Упражнения

 

I.Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb to be. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. The meeting … to take place at 2.15 p.m. at our department in room 3515.

2. Jane … a second year postgraduate student.

3. There … no place like home.

4. The attack on the World Trade Center … one of the most observed catastrophes in history.

5. Next year I … 18.

6. My dad … a mining engineer.

7. I missed the lecture and seminar yesterday as … ill.

8. It … 7.20 a.m. It … time to have breakfast.

9. There … a lot work … done by the end of this week.

10. What … done can’t … undone.

11. When Mr. Pin entered the room the students … (talk in loud voices).

12. I … tired as I … all day long (to work).

13. The theory that almost everyone on Earth … to anyone else via a small number of acquaintances seems to hold true for e-mail, too (to connect).

14. My friend … to take entrance exams next summer.

15. Next autumn I … for 2 years at the Mining Institute (to study).

16. … retake an exam a third time? (to be allowed)

17. She … to fulfill this task as it … too difficult (to be able to).

 

II.Work in pairs. Tell your partner:

1. What your name is.

2. How old you will be next year.

3. What your address is.

4. What your home telephone (cell phone) number is.

5. What your Institute’s address is.

6. What the bus (tram, trolley-bus, Underground line) number is that you go by to get to the Mining Institute.

7. When you are to take term exams at the Institute in winter.

8. If you were able to take part in any sport (music, school subject) competitions.

9. If you will be allowed to buy a motorbike.

10. If you were tired after classes yesterday.

 

 

III.Read the following text and comment on different meanings of the verb to be used in it. Choose the answer from a)-e) which you think fits best according to the text. Pay attention to the words given bellow, read and memorize them.

 

A steam engine

 

Steam engine – паровая машина

Turn (v) [‘tз:n] – вращать, поворачивать, вращаться

Tube (n) [‘tju:b] – труба, трубка

 

Jet (n) [d et] – струя, поток

Pump (v) [p_۸mp] – качать, нагнетать

Tin (n) – олово

Pit – шахта, карьер, рудник

More than two thousand years ago, in Greece, a man built an engine driven by the power of steam. His name was Hero.

He made a hollow metal ball which could turn round. Out of the sides were two tubes. Water was boiled and jets of steam came out of the tubes.

The ball turned round in the opposite way to the jets of steam.

Hero’s steam engine was interesting, but it was not powerful enough to do any work. It did, however, show that steam like water and wind had energy.

It was not until about two thousand years ago that men learned how to use steam power.

One of the most famous inventors was James Watt. Even when he was a boy, he wanted to become an inventor. He would watch carefully all the things happening around him.

In the kitchen, he watched the steam from a boiling kettle lifting up the kettle lid. He thought that if steam could do this, then it might also work an engine.

James Watt became an engineer when he grew up. Many men were building steam engines and he worked on them too. They were used for pumping water from tin pits in Cornwall.

The early engines were very big and clumsy. James Watt invented engines which were more powerful and used less coal.

The new engines could do much more work than windmills and waterwheels. The world began to change as engines were built and coal mines were dug to get coal to drive them.

 

1. Where was the first power engine made?

a) In Russia. d) In Holland.

b) In Great Britain. e) In Italy.

c) In Greece.

2. Who was the inventor of the first steam engine?

a) James Watt. d) William Murdoch.

b) Hero. e) Richard Trevithick.

c) George Stephenson.

3. What made a hollow metal ball rotate?

a) Boiling water. d) Wind.

b) Jets of steam. e) Running water.

c) Fire.

4. When did people learn how to handle the power of steam?

a) No information is given in the text.

b) A century ago. d) About 2000 years ago.

c) About 2 centuries ago. e) About 20000 years ago.

5. Where were steam engines made use of when James Watt worked as an engineer in Cornwall?

a) In coal mines. d) In waterwheels.

b) In steamboats. e) In tin mines.

c) In windmills.

6. What was James Watt’s steam engine able to do?

a) To use more coal.

b) To produce less power.

c) To carry out much more work than machines worked by wind and water.

d) To dig coal from the bottom of the North Sea.

e) To lift the kettle kid.

 

Употребление глагола do (does; did, done)

 

Функция	Примеры
1. Смысловой глагол со значением делать, выполнять, проводить, осуществлять	I agree to do this work for you. We did a lot of experiments last month. Was that paper done in English?
2. Вспомогательный глагол при образовании вопросительной и отрицательной форм глаголов в Present и Past Indefinite	I do not understand you. Does she speak German? Did you do the test yesterday?
3. Заменитель глагола в Present и Past Indefinite. Употребляется с тем, чтобы не повторять его дважды	Mr. Bean works as hard as I do. My wife likes cookies and so do I.
4. При глаголе для усиления	Do stop smiling. The oldest uranium deposits do show an age reaching more than 4 billion years.
5. При инверсии в Present и Past Indefinite	Well do we remember his speech.