- •Life style
- •Text a.
- •6. Work with your partner. Ask him the same questions.
- •7. Speak about yourself or your friend following the ideas of the text.
- •Read the text about Roger the gardener. Pick up sentences with the verb defining the action in the process, write down and translate these sentences.
- •7. Comment on three situations the Present Continuous is used.
- •Unit 2 Countries Grammar: The Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives
- •Text a First Impressions
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Choose the correct answer to continue the sentences:
- •3. What are the comparative and superlative forms of these adjectives?
- •5. Say whether the following statements are true or false. Provide the right answer.
- •6. Underline the correct word:
- •7. Make up 10 sentences comparing Ukraine or Ukrainians with the three countries (the usa, g. Britain, Japan). Use comparatives and superlatives.
- •8. Replace the underlined word with the correct word.
- •9. Who speaks what and where? Learn the following information by heart.
- •10. Answer the following question
- •11. Complete these sentences with the name of the people from the country on the right.
- •12. What regions of the world are these countries in?
- •13. Complete the following sentences:
- •1. Use the words given in the brackets to form the words that will logically fit the sentence.
- •2. Match these words with their definitions. Translate them.
- •3. Translate the sentences with the underlined words and word combinations in the text and make up sentence of your own with each of them.
- •4. Think and discuss the questions:
- •5. Translate the following sentences:
- •6. Present your own country.
- •Education
- •Grammar: The Present Perfect Tense Form
- •1. Answer the questions to the text.
- •6. Use the words from the chart to fill the blanks in the sentences. Translate the sentences.
- •Translate the sentences with the verbs in the Present Perfect Tense Form into English using the active vocabulary. Follow the example.
- •Make up your own sentences of the same model. Use the verbs from the list of active vocabulary. Write them down.
- •Make the English sentences from Ex. 1 interrogative and negative. Follow the example.
- •Read the text about Summerhill. Pick up the sentences with the Present Perfect Tense Form and translate them. Text b
- •5. Answer the questions to the text.
- •10. Put the verb in brackets in the correct form (the Past forms or the present Perfect). Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
- •11. Joe is calling Maria. Complete their conversation with short answers and the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Choose between the Present Perfect and the Past Simple.
- •13. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary. Pay attention to the use of the Present Perfect tense form.
- •Career Choice Grammar: The Future Simple (will) and to be going to
- •Translate the sentences provided below into English. Use the list of phrasal verbs and learn them. Follow the example.
- •2. Make up some sentences of your own according to the models (will, to be going to) . Use the verbs from the list of the active vocabulary to the unit. Write them down.
- •3. Make the sentences from Ex. 1 or 2 interrogative and negative. Follow the example:
- •4. Read about two modern servants (the third text is optional). Study the notes below the text. Find the sentences with the future forms. Comment on them. Translate the sentences. Text a
- •5. Answer the questions to the text. Pay attention to the structure of the questions. The first one is different. Why?
- •6. Work with your partner. Ask him the same questions.
- •7. Speak about your future career. Who or what influenced your choice?
- •8. Study the sentences with the condition in the future.
- •10. Make up 10 sentences of your own according to the model with the verbs from the list of active vocabulary. Write them down.
- •11. Read each numbered sentence. Write t (True) or f (False) for the statement that follows.
- •12 Look at this student’s Goal Planning worksheet. Complete it with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
- •13. Make a similar worksheet of your own. Pay attention to the usage of the future conditions.
- •1. Read the text about a Future banker. Find the sentences with the future forms. Comment on them. Translate the sentences.
- •(From "The Financier" by Theodore Dreiser)
- •2. Answer the questions to the text.
- •Travelling Grammar: The Present Simple, the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect).
- •Text a The Best Way to Travel
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Say true or false. Comment on your answer.
- •4. Match the beginning of the sentence with its appropriate ending:
- •5. Complete the sentences with the following adjectives:
- •Convenient b) difficult c) safe d) uncomfortable e) reliable
- •6. Read and translate the dialogue “Making enquiries at a travel agency”
- •8. Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs (the Present Simple, the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect).
- •9. Read , translate and learn the dialogue: Booking a Room at a Hotel
- •10. Read, translate and learn the following dialogue.
- •11. Answer these questions about the dialogue.
- •12. Complete the text with the appropriate form of the words provided in capitals.
- •13. Discuss the following questions
- •14. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •15. Do the questionnaire by choosing a, b, or c for each of the following situations. When you finish add up your score: a -1 point, b – 2 points, c – 3 points. What Kind of Traveller Are You?
- •Unit 6 Celebrities Grammar: Past Indefinite, Past Continuous, Past Perfect
- •Make up some sentences of your own. Use the past simple or the past continuous with the verbs from the list above. Write them down.
- •Make the sentences from Ex. 1 or 2 interrogative and negative. Follow the example.
- •4. Read part of a student’s diary. Find and correct eight mistakes in the use of the Past Simple.
- •5. Read the text about p. Picasso. Find the sentences with past forms. Comment on them. Translate the sentences. Text a..
- •6. Answer the questions to the text. Pay attention to the structure of the questions.
- •7. Work with your partner. Ask him more questions.
- •8. Look through the text again. Analyse the sentences with the highlighted model: Use the model to make up some more sentences of your own.
- •Text b.
- •2. Answer the questions to the text. Then ask 5 - 6 questions of your own. Be careful about the structure of your questions.
- •3. Study the following examples dealing with the Past Perfect Tense Form. Translate the sentences according to the examples using the active vocabulary.
- •5. Complete the conversations. Use the Past Perfect or Past Simple of the verb in brackets.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. Write a letter to your idol.
- •Grammar: The Narrative Tenses
- •2. Read the following text. Think and comment on what the author’s view of tourism is.
- •Death by Tourism: Does Tourism Ruin Everything That It Touches?
- •Answer the following questions to the text.
- •1. Answer the questions.
- •2. Read the text about the Crimean Peninsula. Text b
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Put the words in brackets in the correct tense form.
- •5. Decide which answer a, b. C or d best fits each space. Mind the use of correct tense forms.
- •6. Read and translate the words before the text Yellowstone. There is an odd word here. Fill in the blanks with the proper words and find the odd one. You must use each word only once.
- •7. Translate the following sentences using the active vocabulary.
- •Unit 8 cities
- •2. Make up ten sentences of your own according to the model.
- •3. Read the text about Lviv, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
- •4. Answer the following questions.
- •5. Work in pairs. Ask some more questions of your own and answer them.
- •6. About you.
- •8. Put in was or were in each space.
- •9. Translate into English using the active vocabulary.
- •Match the equivalents. Look through text b for help.
- •2. Read the text about Kharkiv, the scientific centre of Ukraine. Translate the sentences containing the above models or phrases. Text b
- •3. Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about the city.
- •4. Think and complete the sentences.
- •5. Complete the sentences using the right form of the word provided in capitals.
- •6. Read and translate the words before the text. Mind one odd word there. Fill in the blanks with the proper words and find the odd one. You must use each word only once.
- •7. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Unit 9 Food Grammar: Past habits – Present habits: used to – to be used to
- •1. Read the following extracts from text a. What do you think the underlined words and phrases mean? Try to work out their meaning from the context (without using a dictionary).
- •2. Read the text about Greasy Spoons and translate the sentences with the phrases from Ex. 1 Text a
- •3. Answer the following questions.
- •4. Choose the correct variant a, b, c, or d.
- •6. Match the following words with their Ukrainian equivalents and then read the dialogue. Act the dialogue out:
- •7. Imagine you are in a restaurant. What will you do first? Put the following expressions in the right order and translate them.
- •8. Fill in the missing remarks:
- •9. Make up 2 dialogues on the following topics:
- •10. Think and answer.
- •1. Read the text. Do you agree with the facts provided in it? Can you add anything? Has anything changed in Ukraine recently? Discuss it. Text b
- •2. Complete the following sentences. Use the word in capitals on the right to form a word that fits the spaces in the text.
- •3. Complete the sentences. Mark the correct form of used and use the correct form of the verb in the brackets. Mind the models
- •4. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Shopping
- •Text a Shopping in England
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Read the following sentences and say which of them are true or false.
- •3. Complete the sentences filling in the gaps with the words and phrases given below.
- •4. Look at the types of shoes below. Which ones would you wear in the situation that follows?
- •5. Match the words with the phrasal verbs provided in the sentences.
- •6. Use the word below to answer the questions.
- •1. Read the text about smart shopping and discuss the questions provided below.
- •2. Explain the following words and word combinations in English.
- •3. Turn the following sentences into Reported speech. Choose from the verbs of reporting – tell, advise, ask, warn.
- •4. Find all the pieces of advice given in text b and turn them into reported speech.
- •5. Use the correct form of the words in the brackets.
- •6. Read the text about Joan. Pay attention to the highlighted phrases and fill in the gaps. Learn the text by heart to remember the models.
- •7. Following the model “There was nothing to eat for dinner” from the text above make up some more sentences. Use nobody, nowhere instead of nothing.
- •8. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Grammar: Modal Verbs
- •2. Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first one, using the word in bold. Use between two and five words.
- •3. Look at the title of the text below. Think about the topic and decide if these statements are true or false.
- •4. Read the text and evaluate your ideas of the statements above. Text a
- •5. Answer the following questions.
- •6. Consider the use of modal verbs to convey ability and possibility. Complete the sentences. Use can, could or be able to.
- •7. Cross out one of the options leaving the most suitable one.
- •8. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary.
- •9. Make up five more sentences with the words from the list of the active vocabulary.
- •1. Think and answer.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •4. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Ethical problems
- •1. Rewrite the following statements in reported speech.
- •3. Read the following text about Blackberries (by Leslie Norris). Translate the sentences containing the words and phrases from Ex.2.
- •1. Read the text “How far does friendship go?” and find the sentences expressing unreal condition. Translate them.
- •Explain in English:
- •Translate the sentences of the text above with the highlighted phrases. Pay attention to the structure of the model.
- •4. Complete the following sentences. Use the word in capitals on the right to form a word that fits the space in the text..
- •5. Answer the following questions.
- •6. Think about the situation similar to the David’s one and develop the idea. Use the words in the brackets to help you.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. What would you do in the following situations?
- •Unit 13 Earning a Living Grammar: Conditionals (Revision); few/a few, little/a little; much/ many; make / do
- •1. Read the text. Pay attention to the meaning of the highlighted words. Complete the rest of the sentences.
- •Learn the text by heart to remember the models.
- •Read the text about Britain’s favourite store Marks & Spencer. Text a
- •4. Answer the following questions.
- •5. Say whether the following statements are true or false.
- •7. Revise the Conditionals (I, II, III) and complete the following sentences using your own ideas.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Complete the chart with different parts of speech. Use the dictionary to help you. Make up the sentences of your own using the following verbs.
- •4. Use the verbs make or do to complete the fixed phrases. Learn the phrases.
- •5. Insert the preposition (by, for, in, with) and than.
- •7. Match a line in a with a line in b.
- •8. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •In some countries there is a political party called the 'Green Party' or 'The Greens'. What is its purpose? Discuss with your partner.
- •1. Read the text about Business and Environment. Think about the main idea of the text. Text a
- •6. Complete the sentences using the appropriate word from the text.
- •7. In pairs, discuss the answers to the following questions. Use infinitive of purpose in your answers.
- •9. Look through Text а once again, find the sentences with the passive forms and translate them.
- •1. Translate the following phrases from text b into Ukrainian.
- •Body Shop
- •2. Read the text and answer the questions.
- •3. Complete the sentences using the word in capitals on the right to form a word that fits the space.
- •4. Read the article. Fill the spaces with the correct form of the verb in brackets. Use either the past simple or the present perfect tense.
- •5. Discuss the questions with your colleagues.
- •6. Complete the following passage with the appropriate passive forms of the verbs in brackets.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •Unit 15 Computing Grammar: The ing- forms
- •1. Match the words with their definitions.
- •2. Match the following words ending in -ly with their Ukrainian equivalents.
- •3. Read text a and translate the sentences with the words and phrases from Exs. 1 and 2.
- •5. Translate the following word combinations into English.
- •6. Form nouns from the following verbs and translate them. What noun-forming suffixes did you use?
- •7. Substitute appropriate terms for the highlighted words or phrases in the sentences below. There is one extra word:
- •8. Determine which statements are true and which are false.
- •9. Complete the following sentences:
- •10. Using the table compare the effectiveness of computers and human beings for the following tasks. Comment on it.
- •11. Read and reproduce the following dialogue:
- •1. Match the following words and word combinations from the text with their Ukrainian equivalents.
- •2. Read the text about Dublin’s First Cyber Criminal and translate the sentences with the words and phrases from Ex. 1.
- •3. Find in the text the words that mean:
- •4. Ask the questions to get the following answers.
- •7. Discuss the following in the groups.
- •8. Translate these sentences into English.
- •Supplement
- •Learn the stories by heart to remember the models.
- •Read the text and discuss the questions given below.
- •1. Learn the two stories by heart to remember the models.
- •2. Read the text and get ready to tell your foreign friend about Ukraine, your native country
- •Read the text about Great Britain and get ready to retell it.
- •4. Read the text about Ukraine in the Second world war and discuss it.
- •Unit 3 Education
- •Read and discuss the text. Learn the new vocabulary.
- •2. Discussion
- •1. Read and discuss the texts. Learn the new vocabulary.
- •2. Complete the questions with the words in the box.
- •3. Read the paragraphs and learn the highlighted words.
- •Read the dialogues and act them out:
- •Booking train tickets
- •Read and learn the new words.
- •2. Read and discuss the text about Madame Tussaud. Learn the new vocabulary.
- •3. Concert ticket reservations
- •Unit 8 Cities
- •1. Learn the following text by heart to remember the models.
- •2. Read and discuss the text about Kyiv and learn the new vocabulary.
- •3. Read and discuss the text about Feodosiya. Learn the new vocabulary.
- •4. Read and discuss the text Living in the City (pros and cons). Learn the new vocabulary.
- •1. Read the text about Healthy eating and discuss it.
- •2. Read the statements and discuss them.
- •3. Read the dialogue and act it out: At a restaurant
- •Put the conversation in the right order:
- •1. Read the supplementary text about the impressions of an American about the Ukrainian way of shopping. Do you agree with the statements in the article? Discuss it.
- •2.Learn the text to speak about shopping
- •3. Act out the dialogues.
- •1. Read the following text. Learn the new vocabulary.
- •2. Use the vocabulary to describe yourself, your friend, a famous person.
- •Unit 12 Ethical problems
- •The Goose Story
- •Unit 13 Earning a living
- •Unit 14 Business and the environment
- •Read and discuss the text. Learn the new vocabulary.
- •Read and discuss the text. Learn the new vocabulary.
- •1. Read and discuss the text Lucky Generation. Learn the new
- •Vocabulary. Computer terms are highlighted.
- •2. Make up a dialogue with a classmate and persuade him/her of the importance of having a mobile phone. Use the following words and phrases.
- •3. Expand the idea in your own words:
- •Irregular Verbs List
ENGLISH FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS
Посібник з англійської мови
За редакцією Н. Семко
Київ - 2012
Національний банк України
Університет банківської справи
Укладачі: Н.Семко, В. Гриців, Н. Христич, О. Ріхтер
ENGLISH FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS
Посібник з англійської мови
За редакцією Н. Семко
Київ - 2012
УДК 811.111(075)
English for first-year students. Посібник з англійської мови / Н. М. Семко, В.Б. Гриців, Н.М. Христич, О.Є. Ріхтер; за ред. Н. М. Семко – Київ: Університет банківської справи Національного банку України (м. Київ), 2012. – 172 стор.
Посібник складається з 15 блоків (Units), кожен з яких містить два тексти і систему вправ, спрямованих на перевірку розуміння прочитаного, активізацію лексичних та граматичних моделей, вироблення навичок усного мовлення, дискусії.
Для студентів першого курсу економічного спрямування середнього рівня підготовки з англійської мови.
Рекомендовано Вченою радою Університету банківської справи Національного банку України (м. Київ), протокол № 4 від 8 лютого 2012 року
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Львівського національного університету ім. І.Франка Р. Дудок
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T A B L E OF C O N T E N T S
Foreword…………………………………………………….. 5
Unit 1. Life style ……………………………………………… .7
Unit 2. Countries……………………………………………… .13
Unit 3. Education ………………………………………… 21
Unit 4. Career Choice……………………………………… … 29
Unit 5. Travelling …………………………………………… 38
Unit 6. Celebrities ………………………………………… …49
Unit 7. Tourism ……………………………………………… 56
Unit 8. Cities………………………………………………… .. 63
Unit 9. Food ……………………………………………… … 72
Unit 10. Shopping…………………………………………… 81
Unit 11. Appearance ……………………………………… 89
Unit 12. Ethical problems ………………………………… 97
Unit 13. Earning a living …………………………………… 104
Unit 14. Business and the environment …………………… .. 110
Unit 15. Computing ……………………………………… … 117
Supplement ………………………………………………… .128
Irregular verbs list……………………………………………… .167
References ………………………………………………….. .172
П е р е д м о в а
Посібник містить 15 блоків (Units), які охоплюють тематику, передбачену програмою з дисципліни «Іноземна мова». Це – Стилі життя, Країни, Міста, Освіта, Вибір кар’єри, Подорожі, Відома особистість, Туризм, Традиції та культура харчування, Похід по крамницях, Зовнішність ділової людини, Етичні проблеми, Як заробити на прожиття, Бізнес та екологія, Комп’ютери в житті сучасного суспільства. Кожен з 15 блоків включає два тематичних тексти (А, В), які вводять нові слова, в тому числі професійно-орієнтовану лексику, і моделі базової граматики англійської мови. Для закріплення лексико-граматичних моделей пропонуємо вправи, які примушують ще і ще раз повертатися до тексту і, отже, забезпечують повторення і повторюваність, такі необхідні під час вивчення чужої мови. Завершальною вправою кожного з блоків є вправа на переклад англійською мовою з української. У розділі Supplement подано тематичні тексти для самостійного опрацювання, а також таблицю неправильних дієслів.
Усі тексти посібника взято з сучасних оригінальних джерел. Вони написані живою сучасною мовою і містять цікаву інформацію, яка часто здатна викликати пожвавлення аудиторії, емоції, часом суперечливі, бажання висловити власні міркування, посперечатися.
Укладаючи посібник автори дбали про: 1) забезпечення повторюваності основних лексико-граматичних моделей упродовж усієї роботи; 2) дозування лексичних та граматичних труднощів; 3) інформативність текстового матеріалу, а також постійно намагалися спонукати студента до висловлювання своєї думки, власної інформації на основі порівнювання, проведення паралелей, аналогії.
Мета навчального видання - навчити самостійно вести розмову на вказану тематику, користуючись засвоєними лексичними та граматичними моделями, ввести професійно орієнтовану компоненту, підготувати студентів до подальшого вивчення дисципліни «Ділова англійська мова». Посібник призначено для студентів перших курсів немовних вузів. Кожен з блоків підручника розрахований на 4 – 6 аудиторних годин. Н. Семко
Unit 1
Life style
Grammar: The Present Simple, the Present Continuous Tenses
Learn the active vocabulary of the unit.
to enjoy + -ing |
to carry |
to be stuck |
to play sports |
to lose job |
equipment |
stuffy office |
to eat out |
to live…min from. |
to plant |
in the suburbs |
to be tidy/untidy |
full-time job |
to pick up |
to earn money |
to be married to sbd |
to start work |
to work outside |
sale |
enough |
to leave home |
tulip |
to mend |
daffodil |
to pull |
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Translate the sentences into English. Use the Present Simple tense form. Follow the example.
Example: 1.Я/ він/вона/ви доктор
I am/ he/she is/ you are a doctor.
2. Я/ми/ви/ вони працюємо/працюєте/працюють у школі -
I/we//you/they work at school.
Він/вона працює у школі –
He/she works at school.
1. Я студент, а він дизайнер. 2. Весною мама садить квіти. 3. Мій батько часто ремонтує машину.
2. Make up your own sentences of the same model with 10 more verbs from the list above. Write them down.
3. Make the sentences from Ex. 1 and 2 interrogative and negative. Follow the example.
Example: He is a student. Is he a student? He is not a student але
You/he go/goes to school - Do /does I/he go to school?
You/he do/does not go to school.
4. Read the text One day in the life of a business person - a Japanese fashion designer. What tense does he use speaking about his life style? Why? What other time indicators apart from every day, never are used in the sentences? Translate some sentences.
Text a.
I get up every day at about eleven or twelve o’clock. I get up late because I don’t like getting up early. I never eat breakfast – I sometimes have a cup of tea. I eat nothing during the day. I just don’t feel hungry at all.
I live about eight minutes from my office in the suburb of Tokyo. I drive to the office every morning in my car – a black BMW. I love driving. I always wear black or navy blue. I sometimes wear a white shirt or T-shirt but no bright colours.
I work from about noon till seven in the evening. I don’t mind working late. Before fashion show I usually work until eleven or twelve at night. I eat out in restaurants about six nights a week. I hate going to new restaurants. I usually go to a few old favourites.
I live with my daughter, who’s eighteen. The house is always untidy. She doesn’t like cooking and cleaning and nor do I! I spend no time at all in my home – it’s not a big part of my life.
5. Answer the questions to the text. Pay attention to the structure of every question.
What time does he get up?
Why does he get up late?
Does he eat his breakfast? Why?
What does he sometimes have for breakfast?
How far does he live from his office?
How much time does it take him to get to his office?
What does he like wearing?
When does he start his work?
Does he mind working late?
10. What restaurants does he eat at?
11. Who does he live with?
12. Is his house untidy? Why?