About myself. II. Text A: «About myself», Text B: «My Biography».

I. Гласные звуки [i], [i: ].

II. Text A: «About myself», Text B: «My Biography».

И!.Личные местоимения, определенный и неопределен­ный артикль, множественное число существительных.

Phonetic warm-up (Фонетическая разминка)

Гласный звук [i] При произнесении кратког гласного звука [i] кончик языка находится у основа ния нижних зубов: оттенок русского звука [и] в cло вах шить, шило практически совпадает с английский [i]: it, sit, in

Гласный звук [i: ] При произнесении долгого глас ного [i: ] язык продвинут вперед, кончик языка каса ется нижних зубов, губы несколько растянуты и слег ка обнажают зубы. Оттенок русского звука [ц] в сло вах ива, иго, игры, избы практически совпадает английским звуком [к].

Сочетания ее, еа — читаются [i: ]. Например, meet peat.

Долгота звука влияет на лексическое значение слова.

Например: feet (ноги) — fit (вмещаться), stee (сталь) — still (все еще)

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W Exercise A

lead — lid

if — it — tip — kit

did — bill

mill — meal

pill — peel

keel — kill

sit — seat

♦ - Exercise В did — deed pit — peat fit — feet it — eat lid — lead

Exercise С

bin — bean

beat — bin

sit — seat

steel — still

feel — fill — feet

fit — eat — bean

simple — Pete — feel — peel

meet — meat — ill — bill — steel — fee¹

Exercise D Be — been — bean me — meet — meat see — seat — seed meal — seal — mean pea — Pete — peat sea — see — meet bee — been — feet mean — lean — keen

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my mother's mother, lives with us. She is very kind and helps us a lot.

Our family is very friendly, we have many friends. In summer many relatives come to visit us. And, of course, they use a chance to spend several weeks in beautiful Sochi.

In May I have finished school No 5 in Sochi. I did well in all the subjects but my favourite subjects at school were Physics and Computer Science. I also enjoyed Eng­lish lessons.

I am very interested in learning English because I al­ways wanted to become a programmer or maybe a busi­nesswoman. I also think that the knowledge of foreign languages helps in everyday life and career.

Two years ago I travelled much around Europe. I have visited France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. There the knowledge of English helped me a lot.

As you see, ' my biography isn't very long yet. But we'll meet again in the next lesson and I'll tell you more about myself. See you later...

Vocabulary:

introduce [mtra'dju: s] — представлять, знакомить

Black Sea coast [kaust] — побережье Черного моря

a first-year student — студент(ка) первого курса

region ['ri: giэп] — область

appearance [a'pisrans] — внешность

slim — стройная

career [ka'ria] — карьера

gymnastics [djim'nasstiks] — гимнастика

mathematician [maeGama'tifan] — математик

housewife ['hauswaif] — домохозяйка

several f'scvsrll — несколько

to do well — зд. успевать

chance [tfa: ns] — случай, шанс kind — добрый a lot — много

the Netherlands — Нидерланды the United Kingdom — Соединенное Королеве! Великобритания)

3 Add to your active vocabulary (Пополни свой. ивный словарь):

tall [to: l] — высокий

short [jo: t] — маленького роста

stout [staut] — приземистый, коренастый

slim — стройный

fat [faet] — толстый

plumpy [plAmpi] — полный

fair hair [fea'heo'] — светлые волосы

blonde [blond] — блондин(ка)

brunette [bru: 'net] — брюнет(ка)

gray hair — седые волосы

bold headed [bauld] — лысый

short sighted — близорукий

smart, clever, bright — умный (я)

stupid ['stjurpid] — тупой, глупый

boring — скучный

fun to be with — веселый человек

easy to go along — легкий в общении

quiet ['kwaiat] — спокойный

impulsive [im'pAlsiv] — порывистый, импульсивнк

aggressive [s'gresiv] — агрессивный

rude [ru: d] — невежливый, грубый

shy [Jai], confused [kan'fjirzd] — застенчивый

active ['aektiv] — активный

talkative ['to: kativ] — разговорчивый

enthusiastic [m9u: zi'aestik] — энтузиаст, затейниг

Unit 1

after Mark Twain I was born on the 30-th of November 1835 in the vil­lage of Florida, Missouri. My father was John Marshal Clemens.

According to tradition some of my great-great parents were pirates and slave traders — a respectable trade in

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the 16-th century. In my time I wished to be a pirate myself.

Florida contained a hundred people and when I was born I increased the population by one per cent. It had two streets and a lot of lanes. Both the streets and the lanes were paved [peiv] (мостить) with the same mate­rial — black mud in wet times, deep dust in dry. Most of the houses were of wood — there were none of brick and none of stone. Everywhere around were fields and woods.

My uncle was a farmer. I have never met a better man than he was. He was a middle-aged man whose head was clear and whose heart was honest and simple. I stayed at his house for three months every year till I was thirteen years old. Nowhere else was I happier than at his house. He had eight children and owned about fourteen Negro slaves whom he had bought from other farmers. My un­cle and everyone on the farm treated the slaves kindly. All the Negroes on the farm were friends of ours and with those of our own age we were playmates. Since my child­hood I have learned to like the black race and admire some of its fine qualities. In my school days nobody told me that it was wrong to sell and buy people. It is only much later that I realized all the horror of slavery.

The country school was three miles from my uncle's farm. It stood in a forest and could take in about twenty five boys and girls. We attended school once or twice a week. I was a sickly [' sikli] (хилый) child and lived mainly on medicine the first seven years of my life.

When I was twelve years old my father died. After my father's death our family was left penniless. I was taken from school at once and placed in the office of a local newspaper as printer's apprentice [a'prcntis] (подмас­терье) where I could receive board and clothes but no money.

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For ten years I worked in printshops of various cities. I started my journalistic life as a reporter on a newspa­per in San-Francisco. It was then that I began to sign my publications by my penname Mark Twain.

General understanding:

1. In what state was Samuel Clemens born?

2. What were the great-great parents of Mark Twain?

3. What did Mark Twain want to be?

4. What were the streets and lanes of Florida paved with?

5. How does the author describe his uncle?

6. How many slaves did Mark Twain's uncle own?

7. What was the author's attitude toward slavery?

8. Was Mark Twain a healthy boy?

9. When did the author start his career of a writer?