Text 4. A hotel for the extremely young. (Past Continuous)

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 407.

SKILLS

SPEAKING Group Work Role - play a situation when you missed a very important meeting in your office at 5 p.m. Explain to your boss that you were very busy from 4 till 5 p.m., and you couldn't come. You can use the prompts:repair computer in the office, answer a very important call, type a new contract, consult a very important customer, repair the car of the boss's wife…

WRITING Imagine you were driving round the city and visiting different places the whole evening yesterday and while driving you saw 3 friends of yours. Describe how, where you saw them and what they were doing at that time (include details about the clothes, activity, the place). Use Past Continuous any other necessary tense. Here are some prompts:

- Walk in the park with his/her dog casual clothes

shout commands loudly …

- Run at the stadium sporty clothes quickly/slowly other people run/build muscles

- Drive slowly/quickly in her/his new car smart clothes look fantastic with a friend

- Sit on the bench alone/with friends read newspaper strange clothes…

- Have a drink in the summer café alone/with friends new clothes smoke/laugh…

- Stay home alone/with friends/with parents study for exam/do nothing/have party…

READING Read Text 5 in the Reader.

1. In pairs discusswhere you can leave your baby if you need to go on a business trip? Write as many places as you can.

2. Read the textand use the verbs in the correct form in the sentences and say if it is a good way out for parents?

What can you do if you have to leave for a business trip and you have nobody to look after your baby? For Londoners such a problem doesn't exist any more: there was opened a new hotel where they are glad to see visitors from 0 to 5 years old!

The staff consists only of professionals: teachers, paediatrists and dietitians. Yesterday I visited the hotel called “Hopes and Dreams” and saw everything with my own eyes. As I entered the playing room, I saw about 10 little children and 5 teachers . Some children with a young teacher ____________ a town of wood. She ______________ them sitting on the floor and they ______________round the buildings. Some other children _____________ different things individually with a personal teacher near them: they _______________, _______________, ________________.

I was interested where the youngest babies were kept. There is a special room for them and special nannies who keep an eye on them 24 hours a day. While talking to the director I saw through the widow that nannies _______________ babies in their prams in the street.

So, the director told me: "The children get the best treatment, tasty nutrition, tender nursing and love". And I learnt that the hotel gets 150 pounds from every baby per night. Would you leave your baby in this hotel?

3. Translatethe sentences using Past Continuous and any other necessary tense.

1. Когда я зашел, я увидел, что дети строят городок.

2. Пока я разговаривал, няни гуляли с детьми в колясках на улице.

3. С 5 до 6вечера дети смотрели кукольное представление.

4. Когда я зашел, они конструировали.

5. Пока я гулял, дети занимались рисованием с педагогом.

4. Remembersituations when you saw something unusual, amazing or strange anddescribewhat was happening.Here are some prompts: wonderful party, horrible scene in a film, hotel for pets, unusual lesson…