- •Other Forms of Address
- •Less Common Forms of Address
- •Informal Address
- •Forms of Address within the Family
- •Making and Responding to Introductions
- •Third-Party Introductions
- •Self-Introductions
- •Responding to Introductions
- •Your relationship to the two people, and something they may have In common, according to the clues provided. You don't have to use all the
- •Information given; just use what you think would be appropriate.
- •B. Age and Ageing.
- •Do any of the words refer only to males (m) or only females (f)?
- •Skill Ex. 7 In the following dialogue, agree with the first speaker. Developing Use words from exercises 4 and 5 that mean roughly the same as the words in italics.
- •C. People's Occupation. Focus Vocabulary
- •Countries. Languages. Nationalities.
- •It's Been Long
- •The Way to Ask People about Their
- •Less Optimistic Replies
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Insert prepositions if necessary.
- •II. Rewrite and correct the sentences in which there are errors.
- •III. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Unit 2 Family Relationships Focus Vocabulary
- •1) Which two of these words can be used as a verb?
- •3) Which of the following:
- •4) Which of the word-parts in the box can be used with each of the relations below?
- •Interview with 16-year-old daughter Helen
- •Interview with 17-year-old son David
- •Interview with mother
- •Development answering the questions below. Try to use the multi-word verbs and expressions in the box in your answer as well as the verbs above.
- •When you are old
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Insert prepositions where necessary.
- •II. Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below.
- •III. Change the words underlined to give the sentences the opposite meaning.
- •IV. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Complimenting People
- •"It's been long", "How are you", "Complimenting".
- •1. When we describe somebody, we tend to follow this order in our description: height, build, age, hair, eyes, face, complexion, extra features, dress. Study this example.
- •2. Eyes
- •With the definitions in b.
- •A Detective Inquiry
- •Role-Play
- •Test Yourself
- •Unit 4 Character and Personality a. Focus vocabulary
- •Word Meaning Ex. 1 Match the words on the left with the closest meaning on the right.
- •We Are Not Alike a. Intellectual ability
- •Attitudes towards life
- •Attitudes towards other people
- •One person's meat is another person's poison
- •It Takes All Sorts
- •Idiomatic expressions
- •Your Stars
- •In the examples below?
- •We don't get on well
- •Likes and Dislikes
- •Test: How brave are you?
- •The Main Attraction
- •Persоnal
- •Interview the husband and the wife of the year.
- •Proposal
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. Put the following adjectives in the correct order.
- •II. Use the prompts below to build up a description of a student. Before you begin think about the tenses you will use.
- •III. Cross out the incorrect word in each of the following sentences.
- •IV. Translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.
- •Vocabulary
- •Focus Vocabulary
- •It would be very interesting to find out the opinion of girls and boys. Do they differ in any way?
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •Unit 2 Furnishing and Decorating Focus Vocabulary
- •Furniture in your home to your partner. Use the prepositions and adverbs to help you.
- •Flat for sale
- •Word Use Ex. 14 Complete the following sentences with a suitable idiomatic expression.
- •Estate agent
- •It needs doing, to have smth done, to do smth.
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •Something suitable.
- •Houses and Flats to Let
- •Houses and Flat for Sale
- •Sharing a Flat
- •The Noisy Neighbours
- •Revision and Consolidation
- •I. A. Renting a flat
- •Buying a house
- •III. Put one of the following words in each space in the sentences below.
- •Unit 4 Housework. Household Chores. Focus Vocabulary
- •Ex. 4 Make and do
- •Now collect any new expressions you can find using "make" or "do" from the dialogue below. Put them on your "make and do" list.
- •What's your attitude to untidy people?
- •Unit 5 Pets Focus Vocabulary
- •Don't Get a Dog or Puppy Until You've Checked These Points:
- •If you cannot answer 'yes' to all these questions, please think very carefully before you get a dog or a puppy. Perhaps another kind of animal would make a better pet for you.
- •Are They Not Sweet?
- •2. Are they better companions than some people may be?
- •3. Speak about your pets if any or pets you'd like to keep.
- •Vocabulary
Furniture in your home to your partner. Use the prepositions and adverbs to help you.
Above Below downstairs |
In Inside On the right/let |
On top of Opposite over |
To the right/left of Under upstairs |
Ex. 6 A. Using a dictionary if necessary, make pairs of,
opposites using the words in the box.
Bright Out-dated
|
modern gloomy |
Neglected attractive
|
well-maintained ugly |
B. Use appropriate words from the box to complete the following:
a) The Greens don't like their new house very much. It is___________ because
there are so few windows, and it's quite small.
b) Although the car is four years old, it's_______ . The owners have serviced and
cleaned it regularly.
c) A: These flats that were built in the 1960s look terribly_______. and depressing from the outside, don't they?
B: Yes, but when they are redecorated, they can be very_________inside.
d) The town looks lovely and____________in the morning sunshine.
e) She finds her parents' attitudes very_________. In fact, she says they are
nineteenth century attitudes.
Skill Developing
Ex. 7 Work in pairs. Discuss the following questions.
How would you improve the decoration of your classroom? / your own room? Look at the picture of the flat below. What changes would you make to improve it?
Flat for sale
One-bedroom flat,
needs some attention,
convenient location,
vacant possession.
Available now.
Ex. 8 A. Ann saw the advertisement for the flat above.
She contacted the estate agent and asked to look round it.
He showed her round it the following day.
- What do you think Ann will say when she looks round the flat?
- What do you think the estate agent will say?
B. Now listen to their conversation and answer the following question.
1. What needs doing to the flat?
2. Does she decide to buy it?
Word Ex.9 A. Replace the words in italics in the sentences below with
Use the phrasal verbs in the box. The first one has been done for you.
put something in take something out move in
put something up throw something out come off
see to something do something up think something over
a) Nothing has been done to this flat for a long time. It needs new curtains and a new carpet. The doors and walls also need painting. It needs doing up (decorating/ renovating).
b) The wallpaper was very old and___(wasn 't sticking to/ attached to) the walls.
c) The fireplace was old and ugly, so they_______(removed it).
d) The house was cold and damp, so they had central heating_______(installed).
e) There was nowhere to put any books, so they decided to______________ (fix in place) some shelves (disposed of them by
f) The carpets were old and full of holes, so he_________ (putting them in the dustbin).
g) There was a serious problem with the roof. The rain was coming in and making everything wet. It needed________ (repairing/dealing with) immediately.
h) Before I make a decision 1 need to talk to my husband about it and see what he thinks. I must____________(discuss it) with him.
i) We would like to_______________(start living there) as soon as possible.
j) It’s a good idea, but I need time to______(consider it carefully).
B. Now listen to the tape again and check your answers.
What’s the difference between to take something out and to throw something out?
Ex. 10 You are looking round the flat with Ann. Ацгее with everything she says, using the phrasal verbs in the prompts.
Ex. 11 The picture shows a house in good condition.
Listen to a description of how the house used to look before it was done up. Мakе notes and then report back on the changes that have been made.
Example: The roof has been seen to.
Ex. 12 Complete the sentences below. The first one has been done for you. '
need + gerund. This construction is passive in meaning.
The roof needs seeing to. = The roof needs to be seen to.
a) That house ugly fireplace needs
taking out.
to be taken out.
b) The house
c) Those shelves
d) That old table
e) The flat
f) The central heating
Word Ex. 13 What do the following expressions mean?
Meaning When would you use them?
1. Home, sweet home.
2. An Englishman's home is his castle.
3. Make yourself at home.
4. It's home from home.
5. It's not in my backyard.
How would you express the same ideas in your own language?