II. Practice

Word order

Grammar

Word Combinations

Active Vocabulary

1. Прослушайте и повторите за диктором каждое слово.

2. Запомните эти слова.

1. Прочтите и запомните материал раздела 1.4.

Table 9.

A

1. Сгруппируйте и выпишите слова по указанным звукам и прочтите их.

[ei], [ou], [ju:], [ai], [i:].

take, foe, feet, due, side, faint, coat, mean, suit, lie, sail, goal, bee, cue, tie

2. Выпишите из каждой группы слов то, которое содержит указанный звук. Прочтите выписанные слова.

[ai] boat, pipe, sail, found;

[ei] pike, main, bound, sue;

[ju:] rain, suit, smoke, pie;

[ou] mute, boat, lie, mail;

[i:] fleet, tried, coin, suit.

3. Прочтите следующие слова.

a) take, faint, Spain, wave, game, wade;

grove, floe, coat, tone, hoe, float;

me, these, sea, screen, seeming, weak;

tube, huge, dues, cues, suitor, hue;

dive, dyke, tied, lye, tried, rye, lie.

b) same, scene, die, street, clean, vote, dye, hue, cue, cute, mate, mail, fine, liking, safe, mete, dyke, huge, fading, laid, feed, please, floes, stream, dye, tube

4. Прослушайте упражнения 1, 2, 3 и проверьте свое произношение.

B

1. Write where the objects in the room are and ask where they are.

2. Look at the pictures, write where the things are.

3. Answer the following questions in written form.

а) 1. Is he in the room? 2. Is Mr. N. in the classroom? 3. Is your mother at the University now? 4. Is your sister at home now? 5. Is she at the lecture now? 6. Are you at the cinema now? 7. Are you at the lesson now? 8. Are they in the hall now? 9. Are they at home now? 10. Were you at home in the evening yesterday? 11. Was your sister at school yesterday? 12. Were you at the cinema two days ago?

b) 1. Where are you now? 2. Where were you yesterday? 3. Where were you in summer? 4. Where is N. now? 5. Where is your house?

c) 1. When were you at the concert? 2. When were you in the foreign language laboratory? 3. When was she in the Chaikovsky Hall? 4. When were you at the theatre?
5. When were you at the cinema? 6. When was Mr. N. at a sports camp?

d) 1. What is on the table? 2. What is in your hand? 3. What is in the room?

e) 1. What book is on the table? 2. What newspaper is on the shelf? 3. What carpet is on the floor in your room? 4. What scheme is on the wall?

f) 1. Who is in the room? 2. Who is at the lecture now? 3. Who is in the street now?

4. Write where these places of interest in Moscow are.

Red Square; the Kremlin; the Palace of Congresses; the Bolshoy Theatre; Moscow State University; the Historical Museum; the Tretyakov Picture Gallery; the Museum of Fine Arts.

5. Listen to the dialogues and learn them.

Let's go for a walk.

That's fine.

Are you ready?

Yes, I'm almost ready.

Where are my shoes?

Your shoes are under the bed.

Oh, yes. They're here. And where's my coat?

Your coat's in the entrance-hall.

Where's my hat?

Look, your hat's on the head!

And my glasses?

On your nose.

Oh, yes, here they are.

It is cold today.

Is it?

I believe so.

So, let's stay at home.

Settled.

6. Put all possible questions to the following sentences.

1. He was at the lecture two hours ago. 2. I was at home in the evening. 3. He is in his office now. 4. They were at the cinema a week ago. 5. This monument is in the middle of the square.
6. The cigarettes are on the little table.

7. Listen to the text and repeat after the speaker.

Teacher: What country are you from, Mr. A., and what is your language?

Mr. A.: I am from Poland; I speak Polish, I am a Pole, my language is Polish.

Teacher: What country are you from, Mr. B.?

Mr. B: I am from Italy; I speak Italian.

Teacher: What country are you from, Miss C.?

Miss C.: I come from Mexico: I speak Spanish.

Teacher: What are you, Mr. D.? Are you Spanish?

Mr. D.: No I am not a Spaniard; I am a Portuguese.

Teacher: Are you Swedish, Miss E.?

Miss E.: No, I am not Swedish; I come from Denmark; I am a Dane; my language is Danish.

Teacher: Where are you from Mr. F.?

Mr. F.: I come from Holland; I am a Dutchman. I speak Dutch; my language is Dutch.

Miss G.: I come from France, from Paris. I am French, a Parisian. My language is French. My friend Olga comes from Finland; she is Finnish. She speaks Finnish; her language is Finnish.

Mr. H.: My brother and I come from Greece; our country is Greece. We both speak the same language – Greek; our language is Greek.

9. Write down from the above text the names of the countries, nationalities and languages and translate them.