- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни національний педагогічний університет імені м. П. Драгоманова
- •Way to fluent English
- •Contents
- •Environmental protection
- •1. Read and translate the texts and new phrases.
- •1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- •3. Write the questions to the text and discuss it in the class.
- •4. Match a new word with its definition.
- •5. Fill in missed letters:
- •6. Write your ides and suggestions about what you can do to reduce global warming:
- •7. Read and translate the text and then proceed to the tasks.
- •8. Answer the following questions:
- •9. Make up a dialogue using all new words and phrases from this module:
- •10. Read and translate new words and the text: Freshwater Becoming More Scarce.
- •11. Find the synonyms to the words from the text:
- •12. Answer the questions:
- •13. Complete the sentences.
- •14. Translate and explain what these words mean:
- •15. Discuss these questions in a group:
- •16. Read and translate new words and the text:What’s For Dinner? Genetically. Modified Foods
- •17. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
- •18. Find the opposite in the text.
- •19. Find the synonyms in the text.
- •20. Find out in the text English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations:
- •21. Write the question to the text and discuss it in the class.
- •22. Fill in the sentences with the missed words.
- •23. Match word or word combination with its definition
- •24. Answer the following questions:
- •25. Write 10 advantages and 10 disadvantages about having a big family and compare your answers with your group mates.
- •26. Read, translate and retell the text. Are Dishwashers Good for the Environment?
- •27. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences:
- •28. Readers Respond: What are you doing to help reduce global warming and save the environment? Read the comments from the site http://environment.About.Com. Global warming.
- •Type 0 Conditionals: certainty, general truth
- •If you mix yellow and blue, you get green.
- •If I’m suffering the Web, I use Google. Type 1 Conditionals: real present
- •If you feel lucky, you’ll expect good things.
- •If you study, you’ll pass the test. Practice
- •Type 2 Conditionals: unreal present
- •3. Complete the sentences using the most appropriate verb form from the list (Type 2 conditionals).
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. Answer the questions according to what you understand from the sentences. Choose the correct answer: Yes, No or possibly.
- •5. What would you do If you were … ? Answer the questions using present or future unreal conditional. Discuss your answers with your classmates.
- •Type 3 Conditionals: unreal past
- •Practice
- •7. Translate the sentences into English.
- •Mixed Conditionals
- •Practice
- •1. Translate the sentences into English
- •Wishes (If only)
- •I wish you were here. (It’s a pity you are not here now.)
- •Practice
- •Check yourself
- •Reading for pleasure Sir Walter Scott
- •Exercises
- •Is it truth that young man has really forgotten the name of the 6th knight?
- •9. Read abstract I. For questions (1 – 5) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •10. Read the abstract III. Your task is to put the statements (a - g) to (6 - 13) in correct order according to what the text says.
- •11. Read the abstract III. Choose from (a-g) the one which best fits each space (14 - 19).
- •Sport and games
- •1. Read and learn by heart the word list: Word List on the Subject “Sport and Games”
- •2. Read, translate and retell the text, given below, using the word list Sport and Games
- •3. Read and learn by heart word list:
- •4. Give names for the illustrated sports, using supplementary word list and word combinations:
- •5. Read the words and learn their meaning:
- •Indoor games
- •6. Match the following sports with the right pictures, using supplementary word list and word combinations:
- •7. Read these words and expressions, and learn them by heart:
- •8. Read the dialogues, translate them and choose one of them for learning by heart: Game and Sport
- •The Fitness Craze
- •9. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •10. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian:
- •11. Complete the following sentences with the words or phrases from the list below.
- •12. Complete these expressions using the things on the right.
- •13. Read, translate the text. Explain the words giving in the text. Answer the following questions.
- •14. Make up a short dialogue about Olympic Games, using the text, and retell it in pairs:
- •15. Fill in prepositions, if necessary, and explain:
- •16. Translate and retell the text.
- •17. Read and translate the text, given below. Speak on: “The role of sport in modern life”.” Sport as part of school and college life”. How healthy are you?
- •18. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •19. Read and translate the text, given below. Answer the questions, which are given under the text.
- •20. Match each word in column a with a word from column b, and translate each word:
- •21. Match each word in the left-hand column with the appropriate meaning from the right-hand column:
- •22. Read and translate the text, given below. Answer the questions: Sports in Great Britain
- •23. There are 16 sports in this puzzle. Can you find them?
- •24. Write a short description of your favourite sport giving the following information:
- •25. Memorize some idioms or idiomatic expressions dealing with the topic “Sport and Games”:
- •26. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian:
- •Grammar spot Wishes (If only)
- •I wish you were here. (It’s a pity you are not here now.)
- •Practice
- •Reading for pleasure Charles Dickens
- •Dombey and Son Part II
- •Part II
- •Exercises
- •9. Read and complete the text below. For each of the empty space (12-20) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •10. Read the abstract below. For each of the empty space (17-21) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •Health protection
- •1. A. Read and translate the text. Bedside manner and something more? …
- •2. Discuss with your group mates the famous proverb “To err is human”. Can this proverb be applied to the sphere of medicine and health? Do doctors have a right to be mistaken?
- •3. What is your opinion about health insurance? Do you consider it to be necessary in modern society? Give your reasons.
- •4. Explain the meaning of the following words:
- •5. Expressions with the word finger. Match the expressions with their definitions:
- •6. Look at the idioms above. Make a short story, using as much of them as you can. Retell the story to your group mates:
- •7. Fill in proper word:
- •8. Retell the text from ex.7, using the words underlined.
- •9. Write an article on the topic “The impact of the drugs on the human organism”.
- •10. Study the short articles below. Make your own notes about popular consumers’ goods nowadays and their impact on our health:
- •11. Comment on the texts given above. Express your opinion on the subject. Act out dialogues, using new words and thematic vocabulary.
- •12. Prepare a report about junk food and the impact of it’s consuming. Present it in front of the group.
- •14. A. Study the material about junk food. Discuss it in class.
- •Marketing
- •Pregnancy
- •15. Write an article about the problem of junk and unhealthy food in Ukraine. Use the words given in the texts above.
- •16. Rewrite the following sentences and replace the words in bold with phrases from the list:
- •17. Make up your own sentences with the idioms from ex/16:
- •18. A. Read and translate the texts. Blood pressure
- •19. Mind the vocabulary. Write and act out a dialogue on the topic “At the doctor’s”. Use phrases below as a model:
- •20. Match the sympthoms with the replies of the doctor:
- •21. Choose the right answer:
- •22. Read to the complaints below. If you were a doctor what would be your recommendations?
- •23. Study the idioms. Work with the vocabulary and find translation if you can’t guess:
- •24. Write a story, using all the idioms given in ex/23, present it in front of the group:
- •25. Fill in the correct word from the list, there’s 1 extra word:
- •26. Read and translate the text: healthy lifestyle
- •27. A. Find words and word-combinations that correspond to the following meaning:
- •28. Correct mistakes: Healthy Lifestyle
- •29. Write 8 questions to the text, use different types of questions:
- •30. Imagine that you are a doctor. Now you are to give advice to your patient about how to change the lifestyle. Make a dialog, using words and word-combinations from the text.
- •31. Write a timetable of a person who leads a healthy way of life. Discuss it with your groupmates. Grammar spot
- •1. Open the brackets using unreal past.
- •2. W rite sentences with an if-clause.
- •3. Open the brackets using unreal past.
- •5. Rewrite the sentences using unreal past
- •6. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •10. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •Reading for pleasure Oscar Wilde
- •The Happy Prince
- •Exercises
- •1. For questions (1-5) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •2. Your task is to put the statements (a - f) to (6-11) in correct order according to what the text says.
- •4. Act the dialogues
- •Love & Marriage
- •Vocabulary:
- •Finding a partner
- •1. There are 15 words connected with marriage. Find them and solve a puzzle.
- •2. Complete the sentences.
- •3. Using this proverb “a great dowry is a bed full of brambles” (“Лучше на убогой жениться, чем с богатой браниться”) make up the story of your own.
- •4. Find the synonyms to the words.
- •5. Find the opposite in the text.
- •6. Describe the picture using the following idioms:
- •1. Unknown words
- •2. Read the text.
- •1. Guessing the riddle.
- •Being in love
- •1. Read all these statements and discuss them in pairs. Battlefield or bed of roses?
- •2. Read these dialogues; explain Dave’s and Brad’s relationships. After discussion make up your own stories connected with topic: “Being in love”.
- •It's as plain as the nose on your face!
- •A chance for romance.
- •3. Romantic quiz
- •4. Love hearts
- •5. Look at the picture. Image your future wedding. Tell us a beautiful story about your white wedding. Try to use all new words, what we have learnt and these proverbs:
- •6. Look at the pictures of Marriages signs, listen to their descriptions, try to guess what it is and say it in one word.
- •Wedding Customs
- •True love
- •On the way to the wedding
- •1. Task: Make a presentation with using all new words you have learnt.
- •2. Learn by heart the idioms:
- •3. Translate these sentences into English, use new idioms.
- •Grammar spot the infinitive
- •The Forms of the Infinitive
- •The Functions of the Infinitive in the Sentence
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8 Organize the expressions into the sentences and translate them
- •Infinitive Constructions
- •The Objective InfinitiveConstruction (Complex Object)
- •The Subjective Infinitive Construction (Complex Subject)
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •Exercise 15
- •Exercise 16
- •The Devoted Friend
- •Exercises
- •I. Answer the questions.
- •Religion
- •1. Study the following:
- •2. Match the following English idioms to their respective dictionary definitions and give the translation of the definitions.
- •3. Read the words and their explanations. Give the translation of them.
- •1 Kings 2:46
- •4. Wisdom is Supreme
- •4. Match the following English idioms to their respective dictionary definitions.
- •5. In the following sentences, there is an idiom. Decide what you think is the key word, then look in your dictionary to see if you are right. Rewrite the sentences in non-idiomatic English.
- •6. The following sentences all contain an idiom with one key word missing. Choose one of the four alternatives to complete the idiom.
- •7. The following sentences all contain some idioms. Read and translate them into English. Use a Russian-English dictionary and the English-Russian Phraseological Dictionary by a. V. Kunin.
- •8. Link each of the pictures with one of the idioms listed below. Comment on the meaning of each of them. Use them in situations of your own.
- •9. Use the idioms to make up a story. Each student should take turns building upon the sentence, turn by turn.
- •10. In the following sentences, there is an idiom. Expand on the sentences.
- •11. The following sentences all contain an idiom with one key word missing. Choose one of the four alternatives to complete the idiom and translate the sentences.
- •12. Explain and expand on the following. Use the idioms given in Unit 11.
- •13. Continue the following dialogue. Use the idioms given in Unit 11.
- •14. Read and translate the following passage into Russian.
- •15. Speak on one of the following topics.
- •17. Make up the dialogue where the last phrase will be: "So as the proverb goes..."
- •18. A. Read the following passages and choose the correct key word to complete the idioms. Translate the passages into Ukrainian.
- •19. Speak on one of the following topics.
- •Grammar spot The Gerund
- •The Forms of the Gerund
- •TheFunctions of the Gerund in the Sentence
- •Predicative Constructions with the Gerund
- •Exercise 5
- •Reading for pleasure o. Henry
- •Schools and Schools
- •2. Prove that:
- •3. Add more information to these:
- •5. Imagine that you are:
- •1. Learn new words:
- •2. A. Fill in missed letters:
- •3. There are 17 words connected with food. They go across → and down ↓. Find them and write them here.
- •4. Put the following eating and drinking verbs into the correct squares.
- •5. Read and translate the dialogues. Learn one of them and act on the lesson.
- •6. Translate the following words and word-combinations into English.
- •7. Put in the right order the dialogue. Read, translate and act it.
- •8. Fill in the sentences with the missed words.
- •9. Read and translate the text and then proceed to the tasks.
- •10. Put each of the following words into its correct place in the passage below.
- •11. Group the words below under the following headings.
- •13. Answer the questions.
- •14. Choose a possible adjective to describe each of these foods.
- •15. Match the method of cooking with its definition.
- •16. Put the following names of food and drink under the right headings on the menu.
- •17. A. Translate the following words and word-combinations from the text.
- •In search of good English food
- •18. Translate the proverbs into Ukrainian and explain them in English.
- •19. Match the following English idioms to their respective dictionary definitions.
- •20. Rewrite the sentences in non-idiomatic English.
- •21. Fill in the text with English equivalents of the words. Food for Thought
- •22. Which are the odd men out?
- •23. Complete the table by giving examples for each category. Types of Food
- •24. Fill in the blanks with the right word.
- •24. Read, translate and retell the text. Chocolate – like falling in love …
- •25. Translate into English.
- •26. Write the recipe of your favourite dessert.
- •27. Read, translate and retell the text. Ukrainian cookery
- •Ice Cream
- •29. Translate the dialogue into English.
- •30. Write your own dialogue “At the restaurant” and act it in the class.
- •31. Match two columns. Table manners
- •32. Read and translate the text. Garlic: Nature’s oldest remedy
- •33. Fill in the blanks with the right word.
- •34. Crossword
- •The Participle
- •The Forms of the Participle
- •TheFunctions of the Participle in the Sentence
- •Insert Participle I or Participle II
- •Predicative Constructions with the Participle The Objective Participial Construction
- •The Subjective Participial Construction
- •The Prepositional Absolute Participial Construction
- •Reading with pleasure No Story by o.Henry
- •1. Add more information to the following:
1. Translate the sentences into English
Якби він працював регулярно протягом усього семестру, зараз він би не боявся екзаменів.
Якби ми відіслали листа учора, вони б отримали його завтра вранці.
Якби ми знали його домашню адресу, ми б повідомили йому про результати екзаменів ще вчора.
Ви б краще знали мову, якби прочитали влітку декілька книжок англійською мовою.
Якби він мав почуття гумору, він би не образився.
Якби вони були закохані один в одного, вони б давно одружилися.
Якби я приніс словник , я зміг би перекласти цю статтю сьогодні.
Wishes (If only)
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Form |
Use |
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wish/if only (regret about the present) |
+ past simple/past continuous |
we’d like something to be different in the present |
I wish you were here. (It’s a pity you are not here now.)
She wishes she could play the piano. (She cannot play the piano.)
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Form |
Use |
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wish/if only (regret about the past) |
+ past perfect |
regret that something happened or didn’t happen in the past |
If only you had told me about your problems. (You didn’t tell me about your problems.)
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Form |
Use |
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wish/if only (impossible wish for a future change) |
+ would + bare infinitive |
a) polite request implying dissatisfaction or lack of hope; b) to express our desire for a change in a situation or wish to express dissatisfaction |
I wish he would stop making that noise. (But I don’t think he will.)
I wish you would be more careful and attentive!(Please be more careful and attentive!)
In wishes, we go one tense back. This means that we use the Past Simple in the present or the Past Perfect in the past.
She is not here. I wish she were here. (present)
I didn’t tell him about it yesterday. I wish I had told him about it yesterday.
Practice
Fill in the gaps with an appropriate auxiliary verb.
Example: I’m not very tall but I wish …was/were…
I’m not at home but I wish I ………………………………………………. .
I can’t sing well but I wish I ………………………………………………. .
I didn’t go to the doctor but I wish I ………………………………………. .
I don’t earn a lot of money but I wish I ………………................................ .
She probably won’t listen but I wish she ………………………………….. .
She is not going to the cinema but I wish she ……………………………… .
They haven’t got any children but they wish they ………………………… .
Jim didn’t tell me the truth but I wish he …………………………………... .
I can’t move into a new flat but I wish I …………………………………… .
I didn’t see the film but I wish I ……………………………………………. .
He doesn’t have a driver’s license but he wishes he ……………………….. .
I don’t have a car but I wish I ………………………………………………. .
Donna doesn’t live close to university but she wishes she ………………… .
He won’t talk about his problems but I wish he …………………………… .
She is not qualified enough for the job but she wishes she ………………... .
Complete the conversations using auxiliary verbs.
Example: A: Do you have breakfast regularly?
B: No, I don’t, but I wish I did.
A: Can you speak Japanese?
B: No, ______________________________________________________ .
A: Did you eat vegetables?
B: No, ______________________________________________________ .
A: Is the weather nice today?
B: No, ______________________________________________________ .
A: Do you know how to play the guitar?
B: No, ______________________________________________________ .
A: Are you good at languages?
B: No, ______________________________________________________ .
A: Did you prepare for the test?
B: No, ______________________________________________________ .
A: Is it hard to learn a second language?
B: Yes, _____________________________________________________ .
Make as many wishes as you can for the following situations.
Example: You are hungry. What do you wish?
I wish I’d eaten breakfast.
I wish I could go to the bar and buy a sandwich.
I wish I were at the restaurant.
1. You are very busy and have a lot of things to do today. 2. You are tired. 3. You want to go swimming but it’s too cold. 4. You’d like to change your life.
5. You’d like to study abroad.
Write sentences as in the example:
You don’t have enough time.
I wish I had enough time. If I had enough time, I would go to the theatre tonight.
You wanted to go to the opera house but you couldn’t buy any tickets anywhere.
It’s a pity I can’t play piano.
I’m sorry I didn’t know you were coming.
You want to visit India but you are frightened to fly.
Michael wanted to go to the park but it was cold yesterday.
You went on holiday; your camera as stolen.
You want to make a cake but you’ve run out of flour.
You wanted to phone Alex but you lost his phone number.
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
A: I wish you ………………… (try) harder with your physics home.
B: Sorry. It is very difficult.
A: If only Kelly ………………….. (call) me.
B: Don’t worry. I’m sure he’ll phone soon.
A: I wish I …………………… (afford) some new DVDs.
B: Would you like to borrow some of mine?
A: I’m bored. I wish ……………………. (arrange) to go out tonight.
B: I’m going to the theatre. Why don’t you come with me?
A; I wish I…………………. (not/shout) at the children like that.
B: Why? They were being very naughty.
A; If only we …………………… (go) to Italy last summer.
B: We could go this year if you like.
A: Are you going to Ann’s party on Saturday?
B: No. I wish I …………………….. (go), because I’m sure it will be fun.
A: If only it …………………. (stop) raining.
B: Yes. Then we could go to the park.
A: I wish I …………………… (be) back at university again.
B: Those were great days, weren’t they?
A: I wish Nick ………………… (stop) listening to music so loudly.
B: Why don’t you ask him to turn it down?
A: If only I …………………….. (buy) those jeans I saw today.
B: Why not go back and buy them tomorrow?
A: I wish you ……………………. (help) me with the housework more often.
B: What would you like me to do?
Translate the sentences into English.
Вона жалкує, що не знала про це раніше.
Прикро, що йде дощ. Я б хотів, щоб була хороша погода, тоді ми змогли б поїхати відпочити.
Прикро, що вона така легковажна.
Якби зараз було літо!
Прикро, що ви не зайшли до нас учора.
Я жалкую, що не недослухався до вашої поради.
Мені б дуже хотілося, щоб ви не перебивали мене щохвилини.
Вони пожалкували, що не полетіли до Одеси літаком, вони б зберегли стільки часу!
Прикро, що я не можу прочитати цю книгу мовою оригіналу.
Мені надзвичайно прикро, що я не зможу завтра відвідати вашу лекцію.
Прикро, що я не зможу бути з вами.
Якби ти його бачила саме тоді!
Як би я хотів мати годинник.
Прикро, що ви не прийшли раніше. Ви б зустрілися з моєю сестрою.
Прикро, що я не розповів йому про це вчора.
Я жалкував, що запитав його про це.
Коли б тільки мої батьки мешкали у Києві!
Прикро, що я не взяв у борг грошей і не придбав словник. Тепер його немає в продажу.