- •Е.Н.Бобровская, е.Ю.Вовк, е.Г.Эсаулова
- •Contents Page
- •Grammar in Use 117
- •Verbals (Non-Finite Forms of the English Verbs)
- •In phrases, with one or more accompanying words.
- •The Infinitive
- •2. Introduction
- •3. Forms
- •Bare Infinitive
- •Functions
- •Functions of the infinitive
- •6. Infinitive Constructions
- •6.1. The Objective with the Infinitive Construction
- •6.2. The Subjective Infinitive Construction
- •Grammar practice
- •5. A) Use the infinitive in the non-perfect form of the active or passive voice.
- •6. Use either of the infinitives in brackets, give two variants where possible and explain the difference.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. Insert the particle to where necessary.
- •Grammar in use
- •1. Read the dialogue; find all the bare infinitives and explain their use. Act out the dialogue in class.
- •I’d Rather Pack Now
- •2. Your friend is going away on holiday. Now, she (he) is packing her (his) suitcase. You are trying to help by giving advice.
- •3. Make up dialogues using the given phrases:
- •Read the text; find all the infinitives and state their functions. Retell the passage.
- •Read the story. State the functions of the infinitives. Retell the story using as many infinitives as possible.
- •Read the jokes. Analyze the function of the infinitives in them:
- •9. The Objective-with-the Infinitive Construction.
- •Read the dialogue. Find all the Objective-with-the Infinitive Constructions in it and explain their use. Learn the dialogue and act it out in class. Do the tasks below.
- •Read the story “Shark-eating people” and retell it, using the Objective-with-the Infinitive Construction where possible.
- •Read the story “Sea Saga” and retell it, using the Objective-with-the Infinitive construction where possible:
- •Read the extract about the Bermuda Triangle. Retell it, using the Objective-with-the Infinitive Construction where possible.
- •Read the text. Do the tasks below. A Road Accident
- •Read the following article about Christopher Columbus and list the information about him in your notebook under the two headings below, use the Subjective Infinitive Constructions.
- •Complete the sentences with the For-to-Infinitive Constructions and act out the dialogues.
- •In the Station Buffet
- •Fun with grammar
- •1. Proverbs
- •2. Nursery rhymes and poems.
- •Idealists
- •4. Familiar Quotations
- •5. Funny Stories
- •The Science of Speaking
- •6. Read the jokes. Analyze the function of the infinitives in them:
- •The Gerund
- •7. Introduction
- •8. Forms of the Gerund
- •9. Functions of the Gerund
- •Functions of the gerund
- •10. Gerundial Predicative Constructions
- •11. The Gerund and the Verbal Noun
- •12. The Infinitive and the Gerund
- •Predicative
- •The main thing
- •Part of a predicative
- •Prepositional Object
- •Grammar practice
- •Grammar in use
- •1. Read the story below and find all the gerunds. State their functions.
- •2. Read the following articles and answer the questions below. Nurses can help people give up smoking
- •Cigarettes kill 7 times more than roads major effort urged to stop child smokers
- •Let’s talk
- •1. What’s the problem in Trudy’s family? How common is it?
- •2. Sum up the advice given by the readers. Which of the advice may help, do you think? Which advice would you follow if you had the same problem? What advice would you offer Trudy?
- •Fun with grammar
- •1. Proverbs
- •2. Familiar Quotations
- •3. Limericks
- •4. Nursery Rhymes
- •5. Poems
- •6. Funny Stories No Use Trying
- •Friendly Advice
- •It Speaks for Itself
- •Tiger Hunting
- •A High Price
- •The Participle
- •14. Introduction
- •15. Forms of the Participle
- •An escaped prisoner
- •16. Functions of the participle
- •16.1. Attribute
- •16.2. Adverbial Modifier
- •16.3. Predicative
- •17. Misrelated Participles
- •18. Predicative Constructions with the Participle
- •18.1. The Objective Participial Construction
- •18.2. The Subjective Participial Construction
- •The subjective construction with
- •18.3. The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction
- •18.4. The Prepositional Absolute Participial Construction
- •18.5. Absolute Constructions without a Participle
- •19. The Gerund and the Participle
- •Grammar in use
- •Grammar in use
- •1. Alcohol and you
- •Did you know?
- •Alcohol myths
- •2. A) Read the following news story and answer questions about it.
- •Women in aids frontline Main cause of death for women aged 20-40
- •Fun with grammar
- •1. Proverbs
- •2. Familiar Quotations
- •3. Limericks
- •4. Nursery Rhymes and Poems
- •5. Funny Stories
- •General revision
- •1. Find all the verbals in the following text, state their functions. Going on a Trip
- •2. Put the verbs in brackets into a correct form.
- •5. Use a participle, a gerund, or an infinitive, or a construction instead of the verbs given in brackets; underline them, name the non-finite form used and state its function.
- •6. Put in the correct forms. Tell the story to the class.
- •List of Grammar Books
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2. A) Read the following news story and answer questions about it.
1. What is the main subject of this article? 2. What is the major cause of death for women aged between 20 and 40 in the Americas, Western Europe and Africa?
3. In what ways does AIDS threaten women? 4. How many people in the world are now infected with HIV? 5. Is the infection rate increasing faster among men or women?
Women in aids frontline Main cause of death for women aged 20-40
AIDS is now the major cause of death for women aged between 20 and 40 in major cities in the Americas, Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, it was revealed yesterday.
A new report, “Triple Jeopardy – Women and AIDS”, published by the international research institute Panos, highlights the growing threat to women.
AIDS threatens women in three specific ways, the report argues: as individuals infected themselves, as mothers who may risk infecting their unborn children and as those who will bear the brunt of caring for those who are ill.
The World Health Organization estimates that eight to 10 million people worldwide are now infected with HIV – the virus which leads to AIDS – and that one third of them are women.
But alarming new evidence suggests that the infection rate is increasing faster among women.
Recent studies in Zaire show that women aged between 15 and 30 are four times as likely to contract the disease as their male counterparts.
Globally, the virus is spread mainly through heterosexual contact and women are twice as likely to contract the disease through a single exposure to an infected partner than men are.
In New York, AIDS is already the leading cause of death for young black women aged between 15 and 40.
Author of the report Judith Mariasy said yesterday: “In the West the very real threat to women hasn’t really registered on public consciousness or on the policy makers.”
“Services for HIV-positive women are lagging behind and clinical trials and educational programmes are not designed with women in mind.”
By Lucile Hyndley
b) You are a journalist. You have to report Lucile Hyndley’s story, but you have only half the amount of space. Decide which points are most important. Summarize the news in 120 words. Use parentheses with the Participle, such as: generally speaking, etc.
Fun with grammar
1. Proverbs
Read the proverbs; try to memorize them. Give their Russian equivalents. Choose one proverb you like best, explain its meaning and comment upon it or use it in a short story.
Never swap horses crossing a stream.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back.
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
Rats desert a sinking ship.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
Inside every fat man there’s a thin man trying to get out.
Friendship gone sour is always the worst kind of enmity.
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
Least said, soonest mended.
Well begun is half done.