Explain

B) Watch the episode again and try to remember more details. Add them to the chart above.

Listen and act as interpreter.

B) Comment on the proverbs and sayings given above. Give their Russian equivalents.

A) Read after the teacher.

Get ready to discuss the text in class.

Five-day forecast

Europe today

Read the following weather forecast and translate it into Russian.

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Portugal and western Spain will be windy with thundery showers. The rest of Spain will be mainly fine and dry. The Netherlands will brighten after early rain and snow. France, France, Luxemburg, Belgium and western Germany will be cloudy with outbreaks of rain. Denmark and northern Germany will be mainly fine but cold. Central Germany and the Alps will have snow. Sweden and much of Norway will be fine and dry but cold. Eastern Europe will be dry with sunshine, but it will be cold. Italy will have heavy showers or longer spells of rain, with a risk of thunder. Eastern Mediterranean will have thundery showers.

Greece and the Balkans will have heavy rain into next week. Eastern Europe will become unsettled next week. France, the Low Countries and Germany will have heavy rain for the next few days. Italy will have rain tomorrow, clearing on Sunday. Scandinavia will have heavy snow on Saturday.

9. a) Listen to the text Learning Foreign Languages.

b) Find the English equivalents and illustrate them with sentences from the text:

независимо от того, как; нахальный / наглый; окончание (слова); двуязычный; славянский; разговорник; проявлять интерес к; интенсивный курс; учиться / изучать что-либо самостоятельно; расширять (свой) кругозор; широкий выбор источников информации; обходиться (в какой-либо ситуации); быть в курсе событий, происходящего; носители языка; субтитры.

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PHONETIC EXERCISES

Intonation Drills

1. 'March kwinds, 'April kshowers 'bring 'forth 'May mflowers.

2. It 'never krains but it mpours.

GRAMMAR EXERCISES

Complex Object

12. Complete the teacher’s sentences. Use a Complex Object.

VOCABULARY EXERCISES

14. Answer the teacher’s questions (based on exercise 8).

15. Repeat the teacher’s sentence and add a sentence logically connected with it.

WATCHING AND SPEAKING

16. a) Watch the video episode Wales and point out the main features of Wales that make it different from the rest of Great Britain.

Snowdon ['snRudn]

Caervarnon [kR'nQ:vRn] Castle [kQ:sl]

Celtic ['keltIk]

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History
Language

c) Answer the teacher’s questions.

· why it is important for you to learn foreign languages

· why English is becoming a language of international communication in Europe

· what other foreign languages besides English you would like to learn and why.

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