First conditional If+Present Simple, Present Continuos
Develop the situations. In pairs make up dialogues
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- Exersises 1. Fill in the blanks
- 2. Match the parts of the sentences
- 2. Retell the following texts. Compare the life of
- 3. Practise the following conversation.
- 4. In Britain, people sometimes talk of a genera
- 5. Read and discuss the following text.
- 6. Complete the following text.
- 7. What special days do you celebrate in your coun
- 8. Choose one of the following topics and prepare to
- 9. What are the characteristics of a wife/husband
- Put the characteristics in order of priority. Cut them down to the five most important. Expand them to describe exhaustively the most
- 11. Read the quotations given below and agree or
- 12. You are one of a group of social workers at a
Develop the situations. In pairs make up dialogues. You are asked to interview a famous person. Ask about his/her attitude to the burning issues of the day. You are speaking to your friend after the film you both have just seen. _3. You are asked about the life on the other planets. You have no opinion on the topic. You are discussing the current events. You are trying to avoid giving an opinion. Your friend doesn't go out a lot. He/she is a coach potato. You try to change his/her opinion and to make him/her go out with you. GRAMMAR I WISHES IN USE
We use the verb wish to express a wish. If the wish refers to present or future time the Past Simple is used in the object clauses after wish. / wish it were spring now. (But is not spring now.) For a wish that is not realized in the past the Past Perfect Tense is used. / wish I had got your telephone earlier. (But I did not get it earlier.) Remember • We can use were instead of was for all persons after wish. / wish it were not so hot now. • We can use if only to express a wish. // only I had a large room. Exersises 1. Open the brackets I wish I (can) speak several languages. I wish I (have) a car. She wishes her parents (approve) of her boy friend. I wish I (be) older. I wish you (like) jazz. I wish you (see) this film. I wish you (have) time to read this article. I think I (be) rich. I wish you (stop) making so much noise. 10.1 wish your sister (take) much care about her children. 2. Write sentences beginning with / wish... or // only. I don't like horror movies. I'm very easy going. She did not have such an experience. I can't eat oranges. He did not meet us at the station. He doesn't speak Japanese. He looks so stupid. He didn't buy a ticket. It snows heavily. He was very rude. 3. Rewrite the sentences using / wish. It's a pity she is out of town at present. I'm sorry you didn't like the opera. It's a pity he didn't come back. I'm sorry I didn't visit his place. I regret I ever suggested this idea. I'm sorry I put my trip off. It's a pity winters are so long here. It's a pity they are so busy today. I'm sorry I can't borrow him money. 10.1 regret you went there. 4. Translate into English. Жаль, что концерт закончился так быстро. Жаль, что им не удалось познакомиться. Жаль, что лето прошло так быстро. Хорошо бы тебе не быть таким нервным. Жаль, что я не получил твое сообщение раньше. Жаль, что ты не уделяешь внимания учебе. Хорошо бы учителя не были такими строгими. Жаль, что она больна сейчас. Жаль, что мне приходится раньше вставать. Хорошо бы сейчас была осень. REMEMBER TO GET THE PHRASAL VERBS ♦ To get about — to travel It is easy in this city to get about by bus ♦ To get ahead — to advance You have to get ahead of your competitors. ♦ To get at — to reach Put the food where the cat can't get at it. ♦ To get away — to escape There's a meeting after work, but I should be able to get away by 7'. To get in — to arrive The plane got in late. To get out — to escape How on earth did the dog manage to get out? ♦ To get through — to reach someone, especially by telephone / tried the to telephone you but I couldn't get through. ♦ To get up — to stand; raise from one's seat, the floor, etc. What time do you normally get up? Exersises 1. Fill in the blanks 1. She quite a lot, working for an international company.
At last I managed to to one of the managers. I'll phone her as soon as I Jane used to be slow in class, but now she is The telephone rang as just as I was about to leave,and I couldn't 6. The climbers couldn't the hut because of the deep snow. 7. Few men these days to give a lady a seat on a bus.
8. Several men of prison yesterday. 2. Match the parts of the sentences 1. Read- the following survey about a British family. In groups create a survey of the kind for an average Russian family. A STEREOTYPE The average British family lives in a semi-detached house with a garden in the south of England. They own
Get up... People are getting about... Г sorry, I'm late... . I'm sorry... If you want to get ahead in your job... The rabbits have got out from their cages...
You have to use a ladder... TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION ...I was at the meeting and couldn't get away. ...to get at the jars on the top shelves. ...when the king enters the room. ...than they used to. ...you must listen to advice from more experienced workers. ... and are eating all the vegetables in the garden. ...I got in late last night. ...the lines are all busy. | FAMILY PROBLEMS their house, which is situated in the suburbs of a large town. The house has three bedrooms. On average they have two children and a pet. The family drives a two-year-old Ford. He works in the office of an engineering company for 40 hours a week and earns £ 200 per week. He starts at 9.00 in the morning and finishes at 5.30 in the evening. He goes to work by car, which takes him 20 minutes. He doesn't particularly like his job, but there are chances of promotion. She works in a service industry for three days a weaks and earns £ 95. She works locally and goes there by bus. She quite likes her job as it gets her out of the house, she meets people, and it is close to the children's school. The children go to a state school which is a few miles from home. A special bus comes to pick them up every day. They are at school from 9.00 to 3.30. The most popular evening entertainment is watching television or video, which the average person does for two and a half hours a day. After that, the next most popular activity is visiting friends, going to the cinema or a restaurant or going to the pub. The most popular hobby is gardening and the most popular sports are fishing, football and tennis. 2. Retell the following texts. Compare the life of British and Russian young people. YOUNG PEOPLE The majority of young people in Britain today accept most of the beliefs, customs and behaviour of their parents most of the time. But they have become much more independent since the Pop Revolution of the 1960s. At that time they developed their own separate culture: they listened to different music, wore different clothes, had different ideas about life, used different words and behaved differently. But youth culture is always changing. The young people of the 1960s who rebelled against the traditional ideas of their parents are now considered out-of-date by today's youth. So are the hippies,who disapproved so strongly of materialism and who believed in "free love", "flower power", and "doing your own thing." In the mid-1970s unemployment rose above one million and this produced one of the most extreme and "different" youth groups: the punks. The punks who first appeared on the streets of London were young working-class people who were fed up with trying to find jobs but did not want to join the mainly middle-class hippies. They dyed their hair with bright colours: purple, orange, green. Some wore rings and metal objects attached to their ears, noses and cheeks. They made their own kind of music, punk rock, and they sniffed glue when they could not afford other drugs. They claimed that their ambition was to die before the age of thirty. Some did. Only a minority of people became real punks and there are few left in Britain now, but high unemployment continues to have a strong influence on the attitudes and behaviour of young people. They fear unemployment. Today's teenagers feel that the good things in life will come to them if they can get a job. So they are not interested in being rebels any more; they want to become adults as quickly as possible. Young people are still concerned about world peace, as the young people of the 1960s were, but now students are more interested in examination results than in student politics. Smart clothes, money and success became fashionable again in the 1980s. There are many young people who cannot find a job of any sort, and many school leavers look at their future without hope. But the fortunate ones who find jobs enjoy the materialistic lifestyle of the 1980s. Who can say how attitudes and behaviour will have changed by the end of the 1990s? FAMILY LIFE Most young people eventually get married, buy or rent a house or flat of their own and start a family. However, a great many changes are taking place in this pattern of behaviour. As in many other Western European countries, more and more men and women are living together without being married. In the mid 1980s more than a quarter of new brides had lived with their husbands before marriage, compared with 8 per cent in 1970. People are also getting married later than they used to. However marriage is still popular even among those whose first marriage has failed. In fact, in 36 per cent of all marriages one or both partners have already been married and divorced. Britain now has the highest divorce rate in Europe and about 10 per cent of children live with only one parent. Another trend is towards smaller households. Very few children now grow up in large families and more and more adults are living alone (25 per cent in 1987). Many of the people who live alone are elderly; it is unusual to find three generations living in one house as they used to do in the past. It is quite common for close relatives to live in different parts of the country and many people hardly ever meet their uncles, aunts and cousins. One reason for this is that British people move house every five years on average. They do this in order to change jobs or to buy a bigger or better house. 3. Practise the following conversation. A: I'm very proud of my daughter. She has quite a good memory. She does her best to remember all she reads. And she's only nine years old. B: That's very good. Whom does she take after? You or your wife? A: My wife. As a child Julia learned lots of poems by heart. She still knows quite a few of them. B: I never could memorize poetry. On the other hand, I remember numbers. I never forget an address or a date. A: Not even your wife's birthday? B: Never. Alice would take a dim view of that! 4. In Britain, people sometimes talk of a generation gap. Do you agree with any of the main points of the following interview. Discuss them in groups. Interviewer. What's wrong with today's teenagers? Parent /: That's easy— everything. Interviewer: For example? Parent 2: They want to be treated like adults, but they won't take adult responsibilities. They just sit around, listening to loud music. Interviewer. Do you have any problems with your teenage children? Parent 3: My son's fine, he works hard at school, but I have problems with my daughter Susan. She never listens to us. I think she doesn't even like us. She and her friends just use the house like a convenient hotel and she wears these terrible clothes. I think she does it to upset us. Interviewer: What do you think about your parents, Paul? Paul: Well, they're so boring. I mean, they want us to be like them and accept their way of life. Susan: Yeah,they think we're all delinquents and criminals, just'cos they don't like the way we look. They're afraid what the neighbours will think of our hair and clothes. Paul: I mean, I quite like my Mum and Dad,but they treat us like kids— always ordering us around. I think they're jealous because we have a much better time they did when they were young. 5. Read and discuss the following text. THE BELL FAMILY CHARTER Housework: All members of the family must do an equal share of the housework according to age and ability. A list of duties will be put up each week. Free Time: Children and parents have an equal right to free time. Visitor: Children have a right to bring friends home whenever they like. Bedtime: Bedtime will be fixed according to age. Children of 15 may go to bed when they like. Rules [or parents: Parents must not break promises. Parents must not cancel plans suddenly. Parents must not criticize their children in public. N. B. Parents are not always right. 6. Complete the following text. A TEENAGER COMPLAINTS My parents always know better. They keep ... me what to do. Of course very often they're ..., but there's no point in ... with them. Sometimes I'm ... with of... to them. Yesterday my mother asked me if I was ever ... with anything. She said she was sick of ... me complain all the time. I wonder why they keep ... everything I do or say. They allow my brother to do anything he likes without ... them. I don't think my parents believe in ... boys and girls equally. What about yours? 7. What special days do you celebrate in your coun try? Are these days usually celebrated with relatives or with friends? How are they celebrated? What about more special days such as birthdays and wedding anniversaries? How do you celebrate those days? 8. Choose one of the following topics and prepare to give your views on it for 1, or 2 minutes. You may make notes, but do not try to write out a whole speech. Husbands and wives who both work should share do mestic chores. The problems of having a granny in the family. Courses on marriage and family matters in secondary school might be helpful in preserving the family. Home life feels the stress of social life. Divorce is morally wrong and marriage should be pre served at all costs. Marriages at later ages are more stable. Love begins at home. 9. What are the characteristics of a wife/husband and a mother-in-law? a) Study the following characteristics of. Wife or husband: tolerant, considerate, faithful, af fectionate to husband/wife, affectionate to children, hard working, tidy, home-loving, good-looking, rich, thrifty, quiet, well-educated Mother-in-law, willing to baby-sit, attractive, gener ous, young (relatively!), well-dressed, rich, good at orga nizing home, has telephone, has many interests, does not interfere, has other married children, lives nearby Put the characteristics in order of priority. Cut them down to the five most important. Expand them to describe exhaustively the most perfect wife/husband and mother-in-law. 10. One of the main problems of family life is the relationship between young adults and parents. Discuss the problem considering the following: 1. When do usually young people move out of their parents' home and start living in their own place' Is it different for sons and daughters? How and why? What are the advantages of living with parents? What are the disadvantages? What kind of problems do young adults have when they live with their par ents? Should young adults live with their parents until they get married? Why or why not? When should they move out, in your opinion? . Are you living with your parents or relatives now? Would you rather be living in your own apartment? Why or why not? In many countries young married couples live with their in-laws after marriage. Is this good? Why or why not? If you are a parent, do you want your children to continue living with you until they get married? When do you think your children should leave home? 11. Read the quotations given below and agree or disagree with them. Your opinion should be followed by some appropriate comment where possible: Love is just like the measles; we all have to go through it. (Jerome K.Jerome) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. (Montaigne) All happy families resemble one another, each unhap py family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy) Man for me field and woman for the hearth; Man for the sword and for the needle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart; Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion. (Lord Tennyson) Home is the girl's prison and the woman's work-house. (G.B. Shaw). Marriage is like life in this — that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. (R.L. Stevenson) 12. You are one of a group of social workers at a neighbourhood counseling centre. Every day several people of different backgrounds stop in to tell you their problems and seek your advice on personal matters. You are paid by the state government to do everything within your power to solve their problems; however, you rarely have to leave your office. Today, some people with pressing problems have dropped in for advice. 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