- •Everyday english
- •Content
- •Unit 1. My family
- •Germany: What future is for the family?
- •5. Read the text again. Are these sentences true or false? Correct any false sentences.
- •6. What do you think of Ms von der Leyen's plan?
- •1. Are these statements true about your country?
- •2. Read the advert. Who uses the institute and its services? Why?
- •The Institute of Future Analysis
- •We provide:
- •Information about future trends in society.
- •Unit 2. House
- •4. Look at the photo and discuss the questions.
- •5. Read the text and decide whether it’s (t) true or (f) false.
- •Living in front of the cameras
- •Unit 3. Spare time
- •Las fallas
- •Vocabulary
- •4. Write a short summary of a festival you know about. Read your summary to a partner.
- •1. Think about last New Year's Eve. Work with a partner and ask and answer these questions.
- •2. What do you know about Chinese New Year? Decide whether you think the statements below are true or false.
- •How to throw the best party ever? (and enjoy it)
- •Vocabulary
- •10. Find words or phrases from the article above to complete the descriptions.
- •11. Have you ever thrown a party? What was it like? Tell your partner. Unit 4. Food
- •1. Read through the questions below and guess how your partner would answer.
- •If you answered yes to at least three of the questions you're probably a chocoholic.
- •2. Compare your answers. Who is the bigger chocoholic? Could you live without chocolate?
- •3. Decide whether the statements about chocolate are true or false.
- •7. Have you tried any of the dishes he talks about? Would you like to? What is the most unusual thing you have ever eaten? Tell your partner.
- •8. Read the article. What was Emma Bunton's favourite food as a child? What food didn't she like? memories of food
- •9. Look at the following statements about Emma's childhood. Are they true or false?
- •Unit 5. Language
- •4. Look at the text opposite about language learning. Where does it come from? What is its purpose?
- •5. Read the text quickly. Who is it aimed at?
- •English spoken here!
- •Don't delay ...Do it today!
- •Unit 6. Cultures
- •A world guide то good manners
- •1. Are these words and phrases used to talk about people, places, or things?
- •2. Can you remember any other words? Compare your ideas with a partner.
- •3. Read the story and choose the best title.
- •4. Read the story again. Work with a partner and decide if the sentences are true or false. If there is no information in the text, write doesn't say.
- •5. Look at Monica's story. Underline the correct option.
- •Unit 7. Art
- •Creative lives
- •Frida kahlo (1907-1954)
- •Unit 8. Travel and tourism
- •6. Work with a partner. How important are the different reasons, do you think? What are the three most important? Why?
- •7. Work with a partner to discuss the following.
- •8. Read the article quickly and choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph. (There are two extra headings.)
- •Travel and tourism
- •9. Read the article again and answer the questions.
- •1. What are the most interesting places you have visited in уour own country and abroad? Where else would you like to visit?
- •2. Complete these travel tips with the words in the box.
- •Unit 9. Health
- •5. Which of these definitions for words in the text are wrong? Can you correct them? Use your dictionary.
- •Unit 10. The environment
- •4. Listen to part of a documentary about global warming. Number these topics in order (1-6).
- •5. Listen again and answer these questions.
- •6. The presenter says we have to produce less c02. How can we do that? Discuss with a partner.
- •1. Change these sentences so that they are true for the place where you live. Compare your ideas with a partner.
- •2. Read the funding proposal below and answer these questions.
- •Wild city
- •Unit 11. Global affairs
- •4. Are these statements true or false, or does the text not say?
- •1. Look at this webpage about Stephen Hawking. Why is he famous?
- •2. Complete this summary of Hawking's life. Write one word in each gap. (The words you need are in the text.)
- •After the operation
- •8. Discuss these statements about attitudes to science in small groups.
- •Список литературы
Living in front of the cameras
1 O ay the words ‘reality TV’ and the show Othat comes into most people’s minds is Big Brother. Love it or hate it, the programme is a global phenomenon: there have been versions in more than seventy countries! The basic format is simple: put a group of strangers into a house, record everything they do and watch how they manage to live together.
2 Actually the idea wasn’t original. A similar show, The Real World, was broadcast in 1992 on MTV. But the format really became popular with the success of Big Brother, and it has been copied again and again, including celebrity versions. In similar shows, contestants have been sent to the jungle or put on a desert island. In Wife Swap
a mother goes to live with a family of strangers and tries to run their home; in Young, Dumb and Living off Mum a group of spoilt teenagers with no life skills learn to live together and look after themselves.
3 So what makes these shows so addictive? Inevitably, living with strangers is stressful and personality problems are common. Contestants often have to share tasks and chores and this also brings conflict. ‘It’s all about relationships,’ says TV critic Jo Barnett. ‘Some characters are pleasant, and some are unpleasant but they are all real people. If you aren’t interested in reality TV, you aren’t interested in people.’
4 But is it healthy to be this interested in other people’s private lives? And what kind of people want to appear in front of TV cameras twenty- four hours a day? Not everyone approves of such shows, including the first ever winner of Big Brother, Bart Spring. ‘I’m not a fan of the programme or of people becoming famous for being stupid. If I helped to create this mindless monster, then I’m not proud of it,’ he says.
6. Find the missing word (or phrase) in the text to match the definitions.
1 organize (paragraph 2)
2 badly behaved because they have been given too much (paragraph 2)
3 disagreement (paragraph 3)
4 not nice (paragraph 3)
5 thinks something is good (paragraph 4)
6 stupid, without any real reason (paragraph 4)
7. Discuss the questions.
• Do you think reality TV reflects real life?
• Do you agree that contestants 'become famous for being stupid'?
• Would you ever appear on a reality TV show? Why? Why not?
8. In pairs, choose a statement below. List the arguments for and against. Then think of examples and reasons to explain your argument.
• Young people should live away from their parents before they get married.
• It's a good idea for children to share a bedroom.
• Teenagers should not be allowed to watch TV after 10p.m.
9. Decide what to put in the introduction and how to sum up.
10. Choose one topic from ex. 5 and write an essay (200-250 words).
Unit 3. Spare time
LESSON 1
READING
1. Think of a festival you know or have heard about. How much do you know about it?
a) What is the name of the festival? d) What do you know about its history?
b) When does it take place? e) How do people celebrate?
c) How long does it go on for? f) How does the festival end?
2. Read this article about a big Spanish festival and find answers to the questions above.