Talk to a partner. What's the difference between ...? 1.a father and parent 2.a mother and a stepmother 3. a brother and a brother in law 4. a stepsister and a half-sister 5. a grandfather and a great-grandfather 6. an adopted child and an only child 7. brothers and sisters and sibling 8. your immediate family and your extended family

1) Was O.Henry a famous american humorist and an author of many short stories?

2) He wrote stories with unpredictable endings and always asked his friends to let him know if something interesting happened to them, didn't he?

3) Who was a young man, but he looked forty, because he naver washed or shaved?

4) Who often wanted O. Henry to give him money, so he could spend it on whisky?

5) Whom did Tripp meet one day?

6) Was a girl in New York for the first time of her life?

7) What did she say to him?

8) Why did Tripp put the girl in the hotel and tell her to wait?

9) Tripp found o.henry and told him that he expected him to help one girl by giving her the money to come to her village and pay for her hotel, didn't he?

10) What did Tripp promise to tell the writer?

11) Did Tripp tell him that the girl's name was Ada, she loved George Brown or O.Henry?

12) When did Brown leave the village?

13) Did the girl expect him to come back and waited for him?

14) Did then her parents start marking her marry another man?

15) Did  Ada come to find George Brown?

16) Had the man cut a cent into two pieces before he left?

17) Did he leave one for himself and let Ada have the other piece?

18) What did the writer see when Tripp took his cheap watch out of his pocket?

19) Were George Brown and Tripp one and the same man?

1) The reason is need to communicate verbally over the Internet or via letters.

2)English is necessary for people working in any branch of science and not only science

3) Spreading intellectual and cultural horizons. Establishing a contact between two cultures

4) Wide abroad study oportunities. GB has several summer schools for foreigners so they could improve their english. Also there are exchange visits, business and tourist trips that give wide opportunities to talk to native speakers.

5) The possibilities are infinite. International business, software localization, helping schoolchildren with their homework, reading manuals, navigating in a foreign country etc.