Unit 1 ENGINEERING

SECTION A. AN ENGINEERING STUDENT

1. Прочитайте диалоги и узнайте, как правильно представлять себя. Переведите на русский язык.

A

Teacher: Good morning! Let me introduce myself. I am your English teacher. I am here to help you with English. What are you? What do you do? What did you do? Why are you here?

Class: We are students.

Teacher: Are you first-year students? Are you freshmen?

Class: Yes, we are.

Teacher: Will you introduce yourselves? Who are you?

Student: I am Andrew Kolosov. I am here to study English.

Teacher: What is your name?

Student: My name is Kate Gomonova. I am a first-year student. I am here to master my English, too.

Teacher: Thank you. I am glad to meet you.

Students: We are glad to meet you, too.

B

Teacher: Allow me to introduce your supervisor.

Supervisor: How do you do?

Students: How do you do?

Supervisor: You are eager to study at our Technical University and become good specialists, aren't you?

Students: Yes, of course, we are.

Supervisor: You are lucky to study at our University. I wish you success.

Students: Thank you very much.

C

Teacher: (in whisper) Oh, I'm sorry, who is this student?

Monitor: This is Oleg Smirnov.

Teacher: I see. He is 18 years old, isn't he?

Monitor: Yes, he is.

Teacher: Is he from Moscow?

Monitor: No, he isn't. He is Belarusian. He is from Grodno, from the Republic of Belarus.

Teacher: OK. Thanks a lot.

D

Oleg: Hello, Kate. How are you?

Kate: Very well, thank you. And how are you?

Oleg: Quite well, thanks. Kate, this is Mike. He is my friend here at University and he was my friend at school.

Kate: Hello, nice to meet you.

Mike: Hi, rm glad to meet you, too.

2. Изучите примеры в таблице.

morning. Good afternoon. Evening. Hello. How do you do? How are you? How are you doing? How are you getting on? How are things? Is everything fine? Let me introduce myself. My name is ... This is Mr., Mrs., Miss

morning. Good afternoon. Hello. How do you do? I'm fine, thank you. I'm OK, thanks. Not bad. Quite well. Excellent, thanks. Nice to meet you. Pleased to meet you. I am ... Glad to meet you.

3. Вставьте is / am / are в беседу двух студентов. Переведите на русский язык.

Kate: Excuse me, are you Paul?

Michael: No, I, My name ... Michael.

Kate: Well, Mike, are you tired after your first day at University?

Michael: No, I ..., really. I ... eager to study here.

Kate: Me too. They say the Technical University ... a very exciting University to

attend.

Andrew: I ... Andrew Kovalev. I ... fond of computers. And you?

Alice: I ... Alice. I ... fond of programming as well. And besides, I ... interested in

graffiti arts.

Andrew: What is it?

Ann: Alexey, you ... good at drawing.

Alexey: Really? I ... glad to hear it.

3. Исправьте ошибки. Переведите на русский язык.

Hello! We am first-year students of the Technical University. Our names is Oleg, Mike and Kate. We is eager to know what it am like to be an American student. We is from Minsk. Minsk am the capital of Belarus. Minsk are about 750 kilometres far from Moscow. The transportation system in Minsk are rather complicated.

The average temperature in Belarus in winter months are about -10°C (14°F) and about +20°C (68°F) in summer months.