Preparatory Activities

Unit 1. Family Life: My family and Myself

(Family life: traditions, leisure time, entertainment in the family, traveling)

Let’s put our thinking caps on

Language is the dress of thought

Samuel Johnson

The tasks are:

- to introduce yourself to other people;

- to read and write a personality profile.

- to read the texts and do the tasks;

- to speak on the family problems;

- to write the family essay.

Preparatory Activities

Task 1. Discussion: Answer the following questions

1) Hello. My name is Olga Alexeevna. What’s your name?

2) How are you? How are you getting on? How is life?

3) Where are you from? Where do you come from?

4) Do you want to learn English? Why? (I want to learn English for my job / I want to learn English because it’s an international language).

5) What’s your job? What’s your address? What’s your phone number?

6) What is you future profession? What specialist are you going to be?

7) What should you do to achieve the goal?

8) What position are you going to occupy?

9) Where do you want to work? Which countries would you like to go and work in?

10) Do you have chances of climbing the career ladder?

11) Do you think working abroad is essential for a successful career? Why? Why not?

12) What do you do in your free time? What do you like doing in your free time?

13) What does your friend do in his/her free time?

14) What do you like doing at the weekend?

(go/goes walking; play; skiing; skating, ice-skating; dancing; visiting museums; doing crosswords; listening to music; watching TV; taking photographs; cooking; playing computer games; sailing; painting; swimming; reading; going to the cinema; windsurfing; sunbathing; fishing).

15) Where do you usually go on holiday? (France, Spain, Greece, England, Egypt, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Baltic countries, the Crimea, the Caucasus).

16. Is your family the most important part of the world? Why?

Task 2. Meeting people: face to face. Start the conversation and introduce yourself

Good afternoon! How are you? How are you getting on? How are you doing? Glad to meet you! Nice to meet you! How nice to see you! Pleased to meet you! It’s nice (good) to see you! I’d just like to introduce myself. Let me introduce my colleague to you. I’d like you to meet my colleague. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I’ve been looking forward to meeting you. We are lucky to be here. Is this your first trip to Belgorod? Did you have a good flight (journey)? Would you like some coffee? That sounds a good idea, thanks.

Task 3. Personality Profile. Fill the spaces with missing information

My name is … and I am…. I come from … but live in … and I study at Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economics and Law. I’m responsible for …. I’m always very busy and I don’t have much free time, but when I do, I like…doing and I do. In my free time I do…. My hobbies and interests are… (to deal with). The most important thing that I enjoy is…. The group mates are very friendly and I enjoy the process of learning. Generally speaking I enjoy the class (stimulating) environment. I want to become a good specialist in the field of management (personnel management, psychology, economics, social work and pedagogical education).