- •Foreword
- •Content
- •Unit 1 About myself
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Form the plural of the nouns:
- •Unit 2 My Family
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Read and dramatize the following dialogues:
- •4. Translate into English:
- •5. Complete the joke with the pronouns from the boxes:
- •In the Secret Service
- •6.Circle the correct item:
- •7.Speak about your family. Unit 3 My friend`s appearance and personality
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Give the English equivalents:
- •Complete the following sentences using the words from the right-hand column:
- •Devide the following words into two columns:
- •Read and translate:
- •Fill in a or an:
- •Circle the correct item:
- •Circle the correct item:
- •Complete the joke with the correct articles:
- •Match the pairs:
- •Tell your groupmates about your best friend. Unit 4 Rights and Duties of Ukrainian Citizens
- •L earn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Crocodiles and Alligators
- •8. Circle the correct item and read the joke:
- •Unit 5 Sport in Our Life
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •7. Complete the poem with the past forms of the verbs in brackets:
- •Speak about sports. Unit 6 Olympic Games
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Put in the correct words:
- •Unit 7 My Hobby
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Find the English equivalents:
- •5. Read the next examples and translate them:
- •Find out why some parents think that their teenage sons or daughters have a lot in common with cats. (Don't take it too seriously, though)Put both…and, so,not…either,either…nor,neither…nor:
- •Speak about your hobby. Unit 8 Education in Ukraine
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •3. Fill in the blanks:
- •4.Answer the questions:
- •Matсh the words to their meanings:
- •Speak about the Education in Ukraine. Unit 9 Education Abroad
- •L earn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text: The Educational system of Great Britain
- •Unit 10 My College
- •L earn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Match the first and the second parts of the sentence
- •Put 4 types of questions to the sentences
- •Unit 11 Prestige Professions in Ukraine and Abroad
- •L earn new words and word-combinations:
- •Retell the text about your future profession: My Future Profession
- •Complete the dialogues with can, may, could, can’t, mustn't:
- •Unit 12 Applying for а job
- •Learn new words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Complete the sentences:
- •Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Make up a dialogue using the following words and word-combinations:
- •Circle the correct item:
- •Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets:
- •Make the sentences negative and interrogative:
- •9.Complete the sentences using modal verbs and words in brackets as in the example:
- •Unit 13 t he Career Ladder
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Work in groups of two or three. Read and translate one of the paragraphs:
- •6.Read the following sentences and match if they are True or False (t),(f):
- •Right your own resume. Use the next sample:
- •Unit 14 Cultural Life and Traditions in Ukraine
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions on the text:
- •Translate into English:
- •Fill in the gaps:
- •Imagine that you have a guest from abroad.Tell him about Ukrainian folk art. Unit 15 Festivals and Celebrations in Ukraine
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Truth or false?
- •What word is incorrect?
- •Correct the mistake:
- •Complete the sentence:
- •Make up sentences:
- •Make up the dialogue using the next words and word-combinations:
- •Make up as many questions to the sentences as you can:
- •Unit 16 Customs and Traditions
- •L earn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Continue the sentences:
- •Find the Ukrainian equivalents:
- •6. Fill in the blanks with some or and:
- •7. Answer the following questions:
- •8. Replace the pronoun any and its derivatives (похідні) by no or its derivatives making other necessary changes:
- •9. Tell your groupmates about the traits of Ukrainian character. Unit 17 Television: Benefits and Danger
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Now divide into groups and find benefits and dangers of television:
- •Read the passage about future of television and complete the text with the words from the box: The Future of Television
- •Your task is to match the words and their definitions:
- •Give the English equivalents:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Learn new words and read the text below:
- •Is television useful or harmful?
- •Speak about benefits and dangers of television. Unit 18 My favourite tv programme
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Translate into English:
- •Correct the mistakes:
- •Unit 19 Newspapers and Magazines
- •Read the encyclopedia article and match the words in bold type with their Ukrainian equivalents given below:
- •Translate the words:
- •Discuss the following questions:
- •Match the parts of the words:
- •Match the two parts of the sentence:
- •Translate into English:
- •Speak on the topic “Newspapers and Magazines”. Unit 20 Seasons and Weather
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text, learn it by heart:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Continue the sentences:
- •Translate into English:
- •Speak about Seasons and Weather. Unit 21 Nature Cataclysms
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Try to say what kind of disaster is :
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Fill in the missing words:
- •9. Circle the correct item:
- •Unit 22 Environmental Protection
- •Learn the words and phrases:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions to the text:
- •Read, translate and dramatize the dialoque.Use a dictionary if necessary:
- •Translate into English:
- •Speak about the Environmental Protection.
- •Texts for supplementary reading
- •A Close Friend by Jim White
- •(My friend`s appearance and personality)
- •Human and Citizens' Rights, Freedoms and Duties (from the Constitution of Ukraine)
- •Sport in our Life
- •Higher Education in Ukraine
- •Top 10 High-prestige Professions in Ukraine
- •What are Career Ladders?
- •Holidays in Ukraine
- •Newspapers
- •Newspapers
- •Magazines
- •Seasons and Months
- •The Problem of Environmental Protection
- •Chornobyl Nuclear Accident
Foreword
The process of modern society demands new abilities and practical skills of the future specialists.They should fit the Europien standards and be competitive among Europien employees.
The purpose of studying English by students of technical specialities is the development of speech habits for their future professional needs.
Before studying the course of technical English students of the educational institutions of the I-II degrees of accreditation should master the intermediate course of English.
It is important to learn English carefully during this period because this knowledge will form the basis for the next courses.
It is useful to think of mastering a language in terms of four related skills:two passive and two active.These are the skills of listening with understanding, to tell the language,that of reading it with understanding, and the active skills of self-expression through the spoken and written word. Because of this it is necessary to have ample practice in listening to the language, in reading the language and in practicing.
Learning language is not a matter of acquiring a set of rules and building up a large vocabulary.The student`s mastery of language is ultimately measured by how well he can use it, not by how much he knows it. A student who has learnt a lot of grammar but who can not use a language is in the position of a pianist who has learned a lot about harmony but cannot play piano.The student`s command of a language will therefore be judged not by how much he knows, but how well he can perform in public.
This text-book includes a selection of texts with dialoques, grammatical and lexical exercises which are aimed to develop the necessary skills and habits while learning English and prepairing for studying a professional course of English.
Content
About myself……………………………………………………………... 3
My Family………………………………………………………………... 5
My friend`s appearance and personality……………………………………7
Rights and Duties of Ukrainian Citizens………………………………… .11
Sport in Our Life…………………………………………………………. 14
Olympic Games…………………………………………………………... 16
My Hobby…………………………………………………………………18
Education in Ukraine……………………………………………………... 21
Education Abroad………………………………………………………….23
My College………………………………………………………………...26
Prestige Professions in Ukraine and Abroad……………………………...29
Applying for а job……………………………………………………….. 33
The Career Ladder……………………………………………………….. 37
Cultural Life and Traditions in Ukraine………………………………..... .41
Festivals and Celebrations in Ukraine…………………………………… 43
Customs and Traditionsa in Ukraine…………………………………….. 47
Television: Benefits and Danger……………………………………….....50
My favourite TV programme……………………………………………..56
Newspapers and Magazines………………………………………………58
Seasons and Weather…………………………………………………….. 62
Nature Cataclisms…………………………………………………………66
Environmental Protection…………………………………………………70
Texts for supplementary reading………………………………………………72