3. Exercises

3.1. Present in written form and learn by heart the four forms of the following verbs. Make sure that you know their meaning.

Be, become, begin, come, go, have, make, mean, say, speak, travel, tell, find, show, take, understand, wake, meet.

3.2. Give examples from the text of the verbs in The Past Simple Tense Form.

For example:

had – the past simple of «have».

3.3. Find in the text the English for:

Англо-говорящий, в стороне (отдельно), такие как, открыть (обнаружить), различать, называть, соответственно, мост, другой путь, прозвище.

3.4. Fill in the blanks with «to be»:

1. I … from London.

2. These … my students.

3. She … like a walking dictionary.

4. It … a very noble profession.

5. I … fond of singing.

6. They … great friends.

7. She … a shy fish.

8. Lily … full of joy and energy.

3.5. Fill in the blanks with «to have»:

1. I … many questions to ask you.

2. She … an excellent taste in everything.

3. I … neither sisters nor brothers.

4. She … not a large family.

5. I … many relatives.

6. He … many friends in the United State.

7. You … an English dictionary.

3.6. Use the pronouns instead of the nouns.

1. Irene Green reads much.

2. Her brother is interested in sciences.

3. Julia Johnson is going to be a journalist.

4. Julia and Laura can talk well about everything.

5. My friend likes sport very much.

6. Betty is good at painting.

7. Sheila Shelton does not talk much.

3.7. Use the singular of the nouns.

1. These are my fellow-students.

2. Both his sisters are doctors.

3. My group-mates are happy to be students.

4. His favourite writers are R. Kipling and E. Hemingway.

5. The children have a lot of books.

6. My friends have a rich private collection of paintings.

7. Those women have much work to do about the house. They have their hands full the whole day.

3.8. Compose the questions to the underlined words:

1. My name is Jane.

2. I come from London.

3. You are a first-year student.

4. You are going to be an engineer.

5. Laura talks well about the weather and music.

6. In my dreams I travel to the United States and Canada.

7. I would like to meet people from different countries.

Unit 2

Great britain Conversational task

1. Wordcheck

Make sure that you know the meaning of the following words and word combinations:

1) international words:

chemicals (n) climate (n) electronics (n) export (n),(v) exporter(n) industry(n) intellectual (a) machinery (n) monarchy (n) navigation (n) occupy (v) parliament (n) population (n) produce (v) producer (n) territory (n) textile (n)

2) active vocabulary:

aircraft (n) chamber (n) develop (v) equipment (n) elect (v) ensure (v) island (n) plain (n) ruling (a) shipbuilding surface (n) urban (n) vast (a) vary (v)

самолет(ы), авиация палата развивать(ся) оборудование избирать голосование обеспечивать, гарантировать остров равнина правящий судостроение поверхность городской огромный, обширный отличаться

3) geographical terms.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Соединенное Королевство Великобритании и Северной Ирландии

England Scotland Wales The British Isles The Atlantic Ocean London The English Channel

Англия Шотландия Уэльс Британские острова Атлантический океан Лондон Ла-Манш