2.3 Cramming for success.

Task 2.

To revise (re-reading and going over) – просматривать, пересматривать

to cram (preparing intensively интенсивно готовиться) - зубрить

past papers (exam papers from previous years)– конспекты с прошлых лет

learnt off by heart (learning things by memory)– выученный наизусть

a rote-learning - зубрежка

to use mnemonics (memory tricks)– использовать мнемонику

to bury yourself in your books (to read a huge amount )– зарываться в книги

to know the subject inside out (you know the subject 100 percent знать на сто процентов) - знать предмет наизусть

Task 3. Idioms.

• a piece of cake – проще простого

• Two heads are better than one - Одна голова – хорошо,а две – лучше.

• to burn the midnight oil – полуночничать

• by the skin of my teeth – изо всех сил

• learn poems by heart – учить наизусть

• Learn parrot fashion – учить машинально, не вдумываясь в смысл

Task 4. Idioms.

to fall behind with – отставать

to just breeze through – выполнять что-либо легко и быстро

to get the hang of – добиться успеха в выполнении после длительной практики

went blank – растеряться

2.4 LANGUAGE LEARNING

Task 1.

• fluently

• language laboratory

• pronunciation

• like a native

• I'm teaching myself

• parrot-fashion

• accent

• I picked it up

• keep a record

• grammar

• vocabulary

• knowledge is very limited

• mother tongue

• He is bi-lingual

• To make slow progress

• monolingual

• to get by

• He is multi-lingual

2.5 Getting down to work

Task 2.

to find it difficult to get down to work – для меня было довольно сложно приступить к работе

I can't concentrate on anything – я не мог ни на чем сосредоточиться

I have difficulty in keeping up with them - у меня были проблемы с поддерживанием себя на их уровне

I sometimes have problems with following the lessons – у меня были проблемы на уроках

I'm falling behind with my studies – я отстал от учебы

I put off doing it until the last minute – я откладывал все до последней минуты

to invent silly excuses – придумывать глупые оправдания

to get through my final exams – выдерживать мои выпускные экзамены

I scraped through the mock exams - я едва сдал пробные экзамены

passed with flying colours – сдать блестяще

to catch up with them – догнать их

Task 3.

to get down to doing something to keep up with someone/something to take something down to fall behind (with something) to hand something in to put something off to get through (something) to scrape through (something) to catch up (with someone/something) to go through something

to start work on something to remain at the same standard or position as someone else to record in writing what someone is saying to be behind with something, not at the level expected to give something to someone in a position of authority to postpone, to decide to do something at a later date to pass an exam or test to pass an exam but with a very low grade to reach the same standard or position as someone else to check that something is correct, to examine something