glass of water, a cup of tea, all
kinds of things. 2. a) Alveolars replaced by dentals: in thewcanteen,
or\J;he menu, aboutjiie meeting, i^Jhere anything; b) Loss of plosion: a
minutewplease, soupwperhaps,
soupwtoday, saladwto, mashedwpotatoes, must-
ardwplease.
V. a) Listen to the recording of the text "Meals". Mark the stresses and tunes, b)
Practise the text for test reading. Listen to the recording very carefully until yon can say
it in exactly the same way.
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VI. a) Listen to the recording of the dialogue "In the Canteen**. Mark the stresses
and tunes, b) Practise the dialogue for test reading. Listen to the recording very carefully
until you can say it in exactly the same way. c) Memorize the dialogne and dramatize it.
VII. a) Read the following sentences, pay attention to the intonation
of the word please in them:
1Л Please "bring me that ^newspaper. 2. V Please pro'nounce the "sentence
once vmore! 3. V Please "tell me your vname. 4. V Please "take same xsalad for me.
V 5. Please "show me the ^Caucasus on the map! 6. V Will you 'please "come 7up
to me? 7. V Will you "please "pass me the ,book? 8. V Will you "please "turn "on
the ca"ssette-re,corder? 9. YWill you "please "say it a,gain? 10. -» Stand xup,
please! 11. -* Stop ^talking, please! 12. -> Step a;side, please! 13. -> Help yourself
to some ,pie, please.
b) Address one another with some reqnest using the word please at the beginning, in
the middle and at the end of the phrase and respond to it.
VIII. a) Read the following sentences. Pay attention to the intonation
of direct address:
1. Ann, will you please fetch some milk from the kitchen? 2. Shall I put some
more sugar on your cornflakes, John? 3. No more, Mum. 4. Why aren't you eating
anything, Kitty? 5. Give me a little more cornflakes, dear.
b) Address one another using the name of your fellow-student at the beginning, in the
middle and at the end of the phrase. Work in pairs.
IX. Read the following sentences, mark the stresses and tunes and picture them on
the staves:
I. You are wrong, I am afraid. 2. As for me, I prefer bananas to tangerines. 3.
Well, she says, it's time to have a bite. 4. As far as I know, Japanese is more
difficult than Spanish. 5. Tastes differ, he says. 6. To tell you the truth, 1 don't like
this beefsteak. 7. Besides, I'd like to be in time for the beginning of the party.
X. a) Read the following compound nouns. Don't stress the second element:
a dining-room, a looking-glass, a blackboard, a fountain-pen, a bathroom, a
bedroom, a reading-hall, a smoking-car, a dressmaker.
b) Give your own examples of compound nouns and compound adjectives. Keep in
mind the distribution of word stress in them.
XI.
Answer the following questions:
A. 1. What do you see in the picture? 2. Who is in the dining-room? 3, What
are they doing in the room? 4. What is Mrs. Smith doing? 5. What is the elder
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daughter passing to her father? 6. Does John like sugar on his cornflakes? 7. What
does he prefer on his cornflakes? 8. Who is already finishing his cornflakes? 9.
Who doesn't like cornflakes? 10. What does Kitty, the little girl, want? 11. What
does Mr. Smith ask his wife to give him? 12. What does Mrs. Smith ask her elder
daughter to do? 13. What are the children doing while their father is having his
tea?
B. 1. Where do the two friends go? 2. What do they take for dinner? 3. Why do
they go to the canteen? 4. Do they always take soup for dinner? 5. Where do the
friends hurry? 6. Why naust they leave at orrce?
С. 1. What time do you have breakfast? 2. What do you have for breakfast?
3. Will you describe your breakfast? 4. Where do you usually have dinner? 5.
Why do you have dinner at home? 6. What do you usually have for the first
course (for the second course, for dessert)? 7. What time do you usually have
dinner? 8. Who cooks meals in your family? 9. Can you cook? 10. What time do
you have dinner on Sunday? 11. Will you describe your Sunday dinner? 12. Do
you have supper late? 13. Why don't you have supper late? 14. Do you like
vegetables? 15. What vegetables do you like? 16. What soup do you like best?
17. What kind of salad do you like? 18. What kind of fruit do you buy in summer
(in winter) in your city? 19. How do you lay the table?
XII.
Write the interrogative and negative forms of the following sentences:
A. 1. They are having breakfast. 2. Mrs. Smith is putting some cornflakes on
the boy's plate. 3. Ann is finishing her cornflakes. 4. Mrs. Smith is passing a plate
to her husband. 5. The children are talking over their cornflakes. 6. We are having
an English lesson. 7. The girl is coming into the room.
B. 1.1 am finishing this article. 2.1 prefer a glass of soda-water. 3. The waitress
is already bringing in our tea. 4. The boy is writing a letter to his parents. 5. My
cousin is leaving tomorrow.
XIII.
a) Let the members of the class ask and answer questions as in the model.
Give a short answer using contracted forms and add a' sentence of your own in the
Present Continuous.
M o d e l : Is your teacher writing a letter?
—
No, he isn't. He's speaking English.
b) Respond to the negative sentence of your fellow-stndent as in the model. Use
contracted forms in speech. Work in pairs.
M o d e l : The pupils aren't playing football.
—
No, they aren't. They're reading a newspaper.
XIV.
a) Write all the possible questions to which the following sentences are the
answers, b) Each sentence describes a certain situation in a concise way. Some points of
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the situation are already known to you. Find out some more details about the situation by
asking questions. Work in pairs. Use conversational phrases:
A. 1. The elder daughter is passing the salt to her father. 2.1 am thirsty now. 3.
The father is having his cup of tea. 4.1 must'
leave in a quarter of an hour. 5. The children are working in the garden. 6. The
students are reading the text. 7. The girl is going to write a letter.
В. 1. I'm ready to go down to the canteen. 2.1 am finishing this article. 3.1
prefer a glass of soda-water. 4. The waitress is already bringing in our tea. 5. You
forget about the meeting of our club. We must leave at once to be in time for the
beginning of the discussion.
XV.
Read and write in words:
a) 4, 14, 44, 9, 19, 90, 12, 38, 157, 673, 821, 1239. 1955, 2018, 3687, 271,
299, 945, 9212, 322;
b) 23/1 1964; 7/XI 1945, 22/VI 1941; 5/XH 1982.
XVI.
Choose the right word:
to leave — to stay
1. He ... home in summer. 2. He ... at home in summer. 3. We ... in Moscow,
while our father is in the North. 4. He is ... the Urals very soon. 5. They never ...
town for the vacation. 6. When will you ...? 7.1 don't think I'll ... at the Ivanovs'
more than a fortnight. 8.1 can't... here any longer, the lectures begin at 9 o'clock, I
must ... at once. 9. Our cousin is ... for Volgograd, he is going to ... and work there.
10. Why are you ...? We are going to have a meeting. 11. He is ... with us for
another week, isn't he? — No, he is ... tomorrow morning, I am afraid. 12. When
