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1^st year

Grammar

Laboratory work 1

Present Tenses

Task 1. “Every Day” ( Streamline Departures, Unit 33)

1) Listen and repeat twelve sentences about Alan. Pay attention to the way the endings of the verbs in the 3^rd person singular are pronounced. Write down the sentences and answer the questions. Give full answers.

1. What does Alan do?

2. How old is Alan?

3. How many days a week does he work?

4. What time does he get up?

5. What does he eat for breakfast?

6. What does he drink?

7. What does he do after breakfast?

8. What time does he leave for work?

9. Where does he have lunch?

10. What time does he come home?

11. Where does he go in the evening?

12. What time does he go to bed?

2) Now ask and answer similar questions about these people. Use the prompts.

Judith

1. secretary

2. 18

3. the office/5 days a week

4. 7.30

5. nothing

6. orange juice

7. parents

8. the office/ 8.15

9. in the canteen

10. home/ 5.30

11. evening classes

12. 11 o’clock

Peter and Paul

1. schoolboys

2. 12

3. school/ 5 days a week

4. 8.00

5. cornflakes

6. milk

7. mother

8. school/ 8.45

9. at school

10. home/ 4.00

11. television

12. 9 o’clock

Cecil

1. playboy

2. 42

3. not/work/5 days a week

4. 11.00

5. caviar

6. vodka

7. fifth wife

8. the pub/ 12.00

9. in a pub

10. not/ come home

11. casino

12. 5 am

3) Write twelve sentences about Cecil.

Task 2. “What’s My Job?” ( Streamline Departures, Unit 34)

1) Listen and pay attention to the intonation of general questions. Write the questions and the answers down. Practice their reading.

2) Imagine you are a participant of this show and you must guess the job of a competitor. You know he might be an electrician, a teacher, an artist, a secretary, a dancer, or a bank manager. Prepare nine general questions you are going to ask to guess his job.

Task 3. “Never on Sunday” ( Streamline Departures, Unit 35)

1) Listen to the conversation between Mr. Benson and Vicar and write down what Mr. Benson or Mrs. Benson always, never, sometimes, usually does. Pay attention to the place of adverbs of frequency in a sentence.

2) Listen to the speakers, pay attention to the meaning of adverbs of frequency and their place in the sentences. Repeat the situations after the speakers, write them down (7 situations) and recite two of them by heart.

3) Make up sentences following the example.

e.g. He/ sometimes/ football. – He sometimes plays football.

1. They/ often/ potatoes

2. She/ usually/ skirt

3. I/ never/ hat

4. He/ occasionally/ radio

5. Our friends/ always/ cinema

6. We/ rarely/ classes

7. You/ never/ cigarettes

8. The cat/ sometimes/ on the bed

9. Mary/ often/ films

4) Tell about yourself using adverbs of frequency.

e.g. coffee – I never drink coffee or I often drink coffee

1. television

2. golf

3. spaghetti

4. wine

5. caviar

6. a newspaper

7. cinema

8. new clothes

9. tie

10. pop music

Task 4. “Can You Help Me?” ( Streamline Departures, Unit 22)

1) Listen to the conversation and tell why nobody can help Thomas with his English.

2) Pay attention to the intonation of special questions; write them and the answers down, then practice their reading.

3) George is lonely and unhappy. His friends are busy today. Using the prompts tell what they are doing, choose the participle I you need.

Mr. Smith/ his car

Mary / a letter

Mr. and Mrs. Jones/ television

Bob / a letter

Arthur and Mike / a box

Mrs. Brown/ the dishes

Tony / beer

drinking, watching, carrying, writing, typing, cleaning, washing

Task 5. “Every Day Conversation” ( Streamline Departures, Unit 23)

1) Listen to the conversation, write it down, then learn it by heart.

2) Act out similar situations using the prompts below.

a dance / Sunday

a picnic / Monday

a pop concert / Tuesday

a football match / Wednesday

a party / Thursday

a café / Friday

Task 6. “At the Cinema” ( Streamline Departures, Unit 25)

1) Pay attention to the following words, consult their pronunciation and meaning in a dictionary

cashier

queue

round the bend

2) Listen to the situations and answer the questions in writing. Give full answers.

A

Where’s Peter standing?

Who’s he waiting for?

What’s he looking at?

Why is he looking at his watch?

Who’s coming out of the cinema?

Who’s going into the cinema?

Who’s buying a ticket?

Where are the people queuing?

B

Where’s Peter now?

Who’s he with?

Where’s he sitting?

Who’s sitting in front of him?

What’s the lady wearing?

Who’s sitting behind him?

What’s the man smoking?

Why is Lulu unhappy?

C

Where’s the girl lying?

What’s she shouting?

Why is she shouting?

Is the train near?

Can you see the train?

Where is it?

3) Learn one of the situations by heart and recite it following the speaker’s intonation.

Task 7. Exercise 10, page 50 (Enterprise 2, Elementary)

1) Read Danny’s list of chores and look at the picture. Tell what he has already done and what he hasn’t done yet. Pay attention to the use and the place of the adverbs already and yet in the sentence. Write down the sentences.

• make bed

• clean window

• put books on shelves

• hang clothes in wardrobe

• remove dirty cups

• pick papers up off the floor

Task 8. Exercise 12, page 50 (Enterprise 2, Elementary)

1) Listen to the noises and number the events in the order you hear them. Then use the prompts to tell what has just happened. Pay attention to the place of the adverb just in the sentences.

Write down the sentences.

• He/ fall/ in the water

• He/ break/ window

• She/ drop/ vase

• Plane/ take off

• He/ hit/ finger

• Car/ crash/ into the parking meter

Task 9. Exercise 13, page 50 (Enterprise 2, Elementary)

1) Joanne and her husband have recently moved into a new house. Listen and tick what they’ve done so far.

• paint the walls__

• hang the curtains__

• lay the carpets__

• repair the back door__

• buy all the furniture__

• put up shelves__

• tidy the garden__

• mend the fence__

2) Now tell what they’ve already done, and what they haven’t done yet. Pay attention to the use and the place of the adverbs already and yet in the sentence. Write down the sentences.

Task 10. “Have You Ever…?” ( Streamline Departures, Unit 67)

1) Listen to the conversations. Pay attention to the use of the Present Perfect and the Past Simple. Write down the conversations; practice their reading paying attention to the intonation of general and special questions. Learn two of them by heart.