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Exercise 3 Find synonyms among the following words.

To be well-known, to be all right, to come, a correspondent, a lot of, to be proceeded, proverbs, many, to join, to make, to do, famous, to remember, a journalist, the right man, to recall, to assist, to separate, to get divorced, a saying, o visit, to come across, to meet somebody, to unite, to be well, to be followed by, the appropriate person, to help.

Exercise 4 Write a summary of the text, presenting the content of each paragraph in 2-3 sentences. Use the expressions:

The main idea of the text is... The text deals with one of the most important (urgent) issues... Much attention (consideration) is given to (classification, description)... It focuses on the matters of... The text gives an overview of... The text is mainly concerned with... The aim of the survey is to show (demonstrate, find)... Particular emphasis is given to the analysis of… The text gives a detailed analysis of (reports on)... To sum up... In conclusion...


Индивидуальное задание для студентов заочного отделения к курсу

«Английский язык»

Вариант № 5/1c

Exercise 1 Read the text and translate it in written form.

Prominent people of Russia: Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)

Mikhail Lomonosov is the father of the Russian science and one of the most famous universities in the world. Lomonosov was born in 1711 in Arkhangelsk province. He began to read when he was a little boy. He always wanted to study and when he was nineteen he went to Moscow. He entered the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy and six years later, in 1736, he was sent abroad to complete his studies in Chemistry and mining. Lomonosov worked hard and became a great scientist. He was the first Russian academician; Lomonosov opened the first Russian chemistry lab. He was a physicist, a painter, an astronomer, a geographer, a historian and a statesman. In 1755 Mikhail Lomonosov founded Moscow University which is now Moscow State University named after him. Mikhail made research in electricity, gravity and the character of colour. Lomonosov was also the author of many odes and poems. He also published a lot of scientific works, including the first book on Russian grammar. Lomonosov died in 1765 but people still remember him.


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