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Unit 1

1.Heather works as a computer operator.

2.She decided to take a part-time job in order to help to support their children.

3.Edward studies French and German.

4.Eleanor likes dancing and ballet.

5.Mark and Heather spend all their spare time with their children.

Make up questions to match the answers given below:

1.Edward? He’s still at school.

2.Of course. He likes to talk to people.

3.Oh yes, Eleanor is a girl of many talents.

4.She always takes the children there in the car.

5.Of course they are.

6.They like spending their spare time together.

7.No, Heather does practically all of it.

Exercise 14.

Working in pairs, ask your partners questions about:

a) their family

b) their house or flat

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Verbs: Past Simple Tense

to have

Exercise 15.

Read the following sentences. Form one question from each sentence, trying to use a variety o f question words.

Pattern 1: Anne wasin London lastyear.

Was Anne in London last year?

or:Who was in London last year? Where was Anne last year? When was Anne in London?

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Pattern 2: John had a comfortable cottagein the countryside,

Did John have a comfortable cottage in the countryside?

or: Who had a comfortable cottage in the countryside? What did John have in the countryside?

What kind of cottage did John have in the countryside?

Where did John have a comfortable cottage?

Pattern 3: Sue"lefthome ten minutes ago.

Did Sue leave home ten minutes ago?

or: Who left home ten minutes ago?

When did Sue leave home?

1.Arthur read an interesting article yesterday.

2.Jane worked in New York when she was 18.

3.Nigel began to be interested in healthy eating 5 years ago.

4.All my friends were downstairs in the canteen.

5.He looked very tired after his lectures.

6.Carla wrote her report about the experiment in half an hour.

1.Tom was at work on Monday.

8.We spent our holidays in Italy last year.

9.Ann did a lot of work on her research last month.

10.My father knew a lot of funny stories.

Exercise 16.

Discuss the following topics in pairs:

a)a member of your family

b)what you did at the weekend

c)what you remember about your childhood

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Verbs: Future Simple Tense

Positive Form

Note: The use of shall instead of will is now quite rare, except to form questions,when shall is required in the first person singular and plural.

Exercise 17.

Study these example sentences, then compose sentences of your own, using the Fu­ ture Simple Tense:

a)1 .1 don’t think he’ll make a good scientist.

2.You’ll pass your exams successfully.

3.He’ll probably be late for the concert.

b).4. This bag is very heavy. I’ll carry it for you.

5.They won’t come with me.

6.I’ll tell her the truth at last.

c)7. Shall I read this sentence again?

8.Shall we go to the cinema?

Note: We often use Vm going to or Present Continuous Tense forms to talk about the future. For example, we say that something is going to happen. This is usual when we talk about plans, decisions and intentions.

e.g. I’m going to spend Christmas in Coventry. I’m spending Christmas in Coventry.

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When are you going to have your car repaired?

When are you having your car repaired?

I’m going to play tennis on Friday.

I’m playing tennis on Friday.

Exercise 18.

Enter the appropriate verb forms in the blanks. Use the verbs shown in the table.

1.Tom ... up early every morning.

2.Shakespeare ... “Romeo and Juliet”.

3.I ... a holiday a month ago.

4.Ted and Mary ... always late for dinner.

5.Frank ... a new car for his wife.

6.We didn’t ... him in the garden.

7.They first... in April.

8.8.He usually ... to Spain in summer.

9.Jill... a lot of time waiting for her friend to come.

10.He ... tennis very well.

Exercise 19.

Change the following statements into questions beginning with the question words given:

1.I’ll go to the Institute in the morning. (Where? When?)

2.My friend usually wakes up at 6. (Who? When?)

3.They got to work by bus. (How?)

4.We had three lessons a day. (How many? Who?)

5.Margaret always has dinner at home at three o’clock. (Who? What? When?)

Exercise 20.

Use an appropriate form of the phrase “there+to be”:

1. ... a kitchen and a bathroom in our flat.

2.In the dining-room ... a big window with brown curtains.

3.In Mr. Wilde’s bedroom ... two beds and a dressing-table.

4.... a lot of furniture in their flat.

5.... some magazines and a telephone on this little table.

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6. In the left hand comer ... a piano.

7. ... some flowers in the vase.

8. ... some nice water-colours on the walls of his room. 9. Near the w all... a sofa, a bookcase and a coffee table. 10. ... two windows in the sitting-room.

Word Order in a Statement

Exercise 21.

Rearrange the following jumbled words toform sentences:

a)arrived/Jeari/last/Spain/in/week

b)Annie/Robert/phone/minute/in/will/a

c)to/last/David/parents/wrote/night/his

d)mother/not/his/today/well/is/very

e)the/will/Browns/a/have/year/holiday/this 0 Вoris/a/gave/Nadya/ring/wedding

g)yesterday/restaurant/we/to/Indian/decided/go/an

h)lot/people/of/bus/get/work/to/a/by

i)summer/she/in/visited/France/friend/her/last

j ) her/moming/to/Natalia/in/children/drives/the/school

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Dialogue 4

A:Is yours a big family, Mr. Norton?

N:Not very. To be precise, “very small”. I live alone. A : You aren’t married, then?

N:No, actually I’m a bachelor.

A:I hope you don’t mind my asking, but would you like to get married one day? N: That’s all right, Mr. Melnyk... Well, you never can tell.

Dialogue 5

P: How old are you, Tony? T: I’m twenty-eight.

P: Oh really? You look much younger.

T\ Thank you. You’re actually the first person to tell me that. Everybody says I look older.

Exercise 2. Conversation

Work in pairs. Complete the following short dialogues. Use the words and express­ ions given in the right-hand column to answer the questions

M odel:, My family consists of my,parents/grandparents, younger/elder brother and myself. My parents Дує m TemopiL Sometimes I go there for the weekend,

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Model: My grandparents live dose toms'. They areboth retired, but they’re

Model: My hobby is pop-music. I play the guitar.

The situation is as follows. You are a Ukrainian businessman in an Englishspeaking country and you need a secretary. A young lady has applied for the job and now you are interviewing her. You ask all sorts of questions, as you want to know as much as possible about yourfuture employee.

Exercise 4.

Give definitions o f the following words:

grandmother, uncle, aunt, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, niece, nephew, cousin.

Pattern: grandfather - My grandfather is my mother's or my father’s father.

Exercise 5.

Respond to the statement you hear:

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В.Pattern: A: JaneMitchell is studying at aLoudon secretarial college.

B:The family hopes she will make agood typist.

Exercise 6.

Practise thefollowing substitution dialogues in pairs:

I

-What relation are you to Patrick Brooks/Ann Hill?

-He/she is my cousin.

(brother-in law, mother-in-law, stepmother, aunt, niece, nephew),

II

-What relation is Philip to Nancy?

-They are cousins.

(husband and wife, uncle and niece, brother and sister, just friends, bride and bridegroom, newly weds)

III

-Is his/hers a large or a small family?

-He is a bachelor.

(unmarried, a widower/widow, single, divorced, an orphan, childless)

Exercise 7.

Read and listen to thefollowing dialogues:

1.

Mr. Martel: Do you know my sister,Mr. Brown? Let me introduceher to you.

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