Irregular verbs

Infinitive	Simple Past	Past Participle	Translation
drive	drove	driven	вести, управляти, їхати
eat	ate	eaten	їсти
fall	fell	fallen	падати
forgive	forgave	forgiven	вибачати
hang	hung	hung	підвішувати, висіти
lose	lost	lost	губити
mean	meant	meant	означати
send	sent	sent	відправляти
sleep	slept	slept	спати

Exercise 32 Find synonyms among the following words.

Terminal, maintenance, to vary, huge, to continue, a freight yard, vast, to get, further, to proceed, to demand, to comprise, to regard, repair, load, to gain, to differ, onward, complicated, to design, a goods yard, to include, to construct, difficult, a passenger station, to require, freight, to consider.

Exercise 33 Translate the following sentences, paying attention to the italicized words.

1. I don’t regard a degree as a meal ticket for life. 2. As regards his job, it isn’t promising. 3. Give my best regards to your relatives! 4. You should not introduce this innovation regardless of operational risk. 5. With regard to your letter of 1^st January I would like to give my best regards to you! 6. Railway specialists should regard the latest technologies in daily routine. 7. Regardless of what you say, I have a high opinion of him.

Exercise 34 Complete the sentences with the verbs from the box in the correct form.

comprise, design, book, demand, erect, proceed, vary, gain, maintain

1. Careers Officers ... contact with young people when they have left school. 2. The city’s population ... mainly Asians and Europeans. 3. Driving regulations ... from state to state. 4. The car ... and built in Korea. 5. Police ... barriers across the main roads into the town. 6. Hawaii ... statehood in 1959. 7. I ... a ticket for two at 8.00. 8. According to the newspaper the negotiations ... smoothly. 9. They ... that the military government frees all political prisoners.

Exercise 35 Translate the word combinations.

A vast area; maintenance of track and track facilities; goods yards and depots; multipurpose system; waiting halls; technical service area; facilities for passengers and railway staff; an important branch of railway engineering; bridges, capable of carrying much greater loads; a fallen tree across a stream; the fastest current journey; bridge of the suspension principle; a world-wide fame; a system of steel cables; a method of erecting the bridge; the width and depth of the gap to be bridged; direct railway routes through mountains; the only way through an obstacle; to be studied afresh; the purpose-built rolling stock; to protect against weather conditions.

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