I. Write out words and expressions pertaining to the topic“People’s Appearance”

II. Give literary translation into Ukrainian of the following sentences:

1. Could you do me a real favour, please?

2. I’ve arranged to meet this friend and I’m going to be late.

3. You’d better tell me what he looks like.

5. Where do you want me to meet him?

5. But I should be able to recognize him easily.

III. Answer the comprehension questions:

1. Whom did Jane arrange to meet?

2. Why did she ask Bob for a favour?

3. What did Tony look like?

4. Why did Jane explain how to recognize Tony?

5. Where did Jane and Tony arrange to meet?

6. Why did Bob ask what Tony was interested in?

7. What did Jane promised to do at the end of the conversation?

IV. Find in the text English equivalents to the following words and phrases:

зробити ласку; домовлятися; біля телефона; середнього зросту; носити окуляри; мати вуса; неохайно одягнений; футболка; впізнати; наверху; дуже маленький; вузька вулиця; цікавитись чимось; мати на увазі; насправді.

V. What questions could you ask to try to find out:

· whether your friend can help you;

· whether your friend agrees to help you;

· what the person looks like (ask several questions for details);

· what the person’s interests are.

VI. Make the followings groups of words into sentences. Add as many words as you wish. You can use the words in any order.

1) tomorrow; my friend; meet; arrange; at 2 o’clock; I.

2) be; he; ring; on the phone; can; I; because; not.

3) can; you; easily; him; recognize; because; always.

4) find; you; a tea shop; little; upstairs; at; can; him.

5) be interested in; sports; music; he; like; just; you.

VII. Compose a dialogue.

Your cousin asks you to meet her friend at the bus station because she has no opportunity to do it herself. Ask her as many questions as you need to recognize her friend.

Text 3

Everyday Routine

We rise at 7.00. We sit down to breakfast in the dining-room at about 7.30 or 7.45. The children of course wash and dress themselves except for the baby. It is the father who usually washes the baby, as he always stands by his father watching while he shaves.

After breakfast I wash up, using a plate rack for all the china. We use detergents in the washing up that is why I water and rinse the cups and plates before putting them in the rack. Then I sweep the kitchen and put all tidy. After that I make the beds and tidy up. The children make their own beds.

About every other day I take a carpet-sweeper and a duster upstairs, sweep the carpets with the carpet-sweeper, or vacuum them, dust the furniture. Every day I put the children’s things away in their cupboards. I do not like any things left around in the room and the children are rather untidy. Every other day I wash the basin in the bathroom and the bath, using an abrasive powder and a cloth. Then I take a stiff brush and dustpan and brush down the stair carpet that always seems to get very dusty and fluffy with four children and a dog running up and down the stairs. Similarly I treat the other rooms in the house. In winter it is necessary to clean the dining-room every day as we have an open coal fire and that makes everything very dust.

About every two months I thoroughly turn out each room, move the furniture, dust the books, polish the furniture, clean the windows on the inside, vacuum the carpets.

As I have children I usually do one big wash each week, usually on Monday, when the bed linen and the clothes are washed. The ironing is the worst job with many white shirts and children’s white school blouses or school frocks in summer.

All ordinary wives do the mending of clothes themselves. They have an electric sewing machine and can easily mend sheets, etc., and I also make some of the children’s clothes.

An efficient, economical houswife in London suburbs goes perhaps every other day to the shops with her basket (many of them have little baskets on wheels which they pull) and go the butcher’s, the grocer’s, the fishmonger’s, the greengrocer’s and the baker’s. I do not like shopping so I find it best to have an order about once a week at the grocer’s, the greengrocer’s and the butcher’s. I therefore have nearly all I need for the week except bread.

English husbands are usually good at helping their wives. My husband leaves home at 8.00 and does not get back till 7.00 so in the week I like him to be free from duties. Now the children are older and able to help so well, it is not necessary for him to help as much as he used to; so his spare time is used in gardening, in repairing such things as electrical appliances - the toaster, the electric fire, the washing machine, the sewing machine. He also does carpentry, children’s toys, and the bicycles. He is very “handy” and saves us a lot of money by putting right anything that goes wrong. He never counts what he does.

(from a letter of an English housewife)

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