- •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:
Reading for pleasure Charles Dickens
1812-1870
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth on the southern coast of England. His father was a clerk at the office of a Large naval station there, and the family lived on his small salary. They belonged to the Lower middle class. The father was often transferred from place to place and there was always talk letwern the parents about money, bills and debts.
Charles’s first teacher was a kind young man from Oxford, under whose influence Charles grew ford of books. At 10 he read Defoe, Fielding, Smollett, Goldsmith and translations of some European and other authors.
In 1822 the family moved into London in one of the poorest part of it. Charles was the eldest son, but he was not sent to school again. The father made no plans for the education of his children. He was an easy-going man who always spent more money than he could afford. Soon he lost his job and was imprisoned for debt. All the property the family had was sold, even Charles’s favourite books, and the boy was put to work in a blacking factory. He worked hard washing bottles for shoe-polish and putting labels on them while his parents and sisters, and brothers all lived in the Marshalsea debtors prison.
After paid debts, Charles got a chance to go to school.
Then he continued his education himself.
In 1832 Dickens became a parliamentary reporter.
Not yet thirty, Dickens was the most popular writer in England.
Dickens has a style of his own. The secret of Dickens’s Style lies in the combination of the strictest realism of detail with fantasy.
The great writer died more than 130 years ago, but everybody still enjoys reading his books.
Dombey and Son Part II
Dombey sat in the corner of the dark room in a great arm-chair by the bed, and Son lay in a little cradle which was put on a low bench in front of the fire.
Dombey was about forty-eight years old. Son was about forty-eight minutes. Dombey was rather bald and rather red. Son was very bald and very red.
Dombey had looked forward to this event for a long time, and now he was happy.
"The_House will once again," said Mr. Dombey, "be not only in name, but in fact Dombey and Son; Dom-bey and Son!"
"He will be called Paul, of course," said Mr. Dombey. "His father's name and his grandfather's! I wish his grandfather were alive now."
And again he said proudly: "Dom-bey and Son!"
In those three words was the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were made to carry their ships; winds blew for or against them; stars and planets moved in their orbits to keep stable a system of which they were the centre.
Mr. Dombey had been married ten years and until this day had had no child.
No child to speak of. There was a girl six years old. She was sitting now in a corner of the room. But what was a girl to Dombey and Son!
He said, "Florence, you may go and look at your pretty brother, if you like. Don't touch him!"
II
The offices of Dombey and Son were in the City of London. Everywhere there were shops selling things necessary for ships and sailing.
The master and owner of one of these shops was an elderly gentleman whose name was Solomon Gills. His friends called him old Sol. He lived here, too, all alone with his nephew Walter, a boy of fourteen.
It was half past five o'clock and an autumn afternoon. The work in the City was over, and people were going home.
"Where is Walter, I wonder!" said Solomon Gills after looking at his watch. "Dinner is ready, and no Walter."
"Hallo, Uncle Sol"
"Hallo, my boy!" cried the old man, turning round. "What! you are here, are you!"
A cheerful-looking, merry boy, fresh from running-home in the rain; with a pleasant face, bright eyes and curly hair.
"Well, Uncle, how are you? Is dinner ready? I'm so hungry."
"Dinner is ready and waiting for you," said Solomon. "I am also hungry."
"Come along then. Uncle!" cried the boy. "Hurrah for the admiral!"
"Not the admiral!" replied Solomon Gills. "You mean the Lord Mayor."
"No, I don't," cried the boy. "Hurrah for the admiral! Hurrah for the admiral! Forward!"
The uncle and nephew went into the back parlour and sat down to dinner.
“The Lord Mayor, Walter," said Solomon, "for ever. No more admirals. The Lord Mayor is your admiral. Listen to me, Walter. Look there, at the wall."
"Why, who has put my silver mug there, on a nail?" exclaimed the boy.
"I have," said his uncle. "No more mugs now. We must begin to drink out of glasses today, Walter. We are men of business. We belong to the City. We started in life this morning."
"All right, Uncle," said the boy. "I'll drink out of anything you like. Hurrah for the – "
"Lord Mayor," interrupted the man.
"For the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs," said the boy. "Long life to them!"
The uncle nodded his head. "And now," he said, "let's hear something about the Firm."
"Oh, there's not much to say about the Firm, Uncle," said the boy. "It's a very dark place, and in the room where I sit there's an iron safe and some cards about ships which are going to sail, and some desks and stools, and some books, and some boxes."
"Nothing else?" said the uncle.
"No, nothing else."
"Has Mr. Dombey been there today?" asked the uncle.
"Oh yes! In and out all day."
"Did he notice you?”
"Yes, he did. He came up to my place – he was so stiff, Uncle – and said, 'Oh, you are the son of Mr. Gills?' 'Nephew, Sir,' I said. 'I said nephew, boy’ said he. But I am sure he said son, Uncle."
"It's no matter.”
"No, it's no matter. But he was very stiff, I thought. Then he told me that you had spoken to him about me and that he had found me work in the House, and that I must be attentive and punctual, and then he went away. I thought he did not like me much."
"You mean, I suppose," said his uncle, "that you didn't like him much."
"Well, Uncle," replied the boy, laughing, "perhaps so. I never thought of that."
III
After dinner Solomon lighted a candle and went down into the little cellar, while his nephew held the light. He returned with a very old bottle covered with dust.
"Why, Uncle Sol!" said the boy, "what are you doing? This is the wonderful Madeira! – there is only one more bottle!"
Uncle Sol nodded bis head to show that he knew very well what he was doing. He put the bottle on the table.
At this moment the door opened, and a man in a wide suit of blue entered the room. He had a hook in place of his right hand, and a thick stick in his left hand. His eyebrows were very black and bushy. He took off his hat and sat down at the table. This was Captain Ned Cuttle, an old friend of Solomon Gills.
He took the bottle, looked at it and said:
"The old Madeira?"
"Yes," replied Solomon.
Captain Cuttle whistled. Solomon filled the glasses.
"Walter," said Captain Cuttle, "I wish you success, my boy!"
"Now," said old Solomon, "we must drink to the House, Ned, – Walter's House. Why, it may be his house one of these days. Who knows? Sir Richard Wittington married his master's daughter."
"Come back Wittington, Lord Mayor of London," said the Captain.
"And though Mr. Dombey hasn't a daughter," Sol began.
"Yes, yes, he has. Uncle," said the boy, reddening and laughing.
"Has he?" cried the old man.
"Oh, I know he has," said the boy. "Some of the people in the office were talking about it today. And they say, Uncle and Captain Cuttle, that he does not like her and does not pay any attention to her. He only thinks about his son. That's what they say. Of course, I don't know."
"You see, he knows all about her already," said Solomon Gills to the Captain.
"Nonsense, Uncle," cried the boy, laughing and reddening again.
"The son is a little in our way, I am afraid, Ned," said the old man to continue the joke.
"Very much," said the Captain.
"Nevertheless we'll drink to him," went on Sol. "So here's to Dombey and Son!"
"Oh, very well. Uncle," said the boy merrily. "Here's to Dombey