WE LEARN ENGLISH. PART I. Ромаданова О.Н - 20 стр.

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- kite-flying – запускание воздушного змея
- to go out of town = to go to the country – уезжать за город
- a seaside – морское побережье
- to stay at a hotel – останавливаться в гостинице
- to relax – отдыхать, расслабляться
- to bathe – купаться
- to lie (mind: lay, lain) in the sun = to sunbathe – загорать
- to go fishing – рыбачить
- to go boating – кататься на лодке
- to go windsurfing – заниматься виндсерфингом
- to toboggan – кататься на санках
- to make a snow-man – лепить снеговика
- to play snowballs – играть в снежки
Task 2. Transcribe the following words and practise their pronunciation.
To prefer, a computer, a crossword, others, a museum, a gallery, a concert, a
hall, special, to devote, drawing, a photograph, kite-flying, a seaside, wonderful,
a chance, to bathe, windsurfing, a beach, a possibility, tobogganing, an
opportunity, a snowball.
Task 3. Answer the following questions on the text.
1. How many days a week do British people usually work?
2. What do they say to each other when they leave work on Friday?
3. What do people usually do when they stay at home at the weekend?
4. What special hobbies do English people have?
5. What is kite-flying?
6. What kind of kites do you know?
7. Why do people like to spend their weekends at the seaside?
8. What do they do on the beach?
9. How do people enjoy themselves in winter?
10. Compare the ways people spend their weekends in Russia and in Britain.
Task 4. Ann McGregor lives in London. She is thirty-four and she works for the
BBC. She interviews people on an early morning news programme called The
World Today. Every weekday she gets up at 3.00 in the morning because the
programme starts at 6.30 a.m. She loves her work because she meets a lot of
interesting people, but she loves her weekends too. Read what Ann says about
her weekends. Fill in the gaps with the verbs in the box.
love relax cook have like stay chat eat live arrive
come go visit bring go out get up leave listen
On Fridays I ___ home from BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoon and I just ___.
On Friday evenings I don’t ___, but sometimes a friend ___ for dinner. He or she
___ the wine and I ___ the meal. I ___ cooking! We ___ to music or we just ___.
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