INFORMATIC CORNER: some facts about Steve Jobs

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1) He was adopted. His biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali, grew up in Syria and met his mother at the University of Wisconsin. At the age of 23, they both thought it was too young to marry and having a child. So they gave their baby to Steve’s adop-tive parents.

2) He was bullied. In the sixth grade, Steve attended at Crittenden Middle School where he was bullied for alledgedly being odd. This resulted in Steve’s giving his parents an ultimatum – he would drop out of school if they didn’t move. So, they moved to Los

Altos in California (the birthplace of Apple) where he met fellow engineer Bill Fernandez, who introduced him to Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniac.

3) He was a Zen Buddhist. In 1974 after working with electronics and video game company, Atari, Jobs travelled to India for seven months in search of spiritual enlightenment. He meditated often, and was a known pescatarian – eating fish but not meat. He also liked to walk barefoot.

4) He was fired from Apple because Pepsi Executive Jonh Shulley told the board that he was far too young. This was after Jobs recruited him. Jobs than started another project creating the NEXT computer, but sales were limited because it was too expensive.

UNIT 3. MY FAMILY

1. Read the text and translate

I am Alina Antonova. I am seventeen years old. I would like to tell you a few words about my family. My family is big. I have got a mother, a father, a sister, a brother, and a grandmother. There are six of us in the family. I think I take after my father, I am tall, fair-haired, and even-tempered. We have got a lot of relatives. We are attached to one another and get on very well.

First of all, some words about my parents. My mother is a teacher of History. She works in a college. She likes her profession. She is a good-looking woman with brown hair. She is forty-one but she looks much younger. She is tall and slim. My father is a comput-er programmer. He is a broad-shouldered, tall man with fair hair and grey eyes. He is forty-seven.

My mother likes going to the swimming pool. She likes to cook, to read classical literature, listen music and dance. My father likes fishing. Also my father likes to sing and when we are at home and have some free time, I play the guitar and we sing together. My father knows all about new TV sets and likes to repair old ones. He is also handy with many things.

My parents are hard-working people. My mother keeps the house and takes care of all of us. She is very good at cooking. She is

very practical. My father and I try to help her with the housework. I wash the dishes, go shopping and tidy up our flat.

My grandmother is retired. She lives with us and helps to run the house. She is fond of knitting.

My sister Helen is twenty-four. She works as an accountant for a joint stock company. Her husband is a scientist. They have got twins: a daughter and a son. They go to a nursery school.

My brother Artem is eleven. He is a schoolboy. He wants to become a doctor but he is not sure yet. I want to become a student. I’d like to learn foreign languages. I have many friends. They are very good and we like to spend our time together. We do everything what is interesting for a teenager – talk, dance, listen to music. I am happy to have nice friends and a good family. I hope that my dreams will come true.

Vocabulary

to be attached to one another	быть привязанным друг к другу
to be retired	быть на пенсии
broad-shouldered	широкоплечий
even-tempered	выдержанный, спокойный
fair-haired	светловолосый
to get on well	хорошо ладить
good-looking	привлекательный
to keep the house	содержать дом
nursery school	ясли
to run the house	вести дом
scientist	ученый
there are six of us	нас в семье шестеро
to take after	быть похожим
to take care	позаботиться
to tidy up flat	прибирать квартиру
to try	пытаться
twins	близнецы

2. True or false

1) Alina is sixteen.

2) Alina’s family is small.

3) Her mother is a teacher of History.

4) Her father is a driver.

5) She has a brother and a sister.

6) Her sister is not married.

7) Alina’s brother goes to school.

8) Alina wants to become a student.

3. Put the phrases into the correct order

1) My brother Artem is eleven.

2) My grandmother is retired.

3) I want to tell your few words about my family.

4) My parents are hard-working people.

5) My mother is a teacher of History.

6) I am Alina Antonova.

7) My sister Helen is married and has a family of her own.

8) We have got a lot of relatives.

9) I want to become a student.

10) My mother likes to go to the swimming pool.

4. Find the information in the text.

About Alina

About Alina’s mother

About Alina’s father

About Alina’s sister

About Alina’s brother

About Alina’s grandmother

5. Use this table to write five true sentences in your

note book

My mum	likes/doesn’t like	swimming
My dad	plays/doesn’t play	the guitar
My brother	plays/doesn’t play	the piano
My sister	listens/doesn’t listen to	music

My grandmother	collects/doesn’t collect	paintings
My grandfather	takes/doesn’t take	photos
My aunt	cooks, rides a bicycle,
	dances
My uncle	likes/doesn’t like	playing computer games
My cousin	goes in for/doesn’t go	sport
	in for
My stepfather	repairs/doesn’t repair	things

6. Look at the following list of personality traits. De-cide if they are good or bad.

Generous, well-travelled, stingy, moody, kind, mean, relia-ble, honest, ambitious, rude, well-educated, warmhearted, lazy, out-going, easygoing, stubborn, unreliable, deceitful, intelligent, polite, greedy, impatient, hardworking, shy, ignorant, thoughtful, affection-ate, arrogant, obnoxious.

Which of these traits describe you?

Which of these traits describe your father? Your mother?

7. Find words, connected with the word family

FAMILY

Noun	adjective	verb
parent	friendly	get on well

8. Who does these chores in your house?

Wash the dishes, clean the bathroom, do the laundry, buy groceries, cook breakfast, sweep the floor, make lunch,

clean the windows, cook dinner, put away books and clothes, fix things, water the flowers and plants, make your bed, take out gar-

bage, do the dishes.

GRAMMAR CORNER: TO HAVE TO (НАДО,НЕОБХОДИ-МО)

УТВЕРЖДЕНИЕ	ОТРИЦАНИЕ	ВОПРОС	КРАТКИКИЕ
			ОТВЕТЫ
I have to study.	I don’t have to	Do I have to	Yes, I do.

	study.	study?	No, I don’t
You have to	You don’t have	Do you have	Yes, you do.
cook.	to cook.	to cook?	No, you don’t
She has to read.	She doesn’t	Does she	Yes, she does.
	have to read.	have to read?	No, she
			doesn’t.
He has to go to	He doesn’t have	Does he	Yes, he does.
the shop.	to go to the	have to go to	No, he doesn’t.
	shop.	the shop?
It has to sleep.	It doesn’t have	Does it have	Yes, it does.
	to sleep.	to sleep?	No, it doesn’t.
We have to wash	We don’t have	Do we have	Yes, we do.
the dishes.	to wash the	to wash the	No, we don’t.
	dishes.	dishes?
They have to re-	They don’t have	Do they	Yes, they do.
lax.	to relax.	have to re-	No, they don’t.
		lax?

GRAMMAR CORNER: THERE IS (ИМЕЕТСЯ) THERE ARE (ИМЕЮТСЯ)

УТВЕРЖДЕНИЕ	ОТРИЦАНИЕ	ВОПРОС			КРАТКИЕ
					ОТВЕТЫ
There is a cat on	There is not a	Is	there	a	Yes,	there
the chair.	cat on the chair.	cat	on	the	is.
There are books on	There are not	chair?			Yes,	there
the table.	books on the ta-	Are	there		are.
	ble.	books on the			No,	there
		table?			isn’t.
					No,	there
					aren’t.

9. Write sentences by putting the words in the correct order. Add capital letters and full stops.

1) cinema/my/in/there/street/a/is There is a cinema is my street.

2) on/eighty/the/people/island/are/there

3) in/three/this/there/supermarkets/are/town

4) TV/on/there/great/is/a/program

5) there/three/are/new/sports shops/in/our town

6) is/there/the/sea/in/ice

7) island/on/good places/for diving/there/the/are

8) mobile/bag/phone/my/there’s/a/in.

10. Circle the correct form.

1) There isn’t/aren’t a cinema in my village.

2) There isn’t/aren’t cars on the island.

3) There isn’t/aren’t an E in DIVING.

4) There isn’t/aren’t a toilet in this shop.

5) There isn’t/aren’t computers in that cafй.

6) There isn’t/aren’t answers to these questions.

7) There isn’t/aren’t good discos in this town.

8) There isn’t/aren’t an encyclopedia in the library.

11. Use the cues to write questions is there or are there

1) film/in your camera?

2) good places to eat/in this town?

3) radio/in the car?

4) new film/at the cinema?

5) American students/at your school?

6) showers/at the sport center?

12. Answer the questions.

1) How many are there in the 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?

13. Read and translate the texts

BRITISH FAMILY

The English are a nation of stay-at-home. «There is no place like home» they say. And when the man is not working he is at home in the company of his wife and children and busies himself with the affairs of the home. «The English man home is his castle» is a saying known all over the world. And it is true.

A typical British family used to consist of mother, father and two children, but in recent years there have been many changes in family life. Some of these have been caused by new laws and others are the result of changes in society. For example, since the law made it easier to get a divorce, the number of divorces has increased. In fact one marriage in every three now ends in divorce. This means that there are a lot of one-parent families. Society is now more toler-

ant than it used to be of unmarried people, unmarried couples and single parents.

Another change has been caused by the fact that people are living longer nowadays, and many old people live alone following the death of their partners. As a result of these changes in the pattern of people’s lives, there are many households which consist of only one person or one person and children.

You might think that marriage and the family are not so popular as they once were. However, the majority of divorced people marry again, and they sometimes take responsibility for the second family.

Members of a family – grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins – keep in touch, but they see less of each other than they used to. This is because people often move away from their home town to work, and so the family becomes scattered. Christmas is the traditional sea-son for reunions. Although the family group is smaller nowadays than it used to be, relatives often travel many miles on order to spend the holidays together.

In general, each generation is keen to become independent of parents in establishing its own family unit, and this fact can lead to so-cial as well as geographical differences within the larger family group.

Relationships within the family are different now. Parents treat their children more as equals than they used to, and children have more freedom to make their own decisions. The father is more involved with bringing up children, often because the mother goes out to work. Increased leisure facilities and more money mean that there are greater opportunities outside the home. Although the family part is still an important part of family life (usually taken in August, and often abroad) many children have holidays away from their par-ents, often with a school party or other organized group.

Who looks after the older generation? There are about 10 million old-age pensioners in Britain, of whom about 750 000 cannot live entirely independently. The government gives financial help in the form of a pension but in the future it will be more and more diffi-cult for the nation economy to support the increasing number of el-derly. At the present time, more than half of all old people are looked after at home. Many others live in the Old Peoples’ Homes which may be private or state-owned.

14. Write an essay about your family

15. MATHEMATIC CORNER: the history of algebra

1) Algebra is a Latin variant of the Arabic word al-jabr.

2) Since algebra might have probably originated in Babylonia, it seems appropriate to credit the country with the origin of the rhetorical style of algebra, illustrated by the problem found in clay tablets dating back to 1700 B.C.

3) Algebra in Egypt must have appeared almost as soon as in Babylonia; but it lacked the sophistication in method shown by Babylonian algebra, as well as its variety in types of equations solved.

4) The algebra of the early Greeks was geometric be-cause of their logical difficulties with irrational and fractional num-bers and their practical difficulties with Greek numerals.

5) Hindu math solved quadratic equations by complet-ing the square and they accepted negative and irrational roots; they also realized that a quadratic equations has two roots.

Unit 4. MY WORKING DAY

1. Read and translate the text

Let me introduce myself. My name is Dasha and I’m the first year student at the university, where I’m studying Physics. My elder sister Svetlana studies History at the same University. Svetlana can organize her time wisely, whereas I don’t know what order I shoulddo things in. I find it hard to get up on time, and usually I don’t get enough sleep. I have to wind two alarm-clocks to make sure I don’t oversleep.

My sister, an early riser, is awake by 7 o’clock, refreshed and full of energy. While I’m wandering round the kitchen, fighting the urge to go back to bed, my sister manages to have a quick show-er, make her bed, put on make-up, do her hair eat a full breakfast and set off to the university. It takes me an hour and a half to get ready. I have a hasty bite and rush out of the house. Even I catch a bus at once I still arrive at the university 15 minutes late, which always makes me feel guilty.

My studies keep me busy all day long. I have 10 hours of Physics a week. I also have lectures and seminars. At lunchtime Imeet up with my sister and we have a snack at the university cafй. After classes I make myself go to the library where I spend about six hours a week reading for my seminars.

My sister and I come home tired. I always find excuse to put my homework off. Unlike me, my sister manages to do the house-work and get down to homework. I like the idea of going to bed early, but quite often I have to sit up late, brushing up on tasks and formulas, though I feel sleepy. My sister says that keeping late hours ruins one’s health. Of course I agree.In the evening I usuallywatch TV or some films in the computer, read books, make order at home, listen music, chat with my friends. Sometimes I go for a walk, go to the shop. Once a week I visit my grand-parents.

As my sister and I don’t get any time off during the week, we try to relax on the weekends. One of my greatest pleasures is to lie in bed and read my favorite books. My sister is a sporty person.To keep herself feet, Sveta goes for a run in the park; from time to time she works out in the gym.

I hate staying in, and sometimes on Saturday night my sister takes me out to the concert or a play. Sometimes we go to a party or to a disco. But more often I end up catching up on my studies and my sister goes out. I go to bed at 11 or 12 o’clock.

Vocabulary

alarm clock	будильник
to arrive at the university 15	прибыть в университет на 15 ми-
minutes late	нут позже
at lunch time	во время обеда
to be full of energy	быть полным энергии
to be refreshed	быть свежим
to be a sporty person	быть спортивным человеком
to be awake	просыпаться
to brush up on tasks and formu-	продираться сквозь задачи и фор-
las	мулы
to do the housework	делать работу по дому
an early riser	жаворонок
to eat a full breakfast	съедать полноценный завтрак
to feel sleepy	хотеть спать
to find excuse	находить оправдание
to get any time	иметь какое либо время
to get down to homework	приступать к домашней работе
to get enough sleep	высыпаться
to go for a run	выходить на пробежку
to go to bed early	рано ложиться спать
It takes me	это занимает
to have a quick shower	быстро принять душ
to have a snack	перекусить
to have 10 hours of Physics in a	иметь 10 часов физики в неделю
week
to have lectures	иметь лекции
to keep busy	занимает у меня
to keep feet	поддерживать физическую форму
to keep late hours	сидеть допоздна
to organize time wisely	рационально организовывать вре-
	мя
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to oversleep	просыпать
to put homework off	откладывать домашнюю работу
to put on make-up	наносить макияж
seminar	семинар
to sit up late	засиживаться допоздна
to wind	заводить
to work out in the gym	работать над собой в спортзале

2. True or false

1) Dasha is a second year student.

2) Her sister studies at the same university.

3) Dasha doesn’t have to wind two alarm-clocks.

4) She eats a full breakfast.

5) Dasha has 10 hours of physics a week.

6) She doesn’t have lectures and seminars.

7) Sometimes she goes to the library.

8) Dasha goes to bed at 9 or 10 o’clock.

3. Put phrases into the correct order

1) I always find excuse to put my homework off.

2) My sister is an early riser, is awake by 7 o’clock, re-freshed and full of energy.

3) My name is Dasha and I’m the first year student at

the university.

4) I go to bed at 11 or 12 o’clock.

5) In the evening I usually watch TV or some films in

the computer.

6) I have a hasty bite and rush out of the house.

7) At lunch time I meet up with my sister and we have a snack at the university cafй.

8) One of my greatest pleasures is to lie in bed and read my favorite books.

4. Find the information in the text

Morning time

Study

Evening time

Homework

Week-ends

5. Look at the pictures below and say what can be said about you and what cannot.

Pattern: She usually gets up at 6, but I don’t. I get up at sev-en. She usually has breakfast at 8, so do I. I have breakfast at 8.

7 o’clock 8 o’clock

9 o’clock 12 o’clock

5 o’clock 10 o’clock

6. Answer the questions

What Do You Usually Do?

what do you usually do in the evening?

I usually read comic books

What time do you usually get up?

What time do you usually eat breakfast?

What time do you usually go to the university?

What do you usually do after university?

What do you usually eat for lunch?

What do you usually eat for breakfast?

What do you usually wear to the university?

What do you usually do in the evening?

What do you usually do on the weekend?

What do you usually watch on TV?

7. Draw a chart like the one below and arrange your activities into the columns (2-3 examples)

enjoyable	boring	relaxing	dangerous	creative	terrible

GRAMMAR CORNER

PAST SIMPLE TENSE (ПРОСТОЕ ПРОШЕДШЕЕ ВРЕМЯ)

УТВЕРЖДЕНИЕ			ОТРИЦАНИЕ		ВОПРОС			КРАТКИЕ
								ОТВЕТЫ
I played tennis.			I didn’t	play	Did	I	play	Yes,	I did.
			tennis		tennis?			No, I didn’t.
You	listened	to	You didn’t lis-		Did you listen			Yes, you did.
music.			ten to music		to the music?			No,	you
								didn’t.
He repaired a com-			He didn’t repair		Did	he	repair	Yes,	he did.
puter.			a computer		a computer?			No, he didn’t.
She	danced	at	She	didn’t	Did she dance			Yes,	she did.
school.			dance at school.		at school?			No,	she
								didn’t.

It helped.	It didn’t help.		Did it help?		Yes,	it	did.
					No, it didn’t.
We studied at the	We didn’t study		Did we study?		Yes,	we	did.
university.	at the university				No,		we
					didn’t.
They worked in the	They	didn’t	They	didn’t	Yes, they did.
garden.	work in the gar-		work	in the	No,		they
	den.		garden.		didn’t.

HOW TO ASK A SPECIAL QUESTION

WHAT BOOK DID YOU READ?

HOW DID YOU READ BOOK?

WHEN DID YOU READ A BOOK?

WHAT TIME DID YOU READ A BOOK?

WHY DID YOU READ THIS BOOK?

WHO DID YOU READ THE BOOK TO?

HOW OFTEN DID YOU READ BOOKS?

8. Make a special questions, using these expressions

Listen music, watch a film, play computer games, go to the shop, meet your friends, help your mother, arrive at the university, sit up late, do the homework, translate texts, work in the garden, go to the cinema, swim in the sea, drink coffee, wash the dishes, ask for the help, pass exams.

9. Read 2 texts and find regular and irregular verbs in

Past Tense

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was an incredible man. He worked as an architect, artist, mathematician and scientist. He also worked as a military engineer and was a good musician. When he

was a child, Leonardo liked school but he hated Latin. In 1466, Leo-nardo’s family moved to Florence and he finished school.

In 1482, he moved to Milan and started to work for the Duke of Milan.

He designed many buildings for the Duke. He also studied mathematics. His drawing of the Anatomy of a Man showed him to be a great biologist. In 1502, he returned to Florence and painted the Mona Lisa. He carried this painting with him when he travelled.From 1514 to 1516, he lived in Rome and continued his scientific experiments. He died in France in 1519.

DID YOU KNOW?

· Leonardo da Vinci wrote from right to left – you needed a mirror to read his handwriting.

· He was a genius – he had the ability to write one sen-tence with his right hand and a different sentence with his left hand.

· He invented scissors.

· He made architect’s plans, but never built a building.

· He lost most of the paintings and drawings he did in

Milan.

· In his notebooks, there were plans for a tank, a heli-copter and submarine.

· His scientific observations were hundreds of years before their time.

A GREAT LEADER

Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Wales from 1558 to 1603. It was a very exciting period of discovery. Francis Drake sailed around the world and Walter Raleign went to America – he found tobacco and potatoes there and introduced them to Europe. It was also a Golden Age in English History for painting, music, archi-tecture and literature. Shakespeare wrote great plays in this period.

When Elizabeth was born, her father, Henry VIII, was angry because his new child was a daughter – he wanted a son. He execut-ed Elizabeth’s mother and married again. He sent Elizabeth away from him. Elizabeth was unhappy but she was good at school. She spoke French, Latin, Greek and Italian. She also loved the theatre, but in the 16^th century there were no actresses – men played all the parts! Elizabeth’s half-sister, Mary, became queen in 1553. She was a Catholic. She put Elizabeth in prison. When Mary died, Elizabeth became the first Protestant queen. People wanted her to marry and have children. They thought she needed a man to help her. She was secretly in love with a man called Robert Dudley, but she never be-came his wife.

Elizabeth was a great queen. She organized her government and England became rich and strong. There were wars – Spain tried to invade England – but there was also a long period of peace. Eliza-beth was a successful woman in a man’s world. She died in 1603.

10. Write these regular verbs in the Past Simple

The famous Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky ………(live)

from 1890 to 1950. As a small child, he ………(learn) dancing from

his father. At the Nijinsky’s home, Vaslav …………..(dance) with

his brother and his little sister. At the age of nine, he ………(move)

to St Petersburg and …………(start) dance lessons at the Imperial

School of dancing. He ………(study) dancing for eight years with

Russian’s top ballet teachers. Between 1909 and 1917, he …….(travel) in Europe, the United States and South America. He

………(marry) Romola in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1913. Be-

tween 1919 and 1950 he ……(live) in Switzerland, France and Eng-

land. He ……..(die) in London in 1950.

11. Match parts (1-10) of the sentences with the endings (a-h). Then, in your notebook, write the complete sentences with the verb in the Past Simple.

1) The Russian Revolution (start)

2) Gustave Eiffel (design)

3) Alexander Flemming (discover)

4) Vincent Van Gogh (paint)

5) Marilyn Monroe (marry)

6) Princess Diana (die)

7) Alexander Graham Bell (invent)

8) Marco Polo (travel)

9) Leonardo Da Vinci (study)

10) In the nineteenth century children (work)

a) in Paris in 1997

b) in mines and factories

c) Latin at school

d) the telephone

e) penicillin

f) Sunflowers

g) the Eiffel Tower

h) three times

i) to China in the thirteens century

j) in 1917.

12. Make a Past Simple sentence with the words in the square. You must also use an expression of time: yesterday, last weeks, 2 days ago, last month, 2 months ago, last year. Ask your groupmate when did he/she do this activity?

Example: I played baseball last week. When did you read

book?

play	read book		go	to	buy bread	meet friends
baseball			school

paint	do	home-	score goal		win prize	get 5+
house	work

clean	sing song		fix bike		playthe	go to the park
room					piano

see movie	get angry		do	home-	go skiing	make snowman
			work

go hiking	ride	a	write letter		take a bus	send an e-mail
	horse

13. Read the text and translate

STUDENT’S WORKING DAY

I usually start my day with getting up and doing all the things that everybody does in the morning: washing, having breakfast, etc. also I got used to gather my learning tools: pencils, exercise-books, text-books in the morning. Then I usually go to the university. Fortu-nately, father takes a car every morning and he often picks me up and drives me to the doors of our university building.

And soon the lectures and lessons begin. We have from 2 to 4 lectures every time, depending on day. I like studying in the uni-versity more that at school because in university is mostly allowed to

miss some lectures (of course, later you should take a summary from your mate and copy it). So, a student is more free, than pupil is.

After the lessons I usually return home where I have dinner and start thinking about my ways of spending the rest of the day. Very often I go to my friend’s places. During the early autumn and summer I often go to the play-ground or on the beach. I also like vis-iting different sport events, for example, soccer, volley-ball, tennis. So, the world is full of enjoyable things to do.

On returning home I usually start doing my homework (per-haps it is the most dull part of the day). Having finished it, I open a book and read it or watch TV. At last, I go to the bed.

Of course I would like to tell you more about myself and my working day, but, unfortunately my time is rather limited and I have got a lot of homework to do. Generally you know about my working day enough.

14. Write a short biography about famous physicist , economist (10-12 sentences)

15. Write an essay about your daily routine

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