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Reprinted 1999
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Conversation in Action
• Let's Talk
by Edward R. Rosset
Editorial Stanley

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Escrito por / Written by
Edward R. Rosset
Miembro del Colegio de Licenciados de Filosofia y Letras
de Euskadi.
Member of the Bachelor of Arts Associationof Euskadi.
Editado por / Edited by
Editorial Stanley
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Primera Edicion / First Edition 1997
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Reimpresion / Reprinted 2001

Introduction:
Conversation in action es unlibrodisenado para profesores. las 50 unidades de que
consta ellibrosonel resultado de muchos anos de experiencia en el area de los idiomas.
Recoge la problematica de muchisimos profesores que tienen dificultades a la hora de
hacer que los alumnos hablen en ingles.Otras tienen dificultad en encontrar temas de
que hablar, sin estarse repitiendo continuamente.
Por una causa o por otra, la experiencia demuestra que los profesores se pasan la hora
entera hablando mientras que los alumnos responden conmonosilabos. Este libro
proporcionanal prafesor infinidad de preguntas sobre untema determinado ademas de
ideas interactivas; con ello se crea una atmosfera apropiada para que los alumnos se
expresen en ingles.
Ellibroconsta de 50 unidades. Encada unidad se desarrolla un tema diferente. Contiene
40 preguntas sobre cada topico. Completan la unidad un dibujo y un texto sobre lo que
hay que hacer preguntas, y respuestas asi como dar explicaciones; tambien se forman
parejas o grupos para discutir, comentar sobre aseveracionesy para decir si algo es
correcto o no.
Introduction:
Conversation in action is a book designed for teachers. The 50 units that make up the
book are the result of many years of experience in the area of languages. It tries to solve
the problems of many teachers that have difficulties in making pupils speak in English.
Others have a hard time in finding topics to speak about, without repeating themselves
day after day.
For one reason or other, the experience showsthat teachers spend the whole class
speaking, while pupils answer with monosyllables. This book provides the teacher with
endless questions, besides interactive ideas; with this, an appropriate atmosphere is
created for the students to express themselves in English.
The book is made up of 50 units; a different topic being worked out in each unit There
are 40 questions about each topic. An illustration and a text about which the pupils have
to make questions and answers as well as give explanations, complete the unit Couples
or groups are made up to discuss,to comment about assertions and to decide whether
some things are true or false.

• Index
1 • Family.........................................................................................2
2 • Games and sports 4
3 • Married life or Living together.....................................—......6
4 • Holidays / Vacations 8
5 • Shopping 10
6 • At school 12
7 • Films 14
8 • Housekeeping 16
9 .jobs 18
10 • Military Service 20
11 • Television 22
12 - Christmas 24
13 • Driving 26
14 • Travelling 28
15 • Learning a foreign language 30
16 • In a restaurant 32
17 • Success in life 34
18 • Hotels 36
19 • At the bank 38
20 • Pubs 40
21 •At the Doctor's 42
22 •At the hospital 44
23 • Natural Medicine 46
24 • Occultism 48
25 • Hypnotism-Telepathy 50
26 • Collecting things 52
27 • At the dentist 54
28 • At the hairdresser's.... 56
29 •At the zoo 58

30 . At the beach
31 •Tourism .................................................................................. 62
32 • Being a king........................................................................... 64
33 •Politics.................................................................................... 66
34 • Religions ................................................................................ 68
35 • Popular festivals..................................................................... 70
36 . Party time
37 •Adepartment store..............—. .......... .......... 74
38 • Studying or working..............................................................76
39 • Having a baby...............................—.....................................78
40 • Cruising .. 80
41 •Adesert Island............... .......... . ........... 82
42 • Reading.................................................................................. 84
43 • Professions.........................—.......................... ........... 86
44 • Actors..................................................................................... 88
45 •Football.................................................................. .......... 90
46 • Policemen 92
47 • A street market 94
48 •Writing............................................ .................................96
49 •Painting.............................................. .................... 98
50 •Sailing............................................ ................................. 100
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Conversation in Action
• Let's Talk

1 •Family
Glossary
married
age
advantage
disadvantage
wives
husbands
allowed
disabled
share
nowadays
teach
quarrel
reasons
make up
apologize
believe
presents
Description of the scene:
Suggested roleplays and
dialogues
• In pairs, make up short dialogues. You
and your sister are laying the table.
• In pairs, make up a dialogue in which
your sister is doing the cooking.
• In groups of three, think up a
conversation in which you three
are clearing the table after dinner.
Make comments on the
following statements
• It's nice to live in a quiet place away
from the traffic, in the suburbs.
• It's nice to have many children.
• The husband and the wife should
both go to work.
• The children should make their
own beds.
• Children should go to a nursery.
Questions on the scene
• How many people are there in the
picture?
• What are they doing?
• What has the older girl in her hands?
• What has the father got in his hand?
• What about the boy?
• What's the mother doing?
• What's over the table?
• What's the father wearing?
• And the rest of the family?
• What's on the table?
True or false. Give reasons
• Arabs are allowed to have four
wives.
• Arab women are allowed to have
four husbands.
• Nowadays families have an average
of six children.
• Many wives go to work nowadays.
• In the old days men didn't do the
housework.
• Nowadays married people have to
choose between having children or
having a car.
Questions based onlanguage
functions
• What does the father say to the
children if he wants them to lay
the table?
• What do the children say if they
are watching an interesting
programme on TV?
• What does the father say if he
wants them to switch off the TV?
• How does the husband say to the
wife that he would like to have a
coffee after dinner?
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married for fifteen years. Robert works in a factory,
he's a machine operator. He works from 8 to 3.
Lucy works at the local supermarket. She's the
supervisor of the check-out. She works part time,
from 10 to 2. They have four children, Mark, 14,
John, 13, Hilda, 11 and Jane, 8. Mark and John go to
St. Mary's Secondary school of the local County
council. Hilda and Jane are still at Primary School.
They live in a little cottage in Park Lane. The back of
the house gives on to the park and it's a very quiet
place. There is no noise, no traffic. The only noise
they hear comes from the children playing in the
park, or the birds in the trees. The two boys often
go out with their friends at the weekends.
Sometimes they go to the school sports grounds to
play football. The girls like to stay at home watching
TV or playing in the garden. They have a little
Yorkshire Terrier. They all like playing with the dog.
Questions
1. How long have Robert and Lucy been
married?
2. Where does Robert work?
3. What are his working hours?
4. What does Lucy do?
5. Does she work full time?
6. What are the ages of the four children?
7. Which school do the boys go to?
8. What about the girls?
9. Where do they live?
10. What's at the back of the house?
11.1s it a noisy street?
12. What's the only noise they can hear?
13. What do the boys do at the weekends?
14. What about the girls?
15. What sort of dog do they have?
Family
1. What's your first name?
2. What's your surname (family name)?
3. What's your mother's name?
4. Do you have any brothers or sisters?
5. What are their names?
6. What's your father's name?
7. Do you have a grandfather or grandmother?
8. How old are they?
9. Do you have any uncles or aunts?
10. How many cousins have you got?
11.What are their names?
12. Are they older than you?
13. How old are they?
14. Are they boys or girls?
15. Where do your cousins live?
16. Where do your grandparents live?
17. What does your father do?
18. Where does your mother work?
19. Does your father have a car?
20. What kind of car is it?
21. Do you know the make?
22. What does your brother do?
23. What about your sisters? What do they do?
24. Do you live in a house or in a flat?
25. Do you have your own room?
26. Does your brother or sister have his/her own
room?
27. What do you have in your room?
28. Can you describe your house or flat?
29. Do you have a garden or a balcony?
30. Have you got a pet?
31.What kind of pet have you got?
32.What's its name?
33. How old is it?
34. Does your mother let you have a pet in the house?
35. How do you get on with your brother/sister?
36. Do you quarrel or argue with him/her?
37. Do you go to the same school as your brother/
sister?
38. Do your grandparents live with you?
39. Do you have a great-grandfather/grandmother?
40. Do your grandparents give you any pocket money? 3
ert and lucy are married. they've been happily

2 • Games and sports
dialogues
• In pairs, make up short dialogues
in which one of pupils explains to
the other the difference between
sports and games.
• In groups of three, make up short
conversations in which the pupils
comment on the difference
between sport to keep fit and sport
for competition.
• In pairs, the students can speak
about their favourite sports.
• In pairs, ask them to make a list of
all the sports they can remember.
See which pair remembers most.
following statements:
• Competition is better than sports
for keeping fit.
• Individual sport is better than team
sports.
• People should go in for sport every
day not just at weekends.
• Running a marathon is good for health.
• Running is good for women.
• Competing is good for health.
• What's the woman in the first
picture doing?
• What's the woman on the top right
picture doing?
• What's the man on the bottom left
picture doing?
• What's the man on the bottom
right picture doing?
• What are they all wearing?
• In sport, teams compete one
against the other.
Glossary
game
hardest
dangerous
laziest
harm
championship
team
referee
mistakes
match
score
chess
to draw/tie
to climb
to keep fit
• Football and basketball are games.
• If both sides score the same
number of goals it is a draw.
• At weekends many people go in for
games.
• Amateurs are very well paid.
Questions based on language
functions
• What does the referee say to the
players when the match is going to
start?
• What does the starter say to the
ahtletes when the race is about to
start and when they must get to
their marks?
• How does the captain of a football
team say to one of the players that
he has to replace the injured goal
keeper?
• How do you think the finish line
judge will tell an athlete that he
still has another lap to go?
h

'Mr Jones, what's the difference between games and sports?' 'Well, Jimmy,' said the teacher smiling at the
little boy sitting at the front, 'a game is usually a competition between two teams or two people. The side
that scores more points wins. We speak about playing a game of football, of tennis, cricket, baseball,
basketball, rugby, volley-ball, hockey, ping-pong, chess and many others. In a game, a person or a team
wins and the other side loses. Of course, they can also draw or tie; sometimes it's called equalize; another
expression for a draw is two all, three all, or two to two, three to three, etc.'
Sport, on the other hand, is more individual. You don't usually score points. You don't 'play' or 'practise' a
sport. You 'go in for' or 'take up' sport. Running, jumping, throwing, swimming, walking, climbing, cycling,
doing gymnastics, etc, are all sports. Many people go in for sports or play games at the weekends just to
keep fit.'
Questions
1. Where's this conversation taking place?
2. What's the name of the teacher?
3. What's the name of the little boy?
4. What does the boy want to know?
5.Where's he sitting?
6. What does the teacher do when he answers the
question?
7. What is a game?
8. Which side wins in a game?
9. Give the names of two games not mentioned in the
reading.
10. Do the same with sports.
11.When the two teams have the same number of
points, they.
12. You play games, but what about sport? You.
13. Why do some people play games at weekends?
14. Do you score points in sport?
15. What's usually more individual, a game or a sport?
Games & sports
1. What's your favourite sport?
2. What games do you usually play?
3. Mention all the games and sports you can think of.
4. What's the so called 'sport king'?
5.What sport do people practise, or go in for, in your
country?
6. Mention the games that the English play.
7.« « « « Americans play.
8. Do you do any sport?
9. Are you good at any games or sports?
10. Which do you think is the hardest sport?
11.Which do you think is the most dangerous?
12. Which do you think is the laziest?
13. Do you think sport is good for the health?
14. Can you mention some benefits sport provides?
15. Is there any harm that sport may do to you?
16. What do you think of running?
17. What are the advantages of running?
18. What are the disadvantages?
19. What do you think of running marathons?
20. What do you think of competing in thriathlons?
21. What is the difference between professional and
amateur sport?
22. What do you think of professional sport?
23. Do you think professional sport should be paid?
24. Do you know any names of professional
sportsmen?
25. Mention some names of professional players or
sportsmen.
26. What about sports women? do you know any?
27. Do you know how many hours professionals train?
28. Would you like to be a professional sporstman/
woman?
29. Would you like to go to the Olympic Games?
30. Do you watch them on TV?
31.Which sports do you like to watch most?
32. What do you think of football on TV?
33. Do you like watching the World Cup?
34. Do you know which team won the last
championship?
35. Where did the championship take place?
36. Have any Olympic Games taken place in your
country?
37. Would you like to help in the stadium?
38. What would you like to do?
39. Have you ever been a referee? what do you think of
them?
40. Do referees make mistakes? Should a match be
repeated?
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3 • Married life or Living together
Glossary
surname
aunt
uncle
cousin
kind
the make
quarrel
argue
death
percent
hell
arguing
tiredness
tend
dialogues
• In pairs, make up a conversation
between a grandfather and his
grandson.
• In pairs, make up a conversation
about cars.
• In groups of three, make up a
conversation about houses. Where
they should be located, etc.
• In groups of four, make up a
conversation about pets at home.
following statements.
• In the old days people didn't get
divorced.
• Discussions start when people are
tired.
• Arguing in front of the children.
• Living in a house or in a flat.
• Having a pet in the house.
• Living with grandparents.
• What's the man doing in the first
picture?
• How old do you think he is?
• Where's the car in the second
picture?
• Is it an expensive car?
• Is that a flat in the third picture?
• Are there any trees?
• What's there in the fourth picture?
• What has he got with him?
• What's he carrying?
• You can have a garden in a flat.
• Brothers and sisters argue very
often.
• Grandparents often take the
children for a walk.
• Children often live with their
cousins in the same house.
functions
• What does the boy say to his sister
if he wants to watch another
programme?
• What does the girl say if she
doesn't want to change the
channel?
• What does the child say to the
grandfather if he wants to go to
the park?
• How does the grandfather say to
the child that they can't go out
because it's raining?
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Not many years ago, when two people got married
it was for good, 'until death separated them'. Very
few marriages ended up in divorce. Nowadays,
about fifty percent of the couples that get married
separate after a few years of living together. Married
life can be very pleasant if there is love between
husband and wife, or it can be hell if they keep
arguing and criticising each other all the time.
Psycologists say that couples should watch for
tiredness. When people are tired after a long day at
the office, they tend to be irritable and answer
back. Experts say that we must be thankful for what
we have, and repeat to ourselves that we are very
happy. If a person repeats it many times a day he/
she will end up believing it, and then, he/she will
really be happy.
Questions
1. Was divorce common a few years ago?
2. For how long were people married?
3. How many couples get divorced nowadays?
4. When can married life be pleasant?
5. When can married life be hell?
6. What do psycologists say?
7.What happens after a long day at the office?
8. What do experts say?
9. What happens when you repeat something many
times to yourself?
10. What will happen if you believe that you are
happy?
Married life or Living together
1.Are you married? if not, would you like to get
married?
2. What is the best age to get married?
3. How old were your parents when they got married?
4. How many children would you like to have?
5. What are the advantges and disadvantagesof
having one or two children?
6. What are the advantagesand disadvantages of
having many?
7.What are the advantages and disadvantages of
married life?
8.Would you live with your boy/girlfriend without
being married?
9. What are the advantagesof this living together
arrangement?
10. What are the disadvantages of it?
11. Do you believe in equality between husband and
wife?
12. What do you think about Arabs' wives?
13. What happens if they don't obey their husbands?
14. What happensto adulterous women in an Islamcountry?
15. What happens to aduterous men in an Islam
country?
16. How many wives are Arabs allowed to have?
17.How many husbands are Arabs allowed to have?
18. How many concubines can an Arab have?
19. What other societies or religions allow several
wives?
20. What other societies or religions allow several
husbands?
21. What is the most important aspect in married life?
22. Is sex the only attraction?
23. Would you get married to a disabled person?
24. Do you think men should share the housework?
25. Should women go to work?
26. Can a woman with six children go to work?
27. What's more important, work or children?
28. Why don't people have more children nowadays?
29. Will you teach your children to make the beds,
etc.?
30. Why do you think married couples quarrel?
31. What are the main reasons for quarrelling?
32. Who is usually right, the husband or the wife?
33. Do you quarrel very often with your boy/girlfriend?
34. Who makes up usually?
35. Do you ever apologize to him/her?
36. What do you do when you make up?
37. Do you believe in presents?
38. Should a husband give his wife a present
occasionally?
39. What about vice versa?
40. Can couples that quarrel often, be happy?
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Description of the scen
dialogues
• In pairs, act out a roleplay between
two persons who have been to an
organized holiday/vacation.
two people who like to go on their
own.
• In pairs, act out a roleplay betwen
two people who like to go on a
trek.
• A camping holiday.
• A cruising holiday.
• Spending your holiday by the sea.
• Spendingyour holiday in the mountains.
• Reading during the holidays.
• What's the girl in the first picture
doing?
• What's the girl in the second
picture doing?
• Where's she?
• What are the two people in the
third picture doing?
• What's the man in the fourth
picture doing?
• More people prefer summer
holidays than winter holidays.
• People from the north of Europe-
like to spend their holidays in the
sun.
• Many students spend their holidays
learning another language.
• Medieval banquets are terribly
expensive.
functions
• How does the husband ask the wife
if she wants to go camping?
• How does the wife tell her husband
that she prefers to stay at good
hotels?
• What does the husband say to
inform his wife that they haven't
got enough money for good
hotels?
• How does the wife say that she
prefers to stay at home?
4/ Jp;odaus / Vacatopms
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Some people like to have their holidays/vacations
organized. They book it a year in advance so they
know which hotel they're staying at, how much it's
going to cost, what the beach is like, what the food
is like, and what souvenirs they are going to buy.
Others like to go into the unknown world without
any foresight. They take the car and stop wherever
they like. They sleep in their own caravan or in a
cheap hotel. These are the adventurous types,
usually with a couple of children. They are always
looking for a nice deserted beach all for
themselves. There is the third type - people who are
much more intrepid. These are the ones that sail
around the world in a small yacht; trek across the
Pyrenees; cross over the Alps following Hannibal's
trail; or do an 8,000m. climb in the Himalayas.
Questions
Holidays / Vacations
1 .What do some people like?
2. How long in advance do they book the hotel?
3. Do they know how much the hotel is going to cost?
4. Do they know what the food is like?
5. Do these people know what souvenirs they are
going to buy?
6. Some other people take their own car, where do
they stop?
7.Where do they sleep?
8. Do these people have any children?
9. What are they always looking for?
10. About the third type of people; give two more
examples of things they are likely to do.
1. Where do you usually spend your holidays?
2. Do you go with your family?
3. Where did you go when you were younger?
4. Do you prefer to swim in the seaor in a swimming-pool?
5. What do you think of places like Benidorm?
6. What do you think of spending a holiday in your
grandfather's village?
7.Are there people of your age there?
8. What do you do in the mornings?
9. What about the afternoons?
10. What do you do in the evenings?
11. Do you spend a lot of money during your holidays?
12. How much pocket money do you get on holidays?
13. Do you spend more than at home?
14. How do you feel when your holidays are over?
15. Would you like to spend your holidays cruising in
the Mediterranean?
16. Which do you prefer winter or summer holidays?
17. What do you think about taking all your holidays at
the same time?
18. Do you think it's better to take holidays in parts?
19. What is better to spend holidays with the family or
with friends?
20. Have you ever been camping? if so, where?
21. What do you think of camping?
22. What are the advantages and disadvantages of
camping?
23. Have you ever been to a medieval banquet?
24. What are they like?
25. If you could, what sort of holiday would you like to
have?
26. Do you take any school books to revise?
27. What about reading? do you read during your
holidays?
28. Do you meet any English-speaking people during
your holidays?
29. Do you practise any other languages?
30. What do you think of spending your holidays
learning languages?
31.What do you think of working campsabroad?
32. Have you ever been to one? what are the benefits
or advantages?
33. What are the disadvantagesof working camps?
34. Have you ever considered spending your holidays
helping people in the third world?
35. What do you think of working during your holidays?
36. Would you like to work as a waiter or waitress?
37.What do you think of people who work in summer?
38. Have yor ever had to stay at home because you had
examinations in September?
39. Are holidays short or long? How long should they
be?
40. Should holidays be a time for reading?
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5- Shopping
Glossary
grocer's
yourself
mail
antique
auction
spendthrift
to put on
bother
in a hurry
enjoy
to fill
huge
brim
tills
dialogues
the shop keeper and the client in
an old shop.
a client and the girl at the till in
the local supermarket.
• In groups, make up conversations
in favour and against the old
grocer's shops and modern
supermarkets.
• Hypermarkets are expensive and
too far from the town centres.
• In the old grocer's shop the grocer
was a friend of everybody.
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• Women enjoy buying things, men
don't.
• Buying things by mail is better.
• People steal things in a
supermarket.
• How many people can you see in
the picture?
• What's the woman doing?
• What has she got in her hand?
• What's she holding with her left
hand?
• Has she done a lot of shopping?
• What does the man at the far end
do?
• In a supermarket you have many
things to choose from.
• The attention you get is very
impersonal.
• In large supermarkets there are
many special offers.
• Men enjoy shopping.
• The Queen of England often goes
to the supermarket.
functions
• How does a customer ask an
attendant in a supermarket where
the tins of asparagus are?
• What does the attendant say to
direct him/her?
• What will a customer say to the
cashier in a supermarket if they'll
accept his/her credit card?
• How will the cashier say that they
don't accept that credit card?

I remember going shopping with my grandmother. She didn't bother to put her shoes on. She went in her
old slippers. The local grocer's was at the corner of the street. There, she would meet three or four
women and have a nice chat while waiting for the grocer to serve them. They were never in a hurry and
enjoyed the waiting time. Old Mr Robinson wrote on a piece of paper, in pencil, every item they bought,
and then added up the quantities using only his head... and sometimes his fingers. Kind, Mrs. Robinson
used to give me a sweet or a candy for helping my grandmother to carry the shopping bag.
Nowadays, the young married couple jump into their small family car on a Saturday afternoon and drive to
the Hypermarket, outside town. They fill a huge trolley to the brim and join a long queue at one of the 25
tills. They pay with their credit card and push the trolley to the car. Then, they drive back home, park as
near their place as possible, and carry home twenty plastic bags each.
Questions
1. What does the writer remember?
2. Did his grandmother put her shoes on?
3. What did she wear when going shopping?
4. Where was the local grocer's?
5. What did the women do while waiting to beserved?
6. How did Mr Robinson find out the total sum?
7. Did he use an adding machine?
8. What did Mr Robinson's wife give the writer?
9.Why did she give it to him?
10. Where do people do their shopping nowadays?
11. How do they go there?
12. How do they carry their shopping?
13. How many tills are there?
14. Do they pay cash?
15. How many plastic bags have they got?
Shopping
1. Do you ever go shopping?
2. What do you think of the small grocer's at the
corner?
3. What's a department store?
4. What's a hypermarket?
5. What's a supermarket?
6. Where are the hypermarkets placed?
7.What's the difference between them?
8. What do you think of shopping on aSaturday
afternoon in the hypermarket?
them?
10. Do you save money in the large supermarkets?
11.Do you enjoy buying clothes or things for yourself?
12. Do you like buying presents for other people?
13. What do you think of shopping by mail?
14. Do you receive any catalogues regularly?
15. What are the advantages of this kind of shopping?
16. What are thedisadvantages?
17. What do you think of street markets?
18. Do you visit them on Saturday or Sunday morning?
19. Do you think it is cheaper to buy there?
20. What sort of things are cheaper there?
21. What about the quality in the street markets?
22. Have you visited a street antique market?
23.1s there a famous one in your country?
24. Have you heard about «Petticoat Lane» in London?
25. Have you ever been to an auction?
26. What do you think of that system of buying things?
27. What are the advantagesof an auction?
29. What do you think of men doing the shopping?
30. Do you look at the prices when you go shopping?
31 .Are you a spendthrift?
32. What's the difference between men and women
when shopping?
33. Are men careful with money?
34. What things do men like to buy?
35. What things do women enjoy buying?
36. What is the best day of the week for shopping?
37.At what time do you usually go to the supermarket?
38. Have you ever checked a supermarket bill? why?/
why not?
39. How do you think the Queen of England does her
shopping?
40. What sort of things does she buy?
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6 • At school
True or raise. Give reasons
dialogues
• In pairs, act out a conversation
between the teacher and a bad
student.
• In pairs, act out a conversation in
favour and against modern schools.
• In groups of three, speak about the
advantages and disadvantages of
staying at school for lunch.
• Modern schools are more efficient
than the old ones.
• me number of pupils in the classes
is smaller.
• Women teachers are better than
men teachers.
• Nowadays most schools have
dining-rooms.
• What's the girl carrying in her hand
and in the bag? Where's she going?
• What's the woman doing in the
classroom?
• What do you think the teacher is
telling the young student?
• What's the girl doing in her desk?
• What are they all wearing?
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• There is no corporal punishment in
schools nowadays.
• Most children have lunch at school.
• Teaching methods are the same as
fifty years ago.
• Anybody can be a teacher.
• Students must be at school until
they are sixteen.
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• How do students greet the teacher?
• What does the teacher tell the
students to do first thing in the
morning?
• How does a pupil ask the teacher if
he/she doesn't understand his/her
explanations?
• What do the pupils say to the
teacher at the end of the day?

In 1912, when my grandfather was born, very few people were lucky enough to go to school. My grandpa
had to walk four miles to go to the wrecked building that served as a school. In the same classroom, about
twenty boys and girls of different ages sat at hundred-year-old desks. Their books had been inherited
from more advanced pupils and many of their pages had been torn out or had been badly scribbled on.
The maps on the wall had seen better times and the frontiers of many of the countries shown had already
changed.
Almost a hundred years afterwards, school children are collected by a school bus and are taken to a large
modern building with a huge playground. Their classrooms are large and well lit. Young trained teachers
take about a dozen pupils at a time. They use modern teaching methods and have laboratories at their
disposal. Half a dozen cooks prepare a well balanced lunch for five hundred hungry youngsters. At five
o'clock the school buses deposit them carefully outside their homes.
Questions
1. When was the writer's grandfather born?
2. Did many people go to school in those days?
3. How far did his grandfather walk to go to school?
4. What was the building like?
5. How many children were in the same classroom?
6. Were they all of the same age?
7. Can you describe the books they used?
8. Were the maps on the wall new?
At school
1.Are you studying or working?
2. What are your teachers like?
3. Describe the teacher you like most
4. Describe the teacher you like least
5. What are the qualities a teacher should have?
6. What are the faults a teacher shouldn't have?
7. How many students are there in your class?
8. How many students do you think there should be in
a class?
9. What do you prefer a male teacher or afemale
teacher?
10. What do you do if you don't understand the
teacher's explanation?
11. Do the pupils usually understand the teacher's
explanation?
12. What is the most common punishment in your
school?
13. What do you think of corporal pusnishment?
14. Can you describe some of these punishments?
15. Compare the schools 50 years ago and a modern
school.
16. Are the teaching methods the same?
17. What are the advantages of modern methods?
18. What are the disadvantages of modern methods?
19. What are your memories of your younger school
days?
9. How do school children go to schoolnowadays?
10. What are the classrooms like?
11.What sort of teachers do they havenowadays?
12. Do they still use old methods?
13. How many cooks work in the kitchen?
14. How many children go to those schools?
15. At what time do they go back home?
20. Do you remember the first day you went to school?
21. How did you learn to multiply?
22. How did you learn to read and write?
23. Do you remember the first book you ever read?
24. Do you remember your first teacher? what was he/
she like?
25. What was your classroom like?
26. Do you think little children are happy at school?
27.At what age do you think boys and girls should
leave school?
28. At what age do they leave school?
29. At what age will/did you leave school?
30. What subjet do you like best?
31.What subject do you like least?
32. Do you study languages at school? Which
languages?
33. At what age did you start to learn English?
34. Did you start at school or in a private class?
35. Did you have lunch at school?
36. Can you describe the food you had?
37. How long did you stop for lunch?
38. Did you like the first lesson in the afternoon?
39. Which is the worst time for studing?
40. Have you ever gone to sleep during a lesson?
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7 • Films
Glossary
screen
dubbed
used to be
stuntman
growth
perishable
to crowd
eager
to risk
goers
blood
dialogues
• In pairs, act out the conversation
between the two men in picture
two.
between the film director and a
film star.
• In pairs, act out a telephone
conversation between two lovers.
• Violence films are good/bad for
children.
• Terror films make children afraid.
• Love scenes should be considered
normal.
• It's better watch a film on the little/
big screen.
• Film stars shouldn't get so much
money.
Questions on the scenes
• What sort of film is the first
picture?
• What about the second picture?
• And the third?
• What do you think the woman on
the fourth picture does?
• What are the men doing in the
second picture?
• Films haven't changed in the last
fifty years.
• There are more cinemas now than
fifty years ago.
• The life of a film star is very hard.
• Films in black and white were more
interesting.
• European films are more popular
than American films.
functions
• What does the film director say to
an actress if he wants to invite her
to dinner?
• What does the actress say to
refuse the invitation?
the extras in a film in which they
have to repeat the 'battle'?
• How does the main actress say to
the director that she is tired and
wants a rest?
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When the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere
showed in Paris the first two films ever produced
Workers leaving the factory Lumiere and The arrival
of the train, in 1895, they didn't even dream of the
incredible growth of the film industry a century
later. Unfortunately the first films were made of
perishable material (celluloid), and nothing is left of
them. Over thirty years had to pass before any
significant advance was made in the making of
films. Nowadays we think it's incredible that people
would crowd in little rooms eager to watch the
silent films of the 1920's. The heroes of those films
often risked their lives to shoot really dangerous
scenes on the roofs of high buildings. They would
save their fainting heroines at the last minute from
an oncoming train or a falling building.
Today no film director would risk the precious life
of a highly paid film star in one of those scenes.
Well trained stunt men do most of them.
The taste of cinema goers has also changed quite a
lot. People, nowadays, like to see true to life action;
killings, massacres, blood splashed all over the
place. The more enemies the hero kills the better.
Films
1. What sort of films do you like?
2. Do you like films in black and white?
3. What do you think of old films?
4. What do you think of modern films?
5. Was there a lot of sex in films before?
6. What about modern films, is there a lot of sex?
7. Do many people go to the cinema nowadays?
8. Are there many cinemas in your home town?
9. Are the cinemas big or small?
10. Do you think modern films are good or bad?
11.What's the difference between old and modem
films?
12. What do you think of violence in films?
13. Do you like horror films?
14. Can you sleep well after seeing a horror film?
15. What's the best film you have ever seen?
16. Why do you like it so much?
17. What's the most expensive film ever made?
18. Do you like watching films on TV?
19. What's the difference between a big screen and a
little one?
20. What are the advantagesof watching the film onTV?
21. Have you ever seen a film in the original version?
Questions
1. Who invented the cinematograph?
2. What were the names of the first two films ever
produced?
3. Did the Lumiere brothers think the film industry
would grow so much?
4. What sort of material was used to make the old
films?
5. How many years had to pass before any advance
was made in the making of films?
6. Did the actors and actresses speak in the early
times?
7. Did the heroes of the films in those days risk
their lives?
8. Why were the scenes dangerous?
9. Give another situation in which the heroine is
saved at the last minute by the hero.
10. Would a film director risk the life of a film star
nowadays?
11.Why not?
12. Which people do the dangerous scenes?
13. Has the taste of cinema goers changed?
14. What do people like to see nowadays?
15. Do they like to see blood?
22. Do you think films should be dubbed?
23. Do you like films with subtitles?
24. What do you think of American films?
25. Do you find any difference between American films
and British films?
26. Do you like Spanishfilms? What do you think of them?
27.What about French films?
28. What about Italian films?
29. What do you think about the European film
industry?
30. Do you think films should have a statesubsidy?
31. Which is most important in a film, the story? the
acting?
32. Which film star do you like best? Why?
33. Are film stars better actors and actresses than they
used to be?
34. What do you think of the acting in your country?
35. Which films in your country have won Oscars?
36. Would you like to lead the life of a film star?
37.What are the disadvantages of being famous?
38. Would you do a love scene?
39. Do film stars do the dangerous scenes?
40. Would you like to be a stuntman? Why?
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8 • Housekeeping
Glossary
to share
the washing
hoovers
dishwasher
worth
appliances
ironing
fireplace
to sew
deep freezer
fridge
chores
dusting
get used to
dialogues
between the mother and a
daughter. The mother wants the
girl to make her bed, dust the
furniture, etc.
between husband and wife when
one of them goes out to work.
between wife and husband about
the distribution of jobs.
• Husbands should stay in bed all
morning.
• The kitchen is the women's place.
• Men earn enough to keep a family.
• Women should look after the
babies.
• What's the man wearing on his
head?
• What's he doing?
• What time of the day is it?
• Did he do the washing up the night
before?
• How would you describe his
expression?
• Housewives get a good salary.
• Modern appliances make life easier.
• Our grandmothers scrubbed the
floors on their knees.
• A dishwasher is not very useful.
• In the old days people cooked in a
brass pot hanging over the fire.
functions
• How does the repairman say to the
housewife that the washing
machine is broken and that she'll
have to do the washing by hand
for a week?
• How does the mother tell her
children that they'll have to make
their own beds every day?
• How does the housewife say to her
husband that they'll have to share
the housework?
• How does the husband say to his
wife that he has not time to do the
housework?
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Traditionally, household chores have been done by
women. Mothers have been staying at home, for
centuries, making the beds, dusting the furniture,
doing the washing, going shopping, cooking, etc.
They have always complained that their work was
very badly paid, in fact, it was not paid at all. Then,
after the Second World War, women started to go
out to work for two reasons; first of all, because
they didn't want to stay at home looking after
children any more, doing the same boring jobs day
after day; secondly, because the salary earned by
the husbands was not enough to keep a family, or at
least not with the high standard of living that people
had got used to. If people wanted to have a house,
a car, a fridge, a washing machine, TV set, etc, etc.,
obviously a high income was needed. Curiously
enough, it sometimes happens that the husband is
unemployed and has to stay at home looking after
the children while his wife goes to work, and so the
situation is reversed.
Housekeeping
Questions
1.Who has always done the housework?
2. What other house chores can you think of?
3. What was the traditional complaint of women?
4. What happened after the Second World War?
5. Why do women go out to work?
6. What do women think of housework?
7. Can a family live on only one salary?
8.Why not?
9. What is curious about the new situation?
10. What does the wife do meanwhile?
1. Are you a housewife?
2. Would you like to be one?
3. What do you think of working at home?
4. Do you think men should share in the housework?
5. Should women stay at home looking after the
children?
6. What's the job you dislike most at home?
7.What's the job you like most?
8. What do you think of housework a hundred years
ago?
9. How did they do the washing?
10. Did women go to work then?
11.What was your grandmother's life like?
12. Would you like to have many children?
13. How many children did women have last century?
14. How many children are you going to have?
15. Can a woman go to work if she has 8 children?
16. How did your grandmother clean the floors?
17.Did they have any hoovers?
18. Do you make your own bed?
19. Do you ever do the cooking?
20. What about the washing up? Do you like doingit?
21. Do you have a dishwasher?
22. Do you think it's worth having one?
23. What do you think of washingmachines?
24. Have you ever washed a dirty handkerchief?
25. What would life be like without modern appliances?
26. Would you like to cook in the old pot hanging over
the fire?
27. Have you ever lit a fire?
28. Can you describe how you light a fire in the
fireplace?
29. What do you think of ironing?
30. How did people iron clothes before electric irons?
31. How would you make coffee the old way?
32. Have you ever darned woollen socks?
33. Do you know what a wooden egg is?
34. Do you have a fridge at home? a deep freezer?
35. What would you do without one?
36. Where did people keep food in the old days?
37. If you could keep only one appliance, which one
would you choose?
38. If you were a man, would you stay at home while
your wife went to work?
39. Should men go shopping?
40. Should they change the baby and do the washing
up?
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9•Jobs
Glossary
self-
employed
degree
successful
warder
to grow up
engine
driver
later on
unemployed
training
dialogues
between the personnel manager
and a candidate for a vacancy.
between an unemployed person
that goes to the Job Centre for the
first time and the assistant.
• In groups, write down a list of jobs
you can think of. The winner is the
group that can write down most
jobs.
• What's the hardest job. Why?
• The job I would like to have.
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• People may have to change jobs
several times during their lifetime.
• There are many people
unemployed in this country.
• What's the woman trying on?
• What's the girl doing on her knees?
• How would you describe the shop
assistant'sexpression?
• How would you describe the
customer's expression?
• Describe the shop.
• There are no large factories with
thousands of workers nowadays.
• Many young people are self-
employed.
• Public servants have jobs for a
lifetime.
• Businessmen get a lot of money.
• Banks help people to set up small
businesses.
• It's impossible to become rich
working with your hands.
functions
• How does a woman customer say
to the shop attendant that she
wants to try on another dress?
• What does the assistant say to the
customer when she has no more
dresses to try on?
• How does an unemployed person
ask for a job in a Job Centre?
• How does the attendant at the Job
Centre say to this person that they
haven't got a job for him/her?

If you ask the boys in a primary school what they would like to be when they grow up, most of them say
engine drivers. Girls will say that they want to be film stars, or singers. Later on, when they are fourteen,
they tend to be more realistic, although, most of them still haven't got a clear tendency towards one job or
another.
The problem is that training for a specific kind of work takes such a long time, that, youngsters have to
decide which path to take at an age in which most of them still don't know what they really like.
Many boys and girls find, when they are eighteen, that the work they are training for does not fulfil their
expectations, and so, they have to start another kind of training, which is often quite different.
Not many years ago, people used to retire after being 40 years in the same job. Today, the average person
will have to change jobs three or four times during his/her lifetime and spend several months unemployed
between jobs.
Questions
1. What would boys in primary school like to be?
2. What about little girls?
3. What happens when they are fourteen?
4. Is training for a job easy?
5. How long does it take to train someone for a job?
6. When do youngsters decide which path to follow?
7.What happens very often when boys and girls are
eighteen?
8. What do they have to do?
9. How long did people use to be in the same job?
10. How often do people change jobs during their
lifetime?
Jobs
1. What do you do?
2. What would you like to be?
3. Are you studying for it?
4. Would you like to be self-employed?
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of it?
6. Do you prefer to get a salary?
7.What are the advantages and disadvantages of it?
8. Have you ever been employed?
9. Is it difficult to get a job?
10. Which different jobs have you done?
11.What sort of jobs do you think are best?
12. What sort of jobs are the best paid?
13. What are the worst jobs?
manual jobs?
intellectual jobs?
16. What do you think of teachers? Would you like to
be one?
17.Is it difficult to become a teacher?
18. What do think of business people?
19. Would you like to be one?
20. What's the best thing about being a businessman?
21. What's the worst thing about it?
22. Do you think that a university degree helps a
person to be successful?
23. Can you become rich by working?
24. What do you prefer, to be rich or to have a good
job?
25. Are you in favour of women working?
26. Do you think that housekeeping is a job?
27. How many hours does a housewife work?
28. Would you like to be a housewife?
29. What's your opinion of night work?
30. Have you ever been working all night?
31. How do you feel the next day?
32. Which are the advantages and disadvantages?
33. What do you prefer, an office job or to be out in
the open air?
34. Can you describe your father's work?
35. What about your mother's work? what does she do
all day?
36. Would you like to work in commerce/industry?
37. Describe the job of a shop assistant.
38. Describe the job of a person working in a factory.
39. Would you like to be a public servant: policeman,
warder?
40. What's the difference between these two jobs?
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10 • Military Service
Glossary
compulsory
firearms
unpleasant
regular
to earn
treated
parade
join
taught
pool
muddy
nappy
pot
to scrub
to abolish
burden
drill
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dialogues
between the sergeant and a recruit
learning how to march.
• In pairs, act out aconversation
between the instructor and a
soldier learning how to fire a rifle.
• In groups, act out a conversation
among several soldiers who are
marching through the night with
full gear.
• Women should do the military
service.
• There should be a regular army in
all countries.
• To learn how to use a rifle is a
good thing.
• Professional soldiers should learn a
trade.
• Is this the Army headquarters?
• Are the two boys that are cleaning
up volunteers?
sergeant's expression?
• Describe the uniforms of the
sailors.
• Why do you think the two boys are
cleaning up the place?
• In Britain everybody has to do the
military service.
• A soldier can learn a trade in the
regular army.
• In the regular army soldiers get a
good salary.
• Learning to drive a tank can be
very useful.
• In most countries people have to
do the military service.
• Parachute Jumping is dangerous.
functions
• What does the sergeant say to the
two soldiers if he wants them to
clean the latrines?
• What do the soldiers say if they
want to refuse?
• What does the captain say to the
sergeant if he wants them to
practise some drill?
• How does the sergeant say to the
soldiers that they are going to do a
night march?

The question is: should young men do military
service? And if they should, why don't girls do it?
Aren't women vindicating equality between men and
women? If men and women are equal in all
respects, women also have the same obligations. To
learn to use the rifle lying down flat in a pool of
muddy water, or marching with full gear through the
night over the mountains will certainly make women
hard and strong, quite prepared to face a future
married life of nappy-washing and pot-scrubbing.
• On the other hand, there is a very strong
movement towards abolishing the obligation to do
military service. In fact, countries like Britain or
Canada have for a long time done away with that
burden. In the British Army, all soldiers, airmen and
seamen are professional. This means that they are
paid for the work they do and they make a career in
the forces. Most countries claim that having a
regular army is expensive. But it's far more
expensive to have half a million young men wasting
a year of their lives cleaning the latrines of the
headquarters.
Military Service
1. Are you going to do military service? When?
2. Do you think women should do military service?
3. Is military service compulsory in your country?
4. What are the advantages of doing military service?
6. Do you like firearms?
7.Where would you like to do military service? Army?
Navy? Air Force?
8. What sort of things would you have to do in the
Army?
9. What sort of things would you have to do in the
Navy?
10. What sort of things would you have to do in the Air
Force?
11.What is the most unpleasant part of military
service?
12. How long is military service in your country?
13. What do you think of a regular army?
14. Do you think soldiers should be professionals?
15. Do you know of any country that has a regular
army?
16. What are the advantages of a regular army?
18. How much do you think soldiers should earn?
19. Do you think soldiers are treated well by the
officers?
20. Would you like being on parade?
Questions
1 .What's the first question the writer asks?
2. What does he say about girls?
3. What do women vindicate?
4. Should women have the same obligations?
5. What two things does the writer say soldiers do?
6.Can you suggest another one?
7.What sort of military service is there in Great
Britain?
8. Are soldiers paid?
9. Why do many countries object to having a regular
army?
10. What do soldiers do in the headquarters according
to the writer?
21. Would you like to drive atank?
22. Would you like to fire amachine-gun?
23. What's your favourite weapon?
24. What would you do if you had to fight against the
other sex?
25. Do you like the infantry?
26. What do they do?
27.Would you like to parachute jump?
28. Do you think it's dangerous?
29. What sort of things can happen to a parachute?
30. Would you like to be a radio operator?
31. What do you think they do?
32. Do you think soldiers should learn a trade?
33. Would you join the army if they taught you
something for your future?
34. Don't you think that everybody should do basic
training?
35. What do you think of doing the military service in
the summer?
36. Would you volunteer if your country was attacked?
37.What's the food like in the army?
38. Describe the food that you would like to eat there.
39. What do you think of people leaving food on their
plates?
40. Do you think soldiers should have wine with their
meals?
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11 • Television
Glossary
meals
hinders
wonders
quiet
glue
digest
void
meaningless
jokes
unshameful
tears
choices
dialogues
between the father and the child
who are watching TV.
• In pairs, act out aconversation
between a boy and a girl who want
to watch different programmes.
• In groups, act out aconversation
between the mother serving dinner
and the children watching TV.
• Advantages and disadvantages of
TV.
• There shouldn't be any sex on TV.
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• Watching TV during dinner/lunch
is a good/bad thing.
• Having many choices of
programmes is good/bad.
• Are the boys sitting?
• Is the father watching TV?
• What are the children watching?
• Have they got their slippers on?
• Television serials are boring.
• American films are difficult to
understand for foreigners.
• Watching cartoons is a way of
keeping the children quiet.
• Most families watch TV during meals.
• There's too much sex and violence
on TV.
• There's too much advertising on
TV.
functions
• What does the mother say to the
children if they are watching too
much TV?
• What do the children say if they
refuse to switch off the TV?
• What does the husband say to the
family if he wants to watch a
football match on TV?
• What does the wife say if she
doesn't want to see the football?

'Magic square box' , that's the name by which
television is known by many people. It works
wonders in keeping children quiet. Just put on some
cartoons and you have no children for two hours.
Little boys and girls glue their eyes to the screen
and seem to be hypnotized by the magic power of
the little square box. They follow and digest,
without a word, hundreds of the incredible
adventures of Mickey Mouse, Penelope or the
fantastic Japanese space heroes.
But not only children are captivated by television.
Most grown ups sit in front of the screen for four or
five hours a day. Life without television would be
void and meaningless for them. Millions of people
laugh automatically at the standard jokes of the
funny programmes, and then cry unshameful tears
at the moving scenes of the never-ending South
American serials.
The problem for many families is which channel to
watch. In some countries there are a dozen choices.
Very soon we'll have a hundred choices. What shall
we do then? As for myself it's very clear; I'll go
back to my old adventure books.
Television
1. Do you watch a lot of TV? How many hours a day?
2. Do you think watching TV is good?
3. Which programmes do you like best?
4. How many channels are there in your country?
5. Do you think children should watchTV?
6. Do you like cartoons?Which cartoon do you like
best?
7.Would you like to live in a place with no TV?
8. What would you do if you didn't have TV?
9. Which channel do you prefer? A local channel or a
national one?
10. Do you have a satelite aerial? Can you watch films
in English?
11.Are English films difficult to understand? And
American films?
12. Are programmes good in your country?
13. What would you do to improve them?
14. Do you think TV should be subsidised by the
government?
15. What do you think of advertising on TV?
16. Would you be willing to pay a monthly fee in order
not to have ads?
17. Are private channels better than state controlled
channels?
18. Do you like watching the news on TV?
19. Do you watch TV during meals?
20. Do you think TV helps or hinders family unity?
Questions
1.What's the name that people give to Television?
2. What does TV do to children?
3.What do children seem to be?
4. Which examplesof cartoon characters does the
writer give?
5. Give six more names of cartoon heroes.
6. How many hours a day do grown ups spend in
front of the TV?
7.The writer mentions two things people do when
watching TV, what are they?
8. How many channels can people usually watch?
9. How many channels will you be able to choose
from, very soon?
10. What's the writer going to do when that
happens?
21.What do you think of children who watch TV before
going to school?
22. Is TV a good thing to keep children quiet?
23. Do you think TV should substitute family games?
24. What do you think of long TV serials? Do you watch
them?
25. What sort of programmes are popular in your
country?
26. What do you think of sex on TV?
27. Do you think children should watch sex?
28. What about violence? What do you think of it? Do
you like it?
29. Do you think children like it? Is it good, bad, or
indifferent for them?
30. What's better, to read books or to watchTV?
31. Can you do both?
32. Which is better for learning?
33. If you were the TV controller what type of
programmes would you put on, in the mornings?
34. What about the afternoon programmes?
35. And in the evening?
36. Do you agree with sex films after midnight?
37. What are the possibilities of education on TV?
38. Give advantages and disadvantagesof TV.
39. Were people happier or more unhappy beforeTV?
40. What will TV be like in the future?
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12 •Christmas
Glossary
crib
look
forward
food
fellow
citizens
birth
peace
lay down
to feel
warmer
truce
bitter
barbed wire
bullets
dialogues
between the father or mother anda
small child who wants to write to
Father Christmas.
• In group, act out a conversation at
dinner time on Christmas day.
between two enemy soldiers during
the First World War on Christmas
day.
• Father Christmas brings presents to
children that have been good.
He brings coal to children who
have been naughty.
People go singing carols round the
houses.
If Christmas didn't exist it should
be invented.
Children are given too many
presents at Christmas.
We all eat and drink too much at
Christmas.
Christmas should be celebrated in
• How many children are there
singing?
• How many people are listening to
them?
• What's the old man doing?
• What's the weather like?
• What's on the floor?
• What's there on the
background of the picture?
True or false. Give
reasons
• Father Christmas exists only
in the imagination.
• In South America they spend
Christmas on the beach.
• In some countries the three wise
men are the ones that bring the
presents.
• In Britain Boxing Day is the day
after Christmas.
functions
• What do children say to their
mothers if they want to write to
Father Christmas?
• What do parents say to their
children if they've been naughty?
• What does Father Christmas say to
the children if he sees them in the
street?
• What do people say to each other
at Christmas?
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Somebody said once that if Christmas didn't exist it
should be invented. Why did he say that? Well, any
sociologist could tell us that we all occasionally
need a time in which to put aside our frantic daily
activities and relax. Christmas time is not only a
time for relaxing but also a time in which we are all
more inclined to love our fellow citizens. The
celebration of the birth of Jesus brings us the idea
of peace and tranquility. It's a time in which all
human beings tend to be at peace with other
people. At least once a year we lay down our arms
and feel warmer towards our enemies. My
grandfather used to tell me that during the First
World War, Christmas Day was a day of truce. Not a
single shot was fired at the enemy. In some places a
football match was organized between the bitter
enemies, and there, in the middle of no man's land,
and pulling the barbed wire to one side, the ground
was cleared for twenty-two men to settle their
differences with a ball instead of bullets. It was the
Christmas spirit.
Questions
I. What did somebody sayonce?
2.What do we need occasionally?
3. How do we feel atChristmas?
4. What does the celebration of Christmas bring
to us?
5. What is the tendency at that time?
6. What should we do at least once a year?
7.What did the writer's grandfather use to say?
8. Was the enemy shot at on Christmas day?
9. What happened in some places?
10. How did the soldiers settle their differences?
Christmas
I.What do you do on Christmas day?
2.Which do you prefer Chirstmas Day or Christmas
Eve?
3. At what time do you go to bed on Christmas Eve?
4. What do you do on Christmas Eve?
5. Do people go singing carols round the houses or
shops?
6. Have you ever done it? If not, why not?
7.What do people do in your country on Christmas
Eve?
8. What time do pubs close on Christmas Eve in your
country?
9. What do you like most about Christmas?
10. Do you give many presents at Chirstmas?
11.What presents did you get lastChirstmas?
12. What day do you get your presents?
13. Do you decorate your house?
14. Do you put up a crib or a Christmas tree?
15. Did you look forward to Xmas when you were little?
16. Do you still believe in Father Christmas?
17. When did you discover the truth about Father
Christmas?
18. What do you do during the Christmas holiday?
19. What food is typical at that time of the year?
20. Do you drink at home? What do you drink?
21. Do you write to Father Christmas?
22. What would you like to get this year?
23. Which do you prefer, toys, games or clothes?
24. When do schools start again after the New Year?
25. How do you feel when you go back to school/work?
26. What sort of weather do you usually have?
27. Would you like to spend Christmas on the beach?
28. What do children get in your country when they've
been naughty?
29. Do parents like playing with children's toys?
30. What do children do with expensive toys?
31. What was your favourite toy? Was it expensive?
32. What do you think of educational toys?
33. In which part of the world is December the hot
season?
34. What do you like atChristmas?
35. What don't you like atChristmas?
36. Would you like to spend Christmas away from
home? Why not?
37. Do all countries celebrate Christmas? What
countries don't celebrate it?
38. What do we celebrate on Christmas Day?
39. Do you know what Boxing day is? Do you have that
in your country?
40. Are you sorry when Christmas is over?
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13 • Driving
Glossary
drive
carelessness
seat belts
helmets
to brake
safe
in order to
gadgets
smoothly
stretched
straight
to
straighten
kerb
yanked
steering
wheel
aimed for
embankment
to scream
angrily
dialogues
between the instructor and the
woman.
between the instructor and the
learner in Smith's driving school
• In a group, talk about your
experience as a learner.
• Women are very bad drivers.
• 16 is a good age to drive a car.
• Drunken drivers should lose their
driving licence.
• Drivers should wear safety belts
and motorcyclists helmets.
instructor's expression?
• What sort of manoeuvre is the
learner doing?
• What happened to the tree behind
Taylor's car?
• What do you think the instructor is
telling the woman?
• Speed limit in town is 100 m.p.h.
• Women drivers are more
dangerous than men according to
statistics.
• Learning to drive is expensive.
• Most accidents are caused by
drivers'carelessness.
• Boys and girls can drive at the age
of 16 in America.
functions
• What does the instructor say to the
learner that has to start the car?
• How does the learner say to the
instructor that he doesn't
remember how to start it?
• How does the instructor say to the
learner that he has to put on the
seat belt?
• What does the learner say to the
instructor if he doesn't remember
how to stop the car?
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After Mr jenkins had taught his four sons and daughters to drive, he thought that it would be a good idea to teach
his wife. Mrs Jenkins was very enthusiastic about it. Early one Saturday morning, Mrjenkins took the car to an old
deserted road. After explaining to his wife the different functions of the gadgets in front of him, he changed seats
with his wife. The engine was running smoothly, he put it into first gear for her and the car started to move
forward gently. The road stretched for two hundred yards in a straight line. However, the car soon headed for the
pavement on the right hand side. Just before hitting the kerb, Mr jenkins managed to straighten the car despite
his wife's opposition. Then, almost immediately, the car headed for the left kerb. Mr jenkins again yanked the
steering wheel just in time to prevent the bump. This time the car aimed for an embankment on the right hand
side. 'Stop!', said Mr jenkins. The car moved on. 'Stop, the car!' said Mr jenkins louder. The car still went on.
'Stop it!' screamed Mr jenkins as he pulled the hand brake up. The car stopped five inches from the
embankment. 'Don't you shout at me', said Mrs Jenkins angrily to her perspiring husband. 'The trouble with you
is that you have no patience.'
Questions
1.Whom did Mr jenkins teach to drive?
2. What did he think would be a good idea?
3. Where did he take his wife?
4. What did he explain to his wife?
5. Why did they change seats?
6. What did he do when his wife sat in front of the controls?
7.What did the car do?
8. Did the car hit the right kerb?
9. What did the car do then?
10. What did Mr jenkins do before the car hit the left kerb?
11 .Where did the car head for, this time?
12.What did Mr jenkins tell his wife?
13.What did Mr jenkins say the second time?
14.What did Mr jenkins do to prevent the car falling
down the embankment?
15. What did Mrs Jenkins say?
Driving
I.Can you drive?
2. When did you learn? At what age?
3. Who taught you?
4. Where did you go to practise?
5. Which car did you use? What make was it?
6. Did you pass your driving test the first time?
7.Which part of the test did you fail?
8. Is the written part difficult?
9. What sort of questions do you get in the written
part?
10. What manoeuvres did you have to do in the
practical part?
11.Which one do you find most difficult?
12. Would you like to work as a driving instructor?
13. Do people get nervous when learning to drive?
14. Do you think driving is dangerous?
1 5. What do you do if the car in front is from a driving
school?
16. At what agecan you learn to drive in your country?
17. At what age can peple drive in America? (16)
18. Do you agree with the idea of people driving so
young?
19. Do you think people should learn somemechanics?
20. What do you think of women drivers?
21. Are women better or worse drivers than men?
22. Do women take longer to learn to drive than men?
23. Which is more dangerous, to go fast, or to go too
slow?
24. Do you create dangerous situations if you go too
slow?
25. What do you think of speed limits?
26. Do people keep to these speed limits?
27.Are roads dangerous in your country?
28. Why are they?
29. What are accidents caused by, road conditions or
drivers' carelessness?
30. Which are more dangerous, motorcycles or cars?
31 .What do you think of seat belts? Are they of any
use?
32. What about helmets? Are they of any use?
33. Is it safer to travel by motorway?
34. Can you describe an accident you saw?
35. Is it dangerous driving in the rain? Why?
36. Why doesn't a car come to a stop at the same
distance when it is wet?
37. If the road is icy, would you brake hard in an
emergency? What would happen if you did?
38. Are seat belts always safe? In which cases aren't
seat belts safe?
39. Is an expensive car safer than a cheap one?
40. What items would you like your car to have in order
to be safer?
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14 • Travelling
Glossary
hitch-hiking
to cruise
trekking
choose
balloon
sleigh
lone
to recall
waggons
to stock
furnaces
coal
boiler
scrap yard
raw
materials
Description of thescene:
• In a group of three, act out a
conversation between the guide
and the boy and girl.
between the shop assistant in an
Indian shop and a tourist.
between a client at the travel
agency and the assistant.
between the airhostess and a
nervous traveller who is flying for
the first time.
• Flying is the safest way of travelling.
• Walking across the continent is the
best way to see the world.
• Travelling first class is the same as
travelling tourist.
• Hitch-hiking.
• How many camels are there?
• Describe the people riding the camels.
• Where are they going?
• What do you think the weather is like?
• Flying is the safest way of travelling
according to the statistics.
• Many young people hitch-hike
across the continent.
• Most people travel in summer.
• Many people travel abroad for their
holidays.
functions
• What does a boy say to a girl if he
wants her to accompany him
cycling across the continent?
• What does the girl say to refuse his
invitation?
• How does the husband say to his
wife that they have won a trip to
the Canary Island for two people?
• How does the wife say that she
doesn't want to go?
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Ryszard Walessa boarded the plane in New York and
a few hours later he was talking business with a
client in London. That very afternoon he was dining
in Rome with a supplier of raw materials for his
electronic equipment firm. Mr Walessa was now an
executive, and he could permit himself these
luxuries. Nevertheless, it was not always like this. In
his young days the travelling he did had been quite
different. He couldn't help a bitter smile when he
recalled as a Polish refugee, after the war, he had
crossed half of Europe hidden in trucks or empty
railway waggons. Then, his life as a sailor came to
his memory. Sailing as a fireman, stoking the
furnaces with coal to keep up the pressure in the
boiler of an ancient Panamanian cargo ship, which
was on its last voyage to the scrap yard in Genoa.
After that, he remembered working as an engineer
on an old Swedish tanker that was crawling its way
on an endless voyage to the Persian Gulf. Yes,
travelling in those days was certainly different.
Travelling
1. Do you like travelling?
2. Have you ever been out of the country?
3. Which countries have you visited?
4. Which way do you like to travel?
5. Do you like flying? Aren't you afraid?
6. What do you think of hitch-hiking? Have you ever
done any?
7. Have you made long journeys by train?
8. What do you think of a cruising holiday?
9. Would you like to spend your holidays trekking?
10. Do you like travelling alone or with other people?
11.What sort of company would you choose to go with
you?
12. What do you think of people who walk around
Europe?
13. Do you read much about famous journeys? Do you
remember any?
14. Do your friends like travelling?
15. Which vehicle would you choose to go around
Europe?
16. How would you like to cycle across the continent?
17. Would you like to go yachting in the Mediterranean?
18. Have your parents done much travelling?
19. Do they tell you stories about their journeys?
20. What about your grandfather? Did he travel much?
Questions
1. What was Walessa's nationality?
2. Where did he take the plane?
3. Where did he go to from New York?
4. Where did he go to from London?
5. What sort of firm did he have?
6. What was Mr Walessa now?
7.What was he after the war?
8. How did he travel acrossEurope?
9. What was his job on the Panamanian cargo ship?
10. What did he do on the Swedish tanker?
21. Have you read Gulliver's Travels?
22. What do you think of it? Do you think they are true
stories?
23. Would you like to travel in a balloon?
24. What's the safest way of travelling?
25. Which is the most unpleasant way of travelling?
26. Which is the fastest way of travelling?
27. Would you like to travel by submarine?
28. Do you like making long journeys by car?
29. What countries would you like to visit if you had
money?
30. Would you like to cross the desert in ajeep?
31. What about going through the jungle on an
elephant?
32. Would you like to see the pyramids of Egypt?
33. What do you think of travelling to the North Pole?
34. Would you like to drive a dog sleigh?
35. Have you ever flown?
36. What did you think the first time you flew?
37. If you were rich, how would you like to travel?
38. Would you like to have ayacht?
39. Would you like to take part in a yachting
competition around the world?
40. Would you like to be a lone sailor, travelling from
place to place?
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15 • Learning a foreign language
Glossary
foreign
boring
to amuse
widely
to get mixed
up
to regard
brain
approach
blank
to record
aloud
to agree
dialogues
between your language teacher
and yourself.
between a Language School
secretary and a person who wants
to learn a language.
between two students as they
leave the language school.
• Learning languages is easy.
• A language should be taught all the
time in that language.
• More people speak English than
any other language.
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• A language can be learnt by
yourself.
• The best way to learn a language is...
picture?
• Which method is the man following?
• How many dictionaries can you see?
• Are they sitting or standing?
• What's he got on his head?
• What's the man doing?
expression on his face?
• How would you describe the boy's
expression?
• Children find it easy to learn a
language.
• Writing Chinese is easy.
• Foreign languages are taught in
most schools.
• Many boys and girls go as 'au
pairs' to learn languages.
• Hotel receptionists must be able to
speak several languages.
• English is the language that is most
widely spoken in the world.
functions
• How does the teacher tell the
student to do some reading?
• How does the student say that he
can't speak; he has a sore throat?
• How does the teacher tell the class
to repeat the Vocabulary with him/
her?
• What does the student ask his
teacher if he doesn't hear him/her?

What's the best age to learn a foreign language? That's the question that mothers often ask language
experts. The answer, of course, is that a language should be learnt as early in life as possible. The earlier a
child starts learning it the better. The next question is, how should a child learn a foreign language? Most
teachers agree on that point. They say that a child should learn playing. He should regard the act of
learning as a game. Playing games, singing songs and repeating aloud whole sentences is a very easy way
of teaching a little child. It's incredible the retentiveness of a blank young brain. Whatever is recorded in it
will be there for a lifetime.
Grown ups, on the other hand, need a different approach to learning. Things must be explained to them,
especially grammar. They must learn the different grammar structures, must memorize the verbs and
vocabulary. And in both cases the person learning a language should spend a good many months or years
in the country whose language he is learning.
Questions
1. What's the question that mothers often ask
language experts?
2. When should a language be learnt?
3. How should a child learn a foreign language?
4. Do teachers agree on that point?
5. Do children have a good memory?
6. Can grown ups learn the same way children do?
7.What's the difference?
8. What must grown ups memorize?
9. Where's the best place to learn a foreign language?
10. Should children be sent to this foreign country?
Learning a foreign language
1. How many foreign languages can you speak?
2. Which of the languages you know is the most
difficult?
3. What do you think of the grammar?
4. Can you learn a language without grammar?
5. What's the most difficult part of learning a
language?
6. Do you think grown ups can learn a language as
children do?
7. Do you understand films in the original version?
8. Do you think that going to the country where the
language is spoken is important?
9. How long should you stay in that country?
10. What do you think of spending a summer month in
Great Britain?
11.What do you know about 'au pair' girls?
12. Can boys go as 'au pairs'?
13. What else can boys do in order to stay several
months in a country?
14.1s it enough just to be in the country?
15. Do you think it is necessary to go to classes?
16. What do you think of reading? Does it help?
,17. Can you learn a language by yourself?
18. What is the best age for learning languages?
19. How do children learn?
20. Is learning a language boring?
21.What would you do to amuse your pupils?
22. What's the most pleasant part of learning
languages?
23. What's the most unpleasant part?
24. Should languages be taught at school?
25. Are languages important when looking for a job?
26. Which languages are most in demand?
27. How many languages should a secretary know?
28. What about a hotel receptionist?
29. What are the advantages of speaking languages?
30. If you want to travel what languages may help you?
31. What's the language most spoken in the world?
(Mandarin)
32. What's the language most widely spoken in the
world? (English)
33. Would you like to learn Chinese or Japanese? Why?
34. Are there many people in your home town learning
these languages?
35. What would you have to do if you wanted to learn
one of these languages?
36. How do you write Chinese? Left to right?
37.What about Arabic? How do you write it?
38. Do you think that children have difficulties when
learning two languages at the same time?
39. Do you think they get mixed up?
40. What about adults? Do you think adults get mixed
up when learning two languages at the same time?
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16 • In a restaurant
Glossary
expensive
to drop
spoon
fork
table cloth
chop
to eat out
tip
custom
to fulfil
inner
deal
to carry out
treaty
work
miracles
quench
thirst
between the waiter and the
customer.
between husband and wife after
the waiter goes away.
• In pairs, act out a conversation in
the kitchen between the waiter and
the head waiter about the fly on
the customer's plate.
• Eating out is expensive.
• A waiter's job is very tiring.
• Giving tips is a good/bad habit.
• Food at a restaurant is better than
at home.
picture?
• What's on the table nearest to us?
• How many people are wearing
glasses?
• How many necklaces can you see?
• What has the waiter got in his
hands?
• What's he going to do with it?
True or false. Give the reasons
• There's a fly on the lady's plate.
• This is an expensive restaurant.
• The waiter is wearing a tie.
• The customer is very angry.
functions
• What does the customer say to ask
the waiter to bring another plate?
• What does the waiter say to
apologize for the fly on the plate?
• What does the customer say to the
waiter to ask him for the bill?
• How does the waiter ask the
customer if they will have coffee?
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My father used to say that restaurants are places where people go, not just to satisfy their appetites, but
also to fulfil their inner desires to be served by others; to enjoy a good conversation in a relaxed
atmosphere, and to exhibit good manners which are not often brought out at home.
The restaurant is the place where most business deals are carried out, most contracts are agreed upon,
and most treaties are signed.
The well-being that a person feels when he or she has a full stomach, and the cheerfulness that two
glasses of wine produce in a person's state of mind, work miracles in the solving of difficulties and the
approach of different opinions to a problem.
Ever since man has walked on two legs, celebrations of all sorts have always been done at a table. Let a
man quench his thirst and kill his hunger at your table and you've won half of the battle.
Questions
1. What did the writer's father use to say?
2. Are good table manners always exhibited at home?
3. What do people do at restaurants besides eating?
4. How does a person feel when s/he has a full
stomach?
5. What does a glass of wine produce in a person?
6. Does that state of mind help to reach an
understanding?
In a restaurant
1. Have you ever been to a restaurant? Do you like
eating in one?
2. What sort of restaurants do you have in your home
town?
3. Have you ever been to a very expensiverestaurant?
4. What would you do if you dropped a glass of wine
on the table?
5. What would you do if your spoon or fork was dirty?
6. Do you like choosing from the Menu or do you
prefer a fixed menu?
7. Do you like eating with a table cloth or without it?
8. If you had several forks and knives would you know
which one to use?
9. Would you pick up a chop with your fingers?
10. What are the prices like in the restaurants in your
home town?
11. How often do you eat out?
12. How do prices in your country compare with those
in G. B.?
13. Do you like being served?
14. If the waiter made a mistake would you tell him?
15. Would you like to be a waiter/waitress?
16. What do you think of that job?
17.Do you give tips in restaurants?
18. What do you think of that custom?
19. What do you think of self-service restaurants?
7.Where do celebrations always take place?
8.What should you do if you want to win over another
person?
9.Can you have a relaxed conversation in a restau-
rant?
10. Why do business people take their customers to a
restaurant?
20. Have you ever been to a free buffet?
21. Do you like the idea? What's a free buffet?
22. Are there many free buffets in your area?
23. What are the advantages of a self-service buffet?
24. Are there any disadvantages?
25. Do you think these restaurants get benefits?
26. What's better, a lot of food in a cheap place or little
food in an expensive place?
27. What do you think of McDonalds, Burger King, etc.?
these places?
29. Do you have 'Drive-in restaurants' in your country?
30. Where can you find them? What do you think of them?
31. Can you explain how you eat in these restaurants?
32. What sort of food can you expect in them?
33. What do you think of 'Gastronomic Societies'?
34. Do you have those in your country?
35. Where do you expect to find the best 'cuisine'?
36. What's the typical day to go to a restaurant?
37. Do you prefer to go at midday or in the evening?
38. What's the difference between a wedding banquet
and a normal meal?
39. Which one do you prefer? Which is more
expensive?
40. What do you think of Chinese food?
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17* Success in life
Glossarya
steps
successful
wealth
speech
nun
priest
salesman
agree
to mean
luck
to bring up
research
handsome
struggle
to lie
to fail
dialogues
between the chauffer and the rich
man.
between the rich man and the
woman.
between the rich man and the
person he's going to see in the
building.
• Rich people are always very happy.
• The lady with the man is his wife.
• The chauffer is very happy with his
job.
• Being a chauffer is hard work.
• What's the rich man wearing?
• What's the lady wearing?
• What sort of car do you think that is?
• What's the chauffer wearing?
• Are the buildings very tall?
• Is there a special name for very
high buildings?
• How old do you think these people are?
• Where do you think they are
going?
• All writers are successful.
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Success is a matter of luck.
Possitive thoughts have a lot to do
with success.
It's very difficult for a pessimist to
besuccessful.
Memory can be improved by
functions
• What does the rich man say to the
chauffer if he needs the car in half
an hour?
• How does the chauffer say to the
rich man that he can't leave the
car in there for half an hour?
• How do you think the receptionist
of the hotel will receive the rich
couple?

Some people are successful while many others are not. Some people spend their lives trying to obtain
something from life, but never get it, while others seem to convert everything they touch into gold?
Experts say that success in life has nothing to do with intelligence, education, memory or surroundings. A
lot of research has been done in this field to find out why a man or a woman is successful. The results
have always been puzzling.
Many successful people received a good education, others received none at all. Some are intelligent,
others are not. Some are handsome, some are not.
On the other hand, two people who received the same education, who have similar intelligence, and who
are getting the same opportunities in life, will never reach the same level of success. Very often one will
succeed while the other will struggle through life.
The answer lies, according to experts, in
self-confidence. The person who believes
in himself will succeed, while the person who is
not confident in his/her own capability
will certainly fail.
Questions
Success in life
1. Would you like to be successful in life?
2. What steps do you have to take to be successful?
3. In which walk of life would you like to be successful?
4. When can a person be considered successful?
5. Is happiness related to success?
6. What about wealth? Is wealth proportional to success?
7. Do you think education will help you?
8. What sort of education?
9. Can an uneducated person be successful?
10. Do you know of any millionaire who never went to
school?
11.What qualities are most important to succeed?
12. Can memory be improved?
13. Do you know of any method to improve it?
14. What about personality? Is it important?
15. What do you understand by personality?
16. Are the eyes of a person important?
17. What about speech? Is that important?
18. How should you speak?
19.1s diction important?
20. Do you think making people feel comfortable is
important?
21. Do you think that a book qan help you to be successful?
22. Would Teresa of Calcutta be considered successful?
1. Is everybody successful?
2. Has success anything to do with intelligence?
3. Has it anything to do with education?
4. Has any research been done in this area?
5. Hassuccess anything to do with being good looking?
6. What are the results like?
7.Will two people with the same opportunities be
equally successful?
8. Where does the answer lie?
9. Who will succeed?
10. Who will not succeed?
23. What about a nun, or a priest? Are they successful?
24. What qualities must a salesman have to be
successful?
25. Some people say that we are all salesmen. Do you
agree?
26. For a writer to be successful, how many books must
he write?
27.What about a film star, how many films does he/
she have to be in?
28. Has health anything to do with success?
29. Which would you prefer, to be healthy, to be
wealthy or to be successful?
30.Can you be all three?
31. Do you think success means hard work?
32. Can you be successfulwith little work?
33. Has success anything to do with luck?
34. People who win the lottery, are they successful?
35. Can you describe the word 'success'?
36. Hasthe country in which you live anything to do
with success?
37.Would you be more successful in America?
38.Can an African tribesman be successful?
39. What about success in married life?
40.Could you be successful bringing up children?
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18 • Hotels
Glossary
noisy
tips
bellboy
cheap
rates
to earn
blanket
heating
all over
dialogues
between the waiter and the clients.
between husband and wife about
what they are going to do after
breakfast.
between a boy and a girl on
holiday in the same place.
• This hotel seems to be located on a
holiday resort.
• Many waiters in this kind of hotel
are really students working in
summer.
• Life in a holiday resort hotel is very
different from the life in a hotel in
the capital.
waiter's face?
• What's he carrying?
• What's he wearing?
• What time of the day is it?
• What are the birds flying over the
sea called?
• What's the woman wearing?
• What are they going to have for
breakfast?
• Where do you think they'll go
afterwards?
• The couple staying at the hotel are
newly married.
cription of the scene:
• The hotel seems to be good.
• There's probably a little sandy
beach near the hotel.
• It's winter.
• The sun is shining.
• The coffee is very hot.
functions
• What does the waiter ask the
clients?
• What do you think the woman
replies?
• How does the man ask his wife to
go for a walk?
• How do you think the waiter will
explain the guests how to go to the
beach?
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The first time that I went to a hotel I wasjust a little
boy. Probably it was not a very good one because
my parents were far from rich, but the place
seemed very luxurious to me. We even had hot
water in the rooms. I remember that the toilet was
in the corridor, but that was normal in those days.
Since that day I have been to thousands of different
hotels all over the world. For me they have become
a sort of second home. After forty years as a
travelling salesman I must have stayed at every
single hotel in my country.
Some of the hotels I've been to, were really
pleasant, with thick carpets, a cocktail bar in the
room, and a free buffet breakfast which included
champagne and caviar.
On the other hand, some other hotels were really
terrible. I remember one in which I hadto askfor
another blanket because I was cold, the room had
no heating, and I had to pay for the use of the extra
blanket.
Questions
1. How old wasthe writer the first time he went to a
hotel?
2. Was it a good hotel?
3. Were his parents rich?
4. What did he think of the place?
5. Did they have hot water in the rooms?
6. What does the writer do for a living?
7.What do good hotels offer their clients?
8. What did the writer have to ask for in a bad
hotel?
9. Why was he cold?
10. What did he have to pay for?
Hotels
1. Have you ever spent the night in a hotel?
2. How much do you pay for a night in a good hotel in
your country?
3. Do you sleep well in a hotel bed?
4. Are hotels noisy?
5. What do you think of hotel breakfasts?
6. What about other meals, are they good or bad?
7.Do you like to have a TV set in your room?
8. Do you have to make your own bed in a hotel?
9. Would you complain if there was too much noise or
the TV set was not working?
10. Which do you prefer, a big comfortable hotel, or a
small one with a garden?
11. Would you like to spend a holiday in a hotel?
12. Would you like to work in a hotel?
13. What do you think of the work of a receptionist?
What does he/she do?
14. Would you like to be cleaning rooms? What do you
think of that job?
15. What other jobs can you do in a hotel?
16. Would you take tips if you were a bell boy?
17. What are the advantages of a good hotel?
18. What are the disadvantagescompared with your home?
19. What's the difference between a hotel and a motel?
20. What about a hostel, what is it?
21. What's a 'chain' of hotels? Do you know any?
22. Which days of the week can you get 'cheap rates'
in a hotel?
23. Are the prices of hotels always the same?
24. What sort of hotels change the prices?
25. Which months are prices higher? Why?
26. What do some hotels offer for old agepensioners?
27. When do they offer 'cheap rates' to old people?
28. What do you think of this idea?
29. How much do old people pay for a holiday in the
Canary Islands?
30. Do you think hotels earn money charging these
prices?
31. Does the Government contribute towards these
holidays?
32. What attractions do you find in the holiday resort
hotels?
33. Can you think of anything else to attract people to
these hotels?
34. What's a hotel appartment?
35. What is a suite in a hotel? Is it cheap?
36. What sort of comodities can you find in a luxury
hotel?
37.What does 'room service' do for you?
38. Would you like to spend your honeymoon in a hotel
or in an appartment?
39. What would the advantages be?
40. And thedisadvantages?
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Glossary
account
saving
account
draft
to draw
unpaid
I.O.U.
straight
away
percentage
bearer
to cash
mortgage
shares
loan
higher
leasing
mates
to deal with
business
bill
comment onthe following
• People get very high interest in a
saving account.
• When writing a nominal cheque
you should put the name of the
person.
• You want to buy some shares. What
do you do?
• Personal loans pay higher interest
than mortgages.
• Suggested roleplays and
dialogues
between the cashier and the client.
between the bank manager and a
client who wants to open an
account.
conversation between a couple
who want to get a mortgage and
the man at the bank.
• To buy a house or a flat you need a
mortgage.
• An I.O.U. and a cheque is the same
thing.
• Many people pay with credit cards
nowadays.
• The interest is higher on a personal
loan than on a mortgage.
• to buy shares you have to go to the
Stock Exchange.
• What's the client doing at the
cashier's desk?
• What do you think the couple
sitting on the right are doing?
• What's the cashier doing at this
moment?
• What's the apparatus the cashier
has next to him called?
• What do bank employees usually
wear?
• What is around the cashier?
• Is the woman with her back to us
an employee of the bank?
A nominal cheque can be cashed
by anybody.
A cheque made out to the 'bearer'
can only be cashed by a person
called 'bearer'.
If you can't pay the mortgage of a
house, the bank will auction that
house to get its money back.
functions
• What does a man who want to cash
a cheque say?
• Does a bank manager have his own
office?
• Do you have to write your cheques
in the bank?
• Do cashiers pay cheques when
there is not enough money in the
account?
• Do bank employees earn a lot of
money?
• Do bank employees get cheaper
loans?
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19 . At the bank

I remember in my school days one of my mates used to
lend money to other boys to buy sweets. He used to get
the money back on Saturdays with interest. Years later that
clever boy became a banker.
Banks are places where people borrow money and pay
very high interest on it, and places where they leave their
savings and get very low interest for it.
The difference between the interest rate for lending and
borrowing give bankers their benefits. These benefitsare
usually enormous.
Nowadays, most geople have to deal with a bank. It is
practically impossible to buy a house or a car without
asking for help from the bank. Most houses are bought on
a mortgage. This means that the bank buys the house for
you and you pay the money back to the bank in small
qualities every month. The trouble is that you pay about
three times the amount of money the house costs.
The same thing happenswith business people. They have
to draw their bills on their clients usually at ninety days.
The bank advances the money but charges interest on it.
Questions
1. What does the writer remember of his school
days?
2. When did he get his money back?
3. What became of him?
4. Can you describe a bank?
5. What gives banks their profits?
6. Can you buy a house without asking for help
from the bank?
7. How are most houses bought?
8. Do you pay back to the bank the same amount
of money they paid for the house?
9. Do business people have to deal with banks?
10. Why do they?
At the bank
1. Have you got a bank account?
2. What sort of account can one open in a bank?
3. What's the difference between a current account
and a savings account?
4. What sort of people usually have a current
account?
5. What sort of people usually have a savings acount?
6. Do you know what a draft is?
7.What sort of people draw drafts?
8. What happens if a draft comes back unpaid?
9. What is a cheque?
10. What's a chequebook?
11. If you have a savings account, will they give you a
chequebook?
12. What's the difference between a cheque and an I.
O.U.?
13. If you send a draft payable in 60 days to the bank,
will they give you the money straight away?
14. What percentage will the bank take?
15. What's the difference between a cheque crossed or
uncrossed?
16. What's a nominal cheque?
17. What's a cheque payable to the bearer?
18. Who can cash this kind of cheque?
19.Can a cheque payable to the bearer be crossed?
Who can cash it?
20. What is a transfer?
21. What is a house mortgage?
22. What rates do banks charge for a mortgage
nowadays?
23. Can you buy shares in a bank?
24. Can you buy shares of another bank or company in
your bank?
25. Where do you keep these shares?
26. What is a credit card?
27. Can you mention two credit cards used in your
country?
28. What are the advantages of a credit card?
29. What are the disadvantages of a credit card?
30. What methods of payment do banks have with
credit cards?
31. Do credit cards have limits?
32. Who fixes those limits? What do they depend on?
33. What is a personal loan?
34.Can anybody get personal loans?
35. Is interest higher on those loans? If so, why?
36. What are the interest rates on personal loans in
your country?
37. What happens if you can't pay back a personal
loan?
38. What happens if somebody can't pay back a
mortgage?
39. What is a lease?
40. Can you get a lease through a bank?
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20 • Pubs
Glossary
allowed
spirits
kinds of
bitter
a chat
under age
to be left
noisy
darts
prams
within
whatever
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Suggested roleplaysand
dialogues
between the barman and a client.
between a drunkard and a barman
who refuses to serve him another
drink.
• In a group, act out a conversation
among several friends who want to
play a game of darts.
followingstatements:
• The British pubs are different from
the rest.
• In America there are no pubs.
• Alcoholic people should not be
allowed in pubs.
• Boys and girls under 18 should not
be allowed to drink alcohol.
• Describe the face of the man on
the left.
• What has the woman in her hand?
• What do you think the waiter is
telling the drunkard?
• What is he going to do with him?
• Who is the man on the right talking
to?
• Where has he got his hand?
• What sort of bottles are the ones
on the top of the picture?
True or false.Give reasons
• In Britain the pubs are open until 2
o'clock in the morning.
• In Great Britain people under 16
are not allowed to drink in pubs.
• Drinks are very cheap in the U.K.
• You can have a good meal in a pub.
• You're allowed to take your drink
home.
• You can't buy a bottle of wine in a
pub.
• People can't smoke in pubs.
• You can get a cup of coffee in a
pub.
functions
• What does a man say if he wants to
have a beer?
• What does the barman say if he
thinks the man is drunk?
• What does a man say to a woman if
he wants to treat her to a drink?
• What does the woman say to the
man to refuse his invitation?

A pub is an English institution. They don't have
pubs in America, for example. An English pub is a
place where people meet for a drink, a chat, a song
or a game of darts. Pubs are usually very noisy
places.
In a pub you can drink beer and spirits: whisky,
brandy, etc., but you can't always get a cup of
coffee or tea. If you want those you have to go to a
cafe.
Something peculiar about British pubs is that
nobody under age is allowed inside. Even babies in
prams have to be left outside, or go to a separate
children's room.
Another thing which is very curious about pubs is
the opening times. Until recently, they opened
between eleven and two, and between eight and
eleven p.m. Closing must be punctual. No drinks
will be served after eleven o'clock, and whatever
you have in your glass must be drunk up within five
minutes.
Pubs
1. Have you ever been to a pub?
2. Are the under 18 year olds allowed to go into apub?
3. What can you drink in a pub?
4. Can you ask for coffee or tea in a pub?
5. Can you sing in a pub?
6. What games can you play in a pub?
7.What game is very typical in an English pub?
8. Would you like to work in a pub?
9. What would the working hours be?
10. Give any advantage of working there.
11.Give any disadvantage of working there.
12. Can you have a meal in a pub?
13. Compare the pubs in your country with those in the
U.K.
14. What do people drink most in your country?
15. Do you think that pubs should be open all night?
16. In G.B. people under 18 are not allowed to drink
liquor. What do you think?
17. Are there many alcoholics in your country?
18. Are there any alcoholic societies?
19. Should alcoholic people be allowed in pubs?
20. Why do people drink spirits?
21. What are the advantages of drinking?
22. What are the disadvantagesof drinking?
23. Is there an area of pubs in your home town?
24. What sort of people go to this area?
Questions
LWhat is a pub?
2. Are there pubs in America?
3. What do people do in pubs?
4. What do you drink in pubs?
5.1s anybody allowed in a pub?
6. At what time do pubs open?
7.At what time do they close?
8. Are pub landlords punctual at closing
times?
9. Can you have a drink after eleven o'clock?
10. What must you do with your drink after
eleven o'clock?
25. Is there any difference between a pub and a bar?
26. In G.B. pubs are often divided into two parts. Can
you explain the difference?
27. Can you buy a bottle of wine to take home in an
English pub?
28. Are drinks expensive in the U.K.?Why?
29. Compare the prices of wines and spirits in your
country with those in the U.K.
30. What's your opinion of the taxes?
31. Do you think people should be allowed to smoke in
pubs?
32. Do you think drinking is a sort of addiction?
33. Is alcohol a drug? A hard drug or a soft drug?
34. Why do people go to pubs?
35. In G. B. pubs close early, at what time?
36. What are the opening hours of a pub in the U.K?
37.What do you have to do with your drink at closing time?
38. Are you allowed to take it home?
39. Do you know what Guiness is? Do you have it in
your country?
40. What about other kinds of beer? Do you have
bitter, lager, light ale, brown beer in your country?
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21 • At the Doctor's
Glossary
to be right
to be wrong
pills
side effects
Health
Insurance
blood
X-ray
illness
pressure
to lead
faith
nevertheless
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dialogues
between the nurse and the old
woman.
between the young man and the
doctor.
between the doctor and the nurse
about the people outside.
• Doctors often prescribe 'placebos'.
• Doctors' writing is difficult to
understand.
• Many people have psycological
illnesses.
• High blood pressure is dangerous.
• Many doctors are heavy smokers.
• Medicines are very expensive.
• X-rays are dangerous.
• What is wrong with the man?
• What do you think is wrong with
the old woman?
• The woman on the right, is she the
doctor?
• What do you think she is asking
the old woman?
• What's the picture on the wall
inside the room?
• What's the old woman carrying?
• Medicines often have side effects.
• Doctors recommend not to smoke.
• X-rays are dangerous for health.
• High blood pressure is good for
you.
• A man suffering from the heart has
to do a lot of exercise.
• People who have suffered heart
attacks follow a special diet.
• Doctors often make mistakes.
function
• What do you say to the doctor if
you don't feel well?
• What does the doctor say to the
patient if he has to examine his
chest?
• What does the patient say to the
doctor if he/she wants some
aspirins?
• What does the doctor say to a
patient to refuse to give him/her
pain killers?

What do doctors have that makes them feel so
important? Is it that they consider themselves
important because they cure people?
But, do they really cure people? That's the question.
What percentage of people really get cured by the
green pills given to them by their doctors? Wouldn't
most of them have got better without the pills?
There are medicines called «placebos». These
medicines are inoffensive pills with no medical
effect at all. Nevertheless, people get cured the
same as with the other pills. What is it then, that
cures people? Many experts say that it's the faith
patients have in their doctors. Many years ago there
was a doctor that cured people just by listening to
their problems and then making them repeat to
themselves a hundred times a day: «l'm better. I'm
getting much better. After several weeks, in fact,
most patients got much better.
At the Doctor's
Questions
1. Do doctors think they are important?
2.Why?
3. Do they really cure people?
4. What colour are the pills given to patients by
doctors?
5. What's the name of the inoffensive pills with no
effect at all?
6. Do they cure people?
7.What really cures these people?
8. How did a doctor cure his patients many years
ago?
9. What did he make his patients do?
10. Did the patients get better?
1. Have you ever been to a doctor?
2. When do people go to the doctor?
3. What's your opinion of doctors?
4. Do you think they are always right?
5. Do you know of any cases in which they were
wrong?
6. Do doctors prescribe a lot of medicines?
7.Are you taking any pills or tablets?
8. Have pills any side effects? Which ones?
9. What do you think of the Health Insurance in your
country?
10. Are medicines free in your country?
11.What percentage do you pay of the cost of the
medicines?
12. Do you understand the prescriptions?
13. Do you have to pay doctors in your country?
14. Are there any private Health Insurance Companies
in your country?
15. Why do doctors recommend not to smoke?
16. Have you ever seen a doctor smoking?
17. What is worse smoking or drinking?
18. Do you usually have to wait long to see the doctor?
19. Have you ever had a blood test? What for?
20. Can you describe the experience?
21. Have you ever been X-rayed? Describe your
experience.
22. Should a doctor be strict or kind with patients?
23. Have you heard of psycological illnesses?
24. What are they?
25. What are 'placebos'?
26. Have you heard of 'hypochondriacs' (people who
always think they are ill)?
27. Has a doctor ever come to your house?
28. Was he/she in a hurry? Did he/she sit down?
29. Didn't you feel better as soon as he came?
30. What do you think of injections?
31. Where are injections usually applied?
32. What is blood pressure?
33. Do you know anybody who has high blood
pressure?
34. What are the synptoms? What are the causes and
the remedies?
35. What about low blood pressure?
36. What do you have to do if your blood pressure is
low?
37. Do you know anybody who has had a heart attack?
38. What sort of life do they have to lead?
39. Do they have a special diet?
40. Can a person like that run a marathon?
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22 • At the hospital
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dialogues
• In pairs, act out the dialogue
between the patient and the
visitor.
between the nurse and one of the
patients. ,
between the nurse and the visitors.
• Hospitals don't allow many visitors
in the wards.
• Nurses look after the patients all
night.
• Some relatives spend the night
with the patients.
• When you're ill it's better to stay at
a hospital.
• What have the patients in their
arms?
• Describe the expression of the
woman visitor.
• How many people are in the ward?
• Who do you think the couple
standing are?
• What's the patient near the window
doing?
• Who do you think the woman
sitting is?
True or false. Give reasons.
• In all hospital wards there are TV
sets.
• Visitors can walk in at any time.
• The doctors take the temperature
of the patients.
• Nurses are very busy during the
night.
• Hospitals have always existed.
• Maternity hospitals havedecreased
infant mortality
• In some countries women give
birth while working in the fields.
functions
• What does the visitor say to ask
the patient is he's all right?
• What does the patient say if he's
feeling well?
• What does the visitor say if she
wants to ask the patient if he wants
anything to read or to eat?
• What does the patient say to refuse
her offer?

If you hear a siren in any city in the world the chances are that it is an ambulance
taking an injured person to hospital. Hospitals are nowadays taken for granted; you
feel ill, reach for your phone, and ten minutes later an ambulance rushes you to the
emergency unit of the nearest hospital.
Nevertheless, we are lucky to be born in this century. Citizens of bygone years
weren't so fortunate. Hospitals practically didn't exist until the Middle Ages, and it
wasn't until late in the XIX century when organized care was taken of the wounded in
wars, the injured in accidents or sick people.
Thousands of doctors and nurses work day and night in hospitals to provide 24-hour
attention to patients completely free. National Health Insurance pays all the
expenses.
Questions
Glossary
nurse
room mates
night duty
to wake up
to undergo
mistake
ward
the chances
are
injured
to take for
granted
to rush
bygone
1. if you hear a siren what will it probably be?
2. What do you do if you feel ill?
3. How long will an ambulance take to get to your
house?
4. Where will the ambulance take you?
5. Why are we lucky to be born in this century?
6. When did hospitals begin to exist?
7. In what century did organized care become
general?
8. Are there many doctors and nurses working in
hospitals nowadays?
9.At what time do hospitals open?
10. Who pays for hospital care?
At the hospital
1. Have you ever been to hospital as a patient?
2. Why were you sent there? How long were you
there?
3. Did you enjoy your stay in hospital?
4. Describe the nurses you had. What were they like?
5. Were you alone? Describe your room mates.
6. Did you have a TV set?
7.What was the food like?
8. Was the hospital clean?
9. What activities did you do?
10. Have you ever had an operation? Which one?
11.Were you anaesthetized? Decribe how it was done.
12. Did the effects last very long?
13. Where did you wake up? How did you feel?
14. What are the visiting hours in your local hospital?
15. How many visitors can get into the room at the
same time?
16. How do they control the number of visitors?
17.Do you think a patient likes to have visitors?
18. How many beds are there in every room?
19. Would you like to be a nurse in a hospital?
20. What jobs do they have to do?
21. Do doctors visit the patients very often?
22. What do doctors do in a hospital?
23. Are there any doctors on night duty in hospitals?
24. What do nurses do during the night?
25. Have you ever been to the Emergency Ward?
26. What sort of people go there? What cases did you
see?
27.Are hospitals necessary?What happened in the old
days?
28. When did hospitals begin to exist?
29. What are the hospital conditions in the Third
World?
30. Can you imagine somebody undergoing the wrong
operation by mistake?
31.What sort of operations are most common?
32. Can you imagine a person being operated on
without being anaesthetized?
33. Why do doctors and nurses use a mask in an
operating theatre?
34. What is an ICU? When do patients go there?
35. Can you visit people in that unit? Under what
conditions?
36. What is a maternity hospital?
37. How were the babies born in the old days?
38. Has infant mortality decreased?
39. What is it due to?
40. How long have mothers got to stay in the maternity
ward?
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23 • Natural Medicine
dialogues
between the Chinese doctor and
his patient.
between two friends. One has
been to a magnetizer and the other
to a macrobiotic naturist doctor.
in which each student defends a
different way of curing peeple.
• Whole rice cures people.
• Some people give you energy with
their hands.
• Some people operate with their
bare hands.
• Some people never catch colds.
• Homeophaty is poison.
• Faith cures people.
• What nationality would you say the
doctor is?
• Do you think the patient feels any
pain?
• What's the effect of the needles in
our body?
• Do you think these needles are all
the same?
• What's the doctor wearing?
• What's the patient wearing?
• What sort of picture is there on the
wall?
Glossary
whole rice
chance
healthy
to forbid
poison
power
brain
fashion
to seek
alleviate
aches
harm
faith
• How many needles are there in the
box?
. How many are stuck in the
patient's body?
• Natural medicine has a lot of side
effects.
• Most of the illnesses are
psycosomatic (product of your
head)
• Some religions don't allow people
to eat pork.
• Water can cure.
• Some people never catch colds.
• People can be cured at a distance.
• Food has no influence on people's
health.
• Colours have a lot of influence in
our lives.
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• What do people do when they're
ill?
• What do doctors usually prescribe?
• Do naturist doctors prescribe pills?
• Do you think food has anything to
do with health?
• Do you think people should eat 'a
little of everything'?
• Do you think that your thoughts
can affect your health?
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Natural medicine is in fashion. Millions of people,
all over the world are very disappointed with
traditional medicine. They find that the pills doctors
give them have many side effects. In fact, quite
often the remedy is worse than the cure. Then,
many people go to seek natural remedies for their
illnesses from naturist doctors or from people who
can channel their energy to alleviate their aches.
Perhaps the best thing about natural medicine is
that it has no side effects. People think that even if
it doesn't cure, at least it doesn't do any harm.
Be it herbs, acupuncture, macrobiotics,
homeopathy, the flowers of Bach or a thousand and
one different ways of curing people, they are all
effective - as long as the patient has faith in them.
Questions
1. What does the writer say about natural
medicine?
2. Why do people go to naturalist doctors?
3. What is wrong with pills?
4. Is the remedy good?
5. What is best about natural medicine?
6. Does natural medicine do any harm?
7. Mention several different natural medicines.
8. How many ways of curing people are there
according to the writer?
9.Are they effective?
10. What does the patient have to have?
Natural Medicine
1. What do you think of so called 'alternative
medicine'?
2. Do you know a naturist doctor?
3. Have you ever been to one?
4. Why do they look in your eyes?
5. What sort of medicines do they give you?
6. Do these medicines have any side effects?
7. Has food any influence on people's health?
8. What is the Macrobiotic?
9. How does it cure you?
10. Can whole rice cure people?
11. How can you be cured eating cereals and
vegetables?
12. Do you think that your own body can cure itself if
you give it achance?
13.Can vegetarians eat eggs or have milk?
14. What's the best way to keep healthy?
15. What's the difference between a vegetarian and a
macrobiotic?
16. Some religions forbid eating pork and drinking
alcohol, why?
17. Are there many ways of curing people?
18. What do you know about magnetism?
19. Have you seen people operating with their bare
hands?
20. What's colour therapy? Can colour cure people?
21.What's rebirth? Do you think that that can help
you?
22. What's acupuncture?
23. How does that help you?
24. Where does this therapy come from?
25. Have you heard of water therapy?
26. How can water help to cure illness?
27. Does saliva have any curing properties?
28. What do animals do?
29. Should you eat normally if you are sick? or injured?
30. Why do people catch colds?
31. Why do some people never catch colds?
32. Do people eat too much, too little or just right?
33. What is homeopathy? Are the little pills poison?
34. How can poison cure you?
35.Can people be cured at adistance?
36. Do you believe in mental power?
37. Do people use their brain power to the full?
38. Do you believe in 'energy'? Can we create energy?
39.The energy given out by magnetizers, is it their own
energy?
40. If it's not theirs, where does it come from?
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24 • Occultism
Glossary
death
to warn
fakes
evil
bare
tarpaulin
to splash
works
• What's on the table?
• What are they wearing?
True or false. Give
reasons
• Two people can
communicate by telepathy.
• An evil spirit can get inside
a person.
• There's life after death.
• Some people use a crystal
ball to see the future.
• Nobody believes in these
things.
Suggested roleplays
between the medium and a client
who wants to contact her dead
husband.
between the medium and a spirit.
between two persons who are
going to take part in a session of
spiritism.
• Energy can move objects.
• Voices of dead people have been
recorded on tapes.
• Your future is written on your palm.
• Black magic or Voodoo can affect a
person's health.
• A dead person sometimes 'comes
back'.
picture?
• Which one is the medium?
• Why are they holding hands?
• Why do they have their eyes
closed?
• How does the customer ask the
medium if she wants to
communicate with a dead person?
• How does the medium invite the
customer to take part in a session
of spiritism?
• What does the medium say to
refuse the customer's demand?
• How does the customer refuse the
medium's invitation to take part in
a session?
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functions

John Walker looked around the place. He had the
feeling he had been there before. Yet, it was the
first time he had visited that country.
Peter Redcliff could swear there was somebody in
the room, he could feel a presence quite near him.
Yet, he was alone.
Eddie Russell was jogging early in the morning. He
passed near a tarpaulin placed horizontaly over
some works. Suddenly the rainwater on the
tarpaulin splashed down just behind him. He looked
around but he was alone.
These are just three examples of strange things that
happen to thousands of people all over the world
every day. Some people say that these things are
caused by spirits. Others suggest that we can cause
things to move with the power of our minds.
As far as the first case is concerned, many people
believe that we have all been here before, in other
times, in other lives.
Occultism
1. Have you ever had a strange experience?
2. Have you ever had the sensation that you were not
alone?
3. Have you ever had the feeling that you had already
been somewhere before?
4. Have you taken part in a spiritism session?
5. Have you joined your energy with other people to
move a glass?
6. Do you believe in those things?
7.Who do you think answers your questions?
8. Do you believe in spirits or life after death?
9. Have you heard voices of dead people being
recorded on tapes?
10. Do you believe in telepathy?
11. Have you ever tried to send messages with your
mind?
12. Do you know of any real cases?
13. Can spirits warn you of danger?
14. Have you heard of any cases in which that
happened?
15. Do you think spirits can speak through people?
16. Are there any fakes in spiritism? Do you know of
any cases?
17.Have you heard of a person who has just died
appearing to a relative far away?
18. Have you heard of experiences of people 'coming
back'?
19. How do these people feel?
20. Can spirits move objects?
Questions
1. What did John Walker feel?
2. Had he visited that country before?
3. What did Peter Redcliff feel near him?
4. Who was in the room with him?
5. What was Eddie Russell doing early one morning?
6. What happened when he passed near a tarpaulin?
7.Was there anybody near him?
8. What does the writer say about these examples?
9. Who or what causes these things according to
some people?
10. What do other people suggest?
21. What's a Poltergeist?
22. Have you seen a film about it? What was it about?
23. Can an evil spirit get inside a person?
24. How can it be thrown out?
25. Do you think spirits have power over people?
26. Have you seen a person painting pictures of well
known dead artists in four minutes?
27. Have you seen a person in a trance operate with
bare hands in the name of a dead doctor?
28. Do you believe in 'black magic'?
29. What is 'Voodoo'?
30. Do you think 'Voodoo' can affect a normal person's
life?
31. What's 'Tarot'?
32. What sort of cards are they?
33. How else can a clairvoyant predict the future?
34. Have you seen a crystal ball? Do you believe in it?
35. Do you think your future can be seen in the palms
of your hands?
36. Can the future be changed?
37. Do you think your destiny is in the stars?
38. Can accidents be avoided?
39. What was a Pythoness in the old days?
40. Do you think many people believe in these things?
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25 • Hypnotism-Telepathy
Suggested roleplays
between the hypnotist and a client
who wants to stop smoking.
between a hypnotist and a girl who
is going to lay between two chairs.
between the hypnotist and a big
man, in the audience, who is asked
to sit on top of the hypnotized girl.
• People that have been hypnotized
don't remember anything.
• People can be hypnotized through
television.
• Hypnotism can cure things.
• People do strange things when
they are hypnotized.
• A man can drive a motorcycle
blindfolded
• How many people are there on the
scene?
• Who's the man in the picture on
the wall?
• What has the man got in his hand?
• What's the man wearing?
• What's the woman wearing?
• What's she doing?
Glossary
whole
law
neck
circles
blindfolded
scrtach
to cheat
power
to the full
shifty
lain
heels
stiff
board
feat
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True or false. Givereasons
• Not everybody can be hypnotized.
• Bad habits, like smoking, can be
cured with hypnotism.
• Objects can also be hypnotized.
• Electrical appliances can be
repaired with the power of the
mind.
• Thoughts can be transmitted from
one person to another.
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• What does a woman say to a
hypnotist if she wants help to stop
smoking?
• What does the hypnotist say to
send her to sleep?
• How does a woman say to a
hypnotist that she wants to stop
eating so much?
• What does the hypnotist ask her
to do when she starts feeling
hungry?

It is incredible what hypnotized people can do. I once watched, amazed, how a hypnotized young woman
was laid across two chairs; her neck on the edge of one and her heels on the other. Her body was stiff,
like a board, and three heavy men stood on her. For about two minutes she supported the weight of these
people in that position. Of course, when she came to she didn't remember a thing. Where does a person
get the energy to do such a feat?
Then, somebody among the audience wrote something on a piece of paper. The showman was able to read
the mind of the person what he had written on the paper. That is called 'telepathy'. How can a person
transmit his or her thoughts to another person?
Questions
1 .What is the writer describing?
2. In what position was the young woman laid?
3. Where was her neck placed?
4. What about her heels, where were they put?
5. What was her body like?
6. How many men stood on her?
7. How long did they stand there for?
8. What did somebody in the audience do next?
9. What did the showman do?
10. What is the transmission of thoughts called?
Hipnotism-Telepathy
I.Have you been hypnotized?
2. What do you think of it?
3. Is hypnotism a good thing or a bad thing?
4. Can hypnotism cure something?
5. Do hypnotized people remember anything when
they wake up?
6. Have you seen people being hypnotized? Describe
what they did.
7.Can anybody be hypnotized?
8. Can you resist being hypnotized?
9. Can anybody be a hypnotist?
10. Do you have to learn anything to become a
hypnotist?
11. Do hypnotists take advantageof their power?
12. Can hypnotism affect the whole audience of a
theatre?
13. Can people be hypnotized through television?
14. What would happen if they couldn't 'come back'?
15. Do people change their chracter when they are
hypnotized?
16. Can objects be hypnotized?
17.Can animals be hypnotized?
18. Can watches be repaired by the power of the mind?
19. What else can be done by the power of the mind?
20. Can hypnotized people do things that they can't
normally do?
21. Could hypnotized people be induced to do things
against the law?
22. Would you like to have this power over other
people?
23. What do you have to do to become a hypnotist?
24. Have you tried concentrating your eyes on the back
of somebody's neck?
25. Have you ever passed a message by telepathy?
26. Have you done the experiment of circles, stars and
triangles?
27. How many of them did you get right?
28.Can a man drive a motorcycle blindfolded?
29. How can that be done? Is there a trick?
30. Does telepathy work with animals?
31. Can you order your dog to do something with your
mind?
32. Have you ordered anybody to scratch his/her head
with your mind?
33. Did he/she do it? Was it acoincidence?
34. If you could receive messages by telepathy, what
benefits would you obtain from it?
35. Would you cheat in an exam? How?
36. What things could we do if we used our mind
power to the full?
37.Can you see the character of a person by looking in
his eyes?
38. A man with shifty eyes, will he have power in his
mind?
39. Have you seen a man with such strong power in his
eyes that you had to look away?
40. Do you think that strong will power can affect your
social position?
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26 • Collecting things
Glossary
mint stamps
auction
to invest
value
to print
postage
pastime
mat
radio set
dustbins
Suggested roleplays
between two people who collect
dustbins and radio sets.
between a person who wants to
start collecting stamps and a
stamp dealer.
between old car collectors.
• Many people like collecting things?
Collecting stamps is the most
popular collection.
• A little stamp may be worth a
fortune.
• Some countries print stamps only
for collectors.
• Little boys like to collect pictures
of footballers.
• What's has he got on the table?
• What's there on the shelf behind
him?
• What's there on the shelf on his
right?
• What's the man got in his right
hand?
• What's he holding in his left hand?
• Little girls collect pictures of
footballers.
• Stamp collecting can be a good
investment.
• All stamps are printed for postage.
• You can buy used stamps for
collection at the Post Office.
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stamp dealer if he wants to start a
collection?
• What does the dealer say to the
customer to inform him that the
first thing is to buy a book with a
picture of all the stamps of the
country?
• What does a customer say to a
dealer if he wants to invest money
in stamps?
• How does the dealer suggest that
he can buy a little stamp worth a
million pounds?
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Are you one of the collecting manics? It's incredible, but you'd be surprised at the number of people who
collect things. Stamp collecting is, of course, the most common pastime, but there are thousands of all
sorts of strange things that are collected by normal citizens like you and me. Some are very cheap like
metal bottle tops, or little beer mats; others are expensive and difficult to find, like old radio sets; some
others are really expensive like old cars.
A friend of mine collected dustbins. At the back of
his house he had built a sort of greenhouse
which was full of these containers, fortunately
empty. Questions
Another friend confessed he had a passion for
collecting something that his wife didn't like at all.
He liked to collect love letters from old girlfriends.
Collecting things
1. Do you collect anything?
2. Does anybody in your family collect stamps?
3. Is it expensive to collect stamps?
4. Which is better, to collect used stamps or mint
ones?
5. Have you heard of an expensive stamp? How much
was it?
6. Is collecting stamps a good business?
7.What else can you collect besidesstamps?
8. What's the strangest collection you've heard of?
9. What do boys usually collect?
10. What do little girls usually collect?
11.What do you think of collecting old cars?
12. What are the advantagesof collecting things?
13. What are the disadvantagesof collecting things?
14. Why do you think people collect things?
15. Can live animals be considered a collection?
16. What things can a rich Arab collect?
17. What can you collect on a beach?
18. Besides stamps, what is the second thing people
collect most?
19. Is it difficult to sell a collection?
20. What is an auction?
21. Have you ever been to one?
22. What's the advantage of buying something in an
auction?
1.Are there many people who like collecting things?
2. Which is the thing that people collect most?
3. Mention two cheap things that can be collected.
4. What are the other things that can be collected, but
are more expensive?
5. What sort of cars do some people collect?
6. What did a friend of the writer's collect?
7.Where did he keep the dustbins?
8. Were they full?
9. What would his other friend like to collect?
10. Why would his wife object?
23. What's the disadvantage of buying something in an
auction?
24.Can collectors be considered strange people?
25. Can collecting things be considered a profitable
investment?
26. Would you invest a million pounds in a collection?
27.Are there any stamp shops in your town?
28. Do you think the owners of the shops collect
stamps?
29. If you want to sell your collection will they buy it?
30. Do you think they will pay well?
31. How else can you sell a stamp collection?
32. Who really makes profit of stamp collecting?
33. If you collect stamps what do you need to buy
besides stamps?
34. Have all the stamps the same value once they've
been used?
35. What makes some stamps sovaluable?
36. Does the value depend on the paper quality?
37. Why do some countries print such a lot of stamps?
38. Are stamps printed only for postage reasons?
39. Are they printed for collectors only?
40. Have you heard of people who collect boyfriends/
girlfriends?
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27 • At the dentist
Glossary
fillings
to pull out
to fill
painful
numbed
dental floss
drill
breath
toothbrush
masochism
ordeal
decay
teething
thorough
to unwrap
to rush
Desctiptionofthescene:
dialogues
between the dentist and the
patient.
between husband and wife. The
husband has toothache.
between two people in the
dentist's waiting room.
• Commentaries on the following
statements:
• People are afraid of going to the
dentist.
• To have a tooth pulled out is
painful.
• It's better to have a tooth out than
to have it filled.
• Dentists should wear masks.
• You should clean your teeth three
times a day after meals.
• Toothpaste kills all the bacteria.
• What has the doctor got in his
hand?
dentist.
• Is he wearing a mask?
• What is he wearing?
• What is he doing with his left
hand?
• Would you say the dentist is
young?
• Describe the patient's expression.
• What is he doing with his left
hand?
• What is she wearing?
True or false. Givereasons.
• People eat too much sugar.
• Chocolate helps to keep the teeth
healthy
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• Film stars have such white teeth
because they clean them regularly.
• White teeth are stronger than
yellow teeth.
• Tobacco makes the teeth yellow.
• People that go to the dentists are
all masochists.
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• What does the dentist tell you to
do when you sit on the dentist's
chair?
• What does a patient do when the
dentist speaks to him and he has
his mouth open?
• Do people go to the dentist very
often?
• How often do you think people
should go?
• What does the dentist tell you to
do after he has been working

Most people consider that going to the dentist is a
sort of masochism. It's one of the most unpleasant
things that humans have to do in order to keep
healthy. And however, we should undergo this
ordeal at least once a year. Eating pre-packed food,
rich in sugar, bacteria is permanently in our
mouths, saliva and dentine. Dental decay affect
practically 100% of the population and that includes
childlren with their first teeth.
Dentists keep telling us to brush our teeth three
times a day after meals and to do a thorough job of
it, but who spends ten minutes brushing one's teeth
after meals? As fas as I'm concerned I dedicate 30
seconds flat to such an important job before I rush
out to catch the train to the office... while I unwrap
a chocolate bar.
Questions
At the dentist
1. What's people's opinion about dentists?
2. Is it pleasant going to the dentist?
3. How often should people go to the dentist?
4. Why do people get a lot of dental decay nowadays?
5. How many times a day should we brush our teeth?
6. How long should we spend brushing our teeth?
7. How long does the writer spend cleaning his teeth?
8. How does the writer go to work?
9. Where does he work?
10. What does he do on his way to work?
1. How often do you go to the dentist?
2. Do you like going to the dentist?
3. Are dentists included in the National Health
Insurance?
4. Are fillings included in the National Health
Insurance?
5. Have you ever had a tooth pulled out?
6. Have you ever had a tooth filled?
7. Did you have any kind of anaesthetic?
8. Describe what the dentist did to give you the
anaesthetic.
9. Was the injection painful?
10. How long was it until the area was numbed?
11. Did you feel any pain after that?
12. Describe how a tooth is filled.
13. Describe how a tooth is pulled out.
14. What do they put in your mouth to control the
saliva?
15. Can you speak when the dentist is working in your
mouth?
16. What do you do when the dentist talks to you?
17.Have you ever had a filling without anaesthetic?
18. Which is better, a metal or paste filling?
19. What's a 'bridge'?
20. Do you know anybody who has one?
21. Do you know anybody who has false teeth?
22. How do they clean false teeth?
23. Can they bite something hard with their false teeth?
24. What are the disadvantagesof having false teeth?
25. What are the advantages?
26. Are false teeth paid for by the N.H.S.?
27. How much are they in your country?
28. Have you ever had your teeth cleaned?
How do they do it?
29. Do you look after your teeth?
30. How do you clean them?
31. Have you ever cleaned them with a dental floss?
32. What do you think of the noise made by the drill?
33. Do you think dentists should wear masks?
34. Why should they?
35. What is 'bad breath' due to?
36. What does tobacco do to teeth?
37.Why do some film stars have such white, regular
teeth?
38. Which are stronger, white teeth or yellowish teeth?
39. is toothpaste effective in cleaning teeth?
40. What do you do when you have no toothbrush?
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Glossary
to mind
to comb
dyed
oily
crew cut
wig
braids
to wonder
to hate
laughing
stock
set
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Suggested roleplaysand
dialogues
conversation among the three
women
between the man with the long
hair and a hairdresser.
between two hairdressers about
the man with long hair.
Make comments son the
• Some men go to have a manicure
done at the hairdresser's
• Men shouldn't go to a women's
hairdresser's.
• Some wives cut their husbands'
hair.
• Men without hair are very
attractive.
• Men prefer blondes.
• Perms are out of fashion.
• What are the three women doing?
• What do you think they are saying?
• What's the man at the back doing?
• Why are they all looking at the
young man?
• Where has he got his hands?
• What do you think the shop at the
back is?
• African people have long wavy hair.
• Men with short hair are more
manly.
• Men never dye their hair.
• Boys are more effeminate
nowadays.
• Older men love going to a
hairdresser's.
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• Where do people go for a haircut?
• How often do people have a
haircut?
• What do you say to the
hairdresser?
• What does a hairdresser do before
cutting your hair?
• Do men usually have a shampoo?
28 . At the hairdresser's

Have you ever wondered why women love going to the hairdresser's, while men usually hate doing the
same thing? Or at least, older men hate it, because we can't say the same thing about the new generation.
When I was young, men would never dream of going to a women's hairdresser's; if somebody did, he
would have been the laughing stock of his friends. Nowadays, however, more and more long haired boys
like to have a shampoo and set in one of the mixed hairdresser's that have sprung like mushrooms all over
the place.
Does that mean that nowadays boys are more effeminate than in other generations? Well, to be honest,
the answer is, no. They are just the same as they have ever been. Habits change, fashions change, human
nature remains the same.
Questions
1. Do women like going to the hairdresser's?
2. Do older men like it?
3. Were there mixed hairdresser's years ago?
4. What would happen if a man went to a women's
hairdresser's?
5. Where do young boys have their hair cut
nowadays?
6. Are there many mixed hairdresser's nowadays?
7.Are boys more effeminate nowadays?
8. Do habits change?
9. Do fashions change?
10. Does human nature change?
At the hairdresser's
1. Have you ever been to a hairdresser's?
2. Have you ever had a 'perm'?
3. Have you ever had a shampoo and set?
4. What's the difference between a barber's shop and
a hairdresser's ,
5. Do you think men should go to the same
hairdresser's as women?
6. Do you mind being there with people of the
opposite sex?
7.What do you think, a hairdresser should be, a man
or a woman?
8. Is it difficult to comb a woman's hair?
9. What's the present hair fashion in your country?
10. Which do you like, long hair or short hair for a girl?
11.Which do you like, long hair or short hair for a man?
12. What do you think of men with long hair?
13. What do you think of those pinnacle-like hair styles
of your grandmother?
14. What are the advantages of having very long hair?
16. What do you think of those youngsters with hair
dyed blue and made solid with lacquer?
17.Do you like men with greasy hair?
18. How often do you think men go to the
hairdresser's?
19. Do you think that a woman can cut a man's hair?
20. Do you like men with a crew cut?
21. Do you like men like Yul Brinner?
22. Would you wear a wig if you were bald?
23. What does dye do to the hair?
24. Will you dye your hair when it goes white?
25. What colour hair do you like?
26. Do men prefer blondes really?
27.What colour hair do you prefer in the opposite sex?
28. What do you think of braids?
29. In what countries do women still wear braids?
30. Can you make a braid? How do you do it?
31. What sort of hair do African people have?
32. What is the advantage of having curly hair?
33. What's the disadvantage?
34. Do many women wear wigs? Why?
35. What is the advantage of a wig?
36. Have hair fashions changed much along the years?
37. How much do you pay in your country for a
shampoo? a perm?
38. Do men go to the hairdresser's for ashampoo?
39. Can you have a manicure done at the hairdresser's?
40. Can you describe what they do to your hands?
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29 • At the zoo
Glossary
To lock up
to breed
earth
slowest
cages
warden
seal
partner
to look
forward
grim-
looking
to gaze
peanuts
yawning
sloshing
mud
flapping
tracks
monkey
challenge
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dialogues
between the zoo keeper and a
visitor.
between two children watching the
monkeys.
among several schoolchildren
visiting the tigers and lions.
• Animals should not be kept in
captivity.
• Safari parks are dangerous.
• To be a warden in a zoo is dangerous.
• Animals do not breed in captivity.
• People are not allowed to feed
animals in the zoo.
• Are these animals in a zoo?
• Where do you think they are?
• What are they called?
• What's coming along the path?
• What part of the world do you
think it is?
• How many trees can you see?
• How many giraffes are there in the
picture?
• Animals in captivity often refuse to
eat.
• The lion is the fastest animal on
earth.
• An aquarium is a sort of zoo for
fish.
• Monkeys like peanuts.
• Lions hunt. Lionesses don't.
• Giraffes have long necks to reach
the leaves of the trees.
functions
• What time of the year do people go
to the zoo?
• What do tigers eat?
• Why do you think the giraffes are
running?
• What do giraffes eat?
• Does it rain much in that country?

Who hasn't spent a day at the zoo as a child? When I was a child I used to look forward to my father's trip
to London. While he met his business partners in a grim-looking office in the West-end, my mother used
to take us to see the animals at London zoo.
Looking back on those happy days, I remember gazing open-mouthed at the agile monkeys always eating
peanuts; the ever yawning hippos sloshing in the mud, or the trumpeting elephants flapping their ears
challengingly.
It was fascinating to watch all the different animals: tigers, lions, leopards, panthers, crocodiles...
One could imagine facing these animals in their habitat; hunting lions in the savannas of Africa or
following the tracks of a huge tiger in the jungles of India.
At the zoo
Questions
1. What did the writer do when he went to London?
2. What did his father do in London?
3. What animals did the writer gaze open-mouthed at?
4. What did the monkeys do all the time?
5. What did the hippos do?
6. What did the elephantsdo?
7.What other animals are mentioned
8.Where do lions live?
9. Where do tigers live?
10. What did the writer imagine himself doing?
1. Have you ever been to a zoo?
2. Have you got a zoo in your home town?
3. What sort of animals can you see in the zoo?
4. Which are your favourite animals?
5. Are all animals locked up behind bars?
6. How, do you think, animals should be kept?
7. Do animals breed in captivity?
8. Are wild animals dangerous when they are in
captivity?
9. Are you allowed to feed animals at the zoo?
10. What do you give to the monkeys?
11.Which is the biggest animal in the zoo?
12. Which is the fastest animal on earth?
13. Which is the slowest?
14.1s an Aquarium the same as a zoo?
15. What's the difference?
16. What's a safari park?
17.Have you ever been to one?
18. Can you come out of the car in a safari park?
19. What sort of animals are there in a safari park?
20. What's the difference between a safari park and a
zoo?
21. Can children ride an elephant in a safari park?
22. Are safari parksdangerous?
23. Can you have a picnic in a safari park?
24. Can you see monkeys roaming free in a safari park?
25. Why not? Do you think they would escape?
26. Would you like to be a warden in a zoo?
27. What jobs do you think they have to do?
28. Would you like to feed animals?
29. Would you like to clean the cages?
30. How would you clean a tiger's cage?
31. How would you feed a lion?
32. Do wardens get into the cages of these animals to
clean them?
33. What sort of food do lions and tigers eat?
34. What about elephants,what do they eat?
35. What sort of food do monkeys eat?
36. What would you give a seal to eat?
37.What do you think giraffes eat?
38. What would you do if an animal refused to eat?
39. Why do you think an animal refuses food?
40.Can an animal be in love?
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30 • On the beach
Glossary
tanned
scuba-diving
storm
to shake
lying
naked
burnt
roasted
toe
death
silly
way
Description of the scene;
dialogues
between a life guard and an
imprudent swimmer.
between a girl reading a book and
a boy jumping over her, throwing
sand all over her.
between the two joggers.
between a person who is drowning
and a rescuer.
• Transistor radios are annoying on
the beach.
• Some people have private beaches.
• Many people like playing football
on the beach.
• Some beaches have no life-guards.
• Scuba-diving is dangerous.
• Picnics should be allowed on the
beach.
picture?
• How many of them are in the
water?
• How many saling boats can you
see?
• What are the two boys on the right
side of the picture doing?
• What is the girl nearest to us going
to do?
• Can you describe the boy sitting
on the left?
• The kiss of life can save a life.
• Arabas like to lie on the sand.
• The water on the coast is not
polluted.
• All beaches have life-guards.
• Getting sun burnt is dangerous for
health.
functions
• What does a boy say to ask his
girlfriend if she wants to go
jogging with him?
• What does she say to refuse?
• What does she say to her
boyfriend to ask him to slow down
a little?
• What does the boy say to her to
make her run faster?
• How does he invite her to have
something to drink when they
finish jogging?
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If one of our ancestors should rise from his tomb and look at one of our beaches in summer, he would
probably shake his head with incredulity... and go back to the tomb.
What, on the earth, are these people doing lying in the sun half naked? He would wonder. These
descendents of ours have gone mad. Why do they want to get burnt, roasted like chickens? Isn't it much
nicer to the eye, and better for the health to keep your skin white? Even the Arabs in the desert, cover
themselves from head to toe in order to protect their skin from the rays of the sun. Why do people
nowadays try to burn themselves to death in such a silly way?
Questions
1. Would one of our ancestor be surprised if he saw our beaches?
2. What would he do?
3. What would he say to himself?
4. What would he think of the mental health of his descendents?
5. What do people do to themselves?
7.What do Arabs do?
8. Why?
9. Is it dangerous to get sun burnt?
10. What illness can an excess of sun produce?
On the beach
1. Have you ever been to the beach?
2. Do you live near a beach?
3. What are the advantages of living near one?
4. Are there any disadvantages?
5. Would you like to spend your holidays at the beach?
6. Which do you prefer, the mountains or the beach?
7.What's the difference?
8. Do you go to the beach to get sun tanned?
9. Do you take a book to the beach to read while you
sun-bathe?
10. What do you think of people playing football on the
beach?
11.What games can you play on the beach?
12. What other activities can you do on the beach?
13. Is the beach a good place to swim?
14. What's the difference between swimming in the sea
and in a swimming-pool?
15. Are beaches dangerous?
16. Would you like to be a lifeguard on a beach?
17. What do lifeguards do?
18. What's the kiss of life?
19. Do you know how to do it?
20. Have you ever been surfing?
21. What do you think of it?
22. Is it dangerous?
23. What do you need to go surfing?
24. Can you go surfing without waves? Wind surfing,
perhaps?
25. Do you have sandy beaches in your country?
26. Which beach would you like to go to if you were a
millionaire?
27.What's the sea water like in your country?
28. Have you ever done any scuba-diving?
29. Have you done any underwater fishing?
30. What do you think of dogs on the beaches?
31. Should picnics be allowed on beaches?
32. What about transistor radios?
33. Would you like to have a private beach to yourself?
34. Are private beaches allowed in your country?
35. Do you ever go to the beach in winter?
36. What do you often find on the beach after a storm
or tempest?
37. Is sea-water good for your health?
38. In which way is it good?, walking in it?, drinking it?
39. Is the water on the coast clean nowadays?
40. What is pollution due to?
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31 • Tourism
Glossary
flowery
lazy
trekking
hitch-hiker
to cycle
leader
tempted
pattern
enrich
to give vent
to store
Descriptiionofthescene:
Suggestedroleplays
between the tourist and the man
being photographed.
between two tourists visiting Pisa.
• In groups, act out a conversation
among several tourists in the hotel
lounge.
• In pairs, act out a converstion
between two 'natives' about a
group of tourists.
• Tourism brings a lot of money to
the country.
• Most tourists go to the beaches.
• Trekking is for young people.
• Most tourists come from the north.
• Hitch-hiking is very cheap tourism.
• Which side is the Pisa Tower
leaning to?
• What's the fat woman doing?
• What's the nationality of the tourist
behind the fat woman?
• What's the fat woman wearing?
• What's the man nearest to us
wearing?
• What has he got in his hand?
• What's his nationality?
• Are there more people in the
picture?
ie or false. Give
isons.
Most tourists go to visit
monuments.
Tourism is a good source of
income for the country.
Tourists walk about with
three cameras hanging from
their necks.
Tourists carry a phrase book
with them.
Winter tourists go to skiing
stations.
functions
• How does the fat woman ask the
'native' if she wants to take a
photo?
• What does the man say to refuse?
• What does the woman say to the
man to ask him to smile?
• What does the other tourist say to
the fat woman to make her hurry?
• How does the Japanese tourist ask
the Italian to lift the flag and move
a little to the left?
• How do you think the Italian tells
the Japanese that it is forbidden to
take photographs?
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What is a tourist? Some will be tempted to answer that it is a strange creature wearing flowery patterned
shirts, shorts and walking about with three cameras hanging from their necks. Others, specially the
economists, will consider the tourists as 10% of the national income.
Most tourists come from the northern countries looking for the sunny beaches of the south. Others prefer
to enrich their knowledge visiting museums and old castles. Then, there are the more energetic ones that
take advantage of their summer holidays to give vent to the excess of energy they have stored during the
winter: they go climbing, trekking or camel riding across the desert.
Questions
LWhat is the description of a typical tourist?
2. What is a tourists to an economist?
3. What percentage of the country's economy is
provided by tourism?
4. What do most tourists look for?
5. How do others enrich their knowledge?
6. What does a typical tourist wear round his neck?
8. Where do most tourists come from?
9. What do the more energetic tourists do?
10. Where do some people go riding camels?
Tourism
1. Have you ever been out of your country?
2. Did you consider yourself as a tourist then?
3. How would you define a tourist?
4. Do you think of a tourist as wearing shorts and a
flowery shirt?
5. Do you have many tourists in your country?
6. What countries do they come from?
7.Which country receives the biggest number of
tourists in the world?
8. How do tourists come to your country?
9. What part of your country do they usually go to?
10. Has your country many beaches, a long coastline?
11. Do you have any other kind of tourism?
12. Do you have any monuments or buildings to visit?
13. What country would you like to visit as a tourist?
14. What would you do in that country?
15. Are you a lazy tourist or an active one?
16. Define what a lazy tourist is.
17. What is your opinion of an active tourist?
18. What's trekking?
19. What activities would you suggest for an active
tourist?
20. Has a tourist ever asked you for directions?
21. In which language did you answer him?
22. Did he understand you?
23. Did he have a pocket phrase book in his hand?
24. What did he/she askyou?
25. What does a tourist usually ask about?
26. What is a hitch-hiker?
27.Can such a person be considered as a tourist?
28. Have you ever been hitch-hiking?
29. What's your opinion of it?
30. What do you think of people who cycle around the
world?
31. Are they tourists?
32. Which countries are leaders in the tourist trade?
33. Would you like to work with tourists, as a
receptionist for example?
34. Do you think tourists consider themselvessuperior
to other people?
35. Which country 'provides' the greatest number of
tourists?
36. Which means of transport are used by most
tourists?
37.Were there many tourists last century?
38. When did the tourist boom start?
39. Haswealth anything to do with tourism?
40. Would you like to go on a package holiday or on
your own?
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32 • Being a king
Glossary
yacht
commoner
inherit
priority
throne
subjects
dream
to reign
to rule
role
Suggested roleplays
In pairs, act out a conversation
between the king and newspaper
reporter.
between the king and the queen
about the country's political
situation.
between Henry VIM and one of his
many wives before being
beheaded.
following statement:
• A modern king is very different
from a king in the Middle Ages.
• Republicans don't believe in kings
and queens.
• Monarchy is good for the country.
• Kings and queens can't walk about
the streets alone.
• A Prince should study foreign
languages.
• Where's the old king sitting?
• Is he a modern king?
• Can you describe the expression
on his face?
wearing?
What does his attitude suggest?
What has he got on his head?
ings have a lot of power
nowadays.
In Egypt there never were kings.
ings vote in the elections.
Anybody can become a king.
All countries have kings.
In the old days, in China the ruler
the mandarin.
functions
• What does a prince say to ask his
father for advice about the day he
becomes a king?
• What does the king say to refuse
his son marrying a commoner?
• What does the queen say to her
daughter to ask her not to go out
at nights to the discotheques?
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What's he wearing?

One of the typical subjects for a school
composition is «lf I were a king». Who hasn't
dreamt of being a king? What boy hasn't
closed his eyes and let his imagination run
wild seeing himself as a powerful king whose
smallest wishes are orders to a thousand
servants.
Modern kings and queens are, however,
very different from the idea we have of a
powerful king like Henry VIII, for example.
Democracy has brought a modern
conception of the monarchy in which the
king reigns but doesn't rule. The role of a
modern king is limited to be the visible head
of the country, but the real rulers are the
politicians; men and women elected by the
people.
1. Would you like to be a king?
2. Do you think it's easy being a king?
3. What activities does a king do?
4. Is it pleasant to see famouspersonalities?
5. Should a king speak foreign languages?
6. Do you have a king in your country?
7. Do people like him?
8.What do you think of monarchy in general?
9. Should there be kings in a modern country?
10. Do kings have political power in the European
countries?
11. Did kings have a lot of power in the old days?
12. What's better?
13. Should a prince go to university?
14. What career should a prince study to prepare
himself to become a king?
15. Should a prince study in;foreign countries?
16. Which countries do you think he should study in?
17.Should a king receive money from the country's
treasury?
18. Do kings usually have a lot of private money?
19. Do kings have holidays?
20. Where do they usually spend their holidays?
21.What sort of holidays do they have?
22.Can you think of any king or queen that has a big
yacht?
Questions
1 .What's the typical subject for a school
composition?
2. What do boys often do?
3. How many servants does the writer mention?
4. Are modern kings similar to Henry VIII?
5. Do you know what Henry VIM is famous for?
6. What is modern conception of the monarchy?
7.What is the role of a modern king?
8. Who are the real rulers of a democratic country?
9. Who elects the political party that governs the
country?
10. Is your country a democracy? Do you have a king?
23. If a man marries a queen, does he become king?
24. What's the difference between a king and an
emperor?
25. Do you know of any king or queen who abdicated
from the throne because of his/her love of a
commoner?
26. Can you think of any disadvantages of being a king?
27. Do kings have private lives?
28. Have you ever seen a king walking along the street
alone?
29. Do you think that is possible? Why not?
30. Are kings allowed to vote in the political elections?
31. Why not?
32. Are there more monarchies now than in the old
days?
33. What's it due to?
34. In the ancient Rome, Egypt, China or Persia they
didn't have kings, what did they have?
35. How many countries have kings or queens
nowadays?
36. Do you know who the first king was in your
country?
37.Are kings elected by the people the same as the
presidents?
38. Who succeeds to the throne when the king dies?
39. Has a prince priority over a princess to the throne?
40. Do you agree with that?
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Being a king

33 • Politics
Glossary
full-time job
evils
agree
fulfilled
kind of
cradle
to force
campaign
True or false. Give
reasons
• In most democratic
countries elections
take place every four
or five years.
• What the candidates
promise is always
fulfilled.
• Dictatorship is better
than democracy.
• Candidates never
promise to reduce
taxes.
• A monarchical country
is never democratic.
• A king reigns but
doesn't rule.
Suggestedroleplays
between a union leader and the
president of the Goverment.
between the two leaders of the
main political parties.
between a candidate for president
and a voter who is undecided.
• Democracy admits the existence of
different ideologies.
• Dictatorship is good for the
country.
• Greece was the cradle of
democracy.
• Kings should rule the country.
• What are these two people doing?
Can you describe the face of the
man on the right?
• To which party do you think he
belongs?
• Do you think the man on the left
belongs to the socialist party?
• What's the man on the right
wearing?
• What's the man on the left
wearing?
• Where has he got his hands?
• What's taking place?
functions
• What does a socialist leader say to
ask the conservative leader if he
wants to discuss the pensions?
• What does the conservative leader
say to refuse the socialist leader's
invitation?
• How does the conservative leader
invite the socialist leader to have
lunch with him and discuss
politics?
• How do you think somebody tells
people that it is forbidden to
discuss politics in a certain place?
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Have you ever heard a politician speaking in an election campaign? Have you ever wondered at the
incredible amount of things that they promise to do?
It's curious, but all candidates promise more or less the same things; they will all build more roads,
hospitals, schools; they will reduce taxes and inflation, force the prices down and increase the pensions.
However, when they come to power most of the promises they had made during the election campaign
come to nothing.
There's little money left for roads; schools and hospitals will have to wait for better times; taxes can't be
reduced because there's a deficit, and inflation is impossible to control due to the increase of the price of
oil in the Arab countries...
Questions
1. What's the first question the writer asks you?
2. Do politicians promise many things?
3. Do candidates promise different things?
4. What do they say about hospitals and schools?
5. What will they reduce?
6. What will they do with pensions?
7.What happens to all the promises of the election
campaign?
8. Is there a lot of money for roads, etc?
9. Why can't taxes be reduced?
10. Why can't inflation be controlled?
Politics
1. Do you like politics? Why not?
2. Do you ever discuss politics with your friends?
3. What do you think of politicians? Are they honest?
4. Are there many political parties in your country?
5. Mention the most important ones.
6. Which party won the last elections?
7. How many years have they been in power?
8. How often do you have general elections in your
country?
9. Do you think a president should be in power more
than two legislation periods?
10. Should politics be a full-time job?
11.What do you think of democracy?
12. What is democracy?
13. Can you have democracy without political parties?
14. What are the advantagesof democracy?
16. What does a politician do? What's his job?
17. What are the main political parties in G.B.?
18. Which one is in power now?
19. What are the main political parties in the USA?
20. Which one is in power now?
21. Do you think politicians get too much or too little
money?
22. Would you like to be a politician? Why?
23. It is said that democracy is the least of evils, do you
agree?
24. What is another alternative to democracy?
25. Do you know of countries that have no democracy?
26. Would you like to live in one of those countries?
27. Is democracy good or bad for the country in
general? Why?
28. What does 'liberty of expression' mean to you?
29. What do you think the limits are to this 'liberty'?
30. Do you vote in the elections?
31. What's the difference between a 'general election
and a local election'?
32. When you vote, do you vote for the party or for the
person?
33. What do you think of election campaigns?
34. How do parties get money for that? Who pays for
it?
35. Should candidates confront each other on TV in
discussions?
36. In our present world of TV, are campaigns
necessary?
37. Do you think the party in power has fulfilled its
promises?
38. What would be the best kind of government?
39. Should candidatesexplain their programmes?
40. Which country is the cradle of democracy?
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34 • Religions
Suggested roleplays
between a catholic and a Moslem
trying to convert each other.
between a protestant and a
catholic giving their points of view
about their religions.
about an 'inquisitor' and a woman
accused of being a witch.
• Catholic priests can't get married.
• All religions are similar.
• Muslim women have to wear a veil.
• Jews are still waiting for the
Messiah
• Some religions believe in
reincarnation.
• There are priestesses in some
religions.
• What's the man on the left holding
in his right hand?
• What's the man sitting holding in
his hand?
• What are they?
• Do you know of what order?
• What are they both wearing?
• What's the expression of the
accused man?
Glossary
humankind
rites
outstanding
priest
priestess
newly
punishment
houri
witch
veil
• What's the man on the right?
• What's he holding in his hand?
• Witches were burnt at the stake.
• Catholic religion has changed a lot
lately.
• Protestant priests are married.
• All muslims have to go to Mecca
once in a lifetime.
•Jesus ordered his disciples to build
large churches.
• All Christians believe in the
virginity of Mary.
functions
• What does the Dominican on the
left say to ask the accused if he
has anything to say?
• What does the accused say to deny
the accusation?
• What does the Dominican sitting
say to ask the accused to sign the
document?
• How does the Dominican invite the
accused to repent of his sins?
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Some people wonder why there are so many
religions in the world. How is it possible that people
adore so many different Gods? Could it be possible
that one religion is right while all the others are
wrong? Who is in possession of the truth? Are there
such things as heaven and hell? If there are, what
are they like?
Christians believe in eternal punishment while
Budists are certain that our destiny is our union
with God after several lives. Is reincarnation a fact?
Do we reincarnate? If so, When? Why?
Moslems believe that they'll go to Paradise with 60
beautiful houris if they die bravely in battle. I'm
trying to find out if women who die bravely in battle
will also go to the same Paradise surrounded by 60
attractive young men.
Questions
LWhat do some people wonder?
2. Do people adore the same God?
3. Is one religion right while the others are wrong?
4. What does the writer say about heaven?
5. What do Christians believe?
6. What do Buddhists believe?
7.What does the writer say about reincarnation?
8. What do Moslems believe?
10. What is a houri?
Religions
1.Are you religious?
2. What do you think of religion in general?
3. How many religions do you know?
4. What are the differences between them?
5. Do you think religion is necessaryto humankind?
6. What is the attitude of young people towards
religion?
7.What's the predominant religion in your country?
8.What do you think of religious 'rites'?
9. What do you call a person who doesn't believe in
God?
10. Do you think a person is better if he/she is
religious?
11.What is the most outstanding service in your
religion?
12. Do you have priests in your religion?
13. Can women be priestesses in your religion?
14. Do you think women are neglected in that sense?
15. Do people have to attend a certain service in your
religion?
16. How often do they have to meet?
17.1s modern man more or less religious than in the
past?
18. Is religion more or less necessary than in the old
days?
19. In what sense has religion changed in the last
centuries?
20. What do you know about Islam?
21. Who was their Prophet?
22. What sort of paradise awaits a Moslem?
23. Where does a muslim have to go once in his life
time?
24. What do religions usually teach people?
25. What do you know about Buddhism?
26. Do you believe in reincarnation?
27. How do Buddhists find a newly born Lama?
28. Do you think the Lama is reincarnated?
29. What do you know about the 'Inquisition'?
30. Can you think of any wars fought in the name of
religion?
31. Do you think it is legitimate to kill in the name of
God?
32. What is heresy?
33. Should it be condemned?
34. Who started the Christian religion?
35. What was the only commandment of Jesus?
36. Do you think men have followed his
commandments?
37. Why are there so many differences between
Christians?
38. What do you know about the Jews?
39. Who was the most important Prophet for them?
40. WasJesus the Messiah for them or are they still
waiting for him?
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35 • Popular festivals
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Suggested roleplays
between two boys running in front
of the bulls.
between two of the bulls.
among several people at the end
of the festivals.
among two tourists in the carnivals
in Rio.
• The carnivals of Rio are dangerous.
• Christmas is a Christian
celebration.
• Women do not run in front of the
bulls.
• The 12th October is the
celebration of the discovery of
America.
• The 'Sanfermines' is the best
known festival all over the world.
• How many bulls are there in the
picture?
• How many people are running in
front of the bulls?
• How many people can you see on
the balconies?
• Are the houses new?
• What's the matter with the man
running in the last position?
• What's the man on the balcony
pointing at?
• What are the people running
wearing?
Glossary
pilgrimage
hermit
bull
disguise
float parade
entertainments
world-wide
stabbed
alley
gored
• Several people die every year in
the 'Sanfermines'.
• The life of a bull that gores
someone is spared.
• In Rio the carnivals are held during
the summer.
• Many people are murdered during
the carnivals.
• Wine is given out free during the
'Sanfermines'.
• A big festival takes place in
America on the 4th July to
celebrate the discovery of the
Continent.
functions
• What does a girl say to ask for
permission if she wants to run in
front of the bulls?
• What does the man in charge say
to refuse the girl's petition?
• What does one of the runners say
to another to ask him not to push?
• How does one of the runners invite
another to have something to drink
when they finish running?
• How do you think the man in
charge tells the girl that women
can't run in front of the bulls?

In some countries popular festivals have reached world-wide fame. Some of the most well known are the
Carnivals in Rio, the Chinese New Year in Taiwan, or the San Fermin in Pamplona.
In all of them thousands of tourists come from all over the world to immerse themselves in a sea of wild
music and dancing in order to forget their daily problems for a week.
It doesn't matter if tourists are stabbed in an alley of Rio, or gored to death by a bull in Pamplona. It all
adds to the attraction of the festivals.
Questions
1 .What have reached world-wide fame?
2. What is Rio de Janeiro famous for?
3. What do the Chinese celebrate?
4. What is Pamplona famous for?
5. Where do tourists come from?
6. What do they do during the festival?
7.Why do they dance wildly?
8. What happens sometimes in Rio?
9. What happens sometimes in Pamplona?
10. Does that dissuade people from going to those places?
Popular festivals
1. What is a popular festival?
2. Do you have festivals in your country?
3. What do people do during thesefestivals?
4. What sort of entertainment is there?
5. Are they religious festivals?
6. What are the most famous ones in your country?
7. Do people drink?
8. How many days do they usually last?
9. Do you wear special clothes in these festivals?
10. Are there any processions?
11. Do you have a pilgrimage to a hermitage, for
example?
12. Have you heard of 'San Fermines' in Spain?
13. Are they famous?
14. How long do they last?
15. What's the main attraction of 'San Fermines'?
16.1s it dangerous to run in front of a bull?
17. Would you do it?
18. Where do many people sleep during the night?
19. Do you have anything like that in your home town?
20. Do you have carnivals in your country?
21. Do people disguise themselves?
22. Do you have a float parade?
23. Is a carnival of religious origin?
24. What about Christmas? Do you celebrate it in your
country?
25.1s Christmas a religious celebration? What religion?
26. What is celebrated?
27.What do people give at Christmas?
28. Mention some more famous festivals. Where are
they located?
29. Do you think young people like festivals?
30. Why do you think that is?
31. Are festivalsexpensive?
32. How much do you spend in a three-day festival?
33. What do you spend the money on?
34. Do you think you can enjoy yourself without
spending money?
35. Have you heard of the Munich beer festival?
36. What do they celebrate there?
37.What do they eat and drink?
38. What do people celebrate on the 12th of October
in many countries?
39. What do they celebrate in America on the 4th of
July?
40. Look at the calendar and mention all the festivals
and celebrations you can think of.
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36 • Party time
Suggested roleplays
between a boy and a girl dancing
that meet for the first time.
between a boy and a girl. He asks
her for a dance.
between two people who sit tired
after having danced for a long
time.
among several people discussing the
type of music they want to put on.
• Children have parties at Christmas
time.
• Parties are very noisy.
• Parties help boys and girls to meet.
• Young people shouldn't drink
spirits at parties.
• Modern dancing is very tiring.
• Ballroom dancing is old fashioned.
• Parties help shy youngsters to
meet.
• Are these people dancing in a
garage?
• How many people are there?
Can you describe them?
• How many people are sitting?
• How many of them wear glasses?
• Are the girls wearingskirts?
• What do you think the man sitting
is drinking?
• What sort of music are they
dancing to?
Glossary
records
loud
New Year's
eve
to enjoy
to be worth
jealous
to chat
to spread
warehouse
allow
wedding
approach
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• Discotheques are quiet places.
• People can have a nice chat in a
dicotheque.
• Parties help to bring young people
together .
• New Year's eve parties go on all
night.
• Young people go to dancing
schools to learn to dance.
• Grown ups don't like pop music.
functions
• What does a boy say to ask a girl if
she wants to go to a party?
• What does the girl say to refuse
the invitation?
• What does the girl say to the boy
to ask him when and where the
party is going to take place?
• How does a boy invite a girl to
have something to eat when they
finish dancing?
• How do you think the barman tells
them that they have nothing to r,
eat?

Most people love parties. It's in human nature to want an opportunity to chat with other people over a
glass of beer or while eating caviar sandwiches.
Party mania begins at an early age. Mothers are the ones that contribute to the spreading of it by
organizing birthday parties for their young children. A five-year-old child spends his weekends going to
the birthday parties of all his classmates. Later on in life they prefer to organize their own parties in the
garage or the warehouse of one of their parents. Older people are not so inclined to go to these social
meetings, but even so, most of us like to meet other people, even if it's only at the local church.
Questions
1. What do most people do?
2. What do people like if they have achance?
3. When does party mania begin?
4. Who contributes to that?
5. What does a five-year-old child do at weekends?
6. Do their mothers organize their parties later in life?
7.Where do they have their parties?
8. Are older people as inclined as young people to go to parties?
9. What does the writer call the parties for older people?
10. Where do these people sometimes meet?
Party time
1. Have you ever been to a party?
2. What do you do at a party?
3. Do you play games? What sort of games?
4. Do you drink spirits? What else do you drink?
5. Do you listen to records or dance?
6. What sort of records do you listen to?
7.Do you dance tangos or waltzes?
8. Where do young people have parties?
9. When do they have them?
10. Until what time do parties go on?
11. Do you think parties should go on all night?
12. Do you have parties at Christmas?
13. What about New Year's Eve?
14. On what other occasions do you have parties?
15. Do you enjoy yourself at parties?
16. How do you feel the next day?
17.1s it worth it?
18. Isn't it better to have a party during the day?
19. Do you think you have a better chance of meeting
boys/girls at parties?
20. What do you think of very loud music?
21. Do your parents like it? Why not?
22. What do your parents think of modern dancing?
23. What do you think of old style dancing?
24. Have you seen your parents dancing to pop music?
25. Did your parents go to parties in their youth?
26. At what time were they allowed to get back home?
27. What will you do when your own children grow up?
28. What do you wear at parties?
29. Is a party the same as a wedding?
31. Do you like weddings? Why?
32. What do you eat at a party?
33. Do you think people should smoke at parties? Why?
34. Do you think spirits give shy people courage?
35. Do you know many slty boys/girls?
36. Would you approach the boy/girl you like openly?
37.Are you jealous when your favourite boy/girl
dances with others at a party?
38. Would you go to a party if you knew that he/she
wasn't there?
39. Do parties help in boy/girl relationships?
40. In which way does it help?
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37 • A department store
Suggested roleplays
between a woman and the person
at the information desk.
between a mother and a child that
is climbing the escalator for the
first time.
between a guard and a person
caught stealing.
between a customer who wants to
know where to pay and a cleaning
woman.
• Shopping in a department store is
cheaper/more expensive.
• Children love department stores.
• Hidden cameras are watching you
all the time.
• A lot of things are stolen.
• Little shops are disappearing
because of supermarkets and
department stores.
• How many people can you see all
together?
Glossary
to steal
to be caught
selling
foreign
to join
kindness
friendliness
neatly
arranged
shelves
tempting
to pull
flashing
hovering
rockets
swords
• How many of them are climbing the
stairs?
• How are they climbing?
• What are all these people wearing?
• What are they carrying?
• Is anybody wearing glasses?, and
earrings?
True or false. Givereasons.
• The advantage of a department
store is that you can find
everything in there.
• Many things are stolen in a
department store.
• Department stores never close.
• The restaurant floor is usually at
the top.
• Department stores open on
Sundays.
• In a department store you must pay
cash.
• People suspected of stealing are
searched at the exit.
functions
• What does a customer say to ask an
employee where the toy section is?
• What does the employee say to tell the
customer where the toy section is?
• What does a mother say to her
child to be careful with the
escalator?
• How does a male employee invite a
female employee to eat when they
finish working?
• How do you think the person in
charge of the clothes department
tells a little boy that he can't play
hide and seek with his little
brother?
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always fascinated me. When I was a child my mother
her Christmas shopping at one of the big department
I think they are fascinating! Department stores have
used to take me to London with her. She used to do
stores in Oxford Street or Kensingon.
The escalators made me think I was in a fairy house. I never got tired of going up and down. Nevertheless,
what really fascinated me most was the toy
department. It was incredible the mountains
of toys that were neatly arranged on the
shelves, quietly tempting the open-eyed
children that, like myself, were being pulled
by their mothers by the hand. I was hypnotized
by flashing police car lights, hovering
helicopters, space rockets and shining swords.
Questions
A department store
1. What does the writer findfascinating?
2. Where did he go with his mother?
3. Where did she do her Christmas shopping?
4. What did the escalator make him think?
5. Did he get tired of going up and down?
6. What was it that fascinated him most?
7.Where there many toys?
8.What did the toys do to the children?
9. Did the mothers stay long in this section?
10. What was the writer hypnotized by?
1. Have you ever been to a department store?
2. Do you have many in your country?
3. And in your home town? Do you have any?
4. What can you buy in a department store?
5. What are the advantagesof shopping there?
7. Do you like walking about in one?
8. Do people buy things that they didn't intend to
buy?
9. What's the difference between a department store
and asupermarket?
10. And a hypermarket?
11. Do you like escalators?
12. Is it more expensiveshopping in department
stores? why?
13. Do you think people steal in these places?
14. Is it difficult to steal things in department stores?
15. Have you ever seen a person being caught stealing?
16. How do guards approach these people?
17. What do they do with them?
18. How are things watched? Have you seen TV
monitors?
19. Would you like to work in one of these places?
20. In which department would you like to work?
21. Is it the same working in a little shop as in a
department store?
22. What is the difference in the selling technique?
23. Do you think sales people always tell the truth?
24. Can people change the things they've bought if
they don't like them?
25. Do you think it's necessaryto know foreign
languages in this job?
26. Can you mention the different departments that
there are in a big store?
27. Can you get something to eat or drink in a
department store?
28. Where's the restaurant placed usually?
29.1s food expensive in these places?
30. What sort of service do you get? self-service? free
buffet? served bywaiters?
31. What time do these places open?
32. When do they close?
33. Do they close at dinner time?
34. Where do employees eat?
35. Do you think department stores should open on
Sundays?
36.1s there competition between these stores and
normal shops?
37.1s competition fair?
38. What's happening to many small shops?
39. What can small shops do to defend their interests?
Can they join forces?
40. What do people appreciate in small shops?
kindness?, friendliness?
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38 • Studying or working
Suggested roleplays
between a student and a worker.
between the father and a son who
doesn't want to study.
between a young man who is
working and wants to study and the
head of the night school.
• Working is better because you get
some money.
• Studying is better because you'll
get qualifications for a better job.
• Working and studying is very hard.
• It impossible to get rich working.
• Housewivesshould get a salary.
• What does the dreaming girl do?
. What's herjob?
• What's she dreaming of?
• What has she got in her left hand?
• What's there on her right?
• Who's the woman with the fur coat?
• What are the three people doing?
• Studying languages is important for
a job.
• University students get paid for
studying.
Glossary
to get paid
unemployed
dying
in order to
middle aged
seeking
moral
chances
greater
• Housewivesget a good pay from
the government.
• Bad students get grants.
• Working is possible to get lots of
money.
functions
• What does the secretary say to her
boss if she wants a pay rise?
• What does the boss say to refuse
her demand?
• What does the secretary say to her
boyfriend to tell him that they can't
get married yet?
• What does the boss say to the
secretary to make her work more
hours?
• How does the boss invite the
secretary for lunch?
• How do you think the secretary
refuses the invitation?
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When young people are studying they are dying for a job. They want to get some money in their hands, so
very often they leave their studies in order to get a job.
Later in life, they are sorry they gave up their studies and wish they had continued getting some
knowledge that would probably increase their chances of promotion or getting a better job.
As the head of a private technical school I often find that middle aged people come to our Centre seeking
a qualification that they couldn't or did not want to get when they were younger.
The moral is: study while you can. The more qualifications you have, the greater your chances are of
getting a good job.
Questions
1 .What do young people want when they are
studying?
2. Why do they want to get ajob?
3. What happens later on in life?
4. What do they wish?
5. Does knowledge increase the chances of getting a
better job?
6.What does the writer do? What's his job?
7.What does he find?
8. Why didn't these people have a qualification?
9. What's the moral of this essay?
10. What should you do if you want a good job?
Studying or working
1. Are you studying or working?
2. How many years do you have left to study?
3. What is better, to study or to work?
4. What are the advantages of studying?
6. What are the advantagesof working?
7.What are the disadvantages?
8. What do people study for?
9. What do people work for?
10. Would you work if you didn't have to?
11. Do you think work is a bad thing?
12. Do you think some people can enjoy working?
13. What kind of people? What kind of work?
14. Do people enjoy studying?
15. Do you consider yourself a good student or a bad
one?
16. Do you think studying languages is important for a
job?
17. Should students get paid for studying?
18. Many people work and don't get paid, who are
those people?
19. Should housewives get paid?
20. Are there many people working and studying?
21. How can they do it?
22. Do you know of any?
23. If they work when do they study?
24. Do you admire them? Why?
25. Do you have facilities to do that in your country?
26. Why do people work and study?
27. Does the government help these people in your
country?
28. Are there many people unemployed with
qualifications in your country?
29. Do you think it's worth studying nowadays?
30. Can you make a lot of money by working?
31. Can you make more money if you have
qualifications?
32. Do people study because they want money?
33. Is getting rich your ambition in life?
34. What other ambitions do you have?
35. Do you think a housewife should work outside the
home?
36. Is there a lot of unemployment in your country?
What percentage?
37.Would you like to be your own boss?
38. Do you think it's easy to be your own boss?
39. Do you know any young people working for
themselves?
40. How many hours do they work?
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39 • Having a baby
Suggested roleplays
between the woman in the picture
and a friend.
between two boys who are talking
about the woman in the picture.
between two girls about a pregnant
woman.
• Giving birth is very painful.
• Men should give birth.
• The period of pregnancy is very
hard.
• Mothers should give birth at home.
• A baby should be breast-fed.
• Mothers to be should not smoke.
• Where's the woman sitting or
lying?
• Where's the easy chair?
• What's she doing?
• What's the matter with her?
on her face?
• In which month of pregnancy is
she?
Glossary
painful
to feed
to give the
bottle
birth rate
pregnant
pregnancy
nursery
breast-fed
moaning
wheel chair
midwife
presently
to nod
so few
• Pregnancy takes nine months.
• Breast-fed babies are healthier.
• Music is good for unborn babies.
• The birth rate is very low in
developed countries.
• The emotional state of the mother
affects the baby's temperament.
• Babies that are born feet first live
shorter lives.
functions
• What does a pregnant woman say
to her husband if she thinks the
moment has arrived?
• What does the husband say if he
can't find the keys of the car?
• What does the pregnant woman
say to her husband to ask him to
slow down a bit?
• What does she say to him to make
him drive faster?
• How does the husband tell the
nurses that the baby is about to be
born?
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My wife was going to have a baby! We rushed to
hospital. I had never felt so nervous in all my life. I
kept looking apprehensively at my wife moaning
quietly in the passenger seat. I wouldn't like to
have a son in the middle of the High Street.
At last we reached Mothers' Hospital and Janet was
placed in a wheel chair. The midwife took her into a
room and came out presently informing me that the
baby was already on the way. She asked me if I
wanted to be there at the time of birth. I nodded
silently. Of course I wanted to see my son come
into the world. I wasjust in time, by the time I had
put on the green sterilized gown and rushed into
the room, the baby was pushing his body outside.
Soon a loud cry showed that he was very much
alive. It was my son!
Questions
1 .What was the matter with the writer's wife?
2.Where did they go?
3. How was the writer feeling?
4.Who took his wife to hospital?
5.What was the writer afraid of?
6. How was Janet taken into the hosptial?
7.What did the midwife say to the writer?
8. Did the writer want to be with his wife at the
time of birth?
9.What did he have to put on?
10. What did the writer soon hear?
Having a baby
1. Have you ever had a baby?
2. Do you have a sister who has?
3. Do you think it's painful?
4. Should men have babies too?
5. What do you think of maternity? Is it nice,
gratifying?
6. Should mothers feed the babies themselves or give
them the bottle?
7. How many children should a family have?
8. Should mothers go to hospital to have ababy?
9. Would you like to have a baby at home?
11 .What happened in the old days?
12. How do Indians, Eskimos, etc., give birth?
13. What is a Caesarean operation?
14. What is the umbilical cord?
15. Is it dangerous for a baby to come out feet first?
16. What should the doctor do in that case?
17. What's the position of the foetus?
18. Do you think the foetus can feel or hear things?
19. Can the food eaten by the mother affect the baby?
20. What about the drinks, tobacco or drugs taken by
the mother, do they affect the baby?
21.They say that the emotional state of the mother
during pregnancy affects the future temperament
of the baby, what do you think?
22. Is it expensive having a baby?
23.Should the government help?
24. What's the birth rate in your country?
25. Why do people have so few babiesnowadays?
26. What do you think of the pregnancy period?
27. Should women go to the gym when they are
pregnant?
28. What exercises are they recommended to do? What
for?
29. Should parents go to pre-natal classes?
30. What are they taught in these classes?
31. Do you think a baby alters the daily life of a
couple?
32. In which way is it different now?
33. Should a baby be fed during the night?
34. A baby cries very often, what do you think are the
likely causes?
35. Should women stop working when they have a
baby?
36. How long are they allowed to be off work?
37. Should babies be sent to nurseries?
38. What are the advantages of babies being brought
up in nurseries?
40.Should babies be breast-fed?
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40 • Cruising
Suggestedroleplays
between a passenger and one of
the employees explaining the
activities in the ship.
• In threes, a conversation between
the captain and a couple on their
honeymoon.
between a seasick woman and a
waiter.
• A cruise is a relaxing holiday.
• Entertaining passengers is a
pleasant job.
Many people get seasick on those
voyages.
A liner is similar to a cruise ship.
Cruises are expensive.
Only older/elderly people go on
• What sort of ship is in the picture?
• How many life boats can you see?
• What's in the background of the
picture?
• Can you see anybody on board?
• How many cabins do you think the
ship has?
Glossary
cruise
liner
likely
crew
to mix
to entertain
honeymoon
silver
wedding
troubles
seasick
huge
decks
to amuse
• A cruise ship is like a floating city.
• Two people often fall in love on
those cruises.
• The crew mixes with the
passengers.
• Cruise ships stop at many ports.
• A Mediterranean cruise is very
typical.
functions
• What does a passenger say if he
wants to ask a beautiful waitress to
have dinner with him?
• What does the waitress say to
refuse the invitation?
• What does the man say to the
waitresses to ask her to meet him
that evening on deck?
• How does the waitress tell the man
that they can't accept invitations
from passengers?
• How does the man invite the
waitress to meet him when they
finish the voyage?
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The ship was huge. It was like a floating city. I would
never have imagined that there could be so many
things in a ship. There were five decks. The two
thousand passengers could enjoy things like: mini-
golf, squash, tennis and volley ball; there was a
gym, a running track, four swimming pools, a
library, five cinemas, a music band, three dining
halls, a bingo hall, ten pubs and six discotheques.
Plays, games and different activities were organized
by special people to amuse the passengers.
Children were paid special attention so that they
wouldn't keep pestering their parents. A nursery
looked after little children most of the day. It was
the nearest thing to paradise that man could
organize.
Questions
1 .What was the ship like?
2. What does the writer say about it?
3. How many decks were there?
4. What games could they play?
5. How many swimming pools were there?
6. How many pubs were there?
7.What did special people organize?
8.Why were children paid special attention?
9.Was there anything for little children?
10. What is the opinion of the writer about the cruise?
Cruising
1. Have you ever been on a cruise?
2. What seas or places do cruises go to?
3. What are the ships used for cruising like?
4. What is life like on one of these ships?
5. What activities do people do on them?
6. What's the difference between a liner and a cruise
ship?
7. Do you think children would like going on a cruise?
8. Do you have activities and games on a liner?
9. Are there different classes of passengers on a
cruise ship?
10. Can you mention ports cruise ships are likely to
visit?
11. Do they stay in these ports very long?
12.The captain must be a special type of person, why?
13. What do you think are the captain's jobs?
14. Does the captain have to be sociable?
15. Will there be dinner dances?
16. Do you have to pay at the restaurant?
17. What about the bar?
18. Can the crew mix with the passengers?
19. Do you think there are many romances on the 'love
boats'?
20. Do lonely people go on a cruise alone?
21. Do you think a cruise is a relaxing holiday?
22.1s a cruise expensive? How much will it cost?
23. Would you like to work on a cruise ship?
24. What sort of job would you like to do?
25. Would you like to be the person who entertains the
passengers?
26. What sort of entertainments would you prepare for
them?
27. Would you like to be the captain of a cruise ship?
28. What sort of social problems does the captain have
to face?
29. Do you find a lot of young people on a cruise?
30. What sort of passengers are likely to go on a
cruise?
31 .Would you go on a cruise on your honeymoon?
32. Would you go on a cruise on your silver wedding
anniversary?
33. Is there a doctor on board one of these ships?
34. Can you think of troubles that the passengers may
have?
35. Do people get seasick on those ships?
36. Have you ever felt seasick?
37.What can you do about it?
38. Do you feel like eating?
39. Could it happen that some people will spend part of
their holidays in bed?
40. Will the shipping company refund the money?
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41 • A desert Island
cave
cast away
to be afraid
weapon
matches
to fish
to hunt
raw
raft
wild
lit
worn out
bare footed
shellfish
plentiful
Suggested roleplays
between two castaways the first
day on the island.
between the two castaways the day
they see a ship passing near the
island.
conversation between the captain
of the rescuing ship and the two
castaways.
• Many people would like to live on a
desert island.
• Alone or with somebody else?
• With another person of the same
sex or different sex?
• To live on an island for a year
would be nice.
• Robinson Crusoe was happy on his
desert island.
• What's this man doing?
• Has he been on this island very
long?
on his face?
• Is the island big?
• Where is he sitting?
• Is there anybody else with him?
• Can you see any animals or birds?
True or false
• Robinson Crusoe was written by
Daniel Defoe.
• Robinson Crusoe spent many years
living alone.
• Castaways are always very happy.
• To make a fire without matches is
easy.
• To survive you would have to learn
to fish and hunt.
functions
• What does a castaway say to the
other if he wants to explore the
island?
• What does the second castaway
say if he doesn't want to go?
• What does the first castaway say to
the second to ask him to collect
some shellfish?
• What does the second castaway
say to the first to help him collect
shellfish?
• How do you think one of them will
say to the other that they have to
make a fire with two sticks?
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Glossary

Ever since Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe, people have dreamt of living on a desert island.
This island, of course, would have to be located in the Pacific Ocean surrounded by clear, warm water
where fish and shellfish would be plentiful. On the island there should be a lot of animals like sheep and
goats and of course, fruit trees. The variety of them should be as wide as possible. A good dry cave should
be at hand in case of storms; otherwise, the castaway would live in a wooden house by the beach. Ideally
he should have his faithful dog with him and a good stock of books.
Questions
1. Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
2. What have people dreamt of since then?
3. Where should the island be located?
4. What should the water be like?
5. What does the writer say about fish and shellfish?
6.What kind of animals should there be on the
island?
7.What does he say about fruit trees?
8. Why does the writer want a dry cave?
9. Where would the castaway like to live?
10. What two things would a castaway like to have?
A desert Island
1. Have you ever been on a deserted island?
2. Would you like to be on one?
3.Would you like to be alone or with somebody?
4. Whom would you like to be with?
5.What things would you like to have with you?
6. How long would you like to be there?
7.Would you like to live on one?
8.What books would you like to have with you?
9. Do you think someone can be happy livingalone?
10. Would you like to build your own house?
11.Would you prefer to live in a cave, perhaps?
12. Would you take animalsto live with you?
13. What sort of animals?
14. What would you do first after being cast away on a
desert island?
15. Would you be afraid? Of what?
16. How would you defend or protect yourself?
17. What weaponswould you like to have?
18. Do you think you could build a house?
19. Would you be able to make a fire without matches?
20. What sort of food would you eat?
21. Would you fish? How?
22. Would you hunt? How?
23. How would you cook the food?
24. Would you eat raw meat or fish if you had to?
25. Would you try to make a raft or a boat?
26. If you had a boat would you leave the island?
27.What would you do attract the attention of passing
ships?
28. Where would you like to live, on the coast or in the
centre of the island?
29. Would you make sure there were no other human
beings on the island? Why?
30. What would you do if there were wild animals?
31. If you had no matches and you made a fire with a
stick, would you keep it lit or let it go out?
32. Would you keep your shoes on until they were
worn out or would you walk barefooted?
33. Would you keep a diary? What sort of things would
you write in it?
34. Would you explore the island?
35. How would you like the island to be? Describe your
ideal desert island.
36. In what part of the world would you like it to be?
37. If you were rescued, would you write a book about
yourexperiences?
38. What do you think the hardest part of living on a
desert island would be?
39. What would be the most pleasant part of it?
40. Do you think Robinson Crusoe really existed? Who
wrote the book? (Daniel Defoe)
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42 • Reading
Glossary
encouraged
forced
habit
fond of
busy
to go
through
illiterate
will power
succeed
Suggestedroleplays
between the two boys.
• In threes, act out a conversation
between the mother and the two
boys.
between the father and the mother
of the boys about reading comics
and not doing their homework.
• Reading is good, even if it's
reading comics.
• Books are expensive.
• Good writers earn a lot of money.
• Reading 'girly magazines' is a waste
of time.
• A book is the best present you can
get.
• Most of the 'best-sellers' are
American.
• What are the two boys doing?
• What are they reading?
on their faces?
• What's the comic about?
• What are the boys wearing?
• Many people give books at
Christmas.
• English is the most widely read
language in the world.
• A book may change your life.
• People in general read very little.
• Reading doesn't help to learn a
language.
• You don't need to buy books in
order to read.
functions
• What does a boy say to his mother
if he wants to buy a comic?
• What does the mother say to
refuse to give him money?
• What does a boy say to his friend
to ask him to lend him a comic?
• What does the other boy say to
suggest changing comics?
• How do you think the teacher will
tell the children that they can't
read comics in class?
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Child Psychologists believe that reading is one of the best habits that should be encouraged into children.
Ninety percent of the things we learn during our lifetime come through books; therefore if we can't read,
we don't learn.
It is during the first years of our childhood that we should start reading. Never is the time better spent by
parents as it is when getting their children to read.
According to statistics, successful people come from all walks of life; rich, poor, with university back-
ground or illiterate. However, there are two things that most successful people have: one is a very strong
will power to succeed and the other is the habit of reading. Without will power nobody will succeed,
without the habit of reading nobody will get very far on the road to success.
Questions
Reading
1. Do you read much?
2. What sort of books do you read?
3. Do you enjoy reading?
4. Do many people read in your country?
5. Are books expensive?
6. Should children be encouraged to read?
7. Should they be forced to read?
8. Should they read comics?
9. Do you think that, if they read comics now, later
they will read books?
10. What are the advantagesof reading?
11. Is it good to get the reading habit?
12. Do you get pleasure when buying a new book?
13. Do you ask for books atChristmas?
14.Are there many good writers in your country?
15. Do you have any Nobel Prize winners in your
country?
16. Do you read in English or in your own language?
17.Does reading help to learn a language?
18. At what time do you read?
19. How many hours a week do you read for pleasure?
20. Do you read the paper?
21. Do you read magazines?What sort of magazines?
22. Are you fond of 'girly magazines'?
23. Do you think people should read more?
LWhat do Child Psychologists believe?
2. What percentage of the things we learn come
through books?
3. What will happen if we don't read?
4. When should we start reading?
5. What should parents do?
6. Where do successful people come from?
7.What do successful people have in common?
8. Can people succeed without will power?
9. Can people succeed without reading?
10. Do you like reading?
24. Do you think that people don't read so much
because they are busy watching television?
25. What would you do to encourage people to read?
26. What sort of books should people be encouraged
to read?
27. What have you learnt lately by reading books?
28. Have you read a best seller in the last few weeks?
29. Do you remember what it wasabout?
30. Have you ever read a book several times because
you liked it?
31. What is your favourite book?
32. What story would you like to write?
33. Do you like historical, modern or futuristic stories?
34. Do you ever think of the writer when you read a
book?
35. Do you prefer men or women writers?
36. Do you take into consideration the efforts and
sacrifices that a writer has to go through in order
to write a book?
37.Who is the greatest writer of all times?
38. Have you read any of his books?
39. Are there any famous women writers?
40. Can you mention some of them?
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Glossary
steps
to become
to esteem
kind of
drawer
lawyer
guilty
judge
fair
skilled
unqualified
to be over
strike
Suggested roleplays
between a man with a profession
looking for work and a employer.
between a lawyer and a man
accused of a crime.
between a father and a son/young
man choosing his career.
• Students can't always choose the
degree they would like to study.
• It is difficult to become rich in a
profession.
• Opportunities are greater if you
have a profession.
• 50% of the millionaires are
professionals, the other 50% are
not.
• There are more people studying at
universities than ever before.
• What do you think that man does?
• What's he doing at this moment?
• What has he got in his hand?
• What has he got on his ear?
• What do you think he's drawing?
• Doctors get millionaire's salaries.
• Students can study the career they
like best.
• Most artists become rich.
• All politicians are dishonest.
• A lawyer will defend a criminal
even if he knows he's guilty.
• Judges are always right.
• The job of a journalist is sometimes
dangerous.
functions
• What does a student say to his/her
father if he wants to study a
degree?
• What does the father say to inform
his son/daughter that he has no
money?
• What does the father say to his
son/daughter that the careers/he
has chosen is not very good?
• What does the son/daughter say to
his/her parents that he has to go
to study to another town?
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43 . Professions

What do you do? What's your profession?
We are all asked that question many times during
our lifetime. In a very professionalized world,
nowadays everybody is expected to have a
profession. It is extremely difficult to get a job if
you are not skilled in something. The days in which
factories provided work for unqualified workers are
over. Robots take the post of those. These
automatic machines never complain, never get tired
and never go on strike.
Even street sweepers are being taken over by
mechanical devices that sweep the pavement as
they go along at 10 m.p.h. The men who drive
them are qualified; their profession is: street-
cleaning technicians.
Questions
I.What question are we often asked?
2. What is everybody expected to have?
3. What is difficult nowadays?
4. What is over?
5.What takes the post of unqualifiedworkers?
6. What do robots never do?
7.What is taking over street sweeping?
8. How fast do these machines go?
9. Are the drivers of these machinesqualified?
10. What is the title they have?
Professions
1. What would you like to be?
2. Are you taking any steps to become one?
3. What do you have to do to become what you'd like
to be?
4. What are the most esteemed professions in your
country?
5. Would you like to be a doctor?
6. Can you describe a doctor's day?
7. Do they all do the same thing?
8. Is it a hard life?
9. How much money can a doctor get in your country
working in ahospital?
10. What about engineering? Would you like to be an
engineer?
11.Are there many kinds of engineers?
12. What do they do? Give some examples of their
jobs.
13. Can they become rich in your country?
14. Would you like to be an artist?
15. What kind of artist would you like to become?
16. Painter, sculptor, artist, cartoonist, designer any
other jobs related with art?
17.Perhaps you would like to be a writer.
18. What do you think of writers? Do they work a lot?
Is it hard to be a writer?
19. Have you ever tried to write something? What?
20. Is it difficult to describe things?
21.What about a conversation? Is it difficult to write
one?
22. Would you like to be a journalist?
23. What do you think journalists do?
24. Can you describe the things they may have to do?
25. Is that job dangerous?
26. What do you think of politicians?
27.1s that aprofession?
28. Can a politician earn a good living?
29. What do you need to be a politician?
30. Which political party would you like to represent?
31. Do you have a parliament in your country?
32. Are politicians honest?
33. Mention cases in which politicians were corrupt.
34. How would you like to become a lawyer?
35. Describe a lawyer's job.
36. Are there many kinds of lawyers?
37. Do you think lawyers are honest?
38. Should a lawyer defend a criminal knowing that he
is guilty?
39. Would you like to be a judge?
40. Is it difficult to give a fair verdict?
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44 • Actors
Suggested roleplays
between two actors or actresses of
a play or a serial you see on TV.
between a film star and a journalist
interviewing him/her.
between a film director and a film
star when they are going to shoot
a scene.
• Film stars get a lot of money.
• American actors are very good.
• Film stars get divorced very easily.
• There are training schools for
actors and actresses.
• Old actors and actresses were
better than today's
• Sexy films should be forbidden.
• In the Middle Ages actors and
actresses were far from rich.
• How many people are there on the
stage?
• What has one of them got on her
lap?
• Can you describe the position of
both?
Glossary
a play
to earn your
living
handsome
stage
Middle Ages
Easter
poverty
carts
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• What's there on the floor next to
the woman?
• Actors and actresses have to
repeat the same scene on films
many times.
• In a play the scenes can be
repeated.
• Acting in front of a camera is very
impersonal.
• Most actors and actresses are
divorced.
• Centuries ago actors and actresses
were very poor.
• In the Middle Ages some plays
were performed inside churches.
functions
an actor if he wants to repeat the
scene?
• What does the actor say if he
doesn't want to repeat it?
an actress if he wants her to put
more life in the acting?
• How does the film director say to
the actor that he has to swim
across a river full of crocodiles?
• How does the film star say to
everybody that they have to keep
quiet, because they are shooting a
scene?

Acting is one of the oldest professions in the world.
Hundreds of years before Christ, the Greeks wrote
and produced plays that are staged even today.
During the Middle Ages plays called «mystery plays»
were performed in churches, specially during the
Easter period and Christmas.
In those days, in fact, until very recently, most
actors were amateurs; and the few that dedicated
their lives to acting lived in extreme poverty. For
hundreds of years, caravans of carts pulled by old
tired horses, went from town to town. They put up a
stage in the local stable and tried to make people
laugh or cry for a penny each.
Actors
Questions
1.1s acting very old?
2. What did the ancient Greeks do?
3. When did they do it?
4. What happened in the Middle Ages?
5.What time of the year did they perform the
«Mystery plays»?
6. Were actors professionals?
7.Were the professional actors rich?
8. How did actors live in the Middle Ages?
9. When did they act?
10. Was it expensive to see them?
1. Have you ever acted in a play?
2. Would you like to earn your living acting?
3. Has an actor an easy life?
4. What are the working hours of a film star?
5. Can they go home for lunch?
6. Are there good actors and actresses in your
country?
7. Can you mention some?
8. Has any actor in your country eter won an Oscar?
9. Do actors get a lot of money in your country?
10. How do they compare with American actors?
11. Do you like American actors/actresses?
12. Are modern actors better or worse than the old
ones?
13. Can you mention old 'glories' of the 50's or 60's?
14. Can you remember any actor/actress of the old
silent films?
15. Mention actors/actresses that have won Oscars.
16. Mention some good modern actors.
17.Do you remember any films in which an actor has
won an Oscar?
18. Do you think it's difficult to act?
19. How many times do actors have to repeat the
scenes?
20. What do you think of sexscenes?
21. How far should they go?
22. Have sexy films influenced public morality?
23. Is there a lot of difference between acting in a
theatre and in front of a camera?
24. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the
theatre?
films?
26. What about television? What do you think of live
transmissions?
27. Why do they bring audiences to the studios?
28. Is it difficult to act in front of a camera with no
audience?
29.Can you tell when someone is acting?
30. Do theatre actors get more or less money than film
stars?
31. Do you think actors are intelligent? Do they have a
good memory?
32. Are actors/actresses always handsome and
beautiful?
33. Mention actors/actresses that are arrogant.
34. Mention places where actors live.
35. Do actors/actresses get divorced very often?
36. Mention some who are famous for the number of
divorces they went through.
37. On the other hand some actors/actresses have
been married for years. Do you know of any?
38. Do you think the life of an actor is appropriate for
married life?
39. Are there training schools for actors/actresses in
your country?
40. Do you think you can learn to act?
89

45 • Football
Suggested roleplays
between the referee and a player
who has been shown the red card.
between the referee who has not
seen what has happened and one
of the linesmen.
about the referee between two
fans of the losing team.
• There's a lot of violence on football
fields.
• The decisions of the referee are
always respected by the public.
Good footballers are terribly
expensive.
People support the cold weather
and the rain in a football field.
A collective hysteria breaks out
when a team wins the league
Football puzzles experts.
• What's the referee doing?
• Why is he showing a red card?
man on the floor.
• What's the referee wearing?
• Is he wearing all black?
• And the two players, what are they
wearing?
• What's the player standing saying?
Glossary
referee
mistakes
fan
league
subsidized
they are run
championship
free kick
off side
a throw in
to puzzle
to beat
to argue
1. True or false. Give reasons
• Football in the USA is very popular.
• Referees are always right.
• A match can be repeated if the
referee makes a mistake.
• There is a lot of violence at the
stadiums.
• Women football leagues are very
popular.
• First division footballers get a lot of
money.
functions
• What does the referee say to a
linesman if he hasn't seen what
happened between two players in
a corner of the field?
• What does the linesman say if he
hasn't seen anything?
• What does a player say to the
referee if he wants to protest
because another player has kicked
him on the leg?
How do you think the referee tells
a player that he has to be sent off
the field/pitch?
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Football is a social event that puzzles experts. It's
the sport that moves the greatest amount of people
everywhere in the world. What's its attraction? What
has a game that consists of kicking a ball to try to
put it in the other team's goal?
Why are people prepared to pay large sums of
money and stand in cold weather and rain in order
to see their teams beating up the opponents?
It could be argued that poeple go to enjoy a good
match, but that is not so. People go to see their
team win. They would rather watch a boring match
as long as their team brings the three points home.
And when a team wins the cup collective hysteria
breaks out all over the town of the winning team.
Football
LHave you ever seen a football match?
2. What's your opinion of football?
3. Do many people go to see football in your country?
4. Mention some of the most famous football teams in
your country.
5. Have any of them won an international
competition?
6. Do you think football players earn a lot of money?
7.Can you mention figures?
8. What do you think of them?
9. Do the referees get something similar? How much
do they get per match?
10. Do referees make many mistakes?
11.What sort of mistakes do they make?
12. Can the mistakes of the referees affect the results?
13. What can be done to prevent referees' mistakes?
14.1s the game of football violent?
15. What about football fans? Are they violent?
16. Can you mention any violence you have seen on TV
on football fields?
17. Should alcoholic drinks be allowed inside the
ground?
18. Are fans violent outside the ground?
19. What should the authorities do about it?
20.1s it safe to go to see a football match?
21. Is attendence rising or falling at football matches?
Questions
I.What does football do to experts?
2. What does the game consist of?
3. Do people pay money to see the game?
4. Do people make sacrifices to see the games?
5. Do people go to see a good match?
6.What would they rather do?
7.What are football fans really interested in?
8. What happens when a team wins the cup?
9. Can players touch the ball with their hands?
10. Who is the man in black?
22. Do you have a stadium in your home town?
23. How many people can sit in it?
24. Is your home team in the first division?
25. Do you have any women football teams?
26. Is there a women's football league in your country?
27. Is it a dangerous game for women?
28. Do you think football clubs should be subsidized?
29. Should they be run like an ordinary firm?
30. What's the difference between European and
American football?
31. What do South Americans play, European or
American football?
32. What country is the present world champion?
33. Did you see any games of the last World Cup?
34. What's a free kick?
35. When does the referee punish a team with a
penalty?
36. What's a foul?
37. What's an offside?
38. What's a throw in? What's a corner?
39. When does a referee show the yellow card?
40. When does a referee show the red card?
91

46 • Policemen
Glossary
police
station
plain
clothes
to undergo
rewarding
guns
to catch
to fancy
to pursue
wailing
peril
far from
to beat the
streets
Suggested roleplays
between the policeman and one of
the hooligans.
between the two hooligans after
the detective's gone.
between two policemen about this
band of hooligans.
• Policemen are badly paid for the
work they do.
• Policemen are very tall.
• Being a policeman is dangerous.
• Solving crimes is difficult.
• In some countries policemen don't
carry guns.
• Directing traffic is part of a
policeman's job.
• Being a police woman.
• What's the little man showing the
two thugs?
• Is the detective very big?
• Are the two thugs big?
• Where are the two men sitting?
• What's the detective wearing?
• What are the houses like?
or false. Give reasons
• Policemen are catching criminals
all day.
• They often save girls from
dangerous situations.
• A policeman has no regular meal
times.
• Divorce is high among policemen.
• Policemen often fire their guns in
the street.
• The main job of a policeman is to
direct the traffic.
functions
• What does a policeman say if he
wants to ask a a suspect to show
him his papers?
• What does the man say to refuse to
show the policeman his identity
papers?
• How does a policeman in a car say
to a motorist to pull up at one side
of the road?
• How does a policeman invite a
police woman to have something
to drink during their patrol?
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Would you like to be a policeman?
Most young children would. It must be very exciting for a young mind to fancy himself catching criminals
all the time. Pursuing robbers in fast wailing cars, or saving beautiful girls from imminent peril.
However, the truth is far from being so attractive. According to a retired police officer, eighty percent of
their time is spent either on the beat around the streets. Or watching and following suspects. They have
no regular meal times or working hours. Their family life suffers badly from the long hours spent away
from home and divorce cases are high among policemen.
Questions
1. What would many children like to be?
2. What is exciting for a young mind?
3. How do policemen pursue robbers?
4. How do they think they can help young
girls?
5. Is the truth as attractive as that?
6. What do policemen do most of the time?
7.When do they have their meals?
8. Does family life suffer?
9. Why?
10. Is divorce frequent amongpolicemen?
Policemen
1. Have you ever been to a police station?
2. What different types of policemen do you have in
your country?
3. Do you have plain-clothes policemen?
4. Who investigates the crimes?
5. Do you have police cars?
6. What sort of crimes do the police investigate?
Mention some.
/.Which police direct the traffic?
8. Is it difficult to be a policeman in your country?
9. What sort of training do they have to undergo?
10. Do they have to be tall?
11. How tall do they have to be?
12. Do they have to know any particular language or
have special knowledge?
13. What qualificationsdo they have to have to be
accepted?
14. Do you think being a policeman is a rewardingjob?
15. Do people like policemen in your country?
16. Is it a dangerous job?
17.Mention some dangerous situations a policeman
has to face.
18. Are policemen well paid for the work they do?
19. What do policemen do at football matches?
20. Would you like to be a policeman?
21. What job would you like to do?
22. What's the most exciting part of a policeman'sjob?
23. Would you like directing traffic? Why not?
24. Would you like solving crimes?
25. What steps would you take to solve one?
26. Do you think it's difficult to find criminals?
27. Would you like questioning suspects?
28. What methods would you use?
29. How can you tell if they are telling the truth?
30. Do you think the police torture people suspected of
a crime?
31. Do you think policemen have to do a lot of paper
work?
32. Mention some paper work a policeman may have to
do.
33. In Great Britain policemen don't carry guns. What
do you think of that?
34. Should policemen fire their guns in the street?
35. What do you think of car pursuits?
36. Is it worth risking people's lives in order to catch a
criminal?
37. What hours does a policemanwork?
38. How old should policemen be?
39. Once they get older, what sort of work should they
do?
40. At what age should a policeman retire from the
beat?
93

47 • A street market
Suggestedroleplays
between a customer and a street
market dealer.
between two women shopping in a
street market.
• In pairs, act out a converstation
between a stallholder offering
three towels for the price of one.
• A street market is fascinating.
• There are incredible offers.
• Gold watches are very cheap.
• You can buy a masterpiece on an
antique stall.
• Silver cutlery may have belonged
to royalty.
• Stall holders have to get up very early.
• Who's the customer, the man with
the glasses or the man watching?
• What's the man examining?
• How many different things can you
see on the stall?
• What about the other stall, what do
they sell?
• Can you describe the customers?
• What's hanging over their heads?
• In a street market things are
cheaper than in a shop.
Glossary
bargains
auction
goods
receipt
antiques
stall
stall-holders
gimmicks
to get by
to get warm
stolen
wide-eyed
pedlar
coppers
brass
heater
cutlery
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Supermarkets are similar to street
markets.
Stallholders offer two or three
things for the price of one.
• The life of these people in winter is
hard.
• Stolen good are often sold in street
markets.
• Prices are fixed and you can't
bargain in street markets.
functions
seller if he wants to examine the
goods?
• What does the seller say to refuse
letting him examine the things for
sale?
• What does the client say to the
antique dealer to make him lower
the price?
• What does the dealer say to refuse
to lower the price of the old
'masterpiece'?
• How does the policeman say to the
Stallholder that he can't sell things
in the street without permission?

I'm always fascinated in a street market. As a child I
used to go to my local street market which was held
every Saturday in the main square. There, I watched
wide-eyed the incredible offers of the stallholder
soffering not two, but three blankets for the price of
one. Dark-faced Moroccans trying to sell their
merchandise: gold bracelets or watches that looked
incredibly beautiful and amazingly cheap. Old fat
women who sold used clothes for a few coppers.
Then, there were the antique dealers that were the
most fascinating of all. Clocks and furniture that had
belonged to royalty and nobility; old copper pots
and pans, brass bed heaters and silver cutlery that
people had used hundreds of years ago.
A street market
Questions
1 .What fascinatesthe writer?
2. Where did he use to go as a child?
3.What day of the week did the market take
place?
4. How many blankets did the stall holder offer
for sale?
5. What did Moroccans offer for sale?
6.What did the old fat women sell?
7.What was the most fascinating of all?
8.Who had the furniture belonged to?
9. What were the pots and pans made of?
10. Wasthe cutlery very old?
1. Have you ever bought anything at a street market?
2. Are there many in your country?
3. What are they like?
4.Can you get bargains?
5.What day of the week do they take place?
6. Can you buy quality goods in street markets?
7. Mention some of the things you can buy in them.
8. What are the advantages of buying in a street
market?
9. What are thedisadvantages?
10. Have you been to an auction in a street market?
11.Are the goods they sell specially prepared for this
sale?
12. If the things you buy are no good, can you return
them?
13. Do you get a receipt when you buy something?
14.1s there a famous street market in your country?
15. Are prices fixed or you can bargain?
16. Can you get any antiques in these markets?
17.Do stall-holders talk much?
18. Do you remember what they say?
19. Are there any gimmicks to attract people? what?
20. Can you pay with a credit card at these stalls?
21.Will they accept cheques?
22. Would you like to work on one of these stalls?
23. What would you say to possible clients?
24. What would you like to sell?
25. Do you think they earn good money, or just enough
to get by?
26. At what time does a street market start business?
27.At what time do you think they have to get up?
28. How many hours do they work?
29. At what time do they 'close'?
30.1s it tiring work?
31. Is it hard working on a stall in winter?
32. How do you get warm?
33. Is it good or bad for the health working on a stall?
34. If they only work on Saturdays,what do you think
they do the other days?
35. Are there street markets on weekdays?
36. Are these markets unfair competition for shops?
37.Are you in favour or against street markets in
general?
38.Could stolen goods be sold in a street market?
39. Would you buy something extremely cheap
suspecting it is stolen?
40. Do you think street markets have a future?
95

48 • Writing
Suggested roleplays
between the editor and the writer.
between two writers talking about
the book they are writing.
between two journalists covering
the trip of the King of Nepal.
• Reading is better than watching TV.
• Young people don't read very
much.
• Writers get a lot of money.
• Writers work many hours a day.
• Many journalists finish up by
writing books.
• It may take years to write a book.
• Writing short stories is very
difficult.
writer.
• Does he feel inspired today?
• Is he using a computer?
• Would you say that he is a modern
or an old fashion writer?
• What would you say about the
furniture of the place?
Glossary
pen-friends
alive
news reader
to prevent
scripts
to research
to flow out
• Writing is hard work.
• A good historical book may take
years to write.
• Good writers are rich.
• Children don't like reading.
• Writers do a lot of research in
libraries.
• Sometimes writers spend hours
without writing a single line.
• A writer is the same as a journalist.
functions
• What does the editor say to ask the
writer if he has finished the book?
• What does the writer say to inform
the editor that he hasn't written
half the book yet?
• What does the editor say to ask the
writer to hurry with his book?
• How does the editor ask the writer
to be present in the presentation
of his book?
• How does the writer refuse to go to
the presentation?
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Would you like to be a writer? Many people would answer «yes» to that question. The opinion we all have
about writers is that they get a lot of money just by writing a few lines about something or other. However,
the truth is that the life of a writer can be very hard. Writers work from six to eight hours a day and spend
a long time reading and researching in libraries for the subject they are writing about.
Besides, writing is hard work. It is not easy to put your thoughts down on paper. Sometimes a writer may
spend an hour looking at the screen of his computer or his typewriter, without writing a single line, then,
suddenly the inspiration comes and the words flow out.
Writing is an art. The reader must be able to see the scene being described through the writer's words.
The reader must feel the sentiments of the characters of the book through the lines s/he's reading.
Questions
1. Would many people like to be writers?
2. What's the opinion of people about writers?
3. Is the life of a writer hard?
4. How many hours a day do writers work?
5. What do they do besides writing?
6. Is it easy to put your thoughts down on paper?
7. Has a writer inspiration all the time?
8. What happens when the writer is inspired?
9. What must the reader see in his/her mind?
10. What must the reader feel in his/her mind?
Writing
1.Do you like writing?
2.What sort of things do you like writing?
3. Do you write many letters?
4. Do you have pen-friends in other countries?
5. Have you ever written for the school newspaper?
6. Have you ever written a story?
7.What was it about?
8. How long was it?
9. Did you get any money for it?
10. Did you have it published?
11.1s writing hard?
12. Would you like to be a writer?
13. Do writers get a lot of money in your country?
14. How many hours a day do writers work?
14. Can you mention any good writers who are alive?
15. Do you remember any good writers of past days?
16. Have you read any old books?
17.1s the style the same as today's?
19. Which way of writing do you prefer, modern or old?
20. Is it easy to write a book?
21. How long does it take to write a book?
22. Does a book have to be planned, or written as it
goes along?
23. What sort of stories do you like reading?
24. Have you read any best sellers lately?
25. Do computers help writers? in what way?
26. Have you ever written anything directly into a
computer?
27. What are the advantages anddisadvantages?
28. Which other people earn their living writing?
29. Would you like to be a journalist?
30. What sort of things do journalists write?
31. What's the difference between a journalist and a
writer?
32. What different kinds of journalists are there?
sports, political, etc?
33. Can TV news readers be considered journalists?
34. Do many people read books in your country?
35. Should people read more?
36. Did people read more in the old days?
37. Does TV help or prevent reading?
38. Would you like to write for TV?
39. Would you like to write a play?
40. What's the difference between writing books, plays
or TV scripts?
97

49 •Painting
Suggestedroleplays
between an artist and a customer.
between two people looking at a
modern picture.
between two modern painters
talking about their abstract
pictures.
in an auction. An old master is
being sold for a fortune.
Make commentson the
• Modern pictures are difficult to
understand.
• Money invested on pictures is
good a good investment.
• Picasso'scubic painting is baffling.
• Montmartre is famous for its
painters
• Salvador Dah'was a very peculiar
man.
• The Sistine Chapel is the greatest
work of Michelangelo.
• What has he got in his right hand?
• And what has he got in his left
hand?
• What is he painting?
• What fruit is he painting?
• Can you describe the face of the
painter?
Glossary
to reach
portrait
to invest
landscapes
still life
watercolour
brush
bid
gift
to spread
canvas
to splash
• What is he wearing?
• Can you see any other pictures in
the room?
• The Mona Lisa was painted by
Leonardo Da Vinci.
• Michelangelo painted the Sistine
Chapel.
• A picture can be painted without a
brush.
• An artist is born with that gift.
• Often an artist reaches immortality
after s/he has died.
• Modern pictures are difficult to
understand.
• Picasso was an old Italian painter.
• Salvador Dalf was French.
functions
• What does a man say to a modern
painter if he wants to know which
way to hang a picture?
• How does the painter say that the
legs are the top part of the
picture?
• What does a man say to a painter if
he wants to know the price of a
picture?
• What does the painter say to a
person if he wants to tell him that
his pictures are not for sale?
• How do you think the owner of a
mansion tells a painter that
nobody is allowed to paint inside
his property?
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There are many millions of artists painting pictures all over the world. However, very few of them earn
their living painting. Most of them spend their lives spreading paints on canvas that they will never sell.
Others reach immortality after they are dead and their pictures are sold at auctions for the benefit of the
fortunate buyers that bought them for a handful of pounds or dollars. I must confess that art puzzles me. I
don't know what the experts base their ideas of beauty on. I can understand about the old masters and the
different tones on the canvas, but, can anyone tell me what to look for in one of Picasso's cubic paintings?
Or which way to place the picture when I'm looking at some modern thing, that for all I know is a lot of
paint splashed on the canvas by a five-year-old child?
Questions
1. Are there many artists?
2. Do many of them earn their living painting?
3. What do most of them do?
4. When do some artists reach immortality?
5. Who gets the benefit of the selling of the pictures?
6.What does the writer confess?
7.What doesn't he know?
8. What can the writer understand?
9. What does he say about Picasso's paintings?
10. What does a modern picture look like?
Painting
1. Have you ever painted a picture?
2. What do you think of it? Is it difficult or easy?
3.Would you like to earn your living painting?
4. Do you know anybody who does?
5. Have you been to a private exhibition of pictures?
6. What prices did the pictures reach?
7.What is a portrait?
8. Would you invest money in pictures?
9. Do you have any good painters in your country?
10. Can you remember the names of the 'old masters'?
11.Which country was famous for its painters?
12. Who painted the famous 'Sistine Chapel'?
13. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
14. Which do you like best, landscapes,portraits, still
life?
16. What does 'painting in oils' mean?
17. What is 'watercolour painting'?
18. Can you explain what 'cubism' is?
19. Mention the artist who started it.
20.What is 'modern painting'?
21. Do you understand it?
22. In what style would you categorize Picasso?
24. What do you think of Salvador Dalf?
25. Are there any Museums or Picture Galleries in your
country?
26. What are the names of the galleries?
27.Which famous painters can you find in them?
28. Can anyone paint without a brush?
29. Do you know the name of the painter whose
pictures have cost most?
30. What's the picture that reached the highest bid in
an auction?
31. Do you know how much it was?
32. Do painters see their work appreciated during their
lives?
33. Does an artist learn to paint or is he/she born with
the gift?
34. How long do you think it takes to learn to paint?
35. Paris has a district called 'Montmartre'. What is it
famous for?
36. Do you have anything like that in your country?
37.What sort of life does an artist lead?
38. Have you seen artists painting on street
pavements? What do you think of them?
39. Some modern painters use sprays to paint huge
walls. What do you think of that?
40. What other way of painting can you think of? Have
you ever painted your kitchen?
99

Suggested roleplays
between the captain and one of
the sailors.
between two sailors in the Santa
Maria on the 12thOctober1492.
between the sailors of the ship of
Magellan when they discovered
the straight that led to the Pacific
Ocean.
• Going on a sailing ship is very
exciting.
• Sailing around the world makes
you feel free.
• A solitary sailor went round the
world in a little sailing ship a few
years ago.
• Seamen were very brave in the old
days sailing across unknown seas.
• Many seamen died of scurvy in the
old days. This was due to the lack
of vegetables in their diet.
• How many people are sailing the
ship?
• What kind of ship is it?
• Do you think it's windy?
• Are they far away from land?
Glossary
to sail
liner
dead calm
fridges
canned
safe
gale
graceful
spread wide
weather-
beaten
worst of all
to flop down
scurvy
• What are these two men on the
right doing?
• Columbus discovered America
because he knew it was there.
• The Indians were expecting them
and became good friends.
• Magellan was the first man to go
round the world.
• Saling ships can advance without
wind.
• A sailing ship can advance even if
the wind is blowing against it.
• Juan Sebastian Elcano went with
Cristopher Columbus.
• Magellan didn't carry a radio
transmitter in his ship.
functions
sailors in a sailing ship when he
wants to start off?
sailors when he wants the ship to
stop?
sailors if he wants to go faster?
- Howdo you think the captain will
tell the crew to drop anchor?
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50 . Sailing

Sailing with the wind! When I see those graceful
little boats with their white sails spread wide,
skimming over the waves, I can't help wondering
how they do it. It has always been a mystery to me
how a sailing boat can go against the wind. It is easy
enough to make something run with the wind I'm
sure that even I could do that, but another thing is
to make something advance against the wind. Iwas
told by a weather-beaten seaman that they don't
advance straight into the wind, but they take it
diagonally and advance in zigzag, but even so, it
seems to me incredibly difficult. Worst of all, they
say, it's the total absence of wind. When the sails
flop down dead, the ship stops. That dead calm can
go on for days and even weeks.
Sailing
1. Have you eversailed?
2. Do you like it?
3. Is it dangerous?
4. Do you think seamen should learn how to swim?
5. Would you like to sail in a big sailing ship?
6. Do you have one in your country?
7. How many seamen are necessary to man one of
those big ships?
8. How do they pull the sails down?
9. How many sails do they have?
10. Do you know their names?
11. What's the difference between a sailing ship and a
liner?
12. Which one is more exciting?
13. In which epoch did sails begin to be used by man?
14. What did they use before then?
15. How do sailing ships advance against the wind?
16. What do sailing ships do when there is no wind?
17. Do you think the 'dead calm' can last very long?
18. What would you do if you were the captain of a
sailing ship and were caught by 'dead calm' in the
middle of the ocean?
19. Do you think that life at sea in those days was hard?
20. What sort of work would the seamen do?
21. How did they sleep?
22. Did the men have private toilets?
23. Had those ships fridges?
Questions
1. Is the writer a good seaman?
2. What does he wonder?
3. Is it difficult to run with the wind?
4. Is it easy to advanceagainst the wind?
5. Does a sailing ship advance straight into the
wind?
6. What is the worst thing that may happen to a
sailing ship?
7.Who said that to the writer?
8.What happens when the sails flop down dead?
9. Can that state of things go on for a long time?
10. Have you ever sailed?
24. What sort of food did they eat?
25. Did they have fresh meat or eggs?
26. What about vegetables?Had they frozen or canned
vegetables in those days?
27.What about the water? Where did they keep the
fresh water?
28. What would happen to the water after two or three
months at sea?
29. What do you think about the health of those
people?
30. Do you think the captain and officers would share
the same food and water?
31. What would you do if you were the captain?
32. Was it safe to sail on those ships across the ocean
500 years ago?
33. What do you think of Christopher Columbus
crossing an unknown sea?
34. What would you do if you were caught by a storm
in a saling ship?
35. Would you pull the sails down or leave them up?
36. Would you sail with the gale force wind or against it?
37. Do you remember the name of the first man to go
round the world in a sailing ship?
38. What was the nationality of Juan Sebastian Elcano?
39. Who was Magellan?
40. What do you think of their adventure? How long
did they take to finish the trip?
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