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Example: The red dress is …the most expensive … of all. (expensive)
The clown with the red nose is ……….. than the other clown. (funny)
John is …………… than Jim. (tall)
A horse is ………….. than a dog. (big)
Tina is ………………. than her brother. (short)
George is …………….than James. (fat)
Sally is ……………… girl in the class. (beautiful)
A mouse is …………….than a cat. (small)
Bert is ………………. of all. (tall)
The red T-shirt is ………….. of all. (expensive)
David is ……………… than Tom . (young)
Complete the sentences with a superlative.
Example: It’s a very nice room. It’s …the nicest room… in the hotel.
This cathedral is very old. It’s ………….. in Kharkiv.
This square is very big. It’s ………………in Europe.
It’s a very expensive restaurant. It’s ………….. in the city.
This cinema is very popular. It’s …………….. in Kharkiv.
In the following sentences use one of the + superlative.
Example: It’s a very nice room. It’s… one of the nicest rooms… in the hotel.
Kharkiv is a very big city. It’s ……………. in Ukraine.
Our city is an important administrative centre. It’s ………………………… in Ukraine.
Kharkiv G.S.Skovoroda National Pedagogical University is a very prestigious higher educational establishment. It’s ……………………………. in our city.
It’s a very old castle. It’s ………………………. in Ukraine.
Write the questions using the words in brackets and answer them.
Example: (what/large/city/your country? )What…is the largest city in your country?
(what/old/building/your city) What………………………your city?
(who/famous/singer/your country) Who ………………..your country?
(what/prestigious/higher/educational/establishment/Kharkiv) What………………………………………Kharkiv?
(what/popular sport/Ukraine) What …………………….Ukraine?
(what/big square/Kharkiv) What …………………Kharkiv?
(what/popular cinema/your city) What ……………………your city?
(what/beautiful parks/Kharkiv) What …………………….Kharkiv?
(who/intelligent person/you know) Who …………………….you know?
(what/expensive thing/you ever bought) What ………………………..you’ve ever bought?
(what/happy day/your life) What …………………….. in your life?
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- Introduction
- Students’ life
- 1. Read the following international words paying attention to their pronunciation. Try to guess their meanings. Check your variant of their meanings consulting the dictionary.
- 2. Match the names of the following professions with their definitions.
- 3. Pay attention to the following synonyms:
- 4. Read and memorize the following words and word-combinations:
- Reading Activities
- Students’ life
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. Find in the text you have composed the answers to the following questions:
- 2. Practise the above questions with your group-mate. Work in pairs!
- 3. Translate the following words and phrases from Ukrainian into English. Make up ten sentences with the English equivalents of the following words:
- 4. Translate the following sentences from Ukrainian into English:
- 5. Read and translate the following dialogue about students’ life:
- 6. Make up your own dialogue about students’ life making use of the text, questions and the dialogue above.
- 7. Decide if the following statements are true or false according to the text „Students’ Life”:
- 9. Find the answers to the following questions in the above text:
- First year at university
- 11. Find the answers to the following questions in the above text:
- English in Use Adressing People
- 2. Choose the best answer.
- Getting Acquainted with People
- 1. Read and translate the following dialogues making use of the Word List below.
- 2. Practise the dialogues above and learn any two of them by heart.
- 3. Complete the following dialogues with suitable words or phrases from the Word List and the dialogues above.
- 4. Learn the dialogues you have completed by heart. Parting with People
- 1. Read and translate the following dialogues making use of the Word List below.
- 2. Practise the dialogues above and learn any two of them by heart.
- 2. Practise the dialogues above and learn any two of them by heart.
- 2. Practise the dialogues above and learn any two of them by heart.
- Reading Activities
- Our university
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. Answer the questions:
- 2. Decide if the following statements are true or false according to the text above:
- 3. Find in the text the words corresponding to the following definitions:
- 4. Find in the text the synonyms for the given words and phrases:
- 5. Form the nouns from the given verbs and use them in the word combinations and sentences of your own. Use the suffixes -ance, -tion, -ing if necessary:
- 6. Form the verbs from the given nouns:
- 7. Translate the given words and phrases into English:
- 8. Fill in the correct preposition:
- 9. Read some more facts about our university and make up questions to the underlined words:
- 10. A) Look at the table and mark the difference in how teachers and staff are called in the uk, usa and Ukraine.
- 11. A) Study the structure of universities in the uk, usa and Ukraine:
- 12. Insert the given words:
- 13. Speaking:
- 14. A) Think of the characteristics for teacher’s work, consult the dictionary.
- 15. Compare the structure of the academic year, marking systems and students’ work in the uk, usa and Ukraine.
- Focus on Grammar
- 2) Some adventure that happened to you;
- 3) Your last summer.
- 8. A. Insert the correct form of the verb to be (is or are).
- 9. A. Look at the words and word combinations and tell the group what you can do and what you can’t do.
- 10. Put an appropriate verb in its correct form into each gap (can, could).
- English in Use Discussing Weather
- Useful Expressions
- Telephoning
- 2. Notice the following expressions on the telephone:
- 3. Read and practise the dialogues:
- 4. Complete the telephone conversations. Use the phrases from the box. In pairs practise saying them.
- 1. Match a line in a with a line in b
- II. Decide which of the dialogues above sound more like business calls?
- 6. Read / listen to 3 telephone conversations and say:
- 7. Leaving a message on an answer phone
- Ukraine
- Reading Activities
- Ukraine
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
- 4. In each line choose one word that doesn’t belong to the group. Explain your choice. Start your sentences with the phrases:
- 8. Make a report on the topic “Ukraine”. Focus on Grammar
- 4. Rewrite the sentences, using Present Perfect.
- 5. Put the following sentences in negative and interrogative forms:
- 6. Open the brackets and put the verbs into Past Simple, Present Simple, or Present Perfect.
- English in Use
- Invitations, requests, suggestions
- Invitations
- Requests
- Suggestions
- 11. Work in pairs. Using the tables (ex.2, 5,9) make up short dialogues and act them out. Kharkiv
- 1. Match the following English words with their Ukrainian equivalents.
- Reading Activities
- Modern kharkiv
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. Answer the questions:
- 2. Decide whether the following statements are true or false:
- 3. Translate the given words and phrases into English:
- 4. Translate the given sentences into English:
- 5. Fill in the gaps in the following text with a suitable word:
- 7. Read the following text and try to understand its general meaning. The pokrovsky and uspensky cathedrals
- 9. Read and translate the following text. The mirror stream fountain and aerial cableway
- 10. Translate the given words and phrases into English:
- 11. Match the following words with their Ukrainian equivalents:
- 12. Fill in the gaps with the prepositions. Small southern children’s railroad
- 13. Translate the given words and phrases into English:
- 14. Try to guess the meaning of the following English words by their definitions:
- 15. Make a report on the topic “Kharkiv”. Focus on Grammar
- In pairs ask and answer the following questions using I (don’t) think/expect I will or I hope/’m sure/’m afraid I will/won’t.
- 4. Underline the correct form of the verb.
- Example: The red dress is …the most expensive … of all. (expensive)
- 10. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of will or to be going to and the verb in brackets.
- English in Use asking the way and giving directions
- 5.Fill in the gaps with the following prepositions:
- Reading Activities
- Great britain
- It’s interesting to know:
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. Comprehension check. Are these statements true or false? Correct the false ones.
- 2. Answer the questions comparing information about Great Britain with the information about Ukraine.
- Official Name
- It’s interesting to know:
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. Test yourself. Match the words with their definitions.
- Vocabulary work. Find words in the text which could be replaced by
- 3. Find words in the texts with the opposite meaning to the given words:
- 4. Complete the following sentences, using the facts that you know.
- 5. Complete the following text using the words and expressions from the box.
- Notes to the text:
- England
- 6. State whether these statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.
- 7. It is interesting to know…
- 8.Read theText. The last great wilderness
- A Scottish Glossary
- 10. Think over the following questions.
- 11. Comprehension check. All the answers to these definitions begin with the letter „e”.
- 12. Speak about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Focus on Grammar
- 2. Match column a with column b and make up your sentences using the Past Simple Passive Tense, then, in pairs, ask and answer questions as in the example.
- 3. Transform the following sentences into questions using the Present, Past or Future Simple Passive as in the example. Work in pairs.
- 4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct active or passive tense forms.
- 5. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct active or passive tense forms.
- 8. Make a passive sentence from the words in brackets, as in the example.
- 9. A. Rewrite these sentences in the Passive, as in the example.
- 10. Rewrite the sentences in the Passive , as in the example.
- English in Use Travelling
- Catching a Train
- B) At the Station
- Air Travel
- 2. Important Travel Information.
- 3. Complete the word combinations using the words from the box
- 6. Do the Crossword.
- 7. Read these dialogues and act them out.
- 8. Make up your own dialogues.
- B) Declaration
- 4. Read and learn the new words:
- Reading Activities
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. Choose one of the words to make the sentences complete (use the correct form of the word):
- 2. Match the word and its definition:
- 3. Choose the right answer.
- 4.Translate the sentences into English:
- 5. Explain …
- 6. It is interesting to know…
- 7. Make a report on the usa. Focus on Grammar Conditional Sentences
- 2. Complete the questions.
- 4. Lisa is talking to her friend about what she might do when she leaves university. Write sentences using the given words.
- 5. Write questions using if for the following answers.
- 10. For each situation, write a sentence beginning with if.
- English in Use At a Hotel
- 2. Read the given expressions and responses, paying attention to their pronunciation.
- 3. Read in pairs the following dialogues, paying attention to the underlined words.
- 4. Pair work. Role play
- 5. Make up a dialogue based on the following situation and act it out.
- At a restaurant
- 1. Read and learn the following words and word-combinations
- 2. Read the given expressions and responses, paying attention to their pronunciation
- 3. Discussion.
- 4. Read the following dialogue in pairs, paying attention to the underlined words.
- 5. Pair work. Role-play
- Apple Cake
- 6. Make up a dialogue based on the following situation and act it out.
- 7. Read the English proverbs.
- Have Fun!
- Education in ukraine, great britain and the usa part I. Education in Ukraine
- 1. Match the following English words with their Ukrainian equivalents:
- Reading Activities
- Text 1. Education in ukraine
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. State if these sentences are true or false:
- 2. Read Text 1 again and make notes under the headings below, then present a one-minute tv talk on education in Ukraine:
- 8. Read Text 2. Text 2. Homework: is it good for you? Do You Like Homework? Did It Help You in School?
- Is Homework a Waste of Time?
- Does Homework Help?
- Is Homework Fair?
- 10. Translate these expressions from Ukrainian into English and make up sentences with them:
- 11. Describe the system of education of Ukraine.
- 12. Match the words with the definitions.
- 13. Fill in the gaps with one of the words from the list below.
- 14. Choose the solutions to the following problems, then fill in the table.
- 15. Think of some other problems which occur in the classroom and say how they could be solved. Part II. Education in Great Britain
- 1. Study the words to the topic.
- 2. Try to answer these True/False statements by guessing, then read Text 3 and find out if your guesses were correct.
- Reading Activities
- Text 3. Education in great britain Primary and Secondary Education
- Further Education
- Higher Education
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. Answer the questions on Text 3:
- 2. Complete the sentences.
- 3. Fill in the gaps with the correct word(s) from the list below:
- 4. Write a summary of the text ”Primary and Secondary Education”, using the following words and phrases:
- 5. Read the conversation between Tom, a pupil of a secondary school, and his old friend, Mark, who has just started his studies at the university.
- 6. Choose the best answer according to the information in the dialogue.
- 7. Put the following events in the logical order.
- 9. Translate these sentences from Ukrainian into English.
- 10. Think about:
- 11. Study the words and read the following texts (4 and 5) about the education system of Great Britain.
- Text 4. Studiying at university (in england and wales)
- Text 5. Postgraduate courses
- 12. Read these sentences spoken by university students. What is each person studying? Mark the stress on each of your answers, check with the answer key, and practise saying the words.
- 13. What do you call:
- 14. Replace the underlined verbs with different verbs that have the same meaning in the context.
- 15. How similar is university education in your country? Answer these questions.
- 16. Write a letter to a pen-friend about the system of higher education in Great Britain.
- Reading Activities
- Text 6. Education in the usa
- Post-reading Activities
- 1. Decide whether the following statements about the usa education are true or false.
- 2. Read the dialogue. Complete it asking the questions about the education systems in Great Britain and the usa.
- 3. Test yourself:
- 4. Pay attention to the essential vocabulary:
- Key to the Test (p.132):
- Focus on Grammar
- Infinitive / The –ing form
- 1. In pairs, ask and answer questions using the prompts below, as in the example.
- 4. Write sentences using the structure I prefer to do something rather than do something else.
- 5. There are lots of books about living a healthy life. Most of the experts say the same things. Change the following sentences into reported speech.
- 6. Monica Collins is a famous educator. She is going to another country to take part in a scientific conference. Say what she expects to be done on her arrival, as in the example.
- 9. Choose the correct answer.
- English in Use
- Shopping II. Clothes
- Word list II
- 3. Complete this dialogue with a suitable word or phrase.
- 4. Complete the dialogue with a suitable word or phrase:
- Leisure activities
- 2. Practise the models and make up short dialogues using one item from each column of the table.
- 3. Practise the illustrative dialogue.
- 8. Complete the dialogue:
- 9. In pairs, act out similar dialogues talking about the following leisure activities:
- Choosing a career
- Text 2. I want to be a programmer
- Post-reading activities
- 2. Answer the following questions:
- Reading Activities
- Choosing a career
- Post-reading Activities
- 6.Make your comments about teaching profession and requirements to teachers using the following phrases:
- 7. Read the following text. Be ready to discuss it: grygoriy skovoroda
- 8. Prepare a 3-minute talk on one of the great teachers of the past or today, give reasons for your choice:
- 9. Act out the dialogue "Choosing is not so easy as it looks".
- 10. Prove that the following proverbs (sayings) have sense:
- 11. Make a report on the topic “My Profession”. Focus on Grammar
- 1. Questions. Fill in the blanks.
- 3. Choose either the Future Simple or - to be going to - in the following sentences.
- 4. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or Future Simple.
- 5. Choose either the Present Simple or Present Continuous in the following sentences.
- 6. Put the verbs into Past Simple or Present Perfect.
- 7. Mixture of tenses. Put in the correct auxiliary verb in each sentence.
- 8. Use either the Present Perfect Simple or Continuous in the following sentences.
- 9. Put the verbs into the right order.
- 10. Choose the correct variant.
- 11. Choose the correct modal verb.
- 12. Adjectives and Adverbs Comparison. Put the adjectives in the right order.
- English in Use Social situations
- 1. Write what you would say in the following situations:
- Applying for a Job. Job Interview.
- 2. Read the letters, notice their structure and essential components:
- Texts for reading and discussion Text 1 bologna process
- Participants of bologna process
- Svobody (freedom) square
- The monument to t.G. Shevchenko
- The ukrainian language
- Taras shevchenko – the singer of ukraine
- The Sovereign
- 1. Comprehension check. Find these in the lists above.
- An Eisteddfod
- 1. Test yourself. Complete the quiz.
- 2. Complete the following:
- First american settlers
- 1. Choose the right answer.
- 2. Translate the sentences into English.
- 1. Study the words and read the following texts.
- Boy genius
- Raising a genius?
- Too few classes
- 2. Answer the questions on the texts:
- Irregular Verbs
- Literature
- Contents