We are students now

L e s s o n 1

Meeting and Introduction

Phonetic Exercises

Основные правила чтения гласных

Тип слога	a	e	i / y	o	u
I	[eI] name	[I:] Pete	[QI] nine, my	[əu] nose	[(j)u:] use
II	[x] cat	[e] реt	[I] six, gym	[O] hot	[A] bus
III	[R] car	[W] her	[W] girl	[L] port	[W] turn
IV	[Fə] care	[Iə] here	[aIə] fire	[L] more	[(j)uə] cure

Чтение некоторых согласных

c	g	th	w
[s] face city bicycle	[k] cut cool class	[dZ] fridge origin gym	[g] game got glad	[T] thick think Thursday	[D] this they father	[w] window white warm	[-] write wrong who

Read the following words:

take, main, see, fine, eve, cap, cell, kind, close, fork, soon, tube, year, watch, wrong, knit, thick, then, singer, age, god, fair, fire, pure, burn, quarter, exact, new, hall, night, chess, yeast, mind, warm, who, glove, noise, grass, July, row, party, cake, stamp, mean, dear, tie, give, find, brown, fog, took, food, floor, cheese, which, wrist, knee, quit, lace, lack, clay, shirt, nurse, endure, hire, hare, mere, world, want, few, sight, expect, exist, grow, down, boil, mild, sugar, social, official.

Read and learn the following tongue-twisters:

1. A black cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat.

2. I can think of six thin things,

And of six thick things, too.

3. Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?

4. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream!

5. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.

Speaking

Some Necessary Greetings Some Phrases of Parting

Hi! Hello! How do you do? – Здравствуйте! How are you? – Как поживаешь? Glad /nice to meet you – Рад познакомиться с вами. Meet my friend – Познакомься с моим другом.

Good-bye / Bye-bye / Bye. So long – Пока! See you again / soon / later – Увидимся (позже). I must be going. – Мне нужно уходить. All the best. – Желаю удачи.

Sample Dialogue

A: Hello!

B: Hi! Meet my friend Nick. He is a first-year student. He is Russian.

A: Nice to meet you. My name is Alice.

C: I’m glad to meet you too. And where are you from, Alice?

A: I am from France. But I’m in a hurry now. So long.

B and C: See you soon.