- •I. Make friends with your new groupmates. Discuss the following questions.
- •II. Read the e-mails. Which person would you like to make friends with? Why? b)Write an e-mail about yourself.
- •III. Read the text and fill in the headings. Memorize the words in bold.
- •Vocabulary
- •IV. Read and memorize the words.
- •‘Family’ Vocabulary
- •V. Complete the gaps.
- •VI. Make up dialogues and act them out.
- •1) Greeting a friend
- •6) Conversational openings
- •VII. Discuss the following questions. Use the leisure activities below.
- •IV. Read the text. Memorize the words in bold. A Day in the Life
- •Vocabulary
- •V. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •VI. Answer the questions.
- •VII. Read the text. Memorize the words in bold. Get Fit at Home.
- •Vocabulary
- •VIII. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •IX. Answer the questions.
- •X. A) Make up sentences and phrases using the table below.
- •XI. Look at Mike’s daily routine. Say when you do these things.
- •XII. Match the sentence beginnings in a with the endings in b, then put the sentences in the most logical order.
- •XIII. Fill in the gaps with the words in the box. Use the correct verb form.
- •XIV. Write a paragraph about your ordinary day.
- •XV. A) Make up sentences using the table below.
- •XVI. Match the synonyms.
- •XVII. Match the opposites.
- •XIII. Match the two columns to form collocations.
- •XIV. Match the verbs and nouns.
- •XV. Match the words and expressions on the left with the definitions on the right.
- •XVI. Complete the text with the expressions from Exercise XV. Remember to write the verbs in the past tense. Having a bad day
- •I. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
- •II. Look at the age groups. At what age do you think you move from one to another?
- •III. Read the text. The Life of a Princess
- •Vocabulary
- •IV. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •V. Answer the questions.
- •VI. Memorize the following collocations.
- •VII. Match the antonyms.
- •VIII. What stage of life are these people at?
- •IX. Match the sentence beginnings from a with the endings from b and construct Rebecca’s life.
- •X. Birth, death and marriage.
- •1. Fill in the gaps with one of the following words.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with one of the following words.
- •3. Put one of the followings words into each gap. Sometimes more than one is possible.
- •XI. What do you think is the happiest time of a person’s life – when they are young or when they are old? Why? Write 10-15 sentences using the vocabulary words from this unit.
- •I. Discuss the following questions.
- •II. A) Put the sentences in the most likely order. Work in pairs. Explain and memorize the words in bold. Love story
- •III. Read the text. The Cliche Expert Testifies on Love (by Frank Sullivan)
- •Vocabulary
- •IV. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •V. Explain what the following clichés mean.
- •VI. Read the text and fill in the headings.
- •Dating and Marriage Customs in Britain.
- •Vocabulary
- •VII. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •IX. Complete the following text with the words and phrases below.
- •In love
- •X. A) Match the beginnings and endings of the expressions below. Use one of the endings twice.
- •XI. Read the following sentences and put the words and phrases in bold into the correct column below.
- •XII. Match the beginnings and the endings of the sentences below.
- •XIII. Use the correct form of these words and expressions:
- •XIV. Julie and Dave are getting married next month. Match the beginnings of the phrases with their endings. Pay attention to the active vocabulary.
- •XV. Use these words to fill the gaps.
- •XVI. Here are the marriage vows that a man says in Britain. Complete them using these words.
- •XVII. Use these expressions in the situations below:
- •XVIII. Complete the response in four different ways.
- •I. Read the text and answer the questions below. Agatha Christie
- •II. Read the text. Changing Values and Norms of the British Family
- •III. Read the text. Explain and memorize the words in bold. The American Family
- •IV. Read the text
- •V. Read the text. Explain and memorize the words in bold. Domestic Chores
- •VI. Read the text.
XIV. Julie and Dave are getting married next month. Match the beginnings of the phrases with their endings. Pay attention to the active vocabulary.
Julie has sent out
Dave has asked
They’ve booked
Julie has bought
They’ve bought each other
They’ve made
Julie’s going to have
Dave’s going to have
her wedding dress.
a stag night on the Friday before the wedding.
a wedding list.
a hen night on the Friday before the wedding.
invitations to all the wedding guests.
wedding rings.
the hotel for the reception.
his brother to be the best man.
XV. Use these words to fill the gaps.
bride
clergyman
groom
guests
best man
bridesmaids
The two people getting married are a ……………… and a ……………… . They are being married by a ……………… . The two little girls are ……………… . The man standing on the groom’s right is his ……………… . The wedding ……………… are watching the ceremony.
XVI. Here are the marriage vows that a man says in Britain. Complete them using these words.
health
death
worse
poorer
I (John Smith) take thee (Jane Brown) to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for …………… , for richer, for …………… , in sickness and in …………… , to love and cherish, till …………… do us part.
XVII. Use these expressions in the situations below:
broke up
had a huge row
get a divorce
separated
split up
- Do you think I should invite Jeff and Sue to the party?
- Haven’t you heard they’ve finally decided to ……………… .
We invited Dave and Kate over for dinner last Saturday. It was really embarrassing. They ……………… and Kate went home in the middle of the main course.
Our marriage ……………… after my wife discovered I’d been seeing somebody else.
My wife and I ……………… last year. We hadn’t been very happy for a while. We’ve now decided that the best thing is to ……………… .
XVIII. Complete the response in four different ways.
- I hear Mark and Lucy have split up. What happened?
- She found he was …
being
seeing
having
cheating
somebody else
unfaithful
on her
an affair
RELATED READING I
I. Read the text and answer the questions below. Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is possibly the world’s most famous detective story writer. She wrote 79 novels and several plays. Her sales outnumber those of William Shakespeare. However, she was a shy woman whose life was often unhappy and lonely.
She was born in 1890 in Devon, the third child of Clarissa and Frederick Miller, and grew into a beautiful and sensitive girl with long golden hair. She didn’t go to school but was educated at home by her mother. Her father died when she was 11.
During World War I, while she was working in a hospital, she learned about chemicals and poisons, which proved very useful to her in her later career. She wrote her first detective novel in 1920.
In 1914, at the beginning of the war, she married Archibald Christie but the marriage was unhappy. It didn’t last and they divorced in 1926. That year there was a double tragedy in her life because her much loved mother died. Agatha suffered a nervous breakdown, and one night she abandoned her car and mysteriously disappeared. She went missing for 11 days and was eventually found in a hotel in the North of England. It is interesting to note that it was while she was suffering so much that she wrote one of her masterpieces, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Agatha wanted solitude and developed very bitter feelings towards the media because the newspapers had given her a hard time over her breakdown and disappearance. She was determined never to let them enter her private life again and she buried herself in her work. On 25 November 1952 her play The Mousetrap opened in London. Today, over 50 years later, it is still running. It is the longest running show in the whole world.
She enjoyed a very happy second marriage to Max Mallowan, an archaeologist. Her detective skills were a help to him in his excavations in Syria and Iraq. She found happiness with her beloved husband. She died peacefully in 1976.
Where was she born?
When was she born?
What do you learn about her childhood?
Which people played a part in her career?
What do you think were the most important events in her life?
When did she die?