Listening and speaking
1 You are going to listen to four people describing how they learn vocabulary. Find out what they do to remember new words better.
Speaker 1 ________________________
Speaker 2 ________________________
Speaker 3 ________________________
Speaker 4 ________________________
GRAMMAR The Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
1 Tick the correct sentence
1. a) It's raining heavily today. b) It rains heavily today.
2. a)I'm going to Bath next week. b) I go to Bath next week.
3. a)How many languages do you speak? b) How many languages are you speaking?
4. a) Jane works eight hours a day. b) Jane is working eight hours a day.
5. a) It's often snowing in Canada. b) It often snows in Canada.
6. a)Millions of tourists visit London every year. b) Millions of tourists are visiting London every year.
2 Underline the right verb-form.
Jeff lives / is living in an expensive part of London.
The river Thames is flowing / flows through London.
Sarah will get an exam soon, so she is working / works very hard at the moment.
He isn’t smoking / doesn’t smoke as a rule.
Your children are growing up/ grow up very quickly.
I never drink / am drinking whisky.
This firm is selling / sells its goods overseas.
Computers are becoming / become more and more important in our lives.
FUNCTION
HOW TO MAKE A TELEPHONE CALL
1 Read the dialogue and study how it is organized.
carol: Hello, seven one three, four double seven.
emma: Hello. Is that Carol? This is Emma.
carol: Hi there. Do you want to speak to Simon?
emma: Is he in?
carol: I think so. Hang on a minute.
simon: Hi, Emma.
emma: Hi, Simon. How are you? Listen. I think I can get a tennis court for Wednesday afternoon. Would you like to play?
simon: Yeah, I'd love to. I've got a meeting that afternoon, but it should be over by five.
emma: Shall I book it for five thirty then?
simon: That would be fine.
- English revision course
- Grammar Article (general issues) The Noun (Sg./Pl.; 's;) The Order of Words The Pronouns (Personal, Possessives, Reflexive, Demonstrative) to be to have/have got
- Nouns in Plural
- The Pronouns (Займенники)
- Demonstrative Pronouns (Вказівні займенники)
- 4 Put the words in the correct order.
- Function how to start a conversation
- How to say goodbye Read the following phrases and say when we use them.
- Social expressions
- 1 We use certain social expressions in different social situations.
- 3 Listen and practise saying them. How to take an interview
- 1 Here is an interview with Emma. Complete the interviewer's part using the verb "to be".
- Follow up
- 3 Speak in pairs what family type you live in.
- 4 Go through the text again and underlinelike this:
- 5 Find the following words quite, a little, rather, very, extremely. How do they change the meaning of the adjectives which follow them?
- 6 Find in the text the words and word combinations with the opposite meaning:
- Grammar The Present Simple Tense
- Adverbs of frequency with the Present Simple Tense
- 1 Open the brackets
- 2 Say as in the Models
- Reading and speaking
- 1 Read the text, and try to remember it.
- 2 Think of a similar description of a famous person but don't say who it is. Get ready to tell your groupmates your story.Let them guess who it is.
- 3 Compare your answers with your partner. Now listen again and check. For fun
- What language learning type are you?
- The worker The worker is someone who:
- The player The player Is someone who:
- The thinker The thinker is someone who:
- The feeler The feeler is someone who:
- Grammar The Present Continuous Tense
- 1 Open the brackets
- 2 Fill in (c) with the information about yourself.
- Listening and speaking
- 2 Notice these common expressions on the telephone.
- Follow up
- Lesson 9 then and now everyday english
- Grammar The Past Simple Tense
- 1 Underline the right form of the verb.
- 2 Use one of the verbs to fill each gap. Put the verbs in the Past Simple. Fall find spend lose need hurt laugh take leave save celebrate can't
- Reading
- 1 Gloria Spitz, who is English, describes how she met her American husband, Hank, in the 1940s. Complete the text using the words in the box.
- I couldn't look at him gave us chocolates came back for me
- Follow up
- Reading and speaking
- 1 Write the correct verb in the chart. Add more words to each column. Make sentences of your own with word-combinations.
- 2 Read the article about chronobiology*. Do you agree with experts?
- Function
- 3 Are you a couch potato? is about leisure activities. Read it and choose the best definition for a coach potato.
- Are you a couch potato?
- Grammar The Present Perfect Tense
- 1 Underline the right form of the verb.
- 2 Make positive and negative sentences about the following people.
- 3 Ask the following people questions about their experiences.
- 4 Circle the right variant
- Lesson 14
- Reading and speaking
- 1 Read the text and find some usual and unusual things people can collect. Fill in the mind map. Hobby. Collecting Things
- 2 Answer the following questions:
- Follow up
- The Future Simple Tense
- 1 Underline the right verb form.
- 2 Make positive or negative sentences about the following people's plans.
- 3 Complete the sentences with willorbe going to.
- Reading and speaking we are going to receive guests
- 1 Read two passages about the traditions of receiving guests in different countries. Fill in the chart.
- 2 You are going to receive guests next weekend. Use information from Column "Me" to describe Ukrainian traditions.
- II Lesson 3 Jigsaw reading Text a
- III Lesson 4 function
- IV Lesson 7 Vocabulary and Listening 1 (tapescript)
- V Lesson 7 Listening 2 (tapescript)
- VI Lesson 8 Listening and speaking (tapescript)
- VII Lesson 14 Jigsaw reading
- VIII Lesson 10 Listening and Grammar (tapescript)
- IX Lesson 10 function Being Polite Listening (tapescript)
- X Lesson 3 Jigsaw reading Text b
- XI Lesson 14 Jigsaw reading
- Essential Vocabulary
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Conjunctions
- Prepositions
- Irregular Verbs