… I know quite a lot about… I’m quite good at…

I’m not very good at.. I don’t know anything about… I don’t really like… I’m not very interested in… I (absolutely) hate… I don’t have enough time for… I’m not into…

10. Pair work. What do you like or dislike doing? Use the phrases from the previous exercise and fill in the gaps in the sentences. Share this information about your tastes and preferences with your partner.

1. I spend a lot of time driving.

2. ………………………………cooking.

3. ………………………………meeting new people.

4. ………………………………gardening.

5. …………………………….. doing housework.

6. …………………………….. going to clubs.

7. …………………………….. looking after children.

8. ………………………………chatting on the phone.

9. ……………………………. reading.

10. ……………………………. doing exercises.

11. ……………………………..relaxing and doing nothing.

12. ……………………………. (your ideas).

11. Revise the grammar:

Pronouns

Personal	Possessive		Absolute Possessive
I	my	mine
you	your	yours
he	his	his
she	her	hers
it	its	its
we	our	ours
they	their	theirs

Притяжательные местоимения выполняют функцию определения и употребляются перед определяемым существительным или самостоятельно:

I lost my mobile phone. Can I use yours?

— Yes, use mine!

— Я потерял свой телефон. Можно, я воспользуюсь твоим?

— Да, возьми мой!

Не путайте форму притяжательного местоимения its и сокращенную форму it’s (=it is).

Упражнение

Use the right form of the pronoun:

1. It’s ……(I) book. It’s ……(I)

2. This is …(we) …teacher.

3. It’s ……..house. (they) It’s ……(they).

4. In …… (he) spare time he usually reads.

5. ……sister is tall and slim. (she)

6. Is it …(you)..cat? Is it ……..? (you)

7. What’s ……(I) is …….(I).

8. What’s ……(you) is …..(you).

9. She took ….(she) bag and left.

10. It’t not ….(you) umbrella. It’s ….(I)!

Present Simple

Positive statement	Negative statements	Wh-questions
I/you/we/they work. He/she/it works.	I do not (don’t) work. She does not (doesn’t) work.	Where do you work? Where does your sister work?
Yes/No questions	Positive short answers	Negative short answers
Do you work? Does she work?	Yes, I do. Yes, she does.	No, I don’t. No, she doesn’t.

The Present Simple используется для выражения:

1. повторяющихся действий в настоящем времени:

I often wash my hair in the morning.

б) ситуаций в настоящем, которые долгое время остаются неизменными:

My grandmother lives in the countryside.

Показателями этого времени могут служить такие слова, как usually, every day, always.

*В специальном вопросе, начинающемся с вопросительного слова who, обычно сохраняется прямой порядок слов (who — подлежащее):

Who lives there?

Но если who является дополнением, добавляется вспомогательный глагол, и вопрос строится по правилам вопросительных предложений (предлог в таком предложении идет в конце).

Who do you live with?

Примечание: неправильный глагол to have (Present Simple: I/you/we/they have, he/she/it has; Past Simple I/you/we/they/he/she/it had) в отрицательных и вопросительных предложениях ведет себя согласно общему правилу:

Ex.: Do you have any ideas?

What did you have for breakfast?

I don’t have his phone number.

I didn’t have many friends.

Правописание:

Окончание -es добавляется к основе в третьем лице единственного числа (he, she, it), если глагол заканчивается -ss, -sh, -ch, -x or -o:

Miss — misses; push — pushes; go — goes.

Если основа слова заканчивается согласной + y (напр., study), то в третьем лице единственного числа на конце слова ставится -ies:

Study — studies; fly — flies.

Open the brackets using the correct form of the verb:

1)Where ….she .....( to study) medicine?

2) Mike ……(to enjoy) listening to hard rock.

3) He …( to like) playing football.

4) …..you ( to live) with your parents?

5) …..they ….(to spend) a lot of time reading?

6) She ……(not/to know) anything about it.

7) …she....(to clean) the room every day?

8) Why …he ……(not/to watch) TV in the evening?

9) My sister ….(to like) being bossy.

10) She often …..(go) clubbing.

Past Simple

Positive statements	Negative statements	Wh-questions
Regular verbs I/you/he/she/it/we/they watched Irregular verbs I/you etc. went/ate/had	I did not (didn’t) watch. I did not (didn’t) go.	Where did you watch the film? Where did you go?
Yes/No questions	Positive short answers	Negative short answers
Did you watch it? Did you go home then?	Yes, I did.	No, I didn’t.

Мы используем the Past Simple, говоря о событии, имевшем место в прошлом. Мы всегда воспринимаем эти события как завершенные:

Ann went to Moscow last week.

I finished school and entered the academy.

The Past simple часто используется с такими указателями времени как следующие слова: ago, last Sunday, on Tuesday, when I was a child.

Правописание:

В односложных глаголах с одной гласной и одной согласной согласная удваивается:

stop — stopped

В двусложных глаголах согласная удваивается, если ударение падает на второй слог:

prefer — preferred

Если глагол оканчивается согласной + y, то на конце слова ставится -ied:

try — tried

Упражнение

Поставьте глагол в скобках в правильую форму.

1) Yesterday we ….(to see) a good film.

2) Why….he ….(not/to enjoy) going to the party last night?

3) Where…..you (to go) last Sunday?

4) She ….(not/to go) to the gym yesterday.

5) ….he (to have) many fiends at school?

6) She …(not/to clean) the room last Saturday.

7) I …(to get) up early on Monday.

8) We ….(to eat) a lot of good food when we were in France.

9)What ……she (to cook) for dinner yeasterday?

10) I …..(to send) you an-e-mail two days ago.