- •Introduction
- •Students’ life
- •1. Read the following international words paying attention to their pronunciation. Try to guess their meanings. Check your variant of their meanings consulting the dictionary.
- •2. Match the names of the following professions with their definitions.
- •3. Pay attention to the following synonyms:
- •4. Read and memorize the following words and word-combinations:
- •Reading Activities
- •Students’ life
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. Find in the text you have composed the answers to the following questions:
- •2. Practise the above questions with your group-mate. Work in pairs!
- •3. Translate the following words and phrases from Ukrainian into English. Make up ten sentences with the English equivalents of the following words:
- •4. Translate the following sentences from Ukrainian into English:
- •5. Read and translate the following dialogue about students’ life:
- •6. Make up your own dialogue about students’ life making use of the text, questions and the dialogue above.
- •7. Decide if the following statements are true or false according to the text „Students’ Life”:
- •9. Find the answers to the following questions in the above text:
- •First year at university
- •11. Find the answers to the following questions in the above text:
- •English in Use Adressing People
- •2. Choose the best answer.
- •Getting Acquainted with People
- •1. Read and translate the following dialogues making use of the Word List below.
- •2. Practise the dialogues above and learn any two of them by heart.
- •3. Complete the following dialogues with suitable words or phrases from the Word List and the dialogues above.
- •4. Learn the dialogues you have completed by heart. Parting with People
- •1. Read and translate the following dialogues making use of the Word List below.
- •2. Practise the dialogues above and learn any two of them by heart.
- •2. Practise the dialogues above and learn any two of them by heart.
- •2. Practise the dialogues above and learn any two of them by heart.
- •Reading Activities
- •Our university
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Decide if the following statements are true or false according to the text above:
- •3. Find in the text the words corresponding to the following definitions:
- •4. Find in the text the synonyms for the given words and phrases:
- •5. Form the nouns from the given verbs and use them in the word combinations and sentences of your own. Use the suffixes -ance, -tion, -ing if necessary:
- •6. Form the verbs from the given nouns:
- •7. Translate the given words and phrases into English:
- •8. Fill in the correct preposition:
- •9. Read some more facts about our university and make up questions to the underlined words:
- •10. A) Look at the table and mark the difference in how teachers and staff are called in the uk, usa and Ukraine.
- •11. A) Study the structure of universities in the uk, usa and Ukraine:
- •12. Insert the given words:
- •13. Speaking:
- •14. A) Think of the characteristics for teacher’s work, consult the dictionary.
- •15. Compare the structure of the academic year, marking systems and students’ work in the uk, usa and Ukraine.
- •Focus on Grammar
- •2) Some adventure that happened to you;
- •3) Your last summer.
- •8. A. Insert the correct form of the verb to be (is or are).
- •9. A. Look at the words and word combinations and tell the group what you can do and what you can’t do.
- •10. Put an appropriate verb in its correct form into each gap (can, could).
- •English in Use Discussing Weather
- •Useful Expressions
- •Telephoning
- •2. Notice the following expressions on the telephone:
- •3. Read and practise the dialogues:
- •4. Complete the telephone conversations. Use the phrases from the box. In pairs practise saying them.
- •1. Match a line in a with a line in b
- •II. Decide which of the dialogues above sound more like business calls?
- •6. Read / listen to 3 telephone conversations and say:
- •7. Leaving a message on an answer phone
- •Ukraine
- •Reading Activities
- •Ukraine
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
- •4. In each line choose one word that doesn’t belong to the group. Explain your choice. Start your sentences with the phrases:
- •8. Make a report on the topic “Ukraine”. Focus on Grammar
- •4. Rewrite the sentences, using Present Perfect.
- •5. Put the following sentences in negative and interrogative forms:
- •6. Open the brackets and put the verbs into Past Simple, Present Simple, or Present Perfect.
- •English in Use
- •Invitations, requests, suggestions
- •Invitations
- •Requests
- •Suggestions
- •11. Work in pairs. Using the tables (ex.2, 5,9) make up short dialogues and act them out. Kharkiv
- •1. Match the following English words with their Ukrainian equivalents.
- •Reading Activities
- •Modern kharkiv
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •2. Decide whether the following statements are true or false:
- •3. Translate the given words and phrases into English:
- •4. Translate the given sentences into English:
- •5. Fill in the gaps in the following text with a suitable word:
- •7. Read the following text and try to understand its general meaning. The pokrovsky and uspensky cathedrals
- •9. Read and translate the following text. The mirror stream fountain and aerial cableway
- •10. Translate the given words and phrases into English:
- •11. Match the following words with their Ukrainian equivalents:
- •12. Fill in the gaps with the prepositions. Small southern children’s railroad
- •13. Translate the given words and phrases into English:
- •14. Try to guess the meaning of the following English words by their definitions:
- •15. Make a report on the topic “Kharkiv”. Focus on Grammar
- •In pairs ask and answer the following questions using I (don’t) think/expect I will or I hope/’m sure/’m afraid I will/won’t.
- •4. Underline the correct form of the verb.
- •Example: The red dress is …the most expensive … of all. (expensive)
- •10. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of will or to be going to and the verb in brackets.
- •English in Use asking the way and giving directions
- •5.Fill in the gaps with the following prepositions:
- •Reading Activities
- •Great britain
- •It’s interesting to know:
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. Comprehension check. Are these statements true or false? Correct the false ones.
- •2. Answer the questions comparing information about Great Britain with the information about Ukraine.
- •Official Name
- •It’s interesting to know:
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. Test yourself. Match the words with their definitions.
- •Vocabulary work. Find words in the text which could be replaced by
- •3. Find words in the texts with the opposite meaning to the given words:
- •4. Complete the following sentences, using the facts that you know.
- •5. Complete the following text using the words and expressions from the box.
- •Notes to the text:
- •England
- •6. State whether these statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.
- •7. It is interesting to know…
- •8.Read theText. The last great wilderness
- •A Scottish Glossary
- •10. Think over the following questions.
- •11. Comprehension check. All the answers to these definitions begin with the letter „e”.
- •12. Speak about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Focus on Grammar
- •2. Match column a with column b and make up your sentences using the Past Simple Passive Tense, then, in pairs, ask and answer questions as in the example.
- •3. Transform the following sentences into questions using the Present, Past or Future Simple Passive as in the example. Work in pairs.
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct active or passive tense forms.
- •5. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct active or passive tense forms.
- •8. Make a passive sentence from the words in brackets, as in the example.
- •9. A. Rewrite these sentences in the Passive, as in the example.
- •10. Rewrite the sentences in the Passive , as in the example.
- •English in Use Travelling
- •Catching a Train
- •B) At the Station
- •Air Travel
- •2. Important Travel Information.
- •3. Complete the word combinations using the words from the box
- •6. Do the Crossword.
- •7. Read these dialogues and act them out.
- •8. Make up your own dialogues.
- •B) Declaration
- •4. Read and learn the new words:
- •Reading Activities
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. Choose one of the words to make the sentences complete (use the correct form of the word):
- •2. Match the word and its definition:
- •3. Choose the right answer.
- •4.Translate the sentences into English:
- •5. Explain …
- •6. It is interesting to know…
- •7. Make a report on the usa. Focus on Grammar Conditional Sentences
- •2. Complete the questions.
- •4. Lisa is talking to her friend about what she might do when she leaves university. Write sentences using the given words.
- •5. Write questions using if for the following answers.
- •10. For each situation, write a sentence beginning with if.
- •English in Use At a Hotel
- •2. Read the given expressions and responses, paying attention to their pronunciation.
- •3. Read in pairs the following dialogues, paying attention to the underlined words.
- •4. Pair work. Role play
- •5. Make up a dialogue based on the following situation and act it out.
- •At a restaurant
- •1. Read and learn the following words and word-combinations
- •2. Read the given expressions and responses, paying attention to their pronunciation
- •3. Discussion.
- •4. Read the following dialogue in pairs, paying attention to the underlined words.
- •5. Pair work. Role-play
- •Apple Cake
- •6. Make up a dialogue based on the following situation and act it out.
- •7. Read the English proverbs.
- •Have Fun!
- •Education in ukraine, great britain and the usa part I. Education in Ukraine
- •1. Match the following English words with their Ukrainian equivalents:
- •Reading Activities
- •Text 1. Education in ukraine
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. State if these sentences are true or false:
- •2. Read Text 1 again and make notes under the headings below, then present a one-minute tv talk on education in Ukraine:
- •8. Read Text 2. Text 2. Homework: is it good for you? Do You Like Homework? Did It Help You in School?
- •Is Homework a Waste of Time?
- •Does Homework Help?
- •Is Homework Fair?
- •10. Translate these expressions from Ukrainian into English and make up sentences with them:
- •11. Describe the system of education of Ukraine.
- •12. Match the words with the definitions.
- •13. Fill in the gaps with one of the words from the list below.
- •14. Choose the solutions to the following problems, then fill in the table.
- •15. Think of some other problems which occur in the classroom and say how they could be solved. Part II. Education in Great Britain
- •1. Study the words to the topic.
- •2. Try to answer these True/False statements by guessing, then read Text 3 and find out if your guesses were correct.
- •Reading Activities
- •Text 3. Education in great britain Primary and Secondary Education
- •Further Education
- •Higher Education
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. Answer the questions on Text 3:
- •2. Complete the sentences.
- •3. Fill in the gaps with the correct word(s) from the list below:
- •4. Write a summary of the text ”Primary and Secondary Education”, using the following words and phrases:
- •5. Read the conversation between Tom, a pupil of a secondary school, and his old friend, Mark, who has just started his studies at the university.
- •6. Choose the best answer according to the information in the dialogue.
- •7. Put the following events in the logical order.
- •9. Translate these sentences from Ukrainian into English.
- •10. Think about:
- •11. Study the words and read the following texts (4 and 5) about the education system of Great Britain.
- •Text 4. Studiying at university (in england and wales)
- •Text 5. Postgraduate courses
- •12. Read these sentences spoken by university students. What is each person studying? Mark the stress on each of your answers, check with the answer key, and practise saying the words.
- •13. What do you call:
- •14. Replace the underlined verbs with different verbs that have the same meaning in the context.
- •15. How similar is university education in your country? Answer these questions.
- •16. Write a letter to a pen-friend about the system of higher education in Great Britain.
- •Reading Activities
- •Text 6. Education in the usa
- •Post-reading Activities
- •1. Decide whether the following statements about the usa education are true or false.
- •2. Read the dialogue. Complete it asking the questions about the education systems in Great Britain and the usa.
- •3. Test yourself:
- •4. Pay attention to the essential vocabulary:
- •Key to the Test (p.132):
- •Focus on Grammar
- •Infinitive / The –ing form
- •1. In pairs, ask and answer questions using the prompts below, as in the example.
- •4. Write sentences using the structure I prefer to do something rather than do something else.
- •5. There are lots of books about living a healthy life. Most of the experts say the same things. Change the following sentences into reported speech.
- •6. Monica Collins is a famous educator. She is going to another country to take part in a scientific conference. Say what she expects to be done on her arrival, as in the example.
- •9. Choose the correct answer.
- •English in Use
- •Shopping II. Clothes
- •Word list II
- •3. Complete this dialogue with a suitable word or phrase.
- •4. Complete the dialogue with a suitable word or phrase:
- •Leisure activities
- •2. Practise the models and make up short dialogues using one item from each column of the table.
- •3. Practise the illustrative dialogue.
- •8. Complete the dialogue:
- •9. In pairs, act out similar dialogues talking about the following leisure activities:
- •Choosing a career
- •Text 2. I want to be a programmer
- •Post-reading activities
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •Reading Activities
- •Choosing a career
- •Post-reading Activities
- •6.Make your comments about teaching profession and requirements to teachers using the following phrases:
- •7. Read the following text. Be ready to discuss it: grygoriy skovoroda
- •8. Prepare a 3-minute talk on one of the great teachers of the past or today, give reasons for your choice:
- •9. Act out the dialogue "Choosing is not so easy as it looks".
- •10. Prove that the following proverbs (sayings) have sense:
- •11. Make a report on the topic “My Profession”. Focus on Grammar
- •1. Questions. Fill in the blanks.
- •3. Choose either the Future Simple or - to be going to - in the following sentences.
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or Future Simple.
- •5. Choose either the Present Simple or Present Continuous in the following sentences.
- •6. Put the verbs into Past Simple or Present Perfect.
- •7. Mixture of tenses. Put in the correct auxiliary verb in each sentence.
- •8. Use either the Present Perfect Simple or Continuous in the following sentences.
- •9. Put the verbs into the right order.
- •10. Choose the correct variant.
- •11. Choose the correct modal verb.
- •12. Adjectives and Adverbs Comparison. Put the adjectives in the right order.
- •English in Use Social situations
- •1. Write what you would say in the following situations:
- •Applying for a Job. Job Interview.
- •2. Read the letters, notice their structure and essential components:
- •Texts for reading and discussion Text 1 bologna process
- •Participants of bologna process
- •Svobody (freedom) square
- •The monument to t.G. Shevchenko
- •The ukrainian language
- •Taras shevchenko – the singer of ukraine
- •The Sovereign
- •1. Comprehension check. Find these in the lists above.
- •An Eisteddfod
- •1. Test yourself. Complete the quiz.
- •2. Complete the following:
- •First american settlers
- •1. Choose the right answer.
- •2. Translate the sentences into English.
- •1. Study the words and read the following texts.
- •Boy genius
- •Raising a genius?
- •Too few classes
- •2. Answer the questions on the texts:
- •Irregular Verbs
- •Literature
- •Contents
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Contents
Introduction………………………………………………………….. 3
Students’ Life………………………………………..,………………. 4
Our University…………………………………………..…………… 22
Ukraine……………………………………………………………… 42
Kharkiv……………………………………………………………… 57
Great Britain………………………………………………………… 70
The USA…………………………………………………………... 96
Education in Ukraine, Great Britain and the USA………………… 114
Choosing a Career……………………………………………….. .. 147
Texts for Reading and Discussion………………………………… 169
Appendix (irregular verbs) ………………………………………… 184
Literature…………………………………………………………... 187