Getting ready for a test

Transcribe:

Vapor	Ceiling	Victim	ceiling	Thirteen	by re
Cardy	Coddle	celery	Minor	cockle	Young
Rye	Mind	check	Ghost	Yelp	Sour
Deer	Watch	Physics	hockey	Circus	Bold
Give	Eight	Lecture	Sign	Exact	Sable
Stoker	Cycle	Myrtle	Parcel	Mare	While
Come	Wrong	Wood	Death	Feeling	Door
Jet	Cook	Moon	Brought	Quantity	Warm
Drew	Talk	Cedar	Eliminate	Thirsty	Further
Bore	Tired	Mere	Mind	Salt	Bathe
blue	neural	halves	mother	past	world

Intone:

1. As far as I know, Jack London, an American writer, is rather famous, isn't he?

2. Betty, there are two pretty kittens, Ralph and Pussy.

3. Does that strange man, Dr. Sandford, have any brothers, sisters or cousins, I'd like to know?

4. Thank you, Benny! Sit down, please!

5. You know, the bear, the tiger, the lion and the hare aren't birds.

6. What are your parents doing in the street, I wonder?

7. In the garden we have a lot of apple trees.

2. Define the type of the syllable:

Startle, timing, cradle, spare, sorry, button, motto, pirate, stir, snake, snack, sphere, carry, choral, wary, scar, scaring, tart, tanned, crate, rumour, declare, hide, knit, crystal, myth, clothes, stripes, compare, herbs, excuse, spur, corpse, verse, hedge, sage, huge, lorry, twinge, scribe, style, cane, gin, album, rival, vital, vessel.

3. Transcribe:

1) Charter, cigar, curve, jinx, circular, wrung, cere, yell, quirt, lice, knurl, nil, sphinx, thorn, flute, flirt, riches, wry, dire, chunk, Zink, blithe, fledge, ax, cook.

2) Dank, blanch, range, lard, ward, watt, ware, calk, paunch, whale, weigh, wheeze, wreathe, hearth, steal, spread, yawn, vein, eve, queer.

3) Rotor, orbit, curry, fatal, tuna, virgin, gamma, climax, Cuba, fittage, scathe, jerry, ruby, wattle, worthy, ankle, oven, coach, couple, cushion, torrent.

A LIST OF RHYMES FOR THE EXAM

1. Peter Piper…

2. She sells sea shells…

3. Whether the weather…

4. Fisherman Fisher…

5. Betty Botter…

6. A tutor who tooted the flute…

7. I thought a thought…

8. Something in a thirty-acre…

Examination monologues |winter | 1^st year

1. Tell about yourself, your studies, your family, your house, likes and dislikes.

2. A house of yours and the house of your dream. Do they match?

3. Tell about your favourite food. What is healthy to your mind? Teach how to cook your favourite dish. What cuisine do you like?

4. The British and the Russian cuisine. Compare and choose what you’d rather eat.

5. Tell about city housing. Where do usually people live in the city?

6. There are different exotic dishes in different countries. What food traditions do you know? Tell about some exotic dishes in some countries.

7. What table manners do you know? How should one behave himself at table? Tell what rules you follow.

8. Pretend you returned fifty years back. What appliances would you miss? What helps you run the house?

9. A family is what everyone needs. What is an ideal family to your mind?

10. What is you student day like? Do you have a lot to do?

LESSON 12

MEALS

TASK 1 TEXT A. AT TABLE

1) Study the dialogues. Render the lines in indirect speech.

2) Retell the situation in the form of narration.

3) Learn these dialogues or make up your own ones with the same, vocabulary

Nick: I say, mum, I'm terribly hungry. I haven't had a thing all day. I could do with a snack.

Mother: Why, you're just in time for dinner. Nick: No soup for me. I'd rather have beefsteak.

Mother: Are you quite sure you wouldn't like some soup? It tastes all right. Nick: There is nothing like steak and chips. I'll go and wash my hands. Mother: How's the steak? I'm afraid it's underdone.

Nick: Oh, it's done to a turn, just to my liking. I don't like meat overdone. May I have another helping of chips?

Mother: Yes, certainly. Hand me your plate, please, and help yourself to the salad. Just to see how it tastes. Nick: Oh, it's delicious^

Mother: Shall I put some mustard on your steak?

Nick: No, thanks, I don't care for mustard. I'd rather like a spoonful of sauce. Pass me the sauce, please.

Mother: Here you are. Oh, isn't there a smell of something burning? Nick: So there is.

Mother: I've left the layer-cake in the oven. Nick: For goodness' sake get it out quick.

Mother (coming back): Oh, Nick! How awkward of you to have spilt the sauce over the* table-cloth. Get a paper napkin from the sideboard and cover it up.

Nick: I'm terribly sorry. I was quite upset about my favourite cake getting spoiled.

Mother: Don't worry. Here it is, brown and crisp on the outside. What will you have, tea or coffee? Nick: A cup of tea..

Mother: Any milk? Shall I put butter on your bread? Nick: No, thanks. I can't see the sugar-basin. Mother: It's behind the bread-plate. Have a better look. Nick: I'm afraid it's the salt-cellar.

Mother: So it is. In my hurry I must have left it in the dresser. Nick: It's all right. I'll get it myself.

Mother: Help yourself to the cake. There's nothing else to follow. Nick: I've had a delicious meal.

TEXT B. IN THE DINING-HALL

- Let's go to the dining-hall. We haven't much time left, but we'll manage it all right if you hurry. You take a place in the queue and I'll see what we can get for dinner.

- All right. What is on the menu?

- Cabbage soup with meat, chicken soup with noodles and pea soup.

-1 don't know whether I'M have any. What have they got for seconds?

- Fried fish and mashed potatoes, beefsteak, bacon and eggs.

- And for dessert?

- A lot of things. We can have stewed fruit or cranberry jelly or strawberries and cream.

- Then, I'll take cabbage soup with sour cream and... Well, and what about some starter? We've completely forgotten about it.

- As we are in a hurry I believe we can do without it. I never thought you were a big eater.

- Neither did I. But I wouldn't mind having something substantial now.

- So we'll take one cucumber salad and one tomato salad. That'll do for the time being. I think I can manage a bit of fish-jelly as well and then chicken soup with noodles. That'll be fine.

TASK 2