- •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:
5. Use the Present Simple, the Present Continuous or the Past Simple. Translate into Russian.
A) 1. “How long your class (to last)?” “It usually (to last) two hours." 2. “How long your class (to last) on Wednesday morning?” “It only (to last) an hour." 3. He usually (to have) dinner at home. Yesterday he (to have) dinner in a restaurant with his friends. 4. He often (to bring) me flowers. 5. (you / meet) Paul yesterday? 6. My father (to work) in the garden now. 7. Mr Jones (to paint) his house last month. 7. The baby (not /to sleep) now. 8. He never (to drive) fast. 9. Lessy (to live) in Paris in 1978.
B) 1. Renaissance (to mean) “a new birth”, “a revival”. Thus we (to call) the time of the great revival of art and learning which (to cover) the 15th and 16th centuries and (to mark) the transition from the medieval to the modern world. 2.The metric system (to be) a system of measures and weights which (to be) first adopted in France. 3. Startford-on-Avon (to be) a small town in central England where Shakespeare (to be born). 4. Many thousand of years ago Cyprus (to be) famous for its copper. 5. The American astronaut Neil Armstrong (to become) the first person to set foot on the Moon on July 21, 1969. 6. Latin (to be) a dead language now, but it (to be) an international language some four centuries ago. 7. In Ancient Rome people (to use) sticks of bone or metal with a pointed end for writing on waxed tablets. They (to call) those sticks “styles”. Now this word (to mean) a mode of writing or painting. 8. Some two centuries ago, when there (not to be) trains, cars and trams, people (to travel) in carriages. In some carriages the driver (to stand) or (to sit) behind the carriage. Even when the train (to appear) some English writers still (to prefer) to make their heroes travel by cabs. 9. Your rhythm on the earth (to begin) first with the beat of your heart. When doctors (to measure) the force of the blood they (to hear) its rhythm. The rhythms of electronics (to be) a mystery to men a hundred years ago. But now we (to know) that light and sound and the atom in its orbit, each (to move) in its own rhythm. The earth (to move) in its own rhythm around the sun, as all the planets do.
6. Translate into English.
1. Я был вчера в музее. Мне очень понравилась выставка картин. 2. У тебя вчера были уроки? 3. Утром в лаборатории находился преподаватель и несколько студентов. 4. “Какой город ты посетил на прошлой недели?” “Я посетил Минск и видел там много интересных достопримечательностей”. 5. Анна была довольна результатами экзаменов, потому что она получила только «пятерки». 6.“Ты обычно обедаешь дома или в университете?” “В университете. Но вчера у нас было только четыре урока, поэтому я обедал дома”. 7. “Когда твой брат закончил институт?” “Два года назад. Сейчас он работает в банке”. 8. “Где ты жил в прошлом году?” “В прошлом году я жил в общежитии, а сейчас снимаю (арендую) комнату в многоквартирном доме”. 9. Галилео Галилей построил телескоп в 1609 году и сделал несколько важных открытий. 10. Мой брат не ходил вчера в библиотеку, эта книга есть у него дома. 11. Я не отправил моему другу телеграмму, хотя очень хотел сделать это. 12. Та гостиница стоила намного дешевле, чем эта.