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8. Speak on one of the following topics.
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8. Speak on one of the following topics.
1. My Family and My Relatives.
2. The Things I am Interested in.
CONVERSATION PRACTICE
1. Read and translate the dialogue.
Family Life
Jane: What is your name and where are you from?
Sarah: I am Sarah and I`m from Canada.
Jane: What are you and how old are you?
Sarah: I`m a student and I`m twenty.
Jane: Sarah, do you have a family?
Sarah: Certainly. I have my parents and a younger sister Jennifer. She is seventeen. She goes to senior high school. I also have grandparents on my mother`s side. So, I have a big family.
Jane: What does your father do?
Sarah: My father has a café. It is our family business. He runs this café for more than twenty years. He was born in Milan and his café is a pizzeria.
Jane: How old is he now?
Sarah: My father is fifty-six.
Jane: And what about your mother?
Sarah: My mother is fifty-one and she is a painter. She is painting beautiful landscapes.
Jane: What is your mother`s origin?
Sarah: She is Irish. And she can`t forget the beauty of her native land. I`m also very influenced by her.
Jane: Do you have any relatives in Italy and in Ireland?
Sarah: Yes, I have them. My grandpa on my father`s side lives in Brescia. And my grandparents of my mother`s side live in Dublin. They are very old now and I try to visit them more often.
Jane: And what about your younger sister which is seventeen now? Is she doing well?
Sarah: Yes. She is a very clever and self-sufficing girl. I suppose she will succeed in life.
Jane: Do you like to be a senior sister?
Sarah: It is not difficult and it is very nice. My younger sister is independent and she doesn`t need to rely on me much. But I always wanted to be the youngest child in my family.
Jane: Is your relationship with your younger sister friendly?
Sarah: When I was a little girl my sister used to follow me everywhere. She always wanted to do that what I was doing. Then I didn`t want her to follow me. Now I enjoy her company and I like our conversations.
Jane: Does your sister show her respect to you?
Sarah: She enjoys being together with me.
Jane: You are happy.
2. Make up a dialogue with your partner about your families and family relations.
WRITING PRACTICE
1. You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Michael, who writes:
Dear Nick,
Thanks for your letter. You know I live in a big family, so I have to share a room with a brother or stay with a sister in the evening when our parents have a chance to go to the theatre or any other place.
I should say it's very cool to have somebody you can take care of or share your interests. My brother Evan and me have the same hobby of collecting small chocolates. When we have more than thirty we make a kind of party and eat them all. We sometimes give one or two to my sister. She always looks forward to such occasions.
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Now tell me about that sports club. How can you train there? What workings hours does it have? Can you have a personal tutor there?
Hope to hear from you soon!
Best regards,
Michael
Write a letter to Michael. In your letter: answer his questions; ask
3 questions about his free time activities.
Write 100-140 words. Remember the rules of letter writing.
2. Write an essay on the topic “Family Life”.
LESSON 2
HOME, SWEET HOME
| Grammar practice: | 1. Construction there is/there are 2. Indefinite pronouns some, any, no 3. Prepositions of place 4. Numerals |
| Reading and translation practice: | 1. House of My Dream 2. Dialogue: Rent a Flat |
| Conversation practice: Writing practice: | 1. The Place I Live in 1. A letter to a friend abroad 2. Essay |
GRAMMAR PRACTICE
There + to be
(есть, имеется)
| Утвердительная форма | Вопросительная форма | Отрицательная форма |
| There is a TV-set in their room. | Is there a TV-set in their room? | There is no TV-set in their room. |
| There are flowers in the vase. | Are there flowers in the vase? | There are no flowers in the vase. |
1. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the verb to be.
1. There … books on the table. 2. There … an armchair in the corner. 3. There … two men and a child in the living room. 4. There … children at the table. 5. There … no newspapers on the shelf. 6. There … one man and several women in the shop. 7. There …no wardrobe in my room. 8. There … a lot of furniture in the living room. 9. There … a lot of plants in the room. 10. There … no shelves by the window.
2. Combine the two sentences using there is/there are.
Example: This is a teacher. He is at the blackboard. There is a teacher at the blackboard.
1. This is a chair. It is in the corner. 2. This is a woman. She’s in the shop. 3. These are newspapers. They are on the table. 4. These are students. They are out in the corridor. 5. This is a light. It is on the ceiling. 6. This is a chalk. It’s in the box under the blackboard. 7. This is a wardrobe. It’s near the bed. 8. This is an English name. It’s on the blackboard. 9. These are two windows. They are in the classroom.
10. This is an easy chair. It’s in front of the fireplace.
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