Unit I. Family. Hobbies.
Lesson 1. My family.
Pre-reading
Task 1.Discuss the following questions with your group-mates:
1. What is a large/ small family for you? Was it the same in the past?
2. How many relatives do you have? How often do you see them?
3. Do you think all generations of the family should live together or separately?
Task 2. Read the text and say how the author of the text could answer the questions from Task 1:
My family
Hello! My name is Tanya Ivanova. I am seventeen. I live in Tambov. I finished school number twenty two. My favourite subjects at school were Biology and Social Sciences. Now I study at the Institute of Psychology of Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin. I am a first-year-student. My future profession is psychologist. I want to understand people better and help them in difficult situations.
I have a large family. There are five people in it: my father, mother, two brothers and me. My father’s name is Andrey Victorovich. He is a physician. He works at a hospital. He is very calm and hard-working. My mother’s name is Ludmila Michailovna. She is a teacher of music at school. She is very communicative and open-hearted.
My elder brother’s name is Aleksey. He is twenty-three. He is a lawyer. He has his own family and lives separately. He is very strong because he goes in for weight-lifting. His wife is Elena, she is my sister-in-law. She is twenty years old and she is a graduate student at Economy department of our University. They have a daughter, a two-year-old girl Irina who is my niece.
My younger brother is a school-boy. His name is Oleg. He is ten. He is a bit naughty sometimes but on the whole he is easy-going and clever. He wishes to be a photographer and travel around the world.
There is one more member of our family. It is a cat Boris. We like him very much.
Our family is very friendly. We have a lot of friends and relatives. I love my family very much.
Vocabulary
Task 3. A. Pick out English equivalents for the Russian words and phrases:
1) учиться; 2) студент(ка) первого курса; 3) психолог; 4) врач; 5) общительный; 6) младший; 7) путешествовать.
B. Write down your own sentences using the English words from Task A.
C. Give Russian equivalents for the following English words and word combinations from the text:
1) to live; 2) to finish school; 3) subject; 4) calm; 5) hard-working; 6) elder; 7) to live separately; 8) niece; 9) easy-going; 10) relatives.
D. Think of your own sentences using the words and word combinations from Task C. Read your sentences to your group-mates.
Task 4. In the table match the synonyms (the words with similar meaning). Consult the dictionary if necessary:
| 1. large | a. smart, intelligent |
| 2. physician | b. freshman |
| 3. communicative | c. big |
| 4. clever | d. sophomore |
| 5. to love | e. to like |
| 6. first-year-student | f. junior |
| 7. second-year-student | g. doctor |
| 8. third-year-student | h. graduate student |
| 9. fourth-year-student | i. easy-going, sociable, good-mixer |
| 10. fifth-year-student | j. senior |
Task 5. Find antonyms to the following words in the text. Antonyms are the words with the opposite meaning:
1) to start; 2) easy; 3) small; 4) nervous, naughty; 5) lazy; 6) younger; 7) weak.
Task 6. A. Read the definitions and guess the words:
1) A person who understands people’s characters.
2) My mother’s son to me.
3) A person who treats diseases with medicines.
4) My sister’s daughter to me.
5) My mother’s mother.
6) My father’s sister.
7) A person who trains pupils at school.
8) The science of numbers, including Algebra, Geometry and Arithmetic.
9) My sister’s husband.
10) The study of events in the past.
B. Define the following words in English:
1) my sister; 2) hard-working; 3) lawyer; 4) nephew; 5) grandfather; 6) uncle; 7) mother-in-law; 8) psychology; 9) Economy.
Grammar
Task 7. A. Find the sentences with numerals (числительные) in the text. Translate them into Russian. Explain English rules of numeral s formation. Look through the table and check yourself:
| 1 – one | 11 – eleven | 10 – ten | 21 – twenty-one |
| 2 – two | 12 – twelve | 20 – twenty | 22 – twenty-two |
| 3 – three | 13 – thirteen | 30 – thirty | 23 – twenty-three |
| 4 – four | 14 – fourteen | 40 – forty | 24 – twenty-four |
| 5 – five | 15 – fifteen | 50 – fifty | 25 – twenty-five |
| 6 – six | 16 – sixteen | 60 – sixty | 26 – twenty-six |
| 7 – seven | 17 – seventeen | 70 – seventy | 27 – twenty-seven |
| 8 – eight | 18 – eighteen | 80 – eighty | 28 – twenty-eight |
| 9 – nine | 19 – nineteen | 90 – ninety | 29 – twenty-nine |
| 10 – ten | 20 – twenty | 100 – one hundred |
See also Lesson 13.
B. Do you remember that numerals can be cardinal (количественные) and ordinal (порядковые)?
Continue: one – the first, two – the second, three -…, four - …, five - …, six - …, seven -…, eight - …, nine - …, ten -…, …
Task 8. Read the sentences:
a) 1. Ten plus eleven equals twenty-one. 2. Thirty-four plus sixty-two equals ninety-six. 3. Eighty-three minus sixteen equals sixty-seven. 4. Forty-one minus five is thirty six.
b) 1) 12+20=32; 2) 14+35=49; 3) 25+64=…? 4) 68+31=…? 5) 100-31=69; 6) 98-13=85; 7) 74-63=…? 8) 57-12=…?
c) 1) Ann is 21. 2) My elder brother is 29. 3) Jack Smith is 18 years old. 4) At the age of 17 he entered University. 5) When he was 9 he went to Spain. 6) I will graduate from the University at 21. 7) He wrote his most famous novel when he was 68. 8) At 16 you can receive your driving license. 9) You can be elected a president if you are 35.
Task 9. Find the sentences with “there is/there are” constructions in the text. Translate them into Russian. Which of them are singular and which are plural? Explain their usage and meaning in the English language. Check yourself looking through the table:
| Использование | Употребляется для выражения наличия или отсутствия какого-либо лица или предмета в определенном месте |
| Перевод | Имеется, находится, есть, существует |
| Формула | There is/ there are + subject + adverbial modifier of place/ adverbial modifier of time |
| Утвердительная форма | There is a book on the table. There arebooks on the table. There is a lamp and three books on the table. |
| Отрицательная форма | There isno book on the table. There isn’t a book on the table. There are no books on the table. There aren’t any books on the table. |
| Вопросительная форма | Is there a book on the table? Are there books on the table? What is there on the table? Is there a book or a magazine on the table? There is a book on the table, isn’t it? |
Task 10. Tick the right sentences with the construction “there is/ there are”:
1. There are many children in the garden.
Many children there are in the garden.
2. There is pen on the table.
There is a pen on the table.
3. There is a boy and two girls in the room.
There are a boy and two girls in the room.
4. Is there a book on the shelf?
Are there a book on the shelf?
5. There is no a lamp in the room.
There is no lamp in the room.