Ex. 8. Making up one of the topics for oral composition and tell it

1.Talk about your parents

2.Tell about your grandparents

3.Do you have many relatives? Talk about them.

4.Do you have any elder brother or sister? Describe his or her family.

5.Is it difficult to be the only child?

6.You like / don’t like your friend’s fiancй (e). Tell why.

7.What does your mother/father do? Tell about his/ her occupation.

8.Showing your family album to your friend.

Learning recommendations:

Class activity: In this unit of the course book students are supposed to get introduced with the new material: read the text, translate into their native language, summarize in English, complete post-reading tasks and grammar exercises, discuss new speech topics, compose monologues and dialogues in the class.

Home task: Students are assigned to find out additional short information about specific topic of the unit, complete grammar exercises, prepare reports given by the teacher.

Literature:

1. Учебно-методический комплекс для студентов 1 курса неязыковых специальностей, М.Ж. Тусупбекова, А.М. Мухтарханова, 2008, Астана, _____стр.

Unit 3.

FAMILY.

Text: Home.

Grammar: The verb “To Have”.

Практические цели: Ознакомление с лексическим материалом по теме “Family”. Ознакомление с новым грамматическим материалом, развитие навыков изучающего чтения и перевода на основе текста “Home”, развитие умений и навыков аудирования, просмотрового чтения.

Home.

George Meadows, the master of a prosperous farm, was then a man of fifty, and his wife was a year or two younger. Their three daughters were lovely and their two sons were handsome and strong. They were merry, industrious and kindly. They were happy and deserved their happiness. But the real master of the house was not George, it was his mother. She was about 70, tall, with grey hair and though her face was wrinkled, her eyes were dark, bright and shrewd.

I knew the story of George's mother and his uncle, whose name was George. About fifty years ago uncle George and his younger brother, was a good-looking fellow, but not so steady as his brother, that's why Emily chose Tom. George had gone away to sea for twenty years. Now and then he sent them presents. Then there was no news of him. When Tom died Mrs. Meadows wrote George about it but they never got an answer and decided that he must be dead …

Some days ago to their greatest surprise they got a letter, which informed them that George Meadows, who was ill and felt that he had not much longer to live wanted to see the house in which he was born.Iwas invited, tо come and see him.

It goes without saying I accepted the invitation. I found the whole family in the kitchen. I was amused to see that Mrs. Meadows wore her best silk dress. I was introduced to the old captain. He was very thin and his skin hung on his bones like an old suit that was too large for him. He had lost nearly all his teeth. It was strange to see those two old people and to think that half a century ago he had loved her and she was in love with another.

"Have you ever been married, Captain Meadows?" I asked. — "Not me," he said and added: "I said I would never marry anyone but you, Emily, and I never have". There was some satisfaction in his voice.