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Exercise 1
I Answer the following questions:
1.Which of the subjects you study do you like most?
2.Which do you find more difficult: physics or mathematics?
3.Which is more suitable for you: to go to classes in the
morning or in the afternoon?
4.Which season of the year do you like most?
5.Which music do you like more: light music or the classical
one?
6.Which is more available to you: theatre or cinema?
II Put questions to the words in bold type.
1.Progress
is made in the world of science every day
.
2.The University of
Alasgo was founded in 1451.
3.Four exams have been taken by the first-year students.
4.This new method is studied
by him.
5.In winter the
earth is covered with snow.
6.Television is watched by children
during the children’s
hour.
7.The first question is the most significant.
8.They were met by their friends.
III Open the brackets using the verb in the past Indefinite Tense
Forms.
1.Anar … late yesterday and … time for breakfast (get up, not
to have).
2. We … in Moscow during our last holidays and … not …
anywhere (stay, go).
3. They … to help nick with his studies (try).
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4. I … to the boy but he … not … me (speak, recognize).
5. … your sister … from Moscow University two years ago?
(graduate).
6.When … you … the subject of your report? (choose).
7. The engineer … a serious experiment and … significant
results last year (conduct, get).
8. The sportsmen … that they … happy to return home (to say,
to be).
IV Translate into English.
1. Bu hadisə bir neçə il bundan əvvəl baş vermişdi.
2. Kitab oxuya-oxuya o, bizim yanımıza gəldi.
3. M.Ə.Sabirin 8 yaşı olanda, o mollaxanaya göndərildi
(religious school).
4. Bakı Xəzərin sahilində yerləşir.
5. London Böyük Britaniyanın mərkəzidir.
6. Bizim Universitetdə bütün tələbələr xarici dil öyrənirlər.
7. Keçən il mən ailəmlə birlikdə Moskvaya getdim. Moskva
dünyanın böyük şəhərlərindən biridir.
8. Siz bu məqaləni sabah saat 6-ya qədər tərcümə etməlisiniz.
9. Mən adətən dərsdən sonra evə saat 4-də gəlirəm.
10. Mən otağa daxil olanda atam qəzet oxuyurdu.
V Ask as many questions on the text (
pg: 65).
VI How do you say these numbers in English? Write your
answers after each one.
1. 462.
2. 2,345.
3. 6,75.
4. 1,250,000.
5. 47%.
6. 10
September.
7. 3 July.
8. In 1905.
9. In 1876.
10. 1
1
/
4
.
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A: OK.
How about tomorrow evening, then?
B: Yeah good.
A: Great. What film shall we go to?
B: For me it’s the same.
IV What could you say in these situations?
1. You are in the meeting. Some one enters the room and says
you have an important telephone call.
What do you say as you leave?
2. Someone says something to you but you don’t hear all of it.
What do you say?
3. You are staying with some English friends. What do you say
to them when you leave the room in the evening to go to
bed?
4. You met a new business client for the first time fifteen
minutes ago, and now you are leaving. What do you say?
5. You are in the street. A woman passes by you and at the
same time something falls out of her bag. She has her back
to you. What do you say?
V Fill the gaps with at, on, or, in:
1. There was still a lot of snow … the ground when I arrived.
2. I sat … the bed and wrote the letter.
3. The butter is … the fridge.
4. Malawi is a country … Africa.
5. I met her … a party.
6. I put the books … the table.
7. He lives … a very nice area.
8. We sat … the floor.
9. There is a round table … the middle of the room.
10. They’re … a party tonight.