- •2. Build up your vocabulary:
- •3. Find out the words below in the text and detect what word is odd in each of the following sets:
- •4. Work with you partner, compile your own sentences with some of the following words and expressions and then read them to your partner to translate:
- •5. Make up statements matching phrases from column a with phrases from column b. Then translate the acquired sentences:
- •6. Analyze the forms of verb “to be” in the table below and:
- •7. Give short affirmative and negative answers to the following questions according to the model:
- •8. Translate into English:
- •9. Saying numbers in English:
- •Let me introduce myself
- •14. Build up your vocabulary:
- •15. Let’s speak on: a) answer the following questions and be ready to tell your groupmates about yourself:
- •To express your opinion
- •To agree with somebody
- •To disagree with somebody
- •17. Render into English:
- •Unit 2 Modern definitions of economics
- •1. Add these words and expressions to your active vocabulary. They will help you to understand the text ‘Modern definitions of economics’.
- •2. Read and render the text: Modern definitions of economics
- •3. Build up your vocabulary:
- •4. Find the answers to the following questions in the text:
- •5. Find in the text and: a) give Russian equivalent to the following expressions and make up your own sentences with some of them:
- •6. Work with you partner, compile your own sentences with some of the following words and expressions and then read them to your partner to translate:
- •7. Give English equivalents to the following words and expressions from the text:
- •8. Analyze the forms of verb “to have” in the table below:
- •9. Analyze the forms of “there is/are” construction in the table below:
- •10. Ask the questions to the following statements, then answer them according to the models.
- •11. Read the text “My University” and say how many Institutes are there: My University
- •12. Build up your vocabulary:
- •17. Render into English:
- •Unit 3 History review
- •1. Add these words and expressions to your active vocabulary. They will help you to understand the text below.
- •2. Read and render the text; match each part to the headings bellow. Give a title to the text as a whole:
- •3. Find Russian equivalents to the following words and expressions in the text (paragraphs a – d):
- •4. Test yourself, match expressions on the left with their translations on the right:
- •5. Work with you partner, compile your own sentences with some of the following words and expressions and then read them to your partner to translate:
- •6. Find English equivalents to the following words and expressions in the text (paragraphs e – h):
- •7. Read the following terms and explain their meaning in English:
- •8. Review the Structure of English sentence. Analyze the table below:
- •9. Review the structure of the Interrogative sentences. What types of Interrogative sentences do you know?
- •10. Answer the questions. Write the numbers in full:
- •11. Read the text “My working day” and say: How many classes a day does Irina usually have? My working day
- •12. Build up your vocabulary:
- •13. Lets speak on: Answer the questions below and tell about your usual working day.
- •14. Surf the Internet: An unforgettable weekend in New York
- •16. Render into English:
3. Find out the words below in the text and detect what word is odd in each of the following sets:
1. production – diverse – consumption – distribution
2. increase – inflation – fluctuations – growth
3. short-run – investment – savings – income
4. avoid – assist in – throughout – include
4. Work with you partner, compile your own sentences with some of the following words and expressions and then read them to your partner to translate:
goods and services; suggest; avoid; consistent with; include; market; aggregated indicator; gross domestic product; price indices; international trade; economic growth; business cycle; diverse; assist in; evaluation; increase; short-run; field of study; research
5. Make up statements matching phrases from column a with phrases from column b. Then translate the acquired sentences:
Column A |
Column B |
1. Macroeconomists develop models that explain the relationship between such factors as
2. Economics studies how individuals and societies 3. Macroeconomists study aggregated indicators such as
4. Economics is a social science seeking to analyze and describe
5. Microeconomics examines the behaviour of basic elements in the economy,
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a. GDP, unemployment rates, and price indices to understand how the whole economy functions. b. the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. c. seek to satisfy needs and wants. d. including individual agents (such as households and firms or as buyers and sellers) and markets, and their interactions. e. national income, output, consumption, unemployment, inflation, savings, investment, international trade and international finance. |
6. Analyze the forms of verb “to be” in the table below and:
|
Present Simple |
Past Simple |
Future Simple |
Affirmative |
I am |
I was |
I will be |
he she is it |
he she was it |
he she will be it |
|
we you are they |
we you were they |
we you will be they |
|
Negative |
I am not |
I was not |
I will not be |
he she is not it |
he she was not it |
he she will not be it |
|
we you are not they |
we you were not they |
we you will not be they |
|
Interrogative |
Am I ? |
Was I ? |
Will I be ? |
he Is she ? it |
he Was she ? it |
he Will she be ? it |
|
we Are you ? they |
we Were you ? they |
we Will you be ? they |
a) transform the following sentences into Past Simple and Future Simple changing, if necessary, modifiers:
1. Is this forecast true? 2. I am an economist. 3. Prices are low in this country. 4. She is not at home now. 5. Are you hungry? 6. Economics is the social science. 7. Sue is very busy this week. 8. All our savings are in that bank. 9. All the students are at University. 10. There are two areas of research.
b) make general questions according to the model:
Economics is an old science. – Is Economics an old science?
1. There are a variety of modern definitions of economics. 2. This model is a new. 3. We were not late for our classes yesterday. 4. A consumer will be pleased a lot. 5. Price indices are quite important for the international market. 6. Our input was increasing. 7. National income is a major indicator of a country economy health. 8. Business cycle of this firm will be short. 9. It is the finest University in a region. 10. Your investments were timely.
с) open the brackets and write the correct form of the verb:
1. I (be) home in-time. 2. Bread and butter (not/be) his usual breakfast last year. 3. In two weeks this boy (be) 6 years old. 4. The number of books to read for the exams (be) considerable. 5. A few students (be) present at the conference next month. 6. The great majority of writers, painters, and architects (be) talented people. 7. The number of young people entering higher institutions (not/be) great three years ago. 8. When your mother (be) at home? – She (be) at home in a week. 9. A lot of books (be) in bad condition because the building of the library needs repairing.10. How old (be) Jason when he went to school? 11. My aim (be) to make English grammar clear to everyone. 12. We (be) pupils last year, but now we (be) students. 13. I (not/be) in Khabarovsk now. I (be) in Vladivostok. 14. I think he (not/be) a doctor in some years. 15. My pens (not/be) on the desk. Where (be) they? 16. All my friends (be) at home tomorrow. 17. (be) she at work tomorrow? – Yes, she (be). 18. Where (be) your friend mow? – She (be) in her room. 19. Tom (be) ill yesterday. 20. ‘"The Coliseum"’ (be) a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.