Module 2

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UNIT 6

UNIT 5

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UNIT 3

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UNIT 1

MODULE 1

Task 1. Прослухайте наступний текст:

Jack Hawkins was the football coach at an American college, and he was always trying to find good players, but they weren’t always smart enough to be accepted by the college.

One day the coach brought an excellent young player to the dean of the college and asked that the student be allowed to enter without an examination. “Well,” the dean said after some persuasion, “I’d better ask him a few questions first.”

Then he turned to the student and asked him some very easy questions, but the student didn’t know any of the answers.

At last the dean said, “Well, what’s five times seven?”

The student thought for a long time and then answered, “Thirty-six.”

The dean threw up his hands and looked at the coach in despair, but the coach said earnestly, “Oh, please let him in, sir! He was only wrong by two.”

Task 2. Дайте відповіді на запитання:

1.Why did the football coach want the dean to let the student enter college without an examination?

2.What question did the dean ask the student?

3.What was the student’s answer?

4.What did the dean do then?

5. What did the coach say to the dean?

6.Who was better at arithmetic, the student or the coach?

Task 3. Надайте відповідні слова з тексту до наступних слів та словосполучень:

1. permitted

2. lack of hope

3. trying to get someone to agree

4. very good

5. very seriously

Task 4. Виберіть правильне слово із дужок та заповніть речення:

1. The results of all the examinations were _____________. (confident, confidential)

2. The coach was______________that the young player would be admitted to the college. (confident, confidential)

3. The college was in the middle of a______________park. (wooded, wooden)

4. The coach lived in a ___________ house near the college. (wooded, wooden)

5. The football player was an ____________ man: he told very funny stories to his friends. (imaginary, imaginative)

6. The young player often dreamed of winning___________ football games. (imaginary, imaginative)

Task 1. Прослухайте наступний текст:

John was ten years old, and he was a very lazy boy. He had to go to school of course, but he was bored there and tried to do as little work as possible. His father and mother were both doctors and they hoped that he would become one, too, when he grew up, but one day John said to his mother, “When I finish school, I want to become a garbage collector.”

“A garbage collector?” his mother asked. She was very sur­prised. “That’s not a very pleasant job. Why do you want to become a garbage collector?”

“Because then I’d only have to work one day a week,” John answered.

“Only one day a week?” his mother said. “What do you mean?”

“Well,” John answered, “I know that the ones who come to our house only work on Wednesday, because I only see them on that day.”

Task 2. Дайте відповіді на запитання:

1. What kind of boy was John?

2. What did his parents want him to be when he grew up?

3. What did John say he wanted to be?

4. Why did John want this job?

5. How did his mother feel about this?

6. Why did John think that garbage collectors only worked one day a week?

Task 3. Надайте відповідні слова з тексту до наступних слів та словосполучень:

1. despaired

2. impossible

3. interested

4. replied

5. start

6. unpleasant

Task 4. Заповніть пропуски в реченнях:

Example: a. When John arrived home, he told his mother his decision.

b. Arriving at home, John told his mother his decision.

1. a. After John had watched the garbage collectors on his street, he decided he wanted to become one, too.

b. _____ the garbage collectors on his street, John decided he wanted to become one, too.

2. a. Before John decided to become a garbage collector, he did not know what he wanted to be.

b. _____ to become a garbage collector, John did not know what he wanted to be.

3. a. While John studied at school, he was bored all the time.

b. ______at school, John was bored all the time.

4. a. John surprised his mother because he said that he wanted to become a garbage collector.

b. John surprised his mother______that he wanted to become a garbage collector.

Task 1. Прослухайте наступний текст:

Soon after Dave left college, one of his uncles, who was rich and had no children of his own, died and left Dave a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own real estate agency.

He found a nice office, bought some new furniture and moved in. He had only been there for a few hours when he heard someone coming towards the door of his office.

“It’s my first customer!” he thought. He quickly picked up the telephone and pretended to be very busy answering an im­portant call from someone in New York who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.

The man knocked at the door while this was going on, came in and waited politely for the agent to finish his conversation. Then he said to him, “I’m from the telephone company, and I was sent here to connect your telephone.”

Task 2. Дайте відповіді на запитання:

1. How did Dave get money to set up his real estate agency?

2. What did he do to set it up?

3. What happened after he had been in his office for a few hours?

4. What did he think, and then do about this?

5. What did the man do?

6. And what did he say when Dave finished talking?

Task 3. Заповніть кросворд:

Across:

1. He’s a very _____ worker: he never wastes time on the job.

6. Very big.

7. Possession.

8.10.The telephone man waited until the _____of Dave’s conversation before he spoke to him.

11.We often say this at the beginning of a telephone conversation.

12. Dave found a nice office _____in town.

Down:

1. The man who came to Dave’s office was one of the ______of the telephone company.

2.____________ When there is a______at sea, you can’t see very far.

3.______ People ______when their team scores a goal.

4. Put into one’s mouth, chew and swallow.

5. The man came to Dave’s office to connect the _______.

8. Move your head to show that you mean yes.

9. Divide into two equal parts _____.

11. “______ can you use the telephone when it hasn't been connected?” “You can’t.”

Task 1. Прослухайте наступний текст:

Mr. Smith lived in the country, but he worked in an office in the big city, so five days a week he went to work by train every morning and came home the same way.

One morning he was reading his newspaper on the train when a man sitting behind him, who Mr. Smith had never met before, leaned forward, tapped him on the shoulder and spoke to him. The man said, “You’re not leading a very interesting life, are you? You get on the same train at the same station at the same time every morning, and you always sit in the same seat and read the same newspaper.”

Mr. Smith put his paper down, turned around, and said to the man angrily, “How do you know all that about me?”

“Because I’m always sitting in this seat behind you,” the man answered.

Task 2. Дайте відповіді на запитання:

1. How did Mr. Smith go to and from his office every day?

2. What happened to him on the train one morning?

3. What was he doing when this happened?

4. What did the man say to Mr. Smith?

5. What did Mr. Smith ask the man?

6. Why did the man know so much about him?

Task 3. Виберіть правильні твердження з тексту та запишіть їх:

1.Mr. Smith did not go to his office on weekends.

2.Mr. Smith went to his office by train five days a week.

3.While he was reading his newspaper one day, he leaned forward and tapped a man on the shoulder.

4.While he was reading his newspaper one day, he was tapped on the shoulder by another man.

5.The man sitting behind him had never seen Mr. Smith before.

6.The man sitting behind Mr. Smith always saw him in the same seat.

7.The man thought Mr. Smith’s life was dull.

8.The man thought Mr. Smith’s life was very interesting.

9.The man’s own life was much more interesting than Mr. Smith’s.
10. The man’s own life was just as uninteresting as Mr. Smith’s.

Task 4. Підберіть відповідні речення до наступних картинок:

a b c d

e f g h

1. He always sat in the same seat every day.

2. He got on the train.

3. He hurried to the train station.

4. He read his newspaper thoroughly.

5. He turned around and spoke angrily to the man who had interrupted his reading.

6. Mr. Smith put his newspaper down.

7. Mr. Smith left his house at 7:00 A.M. every morning.

8. One day another passenger tapped him on the shoulder.

Task 1. Прослухайте наступний текст:

Lisa was an attractive young woman, and she always combed her hair neatly and wore pretty clothes. She worked in a small town and earned enough money to take a vacation in the mountains during the summer.

The first time that Lisa went there, she discovered that she hadn’t brought enough money. At first she was worried, but then she remembered that she had brought her checkbook with her and went to the bank to cash a check. The bank teller had never seen Lisa before, but he knew that a lot of people were stealing checkbooks and using them, so he said to her, “Can you identify yourself, please?”

Lisa had never been asked to do this in her home town, so she looked puzzled for a moment; but then she took her mirror out of her handbag, looked at it, and then said happily, “Yes, it is me.”

Task 2. Дайте відповіді на запитання:

1. Where did Lisa go for her vacation?

2. Why did she have to go to the bank during her vacation?

3. What did the bank teller ask her?

4. Why did he say this?

5. How did Lisa feel about this?

6. What did she do and then say?

Task 3. Виберіть правильний варіант відповіді на запитання:

1. Was Lisa an attractive woman?

a. Yes, she was.

b. No, she wasn’t.

2. Could she afford to take a summer vacation?

a. Yes, she could.

b. No, she couldn’t.

3. What worried her on her first vacation in the mountains?

a. She didn’t have enough money.

b. She had forgotten her checkbook.

4. Why didn’t the bank teller want to cash her check?

a. Because he had never seen her before.

b. Because he knew that she had stolen the checkbook.

5. What did the bank teller ask her to do?

a. To make sure that she was really Lisa.

b. To show him some proof that she was Lisa.

6. What did Lisa do to identify herself?

a. She looked in her mirror.

b. She showed the bank teller a photograph of herself.

Task 4. Заповніть пропуски в реченнях, використовуючи слова з тексту:

George worked in a bank as a _____. One day an______ young woman came into the bank and gave him a______. She wanted him to_______ it for her, but George had never seen her before, so he said, “Can you
______ yourself?”

The woman was very______when she heard this. She was on______from her home town, and hadn’t brought much money. But then she opened her______, took out a photograph of herself, and showed it to George, smiling ______.

George looked at it for a_______and then said, “Yes, that’s you,” and he gave her the money.

Task 1. Прослухайте наступний текст:

A large store was having its spring sale on shoes and boots. It was the first day of the sale, and the shoe department was full of women who were eagerly trying to buy them. There were all kinds of shoes and boots in a variety of colors, and the prices had been reduced a lot, because the store wanted to get rid of as many as possible in order to make room for their new stock.

The cashiers were kept busy, and at one moment a woman came to one of them with her money in her hand and said, “I don’t need a bag, thank you. I’m wearing the shoes I bought.” She pointed to them on her feet.

“Would you like a bag to put your old shoes in then?” the cashier asked politely as she took the woman’s money.

“No, thank you,” the woman answered quickly, “I’ve just sold those to someone else.”

Task 2. Дайте відповіді на запитання:

1. What were on sale in the large store that week?

2. Why were they being sold cheaply?

3. Was the sale successful?

4. What did a woman say to one of the cashiers?

5. What did the cashier ask her?

6. Why didn’t the woman need a bag?

Task 3. Заповніть пропуски в реченнях, використовуючи слова з дужок:

1. This woman has been to a lot of sales ______. (late, lately)

2. She never gets to a sale _____: she is always one of the first to arrive. (late, lately)

3. She is _____ sure that she will find some shoes she likes. (prettily, pretty)

4. She doesn’t want to get her size _____. (wrong, wrongly)

5. She wants to make ______ sure of the size by asking. (double, doubly)

6. She is examining the heels ______ now. (close, closely)

Task 4. Підберіть відповідні слова з лівої колонки до слів з правої колонки:

1. The cashier a. had bought the woman’s old shoes

2. Another woman b. had sold her old shoes.

3. The woman c. offered the woman a bag.

4. The shoes and boots d. was having a sale.

5. The store e. were of all kinds and colors.

Task 1. Прослухайте наступний текст:

Fred had a very rusty old car, but his father said that he had to sell it before he would buy him a new one.

“You have to learn the value of money, Fred,” his father said. “It doesn't grow on trees, you know. You should learn to be a good businessman.”

But nobody seemed to want to buy the car from Fred. He put a “For Sale” sign in the back window of the car, and he put another sign on the bulletin board in his college dormitory, but nothing happened. Then one day he was driving to another town, and stopped at the entrance to a toll Booth where he had to pay before being allowed to use the road.

The attendant said, “Two dollars and fifty cents.”

“I accept,” said Fred. “It’s yours.” Then he put the car keys into the surprised attendant's hand, and held out his other hand for the two dollars and fifty cents.

Task 2. Дайте відповіді на запитання:

1. When would Fred’s father buy him a new car?

2. How did Fred try to sell his car?

3. Why did Fred stop at a toll booth?

4. What did the attendant say to Fred?

5. What did Fred say and then do to the attendant?

6. Did the attendant want to buy Fred’s car?

Task 3. Надайте відповідні слова з тексту до наступних слів та словосполучень:

1. to receive willingly

2. astonished

3. permitted

4. way in

5. worth

Task 4. Напишіть історію, вставляючи it, where або which в пропуски, якщо потрібно:

Fred had an old car _________ was very rusty. He wanted to sell ________. He didn't care ________ what price he got for______He tried to sell _______ by putting up a notice in the dormitory of the college ___________he was studying, but ________ was no use. One of the difficulties ________ Fred faced was that all the other students had better cars than his. But there was a place on the way to the next town ________ there was a toll booth, and Fred even drove his old car there and tried to get the attendant to buy _______.

Task 1. Прослухайте наступний текст:

A travelling salesman had to walk so much that his feet often hurt. His doctor told him that salt water was the best thing for them, so the salesman decided to go to the sea for his vacation that year. Since all of the hotels near the sea were expensive, he went to a small hotel far away from the beach.

In the morning he went down to the calm sea with a bucket, went over to the lifeguard and asked whether he would be allowed to take a bucket of salt water. The lifeguard seemed very surprised but said, “Yes, although you’ll have to pay twenty-five cents for it.”

The salesman gave the lifeguard twenty-five cents, filled his bucket, took it to his hotel and put his feet in the water.

After lunch, he came down to the beach again. The tide had gone out now, so the sea was much lower. The salesman thought, “That man has a very good business. He must have sold thousands of buckets since this morning.”

Task 2. Дайте відповіді на запитання:

1.Why did the salesman’s feet hurt?

2.Why did the salesman go to the sea for his vacation?

3.What did he ask the lifeguard?

4.What did the lifeguard say to the salesman?

5.What did the salesman do then?

6.Why was the sea much lower in the afternoon?

7.What did the salesman think?

Task 3. Надайте відповідні слова з тексту до наступних слів та словосполучень:

1.cheap

2.forbidden

3.close to

4.higher

5.rough

Task 4. Заповніть пропуски в реченнях:

Example: a. The salesman had difficulty in finding an inexpensive hotel.

b. It was difficult for the salesman to find an inexpensive hotel.

1. a. Frequently, doctors used to send their patients to the seashore for

a rest.

b. It was very common.

2. a. The salesman behaved stupidly when he asked the lifeguard

whether he could take some water.
b. It was stupid _______.

3. a. The lifeguard was able to cheat the salesman easily.

b. It was easy ______.

4. a. The salesman was being silly when he thought the lifeguard had sold thousands of buckets of water.

b. It was silly_______.

5. a. Nobody could possibly know so little.
b. It would be impossible________.

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