- •Kolomna
- •Contents
- •Personal identification
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Why do people ever get married?'
- •Reading and speaking section
- •In pairs or groups, refer to the information below and on the next page, discuss to what extent the ideas are true about you and the others in your group.
- •22 December - 20 January
- •21 January-19 February
- •20 February - 20 March
- •21 March-20 April
- •21 April-21 May
- •22 May-21 June
- •22 June-23 July
- •24 June - 23 August
- •24 August-23 September
- •24 September-23 October
- •24 October - 22 November
- •23 November - 21 December
- •Friends for life
- •Modern british families
- •Families and family life
- •The extended family
- •Family life
- •In pairs or groups, look through the questions of Task 6 and report on The Modern Russian Family. Translation and rendering section
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Vocabulary work
- •Insert prepositions or post-verbal adverbs where necessary:
- •Reading and speaking section
- •A week-day in john’s family
- •Children’s chores
- •The use of leisure
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Houses and homes
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Vocabulary work Exercise 1. Write down the English equivalents for the following Russian words and word combinations.
- •Home sweet home
- •My room and welcome to it
- •Eating and drinking
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Eating out (by Clement Hardine)
- •Fast food (by Rebecca Mitchell)
- •The abc of table manners
- •Meals in britain
- •Comprehension Check
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Shops and shopping
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Exercise 2.
- •Exercise 3.
- •Exercise 5.
- •Exercise 6.
- •Exercise 7.
- •Exercise 8.
- •Exercise 9.
- •Exercise 10.
- •Vary, short, likely, freeze, success, expense, reduce, complain, polite, willing reading and speaking section
- •Marks & spencer
- •Comprehension check
- •Shop till you drop. A new disease of our time.
- •Borrowing out of control
- •Vicious circle
- •A cure for shopping?
- •I. At the millinery department:
- •II. At the shoe department:
- •Learning foreign languages
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •English today
- •Learning english is important for me
- •Learning a new language
- •Academic reasons for studying foreign languages
- •The study of foreign languages
- •How to learn a language
- •What makes a good language school?
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Пять способов выучить английский. Какой из них лучше?
- •1. Индивидуальные занятия
- •2.Занятия в группе
- •3. Лингафонный курс
- •4. Обучение под гипнозом
- •5. Суггестопедия
- •Languages. Countries. People
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Seasons and weather
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Culture words
- •Vocabulary work
- •Weather Vocabulary Quiz
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Seasons and weather
- •Russian weather
- •Translation and rendering section
- •Travelling
- •Idioms and expressions
- •Proverbs and sayings
- •Vocabulary work
- •Reading and speaking section
- •Translation and rendering section
Kolomna
2011
Министерство образования Московской области
ГОУ ВПО
«Московский государственный областной
социально-гуманитарный институт»
Кафедра английского языка
Ахренова Н.А., Евтюхина Н.Я.,
Новикова Ю.Б., Шмыткина Е.Н.
ENGLISH-1
Учебно-методическое пособие
по практике устной речи
для студентов 1 курса
Коломна
2011
УДК 42 (щ75.8) ББЛ 81.43.21я73 |
Рекомендовано к изданию редакционно-издательским советом ГОУ ВПО «Московский государственный областной социально-гуманитарный институт» |
Ахренова Н.А., Евтюхина Н.Я., Новикова Ю.Б., Шмыткина Е.Н. English-1/ Учебно-методическое пособие по практике устной речи для студентов 1 курса. – Коломна: МГОСГИ, 2011. - 157 с.
Данное учебно-методическое пособие подготовлено в соответствии с программой по практике устной речи английского языка для 1 курса языкового вуза. В нем представлены аутентичные тексты, которые снабжены специально разработанными упражнениями на развитие навыков чтения, говорения и письма. Достоинством пособия является аутентичность текстов, которые ставят своей целью расширение страноведческой и культурной компетенции. Тексты удачно подобраны по тематике и стилю, что несомненно вызовет интерес при обсуждении проблемных вопросов.
Рецензент:
Соклакова О.В.
кандидат педагогических наук, доцент кафедры английского языка МГОСГИ
Contents
Personal Identification………………………….. .4
The Daily Programme. Leisure Activities……… 21
Houses and Homes……………………………... 32
Eating and Drinking…………………………… 47
Shops and Shopping……………………………. 67
Learning Foreign Languages…………………… 79
Languages. Countries. People………………….. 94
Seasons and Weather…………………………… 117
Travelling……………………………………….. 141
Personal identification
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
BASIC WORDS
to be born, to christen, to baptize a baby (child), to register a baby's birth
name n, v: first (Christian, given, family, maiden, pet) name, forename, surname, nickname, namesake; to call someone a name; to name after someone.
family: nuclear/ extended, one-parent/ single-parent/ large ~; parents (folks): mother (mo, ma, mummy (BrE), mommy (AmE)), father (dad, daddy), single-parent
children (offsprings, kids, twins, triplets, orphan), foster child, adopted child
close (distant) relative\relation, kin (next of kin): sister, brother, grandparents, uncle, aunt, grandchildren), niece, nephew, in-laws, half-brother (sister), wife, husband
to marry smb, to get married, to be married to smb; newly-weds/just married; to divorce, to preserve one's union
widow, widower, bachelor, spinster
age: young, middle-aged, elderly, old, in one's 30's, in one's early (mid, late) teens, in one's early (mid, late) 20's, mid-life
build: skinny, bony, thin, slim, fat, plump, corpulent, obese, squat, medium build, well-built, broad-shouldered, muscular, overweight
height: 1.70m, medium height, average height, below average height, tall, short, tallish, shortish, petite
hair colour: black, brown, red, fair, blonde, grey, white, dyed, a brunette, a blonde, a redhead, mousey, dark, dirty blond, platinum blond
hairstyle: long, short, straight, wavy, curly, neat, untidy, with plaits, a fringe, swept back, in a bun, pony-tail, bald, balding, thinning
face: thin, long, round, oval, square, heart-shaped, high cheekbones, high forehead, thin (full) lips, long (straight, turned-up, broken, crooked, hooked) nose, cleft (pointed, double) chin
eyes: blue, grey, brown, long (thick, bushy) eyelashes, thin eyebrows
complexion: pale, sunburned (tanned), olive (pale, dark)-skinned, oriental, brown, black
distinguishing features: beard, moustache, sideburns, unshaven, clean-shaven, a scar, a beauty-spot, a mole, with freckles, with dimples, with spots, with wrinkles, with lines, with glasses, (well)-made-up, tattoo.
positive features: ambitious, cheerful, clever (bright), easy-going, flexible, friendly, generous, hard-working, honest, kind, loyal, nice, optimistic, pleasant, punctual, relaxed, reliable, sensible, sensitive, strong, tolerant, warm
negative features: arrogant, bossy, cold, dishonest, fussy, horrible, inflexible, insensitive, intolerant, lazy, mean, miserable, moody, nosey, pessimistic, pushy, rude, spiteful, stupid (thick), tactless, tense, unambitious, unfriendly, unkind, unpleasant, unreliable, weak
types of people: a big-head, a coward, an extrovert, a gossip, a laugh, a liar, a model to follow, the perfect type of (the Englishman), a show-off, a snob, a trouble-maker
describing people: to look like, to be (very much) like somebody, to be not a bit alike, to resemble smb, to bear (no) resemblance to smb; to take after smb in character or appearance, to be the very image of smb; to enjoy good health/ to be a picture of health, to have little make-up on the face, to look after one's appearance, to have delicate features, to have much/ nothing) in common; to like/dislike the way one walks/talks/speaks/behaves/dresses, wears one's hair.