Владимир Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 1 курс

cassette-recorder.

X. Fill in the missing modal verbs:

1. You ... go out today. It's too cold. 2. Д-Д take your fountain-pen? — Do,

please. 3. We not carry^the bookcase upstairs. It is too heavy. 4. When ... you

come to see us? — I come only tomorrow. 5. Shall I write a letter to him? —

No, you it is not necessary. 6. Mary finish the work at once. 7; :ь you cut

something without a knife? 8. Peter ../return the book to the library. We all

want to read it. 9. Why'.//* not you understand it? It is so easy. lOuu we do the

exercise at once? 1 l/rfЈl)you pronounce this sound?

XI.

a) Write sentences according to the following models using the

words and word combinations given below.

M o d e l 1: Let's begin our morning exercises.

read the text; write on the blackboard; do the exercises; speak to the dean.

M o d e l 2: Shall I write it in transcription ?

clean the blackboard; bring some chalk; do my homework; answer your

question; spell the noun; press the button; pronounce it.

M o d e l 3: Listen to the new song.

the teacher; your fellow-students; the radio, the story; the text; the tune;

the cassette-recorder; the actor.

M o d e l 4: Look at the clock.

the picture; the house; the blackboard; the bird; the child; the lamp; the

cup; the plate.

b) Give sentences of your own using the same models.

c) Make up micro-dialogues, as in the following models. Use the above-

mentioned words and word combinations. Give short answers. Add a sentence or

two of your own.

M o d e l 1: Let's begin our morning exercises.

Yes, let's. (I'm afraid I can't.) In half an hour we must have breakfast.

M o d e l 2 : Shall I write it in transcription?

Do, please. (No, you needn't.) We are to discuss it then.

M o d e l 3 ; Let's listen to the new song.

I'd love to. I'm fond of folk songs.

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M o d e l 4 : Look at the clock.

Oh, it's beautiful (lovely, ugly, etc.). I'd like to have one.

XII.

a) Make up sentences on the following model. Make your sentences

interrogative and negative.

M o d e l ; We have got skates.

b) Express your surprise at the given statements as in the model.

M o d e l : I have got a cassette-recorder.

Have you really got a new one?

c)

Respond to the same statements in the negative.

M o d e l : I have got a new cassette-recorder.

That can't be true. You haven't got any (cassette-recorder).

XIII.

Make up sentences according to the model.

M o d e l : This apple is mine.

XIV.

Translate the following into English using classroom expressions:

1. Кто сегодня дежурный? — Елена. Сегодня кого-нибудь нет? — Да.

Трех студентов нет. 2. Никто сегодня не отсутствует. Все девять

студентов сегодня здесь. 3. Виктор здесь? — Нет, он отсутствует. 4. Какое

сегодня число? — 15 октября. 5. Можно задать вам вопрос? —

Пожалуйста. — Где комната № 48? — Я не могу ответить на ваш вопрос.

Спросите, пожалуйста, секретаря. 6. Как

по-английски «наушники» («письменный стол», «палатализация»)? 7.

Включить магнитофон? — Да, пожалуйста. Выключить магнитофон? —

Нет, подождите немного. Мне начинать читать? — Да. Стереть с доски?

— Пожалуйста. Открыть окно? — Нет, не надо. Прочитать это

предложение снова? — Да, пожалуйста. 8. Читайте громче, пожалуйста.

Говорите громче, пожалуйста. Пойте громче, пожалуйста. Достаточно. 9.

Повторите предложение два раза. Прочтите текст три раза. 10. Давай

пойдем в деканат во время перерыва. Давай исправим ошибки в

диктанте. 11. Не принесете ли вы классный журнал (мел, тряпку список

студентов, наушники)?

12.

Вы можете сделать это упражнение сегодня? — Да. Вы

можете написать текст сегодня? — Нет. Я не могу написать текст

сегодня.

13.

Эти упражнения трудны. Повторите их. Эти тексты легкие.

Вам незачем повторять их. 14. Можете садиться (идти, начинать читать).

15. Продолжайте читать (писать, говорить, работать). 16. Тише,

пожалуйста. Занятие не окончено. Сколько времени до звонка? — Только

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две минуты. 17. Как произносится слово «палатализация»

(«транскрипция», «оглушение»)? 18. Как пишется слово

«произношение» («журнал», «достаточно», «отвечать»)? 19.

Поставьте вопросы к тексту. 20. Не подсказывайте, пожалуйста. 21.

Сдайте тетради, пожалуйста. 22. Сначала поставьте кассету, а затем

включите магнитофон. 23. А теперь, пожалуйста, перемотайте кассету.

24. У вас есть занятия в пятницу? — Да, есть, но они кончаются рано. 25.

Можно Бобу не ходить в школу сегодня? — Нельзя. Он должен идти в

школу. 26. Попробуйте еще раз и читайте громче.

XV.

a) Write the following numerals in words:

395, 745, 1950, 13 408, 282 867, 345 296, 5 712 133.

b) Read the following numerals:

273, 1882, 19 176, 30 016, 55 744,81 614, 389 107,6 271 398.

XVI.

a) Ask your fellow-student for permission ...

to go out; to come in; to open the window; to take the newspaper; to read;

to go home; to begin reading; to close the door.

(The person you ask must give any o f the following answers:

Certainly. You may. Do, please. I'm afraid not. You mustn't.)

M o d e l : May I speak to the dean? — You may. May I

leave now? — I'm afraid not.

b) Give your permission to perform the actions given above.

M o d e l : You may speak to the dean.

c) Ask your fellow-students to perform the actions given above. Don't forget to

be polite.

M o d e l : Speak to the dean, please. (Will you speak to the dean?)

d) Ask your fellow-students not to perform the actions given above.

M o d e l : Please, do not smoke here.

XVII.

Arrange short dialogues using modal verbs.

M o d e l s : 1. May I take your pencil? — I'm afraid not, I need it.

Have you got a pen? — Yes, I have. — May I take it? — Certainly. (Of

course, you may.)

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2. Can you come to see us tonight? — Sorry, I can't, but I can come

tomorrow. — All right.

3. Shall (must) I read this exercise once more? — No, you needn't. That

will do. Your reading is quite good.

XVIII.

Write a short description of your classroom using the construction there

is, there are.

XVIII. Act as a teacher of English. Ask your pupils:

1. to clean the blackboard; to use the duster; to bring some chalk; 2. to tell

you the date; to write it on the board; not to stand in front of the board; 3. to

come up to your desk; to read the text; not to go so fast; to go to his place; 4.

to check homework; to correct the pronunciation or spelling of some word; 5.

to collect the exercise-books and to hand them in; 6. to switch on the cassette-

recorder; to listen to the text; 7. to wind (play) it back; to switch off the

cassette-recorder; 8. to have another try and read distinctly.

XX.

Stage a dialogue between a teacher and a student using class-

room expressions:

1. beginning a lesson; 2. checking homework; 3. reading the text; 4.

writing on the blackboard; 5. listening to the cassette-recorder; 6. giving

homework.

ADDITIONAL PHONETIC EXERCISES

1. Read the exercises several times before the minor.

2. Record your reading and listen to it, detect your errors.

3. Listen to your fellow-student reading the exercises. Detect his errors in

sounds and intonation and tell him what he must do to get rid of them:

'traisl

э feimss xsaiantist

'kwaist

э -> freigrant xvai3lit

'taiarant

э -> k3uld Jaus

ad'maia

э kltn xtau9l

di'zais

э -> frAntxvau9l

LABORATORY WORK

I. Repeat the sentences after the tape.

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II. a) Listen to the questions and record your answers in the intervals, b) Listen to

the key and correct your mistakes.

II. a) Make the given sentences interrogative and negative. Record your

sentences, b) Check your sentences with the key.

III.

a) Make questions beginning with Where ... to the given statements, b) Make

questions beginning with When ... to the given statements, c) Make questions

beginning with Why ... to the given statements, d) Make questions beginning with

Whom ... or To whom ... to the given statements.

IV. Listen to the sentences. Supply short questions expressing surprise, doubt.

V. Listen to the sentences. Change the construction using the absolute form of the

possessive prononns.

M o d e l : This is her coat. — This coat is hers.

VII.

Compose sentences on the model using have got or has got

VII.

Translate the sentences into English.

VII.

Listen to the disjunctive questions. They are not true to fact. Correct them.

X. Listen to the poem "The Arrow and the Song" by H. W. Longfel-