Exercise 4. Read and translate the words. Mind the suffixes.
a ) –er, -or
to teach – teacher; to report – reporter; to record – recorder; to translate – translator; to speak – speaker; to learn – learner; to lead – leader, to command – commander; to correct – corrector; lecture – lecturer.
b ) – ation
to dictate-dictation; to translate – translation; to correct – correction; to inform – information; to combine – combination; attentive – attention.
c) – ence/ent
presence – present; absence – absent.
Exercise 5. Translate the following compound nouns.
A first-year student, ear-phone, tape-recorder, notebook, blackboard, classroom, exercise-book, sick-list, serviceman.
Exercise 6. Make sure you know the following word-combinations.
To look through the group register, to retell the text, to make up the dialogue, to answer teacher’s questions, to correct mistakes, to do grammar exercises, to write test papers, to collect exercise-books, to work hard, to switch on the tape-recorders, to take a credit.
Exercise 7. Make up sentences.
The students is looking through dialogue
We are making up the group register
The teacher are doing our exercise-books
He is retelling grammar exercises
Student-on is collecting our mistakes
Duty is correcting the text
is giving marks for the test
Exercise 8. Read the text.