Reference material for the teacher:
On Monday .... On Tuesday .... On Saturday .... On Sunday .... In August.... In
September .... In November .... On the 9th of May ... . On the 1st of September ...
. In June ... . At four o'clock .... At half past seven .... At a quarter to 2 .... In the
morning .... In the afternoon ... .At night.... Yesterday .... For the present.... Once
or twice a week .... Punctually at seven .... A few minutes later .... On the ground
floor .... Upstairs .... Behind the house ... . On the sideboard ... . Next to the piano
... . Under the window .... On the settee .... In the hall ... . On the dressing table ...
. In the wardrobe ... . On the right ... . By the table .... Opposite the fireplace ....
As a rule .... As you come into the room.... After a few minutes .... At the club ....
At our faculty .... In front of the house .... In the dining-room .... In front of the
host.... On the left.... On this floor. .. On the top of the roof.... At the back of the
house .... In the chest of drawers .... In the centre of the mantelpiece....
11. Translate the following sentences:
1. Перед домом есть небольшой сад. 2. На первом этаже есть библиотека. 3. Справа
стоит большой диван. 4. В центре комнаты — стол. 5. Слева стоит пианино, два кресла
и торшер. 6. На стене две картины. 7 В классной комнате нет карты. 8. В воскресенье
мы встаем позже. 9. В четверг отец работает дома. 10. В субботу мы дома после двух.
11. В девять часов ребенок должен спать. 12. В семь часов мы ужинаем. 13. В
институте есть столовая. 14. В половине одиннадцатого я обычно ложусь спать. 15. В
половине восьмого я завтракаю. 16. Без четверти восемь я иду в институт. 17. Во
вторник у нас нет грамматики. 18. В январе у нас экзамены. 19. Перед окном клумба.
20. На втором этаже есть читальный зал. 21 В институте есть хорошая библиотека. 22.
В два часа они обычно обедают. 23. В зале много студентов. 24. В этой английской
книге много хороших иллюстраций. 25. На его столе много книг
26 На земле много снега. 27. На небе мало облаков. 28. На полях много
цветов
12.
Listen to the dialogue. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise and memorize it:
E1 s a: Patrick, what do you all do every day?
P a t r i с k: Do you really want to know? Well, on Monday we begin our
work for the week. On Tuesday Mother usually cleans the kitchen. Then on
Wednesday we send our dirty clothes to the laundry; Mother doesn't wash them.
On Thursday my Father often brings his friends home to dinner. My club holds a
meeting once a week, usually on Friday. And on Saturday we all go to the
cinema.
13.
Make up a micro-dialogue of the same kind. Your fellow-student will suggest a
question. Respond using the proper sequence of tunes. Continue the talk.
14/** This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce
intonation, a) Listen to the text sentence by sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes.
Practise the text, b) Record your reading. Play the recording back immediately for your
teacher and fellow-students to detect the possible errors. Practise the text for test
reading.
The Browns' Dining-Room
In the dining-room we have our meals: breakfast in the morning, lunch in the
middle of the day, tea in the afternoon, and supper or dinner in the evening.
Here you see Mr. and Mrs. Thompson who've just arrived from abroad and
are having dinner with the Browns. The host, Mr. Brown, is sitting at the head of
the table, and the hostess, Mrs. Brown, is at the other end. Mr. and Mrs.
Thompson are sitting on either side, facing each other.
The dining-room table is covered with a white cloth. Mrs. Brown has laid the
table in the usual way, and has put the right number of knives, forks, spoons and
glasses for each person. There's also pepper and salt, oil and vinegar, and
mustard. On the left of each person is a table-napkin and a plate with a roll on it.
In front of the host there's a carving-knife and fork.
On the sideboard the Browns usually have a bowl of fruit: apples, pears,
plums, cherries, grapes, oranges or bananas, according to the season. The
mistress of the house has just served the soup. After this there'll be fish, meat or
poultry with
vegetables, then a sweet, and perhaps cheese and biscuits to finish with.
15. Mark the stresses and tunes. It is not expected that each member of the group
will mark the text in exactly the same way. Practise reading your corrected variant:
The flat is not large but it is comfortable. In it there are two rooms, a kitchen,
a bathroom, a lavatory and a small hall.
The sitting-room is through the door on the left. There is a piano in it. There
is a picture on the wall over the piano. It is a still-life. In the picture there is a
silver tea-pot, a silver dish with three oranges in it, and a vase of red roses. The
picture is by a famous woman artist. The sofa is by the wall opposite the door. It
is of a rich red colour. There is a small round table in front of the sofa. There are
two modern armchairs on both sides of. the large window. On the window there
are curtains of a very pretty colour. There is not a sideboard in this room, but
there is one in the kitchen.
The bedroom is not large. It is square. The walls are light pink. There is a
silvery grey carpet on the floor. The effect is very fine. There are two beds here
with bedside tables beside them. In the right-hand corner near the window there
is a dressing table with a large looking-glass and a round stool in front of it.
There are not many things*in the rooms.
16. "* This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce
intonation in proper speech situations, a) Listen to the dialogue sentence by sentence.
Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the dialogue, b) Record the dialogue and listen to
your recording to detect the possible errors. Memorize the dialogue and dramatize it:
Afternoon Tea
"Good afternoon, Mrs. White, how are you?"
"Very well indeed, thank you, and how are you?"
"Quite well, thank you. Won't you sit down. Excuse me, please. I think that's
my niece at the door."
"Hallo, Betty, dear! I'm so cflad to see you. You do look well. I don't think
you've met each other before. Let me introduce you. This is my niece, Miss
Smith. Mrs. White, Mr. White."
"How do you do."
"How do you do."
"And now let's have some tea. How do you like your tea, Mrs. White, strong
or weak?"
"Not too strong, please, and one lump of sugar. I like my tea rather sweet, but
my husband prefers his without sugar."
"Well, what's the news, Mr. White? How's business?"
"Pretty good, thank you. And how are things with you ? "
"Well, not too good, I'm afraid, and going from bad to worse, [n fact, it'^ the
worst year we've had for a long time."
"I'm sorry to hear that. I hope things will soon improve."
"Yes, let's hope for the best. And how's your nephew Richard getting on?"
"Oh, he's getting on quite well, thank you. He's staying in :he country just
now with his Uncle William and his cousins."
"How long is he going to stay there?"
"I don't know exactly, but he's having a very pleasant time and it's doing him
a lot of good, so the longer he stays, the bet-:er."
