Английский язык: самоучитель - Шевчук Денис Александрович - Страница 23

Shop assistant: Which ones? These? 1 pound a pound.

Denis: And those red ones?

Shop assistant: The same.

Denis: Right. I would like to buy a bunch of white grapes. Where do you get them?

Shop assistant: Just a minute. O.K. I go to the wholesale market every morning.

Denis: Oh. Can I have two oranges, please? I think that’s all.

Shop assistant: That’s all? That is 2 pounds twenty.

4. Complete the text with the words from the Word Box.

Вставьте подходящие по смыслу слова.

whole useful separately keeps involved keen learn improve textiles

The Ahluwalia family come from India but now they live and work in London. They run a ............... family business. Their two generations are ............ on selling textiles. Their basic work is importing ............ from Japan, India, France.

The ............ family is interested in the business: the father, the mother, the mother’s sister, the mother’s brother, the brother’s wife. Their father generally ............... an eye on the whole business. The women want to get ............... into the business, too. They do the office work.

The family would like to ............ their work and try to find modern textiles. They always use modern equipment in their work.

The parents and their children live............... Their last generation – their children – ............... at schools in London.

Try to retell the text.

Постарайтесь пересказать текст.

5. Give possible answers to the questions.

Дайте возможные ответы на вопросы.

1. What is your wife’s job?

2. Do your sister’s children study at school?

3. What is your daughters’ entertainment?

4. Do your friends’ parents work in a stressful environment?

5. Is their children’s health very important?

6. Are James’ friends keen on riding bicycles?

7. Is Alex’s gym very useful?

6. Make up a dialogue putting the sentences in the right order.

Составьте диалог, расположив предложения в логическом порядке. Инсценируйте диалог.

Yes, I am. Just a minute. Can’t you see? I am improving my health.

Yes, it can. When I am reading it, you don’t ask me to do anything. And it improves my health very much.

James, what are you doing?

A book «How to improve health».

I’m working.

Can it improve your health?

Are you working?

Oh, really? Then I’d like to read it, too. And you go to the wholesale market and buy food. O.K.?

And what are you reading?

No, not O.K. I’m sleeping now.

7. Read this text.

Прочитайте текст.

At an English Language School

Mark Bibi is a teacher of English in one of the colleges in Britain. He works in a residential college. It means that students live and eat here. Students come here from various countries. The whole college have breakfast from eight o’clock to nine o’clock. The basic lessons start at nine o’clock.

The lessons are an hour and a half long. At half past ten the students have coffee, and the coffee break is half an hour. Then they start again at eleven o’clock for an hour and a half. Lunch is from twelve thirty to two o’clock. And then they get involved into class activities from two o’clock till three thirty.

After classes the students are not bored. They can study in the learning centre, play volleyball or football, have aerobics or do athletics in the gym. They can improve their health here.

In their spare time they can paint or go to the jazz club. It is located near the college. Students can have entertainment in college. They watch videos or television. Students can go out to the cinema or to the restaurant. Many students have their hobbies.

Are the sentences true or false?

Верны или не верны данные предложения?

1. Students don’t study here.

2. After lunch the students have lessons.

3. After classes the students always go out.

4. Students can go to the gym.

5. Students don’t have spare time.

6. You can watch television in college.

Lesson 7. At the office

LEAD-IN

1. Answer the questions about yourself.

Напишите ответы на вопросы о себе.

1. What entertainment do you have in the evening after work?

2. Do you and your colleagues go out at the weekends?

3. Does your office have modern equipment?

4. Is your work stressful?

5. How do you improve your work?

6. Do you have spare time at work?

7. What do you do at the coffee breaks?

8. Is your work useful?

9. Who keeps an eye on your work?

10. What business do you run?

2. Make up correct sentences.

Составьте предложения.

1. They/not/sell/medicines/now.

2. She/often/import/textiles/different countries.

3. you/go/the greengrocer’s/every Sunday?

4. What/you/paint/now?

5. He/not/improve/his health/the gym.

6. they/go out/the weekend?

7. What/she/usually/do/her spare time?

8. What language/he/learn/now?

9. They/not/use/office equipment/at the moment.

10. your daughter/have/entertainment/the evenings?

Try to recollect as many sentences as possible.

Постарайтесь вспомнить как можно больше предложений из только что составленных.

3. Say what you enjoy, are interested in, are keen on, are bored with doing at work.

Скажите, чем Вы любите заниматься на работе, чем интересуетесь, увлекаетесь, а чем – нет.

Using a computer, learning new things, listening to the boss, having coffee breaks, talking to colleagues, signing contracts, working in stressful environment, working with documents, keeping an eye on the whole business, meeting new people, showing my boss the results of my work, giving bunches of flowers to women-colleagues.

4. Say what you do at work.

Скажите, чем Вы занимаетесь на работе.

At ten o’clock ...................................................................................................

At half past twelve..............................................................................................

From one to two o’clock .......................................................................................

The whole afternoon............................................................................................

At quarter to six.................................................................................................

At half past six...................................................................................................

After work........................................................................................................

FOCUS ON VOCABULARY

Активный словарь

Nouns

1. office equipment – офисное оборудование

2. chair – стул

To take a chair – сесть на стул

3. drawer – ящик (стола)

The top drawer of the table – верхний ящик стола

4. paper – бумага

5. post – почта

To send by post – посылать почтой

6. socket – розетка

7. video recorder – видеомагнитофон

8. DVD player – DVD проигрыватель

9. overhead projector – проектор

10. computer presentation – компьютерная презентация

11. transparency – слайд (на пленке)