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