Now we shall work on the dialogue. Read and translate it. At the shop Shop-assistant: Good afternoon! Can I help you? Customer: Afternoon! Yes, please. I’d like to buy a computer. Shop-assistant: Very well. We have a big choice of American, Japanese, Chinese and European companies. Customer: What about prices? Shop-assistant: From 350 dollars up to 2500 dollars. Customer: Oh, I’m a student. I can’t buy a very expensive computer. Shop-assistant: I think I can help you. We have good computers and not very expensive. Besides we have discounts, for students 7%. Customer: OK. How much is this computer? Shop-assistant: 400 dollars, with a discount – 362 dollars. Customer: I have only 200 dollars. Shop-assistant: You can buy it in credit. If you pay 200 now, you will pay 162 dollars during 6 months. Customer: How much shall I have to pay every month? Shop-assistant: 27 dollars. Customer: Well, I think I can do it. Shop-assistant: How would you like to pay? Cash or credit card? Customer: Cash. Shop-assistant: Come to the cash-desk, please. Make your own dialogue on analogy Well, now we shall work on the text. Great Earthquakes One of the most terrible earthquakes was in China. It happened on the twenty-third of January in fifteen fifty-six in Sian. Eight hundred thirty thousand people died. On the first of September in nineteen twenty-three a great earthquake was in Japan. More than one hundred seventy-four thousand people died. An earthquake in Ashkhabad happened at night from the fifth to the sixth of October in nineteen forty-eight. About one hundred sixty thousand people died. Another big tragedy happened in Lisbon, Portugal, on the first of November in seventeen fifty-fife. Ninety thousand people died. On the seventh of December in nineteen eighty-eight a big earthquake was in Spitak, Armenia. About twenty-five thousand people died. Seventeen thousand two hundred seventeen people died during a big earthquake in Turkey on the seventeenth of August in nineteen ninety-nine. Ten thousand people died on the twenty-second of May in nineteen sixty during the earthquake in Chili. On the twenty-fifth of April in twenty fifteen eight thousand people died during the earthquake in Nepal. Two thousand four hundred died on the twenty-eighth of May in nineteen ninety-fife during the earthquake in Sakhalin, Neftegorsk. Next task is to write down the information: date, place, the number of died people. 5) Finish your works and give them to me. |