English for everyone

Биболетова 10 класс Unit 1 Section 1 p.8-11 ex. 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11

Start Anew

Ex.2 read through the list of reasons why students go to school. Now rate the reasons according to those most and least important to you (1-11). Прочитайте список причин, почему студенты идут в школу. А теперь расставьте их, начиная с наиболее важной для вас.

to acquire general knowledge — приобрести общие знания
to get prepared for a future job — чтобы подготовиться к будущей работе
to meet other young people – чтобы встретить других молодых людей
to train your memory – чтобы тренировать память
to learn something you will never use — узнать что-то, что вы никогда не будете использовать
to find out what you are really interested in – выяснить чем вы действительно интересуетесь
to please your parents — порадовать своих родителей
More »

Биболетова 10 класс Unit 4 Section 4.

Progress check

1 a) Listen to the airline safety instructions and match the pictures with the items mentioned on the recording. Послушай инструкции авиакомпании по технике безопасности и соедини картинки с предметами, упомянутыми в записи.
1E 2F 3G 4B 5A 6H 7D 8C

Ex. 1b) Listen again and put the items on the list in the correct order. Послушай запись снова и расставь предметы в списке в правильном порядке.

A no high-heeled shoes sign 2 (знак: запрещены туфли на высоком каблуке)
В seat belts 3 (ремни безопасности)
С no smoking sign 6 (знак: не курить)
D seat in upright position 7 (сиденье в вертикальном положении)
E oxygen masks 5 (кислородные маски)
F emergency exit 1 (аварийный выход)
G table folded away 8 (сложить стол)
H life-jacket 4 (спасательный жилет)
More »

Биболетова 10 класс Unit 4 Section 4, ex. 105

Role-play — In a host family

Ex. 105 Work in groups of 5. Assign the roles and act the situation out.

Student A: You are the host father.
You come from the US and you are 38 years old. You live in New York and you have a wife and two children aged 14 and 5. You have a Russian student Tanya staying with you for a year. It’s Sunday now and you are having breakfast together.
Tanya has cooked traditional Russian dish for you – pancakes. You don’t find them tasty but you feel pleased with Tanya’s attempt to treat you with this dish. Your younger daughter keeps moaning and saying she doesn’t like the pancakes at all and that she’s not going to eat them. Tanya feels really bad. You want to calm everyone down and sort out the situation.
More »

Биболетова 10 класс Unit 4 Section 4 p.152-153 ex. 98, 99, 100, 104.

Culture shock text

Ex. 98 Read the text and choose the sentence which best summarises it. Прочитай текст и выбери предложение, которое лучше всего его описывает.

1 Everyone experiences culture shock and it is impossible to do anything about it. Каждый испытывает культурный шок и с этим ничего нельзя поделать.
2 Although it’s impossible to avoid culture shock, you can prepare for it so as not to suffer too much. Хотя и невозможно избежать культурного шока, вы можете к нему подготовиться, чтобы не страдать так сильно.
3 If you prepare properly, you will never experience any culture shock. Если вы подготовиться должным образом, вы никогда не будете испытывать никакого культурного шока.
More »

Биболетова 10 класс Unit 4 Section 4 p.149-152 ex. 85, 88, 91, 92, 94, 97.

Culture shock

Ex. 85 Listen to the interviews with four people answering the questions from Ex. 84 and fill in the second and the third columns in the table. Use your Workbook. Послушай интервью четырех человек, отвечающих на вопросы из упр.84 и заполни вторую и третью колонку таблицы. Используй рабочую тетрадь.

More »

The gloomy Colditz Castle was the most famous prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War. The Germans thought that it was impossible to escape from it. Hermann Goering himself visited the castle at the beginning of the war and said that it was absolutely ‘escape-proof’.
So the Germans decided to use Colditz Castle as a special prison for ‘flight risks’ — people who had tried to escape from others prisoner-of-war camps. What they didn’t realise was that putting so many determined minds together, they were creating a truly international escape academy.
More »

There is a famous statue of Queen Boudicca next to the Houses of Parliament in London

What are women to do when their men go off to war? Historically the answer was: ‘stay at home and look after the house, land, and children’, although in ancient Britain women often followed their men-folk to the field of battle, and sometimes even took part in the fighting (pre-Christian Britain even had a very successful military leader, Queen Boudicca, who almost succeeded in driving the Romans out of Britain).
More »