Assignment 5
Answer the following questions using patterns from the previous exercise:
1) What are you recollections of the first day in the university?
2) What cultural differences between people have you spotted while travelling?
3) Is Moscow your native city? If you are not a Muscovite, what was your first impression of Moscow?
4) Do you know people who have ever worked as volunteers for nonprofit organizations? Does anything in this activity seem to you surprising, praiseworthy, strange, absurd or singular?
Assignment 6.
Express your fear or apprehension of some future event. Use subjunctive mood forms or modal verbs as required.
Model: I fear that I may/might/can/could/will be reprimanded for my actions.
1) You are not prepared for the test in grammar.
2) You are putting on weight.
3) Yesterday you were too tough on your date who was half an hour late.
4) You don’t know whether your skills are enough to obtain the job.
5) You are not sure whether your mother-in-law will like your present.
6) Your friend’s snobbish manner drives you crazy.
7) You don’t have time to pack your suitcase as the train leaves in an hour.
Assignment 7.
Is there anything that you fear in life? Related to your personal life, relationships with people, education or work? Do you know English equivalents for various phobias? What are these people afraid of? Complete the sentences paying attention to verb forms after expressions of fear.
1) An agoraphobic is a person who fears he … if he … .
2) A claustrophobe is a person who fears he …
3) A hydrophobe is a person who fears that a tank full of water … .
4) A nyctophobe is a person who fears that something catastrophic … .
5) A toxiphobe is a person who fears he … .
6) A xenophobe is a person who fears that … people … .
Assignment 8.
You are irritated by the way people behave in the following situations. What would you say to them? Choose an idiom from the list and use an appropriate grammatical structure to express your annoyance.
Model: I wish you would call a spade a spade (call things by their proper names).
Idioms: to have a change of heart about somebody, to drag one’s feet on something, to get a life, to beat about the bush, to eat away at somebody.
1) A person doesn’t want to say openly what he has to say. He irritates you by making innuendos that clearly show he can’t bring himself to start an open talk.
2) You subordinate is wasting time instead of putting serious effort into the project. You want him to accelerate the process.
3) Your brother is always worrying about everything. Everything seems an obstacle for him.
4) Your sister is constantly nagging her husband for whom you have deep respect.
5) Your friend obviously disapproves of your common friend, Tom, who is a good fellow.