2. Mark stresses in the following words.

1). System, expensive, education, private, majority, population, infant, intelligence, proportion, junior, ability, examination, secondary, compulsory, qualification, mandatory, prestigious, tuition.

2). Rest-of-world, headquarter, best-known, shipbuilding, state-sector, limestone, state-run, coastline, twenty-four, citizenship, south-east, membership, north-east, schoolchildren.

3). To educate – education, to increase – increase, geography – geographical, to decrease – decrease, exam – examination, to finance – finance, responsible – responsibility, to report – report, industry – industrial, to import – import, agriculture – agricultural,

Grammar exercises

3. Write the following adjectives in the comparative and superlative degree.

1) high, cool, long, warm

2) big, wet, hot, thin

3) large, close

4) heavy, busy, dry, easy

5) popular, expensive, considerable, pleasant

6) good, bad, much, many, little, old

4. Use the correct form of the adjectives given in brackets.

1. Great Britain is the ninth (large) island in the world, and the (large) European island.

2. Great Britain is the fourth (populous) country in Europe.

3. The efficiency of education in Britain is much (high) than in many other countries.

4. The (big) the plan of an enterprise the (big) the profit it gets.

5. Economic historians are in agreement that onset of the Industrial Revolution is (important) event in the history of humanity.

6. The economу of GB is one of (large) national economу in the world.

7. Americans have (high) income per hour worked.

8. Oxford is as (famous) as Cambridge. But Oxford is (old) than Cambridge. It is one of the (old) and (prestigious) universities in the world.

9. The Tower is one of (ancient) buildings of London. It is visited as (often) as St. Paul’s Cathedral.

5. Form Participle I of the following verbs.

To divide, to begin, to go, to study, to take, to want, to pay, to enter, to leave, to fall, to rise, to perform.

6. Make the following sentences negative and interrogative. Ask special questions about the words in italics.

1. The students are translating the text.

2. The students were translating the text when the tutor came into the classroom.

3. At 10 o’clock the students will be translating the text.

7. Complete the following sentences using Continuous Tenses.

1. Great Britain (to give) economic assistance to developing countries.

2. We (to stay) in London for about a week.

3. All members of his party are sure he (to appointed) as a Prime Minister.

8. Open the brackets using the Active or the Passive Voice.

1. Britain’s schools (to divide) into state and private.

2. British children (to begin) to go to school at the age of 5.

3. Private schools in England (to pay) charges for.

4. The Government (to introduce) universal state education in 1870.

5. The majority of children (to teach) in state-sector schools.

6. Cambridge and Oxford (to attend) by graduates of grammar schools.

7. Compulsory education in Scotland first (to legislate) in 1496.

8. The fees for Scottish students (to abolish) in 2001.

9. Knowing foreign languages (to give) greater priority.