have breakfast at a quarter past eight. After breakfast I sit and read my morning
paper. If the
weather is fine, I usually walk to my office. At nine o'clock the day's work
begins. At twelve-thirty I have a break for lunch. I generally finish my work
about six o'clock. Then I have a cup of tea and a biscuit, and in summer I spend an
hour or so out-of-doors, play a few games of tennis or volley-ball.
We have supper about seven-thirty or eight o'clock and then we sit and talk, or
listen to the wireless. Often in summer we take out the car and go for a run in the
country; in winter we go to the cinema or the theatre. But that is not often. I have a
lot of work to do, and usually after supper I read or write until twelve or one
o'clock.
XXII.
a) Watch Film Segment Two "Early in the Morning" for general content, b)
Watch the Him segment again to find English eqnivalents to the following:
вы уже встали?; отправляться за покупками; осматривать
достопримечательности; беспокоить, портить, нарушать; звучит как...; регби;
электрическая бритва; чинить; электрическое оборудование; ничего
особенного; как следует побриться; неслыханно! (вот так так!);
любительский фильм.
с) Answer your teacher's questions on the content of the film segment, d) Listen to the
sound track recording of Segment Two and speak on the Browns' activities throughout
the day.
XXIII.
a) Make up a dialogue on the following situation:
You ask your friend when she usually gets up and at what time she leaves her
house. You ask her if she does any work about the house in the morning and how
long it takes her to get to the Institute.
b) Suggest a situation for your fellow-student to give it in the form of a dialogue.
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XXIV.
Make up a conversation using the vocabulary of the lesson and
conversational phrases.
XXV.
a) Speak on the topic "Housework", b) Give an account of your own daily
programme (your father's).
XXIV.
a) Think of a proverb which could be applied to your daily round, b) Make
up a conversation with your fellow-student to finish it with this proverb.
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LABORATORY WORK
I. a) Repeat the sentences after the tape, b) Make the sentences interrogative and
negative.
II. a) Listen to the questions, answer them and record your answer in the intervals, b)
Listen to the record and correct the mistakes if you have any.
I. Give the Present Perfect in the sentences. Make all the necessary changes.
III. Translate the sentences into English using the words and word combinations of
the lesson.
IV. Listen to the sentences and change them into indirect speech. Make all the
necessary changes.
I. Translate the words into English. Spell and transcribe them.
VII. Spell and transcribe the four forms of the verbs.
VIII.
Listen to the disjunctive questions. They are not true to fact.
Correct them.
IX. Listen to the text and write a dictation.
IX. Listen to the dialogue "Morning and Evening**. Mark the stresses and tunes.
Repeat the text alter the model. Learn it by heart.
Lesson Fourteen
Grammar: The Past Indefinite Tense. The Past Continuous Tense. Statements in Indirect
Speech.
Texts: 1. Our University (A Letter). 2. Dialogue.
Phonetics: Logical Stress in Expressive Speech.
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STUDY THE FOLLOWING
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stay at homeyesterday, the other day. last week.
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T ab l e No. 2
THE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
Our cousin My sister Her friendwas (not)reading a newspaper playing the piano
a listening to the newswhen he came, when I rang
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her up. at that time.The girlswere (not)
b)youplaying chesswhen he returned?Weretheyhaving supperat that moment?
taking a shower
^STATEMENTS IN INDIRECT SPEECH
Tab l e No. 1 T H E PAST INDEFINITE TENSE
1. He said: "I am busy today."
He said (that) he was busy that day.
2. He said to me: "I know this young man." He told me that
he knew that young man.
SPELLING RULES
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Regular verbs form the Past Indefinite Tense by adding the suffix -ed to the
infinitive. Observe the following spelling rules:
1. The mute -e is dropped before adding the suffix -ed: to taste —tasted.
2. The final consonant is doubled before the suffix -ed if it is preceded by a
vowel letter expressing a short stressed vowel sound: to stop — stopped.
3. The final -1 is doubled if it is preceded by a vowel letter expressing a short
vowel sound: to travel — travelled.
4. The final -y is changed into i before adding the suffix -ed if it is preceded
by a consonant letter: to try — tried.
5. The letter -r is doubled if the final syllable is stressed: pre'fer — preferred,
but 'offer — 'offered.
GRAMMAR EXERCISES
I. Study Substitution Tables No. 1, 2 and compose as many sentences as you can.
II. Spell and transcribe the four forms of the following verbs:
tell, go, come, walk, give, take, put, say, speak, hear, see, read, write, finish,
begin, make, show, enter, teach, study, find, get, leave, stay, pay, eat, drink, prefer,
ask, answer, pass, stop, prepare, travel, examine, offer, plan, carry, occur, quarrel.
III.
Express the idea in the past (change the adverbials if necessary):
1. My sister works hard at her English this year. 2. They must write many
exercises at home. 3. The students speak only English at the lesson. 4. Our lessons
begin at 12 on Thursday. 5. Our family gets up at 8 o'clock on Sunday. 6.1 usually
prepare my homework in the morning. 7. Before going to bed I can rest for half an
hour and listen to the news. 8. We often have to work together. 9. We gather at the
club every Saturday. 10. The girl reads about 20 pages every day. 11. In the
morning she takes a cold shower, dries herself on the towel and cleans her teeth
before she puts on her clothes. 12. We don't understand these words. 13. The boys
do morning exercises every day. 14. Why don't you turn off the cassette-recorder
when you leave the room? 15. How long does it take you to get to the theatre? —
It takes me half an hour to get there.
IV. Give the interrogative and negative forms of the following
sentences:
1. Ann got a good mark yesterday. 2. We translated the text two days ago. 3.
He was translating the text at that time. 4. He
came home late last night. 5. She finished her work half an hour ago. 6. They
had breakfast at 8.7. They were waiting for us then,
8. My friend saw this film last week. 9. He was looking at the people in the
