- •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.
V. Use the conjunction "since" to connect the following sentences:
Model: We came here two hours ago. It has been raining since. –
It has been raining since we came here.
1. I sent a letter to Helen in September. I've been meaning to write to her since. 2. We moved to a new flat last January. We've been living in it since. 3. I saw you last Saturday. What have you been doing since? 4. She graduated from the Institute in 1970. She has been teaching at school since. 5. I began doing English at school. I've been learning it since. 6. I lost my fountain-pen yesterday. I've been writing with a pencil since. 7. He left for Leningrad a month ago. We've been expecting a letter from him since. 8. Nora cleaned the house in spring. She hasn't been cleaning the house since. 9. Mrs. Smith fell ill a fortnight ago. The children have been living with us since.
VI. Translate the following sentences. Use the Present or Past Continuous, the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous Tense:
1. Он посмотрел на меня и ничего не сказал. Он ждал кого-то. 2. Мы читаем эту книгу с сентября и прочли уже дольше половины. 3. Она говорит уже пять минут и сделала всего одну ошибку. 4. Вы давно его знаете? 5. Я его только что видела. Он разговаривал с кем-то в коридоре. 6. Она себя плохо чувствует последнее время и пропустила несколько занятий. 7. Что вы там так долго обсуждаете? 8. Я всегда знал, что здесь что-то не так. Вчера, когда мы ехали домой, она мне все рассказала. 9. Она мне все рассказала. 10. Я работаю над этой проблемой с прошлого года. 11. Она плохо спит последнее время. 12. Почему вы так со мной разговариваете?. 13. Они избегают друг друга последнее время. 14. Хорошо, что вы приехали. Мы очень скучали по вас.
VII. Insert the correct article in the blank spaces: a lion and Mouse.
Once … lion was sleeping under … tree. … small mouse ran over his face and woke him. He grew very angry and caught … little mouse. While he was holding … mouse, she said, "Oh, … King of Beasts, don't kill me. I'll help you one day". … Lion only laughed at the thought that such … small animal could help him. But he let … mouse go.
Some time later people caught … lion in … net of strong ropes and, Though the lion used all his strength to free himself, he could do nothing. He only roared in anger.
… mouse heard his roar and came to … place where he was lying. " I heard your voice", she said, "I have come to help you. Do you remember what I said?" … mouse began to cut net with her sharp teeth. Bit by bit she did the work, and … hole in … net became bigger and bigger. At last … hole was big enough for … lion to get out of … net.
Sometimes … strongest need … help of … weakest.
Lesson 4
The Use of Tenses. Articles in and with "Of-phrases"
I. Conjugate the verbs in brackets. Contrast the Present Perfect with the Present Perfect Continuous Tense:
1. I lake his work. He (work) in oil of late and (do) one or two rather striking this week. 2. I (be) up since about six. I (sketch) for hours. 3. I really don't know what he (do) all this time. 4. Ever since it happened I (pretend) to myself that it was an accident. 5. I (tell) you so for years, but you never (pay) any attention. 6. They (take) her from one specialist to another since she was two and it not (be) of the slightest use. 7. He (revise) for his history examination for weeks and I believe he will do well. 8. Mr. Wood (try) to start his car for the last 20 minutes and is beginning to despair. 9. I know what you (work) at these last days. You (discover) any new facts? 10. They (discuss) the case for hours but (be unable) to come to any decision. 11. We (read) this book since September and (read) only the half of it. 12. I (buy) things and I (find) gloves at last. 13. I (see) this girl somewhere. 14. He (train) this team for a year but they (make) great progress.