What are you doing? – I am reading

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.