- •Куроченко ю. С., Ланських о. Б., Махиня н. В.
- •A word to the reader
- •Передмова
- •Introductory phonetic-orthoepic course
- •Introduction
- •Introductory text* Body Language
- •1. Comprehension questions.
- •2. Find in the text English equivalents to the following.
- •Vocabualary practice
- •Introductory text English Family Life
- •Vocabualary practice
- •The martinelli family
- •Introductory text People Around the World
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Introductory text From the History of Human Dwellings
- •Vocabualary practice
- •Introductory text
- •1. Comprehension questions.
- •2. Find the following words and word combinations in the text, translate them.
- •Vocabualary practice
- •2. Tell what’s the time:
- •3. Put these words in order.
- •4. Read the following dates.
- •5. Complete the sentences with at, on, in.
- •6. Match the words in bold with their meaning written in the box.
- •7. Read and translate the following dialogues.
- •8. Speak about yourself and your country completing these sentences.
- •9. Translate the text into Ukrainian, give it a title.
- •10. Writing options. Try to make a story on the offered topics.
- •Introductory text
- •Vocabualary practice
- •8. Read the text about English weather. Compare it with the Ukrainian climate.
- •9. Complete the following chart about the weather of your region.
- •10. A) Here are some sayings and expressions about weather in English. Match them with their meanings.
- •11. Writing options. Try to make a story on the offered topics.
- •Introductory text Digital Decade
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Introductory text Shopping
- •Vocabualary practice
- •Introductory text Healthy Food
- •Vocabualary practice
- •Burger Queen
- •Amazing food facts!
- •Introductory text Stay Healthy
- •Vocabualary practice
- •A Tough Worker
- •Introductory text Special Interest
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Interesting or boring? Put these leisure activities in order from most interesting to most boring in your opinion.
- •Film posters
- •Jumping across cities
- •In the Town
- •Introductory text Town and Country
- •Vocabulary practice
- •2. Complete these names of places. Use words from the box. (There are two words you don’t use.)
- •Directions by street name and nearby landmarks:
- •Directions by subway and bus:
- •Directions by foot or car:
- •Is it good to live in a city? Prove your reasons with the options below.
- •Introductory text Traveling
- •Vocabulary practice
- •1. Match the words and phrases in column a with those in column b.
- •2. Complete the sentences with English equivalents.
- •Beautiful Hawaii
- •Airport
- •Prepare for takeoff
- •An Amazing Journey
- •A Walk with Death. Don’t Look down
- •Introductory text Hotels
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Check in
- •Hotel hell
- •Room service
- •Introductory text Home and Foreign Holidays and Traditions
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Introductory text Ukraine
- •Vocabulary practice
- •The Ukrainians and their character
- •The soul of the man is in his stomach
- •Introductory text English-speaking Countries
- •2. Find in the text English equivalents to the following.
- •Vocabulary practice
- •In each of the following sets of words, one is misspelled. Write that word correctly in the space provided at the left.
- •English spelling
- •English language statistics
- •Interrogative Pronouns (Питальні займенники)
- •Indefinite Pronouns (Неозначені займенники)
- •Verb. Auxiliary Verbs to be, to have, to do
- •Indefinite Group of Tenses
- •To VII (ed) / to be – was, were
- •1. Insert articles a / an, the where possible.
- •2. Complete the sentences using a / an, the where necessary.
- •3. Supply a / an, the where possible.
- •4. Choose the correct answer, pay attention on the usage of a definite article.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •1. Make the following nouns plural.
- •2.Choose the correct verb is / are. Mind the noun (singular or plural).
- •3. Make selected nouns plural. Don’t forget to make other changes in the sentences.
- •4. Choose the correct word in brackets.
- •5. Choose the correct form of the compound noun.
- •6. Rewrite these sentences using ‘s, s’, or just an apostrophe (‘).
- •7. Translate into English.
- •2. Fill in the missing words into the gaps. Mind the first two words in each task.
- •3. Complete the sentences.
- •4. Supply as…as, not so…as, less.
- •5. Read the conversation with Todd. He compares the places he visited last year. Can you complete any of the sentences?
- •6. Translate into English.
- •1. Use the correct personal pronouns. Watch the words in brackets. Model: ___ often reads books. (Lisa) – She often reads books.
- •2. Put in my / our / your / his / her / their / its.
- •3. Choose the right word.
- •4. Put in the relative pronouns who, which or whose where necessary. Model: Peter is the boy ____ rides the blue bike. – Peter is the boy who rides the blue bike.
- •5. Supply anybody / anyone, nothing, anything, nobody / no one, somebody / someone or something in these sentences.
- •6. Translate into English.
- •Verbs to be, to have, to do
- •1. Put in the following forms of to be (am, are, is) into the gaps in the text.
- •2. Supply am, is, are, was, were or weren’t.
- •3. Decide which tense / number of the expression there is / are fits in the sentence below.
- •5. Complete the following sentences by using the right form of to have (have, has, had).
- •6. Complete the following sentences by using the right form of to do (do, don’t, does, doesn’t, did, didn’t, done).
- •Indefinite group
- •1. Replace the infinitive in brackets by the Present Indefinite Tense (I do).
- •2. Choose the correct verb in each sentence.
- •4. Put the words in these questions in correct order. Then, write short answers.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •1. Complete these sentences. Use the verbs from the box in Past Indefinite.
- •To clean, to die, to enjoy, to finish, to happen, to live, to open, to play, to rain, to smoke, to start, to stay, to want, to watch
- •2. Supply the past forms of the irregular verbs in italics.
- •5. Correct the following sentences.
- •1. Put the following sentences in the Future Indefinite Tense.
- •2. Insert the missing conjunctions in the following sentences. Use conjunctions: when, till, before, after, as soon as, while, if.
- •4. Complete the sentences. Use I think I’ll … or I don’t think I’ll and one of the following verbs: buy, go, have, play.
- •5. Open the brackets using Present (I do) / Future Indefinite (I will do).
- •6. Translate into English.
- •7. Put down five types of questions to the following sentences.
- •1. Open the brackets using Present Continuous (I’m doing).
- •2. Translate the words given in brackets using Present Continuous.
- •3. Use the verbs given in brackets in Present Indefinite (I do) / Present Continuous (I’m doing).
- •4. Complete the sentences with Present Indefinite (I do) / Present Continuous (I’m doing) forms of the following verbs.
- •Belong, need, see, take, bite, play, shine, understand, drive, prefer, sing, watch, look, rain, snow, write
- •1. Use Past Continuous (I was doing) in the sentences below.
- •2. Complete the sentences in a choosing the most suitable phrase from b.
- •3. Make sentences from the words in brackets. Put the verbs into correct form: Past Indefinite (I did) / Past Continuous (I was doing).
- •4. Complete the sentences using Past Continuous of the verbs in the box.
- •Answer, begin, climb, count, drive, eat, look, melt, sing, stand, walk
- •5. Translate the following sentences.
- •6. Open the brackets using Past Indefinite (I did) / Past Continuous (I was doing).
- •Open the brackets using Future Continuous (I will be doing).
- •Translate the following sentences.
- •To break, to buy, to finish, to do, to go (2), to lose, to paint, to read, to take
- •6. Open the brackets using Past Indefinite (I did) / Present Perfect (I have done).
- •2. Join these pairs of sentences, using the conjunctions in brackets. Change one verb into the Past Perfect (I had done).
- •3. Supply the Past Perfect (I had done) / Past Simple (I did).
- •4. Open the brackets using the verbs in Past Simple (I did) / Past Continuous (I was doing) / Past Perfect (I had done)
- •5. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •6. Make up five types of questions to the following sentences.
- •Insert ‘have’ / ‘has’ according to the person given.
- •1. Write passive sentences in Present, Past, Future Simple.
- •2. Rewrite the sentences in Passive Voice.
- •3. Rewrite the sentences in the proper tenses in Passive.
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into Past Indefinite or Past Continuous Passive.
- •6. Give the following sentences in Passive Voice.
- •7. Rewrite the sentences in Active Voice.
- •8. Translate into English using the verbs in Passive.
- •9. A reporter is talking to Lucy Fame. Complete the interview.
- •1. Choose the correct word from those in brackets to fill the blank in each sentence.
- •3. Turn each direct-speech statements into indirect speech with tense changes. Just what the doctor ordered!
- •4. Report these Yes / No questions moving the clauses ‘one tense back’.
- •5. Report these special questions moving the clauses ‘one tense back’.
- •6. Report the following statements using indirect commands.
- •7. Renew direct speech in the following sentences.
- •9. Translate the sentences following the rules of Sequence of Tenses.
- •1. Supply the correct forms of the missing verbs.
- •2. Match the following parts of the sentences.
- •3. Write Type 2 Conditionals to match these situations.
- •If I had a spare ticket, I could / would take you to the concert.
- •4. Comment on the following situations with if (expressing regret, etc.).
- •If John hadn’t eaten too / so much birthday cake, he wouldn’t have been sick.
- •5. Finish the following sentences.
- •6. Use Mixed Conditionals in these sentences.
- •7. Translate into English using Conditionals.
- •1. Supply can, may, must and their negative forms where needed.
- •2. Rewrite these sentences using can, can’t, could, couldn’t.
- •3. Supply suitable forms of to be able to in these sentences.
- •4. Complete the sentences with must, mustn’t, needn’t.
- •5. Rephrase these notices to give or refuse permission. Begin each sentence with You…
- •6. Respond to these statements with should, shouldn’t, shouldn’t have done that.
- •7. Translate the sentences using can / could / to be able to, may / might, must / to be to / to have to, should / ought to, need.
- •On a rainy day
- •Why was she angry?
- •Honesty
- •Fortune and the man
- •A sad story
- •A universal favourite
- •A chinese vase
- •The king who wanted to be an artist
- •The evidence was not strong
- •An arab and his sons
- •Too honest
- •A sailor and the monkeys
- •An absent-minded scientist
- •A conceited american
- •An experienced teacher
- •The indian and the spaniard
- •Michaelangelo
- •He was afraid
- •A slave
Vocabualary practice
Match the English weather words with their Ukrainian equivalents.
1. dew |
a) мороз |
2. forecast |
b) легкий вітерець |
3. blizzard |
c) повінь |
4. thunderstorm |
d) роса |
5. hurricane |
e) засуха |
6. earthquake |
f) блискавка |
7. humidity |
g) злива |
8. breeze |
h) імла, серпанок |
9. rainbow |
i) гроза |
10. shower |
j) прогноз погоди |
11. frost |
k) вологість |
12. flood |
l) заметіль, завірюха |
13. lightning |
m) ураган |
14. mist |
n) землетрус |
15. drought |
o) райдуга, веселка |
Change the given statements so that they will mean the opposite.
Model: We are having rough weather. – We are having calm weather.
The weather is really nasty today.
It’s ten degrees below zero.
The roads are dry today, it’s not dangerous to drive.
The sky is clear.
The weather will keep fine.
It was a bright day.
It’s 30 degrees in the shade.
There is a bad fog in the mountains.
The weather is windless today.
The frost is going to kill all the flowers in the garden.
Complete the sentences, as in the model.
Model: The Nile is a river.
The Atlantic is …………………………………………...
The Alps are ……………………………………………..
The Sahara is ………………………………………….....
The Amazon is ……………………………………….......
The Mediterranean is ………………………………….....
The Bahamas is ………………………………………......
Africa is ……………………………………………….....
Crete and Corsica are ………………………………….....
Everest is he highest ………………………..in the world.
Michigan and Erie are two of the great …………………
Match the words and their definitions.
1. forecast |
a. the amount of rain, snow etc. that falls |
2. precipitation |
b. rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to / condenses on the ground |
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c. weather conditions of a place or area |
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d. a light gentle wind |
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e. thick water vapor which is difficult to see through |
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f. water falling in drops from the clouds |
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g. small dirty pool of rain water |
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h. water vapor at or near the earth’s surface, less thick than fog |
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i. a heavy fall of rain |
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j. rain in small fine drops, thin continuous rain |
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k. conditions over a particular area, at a specific time with reference to sunshine, temperature, rain and so on |
Fill in the gaps with the words from the box.
atmosphere / fog / evaporate / hail / rainfall / shower / frost / windless / gale / thunder / lightning / damp / blistering / mild / humidity |
The radio has given a _________ and icy warning for car drivers tomorrow.
________ is frozen rain drops which fall as little hard balls.
The day was ________, without moving clouds.
The sun will ________ the water.
He could hear ________ over the hills.
The _______ in the air makes my old bones hurt.
The _______ in the room was hot and smoky.
The _______ has been measured and found higher than ever.
The annual _______ there is only four centimeters.
Yellow _______ filled the streets and hid the daylight.
He was out too long in the _______ heat of the sun.
It has been a _______ winter this year.
A great flash of ________ lit the night sky.
The old tree was blown down in a ________ .
I went out and was caught in a ________ .
Translate the following dialogues in English.
- Дощ іде?
- No, it isn’t. It has stopped raining.
- Думаю, погода зміниться.
- I think so.
*****
- Сьогодні мороз?
- Так, 15 градусів нижче від нуля.
- Не забудь одягти шубу.
- Iwon’t.
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- Погода чудова, чи не так?
- Так. Дуже тепло і сонячно.
- Let’s go for a walk.
- Я не проти.
Read and translate the following dialogues into Ukrainian.
A:What’s the weather like?
B:I don’t know. I just woke up.
A:Why don’t you look outside?
B:Okay. It looks like rain.
A:Why do you say that?
B:The sky is gray.
A:Is it raining right now?
B:No.
A:How do you know?
B:The street isn’t wet.
A:I have to go shopping today.
B:You’d better take an umbrella.
*****
A:What beastly weather! It is simply pouring!
B:My Grandma used to say that it was raining cats and dogs. Such a funny phrase!
A:It is. But I’ve got wet through.
B:I’ve seen on Internet that there will be a heat spell later this week.
A:Oh, I don’t mind the rain. It is quite pleasant to walk with a good raincoat on. And good Wellington boots, of course.
B:And you call this July! Where is the summer?
A:Oh, we had it last Thursday after dinner.
*****
Sally:I think a drought has set in. It hasn’t rained a drop for months.
Ethan:I think so, too, but didn’t it rain last month?
Sally:It did rain last month, but the rainfall was only half the monthly average.
Ethan:Oh. That bad?!
Sally:That’s right. It’s really bad. I’m really concerned though not panicked yet.
Ethan:I don’t blame you. The pastures have browned out even before the summer hasn’t arrived.
Sally:Yeah, and the soil has been baked so hard that the plow can’t even break the soil.
Ethan:Looks like it’s going to be an ongoing thing that would get worse each day.
Sally:Yeah. If it doesn’t rain, it’s going to get critical.