- •Unit V Правила чтения Чтение сочетаний гласных с согласными
- •Grammar Основные формы глагола (The main forms of the verbs)
- •Прошедшее неопределенное время (The Past Indefinite Tense)
- •Grammar exercises
- •1. Give the past form of the verbs, arrange them according to the pronunciation of the endings:
- •2. Replace the infinitives given in brackets by the Past Simple. Translate the sentences.
- •3. Put in there was / there, wasn’t / was there? / there weren’t / were there?
- •4. A) Make up questions and answers from the following words.
- •5. Use the Present Simple, the Present Continuous or the Past Simple. Translate into Russian.
- •6. Translate into English.
- •Местоимение other и его производные (other and its derivatives – another, the others, others)
- •Grammar exercises
- •7. Read, translate and explain the usage of the word other and its derivatives.
- •8. Choose the right variant.
- •Причастие прошедшего времени (The Past Participle)
- •Grammar exercises
- •9. Write three forms of the following verbs.
- •10. Translate into Russian.
- •11. Translate into English.
- •I (you, we, they) have worked. He (she, it) has worked.
- •I (you, we, they) have not (haven’t) worked. He (she, it) has not (hasn’t) worked.
- •Grammar exercises
- •12. Read and translate.
- •13. Make up sentences, use the following word combinations:
- •15. Write for or since. Translate into Russian.
- •16. Put the verbs in the Present Perfect or the Past Simple:
- •17. Choose the form of the Participle in each sentence.
- •18. Translate into English.
- •19. Look at the following international words, guess their meaning and check the pronunciation:
- •Word building
- •20. Translate the following derivative words:
- •Active vocabulary
- •Text and vocabulary exercises
- •25. Find in the text the words or phrases which mean the same as:
- •26. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box:
- •27. Answer the following questions.
- •28. Read and translate the text below to learn about the main city of Russia. Moscow
- •30. Say whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.
- •31. Work with a partner. Ask and answer questions to the text using words and word combinations below:
Grammar exercises
1. Give the past form of the verbs, arrange them according to the pronunciation of the endings:
[t] [d] [id]
1. Walk, arrive, wash, drop, spell, dry, watch, dust, open, add, kiss, hurry, travel, close, start, post, tidy, cover, want, play, stop, finish, regret, work, finish.
2. Replace the infinitives given in brackets by the Past Simple. Translate the sentences.
1. The weather is nice today, but it (to be) bad yesterday. 2. I (to get) to the market myself last time, but now I don’t remember how to get there. 3. Five years ago my dad (to sell) his farm and (to buy) a business in a small town. 4. Jilius Caesar (to found) the Tower of London. 5. He isn’t playing tennis tomorrow afternoon, he (not/to play) tennis yesterday. 6. Shishkin (not / to create) his picture “Morning in the Pine - Wood” alone. The no - less famous painter Savitsky (to paint) the bear with her three little cubs. 7. I (to spend) my childhood, boyhood and youth in a little ordinary town on the banks of the Volga. 8. I’m a doctor now, but two years ago I (to be) a student at a medical college in Moscow. 9. When we (to be) students, we (to like) to walk to college in a fine weather. 10. Agatha Christie (to write) over 75 detective stories. 11. Yesterday he (not / have) dinner again. 12. We (not / to write) a test in physics yesterday. 13. An American Thomas Edison (to make) the first machine with moving pictures in 1891. It (to be) called a kinetoscope. 14. The game cricket (to develop) hundreds of years ago from somebody hitting an object with a piece of wood.
3. Put in there was / there, wasn’t / was there? / there weren’t / were there?
1.’We stayed at a nice hotel.’ ‘Did you? … a swimming pool?’ 2. I found a wallet in the street but … any money in it. 3.’… many people at the meeting?’ ‘No, very few.’ 4. I’m sorry I’m late. … a lot of traffic. 5. The radio wasn’t working because … any batteries in it. 6. I was hungry but … anything to eat. 7. … any letters for me yesterday? 8. … a football match on TV last night but I didn’t see it. 9. The suitcase was empty. … any clothes in it. 10. We didn’t visit the museum. … enough time.
4. A) Make up questions and answers from the following words.
Questions Jim Alison
Where / to go Kenya Scotland
When / to go last June last October
How long / to stay three weeks one week
Where / to stay a camping a hotel
What /to do to take photos to go walking
What / to see a lot of wild animals: elephants, lions, some beautiful lakes (not the Loch
giraffes (not crocodiles) Ness Monster)
Enjoy / the holiday?
B). Make up questions and answer them:
1) morning / you / time / get / up / what / in / the / did? 2) dinner / night / have / what / last / you / for / did? 3) did / train / last / you / by / when / travel? 4) do / what / Sunday / you / last / did? 5) go / on / you / how / university / did / to / Monday?
C). Which question word is used to put the question to the bold word or expression?
A. Who B. When C. What
D.Where E. Why
1. It isn’t cold in England in the winter. 2. We are going to the cinema tonight. 3. I’d like to listen to the radio. 4. I borrowed money from my friends. 5. The last exercise was the easiest because there weren’t any new words in it.
D). Put general, alternative, special and disjunctive questions to the following sentences:
1) Three weeks later I left for Moscow. 2) Last week my Dad went to work on foot. 3) I saw the new TV play yesterday. 4) I watched the TV program till midnight. 5) Tom learnt his physics lessons in the evening.