- •Английский язык
- •Предисловие
- •Lesson 1 about myself and my family
- •Grammar practice
- •1. Fill the gaps with appropriate pronouns given in the brackets.
- •2. Finish the sentences with the pronouns him/her/them.
- •3. Fill the gaps with appropriate pronouns.
- •4. Use the verb to be in the correct form. Translate the sentences.
- •5. Put the following sentences into negative form and make general questions. Give short answers.
- •7. Translate the sentences paying attention on the combinations with the verb to be.
- •8. Use the verb to have in correct tense.
- •9. Make questions using the verbs to be, to have in correct form.
- •10. Translate the sentences into English. Use the expressions with verbs to be, to have:
- •11. Put in the missing articles (a/ an/ the) where necessary.
- •12. Put the following words in correct order.
- •Reading and translation practice
- •My biography
- •Vocabulary
- •Language activity
- •Answer the questions.
- •2. Read and translate a short story and do tasks below. Doreen’s Family
- •3. There are different types of families such as:
- •4. Match the beginning and the end of the sentences and translate them.
- •7. Make a story about yourself and your family filling the gaps.
- •8. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- •9. Speak on one of the following topics.
- •Conversation practice
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue. Family Life
- •2. Make up a dialogue with your partner about your families and family relations. Writing practice
- •1. You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Michael, who writes:
- •2. Write an essay on the topic “Family Life”. Lesson 2 home, sweet home
- •Grammar practice
- •1. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the verb to be.
- •2. Combine the two sentences using there is/ there are.
- •3. Put the sentences into negative form and ask the general questions.
- •4. Complete the sentences with the necessary adverbial modifier and answer the questions.
- •5. Put questions to the italic words using Who? What? How many? How much? Where?
- •6. Translate from Russian into English.
- •8. Choose the correct item.
- •9. Ask questions to the given answers.
- •10. Choose the right word.
- •11. Use some, any, every, no or their derivative.
- •12. Complete the sentences. Use on, at or in.
- •13. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate preposition of place.
- •14. Answer the questions using the numerals in brackets.
- •15. Put cardinal numbers into ordinal.
- •16. Read in English.
- •Reading and translation practice
- •House of my dream
- •Vocabulary
- •Language activity
- •1. Answer the questions.
- •4. Fill the gaps in the text with the words: tenants, deposit, furnished, advance, landlord, share
- •5. Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
- •6. Finish the sentences using the given variants.
- •7. Put the sentences in logical order to form a story.
- •8. Speak on one of the following topics.
- •Conversation practice
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue. Renting a Flat
- •2. Make up a dialogue with your partner about the place he/she lives in. Writing practice
- •1. Write a letter to your friend abroad telling him/her of your home (your grandparents’ house, the place where you stayed in summer).
- •2. Write an essay on the topic “Home, Sweet Home”. Lesson 3 leisure-time activities
- •Grammar practice
- •2. Translate the sentences. Pay attention to the underlined words.
- •3. Write the words in
- •9. Translate into English paying attention to the use of demonstrative pronouns.
- •10. Write answers to the questions.
- •12. Look at these time expressions.
- •13. Insert prepositions of time.
- •Reading and translation practice
- •Vocabulary
- •Language activity
- •1. Answer the questions.
- •2. Ask the questions to the following answers.
- •3. Look at the proverbs below. Think of Russian equivalents of these proverbs. Do you agree or disagree with the proverbs? Do you follow any of them?
- •4. From the following list of people’s hobbies find out the proper ones to fulfill the table below.
- •5. Here are some people talking about their hobbies. Can you
- •6. Which of the mentioned above activities you find mostly:
- •7. Complete the sentences with the appropriate adjectives:
- •8. Look at the nouns below and write them in the correct
- •10. Complete each of the following sentences with a verb in the right tense and a noun.
- •11. Speak on one of the following topics.
- •Conversation practice
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue. Leisure Time
- •2. Make up a dialogue with your partner about his/her interests and hobbies. Writing practice
- •1. Write a paragraph about you enjoy doing. Use linking words and, but and because.
- •2. Write an essay on the topic “How I Usually Spend My Free Time”. Lesson 4 my working day
- •Grammar practice
- •1. Form adjectives and adverbs with the given suffixes. Translate them into Russian.
- •Translate into Russian.
- •Irregular verbs
- •Рекомендуемая литература
- •Contents
- •Английский язык
8. Speak on one of the following topics.
1. Your flat.
2. Your room.
3. Prove that there is no place like home.
Conversation practice
1. Read and translate the dialogue. Renting a Flat
Roger: Hello.
Ann: Hello Roger? This is Ann.
Roger: Oh hi, Ann. How have you been? And how’s your new apartment working out?
Ann: Well, that’s what I’m calling about. You see, I’ve decided to look for a new place.
Roger: Oh, what’s the problem with your place now? I thought you liked the apartment.
Ann: Oh, I do, but it’s a little far from campus, and the commute (ездить каждый день на значительное расстояние) is just killing me. Do you think you could help? I thought you might know more about the housing situation near the academy.
Roger: Okay, what’s your budget like? I mean how much do you want to spend on rent?
Ann: Uh, somewhere under $200 a month, including utilities, if I could. Oh, and I’d prefer to rent a furnished apartment.
Roger: Hmm. And anything else?
Ann: Yeah, I need a parking space.
Roger: Well, I know there’s an apartment complex around the corner that seems to have a few vacancies. I’ll drop by there on my way to class today.
Ann: Hey, thanks a lot.
Roger: No problem.
2. Make up a dialogue with your partner about the place he/she lives in. Writing practice
1. Write a letter to your friend abroad telling him/her of your home (your grandparents’ house, the place where you stayed in summer).
2. Write an essay on the topic “Home, Sweet Home”. Lesson 3 leisure-time activities
Grammar practice: |
1. Noun. Word-building: the suffixes of nouns. Plurals of nouns 2. Possessive case 3. Demonstrative pronouns this/that, ,these/those 4. Prepositions of time
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Reading and translation practice:
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1. My Day Off 2. Dialogue: Leisure Time
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Conversation practice:
Writing practice:
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1. Hobbies and Leisure Time Activities
1. A letter to a friend abroad. 2. Essay |
Grammar practice
1. Form nouns with the given suffixes. Translate them into Russian.
-er
-or
-ment
-ance (-ence)
-tion |
to buy, to sell, to work, to write, to travel, to found, to make to direct, to invent, to translate, to visit
to agree, to develop, to pay, to govern, to achieve, to punish, to equip, to move to depend, to correspond, to guide, to attend, to differ
to emigrate, to liberate, to radiate, to examine, to prepare, to combine, to illustrate, to separate.
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2. Translate the sentences. Pay attention to the underlined words.
1. She finds great enjoyment in music. 2. After a long discussion the
delegations came to an agreement. 3. I haven’t enough money today to make the payments. 4. A writer of plays is called a dramatist. 5. A journalist’s profession is called journalism. 6. The laser measurement of distances has become a new method in the exploration of the Earth-Moon system. 7. Lomonosov was not only a talented scientist, but a materialist philosopher as well. 8. K.Tsiolkovsky was a practical inventor who made his own laboratory equipment.