- •Unit II
- •Grammar The Possessive Pronouns
- •The Demonstrative Pronouns
- •Grammar exercises
- •1. Put the personal or possessive pronouns. Translate the sentences.
- •2. Open the brackets. Put the possessive pronouns.
- •3. Choose the correct variant to complete the sentences. Translate into Russian:
- •4. Complete the sentences.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •The Possessive Case
- •Grammar exercises
- •6. Read and translate.
- •7. Complete the sentences, use –‘s or of. Translate the sentences.
- •8. Translate into Russian, use the Possessive Case.
- •The verb to have (got)
- •I have We have
- •Grammar exercises
- •9. Put the verb to have (got) in the correct form. Translate into Russian.
- •10. Translate into English.
- •Pre-text exercises
- •16. Read and translate the text below focusing on geographical position, climate and resources of Russia. Russia
- •Text and vocabulary exercises
- •17. Find in the text the words or phrases which mean the same as:
- •18. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box:
- •19. Answer the following questions.
- •20. Retell the text “Russia” using the expressions below:
- •21. Read and translate the text below to learn about the main city of Russia. Moscow
- •23. Say whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.
- •24. Work with a partner. Ask and answer questions to the text using words and word combinations below:
- •25. Translate into English.
- •26. Find Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations:
Grammar exercises
9. Put the verb to have (got) in the correct form. Translate into Russian.
1. Their parents / a notebook. 2. The Browns / a nice house in the country. 3. We / a good time. 4. Every day I / breakfast at 8 o’clock. 5. Margie and her sister / wonderful voices. 6. You often / lunch in this café? 7. He / a bad cold? 8. You often / colds? 9. You usually / time for lessons? 10. He / time for a game of chess? 11. They / classes in the morning? 12. Our library / a rich collection of books in Russian and in many foreign languages with titles in every branch of science and technology. 13. Our solar system / nine (now probably ten) major planets. 14. The planet Mars / a rich texture with an amazingly dynamic present and an intricate, even paradoxical, past. 15. Our Milky Way system / 100 billion or so stars.
10. Translate into English.
1. У меня есть мечта поехать заграницу следующим летом. 2. У этих студентов есть несколько интересных изобретений. 3. Каждый день я обедаю в 12 часов. 4. Сейчас у нас урок английского языка. 5. Какие приборы у вас есть в лаборатории? 6. У нас сегодня конференция, посвященная великим изобретениям двадцатого столетия в области физики. 7. У вас есть сегодня лекция по истории? 8. У него нет диска. 10. Где ты обычно отдыхаешь во время перерыва? 11. Наша университетская библиотека имеет вебсайты, которые включают полезную информацию о коллекциях книг. 12. В противоположность (contrary to) альфа- и бета- лучам, гамма-лучи совсем не имеют заряда. 13. Сколько планет имеет наша солнечная система? 14. Мле́чный Путь или просто Гала́ктика – гигантская звёздная система, которая имеет огромное количество звёзд.
Pre-text exercises
11. Look at the following international words, guess their meaning and check the pronunciation:
story, Slavs, parliamentary, republic, million, nation, nationality, European, president, population, urban, modern, geographically, racial, isolated, ocean, limited, utility, historic, economic, cultural, territory, zone, climate, tundra, subtropics, taiga, continental, steppe, mineral, element, industrial, agricultural, chemical, machine, radar, electronic, component, transportation, communication, textile, problem, social, sphere.
Word building
12. Translate the following derivative words:
noun + -ship, -hood → noun
friend – friendship, leader – leadership, brother – brotherhood, child – childhood, mother – motherhood;
verb + -ive → adjective
to legislate – legislative, to communicate – communicative, to interact – interactive, to distribute – distributive;
noun + -ful / less → adjective
beauty – beautiful, help – helpful / helpless, use – useful / useless, harm – harmful / harmless, tree – treeless, joy – joyful, life – lifeless.
13. Form the words using suffixes -ship, -hood, -ive, -ful / less:
relation, partner, father, neighbor, illustration, demonstration, creation, water, air, success, shape, power.
14. Translate into Russian the following phrases:
long and complex story, East Slavs, racial group, eastern Europe, northern Asia, legislative power, the Head of State, to be classified as urban, to be geographically isolated, sea-border, time zones, a great variety of vegetation, communication equipment, significant scientific achievements, several climatic zones.
Active Vocabulary
15. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:
split into – раскалываться; разбиваться на части; to distribute – распределять; to be enclosed быть окруженным, защищенным; landlocked –окружённый сушей, закрытый; limited utility – ограниченного использования; endowed – обеспеченный, одаренный; in spite of – несмотря на; wealth – богатство; indispensable – необходимый, незаменимый; sizable – значительных размеров.
Обратите внимание на образование количественных и порядковых числительных. Количественные числительные: 1 – one, 2 – two, 3 – three, 4 – four, 5 – five, 6 – six, 7 – seven, 8 – eight, 9 – nine, 10 – ten, 11 – eleven, 12 – twelve. Числительные от 13 до 19 образуются путем прибавления суффикса –teen, например: 13 – thirteen, 14 – fourteen, 15 – fifteen, 17 – seventeen, 18 – eighteen. Числительные от 20 до 100 образуются прибавлением суффикса –ty: 20 – twenty, 30 – thirty, 50 – fifty, сложные количественные числительные пишутся через дефис: 45 – forty-five, 92 – ninety-two и т.д.
Числительные, которые употребляются с неопределенным артиклем: 100 – a (one) hundred, 1,000 – a (one) thousand, 1,000,000 – a (one) million.
Чтение сложных числительных выше 100: 109 – one hundred and nine; 694 – six hundred and ninety-four; in 1982 (nineteen eighty-two).
Порядковые числительные образуются прибавлением суффикса –th и всегда употребляются с определенным артиклем the: the seventh, the fifty-sixth и т.д. Исключение: 1 – the first, 2 – the second, 3 – the third, 5 – the fifth.