Practice the following dialogues replacing the words in bold type by the phrases in brackets.
S1 Does your sister like milk?
S2 No, she doesn’t, but she likes juice (apple juice, peach juice).
S1 Does Mark like milk?
S2 No, he doesn’t, but he likes mineral water (Cola, Fanta, any soda).
S1 Do they like milk?
S2 No, they don’t, but they like tea(coffee, cocoa).
19 Choose the correct auxiliary verb: do, don’t, does, doesn’t.
a) Harry and Joe _____ smoke.
b) I _____ go to the cinema every week.
c) _____ Alice work in a grocery store?
d) In the evenings we _____ listen to music, we watch TV.
e) My brother _____ speak Japanese.
f) _____ the party end late at night?
g) _____ you come from Italy?
h) My nephew ______ go in for football, he likes ice-hockey.
Choose the correct verb form.
a) Andy take/takes violin lessons in the afternoon.
b) I exercise/exercises from six to eight every day.
c) My parents live/lives in the village.
d) Does your mother work/works as a saleswoman?
e) They help/helps each other very much.
f) Where do you go/goes on vacations?
g) My homework take/takes all my time in the evenings.
h) Does your sister call/calls you Tima?
i) All his cousins miss/misses him very much.
j) Why don’t they like/likes each other?
Using the survey data you had collected for exercise 16 describe your neighbor.
Example: Gulshat studies on Saturdays.
She doesn’t wash the dishes at home.
Take-home assignment
Read the text about Ben Winston and give short answers to the questions as in the example.
Ben Winston is thirty-five years old. He works as a sports writer for a newspaper in Manchester. He writes stories about British football, basketball, and volleyball. He goes to the games regularly in the afternoons and evenings. Then he goes home on foot and writes about the games on his computer. He e-mails his stories to his boss at about midnight. Ben writes 10 or 15 stories a week. People like Ben’s stories because they are very exciting. Ben likes writing about sports because he is a sport fan himself.
Example: Is Ben forty years old? No, he isn’t. Does Ben work in
Manchester? Yes, he does.
a) Does he work for a football team?
b) Does Ben watch the games in the afternoon?
c) Does he go home by taxi?
d) Does Ben write about the games at home?
e) Does he send his stories to his friend?
f) Does Ben write 20 stories every week?
g) Do people like Ben's stories?
h) Are his stories boring?
i) Does Ben like his work?
j) Is Ben a sport fan?
Unit 2 Appearance
Dialogue
Listen and read the dialogues.
Dialogue 1
Peter Have you seen our new computer programmer?
Jack Not yet. Why?
Peter She is a very pretty girl.
Jack Really?
Peter Yes, she is tall and slim. In my opinion, she has a very good
figure. Her eyes are blue. Also, she has full lips, and long hair.
Jack What’s her name?
Peter Rose Brown. She’s about twenty-five years old.
Jack I see!
Dialogue 2
Aliya Hi Lena!
Lena Hi Aliya! What has happened?
Aliya I am looking for my cousin; he has come from Chelyabinsk.
He went shopping an hour ago and I am afraid he has lost his way.
Lena I am just coming from the grocery; I might have seen him. What
does he look like?
Aliya He is quite good-looking, of medium height with light-brown
wavy hair and hazel eyes.
Lena How long is his hair?
Aliya Shoulder-length.
Lena I think I saw him in the street; he was asking the way.
Aliya Ah, there he is, at last!
Vocabulary
| General description –общее описание | |
| Positive - положительное | |
| beautiful | красивый (обычно о женщине) |
| good-looking | красивый |
| handsome | красивый (о мужчине) |
| pretty ['priti] | хорошенький, прелестный (о женщине) |
| Negative - отрицательное | |
| plain | некрасивый |
| ugly | уродливый |
| Height and built - рост и телосложение | |
| fat | толстый |
| medium built | среднее телосложение |
| medium height [hait] | средний рост |
| muscular ['mÙskjulə] | мускулистый |
| overweight [,əuvə'weit] | полный |
| short | невысокий |
| slim | стройный |
| tall [to:l] | высокий |
| Hair - волосы | |
| blonde | блондин / ка |
| brunette [bru:'net] | брюнет / ка |
| curly ['kə:li] | кудрявые |
| dark | темные |
| dark brown | шатен / ка |
| fair [feə] | светлые |
| light brown | темно русые |
| straight [streit] | прямые |
| wavy | вьющиеся |
| Special features – особые черты | |
| beard [biəd] | борода |
| broad (narrow) shoulders [bro:d] ['nærəu] | широкие (узкие) плечи |
| fair (dark) skin | светлая (темная) кожа |
| moustache [mə'sta:ò] | усы |
| tattoo [tæ'tu:] | татуировка |
Pronunciation