Tuesday, 18 October 2016

The United Kingdom - Video and Wordlist

This episode of the famous BBC programme offers you a very clear introduction to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. For my third year students and all those who are interested.


The United Kingdom (Wordlist)
across
aircraft
Angles
arrive
Atlantic Ocean
automobile

beautiful
beans
beanstalk
British Isles

Monday, 17 October 2016

Jack and Beanstalk (Home Reading)

Завдання до позааудиторного читання

 PRE-READING.
1. Match the words to their translation:
1)    magic beans
2)    beanstalk
3)    cow
4)    price
5)    climb
6)    castle
7)    giant
8)    golden hen
9)    harp
10) axe
a) лізти
b) корова
c) замок
d) велетень
e) чарівні боби
f) сокира
g) стовбур боба
h) ціна
i) золота курка
j) арфа

READING
2. Read the tale and answer the questions:
1) Why did Jack take the cow to the market?
2) Who did Jack meet on his way to the market?
3) What price did the old man offer for the cow?
4) What did Jack’s mother do with the beans?
5) What did they see in the morning?
6) Who lived in the castle?
7) What things did Jack steal from the giant?
8) How did he escape?

 POST-READING
3. Put the sentences into the correct order:
1) A huge beanstalk grows up into the sky and Jack climbs it.
2) Jack climbs up again to get the giant’s magic harp.
3) Jack goes to the market and meets a strange old man.
4) The boy enters a castle of a giant and steals a golden hen.
5) Jack returns home with the beans and his mother throws them away.
6) The giant runs after Jack and the boy cuts the beanstalk with an axe.
7) The old man offers seven magic beans for Jack’s cow.
8) Jack and his mother become rich, but Jack gets bored soon.

4. Look through the text again and find who said these words:
-        That’s a nice cow!
-        How stupid! Oh you silly boy!
-        I’m going to climb it.
-        Come in, before my husband arrives home.
-        I smell the blood of an Englishman.
-        Master! Master! Help me!

5. Transform direct speech into indirect speech:
Remember: Present Indefinite – Past Indefinite
                     Future Indefinite – Future-in-the-Past
                     Present Continuous – Past Continuous
Example: “I’ll buy the cow”, - said the man.
                The man said that he would buy the cow.
1)    Jack’s mother said: “We need money to buy food”.
2)    The strange man said: “That is a nice cow”.
3)    Jack said: “I’m off to market to sell it”.
4)    The old man said: “I’ll give you a good price for her”.
5)    Jack said: “I’ll take the beans”.
6)    Jack said: “I’m going to climb the beanstalk”.
7)    The giant said: “I’ll grind his bones to make my bread”.
8)    The giant’s wife said: “You are imagining things”.

9)    She added: “There is no Englishman here”.

Monday, 3 October 2016

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

"Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This is the Way") is an English language nursery rhyme and singing game. The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell as an English children's game in the mid-19th century. He noted that there was a similar game with the lyrics 'Here we go round the bramble bush'. The bramble bush may be an earlier version, possibly changed because of the difficulty of the alliteration, since mulberries do not grow on bushes.
Mulberry
Halliwell said subsequent verses included: 'This is the way we wash our clothes', 'This is the way we dry our clothes', 'This is the way we mend our shoes', 'This is the way the gentlemen walk' and 'This is the way the ladies walk'.

Wednesday, 28 September 2016

Digraph Song

The Digragh Song will help you to revise such diagraph as sh, wh, ch, th, ph, gh, ng.
Task: Write the transcription of the consonant sounds that these diagraphs make. Copy out the examples from the song.

Monday, 19 September 2016

Friday, 26 August 2016

Inspired by the British Classic Films

Have a look at these beautiful drawings by Victoria Mokrush. I can't help admiring her talent.

Elizabeth Bennet (from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" adaptation, 1995 TV series)

You won't fail to recognize the main characters of  Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" performed by Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clarke (1983 TV series)



My Favourite Toy - Students' Stories

  Dmytro Kutniy When I was little, my favorite toy was a small yellow car. I got it for my fifth birthday from my parents. The car was small...