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| Lesson 1. THE AVERAGE BRITISH FAMILY. Exercise 1. Work with the vocabulary and find Russian equivalents to the words marked out in the text "The Average British Family". TEXT 1. THE AVERAGE BRITISH FAMILY. 1. There is, of course, no such thing as the average British family, but statistical data can help us to understand a society and social trends. 2. The average British family lives in a semidetached house with a garden in the South of England. They own their house, which is situated in the suburb of a large town. The house has three bedrooms. On average they have two children and a pet. The family drives a two-year-old Ford Cortina. 3. He works in the office of an engineering company for 40 hours a week and earns 200 pounds per week. He starts at 9.00 in the morning and finishes at 5.30 in the evening. He goes to work by car, which takes him 20 minutes. He does not particularly like his job, but there are chances of promotion. 4. She works in a service industry for three days a week and earns 95 pounds. She works locally and goes there by bus. She quite likes her job as it gets her out of the house, she meets people, and it is close to the children’s school. 5. The children go to a state school which is a few miles from home. A special bus comes to pick them up every day. They are at school from 9.00 to 3.30. 6. The most popular evening entertainment is watching TV or video, which the average person does for two and a half hours a day. After that, the next most popular activity is visiting friends, going to the cinema or a restaurant, or going to the pub. The most popular hobby is gardening and the most popular sports are fishing, football and tennis. VOCABULARY
Ex.2. Answer the following questions to the text: 1. Where does the average British family live? 2. What kind of house do they live? 3. What does the average British family consist of? 4. Do they work? Where do they work? 5. How much do they earn? 6. How long does it take them to get to their work? 7. What do their children do? 8. What kind of evening entertainment do they have? 9. What is the most popular hobby? 10. What is the most popular activity? 11. What is the most popular sport? Ex.3. Find out all the irregular verbs from the text. Give the tense and voice forms. Ex.4. Give synonyms and antonyms to the following words. like large go few job special watch next Ex.5. What parts of the speech do these words refer to: importance explanation unspeakable truthfulness breakage noisy impolitely accompaniment Ex.6. Make your own sentences using the following words: takes I a week work TV 100 to on works half am for it football 5 to get now and me watching he an hour pounds my earn days |
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