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1. List 1 : sink, tap, air conditioning, oven, microwave
List 2: pantry, doorknob, downspout, central heating, cellar
List 3: chair, armchair, bathroom, table, light

2. It was four mounths ago in Cyprus. The first (and actually the only) word was "efharisto" which means "Thank you". I just wanted to be polite with locals and ask them to teach me this word.
3. I'd choose easy-going, bossy, stubborn, hardworking, intelligent. These words are not very easy, but they are pretty useful.
4. sympathetic - looks like Russian word "nice" (симпатичный)
accurate - looks like Russian "tidy" (аккуратный)
anecdote - looks like Russian "joke" (анекдот)
artist - looks like Russian "performer" (артист)
cabinet - looks like Russian "office" (кабинет)

5. It's a difficult question. I think that mostly it depends on the students' level and age. If they're beginners, it's better to decide as a teacher what should they learn first. Upper-intermediate adult students can perfectly decide themselves what to do with their vocabulary.

Choose two of the following tasks:

Look again at the three lists of "house and garden" vocabulary in exercise 1. Do you agree with the way they are graded? What five other words would you include at each level?

When did you last travel to a country where you didn't speak the language? What were the first words you learned? Why did you learn these ones? Do you still remember any of them?
I travelled to China several years ago, the first words I learnd were : hello, how much, numbers, thank you and good bye. They were the most important for basic needs and I still remember some of them.
Use a dictionary to check that you know the meanings of these words which can all be used to describe someone’s character.
I would use these words for intermidiate level group: easy-going, optimistic, cheerful, nosy, sociable, stubborn, insecure, calm, outgoing, hardworking, intelligent, brainy, reliable. I made my choice because these words are more widely used, and will be definitely needed to students of this level.

List some English false friends for speakers of another language. What do they mean in English? What does the equivalent word mean in the other language?
Accurate Аккуратный (tidy, smart)
Bog Бог (God)

Which of the two statements below do you agree with most? Why?
I agree with both these statements, and think they should be combined to gain resilts in vocabulary learning. Some words in my practice are given by teacher, while others are generated by students, that makes students more motivated, because they learn, what they leally want to know.
a. Students can decide for themselves which words they would like to learn.
b. It’s the teacher’s job to decide which words students need to learn.