- •Материалы для самостоятельной работы по английскому языку
- •Умения, необходимые для самостоятельной работы.
- •Activity work № 1.
- •I.1. Revise the following grammar:
- •II. 1. Read the text below:
- •Great Britain
- •England
- •Scotland
- •Northern Ireland
- •Ireland
- •The Structure of Government in Great Britain
- •Open the brackets using Present, Past or Future Simple. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •If the verbs are used in the Active or Passing Voice:
- •Use the verbs in brackets in the correct form (Active or Passive Voice). Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •Look back in the text and find the sentences containing Participle I and Participle II. Translate them and determine their functions.
- •Choose the right modal verb in the following sentences.
- •Comprehension of the text
- •III. 1. Answer the following questions:
- •Speaking
- •5. Develop the following points:
- •6. Make up a dialogue between two friends (one of them is from England, the other is from your country), comparing the countries.
- •Activity work № 2
- •I.1. Revise the following grammar:
- •II.1. Read the text below:
- •Comprehension of the Text
- •Speaking
- •Activity work № 3
- •Английский язык для инженеров: Учеб./ т.Ю. Полякова, е.В. Синявская, о.И. Тынкова, э.С. Улановская. – 5-е изд., стереотип. – м.: Высш. Шк., 2000.
- •Большой англо-русский словарь (любой издание).
- •Учебник английского языка для сельскохозяйственных и лесотехнических вузов/ и.З. Новоселова, е.С. Александрова, л.Е. Гринцева и др. – 4-е изд., перераб. – м.: Высш. Шк., 2010.
- •The work consists of four stages:
- •Preparatory Stage
- •I.1. Revise the following grammar:
- •2.Before you start working at the text translate the following words. Try to remember them:
- •Lexical and grammar work on the texts
- •II.1.Read and translate: Public Holidays and Celebrations British Holidays
- •Christmas
- •New Year's Day
- •2. Define the tense of the verb in the following sentences (Active or Passive). Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •Open the brackets using the verbs in the correct form:
- •Form all possible questions to which the following sentences are the answers:
- •Insert prepositions: in, on, at, by, from, till where necessary.
- •Read the text and put the words in brackets into the correct form. Translate the text. Tricks on April Fool’s Day
- •Comprehension of the text
- •III.1. Answer the following questions:
- •Speaking
- •IV.1. Imagine that you are talking with your groupmate about your last vacation. Complete some sentences and make up your own dialogue.
- •Make up the short story about Valentine’s Day-February 14.
- •3. Make up the story on the topic: “ My Favourite Holiday” Activity work № 4
- •Английский язык для инженеров: Учеб./ т.Ю. Полякова, е.В. Синявская, о.И. Тынкова, э.С. Улановская. – 5-е изд., стереотип. – м.: Высш. Шк., 2000.
- •Большой англо-русский словарь (любой издание).
- •Учебник английского языка для сельскохозяйственных и лесотехнических вузов/ и.З. Новоселова, е.С. Александрова, л.Е. Гринцева и др. – 4-е изд., перераб. – м.: Высш. Шк., 2010.
- •Preparatory Stage
- •I.1. Revise the following grammar:
- •Lexical and grammar exercises on the text
- •II.1. Read, translate and remember the following words:
- •Read and translate the following words and word- combinations.
- •Read and translate the texts into Russian. Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
- •Christopher Wren (1632-1723)
- •Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- •Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
- •Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
- •Give three forms of the verbs.
- •Put the verbs in brackets into correct voice and tense-forms.
- •Underline the forms of the infinitives in the following sentences. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •Complete the sentences with by, in, between, to, at, of, or, for.
- •Find the Gerund in each sentence. Define the functions of the Gerund. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •Look back in the texts and copy out some sentences containing the Gerund. Translate them into Russian. Comprehension of the text
- •III.1. Correct the following statements. Begin with: I’m afraid that’s wrong; you are not quite right (mistaken); as far as I know; I don’t think so; I think so; according to the text.
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Speaking
- •IV.1. Use the following phrases and word combinations to express your opinion, translate them.]
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2. Define the tense of the verb in the following sentences (Active or Passive). Translate the sentences into Russian.
The tree is brightly decorated with tinsel, brilliant stars and shining balls of different colours.
Christmas is observed on the 25th of December.
This day was a festival long before the conversion to Christianity.
The Christmas bird, these days usually a turkey, is being prepared as well as pudding and cakes.
Pantomimes have been of the British Christmas for 200 years or more.
Most of the popular old carols were written in the nineteenth century.
In Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery, stands an enormous Christmas Tree.
Many customs connected with the celebration of Christmas go back to pagan times.
Open the brackets using the verbs in the correct form:
Most hotels and dance halls (to hold) a special dance on New Year’s Eve.
Nowadays Christmas (to have) practically no religious significance for the majority of the population of Britain.
Children born on New Year’s Day (to consider) to bring good fortune for the whole family.
Everybody ( to buy) bright balloons and paper hats and this makes everybody merry.
Form all possible questions to which the following sentences are the answers:
There are only six public holidays a year in Great Britain.
Christmas is observed on the 25th of December.
Christmas is celebrated in all parts of Britain except Scotland.
Remembrance Day commemorates those who died in World Wars I and II and later conflicts.
Insert prepositions: in, on, at, by, from, till where necessary.
The first man walked on the moon … 21 July 1969.
What are you doing… the weekend?
Columbus made his first voyage from Europe to America … 1492.
We often have a short holiday … Christmas.
We travelled overnight to Paris and arrived … 5 o’clock … Friday morning.
I started learning English … the age of five.
I’ll have written a composition … 5 o’clock.
Jazz became popular in the United States … the 1920s.
Read the text and put the words in brackets into the correct form. Translate the text. Tricks on April Fool’s Day
In 1698, a number of Londoners received invitations to see the lions washed in the Thames. This event ( describe) in newspapers. However, the same trick (repeat) in 1860, and again a lot of curious Londoners ( come) to enjoy the lions washed. In 1957 BBC Television played an even (hilarious) joke on its viewers. It showed a film about a spaghetti crop ( grow) in Southern Switzerland. Agricultural workers ( pick) long strands of spaghetti from bushes and the presenter of the film (comment) on the uniform length of the spaghetti and on the successful cultivation of “these vegetables”. After the programme there (be) a lot of calls from people who (not get) the joke and wanted to know where they (can) buy spaghetti bushes.