English: 2013

12/31/2013

Week 4, day 2

Today's topic is Holidays

1) Listen to the dialogue and the three stories, the three summaries of the conversation, without reading the texts. Listen 2-3 times. After that listen to the dialogue and the summaries again looking at the texts and check whether you could understand all the details or not.

HOLIDAYS

Tim: What’s your favourite holiday?

Bob: Well, that depends. I like any that gives me a long time off school.

Tim: The longest break is summer, but that doesn’t count because it’s not for a holiday. But really, which holiday do you like best?

Bob: I guess Easter is my favourite, because I really like hunting for Easter eggs. My whole family makes Easter eggs and hides them, then all the children look for them.

Tim: That sounds fun. But I prefer New Year’s Eve.

Bob: That’s a strange choice.

Tim: I know but I love staying up late and watching one year change into the next. And I don’t mind drinking champagne.

Training 1

Bob: “I like holidays. My favourite holiday is a holiday that gives me a long time off school. The longest break is summer but that doesn’t count because it is not for a holiday. The best holiday for me is Easter because I really like hunting for Easter eggs. My whole family makes Easter eggs and hides them and then the children look for them. It is such fun.”

1. What is your favourite holiday?

2. What is the longest break?

3. Why doesn’t that count?

4. What is the best holiday for you?

5. Why do you like Easter?

6. What is the Easter egg hunt?

7. What do the adults do?

8. What do the children do?

Training 2

Tim: “Everybody likes a holiday. A lot of people like Easter holidays or Christmas but I prefer New Year’s Eve. I know that it is a strange choice. It is not as popular as Easter or Christmas and people in America don’t give each other presents on New Year’s Eve. I like New Year’s Eve because I love staying up late, drinking champagne and watching one year change into the next. And by the way, this holiday is also very popular in Russia!”

1. Which holidays do a lot of people like?

2. What is your favourite holiday?

3. Why is it a strange choice?

4. Do people usually give each other presents on New Year’s Eve?

5. Why do you like this holiday?

6. Where is this holiday popular?

Training 3

Bob’s favourite holiday is any holiday that gives him a long time off school. The summer break doesn’t count because it’s not for a holiday. He says that Easter is his favourite, he really likes hunting for Easter eggs. His whole family makes Easter eggs and hides them, then all the children look for them. Tim prefers New Year’s Eve. He loves staying up late and watching one year change into the next. And he doesn’t mind drinking champagne.

- Read the dialogue and the summaries yourself recording your voice. Then listen to the original texts and to your voice sentence by sentence.

- Training 1. Answer the questions. Read the first question and answer it, then read the second... and so on.

- Now just look at the questions and answer them one by one. Do it 2-3 times. Try not to stop after each question.

- Say the text of Training 1 without looking at the text. Record your voice and compare your story with the story in the book.

- Training 2. Do the same with Training 2.

- Training 3. Read the summary 2-3 times. You don't have to memorise it now.

2) Listen to Topic 41, Public Holidays 2-3 times.

- Listen and read the text now. Stop the recording after each sentence and try to imitate the native speaker.

41.Public Holidays

We haven’t got many public holidays. We have got about eight of them. March 15,August 20, October 23, Christmas and Easter are public holidays in Hungary. They are days-off. We don’t work then. People stay at home with their families. They can travel or go hiking. They can visit their relatives. There are often fireworks on holidays. Children like them. Christmas and Easter are my favourite holidays. There are some old Christmas and Easter traditions. We give each other nice presents at Christmas. We paint eggs at Easter. Christmas is coming now!

- Answer the questions.

1. Have you got many public holidays?

2. How many of them have you got?

3. What are they?

4. Are they days-off?

5. What do people do on public holidays?

6. What else can they do?

7. Are there fireworks on public holidays?

8. What are your favourite holidays?

9. What are Christmas and Easter traditions?

10. Which holiday is coming now?

- Try to memorise the text.

- Say the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.

3) Practise Black Jack Comes Back, Chapter 8, Part 1 (Picture 1)

EN Black Jack Chapter Eight Part One

Choose the correct one.

HOLIDAYS

Which is correct?

1. I have a _____ with Christmas.

a) situation

b) problem

c) thought

2. I don’t _____ Christmas trees.

a) like

b) to like

c) liking

3. They are too _____ to buy.

a) costing

b) expensive

c) moneyful

4. And they drop _____ leaves on the carpet.

a) your

b) the

c) their

5. It _____ a long time to decorate them.

a) takes

b) lasts

c) goes

a) A boring holiday is Christmas.

b) Boring is a Christmas holiday.

c) Christmas is a boring holiday.

7. I _____ to buy presents.

a) do hating

b) hate

c) am hate

8. But I love to get _____.

a) those

b) them

c) its

9. During the holidays I visit _____ family.

a) my

b) mine

c) for my

10. But my family _____ like me.

a) isn’t

b) not

c) doesn’t

11. I never bring _____ gifts.

a) to they

b) for them

c) them

12.

a) Care they not.

b) They don’t care

c) Can’t they care.

13. We eat _____ big Christmas dinner.

a) the

b) a

c) it

14. But it’s never _____ good.

a) very

b) a lot

c) many

15. Vegetables make me _____.

a) sicking

b) sick

c) to sick

16. _____, I like Christmas.

a) Because

b) Also

c) Still

17. Some people are only nice _____ me at Christmas.

a) to

b) for

c) at

18. Sometimes, I get nice _____.

a) gifting

b) gifts

c) to gift

19. And I can sleep _____.

a) like

b) light

c) late

20. During the holidays _____ is no school.

a) there

b) here

c) it

See the key to this test below.

Read the story-based test 2-3 times. Try to memorise the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.

Key to Test 1, Holidays

1. b 2. a 3. b 4. c 5. a 6. c 7. b 8. b 9. a 10. c 11. c 12. b 13. b 14. a 15. b 16. c 17. a 18. b 19. c 20. a

12/30/2013

Week 4, day 1

Today's topic is Daily Routine.

1) Look at the picture and listen to Topic 32, My Working Day 2-3 times.

- Listen and read the text now. Stop the recording after each sentence and try to imitate the native speaker.

32.My Working Day

There are five working days in a week. I work eight hours a day. Work starts at 8 and finishes at 5 o’clock. I come home at 6 o’clock. My working day is long and tiring. There is always a lot of work. I phone our clients and answer the phone calls. I also type price lists and do other office work. The lunch break is from 1 to 2 p.m. I can have short coffee breaks, too. I have a comfortable working space. There are five people in the office. We usually meet at the end of the day. We discuss our results then. The meeting is starting now.

1. How many working days are there in a week?

2. How many hours a day do you work?

3. When does work start and finish?

4. When do you come home?

5. Is there a lot of work?

6. What do you do in your job?

7. When do you have the lunch break?

8. Have you got a comfortable working space?

9. How many of you are there in the office?

10. What do you meet at the end of the day for?

- Try to memorise the text.

- Say the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.

2) Listen to Topic 33, My Working Day in Past Simple.
Read it several times and answer the questions.

32. My Working Day

I was a secretary in an office two years ago. There were five working days in a week. My work started at 8 and finished at 5 o’clock. There was always a lot of work. I phoned our clients, answered the phone calls, typed price lists and did other office work.

1. How many days a week did you work when you were a secretary?

2. When did work start and finish?

3. How much work was there in that job?

4. What did you do?

3) Practise Black Jack Comes Back, Chapter 5, Top Secret

EN Black Jack Chapter Five Top Secret

To download Black Jack Comes Back program go to www.sapcrystals.com choose one of the platforms: Windows (Personal Computer), MAC (Macintosh), iOS (iPhones, iPads), Android (smartphones, tablets) and follow the instructions.

4) Listen to the dialogue and the three stories, the three summaries of the conversation, without reading the texts. Listen 2-3 times. After that listen to the dialogue and the summaries again looking at the texts and check whether you could understand all the details or not.

DAILY ROUTINE

Andy: What are you doing today?

Andrew: The same thing I do every Monday.

Andy: Well, what is your routine on Mondays?

Andrew: I get up at five o’clock in the morning.

Andy: That’s very early in the morning!

Andrew: I agree. It isn’t fun to get up before sunrise.

Andy: Why do you get up so early?

Andrew: Because I have to be at Eddie’s Diner at six o’clock.

Andy: Why do you have to go to Eddie’s Diner?

Andrew: Because I work there.

Andy: Oh, I understand.

Andrew: So, I wash dishes at Eddie’s until two o’clock.

Andy: What do you do after work?

Andrew: I go home and sleep for an hour. After that I ride my bike in the park. In the evening I have dinner with my friends and then go to my Spanish class.

Andy: Wow! You are a very busy person.

Andrew: Yes, I am.

Andy: Do you like being so busy?

Andrew: Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t.

Training 1

Andrew: “If you are a student and have to earn extra money, your daily routine can be very busy. Every Monday I get up at five o’clock in the morning because I have to be at Eddie’s Diner at six o’clock. I wash dishes there until two o’clock. Then I go home and sleep for an hour. After that I ride my bike in the park. In the evening I have dinner with my friends and then go to my Spanish class. Sometimes I like being so busy and sometimes I don’t.”

1. What do you have to do if you are a student?

2. Is your daily routine relaxed or busy?

3. Why do you get up at five o’clock?

4. What do you do at Eddie’s Diner?

5. What do you do in the afternoon?

6. What do you do in the evening?

7. Do you like being so busy?

Training 2

Andy: “My parents think I am very lazy. I never get up early in the morning on weekdays. At the weekends I get up at twelve or one o’clock in the afternoon. I am a student at college but I often miss classes because I get up late. I don’t have any hobbies and I don’t play sports. Sometimes I go out with my friends. I often play computer games all night long. I don’t think that I am lazy. I can’t find any real interest in life.”

1. What do your parents think?

2. When do you get up?

3. Are you a student at college or at secondary school?

4. Why do you often miss classes?

5. What about sports and hobbies?

6. What about friends and computer games?

7. Do you think that you are lazy?

Training 3

If you are a student and have to earn extra money, your daily routine can be very busy. The young person from this conversation seems to be in that position. Every Monday he gets up at five o’clock in the morning because he has to be at Eddie’s Diner at six o’clock. He washes dishes there until two o’clock. Then he goes home and sleeps for an hour. After that he rides his bike in the park. In the evening he has dinner with his friends and then goes to his Spanish class. He tells his friend that sometimes he likes being so busy and sometimes he doesn’t.

- Read the dialogue and the summaries yourself recording your voice. Then listen to the original texts and to your voice sentence by sentence.

- Training 1. Answer the questions. Read the first question and answer it, then read the second... and so on.

- Now just look at the questions and answer them one by one. Do it 2-3 times. Try not to stop after each question.

- Say the text of Training 1 without looking at the text. Record your voice and compare your story with the story in the book.

- Training 2. Do the same with Training 2.

- Training 3. Read the summary 2-3 times. You don't have to memorise it now.

5) Revise Training N29, N30, N31 in Past Simple.

Training 29

Tom Sawyer lived in a small town in America. He didn’t have a mother. He didn’t have a father. His parents died. Tom had an aunt. Her name was Aunt Polly. Tom went to school but he didn’t like school very much because he didn’t like to do his homework. Tom had a lot of friends. His best friend was Huck. Huck didn’t have parents, either. Huck didn’t have an aunt or an uncle. Huck didn’t even have a home. However, Huck was happy. He was free, he didn’t go to school and he had a lot of friends.

Training_30

Once I went to America because I knew that there was a village in America called Budapest. I wanted to see the village. I saw the village. There wasn’t a big river in the village. There was only a small stream there. There were two parts of the village. The part on the right side of the stream was called Buda and the part on the left side of the stream was called Pest. There was only one bridge across the stream. It was called The Chain Bridge. There was a street in the village. It was called Vaci Street. There was a small hotel in the street. It was called The Budapest Hotel. There was a cinema in the street. It was called The Pannonia. There was a small restaurant in the street. It was called The Fishermen’s Bastion. I ate Hungarian fish soup there. There was a pub in the street. It was called Kochma. I drank palinka there.

Training 31

Helga used to be a translator. She translated books from English into Hungarian. Helga translated perfectly. Helga liked translating but she hated typing. Helga never typed her translations. She never wrote her translations, either. Helga had a very good assistant. Helga dictated and her assistant typed the texts into the computer. Helga didn’t like the computer and the computer didn’t like Helga. Whenever Helga tried to use the computer, it refused to work. However, the computer never refused to work for the assistant. They adored each other.

6) Do this test from Topic-Based Tests for Beginners.

Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets in Present Simple.

Present Simple

1. Jerry (to have) _____ an interesting daily routine.

2. He (to wake) _____ up around eleven o’clock.

3. He (to drink)_____ some whisky before he gets out of bed.

4. After he gets dressed he (to smoke) _____ a cigarette.

5. His girlfriend, Mary, (to cook) _____ bacon and eggs for breakfast.

6. Jerry and Mary (to eat) _____ breakfast together.

7. They (to drink) _____ some more whisky.

8. After breakfast Jerry (to wash) _____ his face.

9. He never (to comb) _____ his hair.

10. He (to go) _____ to work at two o’clock.

11. He (to clean) _____ dishes at a restaurant until eight o’clock.

12. After work he (to walk) _____ two blocks to his favourite bar.

13. He (to meet) _____ his friends there.

14. They (to order) _____ many drinks.

15. Jerry and his friends (to be) _____ in a rock band.

16. They (to leave) _____ the bar around ten o’clock.

17. They (to practise) _____ their songs until two o’clock in the morning.

18. Jerry (to come) _____ home around three o’clock.

19. Sometimes he (to sleep) _____ with his boots on.

20. He (to dream) _____ about being famous.

See the key to this test below.

Read the story-based test 2-3 times. Try to memorise the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.

Key to Test 2, Daily Routine

1. has 2. wakes 3. drinks 4. smokes 5. cooks 6. eat 7. drink 8. washes 9. combs 10. goes 11. cleans 12. walks 13. meets 14. order 15. are 16. leave 17. practise 18. comes 19. sleeps 20. dreams

12/29/2013

Week 3, day 7

Today's topic is My Ideal House.

1) Look at the picture and listen to Topic 33, My Ideal House 2-3 times.

- Listen and read the text now. Stop the recording after each sentence and try to imitate the native speaker.

33.My ideal house

My ideal house is a nice house in the country. It isn’t very big. It has eight rooms. It has two floors. Upstairs there are four bedrooms and a bathroom. Downstairs there is a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a study. There is also a small gym in my ideal house. I can work out there. My house is comfortable. It has a fireplace. There is a garden with flowers, fruit trees and bushes around the house. I want to have a swimming pool behind the house, too. Friends can always come and visit me. We can have garden parties. We can have meals on the terrace.

- Answer the questions.

1. What is your ideal house like?

2. Is it big?

3. How many rooms has it got?

4. How many floors has it got?

5. What is there upstairs?

6. What is there downstairs?

7. What else is there in your ideal house?

8. Is there a garden around it?

9. What do you want to have behind the house?

10. Where can you have parties and meals?

- Try to memorise the text.

- Say the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.

2) Listen to Topic 33, My Ideal House in Past Simple.
Read it several times and answer the questions.

My Ideal House_past tense

When I lived in a flat, I often dreamt of my ideal house. My ideal house was a nice house in the country. Upstairs there were four bedrooms and a bathroom. Downstairs there was a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a study. There was a garden with flowers, fruit trees and bushes around the house.

1. What did you dream of when you lived in a flat?

2. What was your ideal house like?

3. What was there in it?

4. What was there around the house?

3) Practise Black Jack Comes Back, Chapter 5, Part 1 (Picture 1)

EN Black Jack Chapter Five Part One

To download Black Jack Comes Back program go to www.sapcrystals.com choose one of the platforms: Windows (Personal Computer), MAC (Macintosh), iOS (iPhones, iPads), Android (smartphones, tablets) and follow the instructions.

4) Listen to the dialogue and the three stories, the three summaries of the conversation, without reading the texts. Listen 2-3 times. After that listen to the dialogue and the summaries again looking at the texts and check whether you could understand all the details or not.

ACCOMMODATION

2.

Mary: Mr. Glover has a new house. It’s amazing.
Bob: Tell me about it.
Mary: I don’t know where to start!
Bob: Well, where is it?
Mary: It’s on a hill. There is a great view of the city from the patio.
Bob: That sounds nice. How many rooms are there in the house?
Mary: A lot! I think there are twenty-one. It’s a very large house.
Bob: Which room is the biggest?
Mary: The dining room is the biggest. It is larger than my entire flat.
Bob: How many people can sit at the dining room table?
Mary: I don’t know.
Bob: Tell me about the other parts of this mansion.
Mary: Okay. The house has five bathrooms and eight bedrooms.
Bob: Which room is your favourite?
Mary: That’s easy. The room with the swimming pool and jacuzzi.
Bob: Wow! Mr. Glover’s new house is amazing.
Mary: Yes, amazing and expensive.

Training 4
Mary is telling Bob that Mr. Glover has a new house. Mr. Glover’s new house is amazing. It’s on a hill with a great view of the city from the patio. It’s a very large house with twenty-one rooms. The dining room is the biggest. The house has five bathrooms and eight bedrooms. There’s also a room with a swimming pool and jacuzzi.

1. Does Mr. Glover have a new house or a flat?
2. Where is it?
3. Does it have a great view from the kitchen or from the patio?
4. How many rooms are there?
5. Which is the biggest room?
6. How many bathrooms are there?
7. How many bedrooms are there?
8. Is there a swimming pool in the garden?

Training 5
Bob: “Mary is telling me that Mr. Glover has a new house. I know that Mr. Glover doesn’t have a new house. Mr. Glover is a businessman but he isn’t a successful businessman. Mr. Glover rents a small flat in the centre of the city. The flat only has one bedroom. It doesn’t have a room with a swimming pool. I know that Mary wants a new house and I want to know what kind of house she wants.”

1. What is Mary telling Bob?
2. Does Mr. Glover have a new house or not?
3. What does Mr. Glover do?
4. Is Mr. Glover a successful businessman or not?
5. Does he live in a big house in the country?
6. How many bedrooms does he have?
7. What about a swimming pool?
8. What does Mary want?

Training 6
Mary is telling Bob about Mr. Glover and his big house. She wants a new house on a hill with a great view of the city from the patio. She wants a very large house with a lot of rooms. She also wants a room with a swimming pool and jacuzzi. Mr. Glover is a businessman but he isn’t very successful. In fact he doesn’t have a house. He rents a small flat in the city. There isn’t a swimming pool in the flat. There is only one bedroom and a small kitchen.

- Read the dialogue and the summaries yourself recording your voice. Then listen to the original texts and to your voice sentence by sentence.

- Training 4. Answer the questions. Read the first question and answer it, then read the second... and so on.

- Now just look at the questions and answer them one by one. Do it 2-3 times. Try not to stop after each question.

- Say the text of Training 4 without looking at the text. Record your voice and compare your story with the story in the book.

- Training 5. Do the same with Training 5.

- Training 6. Read the summary 2-3 times. You don't have to memorise it now.

5) Practise Training N27 in Present Simple, and practise Training N31 in Past Simple.

Training 27

Helga is a translator. She translates books from English into Hungarian. Helga translates perfectly. Helga likes translating but she hates typing. Helga never types her translations. She never writes her translations, either. Helga has a very good assistant. Helga dictates and her assistant types the texts into the computer. Helga doesn’t like the computer and the computer doesn’t like Helga. Whenever Helga tries to use the computer, it refuses to work. However, the computer never refuses to work for the assistant. They adore each other.

Training 31

6) Do this test from Topic-Based Tests for Beginners.

Complete the sentences with my, your, his, her, our, their.

1. Mr. Doss lives at _____ parent’s house in the suburbs.
2. Mr. Slater lives in the city. _____ apartment is very small.
3. Ms. Kramer lives in the country. _____ house is very big.
4. I live two kilometres from Ms. Kramer. _____ house is smaller than hers.
5. Ms. Kramer has a big party every weekend. Many people come to _____ parties.
6. Mr. Doss drives _____ truck from the city to Ms. Kramer’s house every weekend.
7. I never have parties at _____ house.
8. You live very far away. _____ apartment is in Paris.
9. Mr. Slater visited me. He left _____ hat in my house.
10. I still have his hat in _____ closet.
11. Ms. Kramer visited you. She left _____ sunglasses on your kitchen counter.
12. The sunglasses are still in _____ kitchen.
13. Mr. Doss and Mr. Slater own a cabin. _____ cabin is by a lake.
14. They do not go to _____ cabin in winter. It is too cold.
15. I like to visit their cabin. I drive there in _____ car.
16. We met in Paris. _____ hotel rooms were on the same floor.
17. You visited me last year. You slept on _____ couch.
18. We went to one of Ms. Kramer’s parties. _____ party was excellent.
19. Mr. Doss was there. He played _____ guitar.
20. We cooked a meal in the kitchen. Everyone liked _____ food.

See the key to this test below.

Read the story-based test 2-3 times. Try to memorise the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.

Key to Test 3, Accommodation.
1. his 2. his 3. her 4. my 5. her 6. his 7. my 8. your 9. his 10. my 11. her 12. your 13. their 14. their 15. my 16. our 17. my 18. her 19. his 20. our

12/27/2013

Week 3, day 5

Today's topic is Area Where You Live.

1) Let's start with a conversation about the places where Alan and Maurice live.

- Listen to the dialogue and the three stories, the three summaries of the conversation, looking at the picture, without reading the texts. Listen 2-3 times. After that listen to the dialogue and the summaries again looking at the texts and check whether you could understand all the details or not.

AREA WHERE YOU LIVE

Maurice: Where is your hometown?

Alan: My hometown is in Wisconsin.

Maurice: I’ve never heard of Wisconsin. Where is it?

Alan: Wisconsin is in the United States.

Maurice: Is it near Mexico?

Alan: No, it isn’t. It’s in the north, near Canada.

Maurice: I see. What is the name of your hometown?

Alan: Ashland. It’s a small town. About five hundred people live there.

Maurice: Do you often visit Ashland?

Alan: No. It’s very boring and there isn’t much to do.

Maurice: Are there many bars?

Alan: Yes, but they’re all the same. Is your hometown more exciting than mine?

Maurice: Yes, it is. My hometown is Paris, France.

Alan: Wow! That is exciting. Tell me about it.

Maurice: Well, there are hundreds of bars and cafes. There are many festivals.

Alan: I want to go there some day.

Maurice: There is one bad thing about Paris.

Alan: What is that?

Maurice: There are American tourists everywhere.

Training 1

Alan: “I come from a small town called Ashland. It is in the United States, in Wisconsin. It isn’t near Mexico. It is in the north, near Canada. Ashland is very small. About five hundred people live there. I don’t often visit Ashland. It is very boring and there isn’t much to do there. It has many bars but they are all the same.”

1. Where do you come from?

2. Is it a big or a small town?

3. Where is it?

4. Is it in the south near Mexico or in the north near Canada?

5. How many people live there?

6. How often do you visit Ashland?

7. Is it interesting or boring?

8. Why is it boring?

9. What about bars?

Training 2

Maurice: “I think that I am a lucky person because I come from a very beautiful city. My hometown is Paris, France. It is a very exciting place. There are hundreds of bars and cafes there. There are many festivals, too. There is only one bad thing about Paris. Many tourists come to Paris and I don’t like it.”

1. Are you a lucky or an unlucky person?

2. Why are you lucky?

3. Which town is your hometown?

4. What kind of place is that?

5. How many cafes and bars are there?

6. What about festivals?

7. Are there a lot of bad things about Paris?

8. What is that?

9. Why don’t you like it?

Training 3

Alan and Maurice are speaking about their hometowns. Alan comes from a very small town in America called Ashland. It has five hundred people and it is very boring. Maurice comes from one of the most exciting cities in the world - Paris. There are hundreds of bars and cafes and many festivals there. But Maurice says that there is one bad thing about Paris. There are a lot of tourists there, especially American tourists.

- Read the dialogue and the summaries yourself recording your voice. Then listen to the original texts and to your voice sentence by sentence.

- Training 1. Answer the questions. Read the first question and answer it, then read the second... and so on.

- Now just look at the questions and answer them one by one. Do it 2-3 times. Try not to stop after each question.

- Say the text of Training one without looking at the text. Record your voice and compare your story with the story in the book.

- Training 2. Do the same with Training 2.

- Training 3. Read the summary 2-3 times. You don't have to memorise it now.

2) Look at the picture and listen to Topic 24, Life in the City 2-3 times.

24. Life in the City

I live in a big city. I live in a block of flats. Life in the city is interesting. It is fast and dynamic. It is busy. The city is noisy and dangerous. That’s why people in the city are nervous. But I like life in the city. You can find a good job in the city. You can take public transport in the city. There are a lot of cinemas, theatres, pubs, and concert halls in the city. You can go to a restaurant in the city. You can always meet your friends in the city. Cities have a lot of schools and hospitals. There are a lot of shops, department stores and markets in the city.

- Answer the questions

1. Where do you live?

2. Do you live in a house?

3. What do you think of life in the city?

4. Why do you think that life in the city is interesting?

5. Is there anything wrong with life in the city?

6. Do you like life in the city?

7. What can you do in the city?

8. How many cinemas, theatres, pubs are there in the city?

9. Has the city got many schools and hospitals?

10. What about shops and markets?

- Try to memorise the text.

- Say the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.

3) Revise Training N14 (has/have) in Present Simple, and practise Training N29 (had) in Past Simple.

Training N14

Tom hasn’t got a mother. Tom hasn’t got a father. Tom hasn’t got a flat. Tom hasn’t got a car. Tom hasn’t got a computer. Tom hasn’t got a television. Tom hasn’t got a radio. Tom isn’t a tramp. Tom is a boy. He has got an aunt. Her name is Aunt Polly. And his name is Tom Sawyer.

- Listen and read the text now. Stop the recording after each sentence and try to imitate the native speaker.

Training 29

4) Listen to Topic 24, Life in the City in Past Simple. Read it several times and answer the questions.

24. Life in the city_past tense

When I was a student, I lived in a big city. Life in the city was interesting. There were a lot of cinemas, theatres, pubs, and concert halls in the city. There were a lot of shops, department stores and markets. I could always go to the theatre or meet my friends.

1. Where did you live when you were a student?

2. Why was life in the city interesting?

3. Were there any shops and markets in the city?

4. What could you always do?

5) Do this test from another book by Alexander Pavlenko Topic-Based Tests for Beginners. Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple form.

1. Three years ago I (to rent) _____ a house near the ocean.
2. The house (to be) _____ very small.
3. The faucet in the bathroom (to drip) _____ all the time.
4. The table in the kitchen (to have) _____ a broken leg.
5. The stove never (to work) _____.
6. I always (to eat) _____ dinner at the Lighthouse Cafe.
7. I (to work) _____ as a lifeguard.
8. My friends and I (to have) _____ parties in the backyard of my little house.
9. Everybody (to say) _____ that my house was ugly.
10. I (to love) _____ that house.
11. Two years ago I (to own) _____ a big apartment in the city.
12. I (to live) _____ with my girlfriend.
13. We (to be) _____ lawyers.
14. Everything in the apartment (to be) _____ very new.
15. My friends (to say) _____ that the apartment was very nice.
16. I (to hate) _____ that apartment.
17. Last year I (to move) _____ to a new house by the ocean.
18. I (to have) _____ a big party.
19. All my friends (to come) _____.
20. They (to like) _____ my new house.

See the key to this test at end of Week 3, Day 5.

Read the story-based test 2-3 times. Try to memorise the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.

6) Practise Black Jack Comes Back, Chapter 4, Part 1 (Picture 1)

EN Black Jack Chapter Four Part One

Key to Test 1, Accommodation.
1. rented 2. was 3. dripped 4. had 5. worked 6. ate 7. worked 8. had 9. said 10. loved 11. owned 12. lived 13. were 14. was 15. said 16. hated 17. moved 18. had 19. came 20. liked