- •Аннотация
- •Содержание
- •Unit 1 6
- •Unit 2 19
- •Unit 7 77
- •Unit 8 93
- •Unit 1 lexical material: About Myself
- •I. Read and translate the texts given below. Answer the questions.
- •Text 1 Zackary’s Story
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •Grammar: The Noun Простые и производные существительные
- •Синтаксические функции существительного
- •Имена существительные исчисляемые и неисчисляемые
- •Образование множественного числа у существительных
- •Притяжательный падеж существительных.
- •Exercises
- •This is – these are; that is – those are; there is – there are; it is – they are
- •This is a fast train – These are fast trains
- •For example: the voice of my mother – my mothers’ voice
- •Additional study: People around me. My family.
- •I. Translate the texts into English
- •II. Translate the dialogues
- •III. Speak to your group mate about your college. Discuss what you like or dislike.
- •IV. Write down a list of questions you want to ask your group mate about his or her family. Then change the lists, write down the answers and give it back.
- •V. Read and translate the text “What is a family?”
- •VI. Discuss the text given above with your group mate and answer the question:
- •VII. Read and translate the text.
- •VII. Look at the family pictures and describe them like it was done in the texts given above
- •Unit 2
- •I. Read and translate the texts given below. Answer the questions.
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •Text 2
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •Text 3
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •Grammar: The Pronoun
- •Группы местоимений в английском языке.
- •Заменяющая существительное: mine, yours, his (hers, its), ours, yours, theirs
- •Exercises
- •Additional study: a Real Friend. Appearance.
- •I. Read and translate the text “If you want to have a friend”
- •II. Answer the questions
- •III. Read and learn the following material How to describe a person’s appearance
- •I. Eyes
- •IV. Read and translate the texts
- •V. Describe persons on the pictures
- •I. Read and translate the texts and answer the questions
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •II. Make up your own sentences with the vocabulary given in each text
- •III. Look at the speech patterns speech patterns
- •IV. Make up your own examples with speech patterns
- •V. Make up dialogues between Derek and Tamara on the following topic “Tell me about your normal weekday”
- •VI. Answer the following questions:
- •VII. Speak to your friend about your weekdays using the vocabulary and speech patterns
- •VIII. Write down a composition about your weekday
- •IX. Retell your composition grammar: The Numerals
- •I have three questions to ask.
- •Exercises
- •It was my (2) visit to a doctor. It was my second visit to a doctor.
- •Additional study: Weekdays
- •I. Translate the text into English
- •II. Play out the dialogues
- •III. Say how much it takes you to …
- •Unit 4 lexical material: My Day-off
- •I. Read and translate the texts and answer the questions
- •Text 1
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •II. Make up dialogues between Colin and Anna on the following topic “Tell me about your normal day off”
- •III. Speak to your friend about your days off using the vocabulary
- •IV. Answer the questions:
- •V. Write down a composition about your day offs
- •VI. Retell your composition grammar: The Article
- •Употребление неопределенного артикля
- •4. Устойчивое сочетание.
- •Употребление определенного артикля
- •Употребление “нулевого” артикля
- •Exercises
- •Additional study: Day-offs
- •I. Read and translate the text
- •II. Read and translate into English
- •I. Read and translate the texts and answer the questions
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •Lisa’s hobby
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions.
- •Sasha’s hobby
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •II. Make up your own sentences with the vocabulary given after each text
- •III. Look at the speech patterns speech patterns
- •Grammar: The Adjective Простые и производные прилагательные
- •Наиболее распространенные суффиксы:
- •Наиболее распространенные префиксы:
- •Степени сравнения прилагательных
- •Interesting – more interesting – the most interesting
- •Правила прибавления суффиксов – er, - est к основе
- •Exercises
- •Additional study: Hobby
- •I. Read and translate the text “What is a hobby” What is a hobby?
- •Vocabulary
- •Variety – разнообразие
- •Value – ценность
- •Valuable – ценный
- •II. Answer the following questions
- •III. Find the equivalents in the text
- •IV. Complete the following sentences
- •V. Translate and play out the dialogues
- •I. Read and translate the texts given below. Answer the questions.
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •Text 2 Kelly’s house
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •Text III Misha’s house
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •Speech patterns
- •VIII. Translate from Russian into English.
- •IX. Give full answers to the questions.
- •X. Draw a picture of your apartment or your house, or your dream house and describe it.
- •XI. Write a composition about your house using the vocabulary and speech patterns and some addition information.
- •XII. Retell your composition. Grammar: The Present Simple Tense and The Present Continuous Tense
- •Ед.Число
- •Мн.Число
- •Настоящее простое время употребляется:
- •I write many letters every day.
- •Например:
- •Настоящее длительное время употребляется:
- •1. Для выражения действия, протекающего в момент речи или в настоящий период времени.
- •Она скоро придет
- •Образование настоящего длительного времени.
- •Exercises
- •Additional study: House and apartment plans
- •I. Have a look at the house plan given below and describe it using the following plan:
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •Unit 7 lexical material: Education
- •The British Educational System
- •Vocabulary
- •Infant school – младшая начальная школа
- •Retell the text under following plan:
- •II. Read about two famous Universities in England
- •III. Read the text, translate it and make the tasks The usa Educational System
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocational – профессиональный
- •Answer the questions
- •My younger sister Hailey goes to the elementary school, where she studies the abCs and plays active group games with other children.
- •Find the equivalents in the text for:
- •The system of schools in the usa
- •The system of higher education in the usa
- •IV. Read the text, translate it and make the tasks Russian Education System
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •Find the equivalents in the text for:
- •Retell the text under following plan:
- •Grammar: Modal Verbs
- •Кроме модальных глаголов, в английском языке существуют эквиваленты: To have to – выражает необходимость в силу обстоятельств
- •To be able to – выражает возможность совершения в будущем.
- •Exercises
- •Additional study: My College
- •I. Read and translate the texts about students from England, translate them and answer the questions text a
- •Answer the questions
- •Answer the questions
- •II. Read and translate the texts about students from England, translate them and answer the questions
- •Answer the questions
- •Answer the questions
- •III. Read the text “Typical student” and answer the question: What type of student do you consider yourself to belong to? Typical Student
- •Unit 8 lexical material: My future profession
- •I. Read and translate the text “Choosing a future profession”
- •II. Answer the questions.
- •III. Make up short dialogues on the topic “Future profession” between:
- •IV. Read and translate the text “My future profession” My future profession
- •V. Speak about how your plans for the future got changed.
- •VI. Read and translate the text “I want to be an economist”
- •I want to be an economist
- •Vocabulary
- •VII. Discussion questions
- •VIII. Write down a composition called “My future profession” using the texts. You must touch upon the following problems:
- •Grammar: Past Simple
- •Образование Past Simple
- •I saw him before я видел его раньше
- •I didn’t see him before я не видел его раньше
- •Exercises
- •Additional study: Professions
- •I. Read and translate the text “I want to be a programmer”
- •II. Read and translate the text “I want to be a land manager”
- •III. Read and translate the text “I want to be a cadastre”
- •IV. Read and translate the text “I want to be an architect”
- •V. Read and translate the text “I want to be a builder”
- •Unit 9 lexical material: My City
- •I. Read and translate the text “My city”
- •Astrakhan’s history
- •Answer the questions
- •VI. Agree or disagree. Prove your point of view.
- •VII. Retell the text “Astrakhan’s history” grammar: The Past Continuous Tense
- •Exercises
- •I was reading a book at ten o’clock yesterday.
- •Additional study: Astrakhan
- •I. Read the text “Astrakhan’s cultural life” Astrakhan’s cultural life
- •II. Answer the questions
- •III. Make up dialogues about your cultural life in Astrakhan
- •IV. Read, translate and play out the dialogue
- •V. Read the text about Astrakhan Kremlin Astrakhan’s Kremlin
- •Vocabulary
- •Impression - впечатление
- •Unit 10 lexical material: My country
- •My country
- •Vocabulary
- •Grammar: The Future Simple Tense
- •I shall not go to the university tomorrow.
- •Exercises
- •Is nice tomorrow, I shall go to the park.
- •Additional study: Russia
- •I. Read and translate the text “Holidays in Russia” Holidays in Russia
- •Unit 11 lexiacal material: Great Britain
- •II. Answer the questions
- •III. Association game. Speak about what associations come to your mind when you hear:
- •IV. Read and translate the text “British food” British Food
- •V. Compare British and Russian food
- •VI. Prepare written reports on the following topics
- •Grammar: The Future Continuous Tense
- •Образование The Future Continuous Tense:
- •Exercises
- •Additional study: British people
- •I. Read, translate and play out the dialogue
- •IV. Speak about your point of view. Do you think if it easy to be Queen or King? Would you like to be Queen or King and why?
- •V. Listen to the text “Princess Diana”
- •Words and phrases
- •VI. Read and translate the text “Margaret Thatcher”
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit 12 lexiacal material: The usa
- •I. Read and translate the text and answer the questions
- •Vocabulary
- •Valley – долина Answer the questions
- •II. Association game. Speak about what associations come to your mind when you hear:
- •III. Read and translate the text “American symbols”
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the questions
- •1. Personal Control over the Environment
- •2. Change
- •3. Time and Its Control
- •8. Informality
- •9. Directness, Openness and Honesty
- •10. Practicality and Efficiency
- •11. Materialism/Acquisitiveness
- •V. Summarize the information you’ve got from the article and speak about every point from it in general.
- •VI. Read a short text about what the modern ordinary American typically owns.
- •VII. Read and translate the text “usa Holidays” usa Holidays
- •VIII. Compare Russian and American holidays. Do we have common holidays?
- •IX. Prepare written reports on the following topics
- •Grammar: The Present Perfect Tense
- •Образование The Present Perfect Tense
- •I have not (haven’t) done this before. Exercises
- •Additional study: Cities in the usa
- •Philadelphia - historical city of independence
- •Capital of the usa. Washington
- •Boston. City or University ?
- •Список используемых материалов литература
- •Интернет источники
VII. Discussion questions
1. What was your favorite subject at school? 2. Have you read any books on this subject? 3. Where your classes in this discipline interesting? 4. Have you decided what profession to choose? 5. What do you do to prepare for you future work or to get better changes for that profession? 6. Have you had talk with your parents on future profession? 7. What profession did your parents advise you to take up? 8. Do your parents say that it is up to you to decide which road you will take in life? 9. What will you be after graduating from the Institute? 10. If you are admitted to this faculty, what specialization would you like to take up?
VIII. Write down a composition called “My future profession” using the texts. You must touch upon the following problems:
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What were your plans for the future when you were a child?
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What made you choose this profession?
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What do you like in your future profession?
Grammar: Past Simple
Прошедшее простое время употребляется для:
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Описания действий, происходивших в прошлом, но не связанных с настоящим. Прошедшее действие может характеризоваться обстоятельством времени (yesterday – вчера, last week – на прошлой неделе, a month ago – месяц назад, on Sunday – в воскресенье):
EX: I met him last week
Я встречал его на прошлой неделе.
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Описания ряда последовательных действий в прошлом:
EX: She came up to the house, opened the door, and turned on the light in the hall.
Она подошла к дому, открыла дверь и включила свет в прихожей.
Образование Past Simple
Форма Past Simple правильных глаголов образуется прибавлением к основе инфинитива окончания – ed
EX: to end – ended; to work – worked; to open – opened
Форма Past Simple неправильных глаголов образуется различными способами (список неправильных глаголов):
EX: to speak – spoke, to meet – met, to know – knew
Для построения вопросительной и отрицательной формы используется вспомогательный глагол to do в Past Simple – DID:
I saw him before я видел его раньше
I didn’t see him before я не видел его раньше
Did I see him before? Видел ли я его раньше?
Exercises
EXERCISE 1. Form the Past Simple Tense from the verbs given below
To bring, to blow, to do, to seem, to last, to draw, to break, to listen, to read, to jump, to feel, to hear, to sleep, to cry, to appear, to love, to show, to sing, to hide, to get, to understand, to forget, to remember, to tell, to ask..
EXERCISE 2. Put the verbs in the following sentences into negative and interrogative form
1. He knew her address. 2. This engineer needed help. 3. I liked my new apartment. 4. They found a new solution of this problem. 5. She worked very hard on this problem. 6. He realized that he was right. 7. I saw this movie yesterday. 8. I was in Moscow last year. 9. She decided to go to the country and left last month. 10. They moved to their new house.
EXERCISE 3. Translate into English
1. Ты был в колледже вчера? 2. Каким студентом он был? 3. В понедельник мы ходили по магазинам, выбирали подарки. 4. Вчера была очень хорошая погода. 5. В прошлом году я успешно сдал все экзамены. 6. Месяц назад мы ездили на море. 7. Я не успел все сделать вчера. 8.Было довольно темно, но мы не увидели звезд на небе. 9. Он хотел мне помочь, но я отказался. 10. Я вчера вспомнил, где я его видел.
EXERCISE 4. Make up a situation (10-15 sentences) with using the verbs in the Past Simple Tense
EXERCISE 5. Put the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple
1. The other day I (to meet) a friend of mine at the conference. 2. We (to listen) to almost all reports there yesterday. 3. They (to go) to the country last Sunday 4 Many specialists (to take part) in the last conference. 5. We (to buy) a new software program for the computer tlie day before yesterday. 6. He (to begin) to study Economics a year ago. 7 When I (to come) to the library yesterday, the librarian (to give) me a lot of books on this problem. 8. What salary you (to get) last month? 9. He (to get) a bad mark- at the exam because he hardly (to know) the subject and (to forget) many facts 10. Last time my colleague (to ask) me to help him with a difficult task. 11. Their company O be) quite successful in trading last season. 12. The men (to be) very busy, when I (to come) to ask them about their working conditions. 13. When Peter (to get) his new job?
EXERCISE 6. Open the brackets, using Present or Past Simple.
1. You (to read) English books? 2. My sister (to read) that book last term. 3. When the delegation (to arrive) in Moscow? It (to arrive) yesterday. 4. This train usually (arrive) at 7.30. 5. I (not see) Andrew at the lecture. 6. Where you (to put) my dictionary? 7. This little girl always (to put) her dresses in the wardrobe. 8. Who (to send) a resume to a computer firm? 9.When you (to graduate) from the University? 10. The job interviewer always (to ask) many difficult questions. 11. You (to like) the new candidate? 12. I (to be) very busy, when you (to enter) the office, that's why I (not to discuss) the matter with you.
EXERCISE 7. Translate into Russian
1. I was born in April. 2. Mr. Buckster worked in the USA in 1998. 3. - When did you marry? ~ Jack and I got married two years ago. 4. Max left the house for college, walked to the bus-stop, got on the bus and after some stops got off, had a sandwich in a cafe ... and decided to go back home. 5. I saw the sea long ago, in my childhood. 6. Roger went to University and lived in a hostel. 7. It often rained in the autumn of 1996. 8. The Scotts had dinner at six o'clock and went to a pub. 9. - When and where did you buy this ring? - Oh! It was long ago! 10. It happened on a sunny spring day. 11. I didn't read much during my vacations. 12. The guests said good-bye and left the house. 13. The brothers went to the same school, entered the same University, worked at the same company, and even fell in love with the same girl. - No wonder, they were twins, weren't they? 14. - Who painted this work of art? - It was Levitan. 15. - How long did she wait? - She waited for half an hour and left.
EXERCISE 8. Put the sentences into negative and interrogative form.
1. I was born in a big American family. 2. The students were busy preparing for the exams. 3. I was shy in my childhood. 4. Mrs. Sweet taught Geography at school. 5. We did all the work on time. 6. The scouts heard something strange. 7. My father read all the detective stories from the public library. 8. It started raining. 9. Our group liked the new teacher. 10. My little sister had a kitten. 11. We had a nice journey to Jamaica last year. 12. Our family had dinner early yesterday. 13. We had great fun at the Halloween party! 14. She had to get up at 7 o'clock in the morning. 15. It snowed a lot this winter.
EXERCISE 9. Open the brackets and put the verb into the right form
1. You (be born) in Moscow? 2. I always (be afraid) of flying by planes. 3. What (happen) last Monday? 4. The train (start) at ten o'clock sharp. 5. Where you (be) yesterday? I (phone) you all day long! 6. Somebody (copy) the top secret file. I wonder who (come) here last night? 7. It (rain) all day long the day before yesterday and I (not, go shopping). 8. What (make) you give up jogging? 9. They (talk) for only twenty minutes and (fall in love) with each other deeply. Two months later they (marry). 10. As I (leave) the money at home yesterday, I (not, have lunch). 11. They (come) to the bank on Friday evening, but they (have) no money. 12. When my parents (be young), they (not, have) their own flat and they (have to) rent a room. 13. The boy (work) at his father's farm, (go) to the Art Institute in Kansas City and many years later he (found) his own cartoon company. The boy was Walt Disney. 14. - Who (do) this perfect translation of Shakespeare's sonnet? - It (be) Marshak. 15. - You (pay) a fortune for this car last year, didn't you? - Who (tell) you this? It (cost) me almost nothing then! 16. As soon as the tourists (arrive) in Paris, they (buy) the tickets to the Louvre. 17. - When the plane (take off)? - It (take off) ten minutes ago. 18. James (offer) me to go to the piano concert. It (sound) good, so I (agree). 19. He (wait) in the rain till it (get) dark, but she (not, come). 20. It (rain) for many days and nights during the rainy season.
EXERCISE 10. Ask your friend questions like it’s shown in the example:
- Did you clean your teeth yesterday? - Yes, I did. As usual, I cleaned my teeth yesterday.
1. go to school 2. listen to music 3. go to the cinema, 4. get a letter 5. vacuum your room 6. do morning exercises 7. take out your pet 8. wash your jeans 9. have a sweet dream 10. get up early 11. water the flowers 12. eat some chocolate 13. have your hair cut 14. have a date 15. say "Good Morning" to your neighbor 16. cook something delicious 17. have a shower 18. call your best friend 19. watch TV 20. buy something nice for yourself.