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Intonation Drills

11. a) Read after the teacher.

1. 'March winds, 'April showers 'bring 'forth 'May flowers.

2. It 'never rains but it pours.
b) Comment on the proverbs and sayings given above. Give their Russian equivalents.

GRAMMAR EXERCISES

Complex Object
12. Complete the teacher’s sentences. Use a Complex Object.

13. Listen and act as interpreter.

VOCABULARY EXERCISES

14. Answer the teacher’s questions (based on exercise 8).

15. Repeat the teacher’s sentence and add a sentence logically connected with it.

WATCHING AND SPEAKING

16. a) Watch the video episode Wales and point out the main features of Wales that make it different from the rest of Great Britain.

Snowdon ['snRudn]

Caervarnon [kR'nQ:vRn] Castle [kQ:sl]

Celtic ['keltIk]

Landscape
History
Language

b) Watch the episode again and try to remember more details. Add them to the chart above.

c) Answer the teacher’s questions.

17. Explain

why it is important for you to learn foreign languages
why English is becoming a language of international communication in Europe
what other foreign languages besides English you would like to learn and why.

HOME ACTIVITIES

18. a) Listen to what Terry Tomsha, an American, says about her experience of living and working in England.

b) Complete the sentences.

1. The biggest difference between the two countries is … 2. When Terry first came to Britain people thought that she was … 3. It takes a very long time to make friends with the English, but once you have made a friend … 4. An American in England is thought to be … 5. While talking to people the English … 6. It’s difficult for an American to live in Britain because … 7. The important things for the English are … while for the Americans these are … 8. Terry Tomsha loves Britain because …

c) Get ready to sum up and discuss the interview in class.

 Step III

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

PHONETIC EXERCISES

Intonation Drills

20. a) Read after the teacher.

1. 'When in Rome, 'do as the Romans do.

2. 'Every country has its customs.

3. 'Every bird likes its 'own 'nest best.



WATCHING AND SPEAKING

21. a) Watch the video episode about the English village of King’s Sutton and answer the questions below:

1. How old are some houses in the village? ___________________________

2. Which is the oldest building in the village? _____________________________

3. What did the villagers use to do for centuries? ___________________________

4. How many villagers work in agriculture now? ___________________________

5. Is the village bigger or smaller than it used to be?_________________________

6. Where do most villagers work, inside or outside the village? ________________
b) Watch the episode again and explain

how life has changed in King’s Sutton
why most of the villagers prefer living in King’s Sutton
why most of the villagers work outside of King’s Sutton
how the episode contributes to the description of a typical English person.

LISTENING AND SPEAKING

22. Sum up the facts about the English given by Terry Tomsha in her interview (exercise 18).
23. Listen to a few extracts from the book “How to be an alien” by George Mikes [mI'keS], a Hungarian writer who came to live in Britain. George Mikes ironically said his book was meant “chiefly for xenophobes (people who dislike foreigners) and Anglophobes (people who dislike England and the English).” Find the right answers to complete the sentences given below.
1. Foreigners find it ... to understand English when they first come to England.

a. easy b. difficult c. impossible

2. You should always remark that the weather is ... .

a. lovely b. awful c. nasty

3. The English ... queueing.

a. hate b. love c. do not mind

4. When taking their pets for a walk the English ... .

a. talk to them b. do not notice them c. keep silent

5. When planning a town the English ... .

a. call the streets by the traditional names: street, avenue, lane

b. call the streets by their numbers: Fifth Avenue, 22^nd Street, etc.

c. call the streets by various names: street, road, place, avenue, etc.

b) Say how the author’s remarks add to the stereotype of a typical Englishman.
24. a) Listen to a joke and say who and what is being laughed at.

b) Listen to the joke again and retell it.

c) Answer the teacher’s questions.
25. a) Listen to Bob and Sheila’s impressions of Americans and fill in the chart below.

Shops:

Public holidays:

New York – nationalities:

New York – buildings:

New York – people:

New York – crime:

New York – subway:

Friends:

National character:

b) Listen to the text again and try to remember more details. Add them to the chart above.

c) Describe what a typical American is like from the point of view of a Briton.
26. a) Say what a stereotype representative of the following nations is like:

a German; a Japanese; a Frenchman / a Frenchwoman; an Italian; a Finn; a Russian; etc.

b). Say how stereotypes can affect

people’s attitudes to other nationals
business practice.

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