Vocabulary and speaking
A.
1. Find in the text the expressions and read them correctly.
450 000 / 1 000 000 / 1 000 / 400 000 / 5 000 / 2 / сотни / сотни миллионов / 29-ое число / 1-ое число
2. Complete the sentences.
1. Edinburgh is ….
2. When you arrive the first thing you see is ….
3. Edinburgh castle is not ….
4. Edinburgh is famous for ….
5. In 2003, there were ….
B.
1. Explain in English what is:
- a ghost - Edinburgh
- a festival - a castle.
2. Answer the questions.
1. How many people live in Edinburgh?
2. When is Hogmanay?
3. What type of festivals does Edinburgh have in summer?
4. What could you see at the festivals?
5. Who is George Mackenzie?
C.
1. Find the difference between the numerals hundred-hundreds/ thousand-thousands / million-millions. Fill in the right word in the gaps.
1. Every old castle has h… of ghosts.
2. One m… people visit the castle yearly.
3. Part of Edinburgh castle is a t… years old.
4. M… of years ago the hills were volcanoes..
5. There were over five h… different shows.
2. Write an advertisement for foreigners who are interested in old cities and castles of our country. Recommend them to visit some traditional festivals and explain what people do there.
Grammar
Numerals
A.
1. Write the numerals.
e.g. 45 000; 1 April – Forty-fivethousand; the first of April.
1. in 2003
2. 29 December
3. 100s
4. 100 000s
5. 1 000 000
2. Write by numbers.
e.g. six million – 6 000 000
1. the first of January
2. five hundred
3. four hundred and fifty thousand
4. one million
5. two festivals
B.
1. Transform all ordinal numerals into the cardinal.
e.g. the second – two; the sixty-ninth – sixty-nine
1. the first
2. the millionth
3. the fiftieth
4. the five thousandth
5. the twenty-forth
2. Ask questions to the numerals.
e.g. 450 000of people live in Edinburgh. – How many people live in Edinburgh?
1. In 2003 many shows were free. (When?)
2. The old city has hundreds of ghosts. (How many?)
3. Hogmanay is from 29 December – 1 January. (When?)
4. Hundreds of millions of years ago, these hills were volcanoes. (How many?)
5. Four hundred of people from all over the world go to the party. (How many?)
C.
1. Transform all cardinal numerals into the ordinal.
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e.g. one hundred – the hundredth; three – the third
1. one million
2. five hundred
3. two
4. forty five thousand
5. twenty nine
2. Ask 5 special questions about your city (How much…? How many…? When…? How old…?)
e.g. When was Minsk mentioned in chronicles? – In 1067.
How many people live there? – Over 2 million.
Module 9
Vocabulary: Weather
Grammar: Future Simple
Reading: Weather forecast
Warm-up
Read and translate these words.
weather [`weрә] Celsius [`selsiәs]
forecast [`fo:ka:st] thunder [`θ Λ ndә]
temperature [`temprәt∫ә] gale [`geil]
degree [di`gri] sleet [`sli:t]
Find the translation of these proper nouns. Use a dictionary for unknown words pronunciation.
Europe Spain
France South
Greece Athens
Russia Scandinavia
Channel Turkey
Tyrrhenian Sea
A.
Match the words from these columns. Use a dictionary for unknown words and pronunciation.
The weather in Belarus is … hot, wet,
The weather in Britain is … cloudy
In autumn it is … rainy, sunny,
In winter it is … snowy, cool,
In spring it is … windy, cold,
In summer it is … warm, foggy,
B. Complete the phrase.
1. I like when it’s … in summer.
2. In North Pole it is usually ….
3. People don’t like when it’s … in autumn.
4. In deserts it’s often ….
5. My favourite weather is ….
6. My favourite season is … when it’s ….
7. Now the weather is ….
C. Answer the questions from the point B.
1. What is the British weather like?
2. What is the weather like today?
3. What was the weather like yesterday?
4. What weather is going to be today in the evening?
5. What weather is expected to be in your country tomorrow?
6. What kind of weather do you like?
7. What kind of weather don’t you like?
Reading
WEATHER FORECAST
Good evening!
This is Gale Goodkind with the weather forecast for tomorrow. It's Saturday, and a lot of people are going away on holiday. We're going to look at the European weather map for tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
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First, the bad news. It's raining in Spain at the moment. And the good news. It isn't going to rain tomorrow. It is going to be a hot, sunny day, with temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius.
The rain is going to move into France tonight. Tomorrow is going to be wet and windy in the South of France. In Italy it's going to be a dry day, but cloudy. The temperature there is going to be about 20 or 21 degrees Celsius.
What about Greece? Well, the sun's going to shine there. A very hot day, with temperatures about 30 degrees in Athens, 27 or 28 degrees in the islands.
And Britain? Sorry, but it's going to be a cold, wet day again. It's going to snow in Scotland, and there's going to be a thunder in the North of England.
Europe is going again to be windy with changeable skies. It is going to have
cloudy, rainy weather with strong winds to an area from France to Russia. Western Europe is going to have rain. Eastern Europe and Scandinavia are going to have sleet and snow. There are going to be strong southwesterly winds reaching nearly gale force with the possibility of gales in the Channel. Southern Spain and Turkey are going to be mostly sunny.
The interior of Italy is going also to be sunny, but the area bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea is going to be mostly cloudy with occasional showers.
Have a nice holiday!
Follow-up
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