3 Семестр. Грамматический материал.

1. Простые неличные формы глагола: the Infinitive, the Gerund, Participles l, ll. Отличие герундия от Participle l и отглагольного существительного (повторение).

2. Времена группы Perfect Continuous.

3. Страдательный залог (Passive Voice) в трех временах всех групп: Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect.

4. Перевод на русский язык дополнительных придаточных предложений при согласовании времен в главном и придаточном предложениях.

5. Виды придаточных предложений. Бессоюзное подчинение придаточных (определительных и дополнительных) предложений.

6. Основные сведения о сослагательном наклонении. Типы условных предложений.

7. Многофункциональность глаголов should и would.

8. Предлоги, предложные конструкции и выражения и их сравнение с русским языком.

9. Словообразование: основные словообразовательные префиксы и суффиксы. Образование слов путем конверсии.

Контрольно-тренировочные упражнения.

1. Translate into Russian

1. I am sorry to hear that.

2. I hope to see you on Monday.

3. To know him is to trust him.

4. It wasn’t safe to cross the bridge at night.

5. I shall be happy to accept your invitation.

6. I have no right to ask.

7. To earn a living, he became a salesman.

8. She is old enough to go to work.

9. I don’t know how to do it.

10. Suddenly she felt the need to speak.

2. Change the following sentences according to the model using the infinitive after It takes (took, will take).

Model: I walked to the station in ten minutes. – It took me ten minutes to walk to the station.

1. I finished my exercises in an hour.

2. She learned to speak English well only a year.

3. I wrote my composition in thirty minutes.

4. The train went around the mountain in three hours.

5. They finished the bridge in two years.

6. We walk to school every morning in about 15 minutes.

7. You will get there in about an hour.

8. She will take all afternoon to prepare the meal.

9. She recovered from her illness in two months.

3. Transform the sentences using the gerund instead of the infinitive.

Model: My father began to work at this plant 20 years ago. – My father began working at this plant 20 years ago.

1. We continue to study English.

2. The children like to play basketball.

3. The boy started to run.

4. His mother intends to spend her holiday at the seaside.

5. They preferred to go there by plane.

6. She tried to open the window but couldn’t.

7. I have just begun to translate the text.

4. Find the participles, state their form and function in the sentence. Translate the sentences.

1. Then he sat for several minutes in a chair, his face down in one hand, thinking of nothing.

2. She came into the dressing room to look for things belonging to their father and mother.

3. The room was almost dark, lit only by the light coming from the kitchen.

4. Still looking at me, she shook her head while I was speaking.

5. I saw a passing shadow on her face.

6. He walked around, saying nothing.

7. Mary sat still looking at the writing.

8. We sat there talking about our pleasant old institute days.

9. They ran to the steps leading down the water.

10. Dressing myself as quickly as I could I went for a walk.