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- •Unit 1. English around the world
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Put the adverb into the sentence:
- •2. Use the required present, past or future forms in the text:
- •3. Paraphrase the following sentences using Vocabulary:
- •4. Translate into English using Vocabulary:
- •5. Write an essay on the following topic: “Why do you study English?”
- •6. Make up dialogues. Use 10 words from Vocabulary. Unit 2. Time out
- •Vocabulary
- •1. What would you say in the following situations? Begin your answer with It’s time or I’d rather:
- •3. Paraphrase the following sentences using Vocabulary:
- •4. Translate the following sentences using Vocabulary:
- •6. Make up dialogues. Use 10 words from Vocabulary. Revision 1-2
- •1. Choose the most suitable heading a-g for each article 1-6. Make one special question to each article:
- •3. Complete a sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the one above it:
- •5. Edit the following text:
- •Unit 3. Survival
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Fill in few, a few, little, a little:
- •2. Open the brackets using the appropriate tense forms: a knock at the door (to arouse) Martin. He (to think) about Joe and (to wonder) were he (to be), as he (to say): “Come in.”
- •3. Paraphrase the following sentences using Vocabulary:
- •4. Translate the following sentences using Vocabulary:
- •6. Make up dialogues. Use 10 words from Vocabulary. Unit 4. Storytelling
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Complete the text by changing the verbs in brackets into the appropriate form or tense:
- •2. Complete the interview. Change the verb in brackets into the correct tense:
- •3. Translate the sentences using appropriate tenses:
- •4. Paraphrase the sentences using Vocabulary:
- •7. Make up dialogues. Use 10 words from Vocabulary. Revision 3-4
- •1. Put in a lot of, many or much:
- •8. Translate into English using Past Tenses:
- •9. Make up your own situation using the following words: put up with, set off, turn up, fall for. Unit 5. A sense of adventure
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Complete this sentences with words associated with holidays and travel.
- •2. Translate into English using modal verbs.
- •3. Open the brackets. Use the appropriate way of talking about the future:
- •4. Paraphrase the sentences using Vocabulary:
- •5. Translate into English using Vocabulary:
- •5. Compose your own story about the camping holiday of yours (15 sentences). Unit 6. Changes
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Form the related nouns:
- •4. Paraphrase the sentences using Vocabulary:
- •5. Translate into English using Vocabulary:
- •Revision 5-6
- •An engineer serviced my car yesterday.
- •3. Open the brackets using the required future forms:
- •4. Translate from Russian into English. Use the required future forms:
- •5. Translate these sentences using modal verbs:
- •6. Translate using Past Tenses
- •Unit 7. Natural world
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Fill in the table:
- •3. Open the brackets using Passive voice:
- •5. Translate into English using Vocabulary:
- •Unit 8. Judging by appearance
- •Vocabulary
- •Topical vocabulary 2
- •1. Match the words and phrases in column a with those in column b:
- •4. Translate the sentences. Use modal words:
- •5. Paraphrase the sentences. Use active vocabulary:
- •6. Translate into English. Use new vocabulary:
- •Revision 7-8
- •1. Complete the following sentences with either a, the or nothing:
- •2. Open the brackets using Passive voice:
- •3. Fill in prepositions:
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the words given in brackets:
- •7. Translate using Past Tenses:
- •Unit 9. Teenage cults
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Render the dialogues into indirect speech:
- •2. Translate into English using Past Tenses:
- •3. Paraphrase the following sentences using Vocabulary:
- •4. Translate into English:
- •5. Write an essay on the following topic: “Why do teenage cults exist?” unit 10. Us and animals
- •Vocabulary
- •Word combinations
- •2. Complete these sentences using a comparative or superlative form of the word in bold:
- •3. Paraphrase the sentences using Vocabulary:
- •4. Translate into English:
- •Revision 9-10
- •2. Paraphrase the following sentences using phrasal verbs:
- •3. Translate using Past Tenses:
- •4. Render in Indirect speech:
- •5. Read the text and choose the correct answer:
- •Unit 11. Your cultural heritage
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Fill in the blanks:
- •3. Translate into English:
- •Unit 12. Crime and society
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Fill in the table
- •3. Translate using all types of conditional sentences:
- •4. Make past tense sentences:
- •6. Write 15 sentences on the following topic “Can you commit a crime?”
- •7. Make up dialogues. Use 10 words from active vocabulary. Revision 11-12
- •2. Fill in the blanks:
- •3. Render in indirect speech:
- •4. Translate using Past Tenses:
- •5. Fill in the table:
- •6. Make past tense sentences:
- •Unit 13. Beyond belief
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Choose the correct form of the verb in brackets:
- •2. Translate these sentences using definite relative clauses:
- •3. Decide if the pronoun can be omitted:
- •4. Translate into English:
- •Unit 14. Destination usa
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Change these sentences into British English:
- •2. Complete these sentences by putting the verb in brackets into either the infinitive or the gerund:
- •3. Translate into English using Vocabulary:
- •Revision 13-14
- •1. Choose the correct form of the verb in brackets:
- •2. Join the sentences using relative clauses:
- •3. Use the required past forms in the following complex sentences:
- •4. Translate into English using verbs of seeing:
- •5. Translate using Past Tenses:
- •Revision (grammar)
- •Sources
- •Contents
- •420045, Казань, ул. Кр. Позиция, 2а.
УДК 811.111
ББК 81.2Англ
П69
Печатается по решению
редакционно-издательского совета филологического факультета
Казанского государственного университета
Рекомендовано
кафедрой романо-германской литературы
Казанского государственного университета
Составитель
канд. филол. наук Е.Ю.Семушина
Рецензенты
доц. А.Р.Залялеева
(Казанский государственный университет),
ст.преп. Ю.Л.Кузнецова
(Татарский государственный гуманитарно-педагогический университет)
П69 |
Практический курс английского языка: учеб. пособие для студентов дополнительной квалификации «Переводчик в сфере профессиональной коммуникации» / Казан. гос. ун-т, филол. фак., каф. романо-германской филологии; сост. Е.Ю.Семушина.- Казань, 2006. – 72 с. |
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УДК 811.111
ББК 81.2Англ
© Филологический факультет
Казанского государственного
университета, 2006
Unit 1. English around the world
Vocabulary
1. pick (v) - 1) выбирать, отбирать: It was difficult for him to pick necessary words. 2) искать: She picks a quarrel with me. 3) обворовывать: He peaks and steals. to pick at – придираться; to pick up - поднимать; заезжать; to pick up flesh – пополнеть; to have a bone to pick with smb - иметь счеты с кем-либо.
pick (n) - выбор: He took his pick that year.
2. language (n) - язык: I don't know this language.
Syn. tongue (mother tongue - родной язык). slang – сленг, jargon - жаргон, профессиональный жаргон, dialect – диалект, bilingual - человек, владеющий двумя языками.
3. get (v) - 1) получать: We can get all the money we wanted. 2) доставлять: Get me a chair. 3) прибывать: We can get to Moscow in an hour. 4) понимать: I don't get you. 5) становиться: We are getting old. to get at – достичь: We should get at the station at 5 p.m. to get by – удаваться: As far as I know she is not poor, she got by. to get off – слезть: It is dangerous to stay there. Get off! to get on - делать успехи: She studied English thoroughly and got on. to get round – обмануть: I don't want you to be got round by. to get together – встречаться: I haven't seen you for ages. Let's get together and have some coffee. to get on smb's nerves - действовать на нервы: She gets on my nerves every day. to get the gate (mitten) - быть уволенным: He was a bad worker and got the gate at last. to get off with a whole skin - выйти сухим из воды: She will always get off with a whole skin and her husband as well.
4. put (v) - 1) класть, положить: You should put my books into the bookshelf. 2) помещать: He is a killer and should be put to prison. 3) выражать: You must put your words in black and white. 4) приводить: It is so messy here, put your things in order. to put away - убирать: There is no place left on the table. Put unnecessary papers away. to put down - записывать: This information is very important. I'd like to put it down. to put in – вставлять: Put in the stick into the holes to force the insects out. to put up with – мириться: I can't put up with her behaviour anymore.
5. run (v) - 1) бежать, двигаться: You must run fast to win the game. 2) быстро распространяться: Bad news runs fast. 3) управлять: It's high time for you to run the business. 4) вращаться: Leave the engine running, I'll be back in a minute. 5) быть действительным: The lease runs for 5 years. to run about - суетиться: Stop running about! to run across - натолкнуться: We ran across the boss when we were hurrying to the meeting. to run away with - потерять самообладание: His tamper ran away with him. to run down - унижать: You can tell her that she is wrong but don't run her down. to run on - продолжать: They were very tired but ran on in spite of all difficulties. to run out of - истощить: We ran out of petrol and had to stop. to run through - промотать состояние: She was left a fortune, but ran it through. to run a risk - рисковать: Let's find another way out, I don't want to run a risk. to run errands - быть на посылках: You are 30, but still run errands.
6. skin (n) - 1) кожа: The colour of your skin is too pale; 2) кожура: It's not very funny to slip on a banana skin; 3) наружный слой, оболочка: The outer skin of the object was removed; 4) sl. скряга, жулик: He is a real skin.
Syn. rind - корка, кора: The rind of parmesan cheese is like rock. peel -кожица, шелуха: The top of the mountain is littered with orange peel and rubbish. shell - скорлупа, раковина: The shell of the nut was so hard that I couldn't crack it.
7. advantage (of, over) (n) - преимущество: Her advantages are obvious. to take advantage of smb - обмануть, перехитрить кого-либо: Don't be familiar with her, she is always taking advantage of other people. to take advantage of smth - воспользоваться чем-либо: We should take advantage of the situation. to take smb at advantage - захватить врасплох. I had no time to react. She took me at advantage. to advantage - выгодно. He showed the models to advantage.
8. point (n) – 1) точка: four point six. 2) пункт, вопрос: It was a sore point for him. 3) главное, суть: The point is that it is no ordinary case. to see smb's point - учитывать, понимать чью-то точку зрения. I see your point. to be on the point of doing smth - собираться сделать что-либо. She was on the point of leaving. to make a point of doing smth - считать что-либо обязательным для себя: He made a point of reading English poems every day.
9. bother (n) - беспокойство, источник беспокойства: He was such a bother for the whole family.
bother (v) - беспокоить, надоедать: Don't bother me with such trifles.
Syn. to worry, to be anxious
Word combinations
to be well-off |
to have a good time |
to take smth for granted |
to make a fool of oneself |
to make a decision |
to make sure |
to jump the queue |
to find difficulty in doing smth |
to make oneself understood |
to do one's best |
to do something for a living |
to make a mistake |
to give a description |
to make the most of smth |
EXERCISES