- •Unit five
- •I speech patterns
- •Exercises
- •I. Paraphrase the following using Patterns 1-3:
- •II. Make the following sentences emphatic using Pattern 4 as in the example:
- •III. Translate these sentences into English:
- •IV. Answer the questions: use would or used to.
- •V. Make up short situations (no more than two or three sentences) or dialogues to illustrate Patterns 1-4 text. A freshman's experience From "Daddy Long-Legs" by Jean Webster
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I. Read the text and do the following
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Explain (in English) what is meant by and give Russian equivalents of:
- •IV. Paraphrase the following sentences:
- •V. A) Write 20 questions about the second part of the text of Unit Five using the following words and phrases:
- •B) Ask your fellow-students to give their responses.
- •VI. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •IX. Revise Essential Vocabulary (I) and translate the following:
- •X. Compose 20 sentences about the text, using modal verbs must, can, may, ought, might with the perfect infinitive:
- •XI. Translate the text into Russian:
- •Topic: education
- •Text a. Higher education and teacher training in great britain
- •Text b. Dialogue
- •Text с. How to get a degree
- •Essential vocabulary (II) Words and Word Combinations
- •Exercises
- •I. Study Text a and write English equivalents of the following words and phrases. Transcribe them:
- •II. Write 15 questions on Text a, using new words and expressions in each question. Ask your classmates to reply them. Summarize what you have learned about the British system of higher education.
- •III. Study Texts в and с and write English equivalents of the following words and phrases:
- •IV. Ask your fellow-students:
- •V. Retell Text в in indirect speech using new words and word combinations.
- •VI. Fill in prepositions. Ask the others to give their responses to the given sentences so as to make up micro-dialogues:
- •VII. Make up dialogues, using Essential Vocabulary on the topic Suggested situations:
- •VIII. A) Read and translate into Russian: Oxford
- •B) Argue the pros and cons of: 1. Tutorial system. 2. Students' uniform. 3. Residential colleges.
- •IX. Read the text. Comment on its content: Students in Tents
- •Unit nine
- •I. Speech patterns
- •Exercises
- •I. Change the sentences, using the patterns:
- •II. Think of a situation. Suggest a beginning matching up the end. Use the proper pattern:
- •III. Translate the following into English. Use the patterns:
- •IV. Respond to the following statements and questions, using the patterns:
- •V. Write 12 questions suggesting answers with these patterns. (The questions in Ex. IV may serve as a model.) text. Rose at the music-hall From "They Walk in the City" by j. B. Priestley
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Essential vocabulary (I) Words
- •Word Combinations
- •Exercises
- •VII. Translate these sentences into English, using the word way.
- •VIII. Insert prepositions or adverbs where necessary:
- •Iх. Make up a story, using the words and phrases from Essential Vocabulary I.
- •X. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •XI. Test on synonymy.
- •1. Prove that the following words are (or are not) synonyms:
- •2. Synonyms within the following pairs differ by style. Point out which of them are bookish, colloquial or neutral.
- •XII. Go over the text again and try to discuss the following:
- •XIII. A) Translate the text into Russian:
- •B) Comment on the following aspects of the fragment:
- •Text b. At the box-office
- •Text с. Pantomimes
- •I. Answer the following questions:
- •II. Learn Text в by heart. Act out this dialogue.
- •III. Retell Text с in your own words.
- •IV. Translate the following into English:
- •V. Read the following and either agree or disagree with the statements.
- •VI. A) Describe your impressions of a play (opera, ballet) you have seen. Follow the plan below:
- •B) Make up dialogues discussing the points above.
- •VII. A) Supply articles where necessary:
- •VIII. Give a free translation of the following passage. Make use of the English phrases given at the end:
- •IX. A) Read Sir Laurence Olivier's answers given by him in a newspaper interview:
- •X. Translate the following fragments into Russian (in writing)!
- •Хi. Speak individually or arrange a discussion on the following:
- •Studies of written english
Exercises
I. Change the sentences, using the patterns:
Pattern 2: 1. The Murdstones thought that David was disobedient. 2. Everybody found that there was something mysterious about Lady Alroy. 3. We thought that the last scene was quite impressive. 4. I found that the stranger's voice was vaguely familiar to me. 5. Huck Finn couldn't bear his new life at the widow's, in his opinion it was extremely dull.
Pattern 3: 1. Sabina came into the hall, she saw that he was sitting at the telephone. 2. We watched how the seers-off were shuffling from foot to foot. 3. Outside he found that Joe was standing on the platform. 4. She watched how he was waving farewell to his friends. 5. I saw that Bob was playing centre forward.
Pattern 4: 1. Erik started to read the letter again. 2. Soon the porters began to pull luggage along the platform. 3. At last Jack finished to write numerous letters of introduction. 4. Lev Yashin began to play football when he was a teen-ager. 5. Burton's namesake started to play poker and went broke. 6. The Gadfly pulled a chrysanthemum from the vase and began to pluck off one white petal after another.
II. Think of a situation. Suggest a beginning matching up the end. Use the proper pattern:
Pattern 1: 1. ...; so were ail the passengers. 2. ...; so did we. 3....; so am 1. 4. ...; so can we. 5. ...; so have I. 6. ..;so have you. 7. ...; so was our coach. 8. ...; so did the goalkeeper. 9. ...; so did the opponent. 10. ...; so were our neighbours. 11. ...; so was our luggage. 12....; so is she.
Pattern 2: 1. ... vaguely familiar. 2. ... quite sociable. 3. ... rather impressive. 4. ... obedient. 5. ... quite different. 6.... valuable.
Pattern3: 1.... serving another meal. 2. ... making a pause in his story. 3.... rubbing his hands with delight 4.... shrugging her shoulders. 5. ... passing the bread-plate to the man next to him. 6. ...curling her lip and showing her disgust for the scene.
Pattern 4: 1. ... stopped breathing. 2. ... started filling in the application form. 3. ... stopped shivering with cold. 4. ... began trembling with fear. 5. ... stopped making notes. 6.... finished reading aloud.
III. Translate the following into English. Use the patterns:
Pattern 1: 1. Они только что проводили своих родственников на станцию. — Мы тоже. 2. В воскресенье мы обедали в гостях. — Мы тоже. 3. Я люблю бифштекс немного недожаренным. — Мой брат тоже. 4. Им до смерти наскучил его рассказ. — Нам тоже. 5. Лень непростительна и невежество тоже. 6. Ее сын непослушный. — И мой тоже. 7. Это мое окончательное решение; надеюсь, и ваше тоже, 8. Наши попутчики оказались общительными и милыми людьми. — Наши тоже.
Pattern 2: 1. Рикардо встречал Овода раньше и считал его довольно странным (odd). 2. Джуди считала себя совершенно невежественной во многих вопросах. 3. Когда Джек впервые увидел леди Гвендолен (Gwendolen), он нашел ее совершенно очаровательной. 4. Герствуд (Hurstwood) не считал, что Кэрри достаточно талантлива для сцены, но думал, что сама идея зарабатывать таким образом на жизнь вполне разумна (sensible). 5. Розмэри считала свой поступок благородным и довольно смелым (daring). 6. Росс считал, что американцы общительны, англичан он находил негостеприимными. 7. Он Искренне думал, что его работа очень полезна.
Pattern 3: 1. С другого конца стола Эндрю наблюдал, как оперирует Чарльз Айвори. 2. Том и Бекки увидели, что через маленькое отверстие в пещере мерцает (to glimmer) свет. 3. Все, кто стоял на палубе, наблюдали, как садится солнце. 4. Я не могу себе представить, что он занимается спортом. 5. Мы видели, как вы здоровались с ним за руку. 6. Бедняга был страшно удивлен, когда он услышал, что Бертон предлагает ему работу.
Pattern 4: 1. Джемма никогда не переставала думать, что она виновата в смерти Артура. 2. Вскоре люди начали приходить группами. 3. Он так и не смог бросить курить и загубил свое здоровье. 4. Капитан внезапно прекратил разговор и начал изучать карту. 5. Перестаньте обращаться с ним как с маленьким непослушным мальчиком.