XX. Make up short dialogues using the given statements: Model: A: I have done a lot of work about the house. B: What do you tell me?
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A: I tell you that I have done a lot of work about the house.
B: What does A tell B?
D: A tells B that she has done a lot of work about the
house.
1. I have never been to London. 2. Mary has already had some practice at the laboratory. 3. We don’t like this poem. 4. They are leaving for the Crimea tomorrow. 5. I am not going to stay at home. 6. It takes me half an hour to get to the skatingrink. 7. My parents always listen to the seven o’clock news. 8. I can sew a button on for you. 9. There is a new film on this evening at the club. 10. Nick can repair your cassetterecorder very easily.
XXI. Read and translate the following. Pick out all the words, word combinations and phrases that can be used for the topic “Housework” or “The Daily Programme”.
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David:Look,dear,abuttonhascomeoffmycoat. Mary:Haveyougotthebutton?
David:Yes,Ihave.
M a r y : Well, bring me my sewingbasket from the next
room.
David:Hereyouare!
M a r y : Thank you. I must get a needle and some thread. David: Shall I thread the needle for you? It is not an easy
thing to get the thread through the eye of the needle, is it? Mary: Ah, I’ve done it. Now take your coat off and I’ll sew
the button on for you.
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This is my daily programme. I wake at about seven o’clock and then it is time for me to get up. I like a cold shower every morning, so I put on my dressinggown and slippers and go to the bathroom. The water feels very cold on winter mornings, but I rub myself hard with the towel and soon I feel quite warm.
Then I shave, brush my teeth, wash my face and go back to the bedroom to dress. I brush and comb my hair, take a clean handkerchief out of the drawer and have breakfast at a quarter past eight. After breakfast I sit and read my morning paper. If the
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weather is fine, I usually walk to my office. At nine o’clock the day’s work begins. At twelvethirty I have a break for lunch. I generally finish my work about six o’clock. Then I have a cup of tea and a biscuit, and in summer I spend an hour or so outof doors, play a few games of tennis or volleyball.
We have supper about seventhirty or eight o’clock and then we sit and talk, or listen to the wireless. Often in summer we take out the car and go for a run in the country; in winter we go to the cinema or the theatre. But that is not often. I have a lot of work to do, and usually after supper I read or write until twelve or one o’clock.
XXII. a) Watch Film Segment Two “Early in the Morning” for general content. b) Watch the film segment again to find English equivalents to the following:
вы уже встали?; отправляться за покупками; осматривать до стопримечательности; беспокоить, портить, нарушать; звучит как...; регби; электрическая бритва; чинить; электрическое обору дование; ничего особенного; как следует побриться; неслыханно! (вот так так!); любительский фильм.
c) Answer your teacher’s questions on the content of the film segment. d) Listen to the sound track recording of Segment Two and speak on the Browns’ activities throughout the day.
