II. Vocabulary Comprehension

1. Learn the words and word-combinations to comprehend the text:

favourite saying	улюблене прислів’я
ordinary	звичайний
first-year student	першокурсник
tight	важкий
healthy	здоровий
wealthy	багатий
wise	мудрий
to waste time	гаяти час
to wake up	прокидатися
to do morning exercises	робити зарядку
to take(have) a shower	приймати душ
to take(have) a bath	приймати ванну
slippers	капці
to brush teeth	чистити зуби
to shave	голитися
to do harm	зашкодити
to listen to music	слухати музику
to listen to the radio	слухати радіо
to watch TV	дивитися телевізор
to leave for …	йти (їхати) до...
It takes him … to do smth.	йому потрібно ... , щоб зробити ...
to have a bite	перекусити
hard-working	працьовитий
to get by …	діставатися ...
to spend time	проводити час
an early-riser	той, хто рано встає
to be in 15 minutes’ walk	знаходитися в 15 хвилинах ходу
a break	перерва
to cope with	впоратися
to do one’s shopping	робити покупки
a sleepyhead	соня
to play football	грати у футбол
to play the guitar	грати на гітарі
substantial(big) breakfast	поживний сніданок
light breakfast	легкий сніданок
to be(get) used to doing smth.	звикнути щось робити
to go out	ходити в гості
to rent a flat	орендувати квартиру

Ііі. Reading Comprehension

1. Skim the text first to define its general subject and the subject of each paragraph. Use the following phrases:

The text is about…

The subject of the text is…

There are…paragraphs in it.

The first (second, third, etc.) paragraph deals with (considers…, describes…, informs…).

2. Read the text: Petro's Working Day

Petro is a first-year student. His working day is rather tight. He doesn’t like getting up late. Petro always says, “early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”. He believes there is not enough of each day as it is, without wasting the beginning of it.

This day starts like any other day. Petro wakes up at seven o'clock. He is used to staying in bed for a minute or two, then gets up, opens the window, makes his bed and does his morning exercises. He likes to take a cold shower every morning, so he puts on his slippers and goes to the bathroom. After he has brushed his teeth, shaved and dressed he goes to the kitchen. At 7.20 a.m. he is ready for breakfast. As a rule he does not prepare breakfast, his mother does it for him, but if she leaves home early he prepares it himself. Petro is sure that proper breakfast won’t do him any harm. For breakfast he usu­ally has eggs, sausage or cheese sandwiches and a cup of coffee or tea. During break­fast he listens to the news or music on the radio.

At 7.40 a.m. Petro leaves for the Uni­versity. His University is far from his home, so it takes him twenty five minutes to get there by a route taxi. On his way to the University he often meets his friends, who are hurrying to the University too. His classes begin at 8.15 a.m. As a rule, Petro has three or four classes a day. At 11.45 a.m. he has a bite at the University canteen. As a matter of fact he stays at the University till five or six o’clock to study in the lab or in the library.

When he gets home he has his dinner. He usually has a little rest and then at seven he sits down to do his homework. It takes him a couple of hours to get it done. In the evening after supper Petro likes to sit down in the chair with a good book or watch TV. He often chats on line, sends emails, listens to music. Sometimes he goes to the cinema or visits his friends or they come to visit him. He has a lot of friends and they often spend time together, especially on Sundays. As soon as he feels sleepy he brushes his teeth, goes to his room, sets his alarm clock for seven and goes to bed. Although Petro is a hard-working student he never has time to do all he wants to do.