2015-08-21
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| The tutor wanted us to work | to hate | to |
| thoroughly at the topic. | to like | do |
| to mean | smth |
The structure is used to denote intention, wish, likes.
Note: The structure with the verbs THINK, BELIEVE is used in written
speech, e.g. They believed him to be a promising scientist.
Ex. 1. Transform the following sentences (to be done in writing).
Model: I hate it when you tease the child.
I hate you to tease the child. I won't have you tease the child.
1. When he quarrels with his sister, I dislike it.
2. When people speak at the top of their voices, I hate it.
3. I think it is a shame, when you idle away your time.
4. When you smoke here, I dislike it.
5. If the child is naughty, I'm displeased.
6. I hate it when you tell a lie.
7. If people bang the door, I disapprove of it.
8. If people interrupt me, I object to it.
9. When he is rude, I can hardly stand it. 10.1 hate it when people disturb me at work.
11.1 dislike it when people fuss about everything.
12.1 hate it when people are messy.
Ex.2. Transform the following complex sentences into simple ones (to be
done in writing).
1. They think that he is a good conductor.
2. We believe that he is just the actor for this role.
3. I expect that he will arrive on Sunday.
4. I never knew that he was so good at grammar.
5. She thinks that these rules are too difficult to learn.
6. We expect that you will be ready by this time.
7. Do you believe that he will be ready to perform that role without fail?
8. I never thought that he was so willing to accept your offer.
9. None thought that he was a talented composer.
10. The travellers expected that the weather would change by the evening. 11.The tutor expected that I would work regularly.
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Ex.3. Expand the following sentences by introducing Structure VIII (to I» done orally).
1. You like the treatment prescribed by the doctor.
2. She is unhappy about her marriage.
3. His health improves from day to day.
4. When we dropped in at the Greens' our friends were at home, surprisinc though it was.
5. The ring is made of gold.
6. Jane had her eyes glued to the screen - she was completely carried away by the film.
7. My grandfather met Maxim Gorky.
8. The situation grew worse.
9. He was a versatile and gifted actor.
lO.The mountains have vast stores of minerals.
Note: The same idea (as implied in structures with the verbs TO KNOW, TO BELIEVE) can be expressed without an infinitive with the causative verbs TO THINK, TO FIND, TO LIKE, e.g. He likes his tea hot. We thought him shrewd. I found her exciting.
Ex. 1.Rephrase the following sentences with evaluative adjectives using "to expect smb. to be + A"
Model: A good manager must be efficient, responsible and success- „ oriented.
We expect a good manager to be efficient, responsible and success-oriented.
1. A secretary must be reliable, efficient and well-organized.
2. A writer ought to be creative, intelligent and experienced in life.
3. A model has to be exciting, tall and hard-working.
4. A good doctor ought to be kind, competent and professional.
5. A perfect hairdresser has to be polite, creative and friendly.
6. A politician has to be enthusiastic, popular, have a good reputation and talent for speaking in public.
7. A reporter should be brave, intelligent and have a good memory and a quickmind.
8. A good lawyer must be competent, professional and fair-minded.
9. A good colleague must be reliable, efficient and broad-minded.
10. A good monitor must be responsible, accurate and strict.
Ex.2. Describe your favourite relative, neighbour, classmates using a variety of evaluative nouns and adjectives.
Ex.3. Rephrase the following sentences with evaluative adjectives using "to hate/to dislike smb. to be + A"
Model: A good surgeon must not be messy, nervy and absent-minded. Patients hate the surgeon to be messy, nervy and absent-minded.
1. A politician should not be dishonest, many-worded and hypocritical.
2. A teacher mustn't be fussy, impatient and unfriendly.
3. A teenager shouldn't be messy, smart and aggressive.
4. A professional boxer has to be athletic, striven and challenging.
5. A good nurse mustn't be negligent, fussy and messy.
6. A student mustn't be impolite, unpunctual, tactless.
7. A doctor must be obliging, attentive, polite.
8. A driver mustn't be careless, too much risky, abusive.
9. A waitress must be polite, tactful, well-bred.
10.A shop-assistant should be attractive, polite, pleasant to deal with. Ex.4. Present the given utterances as somebody's opinion. Follow the patterns and prompts (to be done orally).
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1. "She is very nice, actually. You are sure to like her. The kind of person you always go to with a problem", (sympathetic, supportive, reliable) A girl about her acquaintance.
2. "I can't stand her. She is everything I don't like in a woman. She's bossy, she is superior and she thinks she can do everything better than anybody else", (self-conceited, unpleasant to deal with) The boss about his subordinate.
3. "She is fine. Very happy since she met Bernard. You will actually like her". The aunt about her niece.
4. "She is quite good-looking: the kind of girl you go for. But she is a bit too serious for me, you know. She talks politics, literature, human rights". A boy about his new girl-friend.
5. "She is absolutely adorable. 1 think she is very pretty. She makes me laugh a lot. She tells terrible jokes but I like the way she tells them. But she is a bit naughty sometimes. I curse her when she wakes me up at 6 in the morning, but when I hear her sing in the kitchen, well...She can twist me around her little finger, of course". A newly-wed husband about his better half.
6. "He was very boring, predictable, nothing spontaneous. He made you angry. The kind of person who remembers birthdays, dates, anniversaries. Reliable, stable, dependable but boring!" A mother-in-law about her son-in-law.
7. "Well, he is quite well-dressed and punctual. He seems very professional. Sometimes he is cheerful. I know he's married. I never met him socially". A lady about her neighbour.
8. "I've never actually spoken to him. I see him every day, of course as he leaves his car and goes in the lift to his office on the top floor. He's always terribly well-dressed and he must be wearing an expensive after-
shave because you can still smell it 10 minutes after he's gone". A colleague about her male colleague.
(Based on tapescripts 14,15 "Headway")
