Act out this piece of prose by analogy with the text “Sharing a Flat”

Driving a car certainly has some advantages. To start with, it saves your time, and if you can’t wait at a bus stop, or a metro station, it gives you a great chance to reach the place you go to as quickly as you can. Also, you can give a lift to your friend, and that can be very helpful, and you’d be happy to avoid public transport.

TEXT 9 (I / L)

Ted had not seen his old friend Sam since they were at school together. Then Ted saw Sam at a business meeting which both men were at in a big hotel, and he went over and spoke to him.

"Hi, Sam!" Ted said happily. "How are you?"

"I'm very well, thank you, Ted," Sam answered, "and how are you?"

"Not too bad, thank you," Ted said. They sat down side by side and began to talk.

"I've got a wife and two children now," Sam began.

"Well," Ted answered, "I've got a wife and three children myself."

After half an hour, Sam said, "I must go and buy myself a toothbrush now. I left mine at home. Let's have dinner together this evening and then we can talk more."

"All right," Ted answered.

They met in the restaurant of the hotel, and they both began to talk about television.

Ted said, "I think it's very bad for people. When I was a young man, we did things ourselves – we didn't just watch other people. In the evenings, we sang songs or played music or cards with each other, or we read the newspaper or found ourselves something useful to do."

Sam nodded. "Yes," he said, "that's true, and perhaps once a week, or once a month, we went into the town specially to see a film in the cinema, and maybe to buy ourselves an ice cream."

"And now," Ted went on, "my children watch silly films on television almost every evening, and they don't do the work that their teachers give them. What will they do with themselves when they leave school?"

"Yes, it's very bad, isn't it?" Sam said. "But what can we do about it?"

"Well," Ted answered, "I've promised myself one thing: I'm going to sell our television set – as soon as the football season finishes at the end of this month."

CARD 9 (I / L)

I. Identification and reproduction of intonation patterns.

Read the following conversational context according to the intonation marks:

- Are you Èstill studying ^/Spanish?

- ^\Yes,︴but I Èhaven’t got enough ^\time Çfor it. I have Èso many ^\other things to Çdo.

- It’s the Èsame with ^\/me. I can ^\read _/Spanish now︴withÈout any ^\difficulty. But I Èstill find it rather _/difficult ︴to ^\speak ÇSpanish.

II. Use of rhythmic structures.

A) Read the following utterances using the most suitable rhythmic patterns.

1. From bad to worse.

2. It’s the greatest invention of the century.

B) Read the following utterances according to the suggested rhythmic pattern.

1. What subjects are you majoring in? (2 stress-rhythm)

III. Use of the pitch contours.

A) Use an appropriate contour to express an apology in your reaction.

- I’ve been waiting for you for an hour already.

- I’ve been awfully busy.

B) Ask an uncertainty disjunctive question.

- You haven’t eaten anything since morning, have you?

- Yes, I have. I had lunch at the university canteen.

IV. Auditory memory check.

Act out the conversation by analogy with the dialogue “University Students”.

- What are you going to study?

- Mathematics. I hope to work for a computer company in a few years. And what about your plans?

- I’ll be taking a course of chemistry. I don’t know yet how long it’ll last. I think I’ll find it fairly interesting.

TEXT 10 (I / L)

Bobby was six years old, and he went to school. There were nineteen other little boys and girls who were in his class, and they were all friends, so they often went to parties together. When one of the children had a birthday, he or she invited all the other children to come to a party, and at Christmas all the mothers gave parties for all the children. Bobby liked parties very much. He liked the games they played there – but he liked the nice food more. His favourites were cakes. Before a party, Bobby's mother always asked him not to eat too many cakes, and Bobby always answered, "Yes, Mummy," but he always ate all the cakes he was offered – and more if he could get them – and sometimes he was ill.

Christmas came again, and again there were a lot of parties. Bobby went to all of them. The last one was on January 6th. It was two days before school began. One evening before this party, Bobby's mother met the lady who had invited him and his friends, and she said to her, "Bobby always eats too many cakes at parties."

"Oh, that's all right," the lady answered. She told Bobby's mother not to be afraid, because at her parties, a child could only have three cakes – and the cakes were small!

"Oh, good!" Bobby's mother answered happily.

On January 6th, she took Bobby to the party and left him there. When the children began to eat, there were enough cakes for every child to have three, but Bobby took four and began to eat them.

"You can only have three cakes, Bobby!" said the lady. She asked him to put the fourth one back on the plate.

"I can't," answered Bobby. "I ate that one first."

CARD 10 (I / L)

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