Ukraine
Pre-reading Activities
Test your knowledge about Ukraine. Finish the sentences:
The word “Ukraine” means …
a) borderland c) the country of many rains
b) steppe d) the land of Cossacks
2) The third longest river in Europe is …
a) the Desna c) the Dnieper
b) the Danube d) the Bug
3) Kyivan Rus was established …
a) 2000 years ago c) in the 1st century B.C.
b) in the 9th century d) in the 5th century
4) The highest body of the legislative power in Ukraine is …
a) the President c) the Prime Minister
b) Verhovna Rada d) the Constitutional Court
5) The first university in Ukraine was opened in …
a) Kyiv c) Odessa
b) Kharkiv d) Lviv
6) The second largest city of Ukraine after Kyiv is …
a) Kharkiv c) Donetsk
b) Odessa d) Dnipropetrovsk
7) The founder of the modern Ukrainian literature was …
a) Hryhory Kvitka-Osnovyanenko c) Ivan Kotlyarevsky
b) Taras Shevchenko d) Panas Myrny
8) The Nobel Prize laureates who lived and worked in Ukraine were …
a) V. Vernadsky and B. Paton c) L. Landau and I. Mechnikov
b) S. Lebedev and I. Kurchatov d) M. Barabashov and S. Korolyov
9) Ukraine is a Christian country and most believers belong to …
a) the Catholic Church c) the Orthodox Church
b) the Greek Catholic Church d) the Evangelic Church
10) The biggest seaport in Ukraine is …
a) Yalta c) Mikolaiv
b) Odessa d) Sebastopol
Complete the following sentences with the names given below.
The outstanding Ukrainian scientists are …
The Ukrainian Olympic champions are …
The most talented and popular Ukrainian composers are …
The famous Ukrainian artists are …
The prominent Ukrainian writers are …
The eminent Ukrainian politicians are …
The renowned Ukrainian educationalists are …
(Yana Klochkova, Dmytro Levytsky, Ivan Franko, Bohdan Khmelnitsky, Lesya Ukrainka, Volodymir Vernadsky, Hryhory Skovoroda, Yury and Platon Mayboroda, Lilia Podkopayeva, Anton Makarenko, Ilya Repin, Katya Serebrianska, Ilya Mechnikov, Mykola Lysenko, Marko Vovchok, Leo Landau, Volodymyr Borovykovsky, Yaroslav the Wise, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky)
Read the following words. Pay attention to their pronunciation.
sovereign – суверенний
border – межа
plain – рівнина
peninsula – півострів
powerful – сильний
to connect – з’єднувати
legislative – законодавчий
executive – виконавчий
judicial – судовий
branch – гілка, галузь, влада
to represent – представляти
to appoint – призначати
to approve – схвалювати
majority – більшість
supreme – верховний
trident – тризуб
anthem – гімн
to perish – гинути, вмирати
community – спільнота
to cooperate – співробітничати, взаємодіяти
to participate – брати участь
Match the following English words and word combinations with their Ukrainian equivalents.
I
international organizations a) Верховний Суд
the world community b) прапор та тризуб
foreign policy c) виконавча влада
national anthem d) світова спільнота
flag and trident e) суверенна держава
national symbols f) національний гімн
Supreme Court g) судова влада
sovereign state h) міжнародні організації
9) legislative branch i) національні символи
10) executive branch j) законодавча влада
11) judicial branch k) зовнішня політика
II
12) a treeless plain l) південно-східна частина
13) the Crimean Peninsula m) найбільші міста
14) the Crimean Mountains n) Карпатські гори
15) on both sides o) Кримські гори
16) a powerful river p) Кримський півострів
17) less important q) безлісна рівнина
18) the biggest cities r) могутня ріка
19) the south-eastern part s) менш важливий
20) the Carpathian Mountains t) з обох сторін
- 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