Pre-text exercises

1. Выберите правильную форму глагола:

My friend Ann (have, has) a large family. She (have, has) a father, a mother, a sister and two brothers. Her sister (is, are) only five years old. Her brothers (are, is) older than Ann. They (is, are) not schoolboys, they (is, are) students. They (have, has) a lot of friends at the University. Ann’s family (have, has) a three-room flat. It (are, is) large and comfortable.

2. Выберите правильную форму глагола am/am not; is/is not; are/are not:

1. I.... from Russia. 2. I... a student of the Russian State Vocational Pedagogic University. 3. Excuse me, how old... you? I... seventeen. 4. My friend... interested in computers. 4. His parents... around 40. 5. Yekaterinburg... situated on the Neva river. It... situated on the Iset river. 6. My father and my brother... both programmers. 7. I... keen on sports. But I... rather good at basketball. 8. Our University... young. 9. It … as large as the Urals State Technical University, but there … a lot of students in it as well. 10. There … part-time and full-time students here. 11. This... our dean. His name... N.N. 10. The dean’s office... on the first floor.

3. Поставьте следующие предложения в Past или Future Indefinite, добавляя, где необходимо, слова last/next week, last/next year, last/next month, tomorrow, yesterday.

1. We are first-year students now. 2. The students of our group are very busy today. 3. We have three or four lectures every day. 4. Mary is our monitor. 5. She is good at mathematics. 6. She is in the reading-room now. 7. It is quite possible for us to help him. 8. Today we have time to go to the cinema. 9. My knowledge of English is very poor. But my friend is a good student. His knowledge is better. 10. We are good friends. 11. There are twenty-five students in my group.

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1. It is a warm and sunny day today. 2. There is no sun in the sky and there are many clouds there. 3. There is a strong wind today and it is cold outside that’s why it is pleasant to stay indoors. 4. There is a good canteen on the ground floor. 5. There are many well-equipped laboratories at our University.

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1. I study six days a week. 2. I go to the University every day. 2. Usually I get up at seven o’clock. 3. My studies begin at eight o’clock. 4. After the third period my friend and I go to the canteen. 5. As a rule I leave the University after the fourth period. 6. At home I do my homework for the next day. 6. It takes me two or three hours to get ready for my practical classes. 7. On weekdays I watch television or read. 8. It is interesting but difficult to study at the University because we do not know how to organize our work and time.

4. Поставьте сказуемое в отрицательную форму:

1. I am a first-year student now. 2. Almost all of my friends were schoolchildren last year. 3. It was a very difficult year for us. 4. We got ready for our exams. 5. We had three entrance exams last summer. 6. I got excellent marks for my entrance exams and became a full-time student. 7.Yesterday we went to the University library. 8. The librarian gave us all the necessary books. 9. The greater part of our students study free of charge, but some of us study on a commercial basis.

5. Переведите предложения:

1.Our University was founded in 1979. 2. At first it was called the Sverdlovsk Engineer Pedagogic Institute. 3. In 2001 the University was given the Russian status. 4. Now it is called the Russian State Vocational Pedagogic University. 6. There are many computer classes here. 7. Many complex problems can be solved with the help of computers. 8. New specialities are suggested to our students. 9. Every year new laboratories are opened here. 10. The study of theory is accompanied by practical training. 11. Every summer students may be sent to plants and enterprises for industrial training. 12. A lot of basic subjects must be studied by the students to become qualified specialists. 13. New strategic tasks of the University development will be solved by collective efforts of the teaching staff and students. 14 The development of science is closely connected with the development of higher education. 15. Any country must be provided with good specialists in all branches of science and technology for its further development.

6. Поставьте все возможные вопросы к каждому предложению:

1. The academic year in this country's higher schools begins on the first of September. 2. Students take exams at the end of each semester. 3. Twice a year the students have vacations – two weeks in winter and two months in summer.

7. Преобразуйте следующие предложения в вопросительные и отрицательные:

1. University graduates are offered a wide choice of jobs. 2. This matter will be discussed only tomorrow. 3. We hope a solution will be found soon. 4. He was asked about his opinion of the new trends in software design. 5. The seminar was attended by all the students of our group. 6. At the university lectures and seminars are followed by examinations.

8. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на многозначность выделенных слов:

1. The men will ship the goods tomorrow. The captain will man his ship next month. 2. But me no buts. 3. Running a computer games business has become very popular lately. This man is responsible for running a computer business in this region. They run a very profitable business somewhere in South Africa. The teaching of industrial business was run as a commercial enterprise. 4. It is necessary to weigh one plan against the other. Before coming to a conclusion he weighed all the “pros” and “cons”. 6. While computers are becoming more and more complex, no computer has attained human intelligence so far. While computers can answer some questions better and quicker than man can, it is the man who must formulate the questions. While people can manage without computers, the reverse is not possible so far. While the number of electronic computers is constantly growing they are not used to full capacity because there is no adequate software. 7. He meets a lot of people every day. A lot of different peoples live in Asia. 8. Link is the hardware and/or software used to connect two or more systems. They link two main parts.

9. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на существительные в функции определения:

1. Argument force rather than force argument should dominate. 2. This approach is used for time and money saving purposes. 3. Such integrity was achieved by a combination of manual and computer based controls. 4. Procedure-oriented languages are usually related to a class of problem types. 5. The research team developed a new kind of information receiving system. 6. Another problem with Vnukovo is the quality and accessibility of phone services provided by the airport. Vnukovo management has installed special phone booths, which can be used with special phone cards sold in the airport. 7. Last week there was the Russian-Chinese investment forum in St. Petersburg.

10. Составьте предложения из данного набора слов, соблюдая порядок слов повествовательного предложения:

1. by, the first, Intel, was, in, microprocessor, 1969, designed.

2. innovations, is, new, of, each, technological, based, generation, on, computers.

3. requires, system, input, a computer, devices, devices, and, output.

4. the computer, the physical, are, as, known, components, of, hardware.

11. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на безличные обороты:

1. It is necessary to work at the language every day. 2. It is difficult for me to translate this text because I do not know the words. 3. It is impossible to answer your question. 4. It is quite possible for him to forget her telephone number. 5. It is easy for us to get to the University by tram or trolleybus. 6. It is late to go to the canteen because the lecture will begin in five minutes.

12. Переведите предложения на английский язык:

Я учусь на первом курсе. Студенты первого курса изучают математику, физику, химию, иностранный язык и некоторые другие предметы. Учиться на первом курсе трудно, потому что мы еще не умеем планировать свое время. Обычно у студентов дневного отделения нашего университета бывает три лекции в день или две лекции и лабораторная работа. Ежегодно мы пишем по две курсовых работы. Два раза в семестр мы сдаем внеаудиторное чтение по английскому языку. Обычно мы выбираем тексты из английских газет или журналов. Учебный год состоит из двух семестров. Каждый семестр завершается экзаменационной сессией, состоящей из зачетов и экзаменов. Студенты сдают экзамены дважды в год – обычно в декабре и июне. Как правило, студенты сдают не более пяти экзаменов во время сессии. Старшекурсники изучают предметы по выбранной специальности. Очень хорошей традицией Института информатики является то, что теория сопровождается практикой. Уровень преподавания в Институте информатики очень высок, поэтому нашим выпускникам легко найти работу. Лучшие выпускники, занимающиеся научными исследованиями, становятся аспирантами и продолжают учебу в аспирантуре.