- •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
Essential vocabulary (I) Words
anxiety n attendant n imitate υ anxious adj
audience n make υ anxiously adv entertain υ
make-up n attend υ entertainment n wear υ
attendance n hold υ, n wings n, pl wipe υ
Word Combinations
to make (a) noise a long way from
to lead the way (to) to lose one's (the) way
to look about oneself to be (get) out of the way
about (of) smb.'s age to have one's (own) way
members of the orchestra to catch hold of smth.
anxious (worried) about smth. to keep hold of smth.
to make jokes to lose hold of smth.
to make oneself at home to hold a meeting
to make up smth. to hold on to smth.
to make one's way
Exercises
I. Transcribe the following words and translate them into Russian:
anxiety, arrival, attendance, imitate, altogether, twopence, properties, creased, wearing, weary, audience, straight, desolate, joint, anxious, grotesque, ragged, perhaps, endeavour.
II. a) Find in the text sentences with:
a great deal of, very few, very few of, many of
and write your own sentences with the same word-combinations,
b) Find in the text sentences with:
altogether, nearly, usually, then, at first, soon, whatever it is, any more, no longer
and write your own sentences with the same words and phrases.
III. Answer the questions:
1. When did Rose and Mrs. Burlow arrive at the music-hall? 2. Where were their seats? 3. Were the stalls expensive? 4. In what way did the audience behave? 5. What kind of place was the music-hall? What was its most characteristic feature? 6. Were the attendants and the members of the orchestra young or elderly people? 7. What did the scenery and the properties look like? 8. When did the loudest applause come? Why? 9. Why does the author say that the music-hall was rather sad though it was cosy and friendly? 10. Why were the actor's eyes anxious behind the mask of paint? 11. What did the man in the costume of a tramp do on the stage? 12. Did Rose like his acting? 13. What did she see in the wings? 14. Why did she say nothing to Mrs. Burlow? 15. How does this episode characterize Rose? 16. What does the author want to tell us by this episode?
IV. a) Search the text for adjectives and classify them into two groups according to "positive" and "negative" qualities as suggested by the context (e.g. 1) great, good, nice... and 2) cheap, creased...). When the list is ready, describe some place and its atmosphere using the adjectives of each group.
b) give antonyms of:
to find one's way, to lose hold of;
c) give derivatives of:
attend, entertain, wear.
V. Fill in with:
a) be anxious, worry, trouble, bother.
1. She always ... when she doesn't get my letters for a long time. 2. The letter that informed us of her unexpected departure greatly ... me. 3. I knew that he would willingly help me, but I didn't like to ... him. 4. Don't...! Dinner will be ready on time. 5. The child is very weak, and I can very well understand that it... you. 6. Don't ... about the taxi. I'll get you home in my car. 7. I felt that he didn't pay any attention to what I was saying. I decided that he ... about something. 8. I shouldn't like to ... you with my tiresome affairs. 9. The climate is very bad there, and I ... about her health. 10. I'm sorry to ...you, but I need his address badly.
b) anxious and its derivatives:
1. What are you so ... about? 2. Her ... face was pale. 3, We were full of ... and worry. 4. Michael was ... to find a job. 5. I was ... waiting for his answer. 6. His ... for success made him many enemies. 7.... makes people older.
с) attend and its derivatives:
1. From the age of seven till seventeen I... school. 2. The ... at lectures has fallen off. 3. In this hotel you will be well... on. 4. Your... is requested.
d) entertain and its derivatives:
1. Who(m) are you ... at dinner tonight? 2. His jokes didn't ... us much. 3. The play was not very ... 4. Do you know any places of... in this town? 5. Do they often ...?
VI. Translate these sentences into Russian:
1. What makes you think he knows the truth? — Everything. His look. The way he talked at dinner. 2. She smiled in that charming way of hers. 3. He spoke on one note. It gave Kitty the impression that he was speaking from a long way off. 4. He had particularly congratulated us on the way we had done the difficult job. 5. I didn't know which way to look. 6. I really can't get used to the new ways. 7. Is that the way you feel towards us? 8. She threw my slippers into my face. She behaved in the most outrageous way. 9. Isabel didn't want to stand in Larry's way. 10. Sophie pushed her way through the dancers and we lost sight of her in the crowd. 11. I made way for him to go up the stairs. 12. Suzanne's mother could hardly live on her pension with prices the way they were. 13. They had been to Chartres and were on their way back to Paris. 14. I saw the waiter threading his way through the tables. 15. The room had a narrow iron bed and by way of furniture only the barest necessities.