2. Выберите правильную форму глагола am/am not; is/is not; are/are not:

1. I .... from Russia. 2. I ... a student of the Russian State Vocational Pedagogic University. 3. Excuse me, how old ... you? I ... seventeen. 4. My friend ... interested in computers. 4. His parents ... around 40. 5. Yekaterinburg ... situated on the Neva river. It ... situated on the Iset river. 6. My father and my brother ... both programmers. 7. I ... keen on sports. But I ... rather good at basketball. 8. Our University ... young. 9. It … as large as the Urals State Technical University, but there … a lot of students in it as well. 10. There … part-time and full-time students here. 11. This ... our dean. His name ... N.N. 10. The dean’s office ... on the first floor.

3. Поставьте следующие предложения в Past или Future Indefinite, добавляя, где необходимо, слова last/next week, last/next year, last/next month, tomorrow, yesterday.

1. We are first-year students now. 2. The students of our group are very busy today. 3. We have three or four lectures every day. 4. Mary is our monitor. 5. She is good at mathematics. 6. She is in the reading-room now. 7. It is quite possible for us to help him. 8. Today we have time to go to the cinema. 9. My knowledge of English is very poor. But my friend is a good student. His knowledge is better. 10. We are good friends. 11. There are twenty-five students in my group.

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1. It is a warm and sunny day today. 2. There is no sun in the sky and there are many clouds there. 3. There is a strong wind today and it is cold outside that’s why it is pleasant to stay indoors. 4. There is a good canteen on the ground floor. 5. There are many well-equipped laboratories at our University.

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1. I study six days a week. 2. I go to the University every day. 2. Usually I get up at seven o’clock. 3. My studies begin at eight o’clock. 4. After the third period my friend and I go to the canteen. 5. As a rule I leave the University after the fourth period. 6. At home I do my homework for the next day. 6. It takes me two or three hours to get ready for my practical classes. 7. On weekdays I watch television or read. 8. It is interesting but difficult to study at the University because we do not know how to organize our work and time.

4. Поставьте сказуемое в отрицательную форму:

1. I am a first-year student now. 2. Almost all of my friends were schoolchildren last year. 3. It was a very difficult year for us. 4. We got ready for our exams. 5. We had three entrance exams last summer. 6. I got excellent marks for my entrance exams and became a full-time student. 7.Yesterday we went to the University library. 8. The librarian gave us all the necessary books. 9. The greater part of our students study free of charge, but some of us study on a commercial basis.

5. Переведите предложения:

1.Our University was founded in 1979. 2. At first it was called the Sverdlovsk Engineer Pedagogic Institute. 3. In 2001 the University was given the Russian status. 4. Now it is called the Russian State Vocational Pedagogic University. 6. There are many computer classes here. 7. Many complex problems can be solved with the help of computers. 8. New specialities are suggested to our students. 9. Every year new laboratories are opened here. 10. The study of theory is accompanied by practical training. 11. Every summer students may be sent to plants and enterprises for industrial training. 12. A lot of basic subjects must be studied by the students to become qualified specialists. 13. New strategic tasks of the University development will be solved by collective efforts of the teaching staff and students. 14 The development of science is closely connected with the development of higher education. 15. Any country must be provided with good specialists in all branches of science and technology for its further development.