- •Personal identification
- •Relations by birth Кровные родственные связи
- •Relations by marriage Родственные связи по браку
- •Age Возраст
- •Religion [rilid n] Вероисповедание
- •Death Смерть
- •Exercises
- •What Is In a Name?
- •Student information
- •Free of charge - application may be copied
- •Appearance
- •I.V.Kritskaya
- •It’s fun to watch myself in a mirror. A mirror shows me what I look like. A mirror helps me learn about myself. It’s fun to play in front of a mirror. I can make up a poem about that.
- •Character
- •Love is a fallacy By Max Shulman
- •Vitebsk state university
- •V.Ye.Khorovets Part I From the history of the University
- •My University
- •I study at the University (where?…) - Where do you study?
- •The Students’ Life and Studies
- •At the department stores part I
- •Introductory text
- •The Big Stores of London
- •The most famous britain’s department stores
- •Selfridges The original department store
- •Part II
- •Departments (Отделы)
- •In the department store
- •Some Useful Information and Helpful Words and
- •Part III Money
- •Interaction Shopping
- •Follow up
- •Are you being served? a) Ladies’ shoes
- •Topics for Oral Compositions
- •Shopping (food) n.N.Krasovskaya Supermarket
- •Some Food Shops (Stores)
- •Quantities and Package (Количество и упаковка)
- •Some Useful Expressions
- •Idiomatic Expressions
- •Some additional words and expressions
- •Ex. 6.Name 5-10 products you might buy at …
- •Shopping (At the Supermarket)
- •Words and expressions
- •If I need …, I go to the … .
- •At the Supermarket
- •At the Restaurant
- •Words and expressions
- •In the Coffee Bar
- •Topical Vocabulary
- •Exercises The following words are often confused
- •By George Burns
- •Maladies of the 21st Century
- •Here are nine of the most common warning symptoms of stress. First decide if you have ever experienced the symptom. Then try to remember when and why, and make notes.
- •Now report to the class like this:
- •Coping with moods Depression
- •Make sentences like this:
- •Look at the list of jobs and arrange it from the most to the least stressful
- •B) Now work in pairs and compare your ideas with those of your partner’s
- •Your Place in the Stress League
- •What do you think?
- •Cfs. Tired All the Time
- •How does the illness usually start?
- •Is cfs contagious?
- •Tired All the Time: cfs
- •Conversation practice
- •Complete the dialogues:
- •Translate into English
- •The republic of belarus
- •Слова и словосочетания к тексту «The Republic of Belarus»
- •The Republic of Belarus
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Belorussian National Culture
- •Belarus
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Efrosinya Polotskaya
- •Vocabulary
- •Vitebsk is an Ancient Town
- •I am afraid you are mistaken.
- •I am sorry but I disagree with you.
- •I think you are right. .
- •Part II
- •Architectural monuments and Museums of Vitebsk
- •Part III Obligatory list of words:
- •Vitebsk as a Cultural Centre
- •Дом, открытый для всех
- •Part IV Obligatory list of words:
- •Vitebsk as a Centre of Industry and Education
- •Higher education
- •In great britain and in our country
- •Obligatory list of words: Ex.1.Read the words correctly, practise your sounds. Learn the words.
- •Higher Education. Universities.
- •British Universities
- •III. Making the summary System of Education in Great Britain.
- •V.A.Boiko Obligatory list of words:
- •School Education in Belarus
- •Sanctions
- •A) between two teachers
- •B) between a teacher and a parent
- •C) between the classmates
- •My future profession
- •Lawyer - юрист
- •A model teacher
- •Now do some exersises
- •Pupils as they are Ex. 12. Read the following list of words and divide them into 2 groups (positive
- •Ex. 18. Read the story and say what you think of this teacher. While translating use a dictionary if necessary. Flowers are red by Harry Chapin
- •Ex. 19. Read the following sayings about teacher’s profession and choose those you like best. Give your reasons. Teacher
- •Family matters
- •Ex. 3.Choose and say what you want your pal to do and what you don’t want
- •The Scholarship from “Green Years” by a.J. Cronin
- •Dating Customs
- •Will You Go out with Me?
- •Engagements, weddings, births and funerals getting engaged
- •Divorces rise and fewer get married
- •R Yes. First my family spoke to him, and then they called me in, and we talked for four, four or five minutes. My father decided immediately.
- •I Now you have two sons, don’t you, one twenty-one and one fifteen. Are you going to arrange their marriages?
- •Ex. 11.A) Read the text about different types of families and think of advantages
- •Nuclear Family, Extended Family
- •Relative Values
- •My Father
- •Is there a generation gap in your/your friend’s family? What are the reasons of conflicts? ecological problems
- •Ex. 5.Read and translate the following words of the same root. Determine the part of speech they belong to. Memorize them:
- •Ecological Problems
- •The Greenhouse Effect
- •The Destruction of the Ozone Layer
- •Acid Rain
- •Deforestation
- •The forest resources of the countries in the Baltic Region
- •Endangered Species
- •The Energy Trap
- •Measures to Be Taken
- •What You Can Do to Help!
- •The European Environment Agency (eea)
- •Оглавление
Age Возраст
baby |
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младенец |
toddler |
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годовалый ребенок |
kid |
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ребенок (от 1 до 3 лет) |
child |
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ребенок |
teenager, teenage; teen |
[`ti:n,eid ] |
подросток |
adult |
[ædlt] |
взрослый |
grown-up |
[grownp] |
взрослый |
generation |
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поколение |
young |
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молодой |
old |
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старый |
middle-aged |
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среднего возраста |
elderly |
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пожилой |
to be under/over 40 |
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быть моложе/старше 40 |
at the age of |
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в возрасте |
Religion [rilid n] Вероисповедание
orthodox |
[:dks] |
православный |
catholic |
[kælik] |
католический |
christian |
[kristn] |
христианский |
moslem |
[mzlem] |
мусульманин |
to trust smb |
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полагаться на, доверять кому-л. |
to believe in |
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верить во что-л. |
god |
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бог |
faith |
[fei] |
вера |
Death Смерть
to die |
[dai] |
умирать |
dead |
[ded] |
мертвый |
funeral |
[fju:nrl] |
похороны |
Exercises
Ex.1. Look at the picture and then put the correct words in the sentences:
son aunt niece cousins husband daughter children
wife uncle sister nephew parents brother
Bill is Vera’s _____________, so of course she’s Bill’s ____________.
Bill and Vera have two ______________, Ray and Kate.
Ray and Amy have a ______________, Jill, and a ______________, Joe.
Joe is Jill’s _____________ and Jill is Joe’s _________________.
Di and Don’s ______________ are Kate and Bob.
Jill and Joe are Di and Don’s _______________.
Bob is Jill and Joe’s ________________. Kate is their _______________.
Jill is the ______________ of Kate and Bob. Joe is their _______________.
Ex. 2. Instructions as above:
grandson grandparents granddaughter son-in-law
father-in-law grandchildren grandmother sister-in-law
brother-in-law grandfather mother-in-law daughter-in-law
Bill and Vera have four _______________, Joe, Jill, Di and Don.
Bill and Vera are the _______________ of Joe, Jill, Di and Don.
Don is Bill’s ________________. Bill is Don’s _______________.
Vera is Di’s ________________. Di is Vera’s _______________.
Amy isn’t the daughter of Bill and Vera. She’s their _______________.
Bill is Amy’s ________________ and Vera is her ________________.
Kate isn’t Amy’s real sister. She’s her _________________.
Bob is Ray’s ________________ and he’s the _________________ of Bill and Vera.
Ex. 3. Give the following relationships:
e.g. Ray and Di = uncle and niece
Di and Don (e) Kate and Jill (i) Bob and Ray
Bob and Di (f) Ray and Don (j) Vera and Don
Vera and Ray (g) Bill and Bob (k) Bill and Jill
Don and Joe (h) Bob and Kate (l) Vera and Amy
Ex. 4. a) Ask your partner about his/her family and write some sentences about him and his relatives:
Have you got any brothers and sisters?
Have you got any cousins?
Have you got any nieces and nephews?
Have you got any grandparents?
b) Write down the names of some people in your family. Then write down their relationship to you in English.
Ex. 5. When were these people born and when did they die? Write sentences:
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 and died in 1506.
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Genghis Khan (1162-1227)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
George Washington (1732-1799)
Ex. 6. Find a word or phrase opposite which means …
the name for a woman on her wedding day. bride
the name for a man on his wedding day.
what you are if you haven’t got a partner.
what you are if your marriage has legally ended.
a religious service for a dead person.
a holiday after a wedding.
what you are if your husband or wife dies.
Ex. 7. Fill the gaps with words from the box:
In after of to born on |
(1)…………… 1993 Anne got married (2)……………… Robert Smith. Unfortunately, Robert’s grandmother, Rosemary Smith, died (3)……………….. old age soon after their wedding. Robert and Anne were (4)………………… their honeymoon when she died. Anne’s baby daughter was (5)………………... two years later. They called the baby, Rosemary, (6)………………... Robert’s grandmother.
Ex. 8. In each column find the word with the more general meaning:
1. son 2. Orthodox 3. male 4. name
aunt Catholic female surname
parent religion sex pet name
relative Moslem lady nick name
Ex. 9. a) Give different meanings to the following words:
(to) name; (to) call; (to) place; (to) address; (to) trust
b) Translate the sentences, paying attention to the words which have the same
written forms but are used as different parts of speech:
1. They named their firstborn John. Can you name all the museums in the city? He knows all the students by name. Stop in the name of the law. 2. Call me Brian, by my Christian name. Give me a call when you come back. 3. Place the books in the right order. I can’t be in two places at once. His remarks were out of place. What place do you come from? 4. I don’t remember Ann’s address. Please, address your complaints the manager, not to me. Don’t address me as ‘general’. I’m only a major. 5. In God we trust. I trust him as I would myself. I don’t have any trust in what he says. He took this story on trust. He works for the trust company.
Ex. 10. Put the correct word into the gap:
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Birth birthday born
What is your place of … ?
When is your … ?
I was … in Minsk.
She gave … to a healthy boy.
Where were you … ?
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Die died dead death
Shakespeare … in 1616.
Her father’s … came as a great surprise. He was only 45.
Those flowers are … . Throw them away.
Every winter many birds … in cold weather.
A. – Is Henry Jones still alive?
B. – I’m sure he’s … . Didn’t he … about three years ago?
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Married get married got married marry
A. – Are you … ?
B. – No, I’m single.
A. – Whatever happened to Anne?
B. – She … a man she met on holiday.
I’m never going to … . I prefer being on my own.
Darling, I love you. Will you … me?
We had a lovely wedding. We … in spring. There were a lot of flowers.
Did you hear? James and Lisa … last week.
Ex. 11. a) Look at the chart of events in the life of an English writer and politician
Jeff Rey Archer. Make a brief biographical account. You may start with the phrases:
At the age of six; After the publication of …;
After the collapse (крах) …; During the period of … .
Age |
Events |
5 |
Moved to London with his family |
9 |
Visited France and Germany |
15 |
Wellington School |
18 |
Oxford University |
26 |
Marriage |
29 |
A Member of Parliament when he won a by-election (победил на выборах) The youngest member of House of Commons |
33 |
Birth of his first child |
35 |
Resigned from Parliament (вышел в отставку) had debts ([dets] – долги) of over 2 427 000 following the collapse of a Canadian company in which he had invested |
35 |
Wrote his first novel “Not a Penny More, not a Penny Less” based on his business experience |
37 |
Published a novel “Shall We Tell the President?” |
38 |
Visited Egypt and Asia |
38 |
published “Kane and Abel” – his most successful novel. It has been made into a television series. |
39 |
Birth of his second child |
45 |
Returned to politics |
46 |
Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party |
48 |
Moved to present home in Cambridge |
b) answer the questions and prove your answers:
What can you say about J. Archer’s life?
Is he a famous writer?
Has he seen much of the world?
Ex. 12. Combine the following sentences to form the biography of Ernest
Hemingway. Reorder the information. Divide it into paragraphs:
Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899.
He was born in Illinois.
Illinois is a suburb of Chicago.
He had a middle-class upbringing.
His father was a doctor.
All his life Ernest Hemingway rebelled against the morals of his parents.
He rebelled against the conventions of life in Chicago.
He graduated from High School in 1917.
He didn’t go to college.
He was impatient for a less sheltered environment.
He went to Kansas City.
He was employed as a reporter.
He was a reporter for the Star.
The Star was a leading newspaper.
Working for the Star gave him invaluable vocational training.
He wanted to be a soldier.
He was rejected for military service.
He had poor eyesight.
He became an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross.
He was injured in World War I.
He was decorated for heroism.
He was fascinated by war.
He worked as a war correspondent.
He reported wars in Spain, China and Europe.
Many of his books were about war.
For Whom the Bell Tolls was written in 1940.
It was his most successful book.
It was about a volunteer American soldier in the Spanish Civil War.
It dealt with the comradeship of war.
A Farewell to Arms is about the pointlessness of war.
He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954.
He suffered from depression towards the end of his life.
He loved life, but was obsessed with death.
He committed suicide in 1961.
Ex. 13. Make up your own life story.
Ex. 14. a) read the text, b) share your opinions on the problem discussed.