D. Complete the conversation with your friend using verbs in the Present Simple or the Present Continuous.
Juliet: I ________ (feel) (1) exhausted after all that shopping!
Karen: So do I usually ________ (have) (2) a coffee after shopping. This café looks nice.
Juliet: Mmm. I ________ (do/not/go/often) (3) shopping, but I really _______ (enjoy) (4) it when I do!
Karen: Let’s sit here. Show me your new dress again. That’s really nice. ______ (be) (5) it for a special occasion?
Juliet: No, I just need to __________ (cheer) (6) myself up!
Karen: Oh, why? Everything _________ (go) (7) well with your job, isn’t it?
Juliet: Well, not really.
Karen: Why’s that? You usually _________ (appear) (8) to be so happy in your work.
Juliet: Well, I was at first but as you know, I _________ (visit) (9) my family in Scotland whenever I can, and these days, now that dad’s quite ill, I _________ (see) (10) them every weekend, so I ___________ (leave) (11) work early every Friday to get to Scotland. My boss ___________ (not/like) (12) that, although I work longer on other days, so we ___________ (always/argue) (13) at the moment.
Karen: That’s a shame. What are you going to do?
Juliet: Honestly, Karen, I don’t know. I really _________ (like) (14) the job, but I need to be with my family at the moment, too.
E. Choose the correct words in italics.
1) Fatima’s really a good friend. She never forgets / is forgetting my birthday.
2) Selina doesn’t work / isn’t working in her office at the moment because the builders are there.
3) Mmm. Those roses smell / are smelling lovely. Are they from your garden?
4) I can’t believe how difficult my new course is. I find / I’m finding it really hard to keep up with all the reading at the moment.
5) These are difficult times because food and fuel prices go up / are going up quickly.
6) Do you believe / Are you believing anything that child says?
7) Harry isn’t at work because he feels / he’s feeling unwell.
8) In the film ‘Australia’ two young people meet / are meeting and become friends during World War II.
9) Some of the students don’t understand / aren’t understanding basic mathematical ideas.
F. Complete the dialogue with necessary of the verbs in brackets.
William: Hi, Amy. It’s Will. Are you busy?
Amelie: Will, hi. No, I ___________ (I/watch) (1) TV – nothing important. It’s good to hear from you. What ____________ (you/do) (2) these days?
William: That’s why I ___________ (I/phone) (3). I’ve just changed my job – I’m now a ‘recipe tester’.
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Amelie: What fun! ___________ (you/cook) (4) all the time?
William: No, I’ve only just started, so I ____________ (I/work) (5) with another tester. I ___________ (I/not/cook) (6) the food yet!
Amelie: It’ll be really interesting, though. I _________ (find) (7) work really boring now.
William: Amy, you _________ (always/complain) (8) about your job, but it’s really great!
Amelie: Oh, yeah, standing in the street in the cold and wet, trying to persuade people to talk to me. Actually, I __________ (not/spend) (9) much time outside at the moment as I _________ (I/plan) (10) a new project. But I really want (want) to get into acting.
William: Yes, you _________ (always/say) (11) that, but you never do anything about it…
UNIT 2. TRAVEL
READING
A. Pre-reading task. What is travel? Read different sayings and give your opinion.
· Great travel begins at the end of your comfort zone.
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We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
· Real travellers will travel for work rather than work for travel.
· The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
· Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
· Better to travel somewhere once than to hear about it a thousand times.
· Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.
B. Paraphrase sayings from exercise A following the rules:
A) Save the original idea, but do not introduce any fresh ideas.
B) Deal with a sentence as a whole, do not paraphrase word by word.
C) Find synonyms. If a synonym cannot be found, repeat the original word.
D) Save the same person and the same tone as in the original.
E) Render figures of speech literally in plain language.
C. Discussion. Chose a mate you like best (worst) in your group. Question him/her, let him/her ask a mate he/she likes best (worst) and so on. Will your group mate be a good travel mate? And you?
1) Do you know how to get to the airport on time?
2) Do you think that travel broadens the mind? Why?
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3) What are the most interesting places you have visited?
4) What is the difference between a tourist and traveller?
5) Is round-the-world-hitch-hiking trip your thing or not? Why?
6) What tips to travellers who set out on a trip can you give?
7) What’s the furthest you’ve travelled in one 24-hour period?
8) What for you are the pleasures and horrors of modern travelling?
9) What do you usually travel for – leisure, recreation, health or business?
10) What is an ’armchair traveller’? Is it possible to travel without leaving home?
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