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Exercise 3. Try to match up the adjectives on the left with the nouns on the right.

1. grey a) clouds

2. fine b) sky

3. early c) summer

4. Indian d) blades

5. warm e) autumn

6. unpleasant f) countries

7. low g) weather

8. north h) earth

9. damp i) season

10. thin j) wind

Exercise 4. Write these words in plural:

Season, man, sky, child, pencil, tooth, bush, axe, foot, woman, lamp, mouse, glass, vase, picture, window, ash, deer, knife, curtain.

Exercise 5. Answer the questions:

1. What is your favourite season? Why?

2. What do you do in rainy weather?

3. What preparations do you do before New Year and Christmas?

4. What is the weather like in your city in early autumn?

5. How do you spend your summer holidays?

Part 3. The way I spend my free time in different seasons.

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS:

The way I spend my free time in different seasons.

The way I spend my free time very often depends on the weather. In winter, for example, I enjoy skiing in the forest in sunny frosty weather, skating or playing hockey in the ice-rink. Going in for sport does anyone a lot of good because it tempers body and soul, especially in winter.

In early spring the weather isn’t good for outdoor sports, so I stay at home reading books, watching TV, listening to music, playing computer games. I seldom go to the theatre or museum.

In summer I enjoy myself because school is over. I spend much time on practicing sports: roller-skating, swimming, playing ball games. Sometimes my friends and I go on a hike. It is so romantic and exciting to put up a tent in the wood, to make a fire, to play the guitar and sing songs at night. Naturally I help my parents at our country cottage with gardening. Rather seldom my parents and I go to the seaside or on a journey. At the seaside we swim, sunbathe, dive and take walks along the seashore. At the end of the summer I feel fresh and full of energy.

In September school begins and there’s practically no free time. The weather is usually nasty and I am at home all the time except when I attend classes at school, at the English school and music school.

Exercise 1. Translate into Russian: to depend on the weather; all the time; listening to music; sunny frosty weather; to enjoy oneself; to help at a country cottage with gardening; to spend time on practicing sports; to put up a tent.

Exercise 2. Find the equivalents of these expressions in the text:например; кататься на лыжах в лесу; играть в хоккей на катке; разжечь костёр; быть дома; посещать занятия; играть в компьютерные игры; играть на гитаре и петь песни; закалять тело и душу; ранней весной; читать книги; ходить в театры и музеи; ездить на море; чувствовать себя бодрым и полным энергии.

Exercise 3. Answer the questions:

1. How do you spend your free time in summer (spring, autumn, winter)?

1. What’s the best season for outdoor games?

2. Do you spend your free time with your friends or anybody else?

3. Have you ever gone on a hike? (When? Where?)

4. Do your grandparents live in the country?

5. Do you often visit them?

6. Have you ever gone to the sea? (When? Where?)

7. What is the best way of spending one’s free time?

Exercise 4. Write the interrogative and negative forms of the following sentences:

1. In winter I enjoy skiing in the forest.

2. My parents are busy with gardening in summer.

3. My friend attends classes at school every day.

4. The weather is very nasty.

Exercise 5. Make up a story on the topic “The way I spend my free time in different seasons” using the vocabulary of the lesson.

Part 4. My family.

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS:

My family.

Our family is neither big nor small. It consists of my father, my mother, my brother, and me. My father, a tall man with dark short hair, is 40 years old. He works as a manager at the firm. He likes his work and spends a lot of time there. My mother, a tall and thin woman with big blue eyes and fair hair, is younger than my father, she is 38. My mother is a teacher at the secondary school. She teaches her students foreign languages: German and English. She also spends much time at school, but she finds time to cook, sew, knit, and even to help my brother and me with our homework. My brother is only 10, and he is a schoolboy.

I am 14. I am the student of the college. My college is far from our house, and it takes me half an hour to get there by bus. We are studying different subjects there, but my favourite ones are History and English. As to my appearance, I am slim and slender. My hair is fair, my eyes are blue. I look like my mother. I like to dress in a modern style. Music is my hobby. I am fond of dancing at the disco. I like to buy and read English books too. Twice a week I go to the swimming pool.

We live in Rostov-on-Don, the biggest city not only in the North Caucasus, but in the entire South of Russia. It is located on the right high bank of the Don River. We have a three-room flat in a new block of houses. There is a nice green park near our house, where we spend a lot of our free time. There are many different shops not far from our house. My brother and I often go shopping.

Our family is nice, and everybody is easy to get along with. We take care of each other. We spend much time together. Recently, we have bought a car, and now we often go down to the country to have a rest on weekends. In the evenings, all members of our family watch TV, discuss everyday problems. Sometimes we go to the theatre or to the concert.

Exercise 1. Translate into Russian: to work as a manager at a firm; to go by bus; a tall and thin woman; to discuss everyday problems; a teacher at secondary school; favourite subject; it takes me half an hour; to spend a lot of free time; to teach German; to read English books; the biggest city; to take care of each other; the right high bank of the river; a new block of houses; to have a rest on weekends.

Exercise 2. Find the equivalents of these expressions in the text:ни большая, ни маленькая; ходить в театр или на концерт; мужчина с тёмными короткими волосами; ходить в бассейн; проводить много времени на работе; помогать брату; далеко от дома; студент колледжа; уезжать за город; ходить по магазинам; современный стиль; дважды в неделю; увлекаться танцами; трёхкомнатная квартира.

Exercise 3. Answer the questions:

1.      How many people are there in your family? 2.      Do you have a brother or a sister? 3.      Where do your parents work? 4.      Do your parents understand you? 5.      In what way do you help your parents? 6.      How old are your grandparents? 7.      How do you get along with your family? 8.      Which of the parents do you want to be like?

Exercise 4. Write all the possible questions to which the following sentence is the answer: Her mother is a teacher at a secondary school.

Exercise 5. Describe your parents’ appearance.

Exercise 6. Retell the text changing the information about your family.

Exercise 7. Write a word to each category beginning with the letter in the column.