Verbs and Verbal Phrases

acquire - приобретать, получать, овладевать

award - присуждать, награждать

be awarded a grant - получать стипендию

carry out - выполнять, осуществлять

conduct - вести, руководить

establish - основывать, учреждать, создавать

involve - включать

master - изучать, овладевать

offer - предлагать

represent - изображать, представлять

train - готовить (специалистов)

2. Passive Vocabulary

aesthetics (n) - эстетика

advance (v) - делать успехи, продвигаться

available (a)- доступный, имеющийся в распоряжении

demand (n) - требование

deny (v) - отрицать

enrol (v) - зачислять

enterprise (n) - предприятие

free (a) - свободный

free of charge - бесплатный

lodge (v) - поселить, временно проживать

outlook (n) - кругозор

recreation (n) - развлечение, отдых

supervisor (n) -руководитель

vital (a) - жизненный, существенный

Class exercises

I. Repeat and translate into Russian

a) the following words with the stress on the first syllable:

course, government, graduate, influence, lodge, vital, scientist, offer, faculty, subject, candidate, council, impulse, digital, culture, language, cover, national, enterprise, specialist

b) the following words with the stress on the second syllable:

admit, acquire, research, deny, capacity, advance, attend, conduct, establish, attention, degree, equipment, demand, disposal, facilities, intelligence, available, award, technology, successfully, foundation, aesthetics, academy

c) the following words and word combinations with two or more stresses:

closed-circuit TV, artificial intelligence, teaching staff, recreation, university, radioelectronics, microelectronics, automated systems, manufacture, economics, anniversary, investigation, outside, sociology, free of charge, speciality, specialization

II. Repeat and translate the following sentences

1) The Oxford University was established in the XII century.

2) She’s taking a course of mathematics.

3) He is a graduate of Oxford.

4) Students don’t attend lectures on Sundays.

5) Helen masters her English in the language laboratory.

6) The boy in the back row was not paying attention to what the teacher was saying.

7) These books are entirely at your disposal.

8) Thousands of young men and girls are admitted to the universities of our country

every year.

9) Peter graduated from the University in 1998.

4. Form and translate into Russian

1. nouns of the following verbs using the suffixes: -(e)ance, -ion, -ment, -(o)er

admit, graduate, lodge, attend, establish, develop, train, improve, grant, celebrate, research, acquire, maintain, conduct, provide, locate, organize

b) verbs of the following nouns :

advance, government, equipment, foundation, management, education, information, correspondence, investigation, teacher, master, translator, recreation, resistance, establishment, supervisor, guide

5. Arrange the words of the two groups in pairs with similar meaning

a) to attend a lecture, importance, to found, field, to receive, to consist of, research, to join, to master, possibility, to conduct, to be located, to take part in, conditions, to equip, to pay attention, hostel, vacations

b) to be situated, to give attention, to take notice of, to become a member, significance, investigation, to be divided into, holidays, opportunity, dormitory, to carry out, sphere, to furnish, to participate in, facilities, to come to a lecture, to study, to get, to create

6. Arrange the words of the two groups in pairs with contrary meaning

a) to graduate from, to receive, to rest, advance, artificial, outside, competent, admit, to improve, the first, include

b) inside, to become worse, exclude, natural, to give, to work, the last, incompetent, expel, to enter, regress

7. Make up your own sentences using the following words and word combinations

to be admitted to, faculty, to graduate, to get a grant, department, to be conducted by, to attend, term, to be at the disposal of smb., to pay attention to, education, teaching staff, subjects, full-time students, graduate courses, to master