- •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
III. After you have read:
3.1 Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:
1. From childhood, Kulibin displayed an interest in constructing mechanical tools.
2. During 1764-1767 he built a steam-engine.
3. Ivan Kulibin also designed projects for tower clocks, miniature clock-in-a-ring types and others.
4. Kulibin’s project was awarded the Nobel Prize.
5. In 1793, he constructed the four-stroke piston cycle internal combustion engine.
6. In 1794, he created an optical telegraph for transmitting signals over distance.
7. In 1801 Ivan Kulibin was appointed the rector of the academy in Nizhny Novgorod.
3.2 .Fill in the blanks with words from the text:
1. He was born in 1735 in ... in the family of a ... .
2. In 1769 Kulibin ... this clock to Catherine II, who ... Kulibin to be ... of the mechanical ... in the ... of Saint Petersburg.
3. There, Kulibin … a «planetary» …, which … not only the current time, but also the month, day of the week, the season and the … moon phase.
4. He also … on new ways to … glass … use in …, telescopes and other … instruments.
5. During the 1770s, he … a wooden … bridge … the Neva river with a … of 298 metres, offering to use an original … with a cross grate.
6. After 1780, Kulibin worked … possibilities … a metallic bridge, but these projects … also … by the government.
7. In 1791, Kulibin … a …, in which he used a …, a brake, a … and roller bearing.
8. In 1801 Kulibin … from the academy and … to Nizhny Novgorod, where he designed a method of …and … a ship which he … to design back in 1782.
9. Tests … that such ships …indeed …, but they …never … .
10.During the same time, Kulibin had projects … using … to move … ships, different kinds of …, pianos and other projects.
3.3. Substitute the modal verbs for the possible equivalents:
1. The special commission of engineers must test a new device.
2. My friend can play tennis very well.
3. The students may attend the scientific conference.
4. We can’t prepare this report in time.
5. You make take my laptop till tomorrow.
6. She must go to Nizhniy Novgorod for several days.
3.4 Insert the modal verbs may or can:
1. The mechanic ... repair the brakes tomorrow if no one bothers him any more.
2. ... we come and see the head engineer next Monday at four o'clock in the afternoon?
3. What time is it? — It ... be about five o'clock, but I am not sure.
4. Only a person who physics the language very well ... answer such a question.
5. Let me look at your diploma project. I ... be able to help you.
6. The computer class is quite free, and anyone who likes ... work there.
7. ... I take your text book on higher mathematics till tomorrow?
10. Take your umbrella with you: it ... rain today.
11. Do you think you ... draw these diagram?
3.5 Insert the necessary modal verb or it equivalent:
1. I ... not go to the cinema with them yesterday, I ... to work on my term paper.
2. My friend lives not far from the university and ... go by foot.
3. All of us ... be in time for classes.
4. ... you ... to work hard to do well in special subjects?
6. One … know a foreign language.
7. My friend … to make a repot at the conference at 10 a.m.
8. Nobody … answer my question.
9. The scientist … … to carry on this experiment in the university laboratory.
10. … you … to start this program at once?