- •Vocabulary: Nationalities.
- •Text a. The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
- •Text b. The geographical position and economy of gb.
- •Text c. The political system of Great Britain.
- •Text d. The symbols of the uk.
- •Find out if the sentences are true or false and correct the mistakes.
- •Read and memorize the following words and word-combinations.
- •7. Choose the correct answer.
- •8. Fill in the blanks with prepositions.
- •9. Match the following English words with their Ukrainian equivalents.
- •10. Look at the names of the countries and write the corresponding adjectives.
- •Choose the right word for each sentence from the list below. As you can see, the letters in the words are all mixed up!
- •Rank the following kinds of geographical relief of the earth surface according to their height over the sea level.
- •Look at the words in the box and use them to write full sentences about what you can do in the Lake District.
- •Choose words from the box below to finish the sentences.
- •Fill in the gaps in the following sentences using one of the words in the box.
- •Grammar Present Simple
- •Verbs that are not used in the Continuous Tense:
- •1. Make sentences with the following words.
- •2. Complete the dialogue using the verbs in brackets. See the example.
- •3. Complete the dialogues by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •4. Complete the following text. Use the words in brackets. Put the verbs in the present simple.
- •Types of questions General question
- •Special question
- •Alternative question
- •Disjunctive (or Tail) Question
- •9. Make three questions to each of the sentences (special, general and disjunctive).
- •10. Make questions to the underline words.
Verbs that are not used in the Continuous Tense:
Stative verbs are not normally used in continuous tenses because they don’t describe action.
verbs denoting human senses - to see, to hear, to smell, to sound, to taste
verbs denoting thinking - to know, believe, to think (have an opinion), to doubt, to guess, to imagine, to mean, to realize, to recognize, to remember, to suppose, to understand
verbs denoting emotions – to love, to like, to dislike, to hate, to prefer, to need, to satisfy, to want, to wish
verbs denoting existence – to be, to exist
verbs denoting appearance - to appear, to resemble, to seem, to look
verbs denoting possession and relationships between things - to have, to contain, to depend, to belong, to concern, to consist of, to deserve, to fit, to include, to involve, to owe, to own, to possess
verbs denoting physical properties of objects – to measure (have length, etc.), to taste (have a flavour), to smell (give out a smell), to sound, to weigh (have weight)
Some verbs (such as be, have, imagine, look, see, smell, taste, think) are stative with one meaning and non-stative with another meaning.
E.g. Do you have your air-ticket with you? (state: possession)
Are you having lunch at the moment? (action: eating)
1. Make sentences with the following words.
I You He/She/It We/You/They The company Our Research Department |
work live makes studies develops travel |
new solutions. a lot for work. foreign languages. for a multinational company. better products. in a city. |
2. Complete the dialogue using the verbs in brackets. See the example.
A: Where do you come (come) from?
B: I ____________ (come) from Finland.
A: What ____________ (you/do)?
B: I'm a software engineer. I ____________ (work) for Nokia.
A: And so where ____________ (you/live)? In Helsinki?
B: No, well, ____________ (not/live) there permanently. I ____________ (spend) the week there but every weekend I ____________ (go) back to a small town called Turku - that's where my wife ____________ (come) from.
A: ____________ (you/travel) to England often?
B: Yes, I ____________ (visit) two or three times a year.
3. Complete the dialogues by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
I. Brian: I need to speak to Gina about this new publicity brochure. __________ (you/know) where she is?
Diana: She ___________ (not/work) on Fridays. She gave up her full-time job and now she __________ (work) part-time.
Brian: Right. When __________ (she/come) to the office?
Diana: Well, she __________ (come) in from Monday to Thursday, but she ___________ (not/stay) all day. She usually __________ (start) at 9.00 and ___________ (go) home at about 2.15.
II. Laura: Have you got the details of the Easyjet flight? What time _________ (it/arrive) at Nice?
Claire: It __________ (get) in at 10.05. Now there's also a later one that __________ (go) from Luton at 19.00 but it _________ (not/get) in until 22.05.
Laura: That's a bit late. Did you check Eurostar?
Claire: Yes, there's a train that’s _________ (leave) Waterloo at 8.27 and that _________ (reach) Lille at 11.29. Then you have to change trains, but there's no problem because the Nice train _________ (not/leave) until 12.17, so you have 45 minutes. Then it _________ (stop) at a few stations on the way and ________ (arrive) at Nice at 20.06.