Steps in Speaking English (Шаги в разговорном английском). Е. В. Волкова
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Exercise 10. Complete dialogs for these situations:
1. You are a prosperous old businessmen but you want to retire so you make an arrangement with several candidates on your position. You want to sell your corporation.
2. You have agreed to make an appointment with your sales manager and have a business talk about new equipment but one of your offices has been robbed recently so you have to meet with police and change your arrangement with manager.
3. You have watched the car accident on TV and want to make sure that your mother wasn't its participant. You call to the company where your mother works, but your mother is a director and very busy, so you have to talk with her secretary.
4. Your boss organizes picnic for the colleagues on the weekend. But you have heard on the radio that it will rain, so you decide to phone your boss to confirm arrangement.
Lesson II. Topics: Every day routine, Housework,
Activities
Vocabulary. Everyday routine.
spend time with family, pay the telephone bill, wash the dishes, empty the rubbish, make a telephone call, use a computer, cook, work, study, stay at home, hand–launder, clean, do your homework, go shopping, play with your children, walk the dog10
Exercise 1. Answer these questions:
1. Who gets up first in your house?
2. What time do you get up?
3. Do you have a computer at home?
4. What kind of computer programs do you use every day?
5. Who uses Power Point the most?
6. Who makes the most phone calls?
7. Whom do you phone most often?
8. Who pays the bills in your house?
9. Who usually does the cooking?
10. And who empties the rubbish?
11. How many evenings a week do you stay at home?
12. Who spends the most time in the house?
13. What is “every day routine” for you?
14. Who does shopping in your family?
Vocabulary. Activities for weekends.
wake up, get up early, go to bad late, stay in bed late, have a lie-in, have a nap, fall asleep, have breakfast/lunch/dinner, have a snack, have a picnic, get a take–away pizza, listen to the radio, watch TV, check your mails, check your emails, chat on the phone, do exercise, go to the gym, have a shower, go for a walk, go clubbing, do nothing, catch a bus/train, lie on the beach, meet some friends, have a date, walk the dog, do shopping, take a bath, read books, watch films, go to the theatre, go to the cinema, visit granny, play football/ basketball/ tennis/ volleyball/ badminton
Exercise 2. Ask other students these questions and answer, using the words above:
1. What is your favourite time of the day/week? Why?
2. What is your least favourite time of the day/week? Why?
3. What is a typical day for you?
4. What do you enjoy doing?
5. What do you hate doing?
6. What irritates you?
Exercise 3. Match the questions to the answers.
Exercise 4. Read the text.
Is sleeping a problem for you? Do you want to sleep but can't fall asleep? Here are some tips for happy sleeping:
1. Have a snack of bread or fruit about an hour before you go to bed.
2. Try not to have a nap in the day. Only sleep at night.
3. If you wake up at night, don't get up. Just stay in bed and read a book.
4. Always have breakfast in the morning, it's the most important meal of the day.
Exercise 5. Make dialogs, using the information above. Imagine that you are:
a) a doctor, and a patient came to you with his sleep problem asking for help
b) a mother, and you want your child to sleep well, explain him why sleep is so important
c) a student of medical university, and you give tips to your friend who has a sleep problem
Exercise 6. Answer these questions:
1. Which advice in Ex.5 do you follow?
2. Which tips do you agree with?
3. Which tips do you disagree with?
4. Which tips can you add to the list?
5. Have you got your own formula of a sound sleep11?
Exercise 7 . Read the text paying attention to the underlined words.
We asked these people about their typical Saturday. Here's what they said:
I don't like getting up early at the weekends so I usually stay in bed late – sometimes until about 10.30 a.m.! I absolutely love having a big breakfast on Saturdays. I can't stand going to the gym or doing exercise but I sometimes go for a walk in the afternoon. I quite like meeting friends in the park or just lying on the grass and doing nothing. I'm not very keen on going out on Saturday evening. I stay in and chat on the phone and get a take-away pizza.
I really hate doing nothing so I get up early on Saturdays and start the day by checking my emails. I really like meeting friends and having breakfast in a cafe, so I catch a bus into town at about 9.00 a.m. After breakfast, my friends and I sometimes go to an art gallery in Hermitage. I'm quite keen on most kinds of art so I don't mind which gallery we go to but my friends really hate modern art that's why we often visit Hermitage but we don't lift on the top floor, where expressionists are exhibited. I do different things on Saturday evenings. I sometimes have dinner with friends or I stay in and watch TV.
Exercise 8. Complete the sentences with Maria or Konstantin.
Example: Konstantin likes getting up early on Saturdays.
1 ______ likes having a lot to eat for breakfast.
2 ______ doesn't usually have breakfast at home on Saturdays.
3 ______ doesn't like doing any sport or exercise.
4 ______ likes doing nothing in the park.
5 ______ likes going to art galleries.
6 ______ likes chatting on the phone on Saturday evenings.
7 ______ likes watching TV in the evening.
Vocabulary. Preferences.
Exercise 9. Ask other students about their Saturdays.
1. What do they absolutely love doing?
2. What do they really hate doing?
3. Tell about your Saturdays using the words above and words from the vocabulary.
Exercise 10. Make short dialogs using the scheme:
walk the dog – выгуливать собаку
sound sleep – крепкий сон (мед.)