“Time”.

10.Learn the verse on page 90 by heart.

11.Let’s listen to a new text.

Indefinite tense form?

10.Shall we recite it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?

11.Shall I turn on the tape-recorder?

M.2: T. or St.1: Do Exercise Five	St.2: Are we to do it orally or in
on page sixty.
	written form?

1.Translate Text One on page 70.

2.Copy the text “Our classroom”.

3.Make up a dialogue.

4.Begin writing the text.

5.Ask questions on the topic “Time”.

6.Get ready for a quiz.

7.Come up to the blackboard.

8.Intone the text “Betty Smith”, please. 9.Do this exercise in writing.

1.Am I to translate the whole text or only a passage?

2.Are we to copy it for the next lesson? Are we to write it in transcription? 3.Are we to make up a dialogue on the topic “Flat”?

4.Are we to write the text from the very beginning to the end?

5.Are we to write the questions or ask them orally?

6.Are we to review the new words of Lesson 9?

7.Am I to take the textbook? 8.Are we to do it for tomorrow?

9.Are we to translate these sentences word for word?

XVII. Speak on the following situations:

1.Exchange your ideas and opinions about how to prepare for the exams (in English, in Literature, in Phonetics, in Grammar) better. 2.Two teachers (or students) compare the time-tables and the work of two groups. 3.An examiner and a pupil talk at an English exam, before and after it. 4.An experienced English teacher has a talk with a young teacher, a beginner, about how to prepare for a lesson better, to conduct a lesson and to behave at a lesson. 5.Two friends are talking about their studies. 6.A groupmate asks another to help him (her) prepare for the exam in English.

UNIT II

I. Respond like in the models. Speak about your relatives, friends, fellow-students.

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M.1. St.1:My friend prefers reading historical novels to funny stories.

M.2. St.1:Thomas never breaks his promise.

1.They don’t have seminars in Psychology in the first year.

2.I don’t call my friend on the phone late at night.

3.T. doesn’t quarrel with his (her) neighbours.

4.I enjoy exchanging stamps with my friends.

5.I prefer writing in ink or in paste. 6.N.doesn’t look into the book when he recites a text, and what about T.?

7.The best students of our group review grammar rules before a test, and what about you?

8.I always borrow books for seminars in History from our library, and what about N.?

9.O.never whispers in class, and what about K.?

10.I always listen to tapes 4 times running.

11.I always attend classes.

12.I don’t follow my neighbour’s advice.

13.I have many proverbs on the sounds [d] and [t].

14.I spend much time on correcting my mistakes.

15.My mother never wastes time. 16.I don’t work till late at night.

17.My friend always stays at the university after classes.

18.I do my homework in the morning. 19.The students of Group “V” are having an English lesson now.

20.All the students of our faculty listen to tapes with foreign speech at home.

21.Pete never stays away from classes.

St.2: So does my sister.

St.2: Neither does Nick.

1.Neither do they in the second year.

2.Neither do we all.

3.Neither do his parents.

4.So do my friends. 5.So do all our students.

6.Neither does he.

7.So do I.

8.So does she.

9.Neither does K.

10.So do my groupmates. 11.So do all my groupmates. 12.Neither does my mother.

13.So has my groupmate.

14.So do all my groupmates. 15.Neither does my mother. 16.Neither does my brother.

17.So do we. 18.So do we all.

19.So are we.

20.So do some of the students of our group.

21.Neither do his roommates from the hostel.

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22.N.doesn’t interrupt his friends.	22.Neither do his friends.
23.I usually return home from the
university at 8 o’clock p.m.	23.So do we all.
24.I usually make a few mistakes in my
tests.	24.So does my deskmate.
25.My little brother is not afraid of
darkness.	25.Neither is my younger sister.
26.I’m fond of the poems by
Shakespeare.	26.So are all our students.
27.N.is eager to take part in the students’
festival.	27.So is our whole group.
28.We are proud of our country and our
people.	28.So am I.

II. Have similar talks:

Inquire a clerk at the inquiry office about a kind of transport to the place you are going to and about your stay there.

M.1. a) St.1: When does a plane leave Moscow for New-York?

St.1: When does it arrive in NewYork?

b) St.1: Is there a bus or a train to Alatir?

St.1: What is the number of the bus? (or: Which bus is it?)

St.1: At what time does the latest (first, next) bus leave for Alatir?

St.1: When does it arrive at Alatir? M.2. St.1: How much time does it

usually (often, sometimes, etc.) take you (him, her, them, etc.) to get to Moscow from Cheboksary?

M.3. St.1: How long are you going to stay in Paris (or: to stay with your aunt?)

St.2: At half past one, at night.

St2: Next day at 4 o’clock a.m. (or: on Monday night at 4 o’clock a.m.; on the night of Monday).

St.2.There is a bus to Alatir.

St.2: It is Bus 230.

St.2: At 4.35 p.m.

St.2: At 8 o’clock p.m. sharp.

St.2: It usually takes me six hours to get from Moscow to Cheboksary.

St.2: I’m going to stay there for a fortnight. or: My stay there will last a fortnight (two weeks).

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Speak about the distance from the place you live in to some other place and in what way you usually (sometimes) get there:

M.1.St.1: How far is it from your house to the university?

M.2.St.1: How long are you going to stay in Paris (or: to stay with your aunt)?

Speak about your studies and rest.

M.1. St.1: We don’t make notes of all the lectures (which) our lecturers deliver to us (give us).

M.2. St.1: What would you advise your groupmate to do if his spelling is very bad?

M.3. St.1: Who (what) is the teacher pleased with?

M.4. St.1: It’s a pleasure for me to do sums.

M.5. St.: I prefer a ham sandwich to bread and butter in break.(or: I prefer having a rest in break.)

St.2: It’s not a long way from my house to the university. It’s a five minutes` walk from my house to the university. I usually go there on foot.

St.2: My stay there will last a fortnight (or: I’m going to stay there for a fortnight).

St.2: I’m afraid you are mistaken. (or: I don’t agree with you). Most the students (most of our students) do it to have the necessary material for the exam.

St.2: I should advise him (her) to write new words many times.

St.2: Our teacher is pleased with her pupils’ progress in Latin.

for my sister to go to school; for my brother to look through a book with coloured pictures; for my mother to plant flowers in the garden; for my pupils to multiply, subtract and divide figures; for my little sister to retell interesting tales; for my Granny to visit her nephews; for my Grandfather to have a talk with his neighbour; etc.

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M.6. St.: Lucy doesn’t agree to Irene’s suggestion to call on our groupmate before classes. She wants to do it after all the lessons because she has to call at the hospital before classes.

M.7. St.1: Let’s go to Pugachova’s concert tonight.

St.1:Why are Pugachova’s songs considered to be the most popular?

St.2: All right.

St.2: They are considered to be the most popular because people buy cassettes and records with them more often than with the songs of other singers.

III. Answer the following questions:

A. 1.How many days has a common (leap) year? 2.Was 2000 a common or a leap year? 3.How many months has a year? 4.What seasons do you know? 5.What season do you like best? 6.Are you fond of summer or winter? 7.What season do your parents prefer to have their vacation in? 8.What season follows autumn? 9.What season comes after spring? 10.What are the spring (summer, autumn, winter) months? 11.What is your favourite month? 12.What weather have we in late spring? 13.How many days has January (February)? 14.What month comes after March? 15.What month comes before June? 16.What month follows June? 17.What is the last summer month? 18.What is the first autumn month? 19.What are the second and the third autumn months? 20.What is the first winter month? 21.What month have you your birthday in? 22.How many days has a week? 23.What is the first day of the week in England? 24.The first day of the week in our country is Monday, isn't it? 25.Which day of the week is Friday? 26.What day comes after Saturday? 27.What day comes before Thursday? 28.What day comes between Monday and Wednesday? 29.What a lovely day it is today, isn’t it? 30.Have you always got a calendar about you? 31.Do you always write a date when you write a letter? 32.How many hours are there in a day? 33.How many minutes are there in an hour? 34.How many seconds are there in a minute? 35.How many times does the Kremlin clock strike during an hour? 36.Is a fortnight a long period of time? 37.Are you going to take your exams in a fortnight or less than in a fortnight? 38.Is your watch right? 39.What is the time by your watch, L.? 40.How many minutes is your watch slow or fast or does it keep fairly good time? 41.How long is it before the bell? 42.Will you tell us the exact time, P.? 43.How long is it before the end of the term? 44.At what time are our classes over? 45.What is the day today? 46.Is it a lovely day today? 47.What parts of a day do you know? 48.Have you ever met dawn? 49.When does dawn begin in summer? 50.Do you like to get up at dawn?

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51.When do you usually get up on Sundays? 52.When does it get dark now? 53.When do you usually wake up and go to bed? 54.What's the meaning of the expressions «to keep early hours» and «in no time at all»? 55.Do you always keep early hours? 56.What is the meaning of the expression «to come behind time»? 57.Do you often come behind time? 58.Are you always in time for classes? 59.What does the expression «for lack of time» mean? 60.Are you always pressed for time? 61.When do you usually have your meals? 62.At what time do you have breakfast in the morning? 63.Do you have dinner at noon? 64.Can you ring me up at 7 o'clock in the evening today? 65.Do you often return home from the Institute in the twilight? 66.When do you do your homework? 67.How much time does it take you to do your homework? 68.On what days do you have eight lessons a day? 69.Are you glad to see your groupmates every day? 70.How long is it before the summer exams? 71.Do you have to study hard all the year round to get excellent marks at the exams? 72.On what day of the week is your grammar class (your lesson in Physical Training; your lecture on Psychology, on Literature)? 73.On what day of the week is your seminar in Linguistics? 74.What day of a week do you have a rest on? 75.What do you usually do on a day-off? 76.Are you always in or out on Sundays? 77.Are you fond of frosty winter days? 78.If you live in the country and are free in the evening where do you go to have a rest? 79.What do you like to do on a fine summer morning? 80.If you live in town where do you go for a week-end? 81.Are you usually free on the 31-st of December? 82.Do you like to go for a walk on the New Year's Eve? 83.What are your plans for the next (the coming) week-end? 84.Are you always in time for classes? 85.On what day of the week is your grammar class (your class in hearing, your lesson in Physical Training; your lecture on Psychology, on Literature)? 86.On what day of the week is your seminar in Linguistics?

B. 1.Do you work or study? 2.Where do you study? 3.What faculty do you study at? 4.What year do you study in? 5.Where do you come from? 6.When do you usually get up? 7.When does your working day begin? 8.Why do you usually get up so early (late)? 9.Do you live far from the institute or near it? 10.Do you often review yesterday's tasks before classes? 11.How often do you review grammar material in the morning before classes? 12.What is your weak point, pronunciation or grammar? 13.Do you practise your pronunciation every day? 14.Do you do it in the morning or in the evening? 15.How long do you practise your pronunciation? 16.Do you often take a shower in the morning? 17.How often do you take a bath or a shower? 18.Do you like to take a cold or a warm shower? 19.When do your lessons begin? 20.Do you ever stay away from classes? 21.Are you ashamed to miss classes without a reasonable excuse? 22.At what time do you leave the hostel? 23.Do you go to the institute by bus or on foot? 24.Where do you get on (off) a bus? 25.How long does it take you to get to the Institute? 26.Are you sometimes late for classes ? 27.How often are you late for the lessons? 28.Are you ashamed of being late for classes? 29.Is the teacher

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sometimes angry with you? 30.How many lessons do you have every day? 31.How often do you have Latin, (English, Psychology)? 32.On what days are your lessons in Home-reading? 33.What languages do you study at the university? 34.What other subjects do they teach at our university? 35.What languages do you speak? 36.Which of them is your native language? 37.What language do they speak in England? (in the USA, in Spain, in France, in Germany, in Russia ?) 38.Do you work at English only at the university? 39.Where else do you work at English? 40.Do your classmates work at English only in class or after and before classes, too? 41.Who works at English before classes? 42.Who works at English after classes? 43.How long do you practise spelling (Grammar, Phonetics) every day? 44.Do you have English lessons every day? 45.On what days do you have your English lessons? ( lessons in Home-reading, speaking, hearing, writing?) 46.Does Group "B" have English lessons every day or every other day? 47.Are you a member of the English speaking club? 48.Do you often write spelling (phonetic) dictations? 49.How often do the students of Group "A" write spelling (phonetic) dictations? 50.Are the marks for your answers good or excellent? 51.What is your mark in English for the previous month? 52.What are your marks in Latin, History? 53.Where do you work at spelling, at home or at the university? 54.Do you make many mistakes in speech (in spelling, in transcription)? 55.Who makes very few mistakes at the lessons? 56.Is she (he) the best student in your group? 57.Is the teacher sad or angry when you make mistakes? 58.Are you sorry for your friends when they make mistakes ? 59.Do you often get good marks for your answers (spelling dictations, grammar tests, phonetic dictations)? 60.What marks do you usually get in English, Latin? 61.How often do you have seminars in History ( lessons in Latin, lectures on Psychology)? 62.What do you usually (have) do in the Assembly-hall? 63.Do you sometimes do sums at the English lessons? 64.You do a lot of exercises every day, don’t you? 65.Do you do these exercises only at home or in class , too? 66.What exercises are they, oral or written? 67.Are they difficult? 68.In which rooms do you usually have your English lessons? 69.Do you divide figures well (multiply, add, subtract)? 70.Why do you think the marks of your fellow-students are not always good? 71.Are your groupmates hard-working? 72.Who works harder and more, A. or B.? 73.Who works hardest and most of all? 74.Are they attentive or inattentive at the lessons? 75.Does B. listen to the teacher and his friends carefully? 76.Does he listen to the teacher more attentively than you? 77.Who listens to the teacher’s explanation most attentively? 78.Are their answers accurate (inaccurate), careful (careless) when they speak (read) (write) (pronounce)? 79.Who works at spelling (grammar, pronunciation) more carefully than you do? 80.Do they retell their texts in a loud or in a soft voice? 81.Do you speak slowly or fast? 82.Is your groupmates’ speech slow or fast? 83.Is their speech distinct or indistinct? 84.Who speaks most distinctly (indistinctly)? 85.Do you sometimes chat away at the lessons? 86.Who writes more legibly than N.? 87.Who writes most illegibly? 88.Is your groupmates’ handwriting legible or

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illegible? 89.How often do you hand in your notebooks for written work to the teacher? 90.Do you always follow your groupmates' answers? 91.How many times must you listen and repeat a text after the speaker from the beginning to the end to read it well? 92.How long do you practise a text to prepare it well for test reading? 93.Do all the students of your group articulate words (sentences) correctly? 94.Do you attend all the lectures (classes)? 95.How often does your teacher go through the home assignment? 96.Do you sometimes go to school now? 97.Do you attend lessons at school? 98.Do the pupils behave well or badly, (noisily or quietly) at the lessons (in breaks)? 99.Do you sometimes ask the pupils to behave themselves? 100.Do the teachers call up the parents of some pupils on the telephone? 101.Why do the teachers call up some parents on the phone? 102.Do the teachers of your faculty call up somebody's parents? 103. Whom does the teacher choose in your group to answer the most difficult questions? 104.Who collects your notebooks after tests in your group? 105.Do you close the textbooks and notebooks when you answer the teacher's questions (or write a test) or keep them open? 106.You always correct your mistakes, don’t you? 107.All of you do your best to prepare for the lessons well, don’t you? 108.Not all of you work carefully and systematically, do you? 109.Does anybody draw well in your group? 110.Aren’t you afraid to fail in English (Latin) at the exam? 111.What do you think it’s necessary to do to pass the exam in Phonetics well? 112.What do you think it’s necessary to do to pass the exam in Oral Practice well? 113.Do you always follow the teacher's advice? 114.How often do you go through the homework in the morning? 115.Do you learn many texts by heart? 116.Do your friends laugh when you make mistakes? 117.Do you look through the material before every test? 118.Do you always look up new words in the dictionary or do you ask your friends to read and translate them? 119.Is it easy or difficult for you to make up dialogues? 120.Is it possible to prompt at the lessons? 121.At what lessons do you prompt your groupmates or do they prompt you? 122.Do you return books to the library at the end of the term (every term, month) or keep them to the end of the year?

C. Now let’s speak about your best friend.

1.Have you got a close friend? 2.Does he work or study? 3.Where does he study? 4.Does he study at the Faculty of Foreign languages, too? 5.What year does he study in? 6.Has he got a brother? 7.What does his brother do? 8.What faculty is he at? 9.What year is he in? 10.Your friend wants to make (to become) a good teacher, doesn't he? 11.Does he work much at the language? 12.Does he get ready for every lesson? 13.Does he work much at his pronunciation? 14.Does he learn anything by heart? 15.What does he do if the material is difficult? 16.Does he discuss it with his friends? 17.Who does he address for an explanation? 18.Is he usually tired after the lessons? 19.What does he spend money on, on tapes, records or books?

IV. Respond to the following statements and questions:

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1.When I have much work to do I keep late hours. What about your girl-friend?

2.The face of the clock on the tower of the Agricultural Academy is big and white, and its minute and hour hands are black. What about the face of the clock on the wall of the hotel “Chuvashia”?

3.The students of the faculty of foreign languages are always pressed for time. What about the students of the other faculties?

4.When our teachers and students are late they always have a good excuse. What about the teachers and the students of the other faculties?

5.The Kremlin Clock always shows the exact time. What about Big Ben?

6.I’m angry when my friends come behind time. What about you, S.?

7.The clock in the dining-room of our flat chimes every hour. What about your clock, N.?

8.My grandmother always sets her watch by the radio time signal. What about your mother, B.?

9.I usually do my homework in English for two hours or so. And how long does it take you, L.? 10.The face of my watch is as small as C.’s. And what about the face of your watch, P.?

11.Every day I get up at 7 o’clock in the morning to have breakfast and to do my lessons. What about your sister, A.?

12.Sunday is your day-off. And what about the rest of the days?

V. Have similar talks:

1.So does she.

2.So is the face of that clock.

3.So are they.

4.So do/have they. (Sometimes they don’t have a good excuse.)

5.So does Big Ben.

6.But I am not angry with them.

7.Ours doesn’t chime at all.

8.So does my mother.

9.It takes me much longer.

10.But mine is big.

11.So does my sister.

12.Why? I’m at the university having classes in different subjects.

Speak about some time, then exchange your wishes about what you would like to do:

M. St.1: K., it’s half past 4 p.m.

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When shall we start making up a dialogue? I would like to do it right now.

St.2: Oh, I’m too tired now. Let’s have a walk for a while.

Ask your interlocutors about their intention for them to respond and add what they often (always, seldom, from time to time) do at this time:

M. St.1: What are you going to do on Monday in the evening?

St.2: I’m going (I’d like) to visit my aunt this Monday evening, but I usually watch TV on this day in the evening.

The following information reminds you of what you are to do:

M. St.1:It’s January 15 already. We have just practised the vocabulary of Lesson 6. (the coming tests).

1.Friday is coming. We usually have a lesson in Home-reading on this day. (to prepare)

St.2: It’s just the time (it’s high time) for us to think of the coming tests.

1.It’s high time for all of us to prepare for the next lesson in Home-reading. or: …to read the book and fulfil the tasks in Home-reading.

Respond to the following remarks about the time the speaker spends on this or that activity.

M. T. or St.1: It takes me a lot of time to prepare for a phonetic dictation. It’s very difficult for me to write it.

1.It takes me much time to learn a poem by heart.

2.It takes us much time to mark the stresses and tunes in a text.

St.2: Does it take you as much time as that? It’s very important to train your ear every day.

1.Does it take you as much time as that? It’s very important to train our memory. The more we learn by heart, the better our memory is.

2.Really it does. But it is very useful for us. Of course, it is easier and

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3.It takes N. a lot of time to transcribe and intone a text.

4.It takes me more time to do homework orally than in written form.

5.It takes us much time to make up a dialogue.

6.It takes our teacher much time to correct our mistakes, especially in tests.

7.It takes us much time to look up new words in a dictionary.

8.It doesn’t take me much time to describe a picture.

9.It doesn’t take N. much time to make a report.

10.It doesn’t take my sister much time to do sums.

11.It doesn’t take my mother much time to plant bushes and flowers.

quicker to do it with the help of a teacher.

3.Does it take him as much time as that? It is very important to know the theory well to do it correctly.

4.It’s quite natural. It is more difficult to retell a text, for example, than to do a written exercise, not a long and very difficult one, of course.

5.It really does. It is not only necessary to make it up, but to learn it by heart.

6.Indeed it does. It is necessary for the teacher to be very attentive and not to miss a single mistake.

7.Indeed it does. But it’s a real pleasure to learn a lot of new English words, their meaning and pronunciation and to enrich our vocabulary.

8.Doesn’t it? I think it’s a pleasure for you to do it. It is usually easy to do what you like.

9.Doesn’t it? It usually takes much time to prepare it, but little time to make it.

10.Doesn’t it? She is good at Mathematics I suppose. But it’s difficult for my nephew to do sums.

11.Perhaps. It is always rather easy to plant them, but it is difficult to grow them...

VI. Respond to the following statements comparing some people or their actions. Follow the models:

M.1. St.1: J. often comes behind

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time.

M.2. S.t.1:The Kremlin clock strikes very loudly.

M.3.St.1:All the students of our group come in time to their classes.

1.Some students of Group ”B” often come to classes behind time.

2.My brother’s alarm-clock rings loudly.

3.D.’s watch is very often slow.

4.My aunt sets her watch by the radio time-signal more seldom than my uncle.

5.The clock in the dining-room is fast. So is the clock in our bedroom.

6.My watch stopped sooner than I had expected.

7.Big clocks tick more loudly than watches.

8.On Monday I am short of time.

9.Days in January are over early.

10.My uncle goes to work early in the morning.

11.My cousin takes her watch to the watch-maker’s oftenest of all.

12.Sometimes my friend goes to Moscow by plane.

13.My brother-in-law makes a fire very

St.2: Who else comes behind time as often as J. does?

St.2:Does Big Ben chime louder than the Kremlin clock?

St.2:Who is the most punctual student in your group?

1.Do the students of Group “A” come behind time as often as those students do?

2.Does it ring loudest of all the clocks in your flat?

3.Is it the slowest of all the watches in their house?

4.Who sets a watch by the radio timesignal oftener than your uncle does in your family?

5.Which clock is faster?

6.You must wind up your watch more often if it stops so soon.

7.Does your watch tick loudly? 8.On what other day of the week are you as short of time as on Monday?

9.Are days in January over as early as in December?

10.Do you go to the university earliest of all the other members of your family?

11.Who else often takes her (his) watch to the watch-maker’s?

12.How does your friend go to Moscow oftener, by plane or by train?

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quickly.

14.My fellow-student, B., speaks English very indistinctly.I can’t make out a single word in his(her) speech.

15.Look at these signatures. All of them are illegible.

16.M., my roommate in the hostel, has taken his (her) watch to the watchmaker’s again.

13.Who makes a fire quickest of all in their family?

14.Who speaks English most distinctly in their group?

15.Whose signature is the most illegible?

16.Does he (she) take his (her) watch to the watch-maker’s oftenest of all your roommates?

VII. Respond (using conversational phrases) according to the given model:

M. St.1: It’s time for dinner.

1.Analyse the text by tomorrow. 2.I’m ill. It seems to me it’s quinsy. What shall I do?

3.You will take your exams in May, I believe.

4.I couldn’t make up a situation with the words of Lesson 6.

5.All of us must work hard at Grammar, mustn’t we?

6.H. speaks on the phone too much. 7.Would you like to listen to a native English speaker?

8.Why do you fetch a tape-recorder? 9.Imperative sentences do not express commands and requests.

10.Please help me to fulfil this exercise.

11.From 9 till 12 a.m. on Tuesday you are always at the university.

12.I’m going to miss today’s lecture on Psychology.

St.2: Not yet, I think.

1.Oh, it’s a great trouble for me.

2.I strongly advise you to go to the hospital.

3.You are mistaken. To my mind it will be in June.

4.Have another try.

5.Sure! or: Certainly!

6.Oh, it’s such a waste of time!

7.Certainly or: With pleasure. 8.It’s my duty to do it today.

9.What nonsense! or: Just the other way round!

10. Most willingly!

11.That’s right!

12.I strongly advise you not to do it.

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13.There are only 2 minutes left before the end of the lesson.

14.I’m sorry I’m 3 minutes late. 15.B. always sits up late watching TV.

13.You are mistaken, 5 minutes are left before the bell.

14.That’s all right. or: Never mind! 15.That’s too bad. or: It’s a waste of time.

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

IX. Inform your listeners about:

What you or somebody else puts on or takes off, when or in what weather:

M.1.On Sunday on a good winter day I put on my skis and go to the forest to ski.

M.2.When we come home we take off our winter-coats, hats and boots.

What sport and other games your friends or relatives play, how often and on what day:

M1:My friend always plays basket-ball with his fellow-students once a week, on Saturday afternoon.

M2: My younger sister never plays chess.

Who(m) you address in different circumstances:

M.: If we want to find out how many lessons we’ll have next day we address the assistant-dean. …to borrow a book from the library; to stay away from classes because of a headache; to repeat an exam; to make a copy of some grammar rules or a text; etc.

What your friend or some relative would like to do or what would you like or expect them to do a)on week-days; b) on their days-off; c) after classes; during the holidays; on some holiday; at meetings; at evening-parties; at the week-end.

M.1: As far as I know my mother would like to visit her sick old friend on her day-off.

M.2: I expect (would like) my parents to go skiing with me on Sunday.

What you or somebody else wants (is ready, is eager) to take part in:

M.: P., my groupmate, is eager to take part in the coming football match next

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month.

What you, your fellow-students usually (seldom) do in the Assembly-hall, in the lecture-hall, in the Dean’s office, in the cloak-room, at a meeting of the English speaking club.

What a first-year student does:

a)at a lesson in Phonetics: reads texts aloud; recites poems; listens to tapes (poems, texts, phonetic exercises) through ear-phones; writes phonetic dictations; marks stresses and tunes in texts; corrects mistakes of phonetic dictations(of his groupmates) works hard at his pronunciation; transcribes new words; practises the pronunciation of some difficult sounds; repeats the most difficult words after the teacher (after the tape in the intervals).

b)in Grammar: answers the teacher’s questions on the grammar material; asks questions on that material; goes through the home grammar exercises; translates sentences from Russian into English and vice versa; explains some grammar rules to the groupmates; does exercises orally and in written form; makes notes in his notebook; analyses sentences; puts questions to the members of some sentences.

c)at lectures and seminars: answers the teacher’s questions; takes part in discussing some problems; expresses his (her) opinion of some problem ; listens to the speakers (to the teacher) attentively; makes notes of the lectures.

X. Mention the details:

M. T. or St.1: Your (our) teacher makes you (us) do many things at the lessons of Oral Practice.

St.2: Really, she makes us speak English during the whole lesson.

St.3:Our teacher makes us correct the mistakes of our groupmates all the time.

1.Repeat the corrected sentences 2-3 times running; listen to different English texts and retell them; make up dialogues with the active vocabulary; have much practice in speech; make up sentences and microdialogues of our own on the models she gives us…

2.Our English teacher makes us do many things to get ready for a quiz or a test translation.

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3.Our English teacher makes us do many things to prepare for a phonetic dictation.

4.A man gets much knowledge by reading books (from books). 5.We usually spend our money on different things.

6.A pupil on duty does a lot of things to bring the classroom to order.

XI. Inquire about the details:
M. St.1: Our
teacher teaches us
how to master the	St.2: Does she ask
vocabulary well.
	you to pronounce
	new words	St.3.: Does the
	outloud?
		teacher advise
		you to write new
		difficult words	St.4: Does the
		several times?
			teacher ask you to

use new words in sentences of your own?

1.We fulfil many tasks at the lessons in Home-reading. Review spelling rules; translate some passages; ask each other questions on the chapter read; answer questions on the chapter; dramatize some passages (talks of some characters); look up new words in a dictionary; look for the answers to the questions given by the teacher.

2.We do a lot at the lessons in hearing. Prepare a tape with the text for listening; answer general and disjunctive questions on the text; listen to the text a second time; answer the teacher’s alternative and special questions; make up a plan of the text; reproduce the text according to the points of the plan in turn; respond to right and wrong statements on the text; retell the text in short; make up a new end of the text.

3.First-year students do a lot to prepare for their lessons in Written Practice. Do all kinds of written exercises: on filling in the blanks with articles or prepositions, on translating separate sentences or texts from Russian into English, on inserting suitable words, on completing sentences; write expositions and compositions on different topics; make up stories in written form.

XII. Prove:

1.It is not easy for my little daughter to study in the first form at school.

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