Functional language. Describing people.

 

What is shelike? · We are asking for a general description of the person. What does she look like? · We are asking for a description of the person’s appearance. What does she like? · We are asking about the person’s preferences or interests.

Exercise 3. Read and translate the second paragraph.

Judging by appearances

Our passport photo is the photo we show to the largest number of different people during our lives. But how happy are we with our photo? Do we make an effort to get a good one? According to research done by the US printer company Lexmark, the answer varies according to nationalities.

Let’s talk about Ruth England, a TV holiday show presenter. Ruth England spends her life travelling and showing her passport to officials around the world. She confessed, ‘Once I had a passport photo where I looked really hideous and so I deliberately ‘lost’ my passport and got a new one. For my latest passport, I took several photos and chose the best one.”

What about people’s character? In my opinion character does not depend on appearance. It's very easy to form a negative opinion about a person just because you don't like the way he looks, though in fact he can be an interesting, well-educated and talented person. I think we can’t make any conclusions about a person when we meet him or her for the first time.

Exercise 4. Read the text and find key words.

Exercise 5. Complete with one word.

1 Please switch _____ your mobile. You can’t use it here.

2 I’m afraid John is out. Can you call ____ later?

3 I can’t believe it! He hung ______ in the middle of our conversation.

4 She looks ____ her mother. They both have big eyes.

5 He’s _____ his late forties.

Exercise 6. Match the questions 1-3 to the answers a-e.

1 What is she like?

2 What does she look like?

3 What does she like?

a.She seems very nice, relaxed and chatty.

b. She’s got short dark hair and dark eyes.

c. She’s young and wears really trendy clothes.

d. She’s very friendly.

e. Rock music

Exercise 7. In pairs, look at the girl in the photo and describe her.

Use must, may, might, can’t be.

For example. She can’t be over 25, she is about 20. She may be a student.

Exercise 8. Make a list of eight famous people with your partner.Choose on of the people from your list and describe his/her appearance. Your partner must guess who you are describe.

Check yourself

 

1 Choose the right variant: ____ people think about themselves and not about other people.

a) selfish

b) spoilt

c) jealous

d) moody

 

2 Choose the right variant: My friend is ______.

I can trust on him..

a) sensitive

b) reliable

c) ambitious

d) talkative

 

3 Choose the right variant: They _____ Italian. They are speaking to each other in Spanish.

a) could

b) have to be

c) can’t be

d) must be

 

4 Choose the right variant: He _____ be over 70. He retired 6 years ago.

a) can’t

b) might

c) have to

d) must

Glossary

English	Russain	Kazakh
deliberately [ dɪˈlɪbərətli]	преднамеренно	әдейі, қасақана
reliable [relaibl]	надежный	сенімді
hideous [ ˈhɪdiəs ]	отвратительный	сүйкімсіз
jealous [ˈdʒeləs ]	ревнивый	қызғаншақ
make an effort [‘efət]	приложить усилие	күш салу
to make conclusions [ kənˈkluːʒən]	сделать заключение	қортындылау
moody [ ˈmuː.di ]	капризный	айбық
opinion [ əˈpɪnjən ]	мнение	көз қарас, ойы
preferences [ˈprefərəns ]	предпочтение	қалау
well-educated [ ˈedjʊkeɪtɪd]	образованный	білімді

 

 

Office hours № 5		Make up a topic “Appearance is deceptive” and retell it
LIW № 13		Read the text “Judging by appearances” and translate it. (p.163)

 

 

The child and his mother:

A curious child asked his mother: “Mommy, why are some of your hairs turning grey?”

The mother tried to use this occasion to teach her child:

 

 

“It is because of you, dear. Every bad action of yours will turn one of my hairs grey!”

The child replied innocently: “Now I know why grandmother has only grey hairs on her head.”

References

Main:

1. Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig “New English File”. Intermediate level Student’s book. Oxford. 2010.

2. Sue Kay and Vaughan Jones “Inside Out” Intermediate level. Student’s book. Macmillan, 2012

3. Philip Kerr and Ceri Jones. Straightforward. Intermediate level. Second edition. Macmillan, 2012

Additional:

4. Raymond Murphy. English grammar in use. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

5. Audio discs of “New Headway” for Intermediate level, Disc-1,2.

6. “Objective” by Michael Black, Wendy Shar. Intermediate.Cambridge University Press, 2010

 

 

HAND OUT № 10 (70) Discipline: English as a foreign language Credits-2 Intermediatelevel Practical lesson Lexical theme: Books and literature Grammar: Can, could, be able to Teacher: assistant professor Sariyeva Aida Kamzayevna

Explain the meaning of the saying below. Do you agree or disagree. Give examples to explain your opinion. “You can’t judge a book by its cover”

MODAL VERBS: Can, could, be able to (ability and possibility)

 

Can is a modal verb. It only has a present, past and conditional form. For example, She can’t come tonight. She is ill. They couldn’t wait because they were in a hurry. Could you open the window, please? Use “be able to” in the present, past and future, Present Perfect and as a Gerund or Infinitive. For example, I’ll be able to practice my English in England. She has been able to speak French since she was a child.(Present Perfect) I’d like to be able to ski.(Infinitive) I love being able to sleep late at weekends.(Gerund)

Exercise 1. Complete with can, can’t, or could, couldn’t where possible. If not use a form of to be able to.

Eg.: They told me that they couldn’t do anything about the noise.

1. When I lived in Rome I _________ speak Italian quite well.

2. If you don’t hurry up, we __________catch the last train.

3. My mother __________ see much better now with her new glasses.

4. To do this job you need ________speak at least two languages.

5. I __________ help you tonight if you want.

Exercise 2. Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

character autobiography bestseller novel paperback

1. When I retired from politics I decided to write my______

2. The main ______in the book is a teenager growing up in a big city.

3. Her first______ was a spy thriller set in post-war Russia.

4. His latest book is due out in_______ next week.

5. The “Da Vinci Code” was a worldwide____ and sold more than 60 million copies.

Exercise 3. [T.10]

Listen to the interview with a ghostwriter Andrew Crofts and mark the true sentences.

 

1 He has written many successful books as a poet

2 The writer never has written books under his own name

3 He’s going to travel somewhere interesting and meet somebody

4 Like most writers he doesn’t go out so much

5 He would like to be a film director.

Exercise 4. Tick the reasons why Andrew enjoys being a ghostwriter.

· He finds other people‘s lives and stories interesting.

· He gets out of the house and meets lots of different people.

· He likes writing about film stars.

· He likes living somebody else’s life for a few months

 

Exercise 5. Read and translate the third paragraph.

Books in our life

 

Throughout the centuries books had an enormous influence on the minds and hearts of people. Books bind together ages, personalities. It helps people achieve understanding, trust, cooperation and friendship.

Thanks to books we are able to express our thoughts and feelings more exactly. We can talk to people who lived in different countries. Through reading books we hear their voices, thoughts and feelings. Some people developed much time to reading books and reading becomes their free time occupation, their passion. They teach the readers to be truthful, friendly, honest, decisive, conscientious, frank, firm, fair and serious.

Great Britain gave the world a lot of talented people. Many famous writers and poets were born and lived in Great Britain. One of the best known English playwrights was William Shakespeare. He draw ideas for his tragedies and comedies from the history of England and ancient Rome. William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays which may be divided into: comedies and historical plays.

Exercise 6. Read the whole text again and put five questions.

Exercise 7. You are going to tell your partner about books you have enjoyed.

Use the following questions bellow.

1. What is the title of the story?

2. What is it based on?

3. What do you particularly like about?

4. Who is the author?

5. What kind of ending does it have?

Exercise 8. Speak on the given topic.