Л. М. Иванова Н. М. Старостина

Учись

проявлять

инициативу в речи

ЧЕБОКСАРЫ 2009

Learn to speak on your own initiative

Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации Федеральное агентство по образованию

ГОУ ВПО «Чувашский государственный педагогический университет им. И. Я. Яковлева»

Л. М. ИВАНОВА, Н. М. СТАРОСТИНА

Учись проявлять инициативу в речи

Учебное пособие для I курса институтов и факультетов иностранных языков

Часть 2

Чебоксары

2009

УДК 802.0:378.16 ББК 81.432.1-923 И-205

Иванова, Л. М. Учись проявлять инициативу в речи : учеб. пособие. Ч. 2 / Л. М. Иванова, Н. М. Старостина. – Чебоксары : Чуваш. гос. пед. ун-

т, 2009. – 114 с.

Печатается по решению ученого совета ГОУ ВПО «Чувашский государственный педагогический университет им. И. Я. Яковлева»

Рецензенты:

Шугаева Н. Ю., канд. филол. наук, доцент, зав. кафедрой английской филологии и переводоведения ГОУ ВПО «Чувашский государственный педагогический университет им. И. Я. Яковлева»;

Румянцев В. Ф., канд. пед. наук, доцент кафедры иностранных языков Чебоксарского кооперативного института Центросоюза РФ «Российский университет кооперации».

Настоящее пособие представляет собой методические разработки по обучению иноязычному инициативному говорению на материале английского языка. Пособие является приложением к первой части учебника «Практический курс английского языка» под редакцией проф. В. Д. Аракина. Содержит тщательно разработанные речевые ситуации, моделирующие процесс реальной коммуникации и позволяющие организовать общение первокурсников в монологической и диалогической формах речи.

Предназначается для использования как на занятиях под руководством преподавателя, так и в самостоятельной работе студентов во внеурочное время в парах и группах по 3-4 человека, так как почти каждое упражнение снабжено ключами.

©Иванова Л. М., Старостина Н. М., 2009

©ГОУ ВПО «Чувашский государственный педагогический университет им. И. Я. Яковлева», 2009

CONTENTS

LESSON VI …………….………………………………………………….	3
UNIT I …………..…………………………………………………..	6
UNIT II ……….……………………………………………………..	25
UNIT III ……………………………………………………………..	40
UNIT IV ……………………………………………………………..	48
LESSON VII …….…………………………………………………………	60
UNIT I …………..…………………………………………………..	63
UNIT II ……….……………………………………………………..	73
LESSON VIII ……………………………………………………………....	94

LESSON SIX

PHONETICS: Stress in polysyllabic words.

GRAMMAR: Imperative sentences (reviewed). Imperative sentences in indirect speech. Prepositions of place (continued). Complex Object with the verbs "let", "make". Modal verbs and their equivalents (continued). Impersonal sentences in indirect speech. The Present Indefinite Tense (continued). The Present Continuous Tense (continued). The Future Indefinite Tense. Adverbial clauses of time, condition. Object clauses. The Present Perfect Tense (continued). Degrees of comparison of adverbs (continued). Reciprocal Pronouns.

TOPICS: "At an English Lesson". “Work in the Laboratory”. "Time". TEXTS: 1) "Our English Lesson". "Practical Course of English". Course

1. M., 1997; 2) "Basic Structures of English". N.E. Irtenyeva. Lesson 13. M.-L., 1967. p. 102; "Dialogues 1, 2 on pp. 138-139; pp. 85-87 (points 1).

VOCABULARY TO USE

I. NOUNS, NOUN COLLOCATIONS, ADJECTIVE STRUCTURES AND ADVERBIAL PHRASES:

1)ON THE TOPIC "AT AN ENGLISH LESSON": an aim, an analysis, articulation, assimilation, from the (very) beginning (up) to the (very) end, a bookmark, a book with dog’s ears, a chapter, a grammar class, in class, before (after) classes, at the lesson, after (before) the lessons, a command, a day (record) book, a department, at the English (French) department, description, devoicing, a dialogue, an English speaking club, an error, an examination (exam), an examination-card, an example on smth, an explanation, an exposition, a form, in the fifth (fourth, etc) form, a first-year student, History, home assignmentHome reading, illustration, imagination, imitation, an interval (a break), in break, intonation, in return, a lecture on Stylistics, a link-verb, memory, a mid-term exam, a newcomer, a notebook for written work (in English), Oral (Written) Practice, an order, a paragraph, a passage, Philosophy, Phonetics, Physical Training, Psychology, a report, a reproduction, a request, a signature, a stipend, time-table change(s), a tape-library, a textbook on The History of the Language, a theory, on the time-table, a turn (in turn), voicing, a waste of time, a weak point.

2)ON THE TOPIC “WORK IN THE LABORATORY”: a BBCrecording, an announcer (a broadcaster), (a) broadcast, (a) (radio) broadcasting, a clear tape, a double-tracked tape, a (an empty) reel, English by radio, (for) lack of smth., lessons by radio, a listening booth, a radiophone, a section of a tape, a set of equipment, a stretch of silence, (a) transmission.

3)NOUNS ON THE TOPIC "TIME":

1. Names of the days of the week: (On, by, for) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

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2.Names of the months: (in, by) January, February, March, April, May, August, September, October, November, Late October, Early May.

3.Names of the seasons: in (late, early) autumn, in (late, early spring, till spring, in summer, in (early, late) winter, till winter.

4.Names of the parts of the day: (a) day, by day, day by day, every day (week, month, year, etc.), a day-off, on one’s day-off, (in the) daytime, at midday, (on) a lovely day, a real spring day, a gloomy autumn day, (on) a week day, nowadays, the day after tomorrow, the whole day, today, in a day or two, in a couple of days, in a few days.

Afternoon, noon, in the afternoon, at noon, on a rainy afternoon. Dawn, at dawn. Evening, in the evening.

Morning, in the morning, (on) a fine morning, a lovely bright morning, (for) tomorrow morning.

Night, (at) midnight, at night, by night, (till) (late) at night, (for) tomorrow night, tonight, all night (long), (in) a fortnight, an autumn (summer) night, a dark (stormy, starry, etc.) night, a St. Petersburg “white night”, on the night of Friday, on Sunday night, night after night, night and day.

Twilight, in the twilight.

4)Other nouns: absence, an arrival, a calendar, a common (leap) year, a laughter, New Year’s Eve, an opportunity, a suggestion, a will, a wish.

II.ADJECTIVES: awful, broadcasting, dog-eared, enough, folk (songs), (the) following, immediate, (un)natural, neat, optional, outside (help), portable, previous, proper, (ir)regular, typical, unchangeable, unchanged, whole.

III. PREPOSITIONS: according to, at about, except, in, on, till.

IV. RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS: myself, yourself, itself, himself, herself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.

V. VERBS AND VERBAL COLLOCATIONS: address smb., air, advise, agree with smb. (to smth.), analyse, answer smb.'s questions, arrive in (at), articulate, ask questions on (about) smth., ask smb. questions, attend (classes, lectures), be in an awful state, be of great importance for smb., be pressed for time, be short of time, beat (the rhythm), be in time, begin (start) doing smth., behave, break rules, broadcast, bring, call smb. up on the phone, care about, catch, catch the five o'clock bus (train, etc.), collect, come behind time, come in (into smth.), come up to ..., come to an end, complete, continue (go on) doing smth., copy, cost, cross, damage, deliver (give, read) a lecture, dig, disagree, discuss, distribute, do one's best, do smth. for practice, do sums, dog-ear, dramatize, enter smth. (a room), enter an institute, examine smb., exchange smth., exchange opinions about smth., fail (in/at) an exam, fail smb., fail to pass an examination, find, find out, follow smb./ (smth.), finish doing smth., fight with smb. (for smth.), forget, frighten smb., fulfil, gather, get a mark

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in..., get on (off) a bus, get rid of smth., get up, get to some place, give (get) a mark for..., give a (music) lesson, give a piece of advice, give up (doing smth.), go away, go as far as, go by bus (by train, by plane, by tram), go on foot, go through one's homework, go to bed, go to school, grasp the idea, hand in (give in), handle a tape-recorder, hand out (give out), hang (a grammar table, etc.), have a class (a lesson) in writing (speaking, hearing, etc.), have a day-off, have a good (reasonable) excuse, have a lame excuse, have a good time, have a lecture on..., have a look at smth., have practice in..., have a seminar in, have a smoke, have a talk, have to, hide, hurry (up), imagine, inquire about smth., interrupt, illustrate, invite, joke, join smb. (smth.), join smb. in smth., jump, keep (school, library) rules, keep early (late) hours, keep things in the right (wrong) places, last, laugh at smb. (over smth.), leave smb. (smth.) (for smth.), leave much to be desired, look for smth., look smth. through, look into the book, look up a word in a dictionary, make a list of, make notes of smth., make one's bed, make a pause, make a recording (a copy), make a report on..., make a time-table, make up a dialogue (examples, stories, statements, situations, etc.), make out, mark (stresses, tunes), make up a quarrel, miss a train (a bus, a class, etc.), mispronounce, misspell, memorize, obey smth. (rules), observe smth. (rules), offer, order, palatalize, pass an exam (with a good mark), pay attention to..., peep into smth., plant, play football (handball, volley-ball, hockey, tennis, basket-ball, chess), to please smb., plug in, practise smth., prepare for, press (push) a button, prompt, put a tape on for smb., put smth. off, put smth. on the time-table, put smth. up, quarrel, read aloud (outloud), read (write) English, be written in English, read to oneself, record smth., repeat an exam, replace, respond to, return (home), revise, rewind (a tape), rewrite, run, set (give) homework, sign, sit (stay) up late, sharpen, shout (at smb.), smile (at smb.), smoke, sound natural, speak in a low voice (speak softly), speak into a microphone, speak on (over) the phone, spend money (time, etc.) on smth., splice a tape, spoil, stay away from classes, suggest, take an exam, take one's seat (place), take part in smth., take smth. off the time-table, tear, tell (ask) smb. (not) to do smth., thread a tape, train one’s ear, translate word for word, transmit, transmit smth. from one place to another, transmit over the radio, trouble smb., try, try smth. on, turn a reel upside down, turn on (off), turn over, unplug, upset (things), wait for, wind back (play back) a tape, wind on, wipe smth. off (rub out), wipe out one’s recording, whisper, write in transcription (in letters).

VI. ADVERBS AND ADVERBIAL PHRASES: aloud, as a rule, beforehand, carefully, comfortably, constantly, correctly, fast, fluently, hard, heavily, immediately, (in)accurately, (in)attentively, (in)distinctly, loudly, merrily, next, noisily, on the spot, over and over again, properly, quietly, (ir)regularly, still, straight, systematically, two (three) times running.

Other adverbs and adverbial phrases on “Time”: at any time, at the same time, at once, between 2 and 3 o’clock, early, for a while, for the present,

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just now, late, once (twice, 3 times) a week (a month, etc.), right now, sometimes, soon, this week (month, year, etc.), at present, a week-end, at the week-end, by the end of the week (month, etc.), on the New Year’s Eve (syn. on the Eve of the New Year), at the present moment, at this moment (time), at (by) three (five, etc.) o’clock, for tomorrow, in a minute (a second), in a few minutes (seconds, hours, etc.), in a week (a year, etc.), (in) an hour and a half, (in) a quarter of an hour, (in) half an hour, in no time (at all), in the future, one of these days, till 5 (7, etc.) o’clock, till spring, till tomorrow.

VII. EVERYDAY PHRASES: All right, I shall (will, won't). As far as the end. Behave yourself! Can (could) you repeat it? Don't mention it. Don't go so fast! Do you follow me (his speech, his reading, the explanation)? Excellent! Fine! Fantastic! Go on reading (writing)! I strongly advise you (not) to... Good! Have another try! Hurry up! I don’t want any help, thank you. It seems to me...

I'll do my best (to...). It’s a great trouble (a pleasure) for me… It gives me a pleasure to… It gives me no trouble to... It's my duty to do it. It’s no trouble at all... It's your turn now. Keep on reading like this! Keep silent! Let the others see the board! May I say it this way? May I put it like this? Most willingly. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today! No prompting (helping)! No whispering! Say it all together! Say it again! Speak up! Use the first (second) track of the tape. That’s settled! (Agreed!) The tape is over.

UNIT I

I. Your homework was to learn the new words. Your groupmates and you are checking the knowledge of each other. What can you ask or tell each other to do with this or that active word or expression?

M. St.1: Please, A., spell the word “analysis”. St.2: It is spelt like this: a- n-a-l-y-s-i-s.

Tell us the English (Russian) for...

Use the word in the plural and put it down, please. Transcribe the word (sentence)…, please.

Intone the sentence…, please.

Look at the word … on the blackboard and say what letter is missing in it.

II. Answer the following questions:

A. 1.What can we count? 2.Can you count from one to a hundred? 3.May you come into the classroom after the bell? 4.What do you say when you come into the classroom after the bell? 5.What can we make? 6.What can we do? 7.When a student writes very slowly on the blackboard what can a teacher say to him? 8.What can we watch? 9.What can we look through? 10.Is your

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pronunciation always correct? 11.When your fellow-student reads or speaks very quickly what can you say to him? 12.In what way will you ask your fellowstudent about the spelling of the word "certainly"? 13.In what way will you ask your fellow-student about the pronunciation of the word "magazine"? 14.What will you answer? 15.May you smoke in the corridor of the Institute? 16.Where are you allowed to smoke? 17.Is it easy to write English words in transcription? 18.Where is the Dean? 19.What does a teacher usually do at the end of a lesson? 20.Who can collect notebooks after a test? 21.What do you do if you want to write something. on the blackboard, but there is no room on it? 22.What can you ask a teacher if you don't know how to say this or that in English? 23.In what way can you do your homework? 24.What can a teacher say if you are too noisy? If you help your fellow-student during a test? 25.How many lessons are you to have today according to the time-table? 26.What must a pupil on duty do before a lesson begins? 27.Shall I explain the modal verbs to you again? 28.Are you to have a lesson of physical training after the English lesson?

B. 1. What subjects are there on your time-table? 2.What subjects are you good at? 3.Who is good at Latin (History, Linguistics, Phonetics) in your group? 4.Which of these sciences is the most interesting, do you think? 5.What subjects are there on our time-table on Monday? 6.How many lessons of Physical Training are there on our time-table? 7.Are there many scientists at our faculty? 8.Do all of them deliver lectures to you? 9.What lecture-hall is the largest at our faculty? 10.Are the intervals between our lessons long or short? 11.Are there any phonetic and vocabulary notes in your English textbooks? 12. Are there any notes on style in your textbooks? 13.Have you got textbooks on Psychology, Geography, Medicine, Physics? 14.Are all of us busy with oral or written practice now? 15.Is this your notebook for written work? I see many spelling mistakes in it. 16.Why is spelling your weak point? 17.Have you, B., a notebook for written work in English about you? 18.How many errors are there in your last test-paper? 19.Must you always do your home exercises orally? 20.Has O., your deskmate, usually many or few errors in her test-papers? 21.Look at the word "swi(t)ch" on the blackboard. What letter is missing in it? 22.What is it easier for you, to write a phonetic dictation or a spelling one? 23.Do you write expositions well? 24.Has each of you a day book or a record book? 25.Are there any illustrations in our book for Home reading? 26.Are English spelling rules difficult? 27.Are the English rules of reading difficult? 28.Are all your groupmates always attentive in class? 29.Is your groupmate (neighbour) always ready for the lessons in English? 30.Are you usually very tired at the end of your working day? 31.You always follow your teacher’s explanation very attentively, don’t you? 32.Is there voicing or devoicing of the sound at the end of the word “analyses” in O.’s speech? 33.On what topic are you going to make up a story? 34.It is your turn to recite your dialogue, girls, isn’t it? 35.Do you always read a book in Literature from the beginning to the end? 36. Has B. a good or a bad memory? 37.Is your sister in the sixth or in the seventh form now? 38.Is your

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signature long or short? 39.There is a newcomer in Group “A”, isn’t there? 40.Who is not nervous at exams?41.Is it true that you are a good skier (skater)? 42.What is your hobby? 43.Have we an English speaking club at our faculty? 44.Are you all members of the English speaking club? 45.What do you do after classes, B.? 46.Is there an English speaking club at the English department? 47.Have you ever attended an English speaking club? 48.Are there many errors in N’s examples on the topic “At an English Lesson”?

III. Make up similar talks:

Ask your groupmate who has a telephone of his own to phone somebody at the institute and find out something about your studies.

M.1. St.1: Please ring up a
laboratory-assistant and find out if our	St.2: When (shall I ring her up)?
tapes are ready.
St.1: Ring her up at 10 o’clock on
Monday.	St.2: All right.

Ask your groupmate for the thing you need for him (her) to respond to you:

M.2. St.1: Give me your dictionary, please.

St.1: a) Thank you. or: b: Never mind! or: It`s all right!

St.2: a) Just a minute! Here it is! (Here is the dictionary!) or: b)Sorry. I haven`t got it about me.

St.2: Don`t mention it! (Not at all!)

Ask your groupmate to help you do something for him (her) to respond to:

M.3. St.1: Help me take the taperecorder and the tapes to the tapelibrary, H., please.

St.2: With pleasure. or: I`m sorry I can`t. It`s my duty to lock the classroom today.

You are at the stationer`s and ask a shop-assistant to show something to you.

M.4. St.1: Show me that coloured paper, please.

St.1: How much does it cost?

You speak about your studies and rest.

St.2: Here you are! (or: Here is the paper!

St.2: It costs 15 roubles.

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M.5. St.1: May I give you a piece of advice?

St.1: Don`t spend much time on reading books till late at night. You can spoil your eye-sight.

M.6. St.1: Join our discussion of the book. or: Join us in discussing the book.

M.7. T.: Our seminar is coming to an end (is almost over). Let`s finish it with exchanging opinions about (on) the hero of the book.

T.: Yes, you may.

M.8. T.: Let`s begin our English lesson with a phonetic drill.

T.: No, you are to repeat them after the announcer.

M.9. St.1: A., look in on me after classes.

M.10. a) Edward, stop offending John, please!

b) Children, start (begin) reading Text 5 after the tape.

St.2: Do, please.

St.2: All right, thank you. I`ll try to follow your advice.

St.2: I`m sorry I can`t. In 5 minutes I`m to be at the seminar. or: With pleasure (Most willingly!)

St.: May we read what we`ve got about the hero in our notebooks?

St.: Shall we repeat words and phrases after you?

St.2: All right, but first I must look in at the bookshop. There is a very good EnglishRussian dictionary on sale there.

IV. Give a piece of advice according to the given models:

A. Respond to the statements:
M.1. St.1: I say, A., I’m thirsty.	St.2: Have some tea.
1.I’m giddy.	1.Make strong tea and have a rest.
2.My shirt is old.	2.Buy a new shirt.
3.I’m awfully tired.	3.Go home and have a rest.
4.I’m as hungry as a hunter.	4.Go to the canteen and have a meal. or:
	Take the ham. Here it is.
5.I can’t sleep.	5.Don’t work till late at night.
6.It’s a difficult test.	6.Think hard to do the exercises.

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7.I can’t see what is written on the blackboard.

8.I’m sleepy. I’ve had a difficult day.

9.I’m in a bad mood.

10.M. has a few English books. 11.We’ve got little chalk here

M.2. St.1: It’s hot in the room.

1.It’s dark in the park.

2.It’s warm in the garden. 3.It’s wet and muddy outside. 4.It’s very frosty today

5.It’s a great holiday today. 6.It’s early spring.

7.It’s 8 o’clock in the morning.

8.It’s the end of April. 9.It’s very stuffy here. 10.It's’ the first of April. 11.It’s midnight.

7.Ask somebody for help.

8.Go to bed at once.

9.Listen to merry music or go to the cinema.

10.Ask him to give you one to read. 11.Fetch some more chalk, please.

St.2: Open the window. St.3: Air the room.

St.4: I like when it’s hot in the room, I’m always cold.

1.Don’t go to the park alone.

–It’s too late, don’t go anywhere at all. –Be careful. It’s dangerous to walk in he park when it’s dark in it.

2.Let’s stay in the garden for a while. –It’s so pleasant to be in the open air! 3.Don’t go for a walk today.

–Put on your rubber boots. 4.Put on your fur-coat. –Put on your warm scarf.

–Put on your woollen sweater and socks. 5.Let’s visit our friends.

–Let’s invite our friends to our place. 6.Don’t put on your rain-coat, it’s still cold outside.

–Let’s go for a walk, it’s so pleasant outside.

7.Get up, it’s time to have breakfast. –Begin doing your homework. It’s a pleasure to work in the morning.

–Learn the poem by heart. It’s easy to remember things in the morning. 8.Finish cleaning the flat. We’ll have a holiday soon.

9.Tell the student on duty to air the classroom.

10.Don’t listen to your fellow-students because they can play a joke on you. 11.Oh, it is so late. Don’t make a noise, switch off the light and go to bed.

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B. You are a teacher and advise the students or the monitor what to do to help them in their social life and studies:

M.1. Don’t agree with your sister, Lena, who advises you to take part in the competition. You can’t do it because you can’t run very fast.

M.2. Pronunciation (articles) is your weak point. Pay more attention to phonetic exercises (to Grammar).

M.3. T.: P., you translate from Russian into English very badly. You should (ought to) have more practice in translating texts. or: Practise translating from Russian into English as often as possible.

C. Give a piece of advice speaking about the qualities of the objects or people mentioned.

M.T. or St.1:These are

Exercises 10 and 12. St.2: What difficult exercises they are! Try to do them and then ask the teacher to check them up.

1.This is a good laboratory.

2.These are long sentences.

3.There is a blackboard in front of us.

4.There are phonetic exercises on the sounds [r] and [h] on the tape.

5.It’s a new grammar rule.

6.This is a list of new English words.

7.That is a good verse.

8.It’s your turn to clean the floor.

9.This is a florist’s and today is

1.How well-equipped this laboratory is! Work in it as much as you can.

2.Really, how long the sentences are! Divide them into sense-groups, mark the stresses and tunes and read them.

3.What a dirty blackboard it is! Wipe off everything from it.

4.What difficult sounds they are! Listen to the tape and imitate the speaker.

5.What a difficult rule it is! Try to remember it. Make up examples on this rule.

6.How interesting the words are! Memorize them and use them in your speech.

7.How wonderful the verse is! Try to learn it by heart.

8.How dirty the floor is! Tell the students to clean their shoes and boots at the entrance to the university.

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the 8-th of March.	9.What beautiful flowers there are at the
	shop! Buy some roses for your mother.
10.These are tapes with new texts.	10.How interesting the texts are! Choose
	one of them, listen to it and retell it.

V. Respond to the following commands or requests. Follow the model.

M. St.1: Will you put my eraser into the	St.2: All right. Thank you for
pencil-box?
	the eraser.
1.Please send a telegram to my friend, I’m very
busy.	1.All right. or: It’s no trouble
2.Take the duster from the shelf by the	for me.
blackboard and wet it.	2.I will, of course.
3.Let’s speak English not only at the university at
the lessons, but also in breaks and at home, too.	3.With pleasure. or: That’s
	settled!
4.Take the pad out of my bag, please.	4.Here you are!
5.I’m always pressed for time, you know.	5.I strongly advise you to
	plan your work beforehand.
6.Return from the library at once!	6.I’m afraid there are many
	students there now. or: I’ll
	try to hurry up.
7.I have read the text of Lesson 10 badly.	7.Have another try!
8.Get ready for a quiz for tomorrow and make up
5 questions on the words of Lesson 9.	8.We’ll do our best.
9.Retell the article, please. And then make up a
dialogue about it.	9.We’ll do our best.
10.Take the dog for a run before classes, in the
morning, will you?	10.It’s my duty to do it.
11.Don’t go to school through the park, girls.	11.All right, we won’t.
12.Please take my bag home.	12.I’m sorry to say I can’t.
13.Show me your story, please.	13.Here it is!
14.Will you find a fountain-pen for me?	14.Just a moment.
15.Sing us the new song, please.	15.With pleasure.
16.Review all the reading rules properly.	16.All right. I’ll do my best.
	I’ll follow your advice.
17.Give up smoking at school!	17.I’m afraid I can’t do it.
18.Don’t be late for classes next time!	18.I’ll do my best.
19.Clean the blackboard quickly, will you?	19.All right.
20.Beat the rhythm of the sentence “Get up early
on Sunday”.	20.I’ll do my best.

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21.Wish your groupmates a happy New Year. 22.Will you try to speak louder?

23. J., help K. to draw a wall newspaper for the New Year.

24.Let’s go to the cinema after classes. 25.Pass me that notebook, please.

26.Thank you for your help with the translation. 27.It seems I’m going to be late for the seminar in Stylistics.

28.Let’s exchange our books for Home-Reading. 29. Recite a poem by Yesenin, please.

30.Let us first do our homework and then go for a walk.

31.Fetch me some pieces of chalk, please. 32.Let’s listen to Text 2 today before classes. 33.Don’t copy anything from your neighbour’s notebook, please.

34.Go to the Dean’s office and find out when we are to be on duty at the entrance to the university.

35.Yesterday we wrote an examination translation. It seems to me I’ve failed to write it properly.

36.We are still making a starling-house, mum.

37.I couldn’t grasp the meaning of some words at once listening to the tape.

38.We are going to get a new building for the faculty of foreign languages in January.

21.With pleasure. 22.I’ll do my best.

23.I’m sorry I can’t. I’m busy.

24.That’s a good idea! 25.Just a minute. 26.Don’t mention it.

27.Hurry up! 28.All right.

29.It’s a pleasure for me to do it.

30.That’s settled! 31.Just a moment. 32.Agreed.

33.Sorry, I won’t.

34.It gives me no trouble to do it.

35.That’s too bad!

36.I think, children, it’s high time to do your lessons.

37.Have another try!

38.Splendid! or: Fantastic!

VI. What would you say under the following circumstances?

You are a teacher and are having different lessons. What can you ask your pupils to do at those lessons?

1.At a lesson	of 1.St.: Divide fifteen by three, please. Multiply 10 by 10.
Mathematics.	Subtract 5 from 20. Add 2 to 15. Do Sums 32 and 56.
	Think hard to do your sums. Take your rulers and pencils
	and draw three lines. Count from 80 to a hundred.
	Subtract two hundred from a thousand. Draw a square (a
	circle). Put down all the figures in your notebooks. Do

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						Sum 35 orally and Sum 47 in written form. Check the
						answer to Sum 20. Explain the rules of multiplying
						(dividing) figures to your neighbour, please. Copy the
						following sum from the blackboard, please.
2.At	a		lesson		of	2.St.: Take your skis, put them on and go to the nearest
Physical Training.						forest to ski. Сross the gymnasium. Jump higher. Get
						ready for running. Run as far as that wall. Count
						yourselves! Let’s do some physical exercises. Join your
						groupmates in doing these exercises. Make a circle. Start
						marching. Turn to the right. Wait till it is your turn to
						run. Try to do your best fulfilling the following exercise.
						Learn the following complex of morning exercises.
						Prepare the balls and draw the net to have a game of
						volley-ball. Begin training throws. Collect the balls and
						put them into this box.
3.At	a		lesson		in	3.St.: Let’s begin our lesson with discussing Chapter 1.
Home-Reading.						Tell us Story 1. Retell Chapter 2. Complete the following
						sentences. Write out sentences with the new words,
						please. Find the words describing Mr. Page. Make up a
						plan of Chapter 5. Open the books at page 42. Read the
						first passage on it expressively. Make up questions on
						the text. Describe the episode about… Dramatize a talk
						between…Read the text and give the Russian equivalents
						for the following English words and expressions. Recite
						the first passage on page 70.
4.A		lesson			in	4.Begin reading the text aloud, please. Start reciting the
Phonetics			has		just	poem. Begin listening to the tape. -marking the stresses
begun.		What			can	and tunes in the text; -listening to Phonetic Exercises
you,	a	teacher,			ask	Numbers 43 and 45; -writing a phonetic dictation;-
your	pupils			to	start	correcting the mistakes of yesterday’s phonetic dictation;
doing?						-transcribing the new words; -practising the new words; -
						practising the pronunciation of the sounds and repeating
						the words (sentences) after the speaker (during the
						intervals);
5.A	lesson			in	Oral	5.Stop copying the text. Get ready to retell it. Finish
Practice is coming to						listening to the text; -doing the oral exercise; -analysing
an end.			What		can	the sentences; -describing the picture; -making up
you ask or tell your						dialogues; …
pupils			to		stop
(finish) doing?

6.You are a monitor. 6.Fetch a tape-recorder and the tape from the laboratory. What can you ask or Switch on the tape-recorder. Count the head-phones. tell the student on Fetch some chalk. Wet the duster. Clean the blackboard.

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duty to do before the lesson (after the lesson).

7.You explain to your groupmate, a newcomer, how to work at English.

8.You are a mother leaving home for work. What can you ask or tell your daughter (son) to do at home after school? 9.You are a wife. What can you ask or tell your husband to do or not to do after work?

10.Your family lives in the country. Your daughter (son) has entered an institute. You, parents, ask or tell her (him) what to do or not to do when they are in town (how to live and behave in town).

11.Your sister is in a hurry. She is afraid to be late for school. What can she ask you to help her do?

12.Your neighbour, a

Dust the desks. Write down the date on the blackboard. Find Text 10 on the tape. Collect the notebooks for mistakes and put them on the teacher’s table…

7.Learn or review the words every day. Read the new words in the evening, before going to bed .Put down difficult words many times. Look up new words in the dictionary. Make up sentences and dialogues with new words. Read texts aloud. Work much in the laboratory. Speak English in class, after classes and in breaks. Do your homework every day. Do exercises orally and in written form. Don’t work at the language till late at night. Correct the mistakes of your tests properly and carefully. Make up examples on each mistake. Repeat the new sounds over and over again. Listen to the teacher’s explanation very attentively.

8.Wash up, please. Water the flowers, then wash the floor. Do the homework. Go to the shop and buy some ham, bread and sweets. Take your little sister from the kindergarten and have a short walk with her. Don’t forget to feed the puppy.

9.Don’t watch TV and read newspapers all the time. Don’t smoke in the flat, go to the landing to have a smoke. Cut some grass for the cow. Feed the domestic animals: the cow, the sheep and the swine. Fetch some water from the well. Sharpen the knives, please. Check the children’s homework. Help the children to do their homework if necessary.

10.Get up early. Always have breakfast in the morning. Cook food in the kitchen of the hostel. Have dinner in the canteen every day. Put on (wear) warm clothes when it is cold. Don’t come home late. Don’t go for a walk in late evening. Follow your teacher’s advice. Be attentive at the lessons. Do your homework properly and in time. Make notes of all the lectures. Don’t miss lessons. Be always polite with everybody.

11.Please, sister, take the textbook in History out of my bag and put the textbook in Literature into it. Help me to take the fur-coat from the wardrobe. Polish my shoes…

12.Ask her to ring me up at once, please. Ask her to call

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very sick woman, asks you to ring up her sister and to ask to help her. What can she say to you?

13.You speak to your neighbour whose children are often too noisy. What can you tell him (her)?

14.You, a teacher,

a)speak to your pupil’s mother and ask her to teach him how to behave at school What can you say to his mother?

b)speak to your pupil’s elder sister, whose brother is very naughty.

15.You teach your little brother what to do and what not to do at English lessons.

up a doctor on the phone. Ask my sister to go to the chemist’s and buy some medicine for me. Ask her to come to my place as soon as possible. Ask my sister to go to the shop and buy some bread and milk for me on her way to my place.

13.Tell your children not to be so noisy, please. Tell your children not to run and jump about in the flat. Tell your children not to laugh and shout so loudly, please; -not to quarrel with each other; -not to sing bad songs, please; - not to strike with a stick on the radiators and pipes.

14.Tell your son to listen to the teachers attentively at the lessons; -to sit still at the lessons and not to chat away, please; -not to fiddle with his pen, pencil and ruler at the lesson; -not to bring mice to school and frighten girls; - not to read books under the desk at the lesson; -not to play games at the lessons; -to work hard at the lessons; - not to smoke in breaks; -not to interrupt the teacher and the pupils; -not to be late for the lessons; -not to whisper at the lessons; -to bring his pens, notebooks and textbooks to school.

Make your brother read more good books. Make your brother behave well at school. Make him ski and skate every day for an hour or two; -help the parents about the house and in the yard; -buy bread for the family; -water the flowers in the flat; -wash up after meals; -grow fruit and vegetables together with you in the garden, -plant trees and flowers there; -return home in time; -get up early and do his morning exercises; -go to school every day; not miss any lessons; -do his lessons every day; -do sums accurately; -feed the birds in the cage; -make his bed every morning; -be polite with adults, his teachers and classmates.

Try to remember what the teacher explains. Hand in your notebooks in time. Don’t be shy and ask the teacher questions if you don’t understand something. Try to do your best to answer the teacher’s questions correctly and quickly. Try to notice and correct your own and your groupmates’ mistakes at the lessons Read and speak distinctly at the lessons. Try to respond to the teacher’s questions and statements as quickly as you can. Always write legibly and accurately in your notebook and on the blackboard. Make up good dialogues in English. Try to follow your groupmates’ speech at the lessons.

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St.2: Borrow it from our university library.

St.2: Put it into the pencil-box.

Don’t forget to do your homework for every lesson. Don’t call out at the lessons. Don’t look through the window at the lessons. Don’t write anything on the desk not to spoil it. Don’t peep into your notebook when reciting a verse or a text. Don’t make a noise at the lessons. Don’t speak either too loudly or in a very low voice at the lessons. Don’t look into your neighbour’s notebook when you write a dictation or a test. You should pay attention to your intonation when you speak. You ought not to quarrel with your deskmate at the lesson. -not to chat and laugh at the lessons.

VII. Ask for a piece of advice:

1)as to where to put this or hat thing:

M.St.1: Where shall I put my

fountain-pen?

2)where you could get some things from:

M.St.1:Where can I get a textbook

for the first year?

3) Imagine you are a newcomer in the town, you ask passers-by about the points you need and they explain to you how to get there:

M.1: St.1: Is there (have you) a stadium near here?

M.2. St.1: How shall I get to the station?

St.2: No, there isn’t any here. Go by Bus 4, get off at the stop ”Republic Square”, then go straight to the university and turn to the right.

St.2: Get on Bus 23 or 4 (or any trolley-bus) and go as far as the stop ”Station”. Get off the bus, go a few metres forward and then turn to the right.

* VIII. Make up statements of your own according to the models of Execise VII for your groupmates to respond to.

IX. Respond to the following suggestions and ground your responses:

M. T. or St.1; Girls, let us go to the	St.2: All right, let’s go there. or: Oh,
library now.

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	no we can’t, the lesson is not over yet.
1.Let B. not help A.	1.But why? He would like to.
2.Let K. not look through the window.	2.But why? It’s a break now.
3.Let’s finish reading the text.	3.All right. It’s just the time to
4.Don’t let A. and F. go home after the	translate it.
lessons at once.	4.Of course not. It’s just the time for
	them to listen to the new text and
	intone it.
5.Don’t let G. read a book now.	5.Of course, it’s not the time to do it.
	It’s time to check up the home
6.Let the student on duty close the	exercises.
window.	6.Naturally, it’s already cold in the
7.Let A. fetch a tape-recorder from the	classroom.
laboratory.	7.Of course. It’s his duty to do it.
8.Let us cross the street under the red
light.	8.What nonsense! It’s very dangerous.
9.Let us go to the park after classes.	9.That’s a good idea!
10.Let us visit I.	10.All right. She is ill and we have
	enough time.
11.Don’t let A. chat away at the lesson.	11.Of course. It’s a shame!
12.Don’t let A. miss lessons.	12.Naturally! Her knowledge is poor
	and her marks are bad (she has rather
	many bad marks).

13.Don’t let P. draw on the blackboard, please.

14.Let us make good notes of the lecture.

15.Let me take your pen for a moment, mine is broken.

13.All right. Of course, we need a clean blackboard for the lesson.

14.I’m sorry, I’ve no notebook about me today.

15.Here you are. I don’t need it now.

X. Respond suggesting that somebody should do (not do) something.

M.1. T.	or St.1: It is an easy
passage.	St.2: Let us read it at once, without
M.2. T.	listening to the tape.
	or St.1: These are not
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questions on our topic.

1.The English songs on this tape are very good.

2.L.’s pronunciation is bad. 3.B.’s spelling is poor.

4.The blackboard is not clean.

5.It’s a very beautiful verse. 6.The lecture is not interesting. 7.The classroom is vacant. 8.The poem is very long.

9.T.’s mother is ill.

10.The game is not interesting. 11.This text has no end. 12.The classroom is not light.

St.2: Let us not answer them then.

1.Let’s listen to the tape on Saturday, after classes.

2.Let her work more in the laboratory. 3.Let him write more and learn the active vocabulary better.

4.Let us wipe everything off from the blackboard.

5.Let us learn it by heart. 6.Let us not make notes of it. 7.Let us occupy it.

8.Let the pupils not learn the whole poem by heart.

9.Let’s visit her.

10.Let us not play the game. 11.Let’s complete it. 12.Let us leave it.

XI. Respond like in the model expressing your opinion:

M. T. or St.1: Try to speak with correct English sounds and intonation, K.

1.Do this exercise right now, after classes.

2.Let’s retell the text of Lesson 8 just after listening to it.

3.Listen to this dialogue and learn it by heart here.

4.Let the pupils translate the whole text.

5.Let us take the book “White Fang” by Jack London for individual reading.

6.Let’s have a good rest: go to the cinema and watch today’s concert of the rock group from Moscow.

St.2: Oh, it’s impossible to speak without any phonetic mistakes!

1.Sorry, it’s impossible. I’m in a great hurry now.

2.Oh, the text is long and it’s rather difficult to retell it at once.

3.It is quite possible to do it in class, right now, because the dialogue is short and easy.

4.Oh, it is not necessary to do it. It is necessary to translate only the most difficult parts of the text.

5.Oh, no. Don’t take this very book, it is too difficult for your to read it.

6.But it’s not so easy to get tickets

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7.Do these sums.

8.Listen to the text for the second time and get ready to reproduce it.

9.Let us not only copy the text, but also transcribe it.

10.Let’s go to the town library on foot.

11.Rewrite the text, please, it is written very carelessly.

12.Speak louder and more distinctly, please.

13.Dust the furniture, water the flowers and wash the floors in these classrooms.

for the concert, you know.

7.It’s so interesting to do them. They are not so easy as it seems at first sight.

8.Oh, the tape is old and so bad. It’s very difficult to understand the text properly.

9.Of course, it’s very useful for us to transcribe it. But we are short of time now.

10.Oh, it’s rather a long way from here. Let’s get on Bus 1.

11.It’s a waste of time, it’s useless to do it because handwriting is my weak point.

12.I know it’s important for me as a future teacher, but I can’t. I’ll try to do my best.

13.Oh, it’s impossible for us to do so much work without our groupmates’ help.

XII. Respond according to the models inquiring about the details:

M.1. T. or St.1: Don’t ring him up now!

1.Don’t leave her alone. She is my best friend.

2.Don’t tell me that story.

3.Don’t open he window.

St.2: Why? Is he not in?

1.Who are you speaking about?

2.Is it so unpleasant for you to listen to it?

3.Isn’t it too stuffy in the classroom?

M.2. T or St.1:Take a tape with the text “Our English Lesson”.

1.Follow my advice, buy this book. 2.Listen to the text three times

St.2: Why? Is it our homework to listen to it. or: Are we to listen to it?

1.Is it so interesting or useful? 2.Is(n’t) it so very difficult?

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running!

3.Look at that pad.

4.Look through the window. 5.Write a test again on Friday.

6.Take the novel “What to do” from the library.

7.Switch on the radio.

8.Let her speak up. We can’t understand her speech.

3.Is it better than the others? 4.Is the lesson already over? 5.Are our marks so bad?

6.Is it the teacher’s request?

7.Is there anything interesting over the radio? Isn’t it very late now?

8.Is her voice very low? Is her speech indistinct or rather fluent?

M.3. T. or St.1: Make your friend learn the new words of Lesson 4 again.

1.Make your neighbour go to the dean’s office at once.

2.Monitor, make all your groupmates come to the lecture on Psychology. 3.Make your student on duty change this tape-recorder.

4.Make your brother do his lessons.

5.Make Tom water all the flowers in the laboratory.

St.2: Is her mark for the quiz worst of all?

1.What for is she invited there?

2.Is the lecture on the time-table?

3.Is this one broken?

4.Is he not ready for tomorrow’s lessons?

5.Is it his duty to do it today?

* XIII. Make up requests or commands of your own according to the models of the previous exercise for your groupmates to inquire about the details.

XIV. Make the following requests more exact by giving instructions:

M. T. or St.1: Please, let me rewrite the exercise.

St.2:Do, please! But don’t rewrite the whole exercise, only as far as the second passage.

1.Please, let me transcribe these words.

2.Please, let me correct the mistakes in

1.Do, please. But don’t hurry. Don’t forget the rules of reading of the combinations of the letters “ea”, “oo”, “ow” and “ie”. Pay attention to the stresses.

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my story myself.

3.Let me pronounce the expression once more.

4.Let me recite the verse once more. 5.Let me explain the expression once more.

6.Please, let me read the same text once more.

7.Please, let me retell this text again.

8.Please, let me write down the examples.

9.Please, excuse me, let me sit down.

10.Please, let me hand in my testtranslation.

11.Let me fulfil Exercise 8.

12.Let us translate the text.

13.Let me retell this chapter.

2.Do, please, but be more attentive.

3.Do, please. But don’t pronounce it in the wrong way.

4.Do, please. But don’t be in a hurry.

5.Do, please. But don’t do it in Russian, say it in English.

6.Do, please, but don’t go so fast. 7.Do, please, but don’t hurry. Mind the aspiration of the sounds [p, t, k] before stressed vowels.

8.Do, please, but don’t copy them, try to think of your own sentences.

9.Do, please, but don’t whisper and chat away any more.

10.Do, please. But first check your test-translation again carefully.

11.Do, please. Do it in writing. Don’t make any mistakes. Write the exercise legibly, accurately. Use the key-words which are at the end of the exercise.

12.Do, please. Translate it properly. You may look up words in a dictionary while translating it. But don’t translate it word for word.

13.Do, please. Retell it properly for the others to grasp the main idea. Don’t miss any important details. Mind your pronunciation.

XV. Respond to the following questions:

1.Today is Saturday. Are you to go to the country today, B.? Which bus are you to catch if you go to your native town? 2.What do you have to do if you are to write a quiz next day? (…if you want to get rid of your grammar mistakes? … if your spelling leaves much to be desired? … if you can’t make out anything on the tape? … if you are eager to learn to play volley-ball, tennis or any other sport game?… if you can’t make up a quarrel with your friend yourself? … to make your English speech sound more natural? 3.Are you to make up a report on Literature by Wednesday? 4 Who is to make up reports on Stylistics for the

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next seminar? 5.Why do you have to keep silent during a test? 6.Do you have to keep silent in breaks? 7.When are you to hand out your notebooks with your stories to the teacher? 8.Why do you have to stay at the university after classes today? 9.It’s too stuffy in the classroom. Shall we open the window to air the room? 10.What words shall I wipe off from the blackboard? 11.What mid-term exams are some of the first-year students to repeat? 12.In what way shall we do our home exercises for tomorrow? 13.Do all the students of our university have to keep library rules? 14.Ought we to be present at all the lectures or may we stay away from some of them? 15.When are we to write a quiz on Lesson 6? 16.There is no room on the blackboard, shall I clean it? 17.Do you have to be present at all the lessons and lectures? 18.Are you to go through your homework now? 19.Shall you write down the text of Lesson 8 in transcription from the very beginning up to the very end? 20.Are you to be ready with you dialogues for tomorrow? 21.Ought pupils’ parents to be present at all the meetings at school? 22.Ought you to address the dean or the assistant dean when you need a time-table change? 23.Are you to write a test or to take an exam in a fortnight?

XVI. Make the following requests or commands more exact by inquiring about the details. Follow the models:

M.1. T. Read the text, please.	St. Shall we read it outloud or to
	ourselves? or: Are we to	read it
	outloud or to ourselves?
1.Please, go to Kanash by bus.	1.Shall I go by the two o’clock bus?
2.Call up Mary.	2.Shall I call her up right now?
3.Let’s have a lesson of Phonetics.	3.Shall we bring a tape-recorder and
4.Ask questions on the topic “At an	headphones?
English Lesson”.	4.Shall we ask special or general
	questions? (Shall we ask questions on
	the models which we have studied?)
5.Make up a list of our students,	5.Shall I make it up right now? Am I to
please.	make it up according to the alphabet?
	Shall I make two or three copies of it?
	Shall I make up a list of the students of
	Group “B” or Group “A”?
6.Learn the text “Betty Smith” by	6.Shall we learn it for tomorrow or for
heart.	the day after tomorrow.
7.Analyse the text, please.	7.Shall we do it in written form or
	orally?
8.Continue reading the text, please.	8.Shall I read as far as the bottom of
	the page?
9.Make up a dialogue on the topic	9.Shall we use the Present	or Past

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