Учебник английского языка
7 класс

3 unit.
Me and My World

Revision

• FAMILY
• FRIENDS
• HOBBIES AND PASTIMES
• TRADITIONS
• LIKES AND DISLIKES
• BIOGRAPHY

1. Answer these questions.

1. What can you tell a stranger¹ about yourself?
2. What three things do you think are the most important about you?
3. How big is your family? Are you good friends? What do you like doing together? Have you got any family traditions? What are they?
4. How many friends have you got? Have you got any really close² friends? Are they your classmates? Do you share³ any interests? Do you spend much time together? Where do you go and what do you do?
5. What are the three things that you enjoy doing most of all and the three things that you hate doing?

2. A. Turn the notes into questions and interview one of your classmates.

1. what / your / full name?
2. where / you / born?
3. when / you / born?
4. where / you / live?
5. how long / you / live there?
6. you / have / brothers / sisters?
7. they / younger / older?
8. what / you / do / free time?
9. you / be / other towns / countries?
10. you / have / holidays / in summer?
11. how long / you / study English?
12. you / speak / other languages?
13. what / you / enjoy doing in English?
14. what / you / want to do after you leave school?
15. what / be / your dream?

B. Tell the class what you have found out about each other.

3. Look at the phrases in the boxes and make up short dialogues to discuss: a) weather, b) clothes, c) food, d) sports, e) films, f) TV programmes, g) books, h) school subjects.

Model dialogue:

A: Do you like sunny hot weather?

B: No, I don't. I hate it when it’s hot outdoors.

A: Why don’t you like it? Most people enjoy such weather.

B: Not me. I can’t stand it when my T-shirt gets wet, when it’s hard to breathe. Yesterday I couldn’t even bring an ice cream home from the shop. It melted on the way.

4. There are so many things to do. Say which of the activities you a) enjoy, b) hate and explain why.

5. Say which of the activities in Ex. 4 are:

6. Look at the table to remember how to form and use perfect tenses. Give examples of your own to illustrate each formula. See Reference Grammar, p. 328-331.

7. Open the brackets to make the sentences complete.
A. Past indefinite or present perfect?

1. Nancy (travel) a lot. She (be) to many countries. Last year she (visit) Greece.
2. Hello, Pat! I’m glad to see you in Oxford again. How long you (be) here? When you (arrive)?
3. When you first (meet) your teacher? How old you (be) then? How many years you (know) him already?
4. You ever (taste) any tropical fruit? Where you (eat) it? You (like) it?
5. — Helen (write) the letter yet? — No, she .... She (begin) doing it only ten minutes ago.
6. She says she always (want) to come to Australia. Now she is happy, she (be) here since Thursday.
7. Kate (not, type) all the letters. She (type) three of them yesterday. But she (not, do) anything today.

B. Present perfect or past perfect?

1. a) I phoned Mr Williams to find out if Pat (go) away. He was not sure, b) Wait, I’ll go and see if she (go) out.
2. a) Look at this house. I (live) here for 12 years and I am moving to another one next week, b) I (live) in a small cottage for 12 years before my family moved to town.
3. a) Jack (play) tennis three times this week, b) He said he (not, play) tennis a week before.
4. Alan (see) a lot of Alexandra recently.
5. I often (wonder) how he earns his living.
6. She told me she (work) in England before.
7. When I arrived at the country house, I realized I (lose) the keys.

8. Join the beginnings and ends to get the sentences that make sense:

9. Make one sentence instead of two using when or after.

1. Joe did all the shopping. Then he went to the cafe for a cup of coffee.
2. Max looked through the three dictionaries he had. Then he found the word he was looking for.
3. Ron wrote three letters. Then he posted them.
4. Jane told her granny about everything. Then she felt much happier.
5. Bill finished learning the sonnet by heart. Then he watched television for an hour or so.
6. Edward bought Christmas presents for everyone in his family. Then he bought a camera for himself as well.

10. Express the same in English.

1. Мой новый друг спросил, откуда я родом.
2. Мы не знали, где родилась наша бабушка.
3. Что ты выяснил о его семье? Когда они переехали в наш город?
4. Где ты был всё это время?
5. Джейн спросила своего младшего брата, где он был.
6. Когда мы жили за городом, мы с удовольствием (to enjoy) удили рыбу.
7. Я не знала, что Ник любит спать на открытом воздухе.
8. — Где Питер? — Он ушёл погулять с собакой.
9. К тому моменту, когда мама вернулась, мы уже выучили все новые слова.
10. Он сказал, что не справится с этим заданием.

11. Look through the dialogue. Change it into the reported speech and then read it aloud.

Tolya: We had a grammar class yesterday. We discussed the use of articles in English.

Vera: No wonder. They are the shortest and yet the most difficult words in English.

Tolya: I don’t think all English people understand how they should use articles.

Vera: Neither do I. In many cases they are a complete mystery. Do you think one can realize the difference between the articles? Is it possible to learn how to use them?

Tolya: I am not quite sure. Our teacher says it is. We should simply have more grammar drills.

Vera: Will they really help? And then they are so boring!

Tolya: Don’t lose hope. Let’s hope for the best.

12. Remember the new language of Unit 2 and do these tasks.
A. Find the words and word combinations which mean almost the same as:

1. a vocabulary,
2. a translator,
3. a native language,
4. nearly,
5. to go out of the room,
6. to run away,
7. to start work,
8. to drill,
9. to understand

B. Ask for more information.

1. He memorized it.
2. They disappointed him.
3. She practised it.

C. Think of the correct way to express the same in Russian.

to live in complete isolation, the foundations of the town, the boy was helpful, reading is helpful, a grammar drill, to be out of practice, practice makes perfect, to be related to the problem, a man of average height [hart], to realize one’s dream

13. Look at the pairs of words. In each pair there is a word you know. Read the sentences below and guess what the other word in each pair means.

1. Will you taste the soup to see if it has enough salt? I can taste onions in it.
2. I like the taste of chocolate.
3. The farmer came back from the fields with dirt on his boots.
4. There was a woody valley not far from the cottage where we lived.
5. I have never doubted his honesty.
6. John has deep knowledge. He is a well-educated man.
7. He had a happy boyhood in the country.
8. Comforts are things which are not necessary but which make your life easier and more pleasant. Fiona [fi'suna] didn’t earn enough money to get the comforts she needed.
9. Sugar tastes sweet and lemon tastes sour.

14. A. Read the words in transcription.

B. Listen to the recording, 12, and check your reading.

15. Fiona doesn’t know how to spell the plural of these words. Can you help her?

1. a video;
2. a zoo;
3. a tooth;
4. a deer;
5. a potato;
6. a fish;
7. a woman;
8. a mouse;
9. a roof;
10. a hero;
11. a dodo;
12. a leaf;
13. a ski;
14. a comedy