X. Discuss the following questions with your partner.

1. Who are you? = What’s your name?

2. How old are you?

3. Where were you born?

4. Where are you from?

5. Characterize Voronezh as an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center

6. What are you? = What do you do? = What’s your occupation / job?

7. Do you work or study? Where do you work/study?

8. Do you follow the profession of your parents?

9. Have you any experience in the field of construction?

10. When was our University established?

11. What is the University now?

12. What faculty do you study at?

13. What subjects are the most interesting for you?

14. What degrees does the University award to its graduates?

15. What specialist will you be?

16. Is your profession one of the oldest, respected and always required?

17. Have you any friends? Who are they? What are they?

18. Hobby is something one likes to do for pleasure. What’s your hobby?

19. Speak about your free time activities. They may include dancing, cooking, doing crosswords, walking about the city, listening to music, reading books, talking photographs, singing popular songs, biking, studying a foreign language...

XI. Choose a topic about yourself, your student’s life, our University, or free time activities and act the dialogue with your partner.

XII. Sum up the topic Studies at the University.

Unit II

Phonetics: [i], [θ], [ð].

Grammar: Continuous Active and Passive verb forms. Adjectives. Degrees of comparison.

Text: Concrete.

Topic: Building materials.

Exercises

I. Pay attention to the pronunciation of these words.

[i] Mix, system, critical, similar, typical, significant, gypsum, since, its.

[θ] Thank, monolithic, length, think, strength, south, width, thermal.

[ð] There, their, than, then, without, those, rather, further, therefore.

II. Say, translate and remember the following words.

Concrete, innovation, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, tunnel, bridge, Pantheon,

district, variety, prefabrication, gypsum, monolithic=in-situ, activity,

condition, mixing, hardening, aggregate, factor, element, bearing, main.

III. Put the sentences into Past and Future Continuous. Use the following words yesterday, tomorrow, soon, next week, that evening, at 5 o’clock, from…to Translate them into Russian. a). Make the sentences negative.

b).Ask the tag question. Write the answers “Yes”, “No”

1. There are two men in the room: one of them is writing something while the other is reading a newspaper.

2. What is Alexei doing this evening?

3. They are walking along the street and talking loudly.

4. It’s 5 o’clock and they are having their tea in the sitting room.

5. The students are still discussing the latest news.

6. Nick is telling them an interesting story at the moment.

7. You are making good progress in your English. It’s just splendid.

8. She is translating a difficult article from German into Russian now.