Communicative situations.

1. What are your positive and negative features?

2. What are the three of your most typical strengths and weaknesses?

3. What are your friend’s three positive and negative features? Compare. What conclusion can you come to?

4. How can you describe a young man (woman) of your dream? (His / her top ten (features) are… She / he should be …)

5. What are your top ten?

6. What kind of person would you like to be? Why? What features do you lack? What should you change? What traits of character should you get rid of?

7. Have you ever managed to overcome your negative features? Give an example.

 

15. Do you believe in Zodiac signs? What’s your attitude to astrology and all those fortune-tellers? Make a short report using these phrases:

- In general, I don’t believe in all that stuff.

- There is something reasonable in it. One can’t deny that …

- I always believe astrologists and try to follow their advice.

- I’m strong adherent (прихильник) of astrology. I’ve read a lot about Zodiac signs.

- I think there are some reasonable things in all that stuff.

 

16. Study the information in the following horoscope. Do you fit your Zodiac sign described there? Do you agree / disagree?

On the base of the horoscope write a description of your friend’s personality. Do you agree with the horoscope? What’s your opinion about it?

Horoscope Chart

 

 

Date of birth and zodiac sign	good points	bad points	appearance / lucky colours	typical job	You don’t like	You like
March 22- April 20 ARIES Овен	energetic, enthusiastic brave, honest	jealous, bossy	rather long neck   red, brown	politician, surgeon	waiting	new clothes, sport
April 21- May 21 TAURUS Телець	reliable, very loving, practical	stubborn, easily embarrasses bossy	beautiful complexion, large feet / green, pale blue	farmer, business person	change, haste	comfort, gardening
May 22- June 22 GEMINI Близнюки	entertaining charming, talkative, intelligent	quickly bored, impatient, selfish	slim yellow, purple	journalist, artist	waiting, being laughed at	talking, being among people
June 23- July 23 CANCER Рак	kind, sensitive, thoughtful, romantic	moody, too easily hurt, possessive	small eyes     grey, green	baker, nurse	criticism, sharing feelings	shopping, being with friends
July 24- August 23 LEO Лев	brave, generous, happy, emotional	stubborn, ambitious	oval face, large eyes   orange, gold	lawyer, soldier	unhappy friends, being ignored	winning, children, pets
August 24- September 23 VIRGO Діва	witty, charming, sympathe- tic, tidy, hard-working	fussy, irritable, nervous	high forehead, straight nose   black, navy blue	secretary, mechanic	crowds, noise, sitting still for a long time	being punctual, systema- tic
September 24- October 23 LIBRA Терези	cooperative and charming, optimistic, easy-going	greedy, indecisive, flirtatious	beautiful smile     blue, pink	beautician   politician	ugly places, loud arguments	peace and quiet, being fussed over
October24- November 22 SCORPIO Скорпіон	caring, protective, enthusiastic imaginative	jealous, moody	broad face, intense eyes   white, dark red	detective, scientist	making mistakes, being asked personal questions	winning, collecting things
Nov. 23- December 22 SAGITTARIUS Стрілець	honest, optimistic, generous	relaxed, careless, hot-headed, gambler at heart	sparkling eyes, overweight   red, purple	teacher, writer, vet	waiting, making promises	traveling, gambling, parties
December 23- January 19 CAPRICORN Козеріг	careful, hard-working, kind, patient	shy, anxious, unforgiving	serious-looking   pink, blue	banker, civil servant	untidiness, new things and new ideas	home and family, privacy
Jan. 20- February19 AQUARIUS Водолій	loyal, kind, caring	stubborn, rude, self-centered	very tall     blue, orange	engineer, photogra-pher	violence, fighting, people who show off	surprises, being with friends
February20- March 21 PISCES Риби	loving, caring, creative, artistic	careless self-pitying, hot-tempered	short, large eyebrows   green, pink	actor, writer	being second, noisy crowded places	poetry, romantic places