- •Basic English Course
- •Рецензенты:
- •Содержание:
- •Tape script 158 От авторов
- •Балльно-рейтинговая карта студента
- •Module 1
- •4. Fill in the correct question tag.
- •5. Fill in the question tags and match the answers to the questions.
- •Wh- questions
- •6. Fill in the gaps with one of the question words from the list.
- •7. Put these words in the correct order to make questions.
- •8. A) Put the words in the correct order to make questions.
- •9. Match these question words with the answers.
- •10. Ask your partner questions to get these answers. Tick each answer when you hear it.
- •4. Listen and check your ideas.
- •5. Listen to two more dialogues. What decisions do the people make?
- •6. You don't always want to accept an invitation. Listen to these four dialogues.
- •7. Listen to the dialogues in exercises 4 and 5 again and tick the expressions you hear
- •8. How many invitations and suggestions can you make?
- •2. Underline the words connected with appearance and personality. Add them to the chart.
- •7. Put the words/phrases in the box in groups. Can you add any more words?
- •8. Choose four people from Ex.7. Describe your relationship with them to a partner.
- •Grammar Part
- •1 A) Complete the questions with these words: What, How long, When, Which, Where, Why, How, Who, How much, How many.
- •2. Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences/questions.
- •3. A) Make questions for these answers.
- •4. A) Complete the questions below using the prepositions from the box.
- •5. A) Make questions from the prompts.
- •6. Complete the sentences with words and phrases from the box.
- •7. A) Find ten mistakes in the e-mail.
- •8. A) Read the following task and the answer that a student wrote.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Self test 1
- •Text 2 Divorce: a Fifty-Fifty Chance?
- •Text 3 Family Life
- •Text 4 Character and Appearance
- •Module 2 Travelling
- •3. Correct the underlined mistakes in each question (lexical mistake).
- •Grammar Note:
- •1. A) Look at the words in the box. What do you think the text is about?
- •2. Read the text again. Put these events in order.
- •9. Make more conversations using words from ex. 4 and the following phrases.
- •1. You're planning a holiday. Which three things are most important for you? Number them from 1 to 3. Which things are least important for you?
- •2. What do you like doing on holiday? Is there anything that you don't like doing?
- •3. Tell your partner about a really good holiday. Use the How to... Box to help you.
- •Grammar Part
- •1. Rewrite the sentences in Past Simple Tense.
- •2. Open the brackets using verbs in Present or Past Simple.
- •3. Open the brackets using verbs in Past Simple or Past Continuous.
- •4. What was John doing at these times yesterday? Complete the sentences.
- •5. Ask your partner questions about his/her early childhood.
- •6. Open the brackets using verbs in Past Simple or Past Continuous.
- •7. Match the sentences on the left with the related sentences on the right.
- •8*. Fill in the right word from the word column.
- •9*.. Fill in the blanks with the corresponding English word or phrases and pay attention to the use of tense forms.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Self test 2
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 2 Travelling on British Railways
- •Module 3
- •3. Find out if these statements are true or false by doing a class survey. If they are false, change them so that they are true.
- •Part 2 Grammar Note
- •1. Listen. What happens to have and has? What happens to been?
- •5. Give your partner a number and a letter. Your partner makes a sentence in the present perfect or the past simple: e.G.: She didn't phone me last week.
- •6. Read these messages. Decide if they are from an answer phone, an e-mail, a letter, or a postcard. How do you know?
- •7. Complete the gaps in the messages. Compare your ideas with a partner. What verbs did you use?
- •4. Make short statements for and against satellite television. Try to use these words and phrases.
- •Do not confuse the following words!
- •5. Correct the mistakes in these sentences.
- •6. Put to watch/to see/to look.
- •7. Choose between to say/to tell/to speak
- •Grammar Part
- •2. Open the brackets using Present Perfect or Past Simple.
- •3. Put in been or gone.
- •4. You are asking somebody questions about things he or she has done. Make questions from the words in brackets.
- •5. Complete answers. Some sentences are positive and some negative. Use a verb from this list:
- •6. Complete these sentences using today/this year/this term etc.
- •7. Read the situations and write sentences as shown in the examples.
- •8. What has happened in these situations?
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Self test 3
- •I. Complete the sentences with one of the verbs below.
- •Text 2 Online Dating Goes Mainstream
- •Module 4
- •1. Look at the list of food and complete the task.
- •2. Answer the questions with words from the box in exercise 1.
- •3. Look at the vocabulary below and match it to a container
- •5. Choose words for each question, as in the example. One word is left. What is it?
- •6. Work in groups. Read the text quickly and find the foods in exercise 1. How many other foods can you find?
- •7. Read the text again and answer the questions.
- •6. Read and translate the instructions for making a fried egg sandwich.
- •3. What types of restaurant would you recommend to:
- •9. What are the questions about?
- •10. Listen to this pattern. Repeat the questions. Try to sound exactly the same.
- •11. Practise the pattern with these words.
- •12. Look at this dialogue. Take out as many words as you can.
- •13. Act out a restaurant situation. Student a, you are a visitor. Student b, you are the waiter. Try to describe the dishes. Use the following menu.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •1. First conditional
- •Second conditional
- •2. Put in if or when.
- •3. Jill and Sue are waiting at the bus-stop. They are on their way to the cinema. Complete their story. Use the end of the previous sentence to make the beginning of the next sentence.
- •5. Answer the questions.
- •6. Correct the mistakes in these sentences.
- •Self test 4
- •Text 2 Meals and cooking.
- •Module 5 Human body and mind health
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. What do you think of it?
- •8. Work in pairs.
- •2 Word formation.
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Answer the questions.
- •3. Find in the text sentences with Indirect (Reported) Speech. Comment on the structure of the sentences.
- •4. Render the text into Reported Speech and retell it.
- •Grammar part
- •1. Underline the correct item.
- •2. Turn the following sentences into Reported Speech.
- •3. Turn the following into indirect questions.
- •4. Change the following from Direct into Reported Speech.
- •5. Rewrite the following conversation in Reported Speech.
- •6. Read , translate and render the dialogue in indirect speech.
- •7. Correct the mistakes.
- •8. Translate into English.
- •9. Turn the following sentences into Direct Speech.
- •10. Word formation. Fill in the right form of the word in brackets.
- •11. Phrasal verbs.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Self test 5
- •Text 2. Medical Advances.
- •Module 6
- •4. Match the words with the definitions.
- •5. Match the jobs with the qualities you think people need in your opinion.
- •6. Complete the sentences with the correct word below.
- •Part 2 Present Simple Tense and Present Continuous Tense
- •1. Compare these sentences and state the functions of the present simple and present continuous tenses.
- •1. Do you agree with these statements?
- •2. Read the text. Which of the statements above would Mike and Tina agree with?
- •3. Discuss these questions.
- •2. Which of these words are connected with jobs, being a student, or both?
- •3. Use the words to talk about yourself.
- •4. Look at this newspaper article. What's Susan's problem? What advice would you give her?
- •5. Now read the advice. Which do you think is better? Why?
- •6. What advice would you give Susan's husband?
- •4. Look at the vocabulary below. Match the headings with the groups of words. Add more words from the adverts.
- •5. Make as many sentences as you can about your job (or a job you'd like to have), using the words in the chart.
- •6. Look at the job adverts again. Complete these words.
- •Applying for a job
- •1. Complete the text using the words in italics below.
- •Writing a cv (Curriculum Vitae)
- •5. Writing. Think of one of the jobs in the advert. Write a list of reasons you might be suitable. Then use your ideas and write a cv and a letter of application. Job interview
- •2. Look at these ideas about how to be a good interviewer.
- •9. Role-play. Choose one of the job adverts above or any other job vacancies and have an interview.
- •10. Speaking about work. Ask and answer the questions and check the meaning of the words in bold.
- •Grammar part
- •2. Open the brackets and put the verbs in to the correct form.
- •3. Choose the correct verb form.
- •4. Put the verbs in present simple or present continuous.
- •5. Fill in the gaps with Present Simple or Present Continuous.
- •6. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate verb in correct tense.
- •7. Put the verb in the most suitable form.
- •10. Complete this story using either the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs in the box. Each verb should only be used once.
- •Topical vocabulary
- •1 Add do, does, is, or are to make complete questions.
- •2. Match the problems with the advice in exercise 1.
- •2 ____________
- •3____________
- •4 ___________
- •5___________
- •6___________
- •2. For questions (1-8) choose the answer (a, b, c or d) which you think fits best according to the text.
- •4. Match the jobs with the duties. Use dictionary to help you.
- •1. Which workers normally do these things?
- •2. A) Read the introduction to the text. Who is Ricardo Semler? What problem did he have?
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •Listening 2
- •Listening 3
- •Part 4 Listening 1
- •Listening 1
- •Listening 2
- •Interview 1
- •Interview 2
6. Complete these sentences using today/this year/this term etc.
1. I saw Tom yesterday but I haven't seen him today.
2. I read a newspaper yesterday but I ___ today.
3. Last year the company made a profit but this year ___
4. Tracy worked hard at school last term but ___
5. It snowed a lot last winter but ___
6. Our football team won a lot of games last season but we ___ .
7. Read the situations and write sentences as shown in the examples.
1. Jack is driving a car but he's very nervous and not sure what to do.
You ask: Have you driven a car before?
2. Len is playing tennis. He's not very good and he doesn't know the rules.
You ask: Have ___
3. Sue is riding a horse. She doesn't look very confident or comfortable.
You ask: ___
She says: ___
4. Maria is in London. She has just arrived and it's very new for her.
You ask: ___
She says: ___
8. What has happened in these situations?
1. Jack had a beard. Now he hasn't got a beard. He has shaved off his
beard.
2. Linda was here five minutes ago. Now she's in bed. She ___
3. The temperature was 25 degrees. Now it is only 17. The temperature
___________ .
4. The light was off. Now it is on. Somebody ___
5. The tree was only three metres high. Now it is four. The tree ___
6. The plane was on the runway a few minutes ago. Now it is in the air.
The plane ___ .
Topical vocabulary
to answer the phone- отвечать на телефонный звонок
to dial a number- набирать номер
to hold the line- оставаться на линии
to leave a message- оставлять сообщение
to make a call/ to ring someone up/ to call/ - звонить кому-либо
to pick the phone up- поднимать трубку
to put the phone down- вешать трубку
to break down-сломаться
communication – общение, процесс передачи информации
convenient- удобный
log on/ out- входить в систему (на сайт)
satellite television – спутниковое телевидение
e-mail- электронная почта
to switch off/on/turn off/on- выключать/ включать
The Internet- интернет
to chat on the phone- разговаривать по телефону
to turn up/down- делать громче/ тише
cancel- отменять
at- @
“.”” – dot (in websites or email adresses)
country/city code- телефонный код страны/ города
post office- почтовое отделение, почта
parcel- посылка, бандероль
face-to-face communication- живое общение
chatterbox- болтун
sociable/unsociable- общительный/ необщительный
postcard- открытка
the line is busy-линия занята
to call smb back-перезванивать к/л
subscriber-подписчик, пользователь, абонент
Self test 3
Grammar
1. What are the past participles?
Eg. hatugt – tought
1. moec –
2. gotbuh –
3. odeunrodst –
4. fetl –
5. tens –
2. Choose the correct ending
1.I haven’t a. forgotten by your friends?
2.I’ve never b. hasn’t arrived yet
3.Have you c. written her recently?
4.Have you been d. ever seen the ocean?
5.His message e. made her a call
3. Complete the sentences by using the verb in the present perfect
1.It’s pity, your message (not arrive) yet.
2.I know, she is at home, I just (to call) her.
3.How is Mike? I (not see) him for ages.
4.She (turn off) the radio and you can hear the rain.
5.You can ask her to help you, she (become) more polite lately
Vocabulary.
1. Complete the sentences with one of the verbs below
pick leave put hold check
1.You are in a queue for the operator…….the line, please.
2.The phone is ringing. Could you …..the phone up? My hands are dirty.
3. It’s not Mike,…….you have the right number.
4.Sorry, but she is not in. Would you like ……a message?
5.Eddy,…….. the phone down, it is not a toy.
2. What are the opposites of the verbs?
1.to receive –
2.to turn off –
3.to turn down -
4.to log on-
5.to close –
3. Circle the correct word.
1.What is your favorite channel/station on TV?
2.Mobile phones have more advantages/differences than mail.
3.People like satellite television because it gives a great stability/choice of programs.
4.Usually he tell/say the truth.
5.She doesn’t talk/speak English at all.
6.I know that his hobby is hearing/listening to popular music.
7.When a turn up/switch on my computer, I feel happy.
8.He said/told: “I have a dream”.
9.Speak up, please, I don’t hear/listen to you.
10.See /look at the blackboard, you can watch/see the new words on it.
English in use.