Exercise 1. Render the following sentences into the Past.

Model:

There is one student hostel at the University. There was one student hostel at the University.

 

1. There is no library at the University.

2. There is an amateur group at the University.

3. There are many computerized class-rooms at the University.

4. There are lectures every day.

5. There is a stadium at the University.

6. There are regional divisions in the towns of Feodosia and Genichesk.

7. There are not many laboratories with modern equipment at the University.

8. There is a Textile college and Preparatory Department at the University.

Exercise 2. Express your agreement with the following statements. Use the phrases:Certainly. It is really so. You are right. I agree with you.

Model:

There are four educational buildings at the University. Certainly, there are four educational buildings at the University.

 

1. There are many departments at the University.

2. There are full-time, correspondent and external forms of education at the University.

3. Among teaching staff there are professors, assistant-professors, doctors of science.

4. There are computerized class-rooms at the University.

5. There are three student hostels.

6. There were many sport facilities at the University.

7. There is a students’ scientific society at the University.

8. There was a post-graduate course at the University.

Exercise 3. Object to the sentences. Use the phrases:No, it is not so. I’m afraid you are wrong. I can’t agree with you.

Model:

There is a designing bureau at the University. No, it is not so, there is no designing bureau at the University. There was a museum at the University. No, it was not so, there was no museum at the University.

 

1. There were ten student hostel at the University.

2. There is a language laboratory at the University.

3. There is a forest near the University.

4. There are 365 days in a year.

5. There was a library at the University.

6. There are many departments at the University.

7. There are frosty days in summer.

8. There is students’ theatre at the University.