Grammar and lexical exercises.

1. Поставьте предложения в вопросительную и отрицательную формы:

1. This is a large square.

2. I am a student.

3. You are an engineer.

4. We were workers.

5. She was a teacher.

6. We have English today.

7. My friend has many books.

8. They had friends in London.

2. Переведите на английский язык.

1. Кто ты? (по профессии) – Я – рабочий.

2. Твой друг студент или рабочий? – Он студент.

3. Где вы сейчас? – Мы – на уроке английского языка.

4. Ты был дома вчера или в университете? – Я был в университете.

5. Где вы были в понедельник утром? – Мы были в библиотеке.

6. У тебя есть сестра? – Нет, у меня нет сестры, у меня есть брат.

7. Кто имел много английских книг? – Мой друг имел много английских книг, когда он был студентом.

3. Ответьте на вопросы.

1. What is your name?

2. How old are you?

3. Are you a student?

4. Where do you study?

5. What do you want to be?

6. What language do you learn?

7. Is your family large or small?

8. Who are the parents?

9. Have you a brother or a sister?

10. You always help each other, don’t you?

Text “Foreign languages in our life”.

Learning a foreign language isn’t an easy thing. Nowadays it’s especially important to know foreign languages. Some people learn languages because they need them for their work, others travel abroad, for the third studying foreign languages is a hobby. Everyone, who knows foreign languages can speak to people from other countries, read foreign authors in the original, which makes your outlook wider. I study English. It’s a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts. Over 300 million people speak it is as a mother tongue. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. English is one of the official languages of the United Nations Organization and other political organizations.

English language is a wonderful language. It’s the language of the great literature. It’s the language of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and others. Half of the world’s scientific literature is in English. It’s the language of computers technology. The great German poet Goethe once said, “He, who knows no foreign language, doesn’t know his own one”. That’s why in order to understand oneself and environment one has to learn foreign languages.

Words and word combinations

author – автор

outlook – кругозор

official – официальный

mother tongue – родной язык

effort – усилие

Grammar study Спряжение глаголов в Present Indefinite

Утвердительная форма		to learn учить	to study изучать	to know знать	to do делать
	I (we, you, they)	learn	study	know	do
	с 3-м л. ед. ч. – he (she, it)	learns	studies	knows	does
Отрицательная форма	I (we, you, they) do not He (she, it) does not	learn	study	know	do
Вопросительная форма	Do you (I, we, they) Does he (she, it)	learn…?	study…?	know…?	do…?