Unit 3 - Universal Language

Remember the European Countries?

the UK vs. Great Britain vs. England
 Online Practice
https
://www.english-learn-online.com/vocabulary/na
tionalities/learn-nationalities-in-english/#_Pictur
es_of_nationalities_vocabulary_with_pronuncia
tions
Correct Answers
 Languages

• The number of languages in the world

• The language with the most native speakers
• The language with the most non-native
speakers
• The oldest written language that still exists
• The country with the most languages spoken
by native inhabitants
• Approx. 7000 (around 500 nearly extinct)
• Mandarin
• English
• Chinese or Greek
• Papua New Quinea (over 800 living languages)
1 Listen to the capital city.
2 Guess the country.
3 What is the nationality?
4 What is the main language?
Answer the following questions about the
Czech language.
(Search the net to find facts you are not sure about.)
1 Where is it spoken? 
2 What language family does it belong to?
3 What is unique / unusual / difficult about our
language? 
Choose a foreign language
you are interested in.
Answer the same questions.

1 Where is it spoken? 
2 What language family does it belong to?
3 What is unique / unusual / difficult about the
language? 
MAKE & DO = dělat
MAKE vs. DO = ???
 → make = vyrábět, produkovat, tvořit
→ do = vykonávání činnosti (obecně)

vs.

make lunch do the gardening

Explanation:
https://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2006041601-pleteme-si-make-a-do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou9rhnOHpM0&t=87s
 SBp32
• English: do, study, learn, understand
• An essay: do, write, check, hand in
• An exam: do, pass, fail
• An exercise: do, repeat, correct
• Homework: do, forget about, submit
• A mistake: make, omit

Washing up, cleaning, ironing = do

Lunch, breakfast, dinner = make
 Practise:
https
://quizlet.com/139132634/make-or-do-learn-th
e-collocations-flash-cards
/
https://
www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2007120801-mak
e-or-do
https
://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2007052702-m
ake-vs-do
Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Explanation:
https://
www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2008090806-pocitatelna-a-nepocit
atelna-podstatna-jmena

https
://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2006082501-pocitatelna-a-nepo
citatelna-podstatna-jmena
 How to „count“ UNCOUNTABLES?
liquids (water, beer, wine, etc.): a glass of …, a bottle of …, a jug of....
cheese: a slice, a chunk, a piece of …
meat: a piece, a slice, a pound of …
butter: a bar of …

ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard: a bottle of, a tube of....

chocolate: a bar of…, a piece of…

tea / coffee: a cup of…

 Nepočitatelná podstatná jména a jejich
„jednotky“:
advice - a piece of advice luggage - a piece of luggage

money - a lump of money

baggage - a piece of baggage
news - a piece of news
bread - a slice of /a loaf of bread
pasta - a plate of pasta, a serving of pasta
equipment - a piece of equipment
research - a piece of research
furniture - a piece of furniture
rice - a cup of rice
garbage - a piece of garbage
salt - a pinch of salt
honey - a spoon of honey sugar - a spoon of sugar
information - a piece of information tea - a cup of tea

knowledge - a piece of knowledge work - a piece of work

 Practise online countable and uncountable
nouns:
https://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/20060828
01-pocitatelna-a-nepocitatelna-podstatna-jmena
https
://test-english.com/grammar-points/a1/a-some-
any-countable-uncountable/
https://test-english.com/grammar-points/a1/a-s
ome-any-countable-uncountable/2
/
 Expressions SOME, ANY
https://
www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2006090402-some-vs-a
ny

ONLINE practice
https://
www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2006062602-some-any-
no
https
://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2007010804-pouziti-
some-any-a-an
 Expressions MUCH vs. MANY
https://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/20070415
01-much-many-a-lot

ONLINE practice
https://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/20200319
03-cviceni-many-much
 Expressions
LITTLE, a LITTLE vs. FEW, a FEW
https://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/20071228
01-slovicka-little-a-little-few-a-few

ONLINE practice
https://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/20200318
01-cviceni-a-few-a-little
Murphy - Quantifiers
Key to Murphy - Quantifiers
Negative Prefixes
MAKE the longest DOMINO LINE
 KEY
1. unemploed
2. irresponsible
3. impossible
4. dislike
5. invisible
6. retake (=do the exam again because you failed)
7. disappear
8. dishonest
9. illiterate
10.overslept
11.misuse
12.disappear
1 Translate
2 Make the Adjective Negative
viditelné písmo a visible writing an invisible writing
obvyklé památky usual monuments an unusual monuments
trpělivý pacient a patient patient an impatient patient
šťastná nehoda a lucky accident an unlucky accident
zkušený pilot an experienced pilot an unexperienced pilot
známé vysvětlení a known explanation an unknown explanation
úspěšný Němec a successful German an unsuccessful German
pravidelný trénink regular practice irregular practice
šťastné dětství happy memories unhappy memories
nelegální obchod legal trade/business illegal trade/business
pohodlná cesta a comfortable journey an uncomfortable journey
možný způsob a possible way an impossible way
správný překlad a correct translation an incorrect translation
 PRACTISE ONLINE
https
://english-practice.net/english-word-skills-exerci
ses-for-a2-negative-adjective-prefixes/
 SBp36
• Study the vocabulary
• Consult the Wordlist for the Czech meaning
CONFIDENT = sebevědomý
CONFIDENCE = sebevědomí

SECURE = jistý si (čím)

 Relative Clauses
(= vztažné věty)

This is our teacher. She teaches English.

This is our teacher who teaches English.

Explanation:
https://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2006070601-vztazne-vety-relative-clauses
 Relative Pronouns (vztažná zájmena)

• který =  who (osoby) / which (věci) / that

• jehož, jejíž =  whose
• kde =  where
• kdy =  when
• proč =  why
??? Lze použít which o osobách?
→ ne
??? Lze vždy použít that místo who / which
→ ne
 Vztažná věta
Určující vs. Neurčující
pro celkový význam sdělení

• Our house, where we have lived for ten years,

is very old.

• The house where we live is very old.

 Pravidla

URČUJÍCÍ NEURČUJÍCÍ
who, which, that  who, which 
(nikoli that) atd.

neodděluje se čárkami odděluje se čárkami

někdy lze vynechat vztažné vztažné zájmeno nelze

zájmeno nikdy vynechat
 Vynechávání vztažného zájmena
• Vynechat můžeme pouze zájmena:
– who
– which
– that
• Pouze pokud po nich následuje podst.jm. nebo
zájmeno
Where is the wine that was in the fridge?
Where is the wine that I bought yesterday?
…. Where is the wine I bouht yesterday?
 which/that

whose

who/that
who/that

who/that
which/that
who/that

whose

whose
who/that

Which

what
which/that

who/that

who

who
who/that
which/that

which/that

whose

which

which/that
 Practise Relative Clauses ONLINE
https://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2006070701-vztazna-zajmena
https://
www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2006070801-vynechavani-vztaznych-zajmen-cvi
ceni
https://www.helpforenglish.cz/article/2011061101-rozumite-vztaznym-vetam
https
://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/defining-and-non-defining-relative-cla
uses
/
https
://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/defining-and-non-defining-relative-cla
uses/2
/
https
://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/defining-and-non-defining-relative-cla
uses/3/
Gateway B1 SBp40
 Summer Language Courses
• Discuss advantages & disadvantages
• Make notes
• Choose an English-speaking country to go for
summer school, give reasons
Advertisement = Advert = Ad
SBp40 Look at this advert. Answer these
questions.

1 Do you think this is a good place

to learn English in the summer?
Why/Why not?

2 You want to do a summer course

to practise English. What factors
are important in deciding where to
study. Make a list.
SBp40/2,4
 Asking for information
• Sorry, did you say……?
• Could you repeat that?
• Pardon?
• I´m not sure I understood.
• Promiňte, říkal jste……?
• Můžete to prosím zopakovat?
• Prosím?
• Nevím, jestli jsem dobře rozuměl.
Prepare a role play dialog:
• Student A asks for information about the language school of Student B
(e.g.receptionist) to find out the following information about summer
courses at the language school:
– The starting date for the course
– The length of the course
– If accommodation is organised or not
– The price
– Other activities on the course
• Use advertisements SBp147 or an advertisement you found or created
• Use the expressions/ phrases in SBp40/4, WBp27/1, 2 and the Speaking
bank SBp40/3
• Perform your role play in the online lesson on 17th February
 What is important?
(SBp144)

• Communicate successfully
• Speak fluently
• Use accurate and varied grammar
• Use accurate and varied vocabulary
• Pronounce words clearly
 When did you first
start learning English?

• Was it outside school?

• What materials did you use?
• When did you improve the most?
What can you see in the pictures? How
can each one help you to learn English?
 Reading SBp41/2
• Divide the text into paragraphs according to
instructions SBp41/3
 Vocabulary SBp41/2
Find the synonyms in the text

• the first language that you learn when you are

a baby
• except for
• Sometimes
• Not inside
 Vocabulary SBp41/2
Find the synonyms in the text

• Mother tongue
• Apart from
• From time to time
• outside
 Vocabulary SBp41/2
Phrases in the text

• Začal jsem se učit

• Za domácí úkol
• Rád se učím ve dvojicích.
DEADLINE 21.2.
Write your own language biography:
• Write 120-150 words
• 5 paragraphs: topics listed in SBp41/3
• Make use of the phrases in SBp41/2, WBp28/1
• Use WORD, font Times New Roman size 12, line
spacing 1,5
• Send on Edupage by 21.2. at the latest