UNIT IV

15.The laboratory assistant ,E., always keeps things in the right places. And what bout the other laboratory assistants?

16.Each student of our group has an opportunity to train his (her) ear listening to tapes in our laboratory. And what about the students of the other groups?

17.I have an opportunity to listen to broadcasts. What about you?

18.We are to observe certain rules while handling taperecorders. What about the students of the French department?

19.I have no radiophone at home. What about your groupmates?

20.From his seat he could see a new cassette-recorder on the table. What about his deskmate?

21.You can make a recording of our new laboratory work this evening. And what about your groupmates?

22.I always thread a tape before switching on a taperecorder. And what about you?

23.I can’t fetch a tape-recorder, it is heavy. And what about you?

24.This tape cannot be clear, there is a recording there. And what about that tape?

15.So do they. or: But they don’t.

16.So have they.

17.So have I. or: But I haven’t.

18.So are they.

19.Neither have they. or: But they have.

20.So could he. or: But he couldn’t.

21.So can they. or: But they can’t.

22.So do I. or: But I don’t, as I have a cassette-recorder.

23.Neither can I. or: But I can.

24.Neither can that one. or: But it can.

1.Is it necessary for the students of the faculty to observe all the laboratory rules? 2.What do you have to do if you wipe out some recording by accident?

3.What is it necessary for the students of the faculty of foreign languages to do in the listening booths of the laboratory or in the studies?

4.What are you permitted to do if you would like to listen to a tape, but there are some more students wishing to do the same in that laboratory?

5.What is it obligatory for all the students to hand in to a laboratory-assistant to borrow some tape or a tape-recorder?

6.What are you permitted to do if you want to listen to a BBC-recording, but you have no radio-set in the classroom?

7.What do you have to do if you are to listen to a laboratory work but there is not any vacant booth in the laboratory or no vacant study?

1.Yes, they must.

2. …we have to address the laboratory assistant and ask him for help.

3.It is necessary for them to listen to tapes with texts, to intone them and prepare them for good expressive reading.

4. …we are permitted to put on head-phones in such a case.

5.It is obligatory to hand in their students’ cards or readers’ cards.

6.…we are permitted to borrow a tape-recorder with a radio from our laboratory.

7.…we have to make a copy of the laboratory work and listen to it at home.

8.What is it obligatory for our students to do during stretches of silence on a tape?

9.What are you allowed to do if the stretches of silence after each sentence on a tape are too long (too short)?

10.What do you have to do if you want to record your speech, but you can’t handle a tape-recorder?

11.What is it necessary to do to switch on a tape-recorder?

12.What are you not permitted to do, when you have torn a tape?

13.You are going to listen to a laboratory work once more. What do you have to do when your tape is over?

14.What is it obligatory for a laboratoryassistant to do, when a student has spoilt a section of a tape by chance?

15.What are you to do if you can’t find the tape you need in the tape-library?

8.It is obligatory for the students to repeat sentences after the recorded voice during stretches of silence on a tape.

9.… we are allowed to wind on the tape (… we are allowed to press the button “pause”).

10.…you have to go to the laboratory and ask the laboratory assistant to teach you how to do it.

11.First we must plug it in, then press the button “Play”.

12.…you are not permitted to splice the tape by yourselves. You must give it to a laboratory assistant.

13.…we have to wind it back.

14.…a laboratory assistant must make a new recording.

15.…we are to ask a laboratoryassistant for help.

M.1. St.1: Our laboratory assistants can make recordings very well and quickly.

St.2: Can your groupmate, A., do it as well and quickly as they do? or: Of course, she can. A. can make a recording as well and quickly as our laboratory assistants do. She often makes recordings at home.

St.3.: I’m afraid, she can’t do it as well and quickly as our lab. assistants do. She hasn’t enough experience in doing it.

1.When I record my speech I speak into a microphone in a loud voice.

2.A. handles a tape-recorder very accurately.

3.My girl-friend borrows tapes from our laboratory very often.

4.Our laboratory assistant can splice a tape quickly.

5.N. often damages tape-recorders.

6.H. listens to English by radio very often.

1.Do you speak into a microphone as loudly as you talk with your friends?

2.Can you do it as accurately as L. does?

3.Must she borrow them as often as she does?

4.Can you splice a tape as quickly as she does?

5.Who else damages tape-recorders as often as A. does?

6.Do you listen to English by radio as often as H. does?

7.The third-year students of our faculty can often listen to the speech of native English speakers.

8.Our monitor knows how to switch on a new cassette-recorder.

9.The boys of our group can easily carry even a heavy tape-recorder.

M.2. St.1: They broadcast news as often as possible.

1.The laboratory assistant puts tapes on quicker than students do.

7.The students of what other years can listen to the speech of native English speakers as often as the thirdyear students?

8.Do all the other students of our group know how to switch on new cassetterecorders as well as the monitor does?

9.Can the girls of our group carry any tape-recorder as easily as the boys do?

St.2: Do they broadcast music more often than news?

1.Do students put tapes on quicker than the lab assistant does?

3.First-year students work in the laboratory very often.

3.Do second-year students work in the laboratory oftener than first-year students?

laboratory works very attentively.

M.3. St.1: Our laboratory assistants can repair a whole set of equipment very quickly.

1.L. imitates the intonation of the voice on a tape very exactly.

2.I’m an announcer of our local radio and I try to speak very distinctly over the radio.

3.The fifthyear students of the faculty of foreign languages don’t stay late in the sound laboratory.

4.My deskmate borrows video films from our laboratory very often.

5.M’s speech sounds natural.

9.Do the other students of our group listen to laboratory works more attentively?

St.2:Which of them can repair a set of equipment quickest of all?

1.Who can imitate the voice on a tape most exactly in your group?

2.Which of the announcers speaks over the radio most distinctly?

3.Students of what year stay in the laboratory latest of all?

4.Who borrows video films oftenest of all in the group?

5.Does her speech sound most natural of all?

M. St.1: Let me wind on the tape because of this stretch of silence.

1.Let me read the phonetic exercise.

2.Let me listen to this tape of Lesson 6 and imitate it.

3.Let me make a recording of

St.2: Do, please. But don’t do it for a long time. This stretch of silence is not very long.

1.Do, please. But don’t go so fast. Pronunciation is your weak point. Pay attention to the sounds [e] and [æ].

2.Do, please. Listen to the text very attentively, repeat it after the announcer. Try to grasp the intonation and imitate it as exactly as possible. Memorize the main idea of the text. If you don’t understand something listen to it twice.

some English dialogues.

4.Let me make a recording of the next English broadcast, please.

5.Let me make a recording of my speech myself.

6.Let me put down and intone this text.

7.Please, let me recite this text.

3.Do, please, if you can handle a taperecorder. But don’t forget that pronunciation is your weak point, that’s why you must pay more attention to all the sounds and make your speech more natural and distinct.

4.You must take a wireless, a tape-recorder and a clear-tape. Plug in the wireless and the tape-recorder and put the cassette into the tape-recorder. When the broadcast begins press the buttons “play” and “record”. If you use a microphone you must switch it on and try not to make a noise.

5.Do, please, if you have a tape-recorder, a clear tape and a microphone. But don’t forget that you can’t handle a tape-recorder properly. That’s why you must address a laboratory-assistant.

6.Do, please. Listen to the text very attentively. Read it after the speaker and try to imitate him. Put down the text in transcription. Only then mark the stresses and tunes.

7.Do, please. Pay attention to your intonation, try to recite the text in a loud voice and remember all the pauses. And don`t peep into the textbook.

VII. Point out the result:

M. St.1: Our laboratory assistant has taught all the first-year students how to handle a tape-recorder.

1.Our laboratory assistant has made a recording for me.

2.Our laboratory assistant has shown us the new listening booths.

3.Our laboratory assistant has bought several CDs.

4.Our university has bought a new set of equipment for our laboratory.

5.Our laboratory assistant has repaired the set of equipment in this listening booth.

6.Our English teacher has taught us how to record our speech.

7.Our teacher has taught Lena, a newcomer, how to train her ear.

8.Lena has trained her ear a lot.

9.Our friend has taught us how to splice

St.2: Fine! Now all of us can listen to tapes or make recordings.

1.So I can listen to Laboratory work No. 10 at home.

2.Fine! We can listen to texts and intone them in our new listening booths now.

3.Good. Now all the students of the English department have a good opportunity to listen to English broadcastings.

4.Fine! Now all the students can use it.

5.Excellent! We can have practice in English in it now.

6.Now all of us can record our speech and correct our mistakes in pronunciation ourselves.

7.Fine! Now Lena can improve her pronunciation listening to different texts.

8.Now she can write any phonetic dictation and get a very good mark for it.

a tape.

10.I have just made a recording of the text “Our English Lesson”.

11.Nick has put our wireless right.

12.Alex has torn all the tapes with the texts of Lesson 6.

13.Nick has forgotten to wind up his watch today.

14.I have already listened to English by radio.

VIII. Point out the reasons:

M.1. St.1: We can’t repeat the sentences of the laboratory work after the speaker.

9.Now we can do it very well.

10.Now I can practise my pronunciation at home, too.

11.Now we can listen to native speakers’ speech.

12.Now we can’t listen to the texts. We must ask the lab. assistant to make a new recording.

13.His watch has stopped.

14.So you are free now and can help me to mark the stresses and tunes in the new text, can’t you?

St.2: It’s because the laboratory assistant has recorded it without any stretches of silence.

1.The laboratory assistant can’t make you a copy of this recording.

2.We are giving in a tape with Laboratory Work No. 7 now.

3.Mary is unplugging the taperecorder.

4.Lena couldn’t listen to an English lesson by radio yesterday.

5.I can’t go to the laboratory now.

6.Nick is not allowed to borrow a taperecorder and tapes from the laboratory.

7.Nelly always damages taperecorders.

8.Mary can’t use her tape-recorder.

1.Somebody has spoiled the original tape. or: You haven’t brought a clear tape of your own.

2.We have fulfilled its tasks already.

3.She has already listened to Laboratory Work No. 3.

4.Her wireless-set is broken.

5.I am pressed for time. or: It has just closed.

6.He always damages the equipment and tears good tapes.

7.She hasn’t learnt to handle them.

8.Her tape-recorder tears tapes.

9.My younger brother isn’t permitted to use the cassette-recorder.

10.The equipment at our faculty is in an awful state.

11.Howard doesn’t know what buttons he must press.

12.The laboratory assistant is wiping out the recording of the text “Summer”.

13.J.’s reading doesn’t sound natural.

14.J. is going to leave the laboratory.

15.I can’t make out anything on the tape because…

16.I can’t borrow a tape-recorder from the laboratory because…

17.I can’t listen to a BBC recording because…

18.I can’t listen to an English broadcast because...

19.We can’t speak aloud because…

M.2. St.:. I can’t hear the phone because…

1.I can’t grasp the idea of the text because…

2.I can’t make out anything on the tape because…

3.I can’t take a tape-recorder from the laboratory because…

4.We can’t speak loudly because…

9.He is too small to handle it. or: He has broken it once this month.

10.No wonder. Students often damage it. or: They haven’t bought new equipment for a long time.

11.Nobody has taught him how to handle a tape-recorder.

12.It is old and sounds unnatural.

13.He doesn’t listen to tapes and often stresses the wrong words. or: He has never imitated native speakers.

14.He has listened to a text and has marked the stresses and tunes.

15.…the announcer is speaking very indistinctly.

16.…the laboratory assistant is helping another student.

17.…N. is making a recording of it.

18.…I’m listening to another very important transmission.

19.…our groupmate is making a recording of a text.

St.2: I can’t hear the phone because I am listening to the radio.

1.…you are speaking very loudly.

2.…the announcer is speaking indistinctly.

3.…the laboratory assistant is helping another student.

4.…those two students are making a recording of their dialogue.