Speech exercises

Exercise 7. Answer the following questions to the text:

1. When was the Stalingrad Medical Institute founded?

2. How many departments were there then? What department was it?

3. When was the medical institute granted the status of Academy?

4. When was the medical academy granted the status of University?

5. How many departments does the Volgograd State Medical University have? What are they?

6. What does the Medical University framework include?

7. What specialists does a medical college train?

8. What does postgraduate training involve?

9. What has the University has been included into?

10. When was the Department of Dentistry organized?

11. What divisions are there at the department of dentistry?

12. What do medical students attend?

13. What do medical students do under the supervision of highly qualified teachers and researchers?

Grammar exercises Спряжение глагола to be (Simple Tenses)

Глагол to be может быть:

1. в роли смыслового глагола. В этой роли глагол to be имеет значение находиться, быть (например, дома), так как за ним всегда стоит существительное с предлогом, которое указывает место. Например:

I shall be at home. — Я буду (находиться) дома.

2. в роли глагола-связки. Глаголы-связки не передают никакого действия, они служат только для соединения подлежащего со смысловой частью составного сказуемого, которая может быть выражена разными частями речи: если после to be используется существительное (без предлога), прилагательное, числительное или инфинитив, то в этом случае to be является глаголом связкой, который:

а) перед инфинитивом имеет значение значит, заключается в том, чтобы, например:

Our task is to read the text twice. — Наше задание заключается в том, чтобы прочитать текст дважды.

б) во всех остальных случаях глагол to be имеет значение быть, являться и в настоящем времени в русском варианте может опускаться, например:

I am а student. — Я (есть) студент.

We were five. — Нас было пятеро.

Спряжение глагола to be (Simple Tenses)

	Утвердительная форма			Отрицательная форма			Вопросительная форма
Present	I am.			I am not.			Am I?
	You are.			You are.			Are you?
	He	is.		He	is not (isn’t).		Is		he?
	She			She					she?
	It			It					it?
	We	are.		We	are not (aren’t).		Are		we?
	You			You					you?
	They			They					they?
Past	I was.			I was.			Was I?
	You were.			You were.			Were you?
	He		was.	He		was not (wasn’t).	Was			he?
	She			She						she?
	It			It						it?
	We		were.	We		were not (weren’t).	Were			we?
	You			You						you?
	They			They						they?
Future	I shall be.			I shall not (shan’t) be.			Shall I be?
	You		will be.	You		will not (won’t) be.	Will	you			be?
	He			He				he
	She			She				she
	It			It				it
	We shall be.
	You		will be.	You		will not (won’t) be.	Will	you			be?
	They			They				they

Exercise 8. Fill in the blanks putting the verb BE in correct forms:

1. I ____ a first-year student.

2. Alex ____ absent today. He ____ ill.

3. At the University we ____ usually busy till 4.30 p.m.

4. The VolgSMU ____ a very famous medical university.

5. ____ you a dental technician?

6. My friend ____ not a student. He ____ an intern.

7. It ____ Wednesday today.

8. She ____ a dentist in 6 years.

9. I ____ a medical student.

10. I ____ a dentist next year.

11. Yesterday she ____ in the hospital.

12. They ____ in London last year, but now they ____ in Paris.

13. ____ it cold or warm today?

14. We ____ at the lecture in Chemistry.

15. It ____ Thursday yesterday.