Interesting facts about fast foods

1. Put disjunctive questions(правда?не так ли?) to the sentences and answer them:

1. Fast food restaurants are very popular today.

2. Their number is growing.

3. Mc Donald's has opened 31,000 restaurants in 126 countries.

4. Burger King built 11,100 restaurants in 65 countries.

5. Chinese and Japanese Sushi restaurants offer different Asian foods.

6. Food high in fat and sugar leads to uncontrolled obesity (ожирению).

7. There are one billion overweight across the world.

8. For the last 30 years the number of people with obesity has been growing.

9. I hope, you don’t eat fast food very often.

10. In future fast food restaurants will not be as popular as today.

TEXT 2. THЕ WORKING DAY OF A STUDENT

VOCABULARY PRACTICE

1. Master the active vocabulary from the topic:

week-days – будние дни

week-end – конец недели – выходные дни

wake up – просыпаться

alarm-clock – будильник

go to bed – идти спать

have / take a shower (a bath) – принимать душ (ванну)

wash – умываться

put on = dress – одеваться

take off – раздеваться

brush (clean) teeth – чистить зубы

brush (comb /do) hair – причесываться

get ready = prepare –подготовиться

have breakfast/ lunch/ dinner/ supper – завтрак, ланч, обед, ужин

be / get tired – уставать

have a rest – отдохнуть

sleep – спать, to fall asleep – заснуть

hurry = be in a hurry – торопиться

get into / off the car / taxi; get on / off the bus / plane

2. Learn the verbs – GO / COME / LEAVE / ARRIVE:

go from Grodno to Minsk уехать из Гродно в Минск
come to Minsk приехать в Минск
leave Grodno for Minsk уехать из (покинуть) Гродно в Минск
arrive in Europe, in Belarus, in Minsk arriveat the University, at the meeting прибыть (приехать) в … прибыть в … / на …

3. Translate sentences, pay attention to the prepositions:

1. На Новый Год студенты возвращаются домой, в их родной город.

2. Он вышел из дому (покинул дом) в 7:30.

3. Туристы прибыли в Москву в 8 a.m.

4. Поезд прибыл на платформу № 2.

5. Они уехали из Гродно в Минск.

4. Match the synonyms:

get ready comb
brush hair prepare
to dress take off
to undress put on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday week-end
Saturday and Sunday week-days

5. Take turns to ask your partners about the time they need to do the
following:

Modal:– How long does (did/ will) it take you to do your homework?

– It takes (took/will take) me about 3 hours to do my homework.

every day yesterday tomorrow
sleep at night take a shower eat breakfast do morning exercises go to the Institute do the homework write a report prepare for the seminar watch TV listen to the news11. meet your friend play volleyball

READING PRACTICE

Read and translate the text. Open the brackets, pay special attention to adverbs of time:

I’m a first-year student. My working dayusually (begin) very early. On week-days the alarm clock (wake) me up at 6 o’clock a.m. Some students after they (get up), (take) a shower. Unfortunately, it’s not about me, since my childhood, I never (love) water. And I never (do) morning exercises, because I usually (not have) enough time.

Yesterday, I (wash), (dress) and (have) a cup of coffee with a sandwich. While I (have) breakfast, I (listen) to the latest news on the radio. I must (know) what weather (be) during the day.

Every day at 7:15 I (put) on my coat and (leave) home for the Institute. It (not take) me long (get) there by Metro or by bus, as I (not live) far from the Institute. Since I (enter) the Institute, I always (come) to my classes on time. I (not like) to be late.

My classes always (start) at 8:30 in the morning and they (be) over at 1:45 in the afternoon. As a rule, there (be) three lectures or seminars a day. Tomorrow, if we (not have) a meeting, I (go) to the library. After I (take) some textbooks, I (go) home and (have) dinner.

Yesterday after dinner I (have) a short rest and then it (take) me more than three hours to prepare homework in different subjects. For an hour, from 5 to 6 o’clock I (do) grammar exercises and (learn) the text in English.

Most evenings I (go) to bed not later than 11 p.m.

SPEECH PRACTICE

1. Answer the following questions:

1. What time do you usually get up?

2. What did you do yesterday, after you got up?

3. Do you do morning exercises every day?

4. Who made breakfast for you in your childhood?

5. Who makes breakfast for you today?

6. How long does it take you to get to the Institute?

7. Are you always on time for the classes?

8. How many seminars have you had today?

9. What do you usually do after classes?

10. What are you doing right now?

11. What time did you come home yesterday?

12. Do you have dinner at home or at your Institute canteen?

13. How long does it take you to prepare the homework in English?

14. What will you do tonight?

15. What do you usually do to relax?

16. What were you doing when your friend phoned you yesterday?

17. What time did you go to bed last Sunday?

18. Will you still be sleeping at home, while the students are writing the Test Paper in English tomorrow morning?

2. Ask and answer your partners’s questions:

1. Когда он обычно просыпается / завтракает / уходит из дому / возвращается домой/ обедает / идёт спать?

2. Почему, как правило, он не делает зарядку / не обедает дома / не читает по вечерам?

3. Где он провёл прошлое воскресенье / лето; вчера обедал / ужинал?

4. Кто его завтра разбудит утром / для него приготовит завтрак / ему поможет сделать домашнее задание / с ним сходит в кино?

5. Алло, что ты сейчас делаешь? Я читаю / делаю домашнее задание по английскому.

6. Что он делал / с кем он разговаривал, когда вы пришли к нему вчера?

7. Что вы будете делать, когда вы приедете к нему: посмотрите футбол / пойдёте в кино / поужинаете?

8. Что вы будете делать завтра утром? Всё утро завтра я буду читать/ смотреть телевизор/ слушать музыку.

3. Choose the correct variant to complete the proverb and give the Russian equivalent:

“Never … till tomorrow, what you can do today”.

put in / put away / put down / put up / put off

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