- •First year Conversation Test 1 Lesson 5
- •Test 2 Lesson 6
- •Test 3 Lesson 7
- •Test 4 Lesson 8
- •Test 5 Lesson 9
- •Test 6 Lesson 10
- •1. Transform the sentences into the3rd person singular:
- •2. Use the proper article.
- •3. Form all possible questions to which the following sentences are the answers:
- •4. Answer the questions with at least 3 sentences:
- •5. Translate into English:
- •Test 7 Lesson 12
- •Test 8 Lesson 13
- •1 Open the brackets using the correct tense:
- •Test 9 Term I.
- •Test 10 Lesson 14
- •Test 11 Lesson 15
- •I. Use the correct form of the verbs:
- •2. Add 5 or more sentences to each situation. Use the active vocabulary:
- •3. Fill in prepositions or post-verbal adverbs where necessary.
- •4. Use the proper article.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •Test 12 Lesson 16
- •Test 13 Lesson 17
- •Test 14 Lesson 18
- •I. Express in the passive the second of each of the following pairs of sentences. Don't mention the active subjects.
- •2. Translate into English.
- •3. Complete the following sentences using the Complex Object.
- •Test 15 Lesson 19
- •I. Complete the sentences using a Gerund:
- •2. Fill in the missing words:
- •3. Fill in prepositions.
- •4. Use the proper article.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •Test 16 Term II
- •7. Translate into English:
- •Phonetics Test 1
- •Test 2
- •1. Copy and transcribe the following words. Mark primary and secondary stresses:
- •2. Transcribe the following sentences. Mark the stresses and tunes:
- •3. Read the following questions. Observe the intonation of special questions.
- •4. Listen to the dialogue. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise and memorize it.
- •Test 3
- •1 Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules:
- •2. Write the plural form of the following nouns. Transcribe them:
- •3. Transcribe the following sentences, mark the stresses and tunes:
- •4. A) Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules:
- •5. Make up dialogues using phrases from phonetic exercises according to the following model:
- •Test 4
- •1. Ask to repeat the following statements using alternative questions.
- •3. Read the text, mark the stresses and tunes, prepare it for test reading.
- •4. Read the story and render it.
- •Test 5
- •1. Read the commands and requests. Observe the intonation they are pronounced with.
- •2. Listen to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the reply.
- •Practical grammar Test 1. Nouns
- •5. Translate into English.
- •Test 2
- •6. Translate into English.
- •Test 3
- •Test 4. The Noun group
- •2. Give the plural of the following nouns:
- •3. Look at the following pairs of sentences. In one the noun in bold is used as a count noun and in the other as an uncountable noun. Mark the sentences с for count or u for uncountable.
- •4. Complete the sentences by adding apostrophe to the noun group in brackets.
- •5. Choose a personal pronoun or a reflexive pronoun to complete these sentences correctly.
- •6. A. Complete each of the sentences below by choosing one of the indefinite pronouns in brackets.
- •7. Insert the where necessary:
- •8. Complete the sentences about the cities, choosing suitable phrases from the table below:
- •9. Complete the sentences using the determiners given in brackets:
- •10. Choose which determiner in brackets best completes each sentence:
- •11. Translate into English.
- •Test 5
- •Test 6. Adjectives, quantities and amounts, and numbers
- •1. Take adjectives from the phrases below and put them into the columns given. The first phrase has been given for уоu.
- •2 Are the adjectives in these phrases in the normal order? Answer 'Yes' or 'No'
- •3. Complete the following pairs of sentences using the correct form of the verb in brackets You must use the '- ed' -form for one sentence in each pair and the '-ing' -form for the other.
- •4. Write the comparative and superlative of the following adjectives:
- •5 Supply the best word or words:
- •6. Insert the proper adjective from the list below:
- •7. Supply the best word or words:
- •8. Translate into English:
- •Test 7
- •6. Translate into English.
- •Test 8 Tense-Aspect forms
- •1 Use the required tense-aspect forms in the following text:
- •1 Translate into English:
- •2. Open the brackets:
- •3. Put the following into direct speech with the appropriate punctuation:
- •Test 10
- •1. Translate into English:
- •2. Use the required passive tense-aspect forms in the following sentences:
- •Test 12
- •5. Explain the meanings and forms of 'have to' and 'be to' in the sentences.
- •6. Translate into English.
- •Test 13. Modals
- •1. Fill in the blanks with modals:
- •2. Translate into English:
- •Dictation 2
- •Dictation 3 Everyday Life of Mr. Snow
- •Dictation 5 My Flat
- •Dictation 6
- •Dictation 7 a Country-House
- •Dictation 8
- •Dictation 9 My Hobby
- •Dictation 10 a Picnic out of Town
- •Dictation 11 In Autumn
- •Dictation 12 In Abramtzevo
- •Spelling tests Words with difficult spelling
- •1. Learn the spelling of the following words and prepare them for spelling dictation.
- •Homonyms
- •1. Learn the following homonyms and prepare them for dictation.
- •Words similar in sound and form
- •Reproductions Reproduction 1 Balzac and the thief
- •Reproduction 2 a Story that made Daniel Defoe famous
- •Reproduction 3 Henry Hudson
- •Reproduction 6 a mistake
- •Reproduction 7 a Story about Joseph Turner
- •Reproduction 8 Tea-leaves Many years ago tea was unknown in European Countries. Many people didn't even know the word tea, though drinking tea was very popular in the East.
- •Reproduction 10
- •Reproduction 13 Life as I find it
- •Reproduction 14 a dog
- •Reproduction 15 Honest Abe
- •Reproduction 18
- •Second year Conversation Test 1 unit 1
- •6. Translate into English.
- •7. Comment on the given proverbs. Make up a situation centered round one of them (arrange it in paragraph.)
- •Test 2 unit 2
- •1. Complete the open dialogues, (see the vocabulary below)
- •2. Give the synonyms of the following words:
- •3. Give the antonyms of the following words:
- •4. Fill in prepositions where necessary.
- •5. Translate into English:
- •6. Give some key- words to these ideas:
- •Test 3 unit 3
- •1 Give English equivalents to the following words and word combinations:
- •6 Translate into English.
- •7 Summarize the meaning of these proverbs in a topic sentence (choose one).
- •Test 4 unit 4
- •1 Give English equivalents to the following words and word combinations:
- •2. Give synonyms to the following word-combinations:
- •3. Give the variants of the verbs:
- •4. Fill in prepositions and adjectives:
- •5 Translate into English:
- •Term paper
- •Give English equivalents to the following words and combinations.
- •2. Give the synonyms of the following words and word-combinations:
- •3. Fill in prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Translate into English.
- •Test 5
- •4. Fill in prepositions:
- •5. Translate into English:
- •Test 6 unit 6
- •5. Translate into English:
- •Test 7 unit 8
- •5. Translate into English.
- •Test 8 unit 9
- •5. Translate intoEnglish.
- •6. Summarize in writing your ideas of the reasons why people go to the theatre. Test 9 term paper.
- •1. Give English equivalents to the following words:
- •2. Make up your own sentences using the following words and word-combinations:
- •3. Fill in prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Translate into English.
- •5. Write down your comments on the following proverb:
- •Practical Phonetics Test 1
- •1. Consider the wollowing items.
- •Test 2
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 4
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 5
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 6
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 7
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 8
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Practical grammar Test 1
- •1 Choose the right variant.
- •Test 2
- •1. Complete the sentences taking care to use the correct tenses.
- •2 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •3. Translate into English.
- •1. Complete the following sentences.
- •2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct forms.
- •3. Translate into English.
- •Test 3 Mood
- •1 Translate the following into English using the appropriate means of expressing unreality:
- •2. Supply the necessary forms expressing unreality.
- •Test 4 Verbals
- •1. Translate into English.
- •2. Supply the appropriate verbals for the following sentences:
- •Test 5 Modals
- •1 Supply the necessary modal verbs for the following sentences, noticing carefully the Russian equivalents given in brackets:
- •2. Translate the following sentences into English using suitable modal verbs:
- •Reproductions Reproduction 1 The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones
- •Reproduction 2 Home After Langston Hughes
- •Reproduction 3 "Pride and Prejudice"
- •Reproduction 4 My Unknown Friend After s. Leacock
- •Reproduction 5 The Broken Boot
- •Reproduction 6 The Picture of Dorian Gray
- •Peproduction 7 "Cedric's Fairy Godfather"
- •Third year Practical phonetics Test 1
- •1. Consider the following questions in written form.
- •Test 2
- •1. Consider the following questions in written form.
- •Test 3
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 4
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 5
- •1. Consider the following questions in written form.
- •Test 6
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 7
- •1. Consider the following questions in written form.
- •Теst 8
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 9
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 10
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Conversation Test 1 Lesson 2 Part 3.
- •Test 2 Lesson 3 Part 3
- •5. Translate into English:
- •Test 3 Lesson 4 Part 3.
- •Test 4 Lesson 5 Part 3.
- •4. Translate into Russian.
- •Test 5 Lesson 6 Part 3.
- •4. Translate into Russian.
- •Test 6 Lesson 8 Part 3.
- •Test 7 Lesson 9 Part 3.
- •Test 8 Term paper I
- •3. Translate into English.
- •4. Answer the following question.
- •Composition subjects
- •Reproductions Reproduction 1 Shannon's Way
- •Reproduction 2 The escape
- •Reproduction 3 How to guess your age
- •Reproduction 4 The test by Angela Gibbs
- •Reproduction 5 The perfect murder by Roy l. Mangum
- •Reproduction 6 Cry-baby by John McClain
- •Business English Test 1 Письмо-запрос
- •Test 2 Письмо-предложение
- •Test 3
- •Test 4 Ответ на претензию.
- •Test 5 Ошибка при поставке груза (wrong Consignment),
- •Test 6 Письмо-рекламация (a Letter of Complaint).
- •Test 7 Письмо-рекламация (a Letter of Complaint).
- •Test 8 Письмо-рекламация (a letter of Complaint).
- •Test 9 Письмо-рекламация (a Letter of Complaint).
- •Test 10 Письмо-Рекламация (a Letter of Complaint).
- •Test 11 Страховка и рекламация (Insurance & Claims).
- •Test 12 Письмо-запрос.
- •Test 13 Письмо – запрос
- •Test 14 Ответ на предложение (Reply to Offers).
- •Country Studies Test 1. The British Commonwealth.
- •1. Fill in theblanks with proper words:
- •Test 2. The British Isles, England (Geography).
- •1. Put the letter “t” after the sentence if it is true or the letter “f” if it is false:
- •Test 3. Ancient Britain.
- •1. Answer the following questions in written form:
- •Test 4. Anglo-Saxon Britain.
- •1. Choose the right variant.
- •Test 5. England in the XVIII- XIX centuries.
- •1. Answer the following questions in written form:
- •Industrial Revolution. Match the inventions with their inventors:
- •Test 6
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in writing:
- •Test 7
- •1. Consider the following questions and problems in writing:
- •Test 8
- •1 Consider the following questions and problems in writing:
- •Fourth year Conversation Test 1 Books and reading
- •1. Answer the following questions in written form:
- •2. Choose an author you'd like to talk about. Note down a few pieces of factual information about his life and work.
- •3. Be ready to enumerate merits and demerits of a well-known English or American classic book. Test 2 Man and music
- •1 Answer the following questions in written form:
- •2. Write about your impressions of a concert (recital) you have recently attended. Outline for giving impression:
- •1. Answer the following questions in written form:
- •3. Write about the possible future achievements of tv in information, education, entertainment. Test 4 Family life
- •1 Answer the following questions in written form:
- •Test 5 Lesson 3 part IV.
- •Test 6 Lesson 4 part IV.
- •Test 7 Lesson 6 part IV.
- •Test 8 Lesson 8 part IV.
- •Analytical reading Test 1 William Faulkner "The bear"
- •2. Translate into English.
- •3. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary of the text.
- •Test 2 Agatha Christie "The witness for the prosecution"
- •1. Choose the synonym of the underlined word.
- •2.Translate the following sentences from Russian into English using the words and word combinations of the text.
- •Test 3 William Golding "Lord of the flies"
- •1. Analyze the main idea of the story.
- •2. Translate the sentences using the vocabulary of the text:
- •Test 4 r.P.Warren "All the king’s men"
- •1. Analyze the point of view from which the story is told:
- •2.Translate the following sentences using the active vocabulary of the text:
- •Test 5
- •10. The passage indicates that Raskolnikov thinks Svidrigailov's belief in ghosts is
- •11. Raskolnikov's anger suggests that
- •12. Accordong to Svodrigailov, most people do not see ghosts because they
- •Fifth year
- •Theory and practice of translation
- •Test 1
- •Sellers request buyers to revise delivery time and guarantee clause of the contract
- •III. Переведите следующие словосочетания.
- •Test 2 letter of guarantee
- •Переведите следующие словосочетания
- •V. Переведите следующие словосочетания,
- •Test 3 enquiry for a portable air compressor
- •III. Переведите следующие словосочетания,
- •Test 4 machine undergoing final tests
- •Enquiry for machinery for coagulating, extracting and drying synthetic rubber
- •Test 5 offer of peroxide of manganese ore
- •Peroxide of Manganese Ore
- •Offer of paraffin wax
- •Paraffin Wax
- •Test 6 claim in connection with an imported drilling machine
- •Special Cluster Drilling Machine. Order No. 19086
- •V. Переведите следующие словосочетания,
- •Request to revise quotation
- •V. Переведите следующие словосочетания,
- •Order for One Gasifier Model dm69
Test 9
1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
1. What determines the choice of the final terminal tone?
2. Explain the use of the low rising tone in the sentence:
',Sometimes I \come 'home ,early.' What other one can be used instead of the Low Rise?
3. Give examples to illustrate the relationship between the intonation group division and the meaning of the sentence in English and in Russian.
4. Explain the difference between the meaning of the sentences:
'I'll \come to your 'place to\morrow.'
I'll 'come to your \place, | to\morrow.'
5. How can you explain the difference in meaning of the following sentences?
'They 'sell /gloves, |/hats, | \ scarfs.'
They 'sell /gloves,|, hats, | /scarfs.'
6. Suppose your fellow-student pronounces both parts of the disjunctive question with the low falling tone in all the contexts. Explain to him how the difference in meaning of these questions brings about changes in terminal tones.
7. Explain to your fellow-student how to escape the possible mistake in the pronunciation of alternative questions. Is it a phonetic or phonological mistake?
8. Dwell on different ways of the pronunciation of imperatives including a tag question. Give examples of possible phonetic and phonological mistakes in the pronunciation of this type of questions.
9. How does the position in a sentence influence the intonation of direct address? Give examples and use them in conversational contexts.
10. Why do you think parenthetical words and phrases do not always form intonation groups at the beginning of the sentence?
11. What terminal tones can parenthetical words and phrases be pronounced with at the beginning of the sentence? Why can they sound different?
Test 10
1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
1. In what way are the words in a sentence made prominent?
2. How is the prominence of words realized?
3. What is the main function of sentence-stress?
4. Which is the most prominent word in a sentence?
5. What is the difference between normal and logical stresses?
6. Why is the word if stressed in the sentence: 'If you stay you'll meet him'? What do we call this kind of sentence-stress?
7. Why is the personal pronoun I stressed in the reply:
'Who has done this?—I have-'? What do we call tin's type of sentence-stress?
8. Which words are the communicative centres of the following sentences:
The \girl has 'broken the \cup.
The ^girl has \broken the cup.
Name the intonation means which make the last stressed
words stand out.
9. Translate the following sentence into Russian: How badly he had said it. Yet he HAD said it. What is the attitude of the speaker? What are the means to convey the same idea in English and in Russian?
10. Where would you use logical stress in these sentences:
I'm not writing to your friend. Nick is my friend as well. What does logical stress express here?
11. What kind of attitude is expressed in the reply of the second speaker?
'Speak out!' said Martin, 'and speak the truth.' 'I fear this IS the truth.'
12. Give examples where the shifting of sentence-stress changes the meaning of the sentence. Use them in situations.
13. Transcribe, mark stresses and tunes in the sentence: 'They aren't ready, are they?' Give examples where link verbs are used in their strong forms.
14. Transcribe, mark stresses and tunes in the sentence: 'Who will meet him at the airport?' Give examples where form-words are used in their weak forms.
15. Shift the communicative centre in the following sentence: 'I wish you'd stay for a few days.' Use the phrases in your own situations.
16. Transcribe and intone the following sentence: 'I'd love to have a chat with you!" Use emphatic stress in it.
17. Transcribe and intone the following situation: 'Is he really ill?'—'It seems to him he is ill.' What intonation means will you use while reading it to make it expressive enough?
18. Why did the author italicize (the words you and I in the situation: 'You don't live here?'—'No,' I said, 'I don't. You wouldn't if I did.' (Jerome K. Jerome. "Three Men in a Boat")
19. Give examples where logical stress underlines elements of contrast.
20. 'The lady is young and pretty.'— 'She is young, but I wouldn't call her pretty." What is tile attitude of the speaker in the second sentence in which the verb is takes the logical stress?