- •Практикум по грамматике английского языка для студентов первого курса
- •Часть 2 Lesson 1
- •I. Open the brackets:
- •II. Translate into English:
- •III. Insert articles:
- •IV. Translate into English:
- •V. Transform the following sentences into questions beginning with "How long":
- •VI. Answer the following questions:
- •VII. Translate the following sentences and say whether the Present Perfect Continuous Inclusive or Exclusive should be used:
- •VIII. Put the verbs in brackets into a suitable tense:
- •Lesson 2
- •I. Complete the following using the Present Perfect Continuous Exclusive:
- •II. Open the brackets. Use the Present Continuous, The Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous Tenses:
- •III. Translate into English:
- •IV. Ask and answer questions:
- •V. Ask and answer questions according to the model. Pay attention to the tense-forms. Use the following verbs: to read, to write, to discuss, to prepare, to look through.
- •VI. Insert the correct article if necessary in the blank spaces:
- •Lesson 3
- •I. Comment on the use of tenses in the following dialogue:
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Let's do oral translation. I'll read you a Russian sentence and you name the tense of the verb used n it. Then give the form of the verb.
- •IV. Conjugate the verbs in the bracket. Contrast the Present Perfect with the Present Perfect Continuous Tense:
- •V. Use the conjunction "since" to connect the following sentences:
- •VI. Translate the following sentences. Use the Present or Past Continuous, the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous Tense:
- •VII. Insert the correct article in the blank spaces: a lion and Mouse.
- •Lesson 4
- •I. Conjugate the verbs in brackets. Contrast the Present Perfect with the Present Perfect Continuous Tense:
- •II. Translate into English:
- •III. Complete the following sentences using the Present Perfect Continuous:
- •IV. Make up your own sentences combining the word-phrases given below.
- •V. Make dialogues out of the following stories. Pay attention to the use of the Present Perfect Continuous Tense: a True Heart.
- •Bad Manners.
- •Lesson 5
- •I. State the type of the Past Perfect Tense:
- •II. Combine the following pairs of sentences so that one sentence is in the Past Perfect Tense. Add any words you need:
- •III. Complete the following sentences using the Past Perfect Tense:
- •IV. Practise the following according to the model:
- •V. Translate into English:
- •VI. Insert the articles:
- •Lesson 6
- •I. Make up dialogues on the following model, replacing the phrase underlined in the model by each of the phrases below:
- •II. Practise the Past Perfect Tense in Reported Speech:
- •III. Combine two simple sentences into one, using the Past Perfect Tense:
- •IV. Add explanations using the Past Perfect Tense:
- •V. Use the Past Perfect Tense where necessary:
- •VI. Construct sentences using the Past Perfect Tense:
- •VII. Translate into English using the Past Perfect Tense:
- •Lesson 7
- •I. Practise the following using The perfect Tense:
- •II. Construct sentences according to the model. Use the Past Perfect Tense:
- •III. Translate into Russian and then Back into English:
- •IV. Put down the following story. Use any tense that suits the situation:
- •V. Re tell the text using the Past Perfect forms where necessary. Discuss the text answering the questions:
- •VI. Translate into English:
- •VII. Translate into English, paying attention to the use of articles:
- •Lesson 8
- •I. Contrast the Past Indefinite with the Past Perfect Tense:
- •VI. Translate the following sentences into Russian and then back into English:
- •VII. Translate into English:
- •VIII. Translate into English:
- •Lesson 9
- •I. Practise the Past Perfect Continuous Tense according to the Model:
- •II. Complete the following sentences using the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous Tenses:
- •III. Make up situations with the following phrases, using the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous Tenses:
- •IV. Develop the givenclause into a complex of a compound sentence:
- •V. Translate into English:
- •VI. Translate into English (revision on tenses):
- •Lesson 10
- •I. Translate the following sentences using the Perfect Continuous Tense forms:
- •II. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the use of the past tenses in "when-clauses":
- •III. Open the brackets using one of the Past Tenses:
- •IV. Analyse the relations of actions:
- •V. Open the brackets. Show different relations between actions:
- •VI. Translate into English:
- •VII. Insert the articles, if necessary:
- •Lesson 11
- •I. Change the verb in the principle clause into the Past Tense. Make all the necessary changes in the subordinate clauses:
- •II. Change the following sentences into indirect speech:
- •III. Translate the part in the brackets into English:
- •V. Translate into English:
- •VI. Choose the most suitable of all the past tenses and give reasons for your choice:
- •VII. Insert articles if necessary: Paul Robeson
- •Lesson 12
- •I. Replace the infinitives in brackets with the most suitable tenses:
- •II. Change the following sentences (statements, general and special questions, requests and commands) into indirect speech:
- •III. Translate into English:
- •IV. Make up a compound or a complex sentence using the given clause. Use the Past Tenses:
- •V. Insert articles where necessary: How we kept Mother's birthday.
- •VI. Translate into English:
- •Lesson 13
- •I. Use the verbs in brackets in the required tense observing the rules of Sequence of Tenses:
- •II. Translate into English:
- •IV. Choose the suitable of all the past tenses:
- •V. Use the following sentences in situations:
- •VI. Insert the correct article in the blank spaces:
- •VII. Translate into England:
- •Lesson 14
- •I. Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Continuous or the Future Perfect:
- •II. Complete the following sentences using Future Continuous of Future Perfect:
- •III. Translate the following sentences:
- •IV. Change the words in brackets: Present of Mind.
- •True to Himself.
- •V. Finish the following stories using Past Tenses:
- •VI. Translate into English. Pay attention to the use of articles before the nouns school, town, table, bed, hospital etc.:
- •Lesson 15
- •Lesson 16
- •I. Ask question indicated in the brackets:
- •II. Answer the following question according to the model:
- •III. Open the brackets using the correct form of the Passive Voice:
- •IV. Translate into English:
- •Lesson 17
- •I. Put question to the underlined words:
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Change the following sentences into Passive wherever possible:
- •IV. Retell the following paragraph, after the second sentence, in indirect speech:
- •V. Translate into English:
- •Lesson 18
- •I. Use the Passive Voice in the following sentences. Remember that only one Passive Construction is possible with these verbs.
- •II. Translate into English:
- •III. Translate the underlined verbs. Retell the story:
- •IV. Insert the required articles:
- •Lesson 19
- •I. Translate into English:
- •II. Develope the given clause into a complex of a compound sentence:
- •III. Complete the following sentences so as to build up a situation. Use the Passive Voice:
- •IV. Compose the situation using the following sentences:
- •V. Translate into English (revision on tenses);
- •Lesson 20
- •I. Paraphrase the following sentences, using Complex Object according to the model:
- •II. Use either the infinitive or Participle I of the verb in brackets as the second element of the Complex Object:
- •III. Translate the following sentences using Complex Object:
- •Lesson 21
- •I. Paraphrase the following sentences, using a complex object either with Participle I or Infinitive according to the sense:
- •II. Answer the following questions, using Complex object. Make use of suggestion.
- •III. Complete the following sentences (based on the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by m.Twain). Retell the episode using some of the sentences.
- •IV. Translate into English:
- •V. Speak on the following situations. Use the Passive Voice.
- •VI. Translate into English.
- •Lesson 22
- •I. Translate into English.
- •II. Translate the following sentences using a complex object or a subordinate clause according to the sense of the verb.
- •III. Retell the episodes using the following sentences:
- •Robinson and Friday
- •2. Gulliver and the Enemy Ships.
- •IV. Translate into English (Passive Voice):
- •Lesson 23
- •I. Remove the brackets. Use a complex object construction or an object clause:
- •II. Retell in English, use Complex Object wherever possible:
- •III. Use each of the following sentences in a short dialogue:
- •IV. Translate the sentences:
- •V. Insert the article where necessary:
- •Lesson 24
- •I. Translate into English the following short dialogues:
- •II. Use the correct form of the verbs in brackets:
- •In the Dining-Car
- •III. Retell in indirect speech: Blackmail
- •The Sympathetic Landlord
- •What else Could He Do?
- •IV. Translate into English. Pay attention to the use of articles:
- •Lesson 25
- •I. Make up dialogues around the following sentences:
- •II. Translate into English:
- •III. Open the brackets, using the required tense:
- •III. Insert articles where necessary:
- •Lesson 26
- •I. Make up dialogues around the following sentences:
- •II. Use required tense:
- •III. Translate into English:
- •IV. Insert articles where necessary:
- •Lesson 27
- •I. Use the required tense form:
- •II. Translate into English:
- •III. Insert articles where necessary:
- •Lesson 28
- •I. Use the correct tense form of the verbs:
- •II. Translate into English:
- •III. Insert the required articles:
- •IV. Translate into English:
- •Lesson 29
- •I. Answer the following questions using the Oblique Moods:
- •II. Translate into English:
- •III. Translate into English:
- •IV. Insert the required article. A Laconic Answer
- •Lesson 30
- •I. Put the verbs in brackets into the required tense:
- •II. Translate into English:
- •III. Use the required mood.
IV. Translate the sentences:
1. Она мечтает написать книгу всю жизнь. 2. Не прошло и недели, как все вокруг знали, что он уезжает в Центральную Африку. 3. До сих пор он всегда останавливался в отеле. 4. Какое-то время она не понимала, где она и что с ней случилось. 5. Наступил вечер, а дождь все шел. 6. Вы давно с ним знакомы? 7. Почему ты пришел? Тебе же было сказано, что я буду заниматься сегодня. 8. Я очень рад. Я наконец получил письмо, которого ждал вот уже несколько недель. 9. Машинистка пропустила несколько слов, так как болтала все время. 10. С тех пор, как он учится в этом институте, он принимает участие во всех соревнованиях. 11. Я давно у них не был, собираюсь навестить на днях. 12. Сколько лет они женаты? 13. Он сказал, что уже был в библиотеке, где и взял почитать эту книгу. 14. Недавно в "Литературной газете" была опубликована статья, о которой сейчас много говорят. 15. Она сидела на диване и что-то вязала. 16. Когда приехало такси, она уже собиралась и убирала в комнате. 17. Я вчера полчаса прождала его, а он так и не пришел. 18. С тех пор, как он учит английский, он читает только английскую литературу. 19. Нам продиктовали несколько новых выражений и попросили выучить их к следующему уроку. 20. Никто не знал, что он уже дома.
V. Insert the article where necessary:
1. … worker Ivanov is … deputy to … Supreme Soviet. 2. Speak to Mr. Black, … head of the expedition. 3. Fomin, … scientist, is well-known for his Arctic expeditions. 4. I can recommend … very good doctor, … Doctor Vertova. … doctor called on me every day when I was down with pneumonia. 5. Meet … Captain Trent, he is our new colleague. 6. George Washington was … president of … USA, he was … president from 1789 to 1797. 7. She is … head libratian at our local public library. 8. Who will be … chairman of Monday's conference? - … student N. agreed to be … chairman. 9. … writer Smirnov lives next door to us. 10. This is Summers, … old school friend of mine.
Lesson 24
General revision.
I. Translate into English the following short dialogues:
1. Вы давно работаете над диссертацией? – Я пишу ее с тех пор, как работаю в этом институте. Написал пока примерно половину. 2. Джон поднялся из-за стола и положил книгу, которую читал. Его квартирная хозяйка вошла в комнату и стояла, наблюдая за ним. Наконец она сказала: "С тех пор как Вы живете здесь, Вы все время делаете какие-то опыты. Вы все перевернули вверх дном. Я должна предупредить Вас, что я не разрешу больше делать Ваши странные опыты". 3. Он сказал, что он в городе и хочет меня видеть. Это было два часа тому назад и я жду его с тех пор. Я думаю, что он как всегда опаздывает. Ты бы на него повлияла. – Но он твой старший брат. – Это верно, но ведь заботишься о нем ты. Ты всю жизнь о нем заботишься. 4. Ты была в театре в прошлую субботу, не так ли? – Да, было много народу, хотя пьеса шла уже целую неделю. Мне очень понравилось, а Мери нет. И я, кажется, знаю почему. Она не взглянула на сцену ни разу, с тех пор как мы заняли наши места. 5. Миссис Браун ждет Вас. – Давно она ждет? – Полчаса. Она сказала, что не уйдет, не поговорив с Вами. Вот уже целый месяц приходит она сюда в надежде получить ваше согласие. – Скажите ей, что я сейчас уезжаю и не могу ее принять.