Phonetic exercises.

Exercise 1. Read the following words paying attention to the way of pronunciation of the stressed vowels.

/ә:/ first, work, girl, her

/I/sister, live, his, busy, begin, different, quickly, middle

/a:/ large, marks, department

/ju:/ new, music, pupil, newspaper, few, beauty, amusing

/e/ ready, collect, help, well, very, friend, best, fellow, respect,

/i:/ need, indeed, keep

/ei/ shake, make, hazel, statement

/o/ not, proverb, blond, constantly, hobby

Exercise 2. Read the words paying attention to the way of pronunciation of the consonants or combinations of consonants.

/ks/ expect, except, exception

/w/ work, we, well, want, watch, wife

LEXICAL EXERCISES

Exercise 1 Form the nouns from the verbs using the suffix – er

to teach, to work, to collect, to dance, to sing, to manage, to lead, to write

Exercise 2. Form the antonyms using negative prefixes un-, mis-, dis-.

Like, understand, kind, usual, pleasant, interesting, happy

Exercise 3. Form the adverbs from the adjectives using the suffix -ly.

Usual, unusual, quick, easy, angry, slow, real

Exercise 4. Match antonyms.

kind, like, short, beautiful, usual, blond, wide-opened, understand

narrow-opened, misunderstand, ugly, tall, hate, unusual, dark, cruel

Text 1

Exercise 1. Read and translate the text.

MY FAMILY

I'm Peter Kovalyov. I am eighteen. I'd like to tell you about my family.

We are a family of four, though my elder brother is married and does not live with us. He has a family of his own.

In my opinion, family is the emotional centre of a person's life, the place where children grow. Upbringing children requires much effort, mutual respect and tolerance. In happy families parents are frank and honest with their children without moralizing, and the children in their turn learn how to get on with other people.

The proverb says, "Men make houses, women make homes". In my view, it means that the man provides for his family, pays attention to the problems of the members of the family. And the woman creates the comfortable and warm atmosphere, encourages her husband and children to keep up family traditions and keeps the house. Together they bring up their children in the right way. This is true about our family, I think. My parents have been married for twenty-six years. My father's name is Vitaly. He is 45 years old. He is an engineer at a Motor Factory. He is tall and strong both in body and character, but rather stout. He has a oval face with an aquiline nose. He's generous and full of joy, but very careless. He can make different things with his own hands. Almost all the bookshelves in our flat were made by my father.

My mother's name is Irina. She is slim and not very tall. She is quick and smart with a good sense of humor. She is a very attractive woman. She has got a thin oval face and big light grey eyes. When she was young she had thick curly ash-blond long hair, now she wears her hair short. My mother is a woman of character, tactful and fair. She's warm-hearted and at the same time practical, reserved and full of common sense. She is a house-wife; she does all the housework and helps my elder brother to bring up his sons. She is really concerned about them. They are the apple of her eye. And the boys feel affection for their Granny. My father and I try to help her about the house. My brother Igor is about 25. He is married, as I have already said. He has got two sons. My elder nephew is a spitting image of my brother and the younger one takes after his mother, my brother's wife. The boys are funny and curious.

We have got a lot of relatives, as my mother has got three sisters and a brother. So I've got many aunts, uncles and cousins. We are all on friendly terms.

Exercise 2. Answer the questions:

1. What is a family according to Peter’s opinion? 2. Do you agree with him?

Exercise 3. Speak about the members of this family according to the plan.

1. the name, 2. the age, 3. appearance 4, character 5. occupation

Text 2

Exercise 1. Look through the text and do the task given below it.

My name is Alexander. I live in Moscow, at 6 Snezhnaya Street, flat 122. I’d like to say a few words about my family.

My family is not very large. We are 5 in the family: my father, my mother, my sister, my grandmother and me.

We all live together in a new block of flats in the north of Moscow. We have a four room flat on the first floor.

My father Ivan Ivanovich is 43 years old. He works at a car factory as an engineer. He is a very busy man.

He likes his work and spends most of his time there. When he is at home he is always ready to help my mother about the house. His hobby is fishing.

My mother Olga Viktorovna is a pleasant-looking woman. She is a teacher of music and plays the piano well. She is forty. My mother always has a lot of work to do about the house and at school. She is a busy woman and we all help her. By character my father is a calm man, while my mother is lively and likes to talk a lot.

My sister's name is Alla. Like our mother Alla has blue eyes and fair hair. She is a very good-looking girl. Alla is three years younger than me. She is in the 9th form. She does well at school and gets only good and excellent marks. Her favorite subject is literature and she wants to become a teacher.

My grandmother does not have a job, she is 68. She is retired.

Our family is very close-knit. We like spending time together. In the evening we like doing sports, going out, or just listening to music or talking about the events of the day.

I also have many other relatives: uncles, aunts, cousins.

Exercise 2. Choose the words which will help you to describe man’s appearance, character, occupation.

Engineer, busy, collecting, calm, pleasant-looking, energetic, reading, talkative, dancing, going in for sport, blue, favorite, occupation, fair, teacher, dark, young, tall, watching TV.

Exercise 3. Give the situations in which these words are used (see the text).

Text 3

MY BIOGRAPHY

Exercise 1. Read the text pay attention to the facts of Sasha’s biography.

My name is Alexander, Sasha for short. My middle name is Ivanovich.

My surname is Petrov. I am 18 (years old). I live in Moscow.

I was born on the 20th of November 1997 in Moscow. My father is a doctor, he works at a hospital. My mother is a scientific secretary of Nature Conservation society. She has much work to do about the house too. We are five in the family. I have a younger sister and brother. They are both pupils. Alla is in the fifth form and Boris is a pupil of the ninth form. Our family is very united.

In June I left school №888 in Moscow. I always did well at school and learned with great interest. I also took an active part in social life, attended sport clubs and after class events.

My favorite subject at school was Sports. My teacher of Sports was a good athlete and a well-educated man with broad outlook and deep knowledge of the subject. He taught us to understand the necessity of Sports in everyone’s life. He introduced us to the world of big Sport, helped to understand the cost of Sports achievements. He also encouraged me in my desire to become a teacher of Sports.

Exercise 2. Render the text in turn (a sentence for each student).

Text 4

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