- •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
Text 2. Medical Advances.
Ex.1 Think of examples of recent advances in the these fields.
Medicine |
Surgery |
Fertility treatment |
Ex.2 What future advances in these fields do you expect to see?
Ex.3 Read the text..Five key questions about modern medical science.
What exactly is cloning and do I need to worry about it?
Cloning is 'making a copy of a plant or animal by taking a cell from it and developing it artificially. Plants were cloned in Ancient Greece over 2,000 years ago, and the first cloned frog appeared in 1968. But interest in cloning grew in 1997 when Dr Ian Wilmut and his colleagues from Edinburgh University announced the birth of the world’s first cloned sheep, Dolly. The truth is that there is no chance that any copy of a human being would be identical either physically or mentally, any more than children are identical to their parents. The possible benefits of cloning, however, are numerous, for artificially producing human tissues and organs for transplant. Biologists have already genetically engineered headless frogs so it may in future be possible to clone headless humans whose organs could be used for transplants. But would we want to?
How can transplants from other animals help humans?
A British girl born with a rare bone condition that left her with only one ear, had a new one grown for her at the Massachusetts Eуе and Ear Infirmary in the USA. By taking cells from her existing ear and transplanting them onto the back of a mouse, scientists grew her another one, which could then be transplanted back. American scientists have also used sheep blood cells to make a universal blood which could be given to any patient, regardless of their blood group while British scientists are close to manufacturing artificial blood, with the aid of milk from genetically-altered cows and sheep. Scientists have also transplanted monkeys' heads on to new bodies, paving the way for head transplants to be performed on humans.
Are we any nearer a cure for cancer or AIDS?
Scientists have produced an impressive list of things that might help prevent cancer: green tea, green salads, brazil nuts, spinach, kidneys, mushrooms, and even lipstick. And although no cure has yet been found for AIDS, extraordinary advances have been made in its treatment. Drugs called protease inhibitors can halt and perhaps even reverse the progress of the virus in the patient's body, so it may be that AIDS will soon no longer be an incurable disease. The problem is the expense: a course of treatment costs many thousands of dollars, and so will do nothing to stop the epidemic in poor countries, where the money would be better spent on preventing malaria, cholera and tuberculosis.
So what can we cure nowadays?
If you're a grey-haired, balding, colour-blind man who snores, there may be good news on the horizon. A doctor in England has announced that by adding a small amount of pigment to an ordinary pair of glasses he has been able to cure colour-blindness .A drug has been tested on dogs which stimulates muscles in their upper airway, thus stopping them from snoring. To prevent grey hair, a special shampoo has been developed that fools pigment cells into producing melanin, which gives hair its colour, and there may now even be a cure for baldness .
Why would anyone want to implant a computer chip into a human brain?
Could it be possible for all the things you need to know to be implanted in your brain on a silicon chip? Doctors at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany claim to have found a way of connecting nerve cells to a silicon chip. Such implants — which have so far only been successful in rats could be used to restore vision to people who have become blind or repair nerve damage after a stroke, but also to increase human intelligence. In theory, chips could be programmed to include all the knowledge a human being is likely to need during their life, so eliminating the need for school work!
Ex.3 Answer the questions.
1. What is cloning?
2. What was cloned first?
3. Will it ever be possible to produce exact copies of human beings? What are the possible advantages of cloning human beings?
4. How can transplants from other animals help humans?
5. What might help prevent cancer?
6. What are the disadvantages of the new drugs that have been produced to treat AIDS?
7. Are there any ways to cure colour- blindness, baldness and snoring?
8. What are the possible uses for microchips implanted into the human brain?
Ex.4 Which ideas in the text do you think:
a) positive steps forward?
b) are worrying, from an ethical point of view?
c) should be prohibited?
Explain why.