Grammar exercises

14. Complete the sentences. Use to be going to + one of these verbs:

to repair, to visit, to fall, to study, to spend, to read, to take place, to rain, to report, to leave, to discuss.

1. John’s university course begins in October. He … engineering. 2. Look at those black clouds. It … . 3. I … some beautiful places in your town. 4. She … for London. 5. The ceiling in this room doesn’t look very safe. It looks as if it … down. 6. We … the weekends at the seashore in summer time. 7. They … the equipment in this room. 8.You … the results of the research 9. State political leaders and scientists … the War and Peace problem. 10. The scientific conference … at our university. 11. We ... about the Metric system of units and the IS Units.

15. Translate the sentences. Ask questions to the words in bold.

1. I am going to stay at home. 2. We are going to translate letters from English into Russian. 3. He is going to do his homework on Monday evening. 4. We are going to start work at the end of October. 5. They are going to get home by car. 6. I am going to spend my free time at home, I am a home sitter. 7. We aren’t going to have any important work in the next few days. 8. Our scientists are going to solve a lot of mysteries about unseen forces. 9. We are going to watch wonderful sunrises and sunsets in the village. 10. He is going to melt the substance at a high temperature. 11. Physicists and chemists are going to develop clean and safe technologies to protect nature.

16. Translate into English.

1. Завтра я собираюсь отправить телеграммы всем нашим коллегам. 2. Ты собираешься принимать участие в нашем исследовании? – Нет. 3. Когда ты собираешься переписывать контрольную работу? 4. Я и мой однокурсник часто опаздываем на лекции, поэтому завтра мы собираемся встать до 6.30. 5. Я собираюсь посещать все лекции и семинары по праву. 6. Студент собирается выступить с докладом по развитию оптики в наши дни. 7. Вы собираетесь улучшить оборудование в лаборатории? 8. Ученые нашего университета собираются провести серьезные и важные исследования в области термодинамики. 9. Ученые нашего института собираются тщательно изучить химический состав (composition) воды в реке. 10. Что вы собираетесь узнать с помощью этого огромного телескопа? – Мы собираемся узнать больше информации о звездах и планетах солнечной системы.

Pre-text exercises

17. Look at the following international words, guess their meaning and check the pronunciation:

continent, navigator, million, geographically, immigrant, tropical, climate, giant, characteristic, region, colony, meter, flag, political, natural, mechanized, resource, gas, period, season, system, inaugural, parade, department, memorial, class, national, collection, intellectual, company, voyage.

Word building

18. Translate the following derivative words:

verb + -tion, -ion, -ation → noun

to protect – protection, to reject – rejection, to create – creation, to revolve – revolution, to calculate – calculation, to converse – conversion, to combine – combination, to separate – separation, to civilize – civilization;

words with negative prefixes:

un-: uninviting, unmagnetized, unlocked, unreal, unlike, unrivaled, unfit;

in-: inaugural, independent, incapable, inactive, indivisible, inanimate;

im-, il-: immoral, impersonal, impossible, illegal;

ir-: irregular, irrelevant.