Action I, Exercise 6

iiral Comprehension Text 2:.

IT/fl/F shEVCHUK

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Yuriy Shevchuk is fifty-nine and lives in Lviv. He is of average height and well-ilt, with greyish hair. He is a doctor and works full-time at the hospital. Sometimes

has to work at night, too. His patients like him and so do the staff.

He is married, with two grown-up children. His wife Olha is two years older than m but she looks younger. She is not very tall, with brown eyes and short dark hair. ie is retired now and besides looking after the h^use, she enjoys knitting and em-oidery.

Their son Andriy is thirty-four. He is a tall, broad-shouldered man with dark hair. t is married and lives in Donetsk with his wife Nina and their daughter Iryna, who five years old. As Donetsk is quite far from Lviv, Olha only sees her granddaugh-r Two or three times a year. But they are sure to come and visit on the first of Janu-y, because it is Yuriy's sixtieth birthday.

Yury and Olha also have a daughter called Natalia, who is 25 and still lives at ime. She graduated from Lviv State Polytechnic University last year, where she is a student in the Chemical Engineering Department. She now works for a private mpany in Lviv. She is very attractive, with big brown eyes and dark wavy hair. le is engaged to Roman and they are going to get married next summer. The whole mily is looking forward to this special event.

ittion I, Exercises 7-11 jral Comprehension Text 3:

MARIA

Maria Dolenko is nineteen. She would like to be a professional manager. She is idying management at Lviv State Polytechnic University. She is now in her second ar and hopes to become a manager in a building company. Maria is an excellent stu­nt. She is always well prepared for her practicals and seminars. She spends a lot of ne in the library reading specialised literature and preparing materials for her course->rk. Maria is good at English and attends advanced classes in this subject. She pro­ses to be a good professional manager.

Maria doesn't live with her family at the moment; she lives in a student hostel. Her atives live not far from Lviv, in the town of Sambir. They have a flat of their own in)lock of flats. Maria's mother Svitlana is a maths teacher in a secondary school. She forty-two. Maria's father died three years ago, so her mother is now a widow. The

Family Life

family is a bit short of money at present, so Maria's mother has to teach extra classes at the local technical college to make ends meet.

Maria has a small sister Nadia, who is only ten. The two girls are very much alike. They look like their father. They have his wavy fair hair and blue eyes and they are both slim. They like music, especially Ukrainian folk songs. When Maria comes home to see her family, they all like to sing together.

There are a lot of books by both Ukrainian and foreign writers in their home. Maria's father, who was a Ukrainian language teacher, used to collect them for his daughters. Maria and Nadya do a lot of reading. They like to discuss what they have read.

Maria and her family are very close. Maria is looking forward to getting a well_:paid job, so she can help her sister to get a good education. One of her dreams is to travel around the world.

Exercise 10.

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1. Maria is studying management at Lviv State Polytechnic University,

2. She would like to be a manager.

3. Maria is an excellent student.

4. She is always well prepared for her practicals.

5. She spends a lot of time in the library.

6. Maria attends advanced classes in English.

7. She doesn't live with her family at the moment.

8. Her relatives have a flat of their own.

9. Maria's father died three years ago, so her mother is now a widow.

10. The family is a bit short of money at present.

11. Maria's mother has to teach at the local technical college to make ends meet.

12. Maria and Nadia are very much alike.

13. There are a lot of books by both Ukrainian and foreign writers in their home.

14. Maria is looking forward to becoming a manager.

15. One of Maria's dreams is to travel around the world.

Section I, Exercise 12 Aural Comprehension Text 4:

MRS. LAMBERT

Mrs. Lambert lived in a small town in the south-west of England. She didn't work, as she was sixty years old. Her husband had just died, so now she was alone, but she was a kindly woman who had many friends.

She also had three children, two daughters and a son. Her elder daughter Kate, who was twenty-five, lived not far away. Kate was very like her mother, petite and

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lively. She had married young and already had two children aged three and five. She didn't work, as the children took up all her time. Her husband Matthew was a doctor who worked at the local hospital. Although they were very busy, Kate and Matthew enjoyed their life together as a family and often took the children to their grand­mother's.

Mrs. Lambert's younger daughter Sonya was studying dance in Australia. She was the adventurous type and at eighteen had left home to go and live in Sydney with her boyfriend. She wrote home regularly and her parents were pleased to hear that she was doing well and planning to become a dance teacher.

The eldest of Mrs Lambert's children was Robin, aged thirty-two, who lived in Canada. He and his wife Jenny had moved there five years ago and now had two children. Robin and Jenny were both university lecturers. They loved the vast open spaces of the Canadian prairie and in their spare time often went hiking in the moun­tains. They were lucky, as they were often able to come back to England for confer­ences, which meant that the children were able to visit their grandmother.

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