- •The Importance of Learning Foreign Languages
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Make up sentences:
- •3. Fill in the blanks with the necessary words in brackets:
- •5.Match the synonyms:
- •6. Make up questions and let your fellow-students answer them:
- •12. Discuss in pairs:
- •Traveling and customs Traveling
- •1.Read and memorize the following words:
- •2.Study the text. Traveling
- •3. Read and remember how to use these words:
- •4. Look at this list and say which of things you will choose and take with you:
- •5. Make up sentences:
- •Confusing words:
- •7.Answer these questions:
- •Business Trip
- •8. Read and then memorize the following words and word-combinations:
- •9. Read and translate the text:
- •10. Remember the following information. Then complete each sentence with the word travel, trip, or journey.
- •11. Rewrite these sentences in the passive.
- •12. Match the statements and questions with the responses.
- •13.Complete the word map. Use the words in the box:
- •14. Practise the following dialogues:
- •15.Match the words in the box:
- •16. Express your opinion about business trip. Speak about the information you should know if you are going to have a business trip. Going Through Customs
- •17. Learn the following word combinations and phrases:
- •Is there anything liable to duty?
- •18.Read the text.
- •19. Answer the questions:
- •20. Read and dramatize the following dialogues:
- •21. Finish the dialogues:
- •22. Communicative situations.
- •Meeting People
- •Read the text:
- •2.Comment on the following:
- •3. Complete the sentences with suitable words:
- •4. Change into the passive:
- •6 . Match the introductions and questions with the appropriate responses.
- •7. Rearrange the conversation:
- •8. Engage your partner in conversation. Try to establish a common interest (a place, a hobby, a job, family...), use the vocabulary on Meeting people:
- •9. Retell the text using the active vocabulary. Telephone
- •1. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:
- •2. Give antonyms to the following word combinations:
- •3. Fill in the blanks with suitable words and word combinations:
- •4. Give synonyms to the words in bold type:
- •5. Learn the following text. Telephone
- •6. Remember the following telephone etiquette The techniques of telephoning is very much the same in all countries. Only remember your good telephone manners:
- •7. Starting a phone conversation
- •On the phone
- •8. Practise the following dialogues.
- •9. Write down five words or expressions including the word 'phone' or ‘telephone’.
- •10. Fill the gaps in these phone conversations with suitable words or phrases.
- •11. Answer the following questions:
- •12. Read and memorize the following words and word-combinations:
- •13. Read the text:
- •14. Study the list of the telephone terms. Pay attention to the American and British variants of the same term:
- •15. Remember the following facts:
- •16. Fill in the blanks with proper words:
- •17. Practise the following dialogues:
- •Leaving a message.
- •Getting the wrong number.
- •Making an appointment.
- •A long distance call.
- •18. Fill in the missing remarks:
- •19. Complete the statements:
- •20. Act as an interpreter:
- •21. Put the dialogue in the right order:
- •22. Work in pairs. Practise the telephone conversation, using the expressions you have learnt:
- •23. Test your telephone techniques. Your answers should be “yes” or “no”.
- •A modern office
- •1. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:
- •2. Learn the text
- •A. Answer the questions about the text.
- •B. Change these sentences to the questions and then to the negative.
- •3. Make these words plural
- •4. Use the correct form of the verb to be:
- •5. Answer the questions using the given information.
- •11. Making an appointment.
- •12. Future possibilities with if
- •If Richard goes to the park, he can look for performers there.
- •Modern information technology
- •Read and then memorize the following words and word-combinations.
- •Read and translate the text. Modern Information Technology
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Write 5 questions to the text above and then ask them to your partner.
- •3. Complete the telephone conversation using the phrases in the box. Then fill in the message form.
- •4. Match the verbs with the phrases.
- •5. Read and translate the following useful information.
- •6. Decode the following two telexes.
- •7. Read the report about the convergence of mobile phones and handheld computers. Choose either the adjective or adverb each time.
- •8. Choose the correct variants.
- •9. Write the negative sentences.
- •10. Write your opinion to the development of modern information technology, its advantages and disadvantages. Grammar Reference
- •Література
2. Make up sentences:
a foreign language to me.
spoken in many countries.
English is a truly international language.
isn’t my favorite subject.
also an official “second” language in over 70 countries.
3. Fill in the blanks with the necessary words in brackets:
1. Please ... the last word (say, understand, repeat).
I can read English but I cannot ... it. (say, tell, speak).
I know grammar well, but my ... is poor. (language, accent, meaning).
4. Finish the sentences, using the words: occur, broadcast, reports, contact, mind, up to date.
Speaking foreign languages helps to establish ...
Learning the languages broadens your ...
Communication can ... between people who have a common language.
With the knowledge of foreign languages you can translate the latest... & be ... in that field.
60% of the world's radio stations ... in English.
5.Match the synonyms:
1.up to date a) same
2.occur b) modern
3.common c) happen
4.valuable d) start relationship
5.establish contact e) worth much money
6. Make up questions and let your fellow-students answer them:
study any foreign language?
Do you speak English?
have English lectures every day?
Are your lectures interesting?
you sometimes tired after lecture?
Why do you study foreign languages?
cannot you speak English well?
do you learn grammar?
7. Ask general questions to the statements:
Learning the languages helps in talking to people.
It broadens your mind.
You learn about other cultures.
Interesting things are happening abroad.
60% of the world's radio stations broadcast in English.
8. Ask all kinds of questions:
1. About 1.5 billion people can communicate in English for work or leisure.
2. More than half of the world's periodicals are printed in English.
9. Write the forms of the irregular verbs:
To learn, to read, to write, to think, to know, to understand, to feel
10. Сhange into Passive:
About 400 million people speak English as a first or native language.
They read & translate the latest reports in English.
Businessmen establish contacts with the help of foreign languages.
Many radio stations broadcast programs in English.
People send 80 % of e-mails on the Internet in English.
11. Read aloud and put 5 questions to the text:
Technical English is often said to be difficult to understand. One of the reasons for this is that many English words can have several meanings.
In order to master technical English the student must first acquire a thorough knowledge of everyday English with its grammar, vocabulary and rules of word-formation. Then it will be easy for him to learn, step by step, the peculiarities of technical English. The problem of vocabulary also causes difficulty to the reader of technical English. Each branch of science and technology has its own separate vocabulary.
Ability to translate a foreign technical text demands sufficient technical knowledge to understand it and also a great linguistic knowledge and skills.