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УДК 811.111(075.3=161.1) ББК81.2Англ-922 Ю94 Рецензенты: кафедра английского, общего и славянского языко- знания учреждения образования «Могилевский государственный уни- верситет им. А.А. Кулешова» (старший преподаватель И.И. Шевцова); методист учебно-методического отдела государственного учреждения об- разования «Гродненский областной институт развития образования» Г.К. Новицкая 3BN 978-986-06-1861-0 © Юхнель Н.В., Наумова Е.Г., 2010 © Издательство «Вышэйшая школа», 2010 Contents Book search 4 UNIT 1. Appearance 7 UNIT 2. Shopping 26 UNIT 3. Friendship 45 UNIT 4. Sports 64 UNIT 5. Travelling back in time 83 UNIT 6. Town and village 104 UNIT 7. Travelling to world capitals 125 UNIT 8. From Australia to Belarus 149 UNIT 9. English 173 Tapescripts 196 Grammar reference 227 Active vocabulary 251 Geographical and proper names 258 Abbreviations 262 English-Russian Dictionary • • • 263 3 aw: BOOK SEARCH 1. Look through your book and answer these questions. How many units are there in the > How many lessons are there in V" > Where can you find informa- Я tion on grammar rules? тЩ^шш^ > Where can you find the new words of each unit? > Where can you find any other Welcome back unfamiliar words? t0 school! 2. Work in pairs. Which pair is the fastest to answer the questions below? In which unit can you a) listen to a poem which begins with 'Dear teacher...'? b) learn about sports facilities in Belarus? c) write a composition about friendship? d) read an excerpt from a popular children's book? e) speak about the history of the world? f) see an upside down map of the world? g) read the same phrase in 8 differ- ent languages? h) see a similar picture? 4 3. Look through the pages of the book. a) How many new words are you going to learn in Unit 6? b) What grammar tense do we use after 'if' when we speak about the future? c) What are the third forms of the verbs 'find' and 'found'? d) What grammar is dealt with in Unit 7? 4. Look at the list of contents. Decide which units you think the pictures in this exercise are in and then check in the units. 5 Try to guess what these pictures, diagrams and abbreviations mean. Look through the book and check yourselves. В D A В * > Уои look g r e a t! Active vocabulary: good-looking, freckles, fair, straight, curly, skin, pale, sun-tanned, fat, fit, friendly Active grammar: look, look like Look at the pictures. Do these teenagers look good? What makes them good-looking? 2 ® Listen to some people talking about the photos. Are their descriptions positive or negative? 7 3. a) Find the opposite expressions in the columns below. 1. freckles all over the face 2. pale skin 3. fat 4. long curly hair 5. dark hair 6. brown eyes 7. active and friendly 8. tall a) fit b) short straight hair c) no freckles skin d) short e) green eyes f) quiet and romantic g) sun-tanned skin h) fair hair b) Which of the expressions in ex. 3a describe the boy on the left? Which ones describe the girl? (See p. 7) 4, ® a) Listen to the conversation again. Use the phrases in the box to complete the sentences. 1. She looks like... 2. She looks... 3. She also looks... 4. He looks so... 5. If he wears glasses, he'll look like... 6. And he looks... quiet. Cinderella. sun-tanned. Harry Potter, very friendly and active. romantic. 8 b) Look at the sentences again. What parts "of speech follow each of these constructions? A) She looks... B) She looks like... c) Look at the words and phrases in the box. Which words can complete sentence A? Which words can complete sentence B? sporty, very young, a British schoolchild, tired fat, healthy, a pupil, nice, an alien, independent thirsty, an excellent pupil, sun-tanned, friendly quiet, pale, a waiter, a film star, a cartoon charac ter, fit, dangerous and wild, a famous person a tourist 5. a) Complete the sentences below to describe your- self. Use ex. 3a and 4c for help. Write the description on a piece of paper. I'm ... and ... . I've got... and ... . My ... is/are ... . Sometimes I look ..., but now I look ... . My friends say I often look like ... . b) Hand in your descriptions to the teacher. Read someone's description. Can you guess who wrote it? 6. a) Work in groups. Look at your classmates and dis- cuss how they have changed after summer holidays. - Who has had his/her hair cut? - Who has grown taller? - Whose hair has grown longer? 9 - Who has got freckles? - Whose skin looks pale? - Who looks fitter? - Who has got sun-tanned? - Whose hair has got lighter / darker / curlier / more straight? b) Report to the class. LESSON Beauty is only skin deep Active vocabulary: character, appearance, pretty, handsome, ugly, lovely, opinion 1. Read the statements below in pairs. Do you agree with them? • Healthy people always look good. • Life is easier and more enjoyable for beautiful people. • You need a lot of time and money to look good. • It's more important to be beautiful inside than out- side. 2. a) Read the definitions below. Which statement in ex.1 talks about appearance and character? Appearance - the way you look (young, beautiful, tall, etc.). Character - what kind of person you are (kind, polite, friendly, etc.). 10 b) Have a class vote on what's more important: character or appearance. 3. ® a) Look at the adjectives in the box. Listen to a sty- dent explaining what they mean and put them into the right order. handsome, good-looking, beautiful, pretty, ugly, lovely ® b) Listen again and answer the questions below. Which adjective(s) | + j = | ely ove y 0V 1) are opposites? friend + ly = friendly 2) also describes character? 3) is used to describe men only? 4) are not used to talk about men? 5) is negative? 6) describe you? © a) Complete the sayings below with some of the adjectives from ex. 3. great He that has a ... nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. Thomas Fuller A monlcey never thinks her baby's .кЦ; 1 Haitian Proverb pvc t, Butterflies come to ... flowers. У .... flowers fade (вянут) fast. 11