- •I. Before you read:
- •1.5 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the verb to be. You may continue the sentences:
- •1.6 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the plural forms of the nouns:
- •II. Reading:
- •III. After you have read:
- •4.2 Make up your own dialogues using the models from the task 4.1
- •1.4 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the verbs in the Present Simple Active. Give the negative and question –forms.
- •II. Reading:
- •3.1. Make up sentences from these words:
- •3.2. Find
- •3.3 Put the verb into the Past Simple or Future Simple. Use the words: yesterday, ago, last/next week, month, year, tomorrow, in some years/months etc. Give the negative and question –forms.
- •IV. Brush up your talk:
- •4.1Complete the short dialogues using the phrases from the text:
- •4.2 Make up your own dialogues using the models from the task 4.1. These phrases and words may be helpful for you.
- •4.3Tell about your own family using all information you have got.
- •1.4 Make up sentences paying attention to Simple and Progressive Tenses. Translate the sentences.
- •1.5. Comment on the grammar.
- •II. Reading
- •1. 1True or false?
- •1.2 Make up sentences from these words:
- •1.3 Give the missing forms of adjectives. Make up sentences with these adjectives.
- •1.4 Put the verb to take part into the correct tense-form. Pay attention to the words given in the brackets.
- •1.5. Put the verb in the brackets into the necessary tense form.
- •IV. Brush up your talk:
- •4.1Complete the short dialogues using the information from the text:
- •4.2 Read and learn:
- •4.3 Make up your own dialogues using the models from the tasks 4.1 and 4.2
- •4.4 Summarize the text «My University».
- •I. Before you read:
- •1.1 Read the words properly:
- •1.2 State the part of speech:
- •1.7. Comment on the grammar. Make up negative and question forms if it is possible.
- •II. Reading
- •3.1 Make up the sentence of two parts:
- •3.2 Make up all possible questions to these sentences. Give the negative form:
- •3.3 Write the Passive Progressive of these sentences. Use words now, from … till, the whole month/morning etc:
- •IV. Brush up your talk:
- •4.2 Read the following quotes from different articles about the problems of higher education in Russia. Formulate the main idea of each statement. Do you agree with these opinions?
- •4.3 Discuss* these topics using all information you have got.
- •I. Before you read:
- •1.1 Read the words properly:
- •1.2 Find the Russian equivalents:
- •1.3 State the part of speech:
- •1.4 Analyse the use of modal verbs and their equivalents. Translate the following sentences:
- •II. Reading:
- •III. After you have read:
- •3.1 Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:
- •3.2 .Fill in the blanks with words from the text:
- •3.3. Substitute the modal verbs for the possible equivalents:
- •3.4 Insert the modal verbs may or can:
- •3.5 Insert the necessary modal verb or it equivalent:
- •IV. Speaking
- •1.4 Analyse the use of modal verbs and their equivalents. Translate the following sentences:
- •II. Reading:
- •III. After you have read:
- •3.1. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:
- •3.2 Fill in the blanks with words from the text:
- •3.3. Substitute the modal verbs for the possible equivalents:
- •3.4 Insert the modal verbs may or can:
- •3.5 Insert the necessary modal verb or its equivalent:
- •IV. Review:
- •4.1 Make up 5 general and 5 special questions to the text.
- •4.2 Give the negative and question form of the following sentences:
- •4.3 Point out the sentences with Passive.
- •V. Speaking
- •5.1 Answer the following questions:
- •5.2 Speak about Karl Benz using his profile:
- •5.3 Use the following phrases and word combinations to retell the text:
- •In 1830 Thon completed his most ambitious design to date, that of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour15 in Moscow (fig. 17).
- •15.4. After you have read:
- •Тема 1 - Урок 1 - Диалог 1
Unit 1. My Biography
I. Before you read:
1.1 Pronounce the words properly:
Eighteen, born, fifth, August, childhood, possibility, first, laboratory, favourite, higher mathematics, physics, in advance, listening, Agrarian, youth, biography, to graduate from.
1.2 State the part of speech:
Eighteen, elder, only, child, my, last, former, now, to attend, it, easy, me, some, our, other, to meet, everything, youth.
1.3 Pay attention to the compounds and translate them:
housewife, kindergarten, everything.
1.4 Match the columns:
1. to be born |
1. старший брат |
2. the only child in the family |
2. родиться |
3. an elder brother |
3. провести детство |
4. to spend one’s childhood |
4.единственный ребенок в семье |
5. a native town |
5.первокурсник |
6. to have no possibility to be a housewife |
6. переехать |
7. had to be taken to a kindergarten |
7.закончить среднюю школу |
8. to move to |
8.не иметь возможности быть домохозяйкой |
9. to leave secondary school |
9. пришлось посещать детский сад |
10. to enter the State University – Education Science and Production Complex |
10. бывший |
11. former |
11. поступить в Госуниверситет – УНПК |
12. a first-year student |
12. родной город |
13. to get good and excellent marks |
13. сдавать зачеты автоматом |
14. to take credit tests in advance |
14.получать хорошие и отличные оценки |
15. to be good at smth. |
15. молодежь |
16. youth |
16. успевать в чем-л. |
17. to hope |
17.воплотиться в реальность |
18. to come true |
18.надеяться |
19. to graduate from |
19.высокооплачиваемая работа |
20. a well-paid job |
20.закончить вуз |
1.5 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the verb to be. You may continue the sentences:
I am …
He/she/it is …
You/we/they are …
I was …
He/she/it was…
You/we/they were …
I/he/ she/it will be …
1.6 Comment on the grammar. Pay attention to the plural forms of the nouns:
Doctor - doctors
childhood - childhood
lecture - lectures
seminar - seminars,
class – classes
subject - subjects
book - books
game – games
music- music
youth – youth
disco - discos
II. Reading:
My name is Denis Grishin. I am eighteen years old. I was born on the fifth of August, 1995 in the town of Mtsensk, Orel region. My parents are doctors. I am not the only child in the family. I have an elder brother. I spent my childhood in my native town. As my mother had no possibility to be a housewife I had to be taken to a kindergarten when I was three years old. In 2003 our family moved to the city of Orel. Last year I left the secondary school number 5 and entered the State University – Education Science and Production Complex, former Orel State Technical University. Now I am a first-year student of the Institute of Transport.
I try to attend all lectures, seminars, laboratory and practical classes. My favourite subjects are higher mathematics and physics. I am good at them. I also like the Russian History, English and Physical Training.
It is easy and interesting for me to study at our University. I would like to get good and excellent marks at the examinations. Also I am going to take some credit tests in advance.
My hobbies are reading books and playing computer games. I also like listening to music and playing football.
I have many friends. Some of them study at our University and the other study at the Agrarian University. We like to spend our time together. We meet and talk, listen to good music. On Sundays my friends and I go to the cinema, to the fitness center or to a disco. We do everything what is interesting for youth.
You see my biography is not long. I hope my dream will come true and I shall graduate from the university and get an interesting and well-paid job.