Our Language laboratory.

This is our language laboratory. We have a very good language laboratory at our university. Every week students have an English class in this laboratory. Look at it. This is a teacher’s desk. It has two tape recorders. Those are students’ desks. Each desk has two pairs of headphones and a microphone. We have 16 desks. This is a blackboard and that is a screen. We have many slides in our language laboratory. These are shelves with the dictionaries. We have different dictionaries on the shelves. On the walls we have many pictures and tables. Students have very interesting classes in this laboratory. Students read and translate texts. We have many interesting text books. Students listen to tape recorders and repeat dialogues and monologues after the speaker. They make their own dialogues and discuss different topics. Ten years ago our University had no language laboratory. Now it has. Soon our department will have a computer class. Each student will have a personal computer on the desk. Every week the students will have an English lesson in the computer classroom.

3. Practice.

1. Ask your fellow student about the University language laboratory.

2. Describe your English classes in the language laboratory.

Unit 2

Topic: My Friends

Language: The verb “to be” in the Indefinite Tenses

Text: My Friends

1. Language

The Verb “to be” in the Indefinite Tenses

	Affirmative (стверджувальна форма)	Interrogative (питальна)	Negative (заперечна)
Present	I am he she is it you we are they	Am I …? he Is she …? it you Are we …? they	I am not he she is not (isn’t) it you we are not (aren’t) they
Past	I he was she it you we were they	I Was he …? she it you Were we …? they	I he she was not (wasn’t) it you we were not (weren’t) they
Future	I , we shall be he she it will be you they	Shall I, we be …? he she Will it be … ? you they	I, we shall not be he she it will not be you (won’t be) they

Illustrative Examples

I am a student.

I am not a pupil.

I was a pupil last year.

Are you a pupil now? No, I am not. Were you a pupil last year? Yes, I was.

Is he a student or a worker? He is a student.

She is a student too, isn’t she? Yes she is. No, she is not.

We shall be specialists in five years.

What shall we be in five years?

We shall be specialists in five years.

Who will be specialists in five years? We shall

Exercise 1. Render the following sentences into the Past and the Future.

1. He is a student of our University.

2. She is a good student.

3. You are our guests.

4. I am a member of this group.

5. Are they pupils or students?

6. What is your profession?

7. We are good friends.

8. You are Ukrainian citizen, aren’t you?

Exercise 2. Fill in the blanks with am, is, are, was, were, will be, shall be.

1. … you a scientist?

2. Who … the eldest member of your family?

3. I … a second year student next year.

4. Scientific conference … in our University in 1996.

5. … this man a teacher or a doctor?

6. He … an American, … he?

7. … these your books?

8. … you in London last year?

Exercise 3. Answer the following questions.

1. Is your father an engineer?

2. Will you be an economist?

3. Who is the eldest in your family?

4. Are your parents in England?

5. Your mother was a famous dancer, wasn’t she?

6. Who are you?

7. What are you?

8. Is your best friend a student or a collective farmer?

9. Shall we be friends?

10. Where were you yesterday in the evening?

Exercise 3. Ask your friend all possible questions to the following sentences.

1. Victor Petrov is a student.

2. He is a famous scientist.

3. They were members of our society.

4. My friend is a famous artist.

5. She was a good research worker.

6. I am a student of KSTU.

7. We were good friends.

8. The house of his grandfather is very old.

Exercise 4. Say it in English.

1. Твоя мати була студенткою цього університету?

2. Він відомий науковець, чи не так?

3. Я не учень а студент.

4. Вони Українці.

5. Вoна не на роботі.

6. Мій дідусь був професором в університеті.

7. У майбутньому я буду хорошим спеціалістом.

8. Хто автор цієї статті?

9. Вони були добрими друзями.

10. Твій брат буде завтра на лекції?