Work with a partner. What other reasons can you think of for choosing a name? Think about your family, your friends, and people in the class.

Lexis

Complete the following sentences with words from the text above.

a) I think that my name sounds much nicer in my language than in English. (line 5)

b) I won’t have to ____ a decision about names. I’m not going to have my children! (line 7)

c) I’d like to have an unusual name – it would make me ___ special. (line 18)

d) I know exactly what I’m going to ____ my children. (line 23)

e) My parents named me ___ a relative. (line 26)

f) I think it’s a good ___ to choose a name that’s easy to say in different languages. (line 31)

Find out if any of the sentences in 1 are true for your partner.

PHONETIC GAME

The names of the four people in this family are hidden in the words next to the pictures. Find the common sound in each list of words. Then join these sounds together to find the name.

Mother

1 2 3

suggest although strangers

soldier saxophone dangers

jacket postman enters

fridge follow revenge

Son

1 2 3 4

nature heart elephant gives

fetch tomato eleven zero

question calmer golf apples

children marching hopeful those

Daughter

1 2 3 4

ocean reading castle America

shop complete battle psychology

sugar seventeen arrival water

fishing pieces pills kitchen

father

1 2 3 4 5

autumn apples eighth university teaspoon

combing parrot thought future juicy

comfortable expand through yellow movement

handsome backache tooth newspaper twenty-two

GUESSING GAME: GEOGRAPHY

Living Next Door to Alice Smokey

Sally __________ when she got the word
And she said "I __________ you've heard, 'bout Alice"
Well I rushed to the __________
and I looked __________
I could hardly believe my __________
As a big __________ rode up
onto Alice's drive.

Chorus:
I don't know why she's __________
or where she's gonna __________
I guess she's got her __________
but I just don't wanna __________
'Cos for __________ years
I've been living next door to Alice

__________ years
just waitin' for a __________
To tell her how I __________
and maybe get a __________ glance
Now I gotta get used to __________
living next door to Alice

We grew up __________
two __________ in the park
Carved out initials deep in the dark,
me and Alice
Now she walks through the __________
with her head held high
Just for a __________ I caught her eye
As the big __________ pulled slowly
out of Alice's drive.

Then Sally called __________
and asked how I felt
And she said "I __________ how to help
to get over Alice"
She said "Now Alice is __________
but I'm still __________
You know, I've been waiting
__________ years __________ "
And the big __________ disappeared.

No, I'll never get used to not
living next door to Alice.

Compiled by Alyona Pavlova,
Moscow State University of Printing Arts

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 2002