I’ve learned that (about) …
Exercise 3. Find in the text the sentence which proves the following information:
2003
Average wage per year: £20,000
Average house price: over £120,000.
2007
Average wage per year: £23,244
Average house price: £184,924
Exercise 4. Divide the text into logical parts and give information of each one.
Use: I think this text should be divided into … logical parts. The 1>st (2>nd, 3d …) part informs the reader (is about… is devoted to …) the main thought (sentence) of it is … It is interesting that …
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1. Advantages and disadvantages of living in a house ( in a flat ).
2. My dream house.
3. I like old-fashioned houses.
Words for help: a candle, our family room, the air of crowded family life, plants in pots, picturesque, a room of my own, with a view over the sea (forest), cracks, pechka
2. In groups, act out a conversation. The situation: You’re having a housewarming party. Information for help:
When you’re invited you are expected to arrive at exactly the time or some minutes later. It’s good manners to take a small present. It could be a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates or a few flowers. Some useful phrases:
Hello, nice to see you.
I’ve brought you a small present.
Come in, please. That’s very kind of you. You shouldn’t have bothered.
Make yourself comfortable. (Устраивайтесь поудобнее.)
Would you like to come to the table?
What a nice house ( flat, room) you’ve got!
Help yourself to mushrooms ( fish, bisquits, …) ( Попробуйте грибы, …)
Would you like some more salad, ( brandy…)? – Oh, no, thanks … no more for me.
Thank you very much. The dinner has been delicious.
I’m glad you liked it.
I must go. Thank you for a wonderful evening.
There is work to do.
Exercise 1. Read correctly.
Photo, phase, phone, telegraph, photosynthesis, philosophy, physics, atmosphere, phenomenon, sphere, graphically, geography, topography, biography, pheasant, phantasm, emphasize, emphatic, alphabet.
Чтение согласной “s”
Exercise 2. Read correctly.
a) say, skate, surname, salt, south, pass, space, crops, species, silver, combustion, state, swallow, ducks, books, cats, suppress, west, spring, summer, smile,
b) bags, foxes, matches, please, rise, exercise, phase, daisy, cause, because, rose.
c) sheep, she, shelf, shower, shovel, shine, mash, mushroom, show, cash, flesh,
Чтение буквосочетаний с буквой “o”
Exercise 1. Read correctly.
a) coat, road, roast, boat, board, boar, cold, mold, old, sold, bold, molder, older.
b) boil, point, boy, toy, moisture, poison, decoy, voice, employ, employment, destroy.
c) took, hook, look, book, undertook, rook, brook, Brooklyn, shook.
d) fool, soon, scooter, too, moon, cool, tool, retooling, boot, tooth.
e) mouse, house, bought, thought, ought, fought, brought, aloud, cloud, cloudy, out,
f) [ou] know, grow, show, bowl, flow.
g) [au] Flower, cow, down, brown, power, tower, shower, frown, plow, plowing, now, tower.
В предложениях с вводным словом there ( конструкция: there is/there are) слово: there является формальным элементом и на русский язык не переводится. Данная конструкция употребляется для указания на наличие или отсутствие лица или предмета в определенном месте. Глагол to be обычно согласуется с подлежащим, непосредственно следующим за ним..Если за конструкцией следует цепочка существительных, то выбор формы глагола to be зависит от числа первого существительного. Eg. There is a cooker, two chairs and five plants. There are five plants, a cooker and two chairs.