Summary Completion. Complete the summary with words from the box.

Instant Messaging, or IM, means using a program that tells you when a friend is ____________so you can message them instantly, and they can reply. IM is ____________popular in the USA and is starting to take ____________in the UK. 3,000 people are signing ____________ to MSN Messenger every day. AIM and ICQ are the two most popular systems. They are both owned ____________AOL. These two systems have almost 350 million users. The good points of IM are ____________, but there is one disadvantage. You can only communicate with someone who is using the same program. However, the future looks ____________for IM. Some systems let you have voice conversations, see each other using webcams, and ____________ pictures and music. IM also has its own language. You can use 'ASL' to find out how old someone is, if they are a man or a woman, and where they are. You can use 'LOL', meaning laugh out loud, if someone comes out ____________something funny, and 'CU L8er', for see you later, or goodbye.

SUPPLEMET 3

Visual English

Get tested by your teacher using a headover projector.

SUPPLEMENT 4

APPEARANCES

Tasks and questions

1. How do you make your initial judgments of people before you speak to them?

2. What do you think about:

a) a man who wears an earring in one ear?

b) a woman who wears heavy make-up?

c) a man with long hair?

d) a woman with an earring in her nose?

e) a man with a beard or mustache?

3. The first time I met … he / she was so …

4. How important is physical attractiveness?

5. Why do people wear make-up?

6. Write your arguments for and against the following:

I would / I would never … in a street, because … .

a. Look at myself in a shop window.

b. Shout at or argue with my partner.

c. Eat while walking along.

d. Kiss my partner.

e. Spit.

f. Cry.

7. ‘Appearances are deceptive.’ Discuss.

Words and phrases

BELIEFS

Tasks and questions

1. What do you associate with the word ‘belief’?

2. How much have your fundamental beliefs changed in the last 5/10/15 years?

3. Write your opinion: We all need something to believe in.

4. Write your definitions: altruism, atheism, capitalism, communism, fanaticism, fatalism, feminism, hedonism, materialism, optimism, pessimism, racism.

5. How superstitious are you?

6. What do you think brings good / bad luck?

7. Facts that used to be beliefs.

Words and phrases

DECISIONS

Tasks and questions

1. What is the most important decisions we have to make in our life?

2. What is the most important decision you have ever had to make in your life?

3. Dilemmas. Make your choice:

a) being extremely ugly and very intelligent, or incredibly beautiful but particularly stupid?

b) never seeing your family again, or never seeing any of your friends again?

c) having twenty exciting eventful years ahead of you, or forty fairly routine years?

d) a beautiful house but miles from anywhere or an average house near to everything you want?

e) a month in Siberia or a month in the Sahara?

f) two weeks visiting ten different towns or two weeks in one particular interesting place?

g) a life of permanently following your head or permanently following your heart?

4. How would your life have been different if you had been born of the opposite sex?

5. What would you do to resolve the following situations?

a Your English teacher has lost all interest in teaching your class. All you ever do is grammar, reading and listening exercises.

b Your family has had a grocery store for more than 50 years. Recently, a supermarket has opened 100 metres down the road.

c You are a police officer and you have just arrested a woman for stealing food from a supermarket. On the way to the police station she tells you that in the previous two weeks she’s lost her purse, her dog has been run over and her sister has been involved in a car accident.

Phrases and words

ENGLISH

Tasks and questions

1. Why do you think many modern languages borrow many words from English?

2. How do you feel about English being the universal language? Discuss advantages and disadvantages.

3. Try to convince that English is most suitable for being a world language. Remember to give examples to illustrate your points.

Words and phrases

FAMILY

Tasks and questions

1. How important is family in our society?

2. What is a perfect family for you?

3. What roles should the mother and father play in a family?

4. What influence have your parents had on your life? What values have they instilled in you?

5. What differences have you noted between family life in Britain/America and family life in your own country?

6. Describe your perfect life partner in terms of starting a family.

7. Why are divorce rates constantly increasing in the Western world?

8. What is more important for you – a career or a family?

Words and phrases

GEOGRAPHY

Tasks and questions

1. Students draw quick outlines of any countries. The other students try to guess what countries they are using: I think it is … . It looks like … . This could / must be … .

2. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be and why?

3. What do you think are the effects of geographical location on people’s lives and personalities? Try to give examples.

4. What are the implications (advantages / disadvantages) of living: in a remote mountain village / in a desert / in a third world country / near a nuclear power station / near a river which often floods?

5. What are the problems that people face in different parts of the world? Areas to be focused on: food, shelter, defence, health, religion and death, industry and trade, entertainment.

6. What do you now about the local history of your native town / city?

Words and phrases

HONESTY

Tasks and questions

1. What do you prefer in a person and why? Put the four in order of priority: honesty / sincerity, intelligence, sense of humour, good looks.

2. Why do some people steal?

3. Try to remember situations when you behaved in a dishonest way.

4. How honest are you?

5. How can you tell that someone is lying? Why do people lie? How bad is lying?

6. Who do we lie most often to and what is it that we lie about?

7. In what situations would it be convenient to tell a white lie?

8. Practice telling white lies for the following situations:

a. Your mother buys you a revolting jumper.

b. A new friend invites you for dinner. You’re doing nothing but you don’t want to go.

c. You don’t like the lunch your friend is treating you to.

9. ‘Promises are made to be broken’. Discuss.

10. True or false? Explain your choice.

a. You never cheated at school.

b. More boys cheat than girls.

c. It is wrong to report on a cheat.

Words and phrases

IDEAS

Tasks and questions

1. Think of novel uses for the following things: TV remote control, zip, magnet, tennis racket, rubber. The grammar construction to be used: … could be used +( to-infinitive / for -ing form).

2. What are your / your parents’ / your friends’ fixed ideas?

3. What do you think is immoral?

4. ‘There is only one truth.’ Discuss.

5. Design the school of the future.

6. What would seem strange to a tribesman travelling to Europe? Key words: to think, things, time.

Words and phrases

JOBS

Tasks and questions

1. Which jobs:

a. can be done by robots?

b. no longer exist?

c. require absolutely no intelligence?

d. have low salaries but high prestige?

e. require very long training?

f. will be most needed in the future?

g. are overpaid?

h. young children typically want to do?

i. can be done from home?

j. you would really hate to do?

Discuss and dispute your answers.

2. What is your concept of ‘work’?

3. Apart from school or your job what else do you consider to be work?

4. What do you think about the jobs of a housewife, actor, pop star, novelist?

5. What make people choose their future profession?

6. If you had enough money never to have to work again, what would you do instead?

7. Writing.

(a) My ideal job.

(b) A day in the life of a … .

(c) How I would resolve unemployment.

8. Write a letter to the managing director of one these companies, trying to convince them to change the company policy:

a. a pharmaceutical company which tests its beauty products on animals

b. a multinational which trades with the governments of politically oppressed people

c. a company whose products can be used for military purposes

d. a fast food chain that opens ‘restaurants’ in beautiful squares in the old quarters of towns

9. What are the reasons why people are dismissed?

10. How dishonest are the following situations:

a. making personal photocopies on the company’s photocopier

b. lying about your qualifications at a job interview

c. a woman at a job interview who does not say that she is two months pregnant

d. phoning up to say you’re ill, when you’re not, to get a day off

e. taking longer breaks that are authorized

f. drinking alcohol and smoking if your company pays for your health insurance costs.

Words and phrases

KINDNESS

Tasks and questions

1. What can make you give your blood, your time or your money to an unknown person?

2. What birthday/wedding/Christmas gifts do you usually give to your friends?

3. What would you do in the following situations?

(a) You see a young woman attacked by two men.

(b) You find a big amount of money on your way home.

(c) You see an old lady struggling to cross the street with some heavy bags.

(d) At a party there’s one more chocolate left on the plate.

(e) You run over a cat on your bike.

(f) A neighbour’s car alarm goes off in the middle of the night.

(g) You are driving along a country road in the dead of night. A bedraggled person of unknown sex tries to flag you down.

(h) You see someone suspicious hanging around outside a neighbour’s door.

(i) You see a teenager stealing some sweets from a shop.

4. ‘Charity begins at home’. Discuss.

5. Think of well-known people who do charitable work.

6. Every human being deserves a share of the world’s resources. Discuss.

7. There’s no point to give money to beggars they only spend it on alcohol.

8. What do you know about the Red Cross?

Words and phrases

LOVE

Tasks and questions

1. List different types of love and different ways of showing love (love for …).

2. List three things you love and hate doing. Explain why.

3. Think of things that you have ever done, do or would do for love.

4. What do you think about a marriage contract? What does it include?

5. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Discuss.

6. How important is friendship between partners?

7. Women should never make the first move, Discuss.

8. Describe different methods of meeting people you feel attracted to.

9. How is a man / a woman in love like?

10 How to find a good life partner?

12. Love is just a physical attraction. Discuss.

13. Why do some people stop loving?

Words and phrases

MONEY

Tasks and questions

1. How different are currencies?

2. Imagine you are given $1m to be spent in a specific way. Prepare a project.

3. Say your opinion on “Money makes the world go around.”

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using alternatives to money?

5. What would be the consequences of a world without money? How would it help to combat poverty?

6. What are the advantages of using a bartering system?

7. How do people get rich?

8. How does money affect and change people?

9. Say your opinion on “Money is the root of all evil.”

10. What will you do if:

a. someone asks you to lend them $100?

b. after one week, they haven’t returned your $100?

c. you win $1m in a lottery?

d. you find a wallet full of dollar?

e. you haven’t had a raise in salary for a long time?

11. What can’t money buy?

12. What are your spending habits?

Words and phrases

PREDICTIONS

Tasks and questions

1. Write down and read out three predictions about your classmates using the future simple. The other students try to guess who the predictions might relate to.

2. Write down a few predictions for life in 1,000 years.

3. Sketch a plan of your native town/city in 50 years’ time.

4. Describe a day in your life five years from now.

5. Would you rather live a hundred years into the future or back into the past.

6. Do you believe in fortune-telling. What are the methods.

7. True or false:

a. I will be happier in 10 years’ time than I am now.

b. In 10/20 years I will have the same best friends.

c. In 10 years I will have achieved all of my most important ambitions.

d. I will still be living in the same place in five years’ time.

Words and phrases

RESPONSIBILITIES

Tasks and questions

1. Discuss the responsibilities of the people in the relationships listed below:

a. doctors and patients

b. teachers and students

c. celebrities and their fans

d. police and the community

e. politicians and the electorate

f. citizens and their nation

2. Which jobs demand great responsibility and why?

3. ‘We are born responsible, we do not become responsible.’ Discuss.

4. ‘We are totally responsible for what happens in our lives – we should never blame other people or circumstances for our own mistakes and misfortunes.’ Discuss.

5. ‘Responsibility educates.’ Discuss.

6. ‘A doctor refused to treat a patient whose heavy smoking had caused his health problems. The doctor felt that money was much better spent on non-smokers whose chances of long-term survival were much greater.’ Justify or condemn.

7. How irresponsible are these people?

a. A mother who smokes while pregnant.

b. Parents who let their children watch pornographic and violent film.

c. Someone who drives at 220 kph on the motorway.

d. A group of people climbing on a difficult mountain despite a bad weather forecast.

e. People who leave cans, plastic bottles, bags, Styrofoam cups etc. on beaches and other places of natural beauty.

f. Someone who drinks a bottle of wine and then drives.

Words and phrases

SCHOOL

Tasks and questions

1. What is the best / worst thing about school?

2. What is the funniest / saddest thing that has ever happened to you at school?

3. Who was your bet teacher?

4. Choose the most important subjects, rank them and explain your choice.

5. You are a member of the board of governors of a school. You have to cut down on expenses. Think about the consequences of your actions.

6. Try to come up with a definition of an ideal teacher.

7. What do you learn from your parents that you don’t from your teachers?

8. What difference does it make for you to be taught by a male or female teacher?

9. What is the difference between having a young inexperienced teacher and an old experienced one? List the advantages and disadvantages.

10. When is your teacher wrong?

11. What subjects are the easiest and most difficult to teach?

12. Act out one of these role-plays.

(a) Child telling parents that he/she’s failed an exam.

(b) Child telling parent that he/she wants to leave school and get a job.

(c) Teacher telling parent that child does not study hard enough.

(d) Teacher telling student how important studying all subjects is.

13. How effective are exams?

14. What is the best way to revise for an exam?

15. What is the funniest thing that has ever happened to you in an exam?

Words and phrases

РЕКОМЕНДОВАНА ЛІТЕРАТУРА

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13. Walker R., Harding K. Tourism 2. – Oxford University Press, 2007. – 145 pp.

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