Have you ever wondered what your old school-mates are doing now? Well plenty of people in Britain do. One of the most successful internet ventures in Britain has shown how popular, and how lucrative, nostalgia can be. The website Friends Reunited was started for fun in 1999 by a couple who were interested to know what their old school friends were doing. The project snowballed and by 2005, the site had 12 million members. One extraordinary fact is that Friends Reunited has never advertised, its success is entirely due to word-of-mouth. You can search for a school, college or university and find a list of the members who were there in any year. You can also post a personal profile showing what you are doing now, and read other people's details. Steve Pankhurst, one of the founders of the site, thinks that one of the reasons for its success is that some people like to be anonymous. On Friends Reunited, you can snoop on other people's lives without giving away anything about yourself if you don't want to. It's also an opportunity to bolster your self-esteem by showing off to everyone just how successful and happy you are now, even if you weren't while you were at school.
Friends Reunited has also led to many successful school reunions, and people meeting up with each other after many years. In particular, many people use the site to look up their childhood sweethearts and many couples have actually rekindled relationships after contacting each other through the site.
There have even been Friends Reunited weddings and babies, and Friends Reunited now has a new site called Friends Reunited Dating especially for people who are looking for love. The company has also launched other sites, such as Genes Reunited, which helps people to find long-lost relatives and build their family trees online.
NOTES:
old school-mates - бывшие одноклассники
ventures - зд. проектов
lucrative - прибыльной
snowballed - разрастался как снежный ком
due to word-of-mouth - благодаря передаче информации из уст в уста
post - разместить на сайте, опубликовать
profile - краткий биографический очерк (зд. информацию о себе)
like to be anonymous - предпочитают не афишировать свое имя
Can you name any other foreign sites like Friends Reunited?
What are pluses and minuses websites like these?
What has you groupmate just said?
4. Reported Speech:
-statements
-orders
-questions
St.b. p. 116-117
W.b p.78-79
5. Reading and speaking
St.b. p.112-113, ex.5,6,7
GCSE exam
To work hard
Researches
To be questioned
A survey
Chat room
Texting and chatting
To socialize
By storm
Designer labels
Designer gear
Hometask:
1. The Glove pp.21-23, words to learn pp.24-26; pp.27-28, ex.2,3,4.
2. Unit 10-Vocabulary to translate
3. Words from the Guide to learn
4. Sum up the extracts given above.
5. St.b. p.113, ex.Writing
Food Around the World
LESSON 10
(2 hours)
LEVEL 1
Task 1.Revise your active vocabulary and be ready to write a dictation.
LEVEL 2
Task 2. Fastovec, Ex. XI (1-12), p. 223.Translate the sentences using your active vocabulary.
Task 3.Look at the following table. Check that you know what the words along the top mean. Can they be used to describe the foods on the left? Put a tick (v) in the box if they can.
Can you think of any other words to describe tastes and smells?
Work with a partner. Make sentences about particular foods on the list and have your partner guess what you are describing?
Example: It tastes sweet and creamy. Answer: Ice cream.
Task 4. Guess what food is being described
1.This food is soft and it tastes sweet. It is made from cream, sugar and fruit or
chocolate. It is eaten very cold, usually in summer.
2. This food is crunchy and it can be salty or sweet. It is often eaten in the cinema.
3. This food is hard on the outside, but usually soft in the middle. It is very versatile
and is used to make lots of sweet and savoury dishes. In the UK people also eat it
on its own for breakfast or in a sandwich.
4. This food is usually hard and crunchy, and it is red or green in colour. People