Прочитайте про эмми и джо. Расскажите, что им нравится и не нравится.

Example: Amy likes watching television. Joe doesn`t like Amy`s programme.

Amy Smith is 24. She is an English teacher. She works as a presenter on Here and Now, a children`s programme. Her brother Joe is 17 and he is still at school. At weekends, he plays drums in a band. When he leaves school, he wants to be a professional musician. Amy and Joe live with their parents in West London.

 

1 About television

Amy: I work as a television presenter. My work is interesting. I enjoy it very much but when I go home I prefer listening to the radio. But I enjoy watching late-night TV – especially interviews.

Joe: I watch Here and Now because my sister Amy is one of the presenters. I like watching her but the programme is terrible. I don`t like it. I prefer watching music programmes. I watch MTV a lot.

 

2 About music

Joe: My band is called Noise and we are very noisy! That`s why a lot of people like us – and some people hate us. I like loud music.

Amy: I am a bit old-fashioned about music. I like ballads and slow romantic songs. My brother Joe is in a band. They are very noisy but Joe is a very good drummer. I enjoy watching him. He has a really nice voice but he isn`t a singer. What a pity!

 

3 About cinema

Amy: I love going to the cinema. I like European films – French, Polish especially. Joe never comes with me. He watches a lot of videos – action films, usually. I don`t like them very much. In fact, I hate watching most of them.

Joe: don`t like going to the cinema. I prefer watching videos at home. My favourite films are action movies. I am a big fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

4 About newspapers and magazines

Amy: I don`t have time for newspapers. I read a lot of magazines, especially about films. Empire is my favourite. I read it every month.

Joe: Mum and dad buy newspapers every day but I never read them. I sometimes read other people`s newspapers on the bus. I read a lot of music magazines.

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Rudi Raman is a lawyer in Madras, India

I was born in Delhi in the north of India. My first language is Hindi and I also speak English. Hindi and English are the official languages in our country. Legal documents are usually in English. I work in Madras in the south. People in Madras don`t speak Hindi. They speak Tamil. I translate the documents from English into Tamil. It`s very difficult for me.

Joanna Parkin is a financial adviser. She works for Kudoh Investments in London

I`m English but I work for a Japanese company in London. I meet people from all over the world in the office… Japan, the USA, Germany, Latin America. Everyone speaks English at work, but the company bosses are all Japanese. I study Japanese at home in the evenings. I also speak a little French and a few words of German. I am not very good at German. In fact I don`t understand a word!

 

Laszlo Radai is Hungarian. He works as a hotel receptionist in Kethely, near Lake Balaton.

My first language is Hungarian and I also speak German very well. Seventy-five per cent of the tourists in this hotel speak German. I often meet people from Holland. They speak German and Hungarian. I also speak a little English. I don`t meet many people from Britain every year so I don`t practice my English very much.

 

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Months

The names of the months in English come from the Romans. The name of the first month, January, comes from Janus (the Roman god of doorways and bridges!). Janus has two faces, because he looks back at the old year and forward to the new year. The second month, February, is the month of Februa, a special festival. The third month, March, (the first month in the Roman calendar) is the month of Mars, the god of war.

The fourth month, April, comes from the Latin word aperire (opening), and the fifth month, May, comes from Maia, the goddess of plants and animals. Juno, the goddess of marriage and birth, gives us the name of the sixth month, June.

The names September, October, November and December come from the Latin numbers for seven, eight, nine and ten, but in fact they are the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth months of the year. The seventh and eighth months are, of course, July and August. They take their names from the Romans rulers Julius Caesar (the dictator) and Augustus Caesar (the first emperor of Rome).