At an English Language School
Mark Bibi is a teacher of English in one of the colleges in Britain. He works in a residential college. It means that students live and eat here. Students come here from various countries. The whole college have breakfast from eight o’clock to nine o’clock. The basic lessons start at nine o’clock.
The lessons are an hour and a half long. At half past ten the students have coffee, and the coffee break is half an hour. Then they start again at eleven o’clock for an hour and a half. Lunch is from twelve thirty to two o’clock. And then they get involved into class activities from two o’clock till three thirty.
After classes the students are not bored. They can study in the learning centre, play volleyball or football, have aerobics or do athletics in the gym. They can improve their health here.
In their spare time they can paint or go to the jazz club. It is located near the college. Students can have entertainment in college. They watch videos or television. Students can go out to the cinema or to the restaurant. Many students have their hobbies.
Are the sentences true or false?
1. Students don’t study here.
2. After lunch the students have lessons.
3. After classes the students always go out.
4. Students can go to the gym.
5. Students don’t have spare time.
6. You can watch television in college.
Lesson 7. At the office
LEAD-IN
1. Answer the questions about yourself.
1. What entertainment do you have in the evening after work?
2. Do you and your colleagues go out at the weekends?
3. Does your office have modern equipment?
4. Is your work stressful?
5. How do you improve your work?
6. Do you have spare time at work?
7. What do you do at the coffee breaks?
8. Is your work useful?
9. Who keeps an eye on your work?
10. What business do you run?
2. Make up correct sentences.
1. They/not/sell/medicines/now.
2. She/often/import/textiles/different countries.
3. you/go/the greengrocer’s/every Sunday?
4. What/you/paint/now?
5. He/not/improve/his health/the gym.
6. they/go out/the weekend?
7. What/she/usually/do/her spare time?
8. What language/he/learn/now?
9. They/not/use/office equipment/at the moment.
10. your daughter/have/entertainment/the evenings?
Try to recollect as many sentences as possible.
3. Say what you enjoy, are interested in, are keen on, are bored with doing at work.
4. Say what you do at work.
At ten o’clock ...................................................................................................
At half past twelve..............................................................................................
From one to two o’clock .......................................................................................
The whole afternoon............................................................................................
At quarter to six.................................................................................................
At half past six...................................................................................................
After work........................................................................................................
FOCUS ON VOCABULARY
Активный словарь
1. office equipment – офисное оборудование
2. chair – стул
To take a chair – сесть на стул
3. drawer – ящик (стола)
The top drawer of the table – верхний ящик стола
4. paper – бумага
5. post – почта
To send by post – посылать почтой
6. socket – розетка
7. video recorder – видеомагнитофон
8. DVD player – DVD проигрыватель
9. overhead projector – проектор
10. computer presentation – компьютерная презентация
11. transparency – слайд (на пленке)
12. department – отдел, отделение
13. sign – знак, гл. подписывать
To give a sign – подать знак
14. airline – авиалиния
Airline ticket – авиабилет
15. area – территория
Residential area – жилой район
16. client – клиент
17. courier – курьер
18. lease – аренда, договор об аренде
To take on lease – арендовать
19. tenant – арендатор
1. terrible – ужасный
