- •I. Word order: adverbs with the verb.
- •1. These sentences are all taken from real recorded conversations.
- •Say how often you do some of the following things.
- •3. Rewrite each underlined sentence using the adverb in brackets.
- •Rewrite these sentences putting the words and phrases in brackets in the best order. Note that none of these sentences are emphatic:
- •II. Present and past habits. Repeated actions and states.
- •6. Use one of the sets of notes below to complete each dialogue. Expand the dialogues using your own ideas, act them out in class.
- •7. Here are some laws of nature. Join the beginnings and the ends. Think of other occurrences of Murphy’s Law.
- •9. Transform the statements below into negative sentences and questions making other necessary changes.
- •10. Complete the text with words from the box, using used to ...
- •11. Make sentences with used to and didn't use to about how people lived hundreds of years ago. Use your own ideas.
- •12. Write some sentences about things that you used to or didn't use to do/think/ believe when you were younger. Work with other students, find out what they used to do/think/ believe.
- •13. Rewrite these sentences, using be/ get used to (doing) smth:
- •15. In the following text, delete any examples of would that are not acceptable:
- •1. Try to memorize the following set expressions about habits:
- •2. Render the following text into English using the active grammar constructions and (for extra points) the active vocabulary (you are welcome to add your own comments!): Привычки великих.
- •3. Insert the correct prepositions into the following sentences (you can find a more comprehensive list of dependent preposition patterns at the end of this book):
- •In pairs ask and answer questions about each other’s likes and dislikes using the active expressions with dependent prepositions.
- •2. Comment on the following quotes about habits. Use the active vocabulary:
- •Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain
- •1. Grammar. Choose the correct answer.
- •2. Vocab. Suggest active vocabulary units corresponding to the following definitions:
- •1. Join the beginnings and ends, putting in if.
- •2. Choose the correct tenses (present or will...).
- •3. Complete these sentences any way you like.
- •II. Second Conditional sentences.
- •4. Transform the sentences into the second conditional making them hypothetical, and translate them into Russian.
- •5. Put in the correct verb forms.
- •6. Complete the sentence with a suitable form of the verb in brackets.
- •11. Choose the most sensible verb form and complete the sentences.
- •IV. Third Conditional sentences.
- •12. Transform the sentences into the third conditional.
- •13. Put in the correct verb forms.
- •15. Match the beginning of each sentence with the most suitable ending.
- •14. Complete the conversations:
- •In the dock: Chariot
- •In the dock: One man (and his dog)
- •In the dock: The Internet service provider
- •In the dock: The jilted lover
- •In the dock: The government
- •In the dock: The superhacker
- •VI. Mixed Conditional sentences.
- •17. Put the words in brackets into the correct tenses.
- •Vocab & speaking
- •1. Arrange the following expressions in the appropriate gaps in the exercise below. Change the form of the expression according to the context.
- •2. Render the following text into English. Use at least 15 active vocabulary units.
- •3. The verb get is used in a variety of expressions. There are a lot of them in this Unit. For more practice do the following exercise.
- •4. Complete the following sentences with the correct prepositions.
- •1. Fill the gaps in the sentences using these key words from the text.
- •2. Read the article.
- •27 July, 2010
- •3. Retell the text using the active grammar patterns and at least 15 active vocabulary units.
- •4. Choose the best answer according to the text.
- •5. Find the following words and phrases in the text.
- •6. Discussion.
- •7. Comment on the following quotes about crime and punishment. Use the active vocabulary:
- •1. Grammar. Choose the correct answer.
- •2. Vocab. Suggest active vocabulary units corresponding to the following definitions:
- •I. Past Simple vs. Past Continuous.
- •1. Complete the text with the verbs in the box (there is one verb too many). You will need five past progressives and three simple pasts.
- •2. Complete each paragraph with one set of verbs, using the past simple or past continuous.
- •3. Complete the sentences using these pairs of verbs. Use the past simple in one space and the past continuous in the other.
- •4. Complete this text with either the past simple or the past continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Where alternatives are possible, think about any difference in meaning.
- •II Past Simple vs. Past Perfect.
- •5. Use the Past Simple or the Past Perfect to complete the sentences:
- •6. Underline the correct answers. In some cases only one is correct, and in others both are correct.
- •7. Complete this text with these verbs.
- •III Past Perfect vs. Past Perfect Continuous.
- •8. Complete the sentences with one of these verbs, using the same verb for each sentence in the pair. Use the past perfect continuous if possible; if not, use the past perfect.
- •9. Choose the past perfect continuous form of the verb if appropriate; if not, use the past perfect.
- •10. Study this conversation extract. If the underlined verbs are correct, write “V”. If they are wrong, correct them using either the past perfect (active or passive) or past perfect continuous.
- •11. Complete this text with these verbs in the past perfect or past perfect continuous.
- •IV Tense Revision.
- •12. Choose the right tenses:
- •13. Complete the two texts about World War I with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
- •14. Underline the correct form.
- •15. Choose a novel or story, and select one or two pages. Make a list of the past tenses used on these pages. Are these the only tenses possible, or are others also acceptable?
- •16. Read the synopsis of a famous short story. Render the story into English. Последний лист
- •1. Idioms
- •2. Life without phrasal verbs
- •3. Complete the sentences with the corresponding prepositions.
- •4. Nationality adjectives.
- •3. Now read the text and see if you were right. Celebrity scandal and Anne Frank: the reading diary of British teenagers
- •4. Find words in the text that mean the following. The paragraph numbers are given to help you.
- •5. Are the following statements True (t) or False (f)? If they are false, say why.
- •6. Retell the article. Use at least 15 active vocabulary units.
- •7. Some words are often found together. Match the words on the left with their collocations on the right.
- •8. Now match nine of the collocations with their meaning.
- •9. Discussion
- •10. Comment on the following quotes on books and reading. Use the active vocabulary:
- •1. Grammar. Choose the correct answer.
- •2. Vocab. Translate parts of the following sentences using the active vocabulary.
3. Retell the text using the active grammar patterns and at least 15 active vocabulary units.
4. Choose the best answer according to the text.
Why did Suraia Rais sue Åsne Seierstad?
a. because Seierstad wrote about the Rais family without permission
b. because Seierstad lied to the family and their neighbours
c. because Seierstad misrepresented the lives of the family and their neighbours
Why could this case have ramifications for publishers?
a. because it could be the start of an international trend that allows people to sue across borders
b. because people will no longer be able to use the real names of people they write about
c. because poor people will now be able to sue rich people
How, according to Rais, did the family treat Seierstad?
a. They gave her a clear and clean picture of Afghan culture.
b. They told her all the family secrets.
c. They treated her as an honoured guest and took her to private family ceremonies.
Why could the case continue for another five years?
a. because hundreds of other people want to sue Seierstad
b. because it takes a long time for judges to make up their minds in defamation cases
c. because Seierstad may appeal against the judgement and this will take time
5. Find the following words and phrases in the text.
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an adjective meaning failing to give care or attention, especially when this causes harm or damage (para 1)
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a three-word expression meaning on trial (para 3)
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a five-word expression meaning to end a legal argument without asking a court to decide (para 4)
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an acronym meaning very important person (para 7)
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a two-word expression meaning done in a way that makes it easy to recognize what the true situation really is (para 8)
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a noun meaning things that do not match other things (para 9)
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a three-word expression meaning not wanting to be interviewed by a journalist (para 10)
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a three-word expression meaning to stop talking about or pursuing something, especially because it is embarrassing someone (para 11)
6. Discussion.
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Do you think such cases may further destabilize the strained relations between the East and the West?
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Will this case make it more difficult for authors to write books about people in other countries?
7. Comment on the following quotes about crime and punishment. Use the active vocabulary:
It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.
Remy de Gourmont
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
Bertrand Russell
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
Thomas Fuller
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. H.G. Wells
Crime generally punishes itself. Oliver Goldsmith
Great thieves punish little ones. Proverb
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown. Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
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