Basic English _Fisrt year_Булатова -31-10-11

minutes to talk to the person next to you. Ask and answer each other's questions and

ask for more information. When the teacher says ‗Change‘ stop and go and talk to

another student. Which questions were the best for finding out about other students?

Grammar: Present simple tense

15. Complete the gaps with do, don’t, does, doesn’t

I usually get up at 7 o‘clock.

They __________ eat out.

He _______ play video games.

_____ you wake up early?

_____ she dance?

Use the Present Simple to talk about routines (the things that you do every day) and habits (thing that you do often)

Frequency adverbs and phrases

We usually put words like often, sometimes, never before the main verb, or after the verb to be.

She never has any secrets.

Old people are often too tired to do much.

We can put phrases like every day, once a week at the beginning or end of the sentence. We eat out every Sunday.

Adverbs of frequency

Always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, never, seldom,rarely

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Make the sentences true for you and a partner in class using words and phrases in the box.

always	once		day
usually	twice	a	week
			month
often	three times
			year
sometimes
never
	every

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1.I go to bed very late.

2.I read before I go to bed.

3.I eat out with my friend.

4.I visit my classmates.

5.I go to the movies with my girl/boy friend.

6.I look up English words in a dictionary.

18. Imagine that you are in your sixties. Talk about how often you do these things at 60. Use the adverbs of frequency: always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, never

Example: We hardly ever go on dates.

Hiking	Run
Bungy jumping	Ballroom dancing
Study English	Argue
Travel around the world	Go on dates
Talk about our health	Talk about the old days

Communication

19. You are going to take part in a speed-dating event with your class. Your teacher will give you a profile sheet with your personal details. Follow the following task:

1.You have three minutes to impress a partner, ask questions and test him/her. Your teacher will circulate and take notes.

2.After three minutes you will change partners. When you finish speaking to everybody in the class, you will write down on a piece of paper your date or dates.

3.Let‘s find out if we have any matches!

You now have 10 minutes to study your profile sheet or photograph and prepare for your three minute presentation. Think about the type of questions you might ask, or be asked. Ask your teacher for any words you do not understand.

Independent assignment

1.Imagine you went on a date with one of your classmate‘s profiles. Write about the experience.

2.Write a short story about the ideal date. Think of dates for the following situations:

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outdoors in the summer indoors on a rainy day

an outing with a group of friends

a date on a major holiday in your country.

Unit one

Relationships

Literature: Dating/Love

Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt

1. How do you feel before going on a date?

		always	never	sometimes
~	nervous
~	excited
~	worried
~	happy
~ scared
~ anxious
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~delighted

~anticipated

Walk around the class and have a talk.

Example: 1) Before a date I always feel nervous because ... ... ... .

2)I never feel worried as I ... ... ... .

2.Form three groups. Read the extracts.

Group A: Read extract 1.

Sarah trembles with excitement. She shakes so much that she gets her zip stuck and drops her lipstick down the loo. It was six-thirty and she was due to be at Jason‘s flat in an hour. She took a deep breath and told herself to be sensible; after all it was only a dinner date. But the thought of seeing him set her pulse racing. She poured herself a quick drink, and then checked her hair and make-up for the last time. Then she rushed out and hailed a passing taxi.

They had met a month earlier at a party. He had asked her to dance. They ended up spending the whole evening in each other‘s company. Jason was tall and athletic, and dressed perfectly. He also seemed very gentle and considerable; he had driven her home after the party but only kissed her in a brotherly way. She had just broken up with Kevin - and Jason was such a pleasant contrast!

Since then, they had met several times - but always with other people, in restaurants or at parties. She knew she was special for him, and after the last party, he had driven her home again. This time he had kissed her - but not like a brother! He had invited her to supper at his flat in Bayswater. That night she had hardly slept, she was so excited. At last she would see him alone on his home ground. They would really get to know each other - and perhaps...? She told herself to stop fantasizing.

Group B: Read extract 2

She looked for number 7 - there it was. She was just about to ring the bell when she looked up at the first-floor window. There, silhouetted against the curtains, she saw the unmistakable outline of a female figure. And behind it was Jason‘s own shadow. The woman was moving to and fro. Then she took off some of her clothes. Sarah could hardly believe her eyes. She turned, ran out of the lane and took a taxi home.

The phone rang at nine, at nine-thirty and at ten. She let it ring. That would teach him a lesson! He never called her again.

The weeks that followed were a torture. She avoided going out in case she met

Jason. A month later she opened a fashion magazine and saw Jason‘s handsome face smiling at her. He was the centrepiece of an article on the latest woman‘s fashions.

He had won the prize for the best young fashion designer of the year. The article mentioned that he worked with his models from his own flat in Bayswater.

Group C: Read extract 3

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Sarah was in London a year. After graduating she got a job as a system analyst in the City. She felt adult at last. In the taxi she thought how Jason completely took over her mind. Yet she really knew almost nothing about him, not even what he did for a living. All she knew was that he was elegant, well-mannered, intelligent, rich and dangerously attractive. She asked the taxi to drop her off at the corner of the mews where Jason lived. As she paid the driver, she remembered that he invited her for eight-thirty, not seven-thirty. In her excitement she got confused. What should she do? She could wait an hour but decided not to. Instead she would go to his flat and explain that she was early - surely he would understand.

3. a) get into groups of three (3) people so that you have students from different groups A,B,C.

3.b) Retell your extracts to find the correct order of events. You may ask questions to clarify.

4.Read the whole story again.

5.Work in 2 groups.

One group mimes the story, the other group comments.

6. Fill in the columns to describe Sarah‟s feelings.

Before the dinner date	At Jason‘s place	Weeks later
trembled with excitement

(from «Musical Cheers» Alan Maley)

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Unit one	Relationships
Glossary
a colleague		classmate
a neighbour		clever
acquaintance		colleague
ambitious		confident
bald		cousin
ballet		coward
boring		cunning
boyfriend		curly
brave		date
business partners		diving
casual		double chin
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easy-going elderly extended family extrovert

family allowance family circle family doctor family man family name family planning family tree

fat father-in-law flatmate freckles generous

get on nerves

get together with him/her go out with anyone

hang out with your friends have a lot in common with have arguments with husband and wife

jazz

keypal / penfriend look up to

loyal

medium height messy

Unit two	Family
Lesson one	Love and Marriage

middle-aged moonwalking mother-in-law narrow nephew

niece

nuclear family oval overweight pale

plump punctual reliable roommate round

run in a family sense of humour shabby

siblings

single parent family skinny

slim

son –in-law speed-date square stand by

start a family

take care of tap dancing

Answer the questions.

At what age do people usually get married in your country?

What is the typical age in your country to do the things below?

get married/ get engaged/ go on a date/ look after grandchildren/ have children?

1.Read the words and the definitions. Write your definitions to the rest of the words.

bride: the woman who is getting married

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groom: the man who is getting married

reception: party after the wedding service for everybody bridesmaid: females who are friends or relatives of the bride

best man: the closest friend to the groom; he participates in the wedding ceremony honeymoon: place where the married couple goes after the wedding

wedding ring _______________________________________________

wedding cake _______________________________________________

wedding bouquet _____________________________________________

2. Match the words above with the pictures

3.Look at the photos of two weddings. How are they similar? How are they different?

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Listening: Kazakh wedding

4. You are going to listen to the text about the traditional Kazakh wedding. Write near each word the equivalent or the explanation in English.

kalingdik – bride

kaling mal - __________________

zhar-zhar - ___________________

ene - ___________________

betashar - ___________________

syngsu_____________________

korimdik-_____________________

5.Listen to the text again and tell your partner what is new for you. Reading: Weddings

6.Read the text about a different type of wedding

United States Wedding Traditions

A typical U.S. wedding is based on love. Wedding planning can be complex and time-taking and many brides today have a professional wedding planner who takes care of the thousand-and-one details of the glorious day. Traditionally the bride wears a while wedding dress and white wedding veil.

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The more traditional U.S. weddings take place in a religious setting. Family and friends are formally invited. The traditional ceremony itself is often conducted by a religious leader known to the bride and/or the groom. At the ceremony the bride and the groom speak of their love and their desire to make their partner safe, happy and secure, and to be faithful to their partner for the rest of their lives.

At the conclusion of the ceremony, it is traditional for the official to ask if anyone present knows of any just cause why this man and this woman may not be married. Getting no response, the official asks the couple to exchange wedding rings, a symbol of their never-ending love and promise to one another, and then the happy couple is husband and wife.

As the couple leave the church they people often shower them with rice or wheat (symbols of fertility) and the couple is then taken to a home or restaurant where a wedding reception takes place. Speeches and toasts are given to the new couple, wishing them every happiness.

After the reception the couple traditionally goes on a honeymoon. A honeymoon may last from several days to two or more weeks. U.S. wedding ceremonies and wedding customs are among the most flexible in the entire world.

Put the words in the correct order to make questions.

1.wedding a typical U.S. is like What?

2.today have Why brides a planner wedding professional do many?

3.the What wear bride traditionally does?

4.Why exchange does couple rings the?

5.does go after church the Where couple the?

6.long honeymoon last does How the?

In small groups answer the questions.

7. Read the text carefully and write out the words to fill in the table below.

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