Lesson One: Introductions (О. Mikes) ...13 // Listening: A Foreign Visitor /15/ Oral Practice: Forms of introduction /18/ Agreement and disagreement /19/ Confirming or denying the statements /19/ Say the reverse (final -s in the 3rd person sg.) /20/ Polite requests /21/ A misunderstanding /21/ Welcoming and introducing /22/ // Lesson Two: The Daily Programme’ ...23 // Listening: Making an Appointment /26/ Oral Practice: Agreement and disagreement with affirmative statements /28/ Questions and answers about habitual actions /29/ Saying “thank you” /30/ Likes and dislikes /31/ Mrs Blake’s diary /31/ // Lesson Three: The Weather (O. Mikes) ...33 // Listening: The Weather Is Rather Changeable, Isn’t It? /36/ Oral Practice: Strong agreement /38/ Prepositions and expressions denoting time /39/ Question tags /39/ Telling the time /40/ clauses in the future /41/ Discussing the weather /41/ The weather in Britain /42/ // Lesson Four: The Changing American Family (M. Mead) ...44 Listening: Mrs Brown’s Family /47/ Oral Practice: A person’s appearance /49/ Agreement with negative statements /50/ Quite — rather /50/ Strong agreement (adverbial — adjectival phrases) /51/ Personal qualities /51/ The family tree (Possessive case ) /51/ Greetings and farewells /52/ // Lesson Five: Education in Britain ...56 // School subjects /59/ Listening: Schools in the United States /60/ Oral // Practice: Contradicting a statement /63/ Short affirmative and negative answers /64/ Apologies /64/ School education in Britain and in this country /65/ Learning foreign languages /66/ // Lesson Six: Work ...68 // Listening: Women Work Harder /73/ Oral Practice: Questions and answers with modal verbs /75/ Agreement and disagreement with affirmative statements /76/ Asking about one’s job /76/ Showing sb round one’s place of work /78/ //
Lesson Seven: How We Live ...80 // Convenient or suitable /Si/ Dwellings /83/ Building materials /83/ Listening: How Do You Fancy This Room? /84/ Oral Practice: Polite invitations /87/ Asking for agreement /88/ Question tags (don’t you?) /88/ Asking for information /89/ // Lesson Eight: Getting about Town ...91 // Listening: A True Story /94/ Oral Practice: Phrases with the verbs of motion /96/ Suggestions (Let’s, why don’t we, how about) /97/ Expressing the future /97/ The London Underground /98/ A game: Where do I want to go? /99/ // Lesson Nine: Studies // The suffixes -fui and -less /103/ Listening: Universities in Britain /105/ Oral Practice: The past tense and the present perfect tense /108/ All of us, some of us /108/ Replies to questions which of you ? /109/ Selected universitydegrees /110/ Higher educational establishments /110/ University teachers // /111/ // Lesson Ten: A Trip by Train // Means of transport /115/ Listening: Around London /116/ Oral Practice: Denying the statements /119/ Giving advice or making suggestions (should + the present and perfect infinitives) /120/ Prepositions of place /120/ Expressing obligation and absence of obligation /122/ Asking for information about the trains /122/ On the train /123/ // Lesson Eleven: Nobel Prize Winner // Listening: An Interview /128/ Oral Practice: Short replies to affirmative // statements /131/ Asking about personal data /131/ Short replies to negative // statements /132/ Questions and replies of the type There were many.. 133 // Who is he? (A riddle) /133/ A game: Who am I? /134/ // Lesson Twelve: Food // Listening: Dining Out /138/ Oral Practice: Three ways of expressing preference /141/ Neither do I /142/ Affirmative and negative statements // about food (The use of articles before the ivames of the meals and food) /142/ What does it taste like? /143/
In a restaurant (The use of articles) /144/ At the table (Useful phrases concerning table manners) /144/ // Lesson Thirteen: Shopping // Expressing very small quantities /150/ Listening: A Difficult Customer /151/ Oral Practice: Replies using the names of the shops /153/ Expressing the quantities /154/ Conditional clauses /154/ Asking about the quantity /155/ Shopping (Useful phrases) /155/ // Lesson Fourteen: Clothes and Fashion// Expressions concerning clothing /160/ Listening: Packing for a Holiday /162/ Oral Practice: Polite agreement /164/ Polite disagreement /165/ Exclamations /166/ The pronoun one/ones /166/ A game: Are you a keen observer? /166/ // Lesson Fifteen: The Post Office // How to use a public phone in Britain /170/ Listening: A Telephone Conversation /172/ Oral Practice: Polite requests /174/ Investigating the GPO // robbery (The past continuous tense) /175/ Protesting answers /175/ Making telephone calls (Useful phrases) /176/ To have or not to have // a telephone (A discussion) /177/ // Lesson Sixteen: Theatre and Cinema // How is a film made? /182/ Listening: Mrs Evans Wants to Go to the Cinema /183/ Oral Practice: Expressing possibility (may + the present and perfect infinitives) and negative deductions (can’t + the present or perfect infinitive) /185/ Make questions (The present perfect and past tense) /187/ A game /187/ // Lesson Seventeen: A Fleeting Glance at Prague ... 190 // Prepositions and expressions denoting place and motion /193/ Listening: A Guided Tour of London /194/ Oral Practice: Expressing uncertainty, // probability, doubt /196/ The styles of architecture in this country and in Britain /197/ Painting and sculpture /198/ Asking about Prague sights (which — what) /198/ // Lesson Eighteen: Mr Arding Doesn’t Feel Well ... 201 // Listening: The Progress of Medicine (S. Leacock) /204/ Oral Practice: Polite concern /207/
Illnesses and diseases /207/ Expressing sympathy /208/ Asking about health (Phrases) /210/ A game: What’s troubling you? /210/ // Lesson Nineteen: Entertainments ...212 Listening: A Surprise Visit (S. Leacock) /215/ Oral Practice: Temporal // clauses (as soon as, until ...) /217/ A tea party (Useful phrases) /218/ Conditional clauses /219/ US public holidays /220/ Party games /220/ // Lesson Twenty: Hobbies ...222 // Listening: Do-It-Yourself /225/ Oral Practice: Commenting on the statements /227/ Verbs followed by the infinitive /228/ Verbs followed by how to /228/ Expressing habitual actions in the past /229/ Discussing hobbies /229/ // Lesson Twenty-One: Sport in Britain (P. Bromhead) ...231 // Sports and games (A list) /234/ Listening: Ice Hockey Versus a TV Play // /235/ Oral Practice: Expressing surprise, pity or disappointment /237/ Answering questions (The present perfect continuous and simple present perfect tense, habitual actions in the past) /238/ Question tags ( You needn’t ... need you? You used to ... didn’t you? Let’s start, shall we?) /238/ // Lesson Twenty-Two: Radio and Television ...241 // Musical instruments /243/ Listening: The Opera Premiere of the Girl of the Golden West /245/ Oral Practice: How to manipulate a radio or TV set /248/ Answering in the passive voice /248/ Confirming the statements ( Yes, // he’s said, thought, known etc.) /249/ // Lesson Twenty-Three: Borrowing Books ...252 // Listening: In the Library /255/ Oral Practice: So do I — I don’t either /258/ So have I — Neither have I — He hasn’t either /258/ Making questions with final prepositions /259/ Books, periodicals and daily press (Useful phrases) /260/ How fast can you read? /261/ // Lesson Twenty-Four: Motoring ...263 // American expressions concerning the car /267/ Listening: A Puncture /268/ Oral Practice: Very polite requests /270/
To have (get, want) sth done /270/ Expressing sympathy and congratulations /271/ A car accident /272/ // Lesson Twenty-Five: Holidays ...275 // Lucky, luck or happy /277/ Listening: An Ideal Holiday /279/ Oral Practice: Adverbial phrases (Word order) /282/ Restrictive adverbial — adjectival phrases (quite, almost, hardly, enough etc.) /282/ An ideal holiday (A discussion) /283/ Key to Lexical Exercises ...285