- •About myself and my future career
- •1. Answer the questions in writing.
- •2. Use your answers and make up a topic about yourself.
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary used in all kinds of documents and forms:
- •Vocabulary work
- •Registration form
- •2. Copy out and fill in your own registration form for your University classes of English:
- •Registration form
- •About myself
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Give the English equivalents to the following.
- •4. Read the following statements and say whether they are true or false.
- •5. Ask 15 questions to the text and be ready to answer your groupmates’ questions.
- •6. Fill in suitable words:
- •7. Work with a partner. Ask him/her the following questions:
- •What subjects do you take at the University?
- •8. Give the English equivalents to the following:
- •9. Read the classroom vocabulary. Try to guess and/or look up the meaning of these phrases. Memorize them.
- •10. Make up a dialogue with a partner and use as many classroom expressions as possible.
- •Verb to be
- •1B. Write the full form (she is / we are not etc.).
- •3. Write full sentences. Use am/is/are each time.
- •4. Write positive or negative sentences. Use am / am not / is / isn't / are / aren't.
- •Irregular Plurals:
- •1. Write the plural:
- •3. Paraphrase the following using the possessive case:
- •5. Some of these sentences are right and some are wrong. Correct the sentences that are wrong. Write 'okay' if the sentence is right.
- •6. Which is right? Complete the sentences:
- •7. Write the words in the plural and in the correct column.
- •8. Complete the sentences using the words from the box in the plural form.
- •9. Some of these sentences are right but most are wrong. Correct the sentences that are wrong.
- •10. Complete the words using the vowels in the box below.
- •Vocabulary work
- •Jobs and hobbies
- •1. Look at the names of the professions. Pair up. Try to guess from the mime of your partner what the job is:
- •Choosing a Career
- •Vocabulary
- •2A. Can you find ten hobbies hidden below?
- •3. Read the biographical notes and expand them into full sentences:
- •Is from Volgograd
- •Interested in engineering
- •4. Do you know your astrological sign and the characteristics associated with it? Study the twelve signs of the zodiac and answer the following questions:
- •5. A. Speak about your friend using the following plan:
- •6. Speak on the topic (first word in the passage) and use the introduced vocabulary.
- •7. Read the dialogues. What do the people who talk to each other do?
- •8. Answer the questions.
- •Present Simple
- •1A. Rewrite each sentence as a positive or negative sentence, or a question, according to the instructions.
- •Think of your working day. How do you spend it? When and how long do you do your homework? How do you study English? What helps you here?
- •Imagine you already work. Where do you work? What is your position? What do you do? How much money do you get for it? Present Simple: short answers form
- •4. Write the short answers:
- •Dictionary in use
- •1. Read and remember English letters, sounds and phonemic symbols.
- •2. Spell your names in English, using the alphabet. Pronounce each letter.
- •3. Look up the pronunciation of the words building, people, technology in a dictionary. Как работать со словарем
- •4. Translate the sentences into Russian using a dictionary:
- •6. Translate the proverbs into Russian:
- •7. Put the words in the dictionary (I.E. Alphabetic) order:
- •8. Define the initial form of these words:
- •9. Translate the following collocations:
- •1. Write the correct pronouns for these sentences.
- •2. Write the correct reflexive pronouns for these sentences.
- •3. Write the correct possessive adjectives for these sentences.
- •4. Write the correct possessive adjective or pronoun for these sentences.
- •Saratov state technical university (sstu)
- •1. Rewrite each sentence as a positive or negative sentence, or a question, according to the instructions.
- •2. In your notebook, write these sentences putting the verbs into the correct tense (Present Simple/Present Continuous):
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Finish the sentences:
- •2. Give English equivalents to the following words and collocations:
- •3. Use each of the following word combinations in sentences of your own:
- •4. Translate the text into Russian.
- •5. Top Sixteen Reasons for Studying a Foreign Language: give your reasons for studying languages and fill in the gaps.
- •6. Retell the text.
- •2. Interrogative sentences
- •4.Exclamatory sentences
- •Interrogative sentences (am/is/are)
- •1. Write questions from these words. Use am/is/are:
- •2. Write questions with What/Who/How/Where/Why . . . ? Use am/is/are:
- •3. Ask the questions (Read the answers to the questions first):
- •4. Write positive or negative short answers (Yes, I am / No, he isn't etc.).
- •5. Make four different types of questions from these statements:
- •Great britain (The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Say if these statements are right or wrong:
- •3. Finish these sentences:
- •4. Read the dialogue and translate it. Mind the difference between fewer and less, for example: fewer days, fewer pens, but less time, less water. The Climate in England
- •5. Roleplay the dialogue.
- •6. Speak on:
- •7. Use each of the following word combinations in sentences of your own:
- •8. Retell the text.
- •1. Fill in the indefinite article: a or an.
- •2. Enumerate the nouns that need an indefinite article. Which nouns from the list need no article at all? Family Relations:
- •3. Fill in the indefinite article: a or an.
- •4. What are these things? Choose from the list.
- •5. Write sentences from the brackets (). Write a or an where necessary.
- •The Indefinite Article a and the Definite Article The
- •6. Write a, the, or no article to complete these sentences.
- •7. Write a, the, or no article to complete the sentences.
- •8. Write the names of the places below in two columns, those with the and those without the:
- •9. Insert the articles where necessary:
- •6. Rewrite these sentences without using to or for.
- •7. Rewrite these sentences in the correct order.
- •Customs and traditions
- •English People and their Habits
- •Vocabulary
- •1. A. Read the dialogue between a husband and a wife.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Find in the text the English for the following and use them in sentences of your own.
- •4. Give the three forms of the following verbs:
- •5. Study the following and add as many names of the countries, nations and languages to the list as you can. Consult a dictionary.
- •6. Study the following combinations and use 3-5 of them in one situation.
- •7. Insert prepositions or adverbs. Retell the text.
- •8. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word from your active vocabulary. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •9. Make up a dialogue to illustrate the difference between custom and habit. Study the example.
- •10. Speak On:
- •11. Illustrate the proverbs with examples from your life experience.
- •1. Write these sentences in the past simple, keeping them as questions or negatives.
- •2. Change the verbs into the past simple, keeping them as positives, negatives, or questions.
- •3. Use the verbs above to complete these sentences.
- •4. Write the past simple positive of these irregular verbs.
- •5. In your notebook, write these sentences putting the verbs into the past simple. Remember that the infinitive is used for questions and negatives.
- •The united states of america
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Say if these statements are true or false:
- •7. Comment on the following:
- •Asking General and Special Questions
- •1. Make questions from these statements.
- •2. In your notebook, make ten questions from the box below, and give the answers.
- •3. Write the questions.
- •1. Rewrite these sentences as questions or negatives, according to the instruction given.
- •2. Complete these sentences using can or could. If two answers arc possible, write them both.
- •3. Rewrite these sentences using may or might. Where two answers are possible, write them both:
- •4. Complete the telephone conversation using may {not) or might {not). Where two answers are possible, write them both.
- •5. Write the sentences, choosing one of the modals:
- •6. Complete the sentences with can, could, may, might, should or must in the positive or negative:
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Brain Teaser
- •2. Fill in suitable words:
- •3. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete the sentence below:
- •4. Read and translate the text. Learn the words and collocations in bold type. Family as a Social Phenomenon
- •5. Answer the questions:
- •6. Find in the text equivalents to the following words and word combinations.
- •7. Work with a partner. Ask him/her the following questions and make a note of his/her answers.
- •10. Say it in another way:
- •11. Use each of the following word combinations in sentences of your own:
- •12. Answer the following questions:
- •13. Translate the text into Russian:
- •1. Write these sentences, putting the verbs into the future simple.
- •2. Write the correct form of going to or will to complete the dialogue:
- •3. Complete these sentences with the correct tense (will or going to):
- •1.Write the sentences below using direct speech. Write each sentence twice, putting she said, he said, etc. Before and after the statement.
- •Indirect speech
- •2.Write these sentences in indirect speech, using the words given. Remember to change the pronouns where necessary.
- •3.Write these sentences in indirect speech, using the words given. Change the pronouns where necessary.
4.Exclamatory sentences
What a nice day!
Interrogative sentences (am/is/are)
Making questions
• Questions are formed for all tenses except present simple and past simple by
changing the position of the auxiliary verb {am, was, will, etc.) and the
subject (I, you, she, he, etc.):
You 're going à Are you going?
He has gone à Has he gone?
• Questions are formed for the present simple and past simple by using do,
does, or did:
They work here. Do they work here?
She lived here. Did she live here?
positive question
I am |
Am I? |
He she is it |
Is he/ she/ it?
|
We you are they |
Are we/you/they? |
-‘Is your mother at home?’ – ‘No, she’s out.’
-‘Is it cold in your room?’ – ‘Yes, a little’
-Those shoes are nice. Are they new?
-Are books expensive in your country?
-‘How old is Joe?’ – ‘He’s 24.’
-‘What colour is your car?’ – ‘It’s blue’
what’s=what is who’s=who is how’s=how is where’s=where is
-What’s the time? -What’s that man?
-Where’s Jill? -How’s your father?
short answers
Yes, I am. No, I’m not.
Yes, he/she/it is. No, he’s/she’s/it’s not. or No, he/she/it isn’t.
Yes, we/you/they are. No, we’re/you’re/they’re not. or No, we/you/they aren’t.
-Are you tired? Yes, I am.
-Are you hungry? No, I’m not but I’m thirsty.
-Is he English? Yes, he is.
-Is Ann at work today? No she isn’t.
-Is this seat free? Yes, it is.
-Am I late? No, you are not.
1. Write questions from these words. Use am/is/are:
(your mother at home?) ..............Is your mother at home…………………….?
(your parents at home?) ....................................................................... at home?
(this hotel expensive?) ......................................................................................?
(you interested in art?) .......................................................................................?
(the shops open today?) .....................................................................................?
(the park open today?) .......................................................................................?
2. Write questions with What/Who/How/Where/Why . . . ? Use am/is/are:
(what colour your car?) What colour is your car?
(where my key?) Where .....................................................................................?
(where my socks?) .......................................................................................?
(how old your father?) How .............................................................................,?
(what colour his eyes?) .......................................................................................?
(why John angry with me?) .............................................................................?
7 (how much these shoes?) .............................................................................?
8 (who your favourite actor?) ............................................................................?
9 (why you always late?) .......................................................................................?