Laboratory work № 5

1. Listen and circle the words you hear. (2. 3. A.)

1. cap cup

2. bag bug

3. cat cut

4. rag rug

5. ankle uncle

2. Listen and circle the words you hear. (4. 1. A.)

1. veal wheel

2. veils whales

3. vine wine

4. vest west

5. viper wiper

3. Listen to the sentences and mark them “S” if the preposition is in its strong form and “W” if it is in a weak one. (4. 6. A+B.)

4. Look at the short dialogues below and fill in speaker B’s part. Mark the parts of B “I” if the sound interested and “U” if they sound uninterested. (3. 9. A.)

1. A: I’ve managed to give up smoking at last!

B:

2. A: We bumped into Alan and Sandra last night.

B:

3. A: My sister’s pregnant again.

B:

4. A: It took me over an hour to get to work this morning.

B:

5. A: We’re going abroad for Christmas this year.

B:

6. A: My mum’s passed her during test at last.

B:

7. A: Pete and Angela can come to dinner on Friday night.

B:

8. A: Andrew and Cathy were in town last weekend.

B:

5. A. What do the following abbreviations stand for? (11. 9. A.)

1. AD ___________________________________________

2. AIDS _________________________________________

3. BBC __________________________________________

4. BC ___________________________________________

5. EEC __________________________________________

6. IQ ____________________________________________

7. UK ___________________________________________

8. MBE __________________________________________

9. MOT __________________________________________

10. MP ___________________________________________

11. UEFA _________________________________________

12. PM ___________________________________________

13. RAF __________________________________________

14. UN ___________________________________________

15. US ___________________________________________

16. USSR _________________________________________

17. VAT __________________________________________

5. B. Fill in the gaps using the abbreviations you’ve practiced. (11. 9. B.)

‘And here, once again, are the news headlines:

‘Geoffrey Bowman, former Conservative __________, has been awarded the __________ for his services to literature, in the New Year’s Honours List.

‘A __________ spokesman today announced that unless there is a marked reduction in British soccer fan violence __________ teams will be banned from playing in Europe again this season.

‘A new __________ is to be brought in next year, in order to bring British motoring safety standards into line with those in other __________ countries.

‘A team of medical experts from the __________ left for Moscow today in an attempt to control the growing problem of __________ in the __________ .

‘Despite some hoax calls, no one has yet claimed responsibility for last night’s National Museum bombing. Although no one was injured in the blast, the National’s priceless collection of classical sculpture dating from 400 __________ to 100 __________ has been seriously damaged.

‘And that is the end of the one o’clock news.’