- •Unit 1 what do you look like?
- •In this unit we are going to learn how to give a physical description of a person.
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I.Give English equivalents of the following Russian words and word-combinations:
- •II. Match the expressions on the left with those on the right:
- •IV. Use these words to complete the expressions with ‘ age’ below:
- •V. Write one or more sentences with a similar meaning. Use the words given in brackets.
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I. Match the pairs of sentences with the pictures on the right:
- •II. Transcribe and translate the words:
- •II. Express the height of these people in metres and centimetres:
- •III. Combine the words in a with the right words in b:
- •IV. Choose the right word:
- •V. Answer the questions:
- •Vocabulary notes
- •II. Give English equivalents of the following Russian words and word-combinations:
- •I.Transcribe and translate the words:
- •Vocabulary notes
- •IV. Give English equivalents of the following Russian words:
- •Vocabulary notes
- •II. Match the words below to the parts of the head and face in the pictures:
- •III. Combine the nouns in a with the adjectives in b. With some adjectives more than one combination is possible.
- •IV. Give antonyms of the following word-combinations:
- •I.Transcribe and translate the words:
- •VI. Complete the sentences in a suitable way. (More than one answer may be possible.)
- •VII. Match the sentences on the right with those on the left.
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •II. Give English equivalents of the following Russian words and word-combinations:
- •III. Give the opposite of the following word-combinations:
- •IV. Combine the adjectives in a with the nouns in b. Give as many combinations as it is possible.
- •V. Decide whether the following statements are true or false:
- •VI. Use these words to complete the sentences below:
- •VII. Match each of the following lines of adjectives with one of the following words:
- •XII. Think of a famous person who…
- •XIII. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I.Transcribe and translate the words:
- •VI. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Part III Listening I
- •In pairs, ask and answer questions about each other’s friends and family.
- •Listening II
- •2. Listen to the conversation again and complete the chart below.
- •3.Make up a conversation with your group mate who wants to know about the members of your family and the family likeness.
- •Unit II what are you like ?
- •In this unit we are going to learn how to describe a person’s character.
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I.Transcribe and translate the words:
- •II. Give English equivalents for the following:
- •III. Match the synonyms:
- •IV. Match the opposites:
- •VI. Match the words with their definitions:
- •VII. Arrange these words in pairs of opposites:
- •VIII. Fill in the gaps with appropriate words from exercises VI and VII.
- •IX. What prefix forms the opposite of each of these words?
- •X. What nouns can be formed from these adjectives? Use a dictionary to help you.
- •XIV. A) Do the personality quiz to discover what type of person you are. Write Yes, No, or Sometimes.
- •XV. A) Work with a partner. Ask your partner to do the quiz about you. Compare your ideas and your partner’s ideas about you. Are they the same or different?
- •XVI. Describe someone in the group, but don’t say their name. Can your group mates guess who it is?
- •XVII. Translate these sentences into English:
- •XVIII. Revision translation.
- •Verbs and Phrases
- •Vocabulary notes
- •1.Transcribe and translate the given words:
- •2. Give the English equivalents for the following Russian words:
- •11. Grammar structures.
- •Verbs and Phrases
- •Listening I
Part III Listening I
Listen to the descriptions and fill in the gaps in the passages below.
DONNA
Well, she’s quite a ___________, _____________ person in her … in her late teens. She’s fairly ____________ with a… a good figure. She’s got a _________________ face with a small, sort of _____________________ nose. It’s very _______________ really. She’s got long, black _______________ hair and er… blue eyes with very long __________________. Her ________________ is … well, she is __________________. Her lips are very ________ … and she’s got _________ … ___________ in her cheeks.
COLIN
He’s a very big guy, you know, ____________________ with very _______________________. Not _____________, really, really… just __________ ___________. He’s in his ___________________________ .He’s got a __________ face with _____________________. Oh, and a small _____________ on his chin. He’s got very short _______________________ but with long __________________ and a ___________________. Eyes… I haven’t really noticed the colour, he wears ____________. He’s got _____________________________ and a kind of a long, __________________ nose. He’s fairly _____________,____________, sometimes even _______________.
JANET
She’s ___________________,_______________, expensive ______________ and so on. I’d say she was in her _______________________ or ______________________, but she looks younger. She’s about ________________ and very ____________. Her hair is very ____________,_____________, I think, but I’m not sure about that. It’s always very ____________, not long. She’s got_________________________ eyes with ___________ eyebrows. Her face is always ____________________ and very ___________________________, It’s an attractive face… not really beautiful, but very attractive, you know what I mean. __________________________, a small _________... oh and yes, there’s a __________________________ on her left cheek. She’s a very ___________ and _____________________ sort of person, very __________________ and always very, very polite.
ROBERT
Robert is a wonderful person, really. He’s ____________ but not old.., still very lively and ________________. He’s probably in his early seventies. He’s got ____________________, ______________________ a bit, and a small white ______________.He’s __________________________, a little _______________ perhaps. He’s got very nice large _____________________ and he always seems to be smiling… lots of _____________ round his eyes, _______________________ I think you call them. He’s got a very high, lined ________________ which makes him look very _________________________, which he is, of course.
Practice the passages for good reading.
a) Read the following questions.
How is she?
What is she like?
What does she like?
What does she look like?
Which do we use when we want to ask:
about someone’s health?
for a physical description?
for a more general description of character?
about someone’s likes and dislikes?
Match the following questions 1-5 with answers a-e. Example: 1b
How’s your mother?
What does Peter look like?
What does Peter like?
What is Susan like?
Who does Susan like?
She is very warm and affectionate.
She’s fine, thanks.
Pubs, TV, football, that sort of thing.
Peter, I think.
He’s tall and thin, just like his brother, in fact.