Practice the following tongue-twister till you can read it very quickly. She sells sea shells by the sea shore

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

 

Oral exercises

Match the antonyms.

boring hot dangerous stupid safe ugly right late low fast small beautiful interesting clever wrong early big high cold slow

4 Find in the dictionary as many words as you can for the given key word.

Example: Bus station – bus, fare, stop, cashier, operator.

Railway station –

Airport –

Sea or river port –

 

Answer the questions.

a) Do you like traveling?

b) Do you like to travel by car?

c) What are the pluses and minuses of going by car?

d) Have you ever traveled by plane? If yes, how did you find it?

e) What is bad in going by train?

f) Would you like to go on a sea cruise? Why?

g) If you could choose, where would you go?

 

Act out the dialogues from exercise 1 in class.

 

In groups of four make a research to find out the missing names.

Country Capital
Australia Canberra
_____ Brussels
Brazil Brasilia
Bulgaria _____
Canada Ottawa
_____ Peking
Cyprus Nicosia
_____ Prague
Denmark Copenhagen
Egypt _____
_____ Tallinn
Finland _____
France Paris
_____ Berlin
Greece Athens
Hungary _____
Iceland Reykjavik
India New Deli
_____ Dublin
_____ Rome
Japan _____
New Zealand Wellington
Poland _____
Romania _____
_____ Moscow
Spain _____
_____ Stockholm
_____ Bern
Thailand Bangkok
The Netherlands _____
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (The UK) _____
The United States of America (the USA, The US) Washington D.C.
_____ Ankara
_____ Kiev
Vietnam Hanoi

Sort the countries by the continents.

America Asia Australia Europe
The USA India Australia Bulgaria
       

Remember the following verbs in three forms.

1. spend spent spent проводить время
2. stand stood stood стоять
3. teach taught taught обучать
4. tell told told рассказывать
5. think thought thought думать
6. understand understood understood понимать
7. wake woke woken будить
8. wear wore worn носить (одежду)
9. win won won выигрывать
10. write wrote written писáть

 

Give the missing form of the verb or the translation.

1. mean - - значить
2. lend - lent давать в долг
3. lead led - -
4. - lay lain -
5. - met - -
6. - - lost терять
7. - - - покидать
8. - - - знать
9.   let - -
10.   - - делать
11. ring - - -
12. - - run -
13. - - - петь
14. see - - -
15. - spoke - -

Grammar

Modal Verbs

Remember! Некоторые из модальных глаголов имеют форму прошедшего времени, а некоторые нет, поэтому для прошедшего и будущего времени у них есть фразы-заменители.

 

 

Настоящее время Прошедшее время Будущее время
can could / was/were able to will be able to
may might / was/were permitted to will be permitted to
must had to was/were to will have to will be to