Grammar Focus unit 1. The verb “to be”

1. Заполните пропуски глаголом “to be” в соответствующей форме.

I … Mike Shally. I… 19. I … a student of a medical school. I … in the first year. My mother … a housewife. She … 40. She … fond of shopping for food. My father …. a surgeon. He … 41. My two younger sisters … twins.

I … Judy Spark. I ... 22. I … a nurse in St. Patrick’s Hospital. My hobbies … tennis and cooking. My boyfriend … a lorry driver. He … 24. He … easy-going and responsible. We … not married.

Paul … tall. He … in his mid-twenties. His nose … quite large. His eyes … brown. His sister Jill … short and plump. She … 23. Her hair … shoulder length. Her eyes … grey. She … single. She … good at sewing.

2. Поставьте предложения в форму отрицания и общего вопроса.

Jack’s hobby is playing computer games.

Kate is interested in watching news programmes.

Sally is fond of walking in rainy weather.

Jim and Tom are good at Latin.

My friends are reliable.

Calvin’s sisters are fond of surfing the Internet.

Nelly is forgetful.

Sue is imaginative.

Amy and Larry are married.

Guy is in his mid-thirties.

Fred is five years younger than his brother.

Nina is sometimes bossy.

Mary’s hair is shoulder length.

Kevin is well-built.

Ann and Sam are twins.

3. Поставьте следующие предложения в форму прошедшего и будущего времени, соответственно используя обстоятельства времени, данные в скобках, где это необходимо.

Example: Jane is a second-year student (last year, next year).

Jane was a second-year student last year.

Jane will be a second-year student next year.

They are in the third year now (last year, in a year).

Tim is a medical student (last year, in 2013).

Sally is married to a doctor (for two years, in several months).

I am free now (yesterday, after this class).

We are ready for the class (on Monday, on Thursday).

This grammar exercise is not difficult for us (at the previous lesson, at the next lesson).

Nina’s hair is shoulder length now (last year, soon).

Pete’s friend is good at English (last year, after doing the advanced course).

4. Вставьте соответствующую форму глагола to be:

1) I … a medical student now.

2) He … a pupil last year.

3) Next year they … doctors.

4) In 5 years she … a dentist.

5) I … a pediatrician.

6) My sister … in the hospital now. She … ill.

7) He … a handsome middle-aged man.

8) His eyes … green.

9) Mary’s hair … dark.

10) Where … you now?

11)We … at the lecture. Its subject … the Latin elements in the English clinical terminology.

12) … the lecture interesting? – Yes, it … .This professor’s lectures … always interesting.

13) I … British and my keypal … German.

14) My friends … medical students at Brookes College.

15) I… 20 and single.

16) My hobbies … music and football.

17) My two sisters … students

18) They … twins.

19) Our parents … from Ireland.

20) … you from Ireland?

Grammar Focus unit 1. The verb “to have”.

5. Заполните пропуски глаголом “to have” в соответствующей форме.

I … a big family. I … Mother, Father, and two brothers. We … many family traditions. I … no room of my own. We … many hobbies: football, surfing the Internet and listening to music. My Father … little free time, so he … no hobbies.

6. Составьте предложения из предложенных ниже слов и словосочетаний.

Example: Mary has breakfast at 9 o’clock.

1. Mary/I/Tom/My parents/My friend/Students of our faculty/We/He/She/They

2. have/has

3. breakfast/a meeting/ a competition in tennis/a game of football/a lesson in English/an exam in Anatomy/much home assignment/an appointment with the dentist/a shower/a bath

4. in winter/every Saturday/at 9 o’clock/twice a week/on Monday/once a year/every day/at the end of the term/in the evening/in the morning.

7. Заполните пропуски глаголами “to be” или “to have” в соответствующей грамматической форме.

He … twenty years old.

My sister … much home assignment today.

Sally … very imaginative in childhood.

Yesterday I … a meeting with my former classmates.

I … … a game of football with my friends next weekend.

Medical students … an exam in Anatomy in the first term.

Jane … two years older than me.

We … a lot of atlases in Anatomy in our library.

I… sorry to hear you are on a sick-leave (на больничном).

On Monday we … two practical classes and a lecture.

They … second-year students in 2011.

My friend … … a dentist in two years.

I … a five in English at the previous lesson.

Usually Kate … good marks in Chemistry.

At weekends I … no time for hobbies.

8. Переведите предложения на английский:

(UNIT1)

1) Какой у вас адрес и домашний телефон?

2) У вас есть электронный адрес?

3. Номер вашей медицинской страховки 4967?

4. Вы женаты (замужем) или не замужем (не женаты)?

5. У вас небольшая семья, не так ли?

6. Какие у вас увлечения?

7. Чем вы занимаетесь?

8. Кто он по профессии?

9. Ты был дома вчера вечером?

10) Она не врач, она – медсестра.

11) Они будут врачами только через 6 лет, не так ли?

12)Она будет занята завтра утром?

13)Ты решительный или нет?

14) Где и когда будет экзамен по Анатомии?

15) Вы дома или в Академии?

16) Кто ваш преподаватель по английскому?

17) У вас много родственников?

18) У него нет машины.

19) Когда у вас будут каникулы?

20) Сколько у нее братьев и сестер?

21) У меня нет электронного адреса.

23) Он не женат, а она замужем.