2. Match the following words and word-combinations. Use them in sentences of your own

1) to establish and maintain relations

2) relationship

3) politeness

4) friendliness

5) as a rule

6) to divorce

7) apart from

8) exception

9) form of address

10) primary schoolchildren

11) to mention

12) to sound ridiculous

13) to be surprised

14) to be on a stay

15) instead

16) increasingly frequently

1) ученики начальной школы

2) форма обращения

3) гостить, останавливаться

4) разводиться

5) устанавливать и поддерживать связи

6) вежливость

7) упоминать

8) удивляться

9) вместо этого

10) кроме

11) как правило

12) исключение

13) связь, отношение

14) все чаще и чаще

15) звучать нелепо

16) дружелюбие

3. Answer the following questions

1. What kind of names and titles do the British use for establishing and maintaining social relations?

2. Does the age of the person you are speaking to have anything to do with the form of address in English?

3. What English titles show respect to strangers?

4. What vocatives should be used to get somebody’s attention?

5. What vocatives should be used to address the people who give you service?

6. What familiar forms of address are there in English?

Dialogues

Read and practise the following flashes of conversation

1. (Mr. Cole is speaking to Mr. Ivanov when Mr. Brown comes up to them.)

Mr. Cole: Mr. Ivanov, Mr. Brown.

Mr. Ivanov: How do you do, Mr. Brown?

Mr. Brown: How do you do, Mr. Ivanov?

2. Mr. Cole: Mr. Brown, may I introduce Boris Ivanov, a visitor from Russia.

Mr. Brown: How do you do, Mr. Ivanov? Glad to meet you.

Mr. Ivanov: How do you do?

3. Mr. Ivanov: Could you introduce me to Mr. Brown of the British Trade Delegation?

Mr. Ivanov: How do you do?

4. Mr. Cole: Miss Blake, do you know Mr. Ivanov?

Miss Blake: How do you do, Mr. Ivanov?

Mr. Ivanov: How do you do?

5. Mr. Cole: Miss Blake, have you met Mr. Ivanov from the Novosti Press Agency?

Miss Blake: I’m happy to meet you, Mr. Ivanov.

Mr. Ivanov: Delighted.

6. Mr. Cole: Jack, I’d like you to meet my wife. Mary, this is my friend Jack.

Mary Cole: Hello, glad to meet you, Jack.

Jack Brown: I’m glad to meet you too, Mary.

Dialogue 1

Read the following role-playing dialogue and analyse the use of tenses

John: Oh, let’s go and have a cup of tea, Pauline. I think we’ve earned a rest after all this sight-seeing!

Pauline: I think that’s a very good idea. Oh, John, look over there. There’s a man waving (машет рукой). I think he’s waving to you.

John: Waving? To me – ? Oh, good gracious (боже мой), that's Peter Harvey. I haven’t seen him for years. We were at school together.

Pauline: Well, he’s coming over, and there’s a girl with him, too.

John: Oh, I expect that’s his wife. Yes, I remember now, someone told me he was married.

Peter: Hello, John. How are you?

John: Hello, Peter. I haven’t seen for ages.

Peter: You haven’t met my wife, have you? Mary, this is my old friend, John Hicks.

Mary: How do you do, Mr Hicks? Peter has often talked about you.

John: How do you do, Mrs Harvey? Oh, Pauline, may I introduce Mr and Mrs Harvey? Miss Maxtell.

Pauline: How do you do, Mrs Harvey?

Mary: How do you do, Miss Maxtell?

Peter: How do you do, Miss Maxtell? Happy to see you.

John: Pauline is over here for a short visit and I’ve been showing her round.