Алёна Пашковская – Seven dates with Peter Marker (страница 2)

Peter works as an accountant for a ship manufacturing company.

The plan for the date was to have a ride on a boat on a beautiful lake for about an hour and a half and then go to a restaurant and have dinner together.

The name of Peter’s date was Hermione.

Peter’s date had red, short, curly hair, big blue eyes and beautiful white teeth.

When they got into a boat, the girl took the oars and began to row.

SPEAKING

Please give your opinion on following questions.

Do you think that girls like smart men?

When you are on a date, how can you show that you are smart,without making your date bored?

If somebody says he or she wants to see you in six months, what should you do?

What would you say if you were a girl who wants to get rid of a boy?

If Peter went to dating course and you were a coach there, what would you tell him?

If you were in Angelica’s shoes, what would you do?

If you were Peter’s psychologist, what would you tell him?

GRAMMAR

Circle the right word

The book ‘Successful Dates’ has given/was given to me by my colleague.

The plan for the date was to have/to has a ride on a boat.

The name of my date has/was Angelica.

I took the oars and was beginning/began to row.

Ten minutes into my explanation, my date was/has looking at me with sincere curiosity, so I kept describing types of ships for the next half an hour, talking about their length and masses.

Then as I kept/was keeping talking she started to nod.

We were about to have dinner in the restaurant, as was planned/planning, but Angelica said that she had a bad toothache and she needed to go to a dentist.

PRONUNCIATION

Underline the stressed syllable

genuine development hairdresser information extensive beautiful experience

Date 3

“Romance is very important for girls” – that’s what I had read in chapter three of my book. So I decided to make my date number three as romantic as I could.

My date’s name was Nancy. She was dressed very beautifully. She had a nice, but not very long, black fur coat, a black skirt, with black tights and black boots. She also had long black curly hair and amazing make up.

It was a nice winter evening, the 10^th of February, and was minus twenty degrees Celsius, or minus four Fahrenheit. Snowflakes were slowly falling from the sky. I planned the first date to be in the park where there were amazing white trees, white bushes and beautiful benches with street lights. What could be more romantic?

We started our walk in the park with a nice conversation. Nancy told me some stories from her life; I shared mine with her and everything was truly perfect.

After about forty minutes of such an adorable walk, my date said that it would be nice to go in a café and drink some hot chocolate. I thought she might be kidding, because who would want to ruin such a romantic atmosphere just to drink hot chocolate? Nobody! So I pretended that I didn’t hear what she said and we continued our amazing walk.

In about an hour Nancy said that she was freezing cold and she wanted to go in a warm place. I still didn’t want to ruin the romantic atmosphere, so I offered for us to walk faster so she could warm up. My date agreed with the condition if we could change the direction of our walk toward the bus stop. The way to the bus stop was through the park, so I thought it was romantic enough and I agreed.

We went faster and we came to the bus stop, Nancy jumped in the bus so fast, that I didn’t have any chance to say a word. The bus drove away taking my date away from me.

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