Материал: 1-Basic_English_Course_2012
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Балльно-рейтинговая карта студента
4. Fill in the correct question tag.
5. Fill in the question tags and match the answers to the questions.
6. Fill in the gaps with one of the question words from the list.
7. Put these words in the correct order to make questions.
8. A) Put the words in the correct order to make questions.
9. Match these question words with the answers.
10. Ask your partner questions to get these answers. Tick each answer when you hear it.
4. Listen and check your ideas.
5. Listen to two more dialogues. What decisions do the people make?
6. You don't always want to accept an invitation. Listen to these four dialogues.
7. Listen to the dialogues in exercises 4 and 5 again and tick the expressions you hear
8. How many invitations and suggestions can you make?
2. Underline the words connected with appearance and personality. Add them to the chart.
7. Put the words/phrases in the box in groups. Can you add any more words?
8. Choose four people from Ex.7. Describe your relationship with them to a partner.
2. Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences/questions.
3. A) Make questions for these answers.
4. A) Complete the questions below using the prepositions from the box.
5. A) Make questions from the prompts.
6. Complete the sentences with words and phrases from the box.
7. A) Find ten mistakes in the e-mail.
8. A) Read the following task and the answer that a student wrote.
Text 2 Divorce: a Fifty-Fifty Chance?
Text 4 Character and Appearance
3. Correct the underlined mistakes in each question (lexical mistake).
1. A) Look at the words in the box. What do you think the text is about?
2. Read the text again. Put these events in order.
9. Make more conversations using words from ex. 4 and the following phrases.
2. What do you like doing on holiday? Is there anything that you don't like doing?
3. Tell your partner about a really good holiday. Use the How to... Box to help you.
1. Rewrite the sentences in Past Simple Tense.
2. Open the brackets using verbs in Present or Past Simple.
3. Open the brackets using verbs in Past Simple or Past Continuous.
4. What was John doing at these times yesterday? Complete the sentences.
5. Ask your partner questions about his/her early childhood.
6. Open the brackets using verbs in Past Simple or Past Continuous.
7. Match the sentences on the left with the related sentences on the right.
8*. Fill in the right word from the word column.
Text 2 Travelling on British Railways
1. Listen. What happens to have and has? What happens to been?
7. Complete the gaps in the messages. Compare your ideas with a partner. What verbs did you use?
4. Make short statements for and against satellite television. Try to use these words and phrases.
Do not confuse the following words!
5. Correct the mistakes in these sentences.
6. Put to watch/to see/to look.
7. Choose between to say/to tell/to speak
2. Open the brackets using Present Perfect or Past Simple.
5. Complete answers. Some sentences are positive and some negative. Use a verb from this list:
6. Complete these sentences using today/this year/this term etc.
7. Read the situations and write sentences as shown in the examples.
8. What has happened in these situations?
I. Complete the sentences with one of the verbs below.
Text 2 Online Dating Goes Mainstream
1. Look at the list of food and complete the task.
2. Answer the questions with words from the box in exercise 1.
3. Look at the vocabulary below and match it to a container
5. Choose words for each question, as in the example. One word is left. What is it?
7. Read the text again and answer the questions.
6. Read and translate the instructions for making a fried egg sandwich.
3. What types of restaurant would you recommend to:
9. What are the questions about?
10. Listen to this pattern. Repeat the questions. Try to sound exactly the same.
11. Practise the pattern with these words.
12. Look at this dialogue. Take out as many words as you can.
6. Correct the mistakes in these sentences.
Module 5 Human body and mind health
1. Answer the following questions.
4. Render the text into Reported Speech and retell it.
1. Underline the correct item.
2. Turn the following sentences into Reported Speech.
3. Turn the following into indirect questions.
4. Change the following from Direct into Reported Speech.
5. Rewrite the following conversation in Reported Speech.
6. Read , translate and render the dialogue in indirect speech.
9. Turn the following sentences into Direct Speech.
10. Word formation. Fill in the right form of the word in brackets.
4. Match the words with the definitions.
5. Match the jobs with the qualities you think people need in your opinion.
6. Complete the sentences with the correct word below.
Part 2 Present Simple Tense and Present Continuous Tense
1. Do you agree with these statements?
2. Read the text. Which of the statements above would Mike and Tina agree with?
2. Which of these words are connected with jobs, being a student, or both?
3. Use the words to talk about yourself.
4. Look at this newspaper article. What's Susan's problem? What advice would you give her?
5. Now read the advice. Which do you think is better? Why?
6. What advice would you give Susan's husband?
6. Look at the job adverts again. Complete these words.
1. Complete the text using the words in italics below.
Writing a cv (Curriculum Vitae)
2. Look at these ideas about how to be a good interviewer.
9. Role-play. Choose one of the job adverts above or any other job vacancies and have an interview.
10. Speaking about work. Ask and answer the questions and check the meaning of the words in bold.
2. Open the brackets and put the verbs in to the correct form.
3. Choose the correct verb form.
7. Put the verb in the most suitable form.
4. Put the verbs in present simple or present continuous.
5. Fill in the gaps with Present Simple or Present Continuous.
6. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate verb in correct tense.
1 Add do, does, is, or are to make complete questions.
2. Match the problems with the advice in exercise 1.
4. Match the jobs with the duties. Use dictionary to help you.
1. Which workers normally do these things?
2. A) Read the introduction to the text. Who is Ricardo Semler? What problem did he have?
4. Match the words with the definitions.
1. A person who types letters and answers the phone. secretary
2. A person whose job is to repair machines.
3. Someone who studies science.
4. doctor who perform operations.
5.. A person who looks after people's teeth.
6. Someone whose job is to give advice on legal matters.
7. A person whose job is to collect, write or publish news.
8. A person who designs or builds roads, bridges, etc.
9. Someone who works for no pay.
10. Someone who helps students learn.
11. A person whose job is to play musical instruments.
12. Any person whose job needs advanced training.
13. Someone with senior position in company.
14. The money you earn.
15. Extra hours that you work.
5. Match the jobs with the qualities you think people need in your opinion.
Careful, creative, confident, emotional, flexible, generous, helpful, logical, motivated, organised, patient, reliable, tolerant, enthusiastic, adequate.
Talking or writing about jobs.
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Definition |
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Job |
what you do regularly to earn money, especially what you do for particular company or person. |
My first job was helping in a pet shop. |
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A full-time |
job is a job that you do for at least the same number of hours a week as people usually work. |
A full-time bookkeeper. He works full-time for the council. |
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A part-time |
job is a job that you do for fewer hours a week than people usually work. |
A part-time bartender. I teach part-time now. |
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Work |
Something that you do to earn money, or the place where you go to do it. |
I've got a lot of work on at the moment. Dan's at work. |
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Career |
the jobs someone does over a period of time that involve a particular type of work. |
a long career in the civil service, a medical career. |
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Profession |
a type of job that you need a lot of education or special training to do, or all the people who do a particular job like this. |
I'm a doctor by profession. the legal profession. |
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Occupation |
(formal) your usual job |
What is your current occupation and salary? |
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Post |
a particular job within a company or organization, especially a job with some responsibility. |
She applied for the post of Senior Marketing Manager at Cadburry Shweppes. |
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Position |
a particular job: used especially in advertisements foe available jobs. |
a vacancy for the position of night watchman. |
6. Complete the sentences with the correct word below.
Career, job, profession, part-time, full-time, work, occupation, post, position.
1. I worked with many famous people during my ________ as a musician.
2. Igor's so lazy. He never does any _______ .
3. I've found this great ______ advertised in the newspaper.
4. Which ______ do you want to go into, exactly? Fashion, design or the media?
5. My first _____ was in a record store.
6. He was offered a ______ of ambassador of Mexico.
7. Part-time workers often work in low-paid _______.
8. I had a _____ job while I was at college.
9. She is a _____ mother.
10. She has a busy job and she often takes _____ home with her.
Part 2 Present Simple Tense and Present Continuous Tense
Grammar Note
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Present Simple V(s,es) |
Present Continuous present form of 'be' + V-ing |
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Affirmative |
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I/we/you/they work he/she/(it) works
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I am (I'm) driving you/we/they are (you’re) driving he/she/(it) is (he's) driving |
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Negative |
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I/you/we/they do not (don’t) work he/she does not (doesn’t) work |
I
am
not
driving
he/she/ (it) is not driving we/they/you are not driving |
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Interrogative |
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Do I we/you/they work? Does he/she/it work? |
Am I driving? Are you/we/they driving? Is he / she /it driving ? |
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1.permanent situations or states She works as a nurse. She owns a large shop. 2.repeated/habitual actions (especially with frequency adverbs: often, usually, etc) I usually get up at 7.30. 3. permanent truths or laws of nature Money doesn't buy happiness. Water freezes at 0 C. 4.timetables/programmes (future meaning) The match finishes at 7.45. The plane leaves at 6.05. 5. eviews/sports/commentaries/ dramatic narrative Meryl Streep acts brilliantly in this film. |
1. temporary situations They're staying at the Park Hotel at present. 2. actions happening at or around the moment of speaking She is looking for a better job. 3. repeated actions with “always” expressing annoyance or criticism She's always interrupting me! 4. fixed arrangements in the near future The Browns are visiting us tonight. (It's all arranged.) 5. changing or developing situations His English is getting better. |
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NOTES: Spelling in Present Continuous Simple - when the verb ends with a consonant +e (write, smile, come) we drop the final e (writing, smiling, coming) - when the verb ends with one vowel + one consonant (put, run, sit), we double the final consonant (putting, running, sitting) except after -w and -x (knowing, fixing) |
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1. Compare these sentences and state the functions of the present simple and present continuous tenses.
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1. The kettle is boiling. Can you turn it off please? 2. Listen to those people. What language are they speaking? 3. Where's Tom? He's playing tennis. 4. (you find a stranger in your room) What are you doing here? 5. Sylvia is in Britain for three months. She's learning English. 6. I'm living with some friends until I can find a flat. 7. That machine isn't working. It broke down this morning. |
1. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. 2. Excuse me, do you speak English? 3.Tom plays tennis every Saturday. 4. What do you usually do at weekends? 5. Most people learn to swim when they are children. 6. My parents live in London. They have been there for 20 years. 7.That machine doesn't work. It hasn't worked for years. |
NB!
Some verbs are used only in simple tenses. For example, you cannot say ' I am knowing'. You can only say 'I know'. Here is the list of verbs which are not normally used in continuous tenses (but there are exceptions).
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want |
like |
belong |
know |
suppose |
remember |
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need |
love |
see |
Realize |
mean |
forget |
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prefer |
hate |
hear |
believe |
seem |
understand |
have (when the meaning is 'possess')
think (when the meaning is 'believe')
Examples:
Do you like London? (not 'are you liking')
He doesn't understand. (not 'he isn't understanding')
These shoes belong to me (not 'are belonging')
What do you think Tom will do? ( = What do you believe he will do?)
NB!
Some stative verbs (see, smell, taste, feel, think, have etc) have continuous forms but there is a difference in meaning.
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State |
Action |
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I think she's rich. (= I believe) |
I'm thinking about your plan. (= I'm considering) |
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The milk tastes awful. (= it has bad flavour) |
He's tasting the sauce; it might need some salt. (he's trying its flavour) |
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He has a pet dog. (=he owns) |
He's having a dinner now. (= he's eating) |
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This cloth feels like velvet. (=has the texture) |
She's feeling her way in the dark. (= she's finding her way) |
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I see you're in trouble. (= I understand) |
I'm seeing my lawyer tonight. (= I'm visiting) |
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The kitchen smells of burnt meat. ( = has the smell) |
Why are you smelling your food? (= trying the smell of?) |
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He comes from Spain. (= he was born in) |
He's coming from Spain. (= he's travelling from) |
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I love holidays. (in general) |
I'm loving this holiday. (= I'm enjoying;specific) |
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Your hair looks great.(= it appears) |
She's looking at some old photographs. |
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The baby weighs 5 kilos. (= it is) |
I'm weighing myself on my new scales. (= I'm finding out my weight) |
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Ann is very tall. |
Ann is being very kind to me these days. (= she's behaving) |