Use the words from the columns to make as many correct and logical sentences as you can.

You | were | I wish I | could | come. They | would| rich. Had |

Underline the correct alternative in the following sentences. Sometimes two are possible.

1 I really wish I can/could/was able to speak another language.

2 I wish it wasn`t/wouldn`t be/isn`t so cold. I hate the winter.

3 Don`t you wish that you don`t/doesn`t/didn`t have to go to work tomorrow.

4 The party was really boring after you left. We all wish you would stay/had stayed/stayed longer.

5 Mrs. Palmer wishes her grandchildren live/lived/had lived nearer. Then she could visit them more often.

 

Exercise 1. [T.22] Listen to three people answering the questions “If you had to live without electricity for a week, what two things you miss most?”. Write two answers for each person.

Claire 1 _______ 2 ___________________________

Why? _________________________________

Andy 1 _______ 2 ____________________________

Why? _________________________________

Julia 1 _______ 2 ____________________________

Why? _________________________________

Could you live without electricity nowadays? (If your answer is Yes: How? If your answer is No: Why?) write your answer.

Exercise 2. Retell the listened text.

 

Exercise 3. Think your answer to the question “Do animals have feelings?” then tell the class your opinion.

Exercise 4. Discussion. Do you know the answers to these questions? Discuss your ideas as a class with the help of the useful language.

Example: What is the most terrible natural disaster to have hit the Earth?

I think it is the asteroid that wiped out 80% of life on the planet.

1. What are the Earth's oldest living things?

2. How does television damage your health?

3. What was Tutankhamun`s curse?

4. Was Uncle Sam a real man?

Useful language I think I know... I'm not sure... I think... I have idea... I don't know... I wonder ….

 

 

Exercise 5. Vocabulary. Try to guess the meaning of the following words with your partner. If you don`t know the meaning or translation of the word ask your teacher to help.

 

amazed considered

discover label

man-made object apostle

landscape ancient

 

Exercise 6. Work in groups of three. Read the answers to the questions then close your text and retell the information as you can remember.

The world around us

In many countries, the number 13 is considered to be very unlucky. In France, there is never a house with the number 13. In the United States, modern high-rise buildings label the floor that follows 12 as 14. Where did this fear of a number come from? The idea goes back at least to Norse mythology in ancient times. There was a banquet with 12 gods. Loki, the spirit of evil, decided to join without being invited. In the fight that followed, Balder, the favorite of the gods, was killed. In Christianity, this theme was repeated at the Last Supper. Jesus Christ and his apostles numbered 13 people at the table.

When humans first flew in space, they were amazed to discover that the only man-made object visible from orbit was the Great Wall of China'. Although this is a nice idea, it's not true. The Great Wall is mostly grey stone in a grey landscape and, in fact, is very difficult to see even from a plane flying at mere 15 kilometers above.

 

Exercise 7. Complete the sentences with an auxiliary verbs. Note that the auxiliary verb expresses reality.

Example: I wish you didn`t bite your nails, but you do.

1 I wish I earned more, but _______.

2 I should have listened to their advice, but I ____.

3 If only I could speak Spanish, but I ______.

4 If only he weren’t so selfish, but he ______.

5 I wish I had a nice flat of my own, but I _____.

6 I wish my car would start, but it _____

 

break down, carry on, come back, get up, go out, stay in, stand up, wake up

Exercise 8. Rewrite the sentences with a suitable form of the phrasal verbs in the box.

1. Our car ______ on the way to school, so I was very late to school,

2. It was raining, we _____ and played computer games.

3. Shall I stop, or do you want me to ______?

4. She ______ early to study for the exam.

5. “What are you doing to night?” I _____.

6. Jake usually _______ before his alarm clock rings.

7. We had to _______ in the meeting because there weren`t enough chairs.

8. What time did you ________ from the party last night?

Check yourself

1. Choose the right variant:

If only I ____ how to get there.

a) know

b) have known

c) knew

d) to know

2. Choose the right variant: Where did the fear of a number 13come from?

a) Norse mythology in ancient times

b) Great Wall of China'

c) Great Pyramids

d) the United States

 

3. Choose the right variant: I wish you _____ so much noise. You're always doing that when I try to learn.

a) make

b) made

c) wouldn`t make

d) hadn`t make

4. Choose the right word to the definition: ‘a picture depicting an expanse of scenery’

a) portrait

b) picturesque

c) landscape

d) mountains

 

 

Glossary

English	Russian	Kazakh
deduce [dɪ'djuːs]	проследить, установить происхождение	шығу тегін анықтау
evidence ['evɪdəns]	основание, доказательство	күәлік, дәлел
man-made [ˈmænˈmeɪd]	искусственный	жасанды
hurricane ['hʌrɪkən]	ураган,тропический циклон	дауыл
mere [mɪər]	всего лишь	тек қана
neglected [nɪ'glektɪd]	перенабрегать,не обращать внимание	мән бермеу
landscape [ˈlændskeɪp]	пейзаж, ландшафт	көрініс, ландшафт
curse [kəːs]	проклинать	қарғау
picturesque [pɪktʃəˈrɛsk]	живописный	бейнелі
Last Supper	тайная вечеря	жасырын кешкі ас

LIW № 32		Prepare a report “Natural disasters”
LIW № 33		Write a resignation letter using a model. (p. 181)

References

Main:

1. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig. New English File. Intermediate. Student’s book, Oxford, 2010.

2. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig. New English File. Intermediate. Workbook, Oxford, 2010.

Additional:

3. John and Liz Soars. New Headway. Intermediate Student’s book. Oxford, 2009.

4. John and Liz Soars. New Headway. Intermediate. Workbook. Oxford, 2009

HAND OUT № 23(83)

Discipline: English as a foreign language Credits: 2

Intermediate level Practical lesson

Lexical theme: Leisure and Entertainment

Grammar theme: Direct/Indirect questions

Teacher: assistant professor Tolynbekova Galima Amangeldievna

GRAMMAR COMMENT

DIRECT/INDIRECT QUESTIONS

· All of these sentences are correct. Why is there no does in the sentences b and c?

a) Where does she study?

b) I know where she studies.

c) Can you tell me where she studies?

Indirect questions have the same word order as the positive (there is no do/does/did).
Marat lives in Astana. – Do you know where Marat lives?
We often make direct questions into indirect to make them sound more polite.
Direct questions Where’s the cafe? Indirect question Could you tell me Do you know Do you happen to know Have you got any ideas Do you remember Would you mind telling me	where the cafe is?
If there is no question word, use if or whether. I don’t know if he’s coming or not. I wonder whetherhe’s going to celebrate his birthday.

· Complete the sentences.

Example: What did she do? - I can't remember what she did.
Do we have enough sugar? - I'll have a look if we have enough sugar.

1 Why did she cry? - I don't really know ____________________.

2 Does she speak Greek? - I will ask her____________________.

3 Where is Joe? - I have no idea _____________________.

4 I'd like to know what time ____________________. - The show starts at 8 o'clock.

5 Is he all right? - I do not know _____________________.

 

Exercise 1. Read and give the main idea of the text.

Couch potatoes.

Centuries ago, people did not have much free time, because everybody was working too hard. In Britain in the nineteenth century, people had more spare time, but because the Victorians hated relaxing and doing nothing, they invented football, rugby and cricket. People took up more gentle activities too, like gardening, bird-watching and train spotting, and it was even possible simply to watch a sport and give the impression that you were actually doing something.

Gradually, leisure activities have become less and less energetic interests and hobbies. But now there is a new type of person who thinks that lying on the sofa watching television on Sunday afternoon or reading the newspaper from cover to cover is the most exciting activity they can manage. This twentieth century couch potato who has a sedentary lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity. They are commonly found in both the developed and developing world. For them, every activity is too much trouble, and laziness is an art form! So how do you spend your free time? Are you a coach potato?

 

 

Exercise 2. Answer the questions.

• What does the word “coach potato” mean?
• Who hated to relax and doing nothing in the 19^thcentury?
• What kinds of sports games were invented at that time?
• What other gentle activities were popular?
• What kind of a new term appeared in the 20^th century?

 

Exercise 3. Look at these pictures and tell about your free time activities (8-10 sentences).

Exercise 4. Answer the questions.

What do you usually do in your free time?

Do you like to spend your spare time with your friends?

What kind of entertainment do you enjoy?

Is it expensive to entertain yourself?

What kind of place of interests you can recommend to your friends?

Exercise 5. Listen to Richard Hillman- a representative of Student Services; he will give some information about free time activities on a university campus. Complete the sentences, write no more than three words. [T.23]

1 Most artistic events take place in or around the ___________________.

2 It is always possible to see Eastern European Art at the ____________.

3 More unconventional plays can be seen at _______________________.

4 To get into the choir or jazz band, students have to have____________.

5 Richard hasn’t covered everything in his ________________________.

 

Exercise 6. Answer to the following questions:

What facilities would you expect to find on a university campus?

Where is the flourishing arts scene situated?

What does it include?

Where can you see the exhibition of contemporary architects and designers?

What does a Workshop Studio stage?

 

Exercise 7. Imagine that you are an organizer of your best friend’s birth day party. Write down an invitation letter to all the guests (3-4 sentences).

Exercise 8. Use these phrases and make5-6 sentences with them.

Useful phrases to have spare time to have fun to waste time to enjoy yourself leisure activities to entertain yourself

Check yourself

1. Choose the right variant. I’ve no idea …

 

a) whose book is it

b) it is whose book

c) whose book it is

d) it is book whose

2. Choose the right variant. Choose the right variant. I can’t remember …..or not.

a) posted I your letter whether

b) whether posted I your letter

c) whether I posted your letter

d) I whether posted your letter

3. Choose the right synonym to the word combination ‘free time’

a) waste time

b) spare time

c) fun time

d) entertaining time

4. Choose the right variant. What does ‘couch potato’ mean?

a) a person who has a sedentary lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity

b) a person who has active lifestyle with regular physical activity

c) a person who has a lot of hobbies

d) a person who has nothing to do in his/her spare time

Glossary

English	Russian	Kazakh
spare time[s’peiətaim]	свободное время	бос уақыт
invent [ɪnˈvent]	изобретать	ойлап табу
take up [teikʌp]	заниматься	шұғылдану
give the impression [gɪvðəɪmˈpreʃən]	делать вид	тәріздену
activity[ækˈtɪvɪtɪ]	деятельность	іс-әрекет
flourishing [ˈflʌrɪʃɪŋ]	процветающий	гүлденіп жатқан
featuring [ˈfiːtʃəriŋ]	играющий	ойнап жатқан
train spotting [treɪn ˈspɒtɪŋ]	отслеживание поездов	поезд қадағалау
couch potato[ kaʊtʃ pəˈteɪtəʊ]	лежебока	жатыпішер
entertain [ɛntəˈteɪn]	развлекать	алдарқату

 

Office hours № 12		Make up a topic ‘A man is judged by his deeds not by his words’ and retell it
LIW № 34		Read the text№ 11 ‘The dream’ and translate it.(p. 169)

 

References

Main:

1. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig New English File Intermediate Student’s book Oxford University Press, 2012

2. Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig New English File Intermediate Workbook Oxford University Press, 2012

Additional:

3. Simon Haines & Peter May, IELTS Masterclass, Oxford University Press, Student’s book, 2006.

4. http://www.e-grammar.org/indirect-question

 

HAND OUT № 24 (84)

Discipline: English as a foreign language Credits- 2

Intermediate level Practical lesson

Lexical theme: Clothes

Grammar: Adjectives

Teacher: assistant professor Mangazina Zhanel Rauliyevna

Exercise 1. Complete the questions using the words in the box. Answer the questions.

buy dress enjoy fashion generations hand item judge notice read spend match

How important is FASHION to you?

1. Do you ___________ shopping for clothes?
2. Do you always__________what other people are wearing?
3. How much time do you___________in front of the mirror in the morning?
4. Do you_______the fashion pages in magazines?
5. Do you think people in Kazakhstan _____well?
6. Have you ever bought on_____of clothing which you didn’t like later?
7. Do you think there is a big difference in the way different ______dress?
8. Do you think it’s important to wear colours that_________?
9. Would you buy clothes from a second-_______shop?
10. Do you______a person’s character by the clothes they wear?
11. Would you go out with somebody who had no________sense?
12. Do you try not to__________clothes that have been produced in factories where working conditions are very bad?

 

Exercise 2. Compare and contrast the two photos. Answer the questions.

1. Who is buying clothes'off the peg'? Who is having clothes specially made?

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having clothes specially made for you?

3. Which shopping experience would you find more enjoyable, and why?

4. Do you prefer shopping alone or with somebody else? Give reasons.

Exercise 3. Read the text.Use your dictionary to find the meaning of the highlighted words. Share your findings with your class.