Classroom activities (7)

VOCABULARY EXTENSION

40. Complete the sentences with the derivatives of the words given in the box:

dominate commit

create estimate

confide bias

1. The project will _____________ up to 60 new jobs. 2. The motorway should aid the _____________ of new business in the area. 3. She’s the writer’s greatest comic _____________. 4. She has always had a very ______________ mind and excelled at subjects such as Art and English Literature. 5. The Antarctic ice-cap is ________________ to contain 90% of the world’s fresh water. 6. The election campaign was _______________ by the issue of unemployment. 7. As has already been suggested, their record does not inspire __________________. 8. The party leader showed a deep __________________ to feminist principles. 9. The judge was ___________ in favour of the second candidate, who was educated at the same college as himself.

41. Translate into Russian.

1. At a rough estimate there are about 6000 people in the crowd. 2. The team has dominated international football for years. 3. The right hand is dominant in most people. 4. The government is firmly committed to its nuclear energy programme, and is very unlikely to change its policy. 5. In a perfect world we’d choose judges who are not politically biased. 6. Most western history books are strongly biased against non-European nations. 7. The government adopted a new job-creation scheme. 8. When polite requests failed he resorted to threats.

GRAMMAR EXERCISES

42. Complete the sentences as shown in the model. Pay particular attention to the use of Participle (a) and Gerund (b). Let your fellow-students ask questions.

Model: – a) Deciding not to go any further that day, …

Deciding not to go any further that day, Fred pulled

up at the nearest hotel. – Why did he pull up at the

nearest hotel?

– b) Deciding on where to spend one’s honeymoon …

Deciding on where to spend one’s honeymoon can be a

difficult matter. – What can be a difficult matter?

1. a) Looking hard at the student, … b) Looking at pictures in art-galleries … 2. a) Reading between the lines, … b) Reading aloud … 3. a) Trying desperately to reach home before nightfall, … b) Trying to teach your own children … 4. a) Swimming strongly and confidently, … b) Swimming in cold water … 5. a) While digging the foundations of the house, … b) Digging in the garden in hot weather … 6. a) While doing his homework, … b) His always doing things in a hurry … 7. a) Finding himself short of petrol, … b) Finding the best way of doing things … 8. a) Calling on a friend late one night, … b) Your calling on us just at this time …

43. Complete the sentences with not or without using either Participle I or Gerund.

Model: a) Not recognizing me Paul passed by. (Why?)

b) He looked at me without recognizing me. (How?)

1. Linda left home ________ telling anyone. 2. At first she felt ill at ease at party ________ knowing anyone. 3. James received the news about his dismissal calmly ________ complaining to anybody. 4. I was rather taken aback when Martha passed by ________ even saying ‘Hello’ to me. 5. The new employee kept silent ________ wishing to attract the manager’s attention. 6. ________ having warned anybody about his arrival, Neil couldn’t get in touch with his counterpart on his first day in Moscow. 7. I hate them arriving at our place ________ warning me in advance. 8. ________ finding me at home, he dialed my office number.

TEXT 2

Cross-cultural Notes:

1. Arthur Hailey (1920 – 2004) – a British/Canadian novelist whose books reached the top line on the New York Times bestseller list. More than 170 million copies have been sold worldwide in 40 languages. Many have been screened and Hotel was made into a long-running television series.

2. executive suite [swi:t] – 1. the offices and other rooms used by an organisation’s chief executive or by high-level management; 2. a hotel suite equipped with amenities for a business executive.

3. ' bellboy – a manwhose job is to carry people’s bags to their room in a hotel.

4. to pros ' pect – to search for gold, oil and other valuable substance.

5. to mine – to dig a large hole or tunnel in the ground in order to get gold (coal, etc.), or to take gold (coal, etc.) from such a hole or tunnel.

6. ' oxidized ['OksIdaIzd] rock – combined with oxygen (oxidized), rock often looks rusty; in certain cases rust serves as protective coating on gold contained in the rock.

7. a pan – a large flat container with holes or a wire net in the bottom used for separating gold from other substances by washing them in water / to pan – to try to find small pieces of gold from other substances in the ground using water.