Lesson 22: Friends
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Task 1 Read and match. Have problems? See the conspectus for help
Task 2 Read and translate. What was the problem?
Task 3 Read and translate. How many friends should you have?

Task 4: Послушайте людей, которые с кем-то поссорились. Сопоставьте говорящих с их фото:

Lesson 23: Love and flirt
Task 5: Read and translate the text. What is the play on words here?
Task 6: Read and translate the texts. Write out new words and learn
Task 7: read and complete

  1. “He simply sat down on the ledge and forgot everything _____ [accept or except] the marvelous mystery.”— Lawrence Sargent Hall
  2. "I live in the Oakland Hills in a tiny house on a street so windy you can’t drive more than ten miles per hour. I rented it because the _____ [ad or add] said this: 'Small house in the trees with a garden and a fireplace. Dogs welcome, of course.'"— Pam Houston
  3. "Francis wondered what _____ [advice or advise] a psychiatrist would have for him."— John Cheever
  4. "The _____ [aid or aide] gets out of the way, picking her skirt out of the rubble of children at her feet."— Rosellen Brown
  5. "He seemed to want to recapture the cosseted feeling he'd had when he'd been sick as a child and she would serve him flat ginger _____ [ail or ale], and toast soaked in cream, and play endless card games with him, using his blanket-covered legs as a table."— Alice Elliott Dark
  6. "He sat down and leaned forward, pulling the chair's rear legs into the _____ [air, ere, or heir] so that the waitress could get by."— Stanley Elkins
  7. "The stewardess was moving down the _____ [aisle, I'll, or isle], like a trained nurse taking temperatures in a hospital ward, to see that they were all properly strapped in for the take-off."— Martha Gellhorn
  8. "Mrs. Parmenter laughed at his _____ [allusion or illusion] to their summer at Mrs. Sterrett's, in Rome, and gave him her coat to hold."— Willa Cather
  9. "In the long years between, she had fashioned many fine dresses—gowned gay girls for their conquests and robed fair brides for the _____ [altar or alter]."— Mary Lerner
  10. "On a Saturday morning soon after he came to live with her, he turned over her garbage while she was at the grocery store and _____ [ate or eight] rancid bacon drippings out of a small Crisco can."— Pam Durban
  11. "The barn was bigger than a church, and the fall's fresh hay _____ [bails or bales] were stacked to the roof in the side mows."— John Updike
  12. "Her two spare dresses were gone, her comb was gone, her checkered coat was gone, and so was the mauve hair-_____ [band or banned] with a mauve bow that had been her hat."— Vladimir Nabokov
  13. "Without the shelter of those trees, there is a great exposure—back yards, clotheslines, woodpiles, patchy sheds and barns and privies—all _____ [bare or bear], exposed, provisional looking."— Alice Munro
  14. "This was the time when outfields were larger than they are today and well-hit balls would roll for a long time, giving runners ample time to round the _____ [bases or basis] for a home run."— Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney
  15. "The conductor had his knotted signal cord to pull, and the motorman _____ [beat or beet] the foot gong with his mad heel."— Saul Bellow
  16. "Nancy held the cup to her mouth and _____ [blew or blue] into the cup."— William Faulkner
  17. "A pigeon landed nearby. It hopped on its little red feet and pecked into something that might have been a dirty piece of stale _____ [bread or bred] or dried mud."— Isaac Bashevis Singer
  18. "He was wearing a new hat of a pretty biscuit shade, for it never occurred to him to _____ [buy, by, or bye] anything of a practical color; he had put it on for the first time and the rain was spoiling it."— Katherine Anne Porter

Answers to the Exercise
1. except 2. ad 3. advice 4. aide 5. ale 6. air 7. aisle 8. allusion 9. altar 10. ate 11. bales 12. band 13. bare 14. bases 15. beat 16. blew 17. bread 18. buy
Lesson 24: American English vs. British English
Task 8 Read and translate.
Task 9 Read and remember. Make 8 sentences of your own in American English
ADVICE
Прочитали текст или прослушали аудио? Посмотрели видео? Составляйте мини-словарики с новыми словами и фразами! Словарик можно вести в специальных приложениях, в "Заметках" в телефоне или в старых добрых бумажных блокнотах. Но! Делать это необходимо. Задание: прямо сейчас из текстов выше выпишите всё, что не смогли сразу перевести в такой "личный словарик".

Задания для сдачи Вашему куратору в Telegram

(доступно для тарифа "С преподавателем"):

Task 1: a text message for your teacher

What is the best friend? Why? Do you have one? Write 5-7 sentences.

Task 2: a voice message for your teacher

Have you ever fallen out with your friend? Speak for 1 minute.

Task 3: a voice message for your teacher

Choose 5 lines from ex.6 to use in a bar for someone you like. Read and translate them. Speak for 1 minute.

Task 4: a text message for your teacher

Rewrite these sentences in American English:


  • He isn't hungry. He has already had lunch.
  • - Have you done your homework yet? - Yes, I've just finished it.
  • You could have got hurt!
  • He's got very thin.
  • She has got serious about her career
  • Let's go on holidays ( or hols)!
  • They live in a flat.
  • At the weekend.

Task 5: a video message for your teacher

Выберите любую тему из пройденных на курсе, которая Вам пришлась больше по душе. Запишите video-talk для Вашего преподавателя. Начните с: Hey, I'm (name). I've finished the course SpeakUp. I want to tell you about..... Speak for 1 minute.

Task 6

Найдите себе англоязычного собеседника онлайн (лучше 2-3х человек). В течение этой недели обсудите с ним следующие темы:

Family
Work
Routine
Traveling
Hobbies
Food and nutrition
Home
City you live in
Culture
Education

"Где мне найти собеседников!?"
Вот здесь:
https://www.tandem.net/ru или приложение TANDEM
https://www.hellotalk.com/?lang=ru - или приложение HelloTalk
можно использовать даже сайты знакомств, как Tinder!