3. Pay attention to the following synonyms:

a) to like something / doing something / to do something =

to be fond of something / doing something =

to be keen on something / doing something;

b) to take part in something = to participate in something.

Translate the following sentences into English giving all possible variants:

Model. Моя сестра любить співати.

likes singing / to sing.

My sister is fond of singing.

is keen on singing.

1) Я захоплююсь малюванням.

2) Мій молодший брат любить комп’ютерні ігри.

3) Мій батько любить читати цікаві книжки.

4) Моя бабуся любить дивитися телевізор.

5) Ми всі захоплюємося футболом.

6) Першокурсники беруть участь у святковому концерті.

7) Мій друг бере участь у змаганнях з баскетболу.

4. Read and memorize the following words and word-combinations:

to introduce [ı n t r ə΄ d ј u : s] представляти

to be born [b ) : n] народитися

to consist of [k ə n΄ s ı s t] складатися з

grandparents [΄g r æ n ِ p ε ə r ə n t s] дідусь і бабуся

to knit [n ı t] в’язати

to sew [s o u] шити

secondary [΄s e k ə n d ə r ı] середній

to pass entrance exams [΄e n t r ə n s] скласти вступні іспити

first-year student [΄f ə : s t] першокурсник (- ниця)

early [ə : l ı] рано

usually [΄j u : з u ə l ı] звичайно

double period [΄d b l ΄p ı ə r ı ə d] пара (елемент навчального процесу)

a break [b r e ı k] перерва

a canteen [k æ n΄ t ı : n] їдальня

to have a snack [s n æ k] перекусити, перехопити щось (поїсти)

a notice board [΄n o u t ı s ΄b ) : d] дошка об’яв

a time-table [΄t a ı m ِ t e ı b l] розклад

etc. (et cetera) [ı t ΄s ə t r ə] (лат.) і так далі

to be over закінчуватися

to hurry [h r ı]поспішати

to stay behind [b ı΄ h a ı n d] залишатися

an enterprise [΄ e n t ə p r a ı z] підприємство

to spend time проводити час

to read up підготуватися

to have a rest відпочивати

Reading Activities

Read the following text and try to understand its general meaning. Make up and write down your own story about your family and studies. Make use of the words and word-combinations given in the brackets.

Students’ life

Let me introduce myself. My name is ______ . I am seventeen (eighteen, nineteen) years old. I was born in 1991 in the city of Kharkiv (in the town of …, in the village of …).

My family is large (small, neither large nor small). It consists of seven persons: my father and mother, grandmother and grandfather, brother and sister. My father is forty-seven. He is a worker (a farmer, a businessman, a manager, an employee, a teacher, a builder, an officer, a driver). He works at the plant (at the office, at the research institute, on the farm). My mother is forty-five. She is a doctor (a nurse, a librarian, an economist, a book-keeper, a shop-assistant, a cook, a house-wife). She works at the hospital (at the shop, at the library, at the canteen, at school. She doesn’t work. She takes care of children). My sister is eleven. She is a school-girl. My brother is nineteen. He serves in the Army. My grandparents are retired.

My family is very friendly. We often spend time together but every member of my family has a hobby of his own. My father is fond of fishing (hunting, driving, playing tennis). My mother likes knitting, sewing and gardening. As for me, I am keen on modern music (drawing, dancing, reading interesting books and magazines, watching TV, playing computer games, etc.).

At the age of six I went to school. After finishing secondary school I passed entrance exams to Kharkiv G.S. Skovoroda National Pedagogical University. Now I am a first-year student at the faculty of physics and mathematics (natural sciences, primary education).

We study six days a week. The students study in two shifts. My working day begins early: the first lecture starts at eight o’clock in the morning. We usually have three or four double periods with breaks between them. During these breaks students can go to the canteen to have a snack or have a look at the notice board. There we can read various kinds of notices, our time-table, to learn what is going on at the University, etc.

When our daily programme is over, some students hurry home, but some stay behind to read up for the next classes in the reading hall or to participate in social and academic work. The students take exams three times a year: in December, April and June. The number of exams is never greater than five.

We have holidays in winter, spring and summer. In summer students have a rest and work at various enterprises. Some of them spend their holidays working with children in summer camps.

I try to study well and take an active part in the social life of the faculty and the University.