- •Английский язык для cтудентов бакалаврИата
- •Unit 1 family
- •Vocabulary
- •1.4 Fill in the correct pronoun.
- •Grammar: Verb to be – быть, являться, находиться, существовать
- •1.5 Fill in the correct form of the verb.
- •Grammar: Plurals
- •Grammar: there is/are – есть/имеется, существуют
- •My family
- •1.12 Translate the sentences.
- •1.13 Fill in the blanks with the English words.
- •1.14 Complete these sentences with some / any / somebody / anybody / anyone / nobody / anything / nothing / anywhere.
- •1.15 Fill in the gaps with pronouns: some, something, nothing, anything, somewhere.
- •Grammar: Verb to have – иметь
- •1.16 Make sentences with the verb to have. Example: I usually have breakfast at 8 o’clock.
- •1.17 Complete these sentences. Use an expression from the box and put the verb into the correct form.
- •Grammar: Basic Forms of the Verb.
- •Introducing People (formal, informal)
- •Leisure
- •At a Shop
- •1.21Read the verbs correctly. Waited, lived, want, stay, shipped, equipped, entered, functioned, defend, stopped, attended, trained, closed, sailed, hoped, answered.
- •1.22 Complete the sentences with verbs from the box in the correct form (Present or Past Simple).
- •1.23 Write questions for these answers.
- •1.24 Write questions for these answers. Use a word from the box to start each question.
- •1.28 Choose the correct form of the verb.
- •1.29 Translate the sentences into Russian .
- •Unit 2 higher education
- •Vocabulary
- •2.3 Read these numerals according to the models,
- •Higher education in great britain
- •2.7 Complete sentences with the words from the list.
- •Grammar: Degrees of Comparison
- •2.8 Change the adjectives according to the models.
- •Grammar: Conjunctions of Comparison
- •2.9 Translate the sentences.
- •2.10 Open the brackets.
- •2.11 Translate the word combinations with most.
- •2.12 Answer the following questions.
- •2.13 Translate the sentences.
- •2.14 Rewrite these sentences, putting the verbs in the passive. Keep them in the same tense, and remove they, we, etc.
- •2.15 Learn the names of the faculties.
- •History of the university
- •Past Participle
- •2.21 Fill in (very) little, a little, (very) few or a few.
- •St petersburg state marine technical university
- •2.24 Put the verb into the correct form.
- •2.25 Put the verb into the correct form, Past Continuous or Past Simple.
- •Student life
- •2.29 Read the text and tell your partner about your group and studies. Our group and our studies
- •2.30 Answer the following questions and then tell the group about your activity at the University.
- •2.31 Read and pay attention to prepositions of position: in, on, at.
- •2.32 Put in the correct prepositions in, at, on. Translate the sentences.
- •Academic mobility
- •The russian federation
- •The father of russian cities, novgorod
- •3.6 Translate the sentences into Russian and then back into English.
- •3.7 Put these words in the correct order to make questions.
- •3.8 In this exercise you have to read a sentence and then write another sentence with the same meaning.
- •Saint-petersburg
- •3.10 Fill in the prepositions if they are necessary.
- •5.The Copper Horseman is situated …the Decembrists`Square …the embankment …the Neva. 6.The Summer Gardens were laid …1704.
- •The capital of fountains
- •Famous russian museums
- •3.18 Choose the English equivalents.
- •3.19 Translate the sentences.
- •3.20 Complete the sentences with the proper modal verb.
- •3.21 Obligation and advice.. Choose the best for these sentences.
- •3,26 Answer the questions using the prepositions given.
- •Russian nobel prizewinners
- •Unit 4. The world of culture
- •Vocabulary
- •The world heritage
- •Grammar: Objective Construction
- •Verb groups followed by the Infinitive Construction
- •4.11 Translate the sentences.
- •4.12. Fill in the particle to before the infinitive where necessary and translate the sentences.
- •4.13 Read the text and say what kind of art you are interested in.
- •Visual arts
- •Painting
- •4.14 Now match the words from a with their definitions from b.
- •Leonardo da vinci (1452-1519)
- •Architecture
- •The master
- •Sergey rachmaninoff
- •Rock and pop music
- •Literature
- •F.M.Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- •Charles dickens (1812-1870)
- •4.29 Read and translate the sentences paying attention to the prepositions at the end of relative clauses.
- •Do you care about your health?
- •Grammar: Substitutes one (ones), that (those)
- •5.6 Translate the sentences. Pay attention to the words: one (ones), that (those).
- •Vocabulary
- •The olympics
- •Making, accepting and refusing requests.
- •Unit 6. My future profession
- •Vocabulary
- •What is engineering
- •Mechanical engineering
- •Naval engineering
- •Marine engineering
- •6.15 Pay attention to phrasal verbs, guess their meaning from the context of the sentence.
- •Landmarks of science
- •Steve jobs
- •6.26 Complete the proverbs with the words from the box. Choose and memorize three of them.
- •Appendix 1
- •Irregular verbs
- •Appendix 2 active voice
- •Passive voice
- •Appendix 3 word-building
- •7. Составные существительные
- •8. Составные прилагательные
- •Appendix 4 business letters
- •Addressing an envelope
- •Some types of business letter
- •Some examples of business letter
- •1. Memo
- •2. Letter of application
- •3. Letter of complaint
- •4. Fax Message
- •5. Cv / resume Curriculum Vitae
- •6. Letter of inquiry
- •7. Answer to the Letter of Invitation
- •8. Letter of Complaint
- •9. Answer to inquiry letter
- •Practice
- •Appendix.5
- •Interruptng
2.24 Put the verb into the correct form.
Examples: Please don’t make so much noise. I am studying (study).
Listen to these people. What language are they speaking (speak)?
1. Look! It … (snow). 2. Please be quiet. I … (try) to concentrate. 3. Why … (you / look) at me like that? Have I said anything wrong? 4. You … (make) a lot of noise. Can you be a bit quieter? 5. He is still ill but he … (get) better slowly. 6. The population of the world … (rise) very fast. 7. I … (not / work) this week. I’m on holiday. 8. Why … (you wear) your coat today? It’s very warm. 9. The economic situation is already very bad and is … (to become) worse.
2.25 Put the verb into the correct form, Past Continuous or Past Simple.
Example: While Jane was cooking … (cook) the dinner, the phone rang (ring).
1. George … (fall) off the ladder while he … (paint) the ceiling. 2. Ann … (wait) for me when I … (arrive). 3. I … (not / drive) very fast when the accident … (happen). 4. Tom … (take) a photograph of me while I … (not / look). 5. We … (not / go) out because it … (rain). 6. What … (you / do) at this time yesterday? 7. The phone … (ring) when I … (have) a shower. 8. It … (begin) to rain when I … (walk) home.
2.,26 Link the sentences. Use: and, then, after that, when, before.
1. On Saturdays I meet my friends for coffee. We go to the cinema. 2. She has breakfast. She leaves for university. 3. On Sundays we have a family dinner. We watch a movie. 4. I get up. The alarm clock rings. 5. She has a shower. She gets dressed.
Student life
2.27 What do you know about student life in Russia – cultural, sport,
scientific? What do you know about student life at your university?
Read the text and say which event or activity do you take part in?
At SMTU learning is not confined to the classroom. There is a wide range of social, recreational and sports activities. There are also a lot of annual traditional and cultural events to look forward to.
Students’ social life is planned to encourage their creativity and abilities. A wide range of students’ activities in the SMTU includes a variety of festivals such as “KVN” clubs, intellectual games (“What? Where? When?”, Brain Ring), various competitions and parties. “Korabel” club offers to try your hand at singing in “Gaudeamus” choir, a patriotic club, dancing, drumming, photo-, theatre-, dj-, showmen studios and others. Balls, holidays, contests and marine festivals are held all year long.
University students’ scientific life is marked by participating in the All-Russia Science Festival, the International Cultural-educational technical higher school course of the Shanhai Cooperation Union countries and Students Scientific Forum “Lomonosov’s Land”.
There are sport and fitness clubs at the University. They hold chess, rowing, sailing, billiards, football, basketball, volleyball sport competitions and tournaments. Every spring practically all the students take part in sport competitions “Lotsmanskaya Mile”.
2.28 Is it good to be a student? Why? Work in pairs: ask and answer
questions.