16.I haven’t wound up my watch today.
17.My watch has broken, you know.
18.My watch needs repairing. It is always ten minutes fast.
16.That’s why it won’t go now. 17.And now your watch needs repairing.
18.It’s necessary for you to go to the watch-maker’s now.
UNIT II
I. Answer the following questions:
A.1.You had a happy childhood, didn’t you? 2.I think in childhood your mother read many fairy tales to you, didn’t she? 3.When did you go to school? 4.What was your form-master’s name at school? 5.Were there many circles in your school? What were they? 6.Was there a drama society at your school? 7.Did you take part in the work of the drama society of your school? 8.Have you ever acted? 9.Did you find it difficult to act? 10.What circle did you join at school? 11.Did you have a good school-leaving, evening-party? 12.What was your great wish after finishing school? Have you carried out your wish? 13.What faculty prepares school-leavers for the entrance exams to the University? 14.How many double periods of English do they have a week at the Preparatory faculty? 15.Did you have a tutor before the English exam to the University last year? 16.Did your parents give you any present when you entered the University? 17.What kind of presents do you like to receive? 18.What’s the University you study at called now? Who is it named after? 19.Do you like the building of the University? 20.Are there any columns at the entrance to our University? 21.What (who) is the square near the University named after? 22.Did you try to enter the University named after I.N.Ulyanov or the Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University? 23.Who is the Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University named after? 24.Are you eager to master English to learn much about England? 25.What is the symbol of England? (a red rose) 26.What is the symbol of Russia? 27.Can you point at Great Britain on a map at once? 28.Do you pay for your studies at the University? 29.Can your family pay for your studies? 30.Do you know what wages your father gets a month? 31.Whose mother or father is a candidate of science? 32.How many exams did you take when you entered our University? 33.What mark did you pass your entrance exam in Russian with? 34.What mark did you get for your answer at the entrance exam in English (in Literature)? 35.Do you get a stipend or a scholarship? 36.What scholarship does a student get now? 37.How much is your stipend? 38.What do you spend your stipend on? 39.Do you study on the first or on the second shift? 40.On what shift is it better to study in your opinion? 41.How many periods of English are you to have today according to the time-
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table? 42.Have you ever stayed away from classes for some reason or other? 43.Did you miss any tutorials or lectures without any reasonable excuse last week? 44.Is there a good or a bad discipline in your group? 45.The students of your group attend lectures and seminars regularly, don’t they? 46.His discipline leaves much to be desired, doesn’t it? Why? 47 Is there anything at the University to be proud of? 48.What are you proud of? 49.Is our sound laboratory the pride of our faculty? 50.How often do you stay and work in the laboratory after classes? 51.What opportunities does our sound laboratory give you? 52.What opportunities do your parents give you? 53.What can you say about the gymnasium of the University? 54.What’s your typical mistake in pronunciation? 55.Do you usually look into your vocabulary notebook when you write a test translation? 56.How many mid-term exams did you take? Did you pass all of them successfully? 57.What marks did you pass all your exams at the end of the first term with? 58.Did anyone of you repeat an exam in winter? 59.Have you ever failed an exam? 60.What exam and when did you fail? 61.What would you recommend to a student whose weak point is spelling? (who is weak in Russian? Whose English pronunciation is poor?) 62.Is it useful to write tests in Written Practice? Why? 63.What else must you do to master a foreign language? 64.Has each of you a student’s record-book? 65.What is there in the record-book? 66.Are you ready for the coming exam in Linguistics? 67.What do you prefer to do when you have some spare time? 68.Do you prefer reading to watching TV when you have some spare time? 69.Have you ever made a drawing? 70 Do you prefer to go in for sports or in for music? 71.Is there a choir at our University? 72.Which of you is a member of the choir? 73.Have you ever taken part in the student’s festival? 74. Are you eager to take part in the festival “Students’ Spring”? 75.What do you prefer, to join a dancing circle or a drama circle? 76. Did you join any sports’ club at the beginning of the first term? 77.What circle do you attend, a drama circle or a dancing circle? 78.I know that you are going in for dancing. Have you any results? 79.Do you often call at our university library? 80.What do you prefer to read science fiction or non-fiction? 81.Are you interested in scientific books? 82.What books are you interested in? 83.Which of you likes to read adventure stories and detective stories? 84.What do you prefer to read books in the original or in translation? 85.What English book in the original have you lately read? 86.Is the book “Jennings and His Friends” in the original or adapted? 87.Have you ever been to the Opera House? 88.Have you ever been to the Bolshoy Theatre or to the Maly Theatre? 89.Have you ever had a desire to attend the Bolshoy Theatre? 90.Are you satisfied with your life and studies at the University?
B.1.What other educational institution(s) in our town besides our Teachers’ Training University train teachers of foreign languages and Mathematics and Physics? 2.Would you like to become a physician? 3.What faculty of our University trains economists and book-keepers? 4.Do future economists study Economic Geography? 5.Where are future teachers of music,
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composers and conductors trained in our town? 6.Do you find it difficult to conduct an orchestra? 7.How many military schools are there in our town? 8.People of what professions are considered to be clerks? 9.Where are engineers trained in our town? 10.Where are shop-assistants (salesmen) trained? 11.Is there a danger for people of different professions to be unemployed in our country? 12.What do you think it is easier, to get education after serving in the army or before it, right after leaving school? 13.What is developed better in our republic, industry or agriculture? 14.Do chemists work in agriculture or only in laboratories at plants? 15.Can a talented engineer get high wages in our country now? 16.Does a skilled worker get the same wages as an inexperienced worker? 17.The wages of school teachers are as high as those of surgeons and other doctors, aren’t they? 18.Must all the students of the faculty of physical training be good sportsmen? 19.Is it useful for people of any profession to travel and to do sports? 20.Why is the profession of a teacher noble in your opinion? 21.All your classmates made up their minds to become educated people, didn’t they? 22.After leaving school you wanted to be an economist, didn’t you? 23.S. wanted to be a physicist right after finishing school, but then he changed his mind, didn’t he? 24.What are you going to become after graduating from the University? 25.Would you like to become a physician? 26.Would you like to carry out research work and become a scientific worker? 27.Are there any former soldiers in our group? 28.What do your parents do for a leaving? 29.Do you think all your groupmates will make good teachers of English?
II. Have a talk similar to the suggested ones. Share some information with your groupmates:
A. Remember who some institutions or places of interest are named after and what they are famous for.
M.1.St.1: Who is your University
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B. Tell us about your daily work, difficulties, success in studies, sports and about your plans.
M.3.It goes without saying we, first-year students, spend much time in the laboratory.
M.4.My deskmate L. does her best to get rid of her spelling mistakes. M.5.According to the time-table we are to have 8 periods of lessons today. M.6.Today, as usual, we have English lessons.
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St.2: Don’t worry! He is sure to catch up with them.
St.3: He will certainly do it. M.8.T. finds it rather difficult to write phonetic dictations.
M.9.St.1: Why not study the second foreign language together?
M.10.N. and P. have made up their minds to learn to speak German as well as English.
M.11.You may borrow books from the library at 7 p.m. at the latest. Mind it! M.12.St.1: Have you made (achieved)
any progress (success) in English? Or: Have you succeeded in (advanced in, done well) English? Or: Are you a success in English?
C.Tell us about your interests and how you spend your leisure time. M.13. Every year we can’t help congratulating each other on the New Year.
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M.18. Everybody in our group does sports, but nobody does music (goes in for music).
M.19. If we are interested in English Literature we go to the library or address our teacher in Literature.
M.20. We were looking forward to our school-leaving party last year.
We are looking forward to having a rest during our summer holidays. M.21. English is considered to be one of the most difficult languages. M.22. St.1: Is there anything for you to
be proud of?
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c)There is nothing (little, much) for me to be proud of.
Use: To add, to be sorry for, to be surprised at, to be in doubt about, to complain of, to congratulate on, , to discuss, to grumble about, to listen to, to read, to retell, to speak about.
III. Tell us what you usually pay attention to:
M.St.1: Tell us what you usually pay attention to when you write a dictation?
St.2: When I write a dictation I pay attention first to the meaning of sentences, then to the spelling of words
1.…when you get ready for expressive reading of a text.
2.…if you like to understand the meaning of a new word you saw in a text.
3.…if you like to understand what an article is about.
4.…when you go on an excursion.
5.…when a newcomer is introduced to you.
6.…when you get ready for a lesson in Home-Reading.
7.…when you make up a dialogue.
8.…if you are a teacher and give your student a mark at the end of the term.
9.…when you write a composition.
10.…when you make up a report on your book for individual reading.
11.…when you study something about foreign countries.
1.…to stresses and tunes.
2.…to the context
3.…to its contents.
4.…to different places of interest and to the guide’s explanation.
5.…to his appearance
6.…to new words and the contents of the chapters.
7.…to the logic of our dialogue and the number of the active words.
8.…to his (her) knowledge of the subject I teach and his (her) attendance of the lessons.
9.…first to the given topic, then to the plan which I must make up, to the contents and at last to its language.
10.…to the main events described in the chapters read and their main ideas.
11.…first to their geographical
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12.…when you read for your exam in English Phonetics.
13.…when you get ready for a quiz.
IV. Guess what one wants to say:
M.St.1: If we learn that all the students of the group get good and excellent marks and only Pete gets bad marks we can say…
position, the state system, the culture, customs and traditions of their people.
12.…to the phonetic notes which we studied during the term, the description of the English sounds, to stresses and tunes of the texts we are to recite at the exam.
13.…to the spelling of words, their meanings, the use of articles and prepositions.
St.2: If we learn that all the students of the group get good and excellent marks and only Pete gets bad marks we can say that Pete has lagged behind the group.
1.When a teacher comes into a classroom all the students…
2.If a teacher has just explained a new material, he asks his pupils…
3.You are in hurry. On the way you meet your friend, and he wants to have a talk with you. You apologize to him and say … 4.You met a friend of yours in a café. After a short conversation, your friend was going to leave and said …
5.Nick wants to enter the University and to master the English language, that’s why he has been working hard at English for some years. So we can say…
6.Your elder sister is very busy. She has a lot of things to do, but she is short of time.
1.…all the students stand up and greet him/her.
2.…he asks his pupils: ‘Is everything clear to you?
3.I’m afraid I must be off.
4. 1) I’m afraid I must be off. 2) Hope to see you soon. 3) Remember me to… 4)Best regards to …
5.He is to enter the University.
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You want to help her and say…
7.What do you do when we come to our friend’s birthday-party?
8.When two persons who haven’t seen each other since leaving school meet, they say…
9.When a robbery of the bank has taken place a detective…
10.When suddenly your girl-friend tells you she is going to marry…
11.If Nick takes part in the different sport competitions we can say…
12.If you saw a wonderful film at the cinema and you liked it very much we can say…
13.If you learn that one of your groupmates was born on this day you…
14.If a student on duty wets the duster fetches some chalk, a tape-recorder with a tape, we say that…
15.If we learn that our groupmate speaks English distinctly and translates from Russian into English and vice versa easily and without any mistakes we say…
16.If we learn that our teacher had the aim of teaching us to use all the English tenses and now we use them right, we say…
17.If we want to be well prepared for the entrance examinations to the University…
18.If a young man wants to enter a University we say that …
19.If we find out that all the students of Group “A” attend all the lessons and only
6.What can I do for you?
7. …we congratulate her/him on the birthday and give presents to her/him.
8.Haven’t seen you for ages.
9.…a detective investigates it (the case).
10.…I will be very much surprised at the news.
11.…that he goes in for sports.
12.…you enjoyed it.
13.…I congratulate him/her on the birthday.
14.…that the student on duty performs his/her functions.
15.…that he has mastered the English language rather well.
16.…that our teacher has achieved her aim.
17.We have tutorials with a good experienced teacher and study at the Preparatory faculty.
18. …he is going to take entrance exams
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Ann doesn’t do it without a reasonable excuse we can say…
20.If a student sings well and does it very often we can say…
21.If your son makes up his mind to enjoy himself doing nothing after leaving school and has no aim to achieve you will…
22.If one wants to enter a University he/she must…
23.If you, a teacher, notice that one of your students is prompting her/his neighbour during a test you…
24.If we see a child who is crossing a street without paying attention to the red traffic light we…
25.If a student on duty hasn’t wet(ted) the duster, hasn’t put down a date, on the blackboard and hasn’t brought a taperecorder from the laboratory we can say…
26.If your groupmate can’t read English distinctly and fluently, she always stresses wrong words and makes many mistakes in her pronunciation, you can say…
27.When a person is very clever and talented and studies very well…
28.If someone hasn’t passed an exam for the third time…
29.If we know that our groupmate is ill and he hasn’t a telephone we say: “Let’s… 30.What do you do, when you have a terrible pain in your knee and you can’t stand up?
19.…that she may be expelled from the University.
20.…that he goes in for singing.
21.…I will try to prevent him from doing it and make him either work or study.
22.…come to the University, hand in his/her school-leaving certificate and other documents and fill in an application form.
23.…I will make a remark to her/him.
24.…we try to prevent him from doing it. or: we try to save him.
25.…that he doesn’t carry out his functions.
26.…that her pronunciation leaves much to be desired.
27.…we are proud of him.
or: we admire him.
28. …we can say that he can be expelled from an institute.
29.”Let’s call on him.”
30.We complain of it and go to
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31.If your friend wanted to become a doctor in his childhood and now he is a doctor we can say…
32.If the team of our University plays a game of football with the team of the Agricaltural Academy and the score is two to one, we can say…
V. Answer the following questions:
consult a doctor.
31.…that his dream has come true. Or: he has achieved his aim.
Or: he has realized his wish.
32.…that our team has won a victory.
1.When did you leave school? 2.When and why did you make up your mind to enter our University? 3.What did you dream of after school? 4.Has any of your dreams come true? 5.Who usually meets schoolchildren who are going to enter our University and shows them around it? 6.What subjects do you study this term? 7.Have you made great progress in English since you entered the University? 8.What subjects do you make success in? 9.Are you making great progress in English? 10.Do you work systematically or by fits and starts? 11.Shall we make good progress in English, if we work by fits and stars? 12.You always mind you intonation when you speak English, don’t you? 13.Do you find it difficult to intone original English texts such as “Meet the Parkers?” 14.You studied the active words of Lesson 7 thoroughly at home, didn’t you? 15.The active words in your vocabulary notebooks are written in columns, aren’t they? 16.Do you think it’s very convenient to have them written in columns? 17.Have you read the vocabulary notes on Lesson 14 already? 18.Do you often look up new words in a dictionary? 19.What do you find more difficult, to fill in the blanks with articles or with prepositions? 20.Do you usually manage to find (out) mistakes in your test translation when you check it up? 21.Is it necessary to illustrate grammar rules by examples? 22.When did you have a class in Physical Training Last? 23.You performed a lot of gymnastic exercises at that lesson, didn’t you? 24.Our teacher of Physical Training is always finding fault with us, doesn’t he? 25.Do you find it difficult to perform all the gymnastic exercises at the lessons in Physical Training? 26.What do you intend to do after this double period of English? 27.How many double periods of English have you got every day, but on Tuesday? 28 Do you fulfil you homework thoroughly? 29.What do you like to write more, compositions or expositions? 30.Do you usually write with a pen or with a pencil? 31.Do you mind your handwriting when you write on the blackboard? 32.What subjects do you succeed in? 33.Would you like to master any foreign language besides English? 34.Last term you lagged behind your groupmates in English, K. What did you do to catch up with the group? 35.Were you afraid to be expelled from the University? 36.When and why are
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students usually expelled from an Institute? 37.Who was expelled from the University after the mid-term exams from the first year of the English department? 38.What social work do you carry out? 39.What do you take part in, in the social work of the University or in the faculty activities? 40.You always try to do everything right, don’t you, K.? 41.Do you usually solve your problems yourself or does anyone help you to do it? 42.Do you admire people who do everything to achieve their positive aims? 43.Do you like people who find fault with other people? 44.What holidays do you congratulate your friends on? 45.Do you congratulate any of your friends on Christmas? 46.Did you congratulate your former teachers on the International Women’s Day, X.? 47.You greet your teachers every time when you see them for the first time, don’t you? 48.What will you recommend your friend if he has quarrelled with his parents? 49.Do you always carry out your parents’ requests? 50.Are you proud of our country? Why? 51.Do you like Cheboksary? 52.Are there any places in Cheboksary which you are proud of? 53.Have you ever admired anything in Cheboksary? 54.You know your town so well that you can easily show your foreign friend round it, can’t you? 55.Have you been to any museum here? 56.Who shows people round museums? 57.Have you ever been on a sicklist? 58.Are you safe and sound now? 59.What about your groupmates? 60.Who often complains of a headache among you? 61.What are you interested in? 62.What kind of sports are you good at? 63.Are you good at swimming? 64.Who goes in for sports in your group? 65.You enjoy yourself reading books, don’t you? 66.What do you like to read for pleasure? 67.What would you recommend your groupmate to read? 68.What do you prefer, dancing or singing? 69.Noise often gets on your nerves, doesn’t it? 70.What music gets on your nerves? 71.Did your parents try to prevent you from going to the Army? 72.Do you mind your mother reading your letters? 73.Are you in doubt about the importance of your future profession? 74.Will you carry out all your children’s wishes when you marry and have children, X.?
VI. Have talks similar to the suggested ones:
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M.4. St.1: What were you doing from 7 till 8 yesterday?
M.5. St.1: The girls were not playing the piano when their friend came.
St.2: I was revising the new words of Lesson 7 at that time.
St.2: No, they weren’t. They were listening to the news.
VII. Respond to the statements or questions:
1.Thank you for your textbook.
2.Why don’t you answer the questions, V.?
3.Why did you behave so badly?
4.Mason will not be a lawjer any more. 5.I’m sorry to trouble you.
6.Russia is a great country. 7.L., don’t marry P.
8.I’m sorry I haven’t made up sentences with the conversational phrases of Lesson 8.
9.It seems to me you are tired.
10.My brother prefers writing with a pencil.
11.My mother has gone on business. What about yours?
12.I’ve been ill for a fortnight. S., can you help me to catch up with the group? 13.You are sure you will master the English language well, aren’t you? 14.Will you show Helen, our newcomer, around the institute, K.?
15.I couldn’t get ready for my individual reading.
16.Oh, it’s you, my dear! I’m so glad to see you!
17.You can’t go out now, it’s raining. 18.Nick thinks it is not obligatory to keep library rules.
1.Don’t mention it.
2.Sorry. I’m afraid I didn’t quite hear what you said.
3.I couldn’t help laughing at the amusing jokes.
4.I’m of another opinion. 5.Never mind!
or: What can I do for you? 6.It goes without saying.
7.Why not marry him? or: Mind your own business.
8.Never mind! You’ll do it tomorrow.
9.Not in the least.
10.I’m afraid, you are mistaken. He prefers writing in ink.
11.My mother is on a sick list.
12.Sure I will do it.
13.I hope to.
14.Willingly.
15.Never mind! You will do it next week.
16.So am I. Haven’t seen you for ages!
17.I don’t mind the rain.
18.I’m of another opinion.
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19 Kate, will you answer my question?
20.Let’s call at the laboratory. I am to take a tape with the text “Our Institute”.
21.At 9 o’clock sharp a broadcaster is to inform us about the latest news.
22.Why not marry somebody after leaving school?
23.As far as I know you are satisfied with your progress in English.
24.We are going to the cinema now. Will you join us?
25.I have forgotten to tell our teacher about your illness.
26.I think our faculty of foreign languages will win a victory at the coming festival “Studvesna”.
27.I will take entrance examinations to the University this summer.
28.It was very kind of you to have helped me. Thank you!
29.This year I must pass all the exams with excellent marks and only then I will be allowed to go abroad.30.You have bought such an expensive ring!
30.You have bought such an expensive ring!
31.Excuse me. I have broken your pencil. 32.As you know, I was ill last week. I was on a sick-list. I have lagged behind the group. Will you help me with the new grammar material?
33.Our University is the best in our republic; and all the graduates are good specialists.
34.You are so impolite. You always interrupt me, when I am speaking.
35.I am going to call on our girl-friend
19.I’m afraid I didn’t quite hear what you said.
20.I’m afraid, I must be off. Do it without me.
21.At this time they’ll do it as usual.
22.All in good time.
or: I’m of another opinion.
23.Quite!
or: Not in the least!
24.Why not go to the cinema? I will, of course.
25.Never mind!
26.We hope to.
Or: I’m of another opinion.
27.I wish you every success!
28.Don’t mention it!
29.I wish you every success!
30.Really I have. But I couldn’t help buying it.
31.Never mind!
32.It goes without saying.
33.We can’t help being proud of it.
34.I beg your pardon.
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M.2.St.1: I have been to the town of Krasnodar twice this year.
M.3.St.1: We have worked hard for 4 months.
St.2: You know the town rather well now.
St.2: Now we are having a good rest.
St.3: Now we are having winter holidays.
1.Nick has never been to the Museum of Revolution.
2.My sister has had tutorials in English for the last two years.
3.The student on duty hasn’t aired the classroom today.
4.The schoolchildren of the village of Kovaly have just got the building of a new school.
5.My groupmates haven’t learnt the verse “The Arrow and the Song” by heart yet. 6.I have congratulated all my relatives on the Eighth of March.
7.My friend has never repeated any exams.
8.Nick has travelled much around our country.
9.This week Tom has composed a beautiful song.
10.The bell has just gone.
11.Jane has just got a stipend.
12.Nick has passed an exam in English to the University with a satisfactory mark.
13.We have had a double period of English.
14.Irene has just finished retelling the text
1.He can’t tell us anything about it.
2.That’s why she managed to pass the entrance exams successfully and now she is studying at the University.
3.It’s very stuffy here now.
4.They are very glad. They are studying in it now.
5.So they can’t recite it now.
6.How good of you! You have pleased them, I think. Or: They are pleased with your congratulation.
7.We are proud of her.
8.And now he is telling us many interesting things.
9.Everybody likes it and sings. 10.The pupils are leaving the classroom.
11.She is counting her money.
12.He is going to have another try next year.
13.Now we are having a break.
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“Our University”.
15.Lucy has left her notebook for tests at home.
16.I have introduced my friend to my parents tonight.
17.Kate has never stayed at home alone. 18.I have had a headache almost every day this month.
19.The students have just greeted their teacher.
20.We have just read a text.
21.Bob has lately finished School 49. 22.They have just had a lesson in Physical Training.
23.We have just received the main prize for our performance.
24.Father has sharpened the pencil for his little son Bob.
25.Peter has come to the English lesson behind time.
26.I have got rid of my problems.
27.Margaret has made up a report on Stylistics.
28.The rector of the Chuvash State Teachers’ Training University has already greeted the deans of different departments.
29.My brother hasn’t mastered English yet.
30.My watch has stopped, you know.
31.John has congratulated his girl-friend on her birthday and presented her with a very interesting book.
14.Her mark is excellent.
15.She has nothing to write a test in.
16.Now we often study and have a good time at my place.
17.She is afraid to stay alone.
18.You can’t study any more and you are going to stay in hospital for a while, aren’t you.
19.The lesson is beginning. 20.We are retelling it now.
21.He is going to enter a University.
22.They are tired now.
23.We are proud of our success.
24.Fine, now Bob can make different drawings
25.Now our teacher is very angry with him. She is making a remark to him.
26.Now nothing troubles you, doesn’t it?
27.The teacher is very pleased with her report.
28.Now they can hold a meeting solving some problems.
29.So he can’t work at school and teach pupils.
30.You don’t know the exact time. You can be late for classes.
31.And now she is reading the book with pleasure.
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32.They are going home now. |
33.My friend has recently finished school. |
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34.My friend has been expelled from the University.
35.I have lagged behind my groupmates in English because of my illness.
IX. Point out the reasons.
34.Now he’s working at a plant.
35.It’s a pity! Now you must work as hard as possible to catch up with the group.
M.1.St.1: Helen and Sveta always help each in everything.
St.2: Oh, they have been great friends since the beginning of the first term.
1.Our form-master looks very tired today.
2.Michael is in doubt about the spelling of a few words in the dictation.
3.Bertha is carrying out her mother’s wish: she is washing up and dusting the furniture.
4.Our monitor is a very famous student at our University now.
1.No wonder. He has already held a meeting with his pupils’ parents and discussed many questions with them.
2.He hasn’t revised the words of Lesson 7 carefully.
3.Her mother has just shown her friend from Canada round Cheboksary and is tired.
4.She has won a victory in the region ski competition.
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during the winter examination session successfully.
7.Lena’s speech leaves much to be desired.
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Reading. |
8.But he has been on a sick-list |
9.Why are you looking through the |
since Monday. |
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magazine “Younost?” |
9.You see, I haven’t read anything |
10.Ally’s answer at the exam in Literature |
for pleasure since the winter exams. |
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pleased the teacher most of all. |
10.No wonder, she has read all the |
11.Barbara’s recitation of the verse is |
books in Literature. |
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excellent. |
11.No wonder, she has been |
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week. |
12.We are all awfully tired now. |
12.No wonder, we have been to the |
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University since morning. |
13.Helen can’t go in for sports. |
13.She has broken her leg. |
14.Thomas can’t have holidays now. |
14.He hasn’t passed the exams yet. |
X. Speak on the following situations:
1.On the way home two students speak about what they did at the Institute before their meeting.
2.Two girl-friends are speaking in the Chuvash Teachers’ Training University. One of them is a school-leaver and the other is a second-year student of the University.
3.A talk between 2 groupmates before the coming exam: one is serious and diligent; the other is lazy, careless and irresponsible.
4.Two students speak about their studies. One of them studies at the Institute of Foreign languages and the other studies at the Moscow University.
5.Two groupmates have met. One of them has been ill for a long time and now she is worried if she’ll be able to catch up with the group. The other tells her about a new laboratory, its equipment, about the other groupmates’ progress in studies and some other news.
6.The mother and the daughter are talking about the daughter’s future. 7.Two schoolmates meet in the library of the Institute. One of them is
studying at the faculty of foreign languages, the other – at the Mathematical faculty. They speak about their studies and life.
8.Two former school-mates have met in the street. One of them studies at an Institute. The other doesn’t study. They talk about their lives, studies, entrance exams, etc.
9.Two friends didn’t see each other for ages after finishing school. Then they met. What could they talk about?
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10.The student is at the exam. He doesn’t know the answer to his questions well. Both the examiner and the student don’t want a bad mark. What can they talk about?
11.You are a pupil. Your father has a talk with you about your progress in studies and you also tell him about the school you study at and the rules there.
12.A student and a newcomer are having a talk about the opportunities the laboratory gives the students of the faculty, about the work of some circles, the choir, etc. (the former shows the latter around the Institute and the faculty of foreign languages).
13.Two young teachers work in the country. They meet and have a talk exchanging their experience in work, impressions of their pupils, colleges and give advice to each other.
14.Two students are talking near the study where an English exam is taking place. One of them is going to take an exam.
15.A student of the Moscow University and a graduate of the Oxford University speak about their Universities, student life, academic activities, comparing them.
16.A student of the Moscow University and a graduate of the Oxford University speak about the customs and traditions of their Universities.
17.You compare schools and Universities in Great Britain and Russia.
XI. Under what condition are the following actions possible:
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2.You’ll have much spare time tomorrow |
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if … |
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… you do your lessons today. |
3.My sick girl-friend will be able to come |
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… she feels a little better |
4.The evening-party will be interesting |
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… we prepare everything |
if … |
carefully. |
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on Sunday if … |
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… it is necessary. |
6.Your sister will be able to recite this |
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poem at the competition tomorrow if … |
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better than today |
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during the summer holidays if… |
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… my parents give me much |
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9.Tom will not perform his gymnastic exercises unless…
10.I will retell the text if… 11.Sheila will be expelled from the University if…
12.You will not teach English at school unless…
13.Students will not ask their teacher any questions if…
14.You will do your work in time if… 15.Tom will help me with my home assignment if…
16.He will not investigate this problem unless…
17.Nick will not do well in his pronunciation unless…
18.I think, Sheila will understand you if… 19.Kseniya will not achieve success in learning English unless…
lesson well myself.
9.… Paul comes to the stadium.
10.… I grasp its idea.
11.… she doesn’t pass the exam in English.
12.… you graduate from the University.
13.… they understand everything.
14.… my friends help me.
15.… he has some spare time.
16.… he reads many scientific books.
17.… he listens to many tapes with English texts systematically.
18.… you tell her the truth.
19.… she works at it systematically.
XII. When can the following actions be fulfilled or until what time can they last?
M.1. St.1: You will ring me up after… St.2: I will ring you up after I make up (have made up) my report.
M.2. St.1: Margaret will not catch up
with her groupmates until… St.2: Margaret will not catch up with her groupmates until she begins working hard at all the subjects.
1.Helen will stay at her work till… 2.Sheila will investigate this problem when…
3.You will stay in the room till… 4.Nick will go on a trip to France after…
5.The teacher will pass you in Linguistics when…
1.… she finishes it.
2.… she reads this scientific article.
3.… I have made the drawing.
4.… his vacation begins.
5.… I show her all the lectures.
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6.You will be on a sick-list till… 7.Kate will have holidays when… 8.Your dreams will come true when…
9.Kate will go on business, when… 10.Nastya will not go to bed until…
11.I will work at English Grammar till…
12.Peter will not change his mind until…
13.Ann will stay in the laboratory as long as…
14.Pete will stay in the laboratory until…
15.Nick will realize all his dreams as soon as…
16.Mike will study Mathematics at the University, when…
17.Mary will stay in the class-room till… 18.Thomas will stay at the stadium till…
6.… I have recovered completely.
7.… she has passed all her exams.
8.… you do your best to achieve them.
9.… she solves all her problems.
10.… she fulfils the whole homework.
11.… I have understood everything.
12.… you have proved him that you are right.
13.… she is listening to a text.
14.… he has intoned the text “At an English Lesson”.
15.… he has graduated from the University.
16.… he finishes school
17.… she makes a drawing.
18.… he has run 5 times round it.
XIII. Choose an action which you’ll be able to fulfil taking into consideration the given circumstances:
M.St.1: You’ve got a rich English library of your own.
1.Your sister is eager to enter one of the Moscow Universities.
2.You study best of all in your group.
3.You are a housewife, your husband is a geologist and he often leaves home for the place of his work.
4.You speak English worse than your fellow-students.
St.2: If I’ve got a rich English library of my own I’ll read English books in the original almost every day.
1.… she will have to finish school with an excellent school-leaving certificate.
2.… I shall help my fellowstudents.
3.… I will always join him for the place of his work.
4.… I shall work harder at English to catch up with them.
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5.You are a future teacher.
6.Your mother has a birthday today and she is going to celebrate it with the whole family and her friends…
7.Your best friend is from Moscow and he has made up his mind to stay with you on your day-off.
8.Your friend has a birthday.
9.You are a student and you live in a hostel. Your neighbours are very noisy.
10.You are a teacher. Your pupil behaves badly.
11.You are a school-leaver and you make up your mind to enter a Teachers’ Training University.
12.Your friend has made up his mind to give up his studies.
13.You behaved badly at the previous lesson and now the teacher is angry with you.
14.I have much time to spare on my dayoff.
15.You have an old Granny. She often grumbles and complains of you to your parents.
16.Today there is a very interesting TV
5.… I shall read many books, work with children, always do my lessons well.
6.… I shall congratulate her on it and help her to prepare a celebration meal.
7.… I shall show him round our town of Cheboksary.
8.… I will congratulate him on it.
9.… I will complain of them.
or: I will grumble about their behaviour.
10.… I will make him a remark.
11.… I’ll do my best to pass the entrance exams well.
12.… I will prevent him from doing it by all means.
13.… I will apologize to the teacher for my bad behavior.
14.… I will go to the library.
or I will go for a walk with my friends. or: My friends and I will go to the cinema.
or: I will stay at home and bake pies for dinner.
or: I will read for pleasure at home. or: I will read for the coming exams.
15. … I will try to speak with her and ask her not to complain to the parents.
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