Lexical exercises

Exercise 1. Translate the sentences using active vocabulary.

1. They find English reserve pleasant. 2. I fоund a book extremely difficult. 3. The conclusion turned out to be false. 4. How did the game turn out? 5. He turned out an excellent actor. 6. Не was keen to begin the conversation. 7. She is very keen on music. 8. He is keen on her.

Exercise 2. Match pairs of synonyms.

humour, uncommunicative, honest, similar, faults, decency

reserved, truthful, modesty, alike, mistakes, temper

Exercise 3. Guess the meaning of the following word-combination:

to display modesty, false modesty, without false modesty; honest girl, honest opinion, honest to God; through smb's fault; black humour, infectious

Exercise 4. Match English and Russian equivalents.

some general things чувство юмора

the best known quality наиболее известное качество

reserve несколько общих качеств

to make a journey by train смеяться над собой

an empty compartment сдержанность

to share the compartment with a stranger личные вопросы

without starting a conversation путешествовать поездом

personal questions пустое купе

modesty скромность

sense of humour делить купе с незнакомым человеком

to laugh at oneself не начиная разговор

Exercise 5. Open the brackets, put the infinitives into the Present Simple Tense and translate the sentences into Russian.

1. English people (to be) very different. 2. But they (to have) some general features. 3. English people (to be) reserved people. 4. They (not to talk) very much to a stranger. 5. They (not to show) much emotion. 6. They never (to speak) very much about themselves. 7. English people (to be) very modest. 8. They (to have) a specific sense of humour. 9. They can (to laugh) at their own faults.

Text 1

Exercise 1. Read the text, translate it and do the exercises.