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Ex. 2. Find out about your groupmates (their birthplace, nationality, age, family, etc.). Use the following dialogues as models.Date: 2015-10-07; view: 442. Ex. 1. Introduce yourself to your group or to some of your groupmates.. Think ahead READING AND SPEAKING Part A Think about the kind of person you are. What is your background? What is remarkable about you? In what way are you similar and different from your groupmates / others?
Model: Hello, everybody. I'm Nick Salt. I'm a first year student of philosophy. Hi, Nick. I'm Ann and this is Mary. We are your groupmates. Nice meeting you. How do you like being students? Model A: What's your full name? My full name is Ivanov Alexander Petrovich. Ivanov is my surname/family name. Alexander (Alex for short) is my Christian (first, personal) name. Petrovich is my patronimic. Call me Alex by my first name. Model B: Where do you come from? I come from Minsk. What's your address? My full address is: 15, Pushkin street, Minsk, Belarus, 220089. Have you got a telephone? What's your telephone number? It's 253-88-01 (two, five, three, double eight, o, one). Model C: How old are you? When and where were you born? I was born on October 9, 1980, so I'm nearly 18. I come from Brest, Actually I'm Belarusian, though my grandmother was a Pole. Model D: Have you got a family? I'm not married yet and I live in my parents' house. What relation is Mrs. Black to you? She is my aunt. Ex. 2. Read what people say about themselves. Be ready to speak about yourself. Ask questions about your friends and their and families. Hello! My name is Marina. I'm 19 years old and I come from a town called Novogrudok. I'm a student and I live at a hostel. I study at the University. My elder brother is also a student of the University and lives at a hostel too. We are going to become historians. *** Many people consider me a very unique individual. However, I do not consider myself to possess too much of a unique personality. In fact, my home life is rather common. I live with my family of a mother, a father, and three brothers. I sometimes feel like the home routine restricts me and my individuality. Many nights I've stayed awake late into the night, looking at the stars and dreaming of what lies beyond my mind and senses. I know so little about the outside world, perhaps like a man named Truman from the film I have recently seen. Truman lives inside a TV studio which he believes is the real world and his reality is a television programme. I sympathize with Truman. In a way I'm like him. *** I suppose the first thing you need to know is my name. It's Karl Heinrich Heine. Heine is my family name and Karl Heinrich are my first names, but my friends normally call me Karl. As you can guess I live in Germany and of course I'm German. I've just left school and I'm going to London University to Study English. I've always enjoyed English and that's why I've come to England this summer to follow an English course. I've been in England since July, 5 and I'm staying until the end of September. I hope that by that time I'll be able to speak English perfectly, but at the moment everything still seems to be very difficult.
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