Unit Social Settings. Lesson Meet New People (speaking)

kiosk ['kɪɔsk] -- köşk; telephone kiosk telefon budkası

senior ['si:njə] -- 1. a. böyük, yaşlı, baş. 2. n. yuxarı kurs tələbəsi

Vocabulary Practice:

Task: Type the appropriate word or phrase into each blank line: (chores, eat out, energy, household, mature, popular, prepare, resident, the Northeast, type)

1. 
   I didn’t _____ dinner yet. I’ll go make it now.
   
2. 
   A typical _____ in the U.S. consists of parents and their children.
   
3. 
   Almost everyone likes pizza. It’s a very _____ food.
   
4. 
   I don’t want to eat at home today. Let’s _____.
   
5. 
   What _____ of soup do you want: chicken or vegetable?
   
6. 
   She used the elevator because she didn’t have the _____ to climb stairs.
   
7. 
   We can’t play until we finish our _____.
   
8. 
   A _____ of New York is a New Yorker.
   

Grammar:

Prepositions of Place: In, At, On.

In the passage did you notice a lot of prepositions to indicate the location of things?

There were several prepositions in sentences like these:

Besides dining at traditional restaurants, people are eating at fast-food outlets, bringing home take-out food, having complete meals as they drive in their cars, and even eating on the street.

Two of the prepositions found in this reading, at and in, can frequently be confusing. Let’s take a closer look at each one of them.

One way to distinguish in from at is to visualize a room or other enclosure. If you want to talk about something inside this room or enclosure, you usually use the word in to describe its location:

We usually have breakfast in our kitchen.

Mary put her package in her car.

Mr. Jones is in the elevator.

At refers to a point in a general area, or just inside or just outside of this area:

Meet me at the airport.

I ran into Helen at the store.

John said “good-bye” to Mary at the door; he didn’t follow into the house.

You can also use at to describe being next to or in front of something:

She was standing at the sink, peeling onions.

Elizabeth is sitting at her desk.
You also use at when you want to indicate that you are just visiting a place rather than staying inside of it:

We’re going to have Grandma’s birthday dinner at a restaurant.

Dr. Bonilla is staying at the Hilton Hotel.
After the verb arrive, and some other verbs that do not express action, use at to refer to a place that is smaller than a city or a town:

Even though Anne left home late, she arrived at her officeon time.

There was a lot of traffic at the airport.

Use in to refer to a place that is as large as or larger than a city or a town:

After ten days of driving, we finally arrived in California.

His brothers are working in South America.

Another common preposition is on. In the reading, you should note a common idiomatic use of on:

…even eating on the street.

While in the phrase above on refers to a location, typically on indicates the surface of something: a wall, a desk, a table, etc.

This simple chart will help clarify some basic uses of in, on, and at when you use them to express location: