Иностранный язык (английский). Учебное пособие-1

Министерство науки и высшего образования Российской Федерации НОВОСИБИРСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ТЕХНИЧЕСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ

О. А. БОГАТЫРЕВА, Е. В. ЯКУШКО

ИНОСТРАННЫЙ ЯЗЫК

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ

Утверждено Редакционно-издательским советом университета

в качестве учебного пособия

НОВОСИБИРСК

2021

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UNIT 1

PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION

Reading

Text № 1. Introducing yourself

Exercise 1. Read and translate the text.

Hello, my name is Sveta. I am 19 years old. I am a student of psychology at the State University. I liked Biology, Chemistry and Literature at school. I always wanted to be a psychologist, like my mother. My grandmother is a doctor. She is a psychiatrist. I entered the Department of Psychology because I wanted to help people with their soul problems. I like my studies a lot now. I live with my family. It is very convenient but sometimes I want more freedom.

Hi, I am Kate. I am a first-year student at Duke University, USA. I am 22. I have been working as a secretary for a physician for two years. I worked as a sales person in a real estate agency before. I have enough money for college now. Duke is a private university and very expensive too! But it is a great school with an excellent reputation. Diploma in Psychology from Duke will be very important for my career.

Hello, everyone. My name is Josh. I am British, more exactly, Welsh. My parents are farmers. It is a very rare profession in the UK. I don't want to be a farmer. I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems. I want to live in a big city. That is why I study in London. I study psychology at the University of Westminster, in the heart of central London. I live in a students’ dormitory with a roommate from Brazil. I want to rent a flat in the city centre, but it is very expensive.

Hi! My name is George Atkinson. I am a health psychology postgraduate student from New Zealand. I am a student of the University of Auckland, department of Medicine and Health sciences. Health psychology is about understanding human behaviour in the context of health and illness. This is a two-year programme. I will have a degree of Master of Sciences when I graduate.

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Words and word combinations to be remembered:

Exercise 2. Answer the questions to the text:

1.What subjects did Sveta like at school?

2.What does Sveta’s grandmother do?

3.Where does Sveta live?

4.What University does Kate go to?

5.What did Kate do before entering the college?

6.Is a diploma in psychology important for Kate?

7.Where is Josh from?

8.What is his nationality?

9.What do his parents do?

10.What university does Josh go to?

11.What kind of student is George?

12.What does he study?

Vocabulary practice

Exercise 3. Read the greetings aloud. Decide which of them are more formal and which of them are less formal. Find the English equivalents.

a.Good morning (afternoon, evening)!

b.Hello!

c.Hi!

d.How are you?

e.How do you do?

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f.How are you doing?

g.What’s up?

h.How is it going?

Exercise 4. Read and translate the dialogues. Pay attention to the words in bold.

A. (In the corridor)

–Hi, how are you?

–Fine, thanks. Have we met before?

–Well, yes. I saw you in our cafeteria yesterday.

–Ok, my name is Lena. What is your name?

–My name is Boris. I am a second-year student.

–I am a first-year student.

–Welcome to the University!

–Thank you, Boris!

B. (In the Dean's once)

–Hi, how can I help you?

–My name is Leonid Kvasin, I am the first-year student of psychology.

–And I am Nikolai Petrovich, Dean of your department.

–Nice to meet you, Nikolai Petrovich.

–Nice to meet you, Leonid. Sit down, please, and tell me what I can do for you today.

–Thank you, Nikolai Petrovich.

C.

–Hey, Peter. How are you?

–I am great, thank you!

–Great. Do you have a moment for me?

–Yes, of course. What happened?

–I need help, Michael.

–What kind of help?

–I need a place to stay until I find another flat.

–What happened to the old one?

–My landlord wants to sell it and I have a week to find another place to stay.

–Ok, let me think...hmmm...Sure, you can stay in my apartment until you find another one. We have a spare room. No problem.

–Oh, great, thanks!

–You are welcome. You can move in tomorrow.

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Exercise 5. Translate the sentences into English.

А. Я студент(-ка) факультета психологии. Я учусь на первом курсе. В нашей группе 5 человек. Я любил(-а) в школе химию, физику и биологию. Я не люблю литературу и иностранные языки. Я люблю музыку, дискотеки и хорошие вечеринки.

Б. Меня зовут Наташа. Мне 18 лет. Я любила в школе рисование, музыку и историю. Мне очень нравятся исторические фильмы. Мне очень нравится психология, я всегда хотела стать психологом. Я живу со своими родителями недалеко от университета. У меня есть друг. Ему 20 лет, он тоже студент . Он живет в моем доме.

В. Меня зовут Марина. Я студентка третьего курса журналистики. Мне 19 лет. Утром я хожу на лекции, а вечером работаю диджеем на радиостанции. Мне всегда нравилась рок музыка. У меня своя программа на радио.

Reading

Text № 2. My biography

Exercise 1. Read and translate the text. Pay attention to the words in bold.

I am going to tell you about myself. My name is Natasha Serova. I am 17. I was born in Moscow on the 5th of March, 1994 (fifth of March nineteen ninety four).

My family is not very large. We have five people in our family. I live with my parents, my younger sister and my grandmother. My father’s name is Vladimir Ivanovich. He is forty years old. He is a mechanic and he works at a garage. My mother’s name is Vera Petrovna. She is thirty-nine years old. She is a doctor and she works at a hospital. My younger sister Marina is a pupil. She is in the seventh form. My grandmother lives with us. She doesn’t work. She is a pensioner. I love my family. We are all friends and we love each other.

We live in a big flat in a new house. There are four rooms in our flat: a living room, a study, two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom. We have all modern conveniences: gas, hot water, running water, electricity and telephone.

I have my duties about the house. I must go shopping, clean the rooms. It’s not difficult for me. I want our home to be clean and tidy. I think there is no place better than home.

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I studied at school number 129. We had many well-educated teachers at our school. I was a good pupil and I did well in all subjects. My favourite subjects at school were Mathematics, Russian and English. Now I’m a firstcourse student of the college.

I have many friends. Most of them are my classmates. We spend much time together, go for a walk or to a disco party, talk about lessons, music, and discuss our problems.

I like reading. I like detective stories but I prefer to read historical novels or modern writers. I like to listen to modern music, but sometimes 1 like to listen to some classical music. My favourite composer is Tchaikovsky. I haven’t much time to watch TV but sometimes I spend an hour or two watching an interesting film or a news programme. In the evening I often look through fresh newspapers or read some interesting book. I like fresh air and physical exercise, but I have not much time to go in for sports.

Exercise 2. Make 10 questions to the text about Natasha Serova. Exchange these questions with your groupmates in class.

Vocabulary practice

Exercise 3. Make a short story about yourself, filling the gaps.

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Exercise 4. Translate the sentences into English.

О себе.

1.Позвольте мне представиться. Меня зовут Владимир.

2.Мне 18 лет. Я родился в …., и сейчас я живу в ... .

3.Я студент. Я учусь в ... .

4.Я не женат.

5.Моя семья маленькая. У меня нет братьев и сестер.

6.Я жил с родителями, когда учился в школе.

7.Моя мама – доктор. Мой отец – водитель.

8.Я люблю слушать современную музыку.

9.Я очень общителен. У меня много друзей.

10.Мне нравятся весёлая компания и вечеринки.

11.У меня есть чувство юмора. Мне нравятся шутки.

12.Я воспитан, и у меня хорошие манеры.

13.Я не люблю грубых, эгоистичных и глупых людей.

14.Я не люблю, когда люди лгут.

15.У меня не так много времени для занятий спортом.

16.Иногда я трачу час или два на просмотр интересного фильма или программы новостей.

Speaking

Exercise 5. Make mini-dialogues, using the following questions:

What were your favourite subjects at school?

What are your favourite subjects at the University now? What subjects are you good at?

What subjects are you not interested in?

Exercise 6. A. Take a test to know what kind of person you are. B. Do you agree with the results? Explain why yes/ why not?

Test “Are you a good conversationalist?”

1.I can only talk to people whom I consider pleasant.

2.I can keep up the conversation only when its theme is interesting to me.

3.I’d rather speak to someone else than listen.

4.I don’t care whether I am listened to.

5.I like to argue.

6.I don’t care what my listener thinks of me.

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