IV. Ask each other personal information about the people. Follow Appendix 1

V. a) Look at the following words used to describe people’s character. Group them into the three columns according to 1) bad characteristics; 2) good characteristics; 3) both bad and good characteristics.

 

 

b) Choose the adjective from the box below to describe a person. Some words are extra ones. The first sentence has been done for you:

E.g. “Ladies first! ” He must be / may be / is likely to be a well-bred person.

 

 

VI. a) Which position do you usually go to sleep in?

1) on your back; 2) on your stomach; 3) curled up; 4) on your side.

b) Match the personality traits to the position of your own:

a) you’re very nervous; b) you’re very open; c) you’re careful; d) you’re secretive; e) you trust people; f) you’re defensive; g) you’re shy; h) you don’t express your real feelings; i) you worry a lot;

j) you feel anxious; k) you aren’t very confident; l) you don’t like meeting people; m) you’re easily upset; n) you don’t get depressed; o) you’re very stubborn; p) you live for today; q) you say what you think; r) you’re easily hurt.

c) Listen to the information about your secret personality and match the personality traits (b) to the correct position (a):

Everyone has got two personalities – the one that they show to the world and their secret, real personality. You don’t show your secret personality when you’re awake because you can control your behavior, but when you’re asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their position. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in…

 

VII. a) Read the people’s advice how to wake up or go to bed without problems:

 

EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE…

 

Get an alarm clock, and put it as far away from the bed as you can. If you don’t have to get out of bed to turn it off, then it’s no good having one… but set the second clock ten minutes later than the first one, and put it in the same place as the first one!

Don’t spend longer than thirty minutes trying to fall asleep. If you can’t get to sleep after half an hour, get up and do something quiet, like reading. Only go back to bed when you feel tired.

Drink a glass of warm milk fifteen minutes before you go to bed – it helps you to relax – or have a light snack. But avoid coffee, tea or alcohol; they contain chemicals which will make it difficult for you to sleep.

Make sure all the clocks in the house are ten minutes fast before you go to bed (and try to forget you did this when you wake up the next morning).

Get a friend to phone you early in the morning. And hope that your friend is better at waking up than you are… and is able to have an interesting conversation at 7 a.m. to help you wake up.

Go to bed earlier. It may be difficult at first, but they say that an hour of sleep before midnight is as good as two hours after midnight.

Have a warm bath – it’s a great way to relax. But you shouldn’t stay in there too long. More than twenty minutes and you will lose all your energy. And the bath isn’t the best place to fall asleep!

Listen to some music – or even specially recorded CDs of relaxing sounds like waves. However, if you have to get up and turn the cassette player off when the music finishes, it’s not going to work!

Pretend your alarm has gone off. Imagine you have you get up, have a (cold!) shower, make breakfast, etc. the more you imagine it, the more you want to go to sleep!

Nice, calming music will make you want to stay in bed even longer… but the horrible sound of static (the electronic noise you get between stations) is enough to get anyone out of bed… to turn it off!

 

b) Look at the phrases below from the text. Match the words/ phrases in bold in A with the words/ phrases which mean the same in B:

A	B
a) get an alarm clock	1) buy/ set/ switch on
b) have a light snack	2) cheap/ late-night/small
c) ten minutes fast	3) after the correct time/ at the correct time/ before the correct time
d) get a friend to phone you	4) ask/ find/ look for
e) they say that an hour of sleep	5) people in general/ your friends/ your parents
f) it’s a great way to relax	6) big/ expensive /wonderful
g) but avoid coffee, tea or alcohol	7) drink/ do not have/ try

c) Discuss these questions:

1. Which advice do you think is the most useful?

2. Can you think of any other ways to get to sleep/wake up?

3. Have you ever got into trouble because you didn’t get up in time for school / university / work?

 

d) *Translate these texts into English:

ШОКИРУЮЩИЙ БУДИЛЬНИК

 

Ударив рукой по кнопке будильника, вы будете моментально разбужены разрядом электрического тока. После такой встряски спать вам точно не захочется!

 

ЛЕТАЮЩИЙ БУДИЛЬНИК

 

С этим будильником время «летит» в буквальном смысле! Теперь просыпаться по утрам будет значительно легче. Установите устройство на нужное время и, когда зазвучит сигнал будильника, пропеллер, помещенный на макушку прибора, начнет кружить по комнате. Чтобы вернуть «беглеца» на место и прекратить утренний хаос, вам придется выбраться из постели, найти пропеллер и водрузить его на базовое устройство – после всех этих действий скорейшее пробуждение и бодрость вам обеспечены!

 

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