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Topic biography

I am Igor Alexandrovich Vlasenko. I was born on the 28^th of April 1980 in Kharkiv. In 1990 I went to school No 164 in Kharkiv. In 1996 I changed school No 164 into gymnasium No 46. In 2000 I finished gymnasium No 46. From August 2000 till September 2001 I worked at Kharkiv Turbine Plant. From October 2001 – till present I work at a joint-Stock Company. In 2002 I entered National Technical University (Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute) at the extra-mural department.

I am single.

My mother is Vlasenko Elena Vladimirovna, she is 42, she is a housewife.

My father is Vlasenko Alexander Nikolayevich, he is 45, he is a driver.

My sister is Vlasenko Vera Alexandrovna, she is 15, she is a pupil of school No 164.

My address is Ukraine, Kharkiv, Poltavsky Shlyah Street No 45, Flat No 30.

My phone is 7-7-2-2-7-11.

UNIT 3

Grammar – Займенники

Зворот “there is (are)”

Reading material

Texts:

1.Higher and Higher !

2.How sounds are produced

3.Computer Technology for all

4. The Birmingham University,

Mechanical Engineering Department

Topic - Our University

Exercises to be done in writing

Exercise 1. Put ‘some’, ‘any’ or ‘no’

1. There are … pictures in the book. 2. Are there … new students in your group? 3. There are … old houses in our street. 4. Are there … English text-books on the desks? – Yes, there are … . 5. Are there … maps on the walls? – No, there are … . 6. Are there … pens on the desk? – Yes, there is … . 8. Are there … sweets in your bag? – Yes, there are … . 9. Have you got … English books at home? – Yes, I have … . 10. There are … beautiful pictures in the magazine. Look at them. 11. There is … ink in my pen: I cannot write. 12. Is there … paper on your table? 13. I haven’t got … exercise-books. Give me …, please. 14. It is winter. There are … leaves on the trees.

Exercise 2. Put ‘some’, ‘any’ or ‘no’. Translate the sentences

1. There are … schools in this street. 2. Are there … pictures in your book? 3. There are … flowers here in winter. 4. I can see children in the yard. They are playing. 5. Are there … new buildings in your street? 6. There are … people in the park because it is cold. 7. I saw … boys in the garden, but Mike was not among them. 8. They brought … good books from the library. 9. Give me … tea, please, I am thirsty. 10. Dinner was not yet today, so she gave the children … bread and butter because they were hungry. 11. Do you want … milk in your coffee? 12. Have you got … time to spare? I’d like to ask you … questions. 13. Is there … cheese on the plate? 14. There is … ham on the plate. 15. There is … tea in the cup: the cup is empty.

Exercise 3. Put ‘somewhere’, ‘anywhere’ or ‘nowhere’

1. I haven’t seen him … . 2. I know the place is … about here, but exactly where, I don’t know. 3. Did you go … yesterday? – No, I went …, I stayed at home the whole day.

Exercise 4. Put ‘some’, ‘any’ ‘no’, ‘every’ or their derivatives

1. Can I have … milk? – Yes, you can have … . 2. Will you have … tea? 3. Give me … books, please. I have … to read at home. 4. Put … sugar in her tea: she does not like sweet tea. 5. Is … the matter with you? Has … offended you? I see by your face that … has happened. 6. We did not see … in the hall. 7. … was present at the lesson yesterday. 8. He is busy. He has … time to go to the cinema with us. 9. Do you need … books to prepare for your report? 10. Have you … questions? Ask me … you like, I shall try to answer … question. 11. … liked that play: it was very dull. 12. If … is ready, we shall begin our experiment.

Exercise 5. Put ‘some’, ‘any’ ‘no’, ‘every’ or their derivatives

Can … see? No, … people can’t see. … people are blind. Blind people can’t see. They can’t see …; they can see … .

Can … hear? ? No, … people can’t hear. … people are deaf. Deaf people can’t hear. They can’t hear …; they can hear … .

Can we see …? No, we can’t see … . We cannot see the air. … can see the air.

We can’t walk without legs and feet. People without legs and feet can’t walk. They can’t walk … . They can walk … .

Can you see … in an empty box? No, I can’t see … in an empty box. I can see … in an empty box. Why not? Because there is … in an empty box. There isn’t … in an empty box. What is an empty box? An empty box is a box that has … in it. An empty box is a box without … in it. An empty room is a room without … in it.

Exercise 6. Put ‘some’, ‘any’ ‘no’ or their derivatives

1. Have you … relations? – No, I haven’t …, I have … relations. 2. Has she … nephews or nieces? – She has … nephews. 3. She has … sisters, she has only brothers. 4. Do you know … about Chinese art? 5. They have … cousins in Minsk. 6. Have you … brothers? – No, I haven’t …, I have … brothers. 7. I have … good friends. 8. We did not know … about his problems: he told us … . 9. Have you got … interesting books? 10. Have you … friends in America? 11. He has … English books in this bookcase. 12. Did you meet … on your way to school? 13. Have you got … pencils in your bag? 14. Do we have … chalk on the blackboard? 15. How could I know that he was ill? … told me … . 16. She has … mistakes in her test.

Exercise 7. Tell us what pieces of furniture there are in the sitting-room using the words suggested below

On the floor, opposite the window, on the wall, in the bookcase, in the middle of the room, in the corner of the living-room, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, near the window, on the desk, near the kitchen table.

A carpet, a wardrobe, a mirror, a sofa, two armchairs, a large number of books, a TV set, a dressing-table, six chairs, a lot of things, a bath and shower, four stools, a tape-recorder, a telephone.

Exercise 8. Answer the following questions

1. What is there in the sitting-room? 2. What is there in the entrance-hall? 3. What is there on the wall? 4. What is there on the floor? 5. What is there in the book-case? 6. What is there in the right-hand corner of the room? 7. What is there in the middle of the room? 8. What is there in the bathroom? 9. What is there in the corner of the sitting-room? 10. What is there opposite the window? 11. What is there in your study?

1. How many rooms are there in your flat? 2. How many armchairs are there in your sitting-room. 3. How many books are there in the bookcase? 4. How many pictures are there on the wall? 5. How many chairs are there around the table? 6. How many taps are there in the bathroom? 7. How many bedside tables are there in the bedroom? 8. How many carpets are there on the floor? 9. How many sideboards are there at the wall?

Exercise 9. Translate the sentences

1. Is there anything interesting in this journal? – Yes, there is something. 2. There is nothing interesting in this article for me. 3. There isn’t anything interesting in this article for me. 4. Nobody knows anything about this discovery. 5. Anybody will help you if you ask any of us. 6. No problem is so important as this one. 7. There isn’t anyone in the lab. 8. We could find your book nowhere.

Exercise 10. Write down some statements with these pairs of words using the constructions ‘there is’, ‘there are’

1. A telephone – on a small table. 2. Books – on the bookshelves. 3. Food – in the fridge. 4. Furniture – in the sitting-room. 5. Hot and cold water – in the taps.

Exercise 11. Write down the questions you would ask your friend (or your colleague) to get the following answers:

1. Oh, yes, there is a color TV-set in my flat. 2. Yes, there are some books on the desk. 3. Yes, there is a bath and a shower in my bathroom. 4. We have three comfortable rooms in our flat. 5. The dressing-table is in the corner of the bedroom.

Exercise 12. Fill in the blanks with some, any or no:

1. Are there … stools in the kitchen? 2. Are there … bookshelves in the study? 3. There is … refrigerator in the sitting-room. 4. Are there … pictures in the text? 5. She has … typewriter and tape-recorder on the desk.

Exercise 13. Supply prepositions wherever needed in the sentences

This is my sitting-room. There is a thick carpet … the floor, a sofa … the right and 2 armchairs … a small table. The TV-set is … the left-hand corner … the room. The side-board is … the window. The bedroom is not very large. There is a dressing-table … the corner … the room. There are 2 beds … bed-side tables.

And this is my bathroom. There is hot and cold running water … the taps. The mirror is … the shelf, the rail for towels is … the basin.

Exercise 14. Disagree with the following statements using the expressions: nothing of the kind, I don’t think so or I’m afraid you are wrong

1. There is a mirror above the shelf. 2. There are some bookshelves in the entrance-hall. 3. There is a standard for hats and umbrellas in the bedroom. 4. There is a large number of books in the kitchen. 5. There are many pictures on the walls of our classrooms.

Exercise 15. Translate paying attention to the italicized words

1.That tube has two anodes and a single cathode. 2. The receivers discussed have been those designed for communication work only, but this is by no means the only purpose for which receivers are used. 3. A poor conductor has relatively few free electrons so that these few must travel around the circuit quite rapidly in order to secure an equally large current. 4. If a voltage differs greatly from that shown, the operator should consult his circuit diagram to determine which parts are in that circuit and which could possibly cause the trouble. 5. For converting the high-voltage alternating current delivered from the secondary of a power transformer to direct current, such as is required by radio receivers and transmitters, vacuum tube rectifiers are widely used. These employ the principle of electrons flowing from cathode to anode only when the anode has a positive charge applied to it.

Exercise 16. Translate the sentences paying attention to the construction “there + to be”

1.There are many universities and institutes in our country. 2. There is a students’ scientific and technical society at our Institute. 3. There are various computers at our computing centre. 4. There were only four departments in our Institute before the World War II. 5. There will be some engineers at the seminar on programming tomorrow. 6. There is a seminar on the History today. 7. There was a lecture on cybernetics yesterday. 8. There were many ways of solving the problem. 9. There are many complex parts and units in every computer. 10. There will be some new laboratories in our Institute next year.

Exercise 17. Fill in the blanks by the words ‘few, little, a few, a little’

1.I couldn’t buy the coat because I had … money left. 2. Let us buy some ice-cream, I have … money left. 3. … pupils speak English as well as she does. 4. There were very .. people in the streets. 5. We can’t play because we have too … time. 6. Give me … apples. 7. They spent … days in the country and then returned to Kyiv. 8. Ask Ann to help you to translate the text; she knows French … 9. Mary works hard at her English. She makes … mistakes in her speech. 10. Can you lend me … money.

Exercise 18. Change according to the model

Model: His answer was good. – He answered well.

1.John is a slow eater. 2. Mary’s translation of the sentence is correct. 3. My companion was a quick walker. 4. She was a careless cook. 5. His arrival was unexpected. 6. My friend is an excellent dancer. 7. His death was sudden. 8. Her speech at the meeting was wonderful.

Exercise 19. Make up the story concerning your University

I am a first-year student at … University. My college is in … street/highway (шосе) next to the … Metro station/bus/tram stop. My college is/ is not large. There are lots of/ quite a few lecture halls, rooms for studies and laboratories there. Its research laboratories are/ are not provided with the most modern equipment. Serious and significant researches are/ are not conducted by our college scientists. There are very many/some/no well-known scientists working at our college. My special field is … . As a first-year student I am not doing any research yet but I am planning to take part in the research activities of our department next year/in a year/in the third year. I am going to leave college in … .

Exercise 20. Complete the sentences according to the model, using “there is”, “there are”

а) Model: Kyiv is a cultural centre, (many theatres, museums) in it.

Kyiv is a cultural centre, there are many theatres, museums in it.

1. Russia is rich in mineral resources, (much iron, coal, oil) in it. 2. I shall go to the library, (no books) in our reading room. 3. Your work was very poor, (many mistakes) in it. 4. Our laboratory is very good, (new devices, modern apparatus) in it. 5. Our city is very beautiful, (parks, gardens) in it. 6. Many years ago our town was very small, (no big houses, cinemas, institutes) in it.

b) Model: Ask him to come at three, in the hall (a meeting).

Ask him to come at three, there will be a meeting in the hall.

1.Don’t forget to come tomorrow, at 5 o’clock (a very interesting lecture). 2. Carry out this work today, (no time tomorrow) I think. 3. Read the article now, (no time later). 4. Do not come late, (nobody in the laboratory).

Exercise 21. Complete the sentences

1. There is … . 2. There are several … . 3. There is one … . 4. There are two … . 5. There are many … . 6. There is only one … . 7. There are more than five … . 8. There is a (an) … . 9. There are four good … . 10. There is a big … .

Exercise 22. Change the sentences using the model

Model: Give him some more milk, please.

Don’t give him any more milk, please.

1. Give him some more milk, please. 2. She made some mistakes in spelling. 3. We learnt some new words in class yesterday. 4. There are some nice flowers in that vase. 5. The doctor gave me some pills to take. 6. We need some more chairs in this room. 7. He bought some beautiful stamps at the post-office. 8. There are some new students there now. 9. I told them about some of my spelling mistakes. 10. There are some good books there.

Exercise 23. Complete the sentences using some or any. Translate the sentences

1. The baby is asleep. Please don’t make … noise. 2. There aren’t seats available. 3. I tried to borrow … English books from him, but he said he didn’t have … . 4. Please put … water in that vase; the flowers are dying. 5. They are having … trouble with the motor of their new car. 6. He never makes … mistakes in spelling. 7. There are … famous museums there but we didn’t have to visit … . 8. The doctor gave me … medicine for my cough. 9. I never have … trouble with my radio-set. 10. We need … butter for breakfast.

Exercise 24. Complete the sentences using there is/there are. Translate them

1. … someone knocking at the door. 2. … two large book-cases in his room. 3. … nobody at home at present. 4. … a letter parks in this city. 5. … twelve month in a year. 6. … an English-speaking student there. 7. … a new film on at the club tonight.