Listen, watch and speak для студентов I курса

11. Develop the situation as in the model:

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  Kate couldn’t watch the news broadcast. Her TV wouldn’t work.
  

tape recorder / to rewind coffee grinder / to work his car / to start door / to open

film / to insert it / to plug in it / to freeze the water / to boil

VAT (Value Added Tax) – налог на добавленную стоимость

1. The first Mini was made _____________.

2. Unlike the Morris, the Mini could carry _________ passengers.

3. It took ________________ to design and build the first Mini.

4. The Mini is ___________ long.
b) Watch the episode again and try to remember the details.

c) Answer the teacher’s questions.


HOME ACTIVITIES

16. Watch the video episode Riding a dream and write a reproduction. 

 Step II

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

b) Listen to the text again and find the English for the following words and word combinations:

2. Televisions influences people greatly. They become ____________ _________________________________________________________.

3. The time people spend sitting in front of televisions could be spent developing themselves in more direct ways – ____________________ _________________________________________________________.

4. Television is responsible for ________________________________ _________________________________________________________.

5. The advantage of television is that ___________________________ _________________________________________________________.
b) Listen to the text again and summarize it.

c) Answer the teacher’s questions.

UNIT 9

1.'Choose an 'author as you 'choose a friend.

2. 'Some books are to be tasted, 'others to be swallowed, and 'some few to be chewed and digested.

(Francis Bacon, 1561–1626)

misogynist – женоненавистник

DISCUSSION

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chaotic [keI'OtIk]

J.B.Priestley, a well-known British author, explaining why he reads detective stories said:

‘I find this delightful at home, and even more delightful when I am away from home. But why detective stories? Why not some good literature? Because, with a few happy exceptions, good literature, which excites the mind, will not do. In my view we should read it away from the bedroom. But why not some dull stuff – memoirs, works about travel? Here I can speak only for myself. If my bedtime book is too dull then I begin to think about my own work and then sleep doesn’t come for hours. No, the detective story is the thing. Because what we want, or at least I want late at night – is a tale that is in its own way a picture of life but yet has an entertaining puzzle element in it. And the detective story offers me just this. When you come to the end of a crime novel, at least something in this huge chaotic world has been settled.’
b) Answer the teacher’s questions.

1. Agatha Christie was an immensely prolific writer and wrote _______

__________________________________________________________

2. What’s special about her detectives is that ______________________ __________________________________________________________

3. A. Christie’s writings appeal to ______________________________

__________________________________________________________

4. A. Christie learned about poisons _____________________________ __________________________________________________________

5. A. Christie was born in Devon ____________ and died ___________

6. She started writing ________________________________________

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7. Although she enjoyed her success she _________________________ __________________________________________________________

8. ‘The Mousetrap’ is ________________________________________

__________________________________________________________

(the longest running show in the world. It opened in London in 1952.)

9. ___________________ A. Christie disappeared for 11 days.

10. Agatha Christie was a very private person and __________________ __________________________________________________________

H. Poirot _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Miss Marple _______________________________________________ __________________________________________________________

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  Read after the teacher.
  

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  Comment on the saying given above. Give its Russian equivalent.
  

GRAMMAR EXERCISES

St – It’s a nice day today. Why stay at home?

St – I’m hungry. Why not have a snack?

1. The conference finishes __________________________________.

2. Aileen fancies __________________________________________.

3. Cindy suggests _________________________________________.

4. In case they haven’t got tickets for ______________________, Aileen would like to see ________________________________.

b) Sum up the information in 3-4 sentences.

c) Listen to the dialogue between Cindy and the operator and answer the questions:

Why cannot Cindy and Aileen go to see Miss Saigon?
Are there any tickets available for Saturday or for Sunday?
Would they prefer the matinee or the evening performance?
How much does Ticketmaster charge as booking fee?
Why cannot the ladies buy the tickets at fourteen pounds fifty?
Are the eighteen pound fifty tickets in the stalls or in the dress circle?
At what price do the ladies book the tickets?

d) Give the Russian for:

booking fee; What do you fancy doing; a ticket agency; in the stalls; the dress circle; When would that be for; Row C; not too near the side.

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  you arranged to go to the theatre
  
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  you booked the tickets
  
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  the tickets were booked