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10. To make the dialogue more natural, add questions of your own to the dialogue. Use phrases like ‘Really? And what about you?’ Make up a dialogue of your own with a partner according to the models. Remember to ask about your partner. Pay attention to the prepositions: watch _ TV, but listen to music, a secretary in the department, go to Spain. Memorize the word combinations together with prepositions.
11. Translate the sentences into Russian:
1. Я часто смотрю телевизор. Ты любишь смотреть телевизор.
2. Я люблю слушать музыку. Ты много случаешь музыку.
3. Она – секретарь отдела. Она хочет быть секретарем отдела.
4. Она отвечает на звонки.
5. Он ненавидит свою работу.
6. В свободное время он смотрит телевизор.
7. В свободное время она слушает музыку.
12. Discuss the daily routines of:
1. a civil servant and a manager
2. a bachelor and a married man
Compare their lifestyles.
13. Describe the working day of a clerk. Use the following office timetable (in a humorous way):
9:00 Starting time
9:30 Arrive at work
9:45 Coffee break
11:00 Check e-mail
11:15 Prepare for lunch
12:00 Lunch
2:45 Browse the Internet
3:00 Tea break
4:00 Prepare to go home
4:30 Go home
5:00 Finishing time
14. Comment on the following:
1. Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
2. We are what we eat.
POINT OF GRAMMAR
Present Simple (Indefinite) Tense
Alex is a bus driver. He drives a bus.
• The earth goes round the sun.
• Nurses look after patients in hospitals.
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• In Britain most of the shops close at 5.30 p.m.
"s":
I work in a bank. Barry works in a shop.
• Excuse me, do you speak English?
• "Would you like a cigarette?" "No, thanks. I don`t smoke."
• What does this word mean?
• Rice doesn`t grow in Britain.
• I get up at 8 o`clock every morning.
• How often do you go to the dentist?
• Ann doesn`t often drink tea.
• In summer Tom usually plays tennis.
Present Simple
FORM
| I we you they | drive | ||||
| he she it | drives | ||||
| Question (вопрос) | Negative (отрицание) | ||||
| Do | I we you they | work? | I We You They | don`t | work. |
| Does | Jack Sue he she it | Jack Sue He She It | doesn`t |
• There is only one form of you in English, which is the same in singular
and plural.
• Note the endings with he, she, and it. If the verb ends in ss, sh, ch, or x,
add - es:
He finishes {finish ends in sh)
She watches (watch ends in ch)
USE
• For something which is permanently true:
I come from France.
He doesn't speak Spanish.
We live in London.
• For repeated actions or habits:
1 get up at six o'clock every day.
What time do you leave work?
I don't see them very often.
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