- •Unit IV grammar The Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
- •Использование слов much / many, little / few, a little / a few
- •Grammar exercises
- •1. Give the comparative and superlative degrees:
- •2. Choose the write variant. Translate the sentences.
- •4. Insert the appropriate form of the adjectives given in brackets: positive, comparative or superlative. Translate the sentences.
- •5. Choose the right word. Explain the usage of the words.
- •6. Translate into Russian. Pay attention to the usage of the degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs. Answer the following questions:
- •7. Translate into Russian.
- •The Present Indefinite and the Present Continuous Tenses (Revision)
- •8. Put the verb to be and the verb to do into the correct form. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •9. Replace the infinitives given in brackets by the Present Indefinite or the Present Continuous:
- •10. Use the words in brackets to write sentences. All the sentences are future. Use the Present Continuous or Present Indefinite.
- •11. Which is right? Complete the sentences. Translate into Russian.
- •12. A) Read and translate the following text, think of a suitable title of it. Discuss with your partner the following questions:
- •13. Translate into English.
- •Конструкция to be going to
- •Grammar exercises
- •15. Translate the sentences. Ask questions to the words in bold.
- •16. Translate into English.
- •17. Look at the following international words, guess their meaning and check the pronunciation:
- •Word building
- •18. Translate the following derivative words:
- •19. Guess the meaning of the following words:
- •Text and vocabulary exercises
- •23. Find in the text the words or phrases which mean the same as:
- •24. Complete the following sentences according to the text.
- •25. Work in pairs and decide whether these statements are true or false.
- •26. Answer the following questions.
- •27. Retell the text “The United States of America”. You may use the expressions given in Unit II, ex. 20.
- •29. Listen to the dialogue “At the hotel”. Be ready to answer the following questions:
- •30. What is the difference between:
5. Choose the right word. Explain the usage of the words.
1. Her English is very good / well. 2. She speaks English very good / well. 3. I don’t want to work for that company. They pay their workers very bad / badly. 4. Jane is studying hard / hardly for her examinations. 5. There is something wrong with my computer. I can hard / hardly work. 6. Can you repeat it slow / slowly? 7. He is a careful / carefully driver. He drives careful / carefully. 8. Those oranges look nice / nicely. Can I have one? 9. Please be quiet / quietly. I’m reading. 10. I’m going to say something very important, so please listen to me careful / carefully.
6. Translate into Russian. Pay attention to the usage of the degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs. Answer the following questions:
1. What is the main difference between physics and chemistry?
2. Why does physics take many of the results of mathematics?
3. Why can you jump higher on the Moon than on the Earth?
1. Physics is the oldest and the most basic of the sciences. The closest discipline to physics in interest and approach is chemistry. The main difference is that chemistry deals with matter at the molecular lever and with molecular interactions whereas physics is more concerned with atoms which make up molecules, with the protons, neutrons, and electrons out of which atoms are constructed and with macroscopic properties of the matter.
Mathematics as a discipline is more concerned with the proper ordering of mathematical concepts and constructs than with physical reality. Physics takes many of the results of mathematics and uses them to better describe the reality. It is more concerned with the application of mathematical ideas than with the ideas themselves.
2. You can jump higher on the Moon than on the Earth because your body would weigh (весило бы) six times less there. This is because the Moon’s gravity is one-sixth of the gravity on the Earth. However, you could not (не могли бы) jump six times as high as you can on the Earth because you would have to wear a heavy and bulky spacesuit to stay alive.
7. Translate into Russian.
1. Летом яркий свет заставляет вас чувствовать себя более бодрыми и помогает чувствовать себя лучше. 2.Морской и горный воздух также полезен летом, так как он заставляет вас дышать глубже, повышая поступление кислорода в кровь. 3. Чем больше я думаю об этом проекте, тем меньше он мне нравится. 4. Его идея намного интереснее. 5. Эверест – самая высокая гора в мире. 6. В нашей стране зимой намного холоднее, чем осенью. 7. Я не могу решить эту проблему сейчас. Мне нужно немного времени, чтобы подумать об этом. 8. Это явление не такое уникальное, как вы думаете. 9. Теперь у меня гораздо меньше времени, чтобы сделать это. 10. Чем внимательнее вы слушаете, тем больше вы слышите. 11. Доклад этого студента в два раза короче доклада предыдущего студента. 12. Научный подход в бизнесе также полезен, как и в научной лаборатории. 13. Эти лампочки в пять раз ярче, чем те. 14. Чем выше температура, тем меньше растворимость газа. 15. Мы используем такие уравнения в математике так же часто, как и в физике. 16. Смешанные дисциплины, подобные физической химии и химической физике, указывают на (to testify to) тесную взаимосвязь между физикой и химией. 17. Физики-теоретики используют продвинутую (advanced) математику как средство (tool) для понимания физической вселенной, а не как путь к дальнейшим математическим открытиям.