Present, Past, Future Indefinite Active and Passive)

Ex.8. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the verbs to be, to have and put questions to the underlined words.

1) Before 1973 our Institute was not large and had only one faculty. 2) The distance from here to the railway station is 5 kilometers. 3) Does she have a visa to enter France? 4) Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are the four rules of Arithmetic. 5) Old Russia had many talented railway engineers and inventors such as Frolov, Jartsev, the Cherepanovs, Polsunov. 6) Tomorrow you will have a lecture on Chemistry instead of a seminar in History: your teacher is on business trip. He will be at the Institute on Monday. 7) Road accidents are more frequent in rainy weather. 8) An automatic engine driver is a small-size computer with transducers. 10) High-class trains like “Russia”, “Irtysh”, “Siberia” and some others have high reputation and popularity. 11) This article is about a new high-speed railway. 12) We had seats in the first coach of the suburban train. 13) The motor is small but it has high power. 14) When I was a student I had a little spare time.

Ex.9. Use the verbs to be, to have in the required tense form and translate the sentences from English into Russian.

1) In the early mornings the traffic to be not very heavy. 2) To have he got a map of the London Underground? 3) The problems discussed at the last seminar to be very interesting and the students to have a lot of questions to the teacher. 4) All the underground stations to be of the same size: 6 meters high, 100 meters long and 18 meters wide. 5) To have you got any time to help me translate this article? – Sorry, but I to be busy now, try to do it yourself. 6) The seats in the old bus to be very uncomfortable. 7) Oxford and Cambridge to have much in common so they are often called together as Oxbridge. 8) Electrons in the atom to have the negative charge. 9) If you to have no telephone at home, you can use a call box in the street. 10) The experiment showed that the assumption to be wrong. 11) Their reports at the last conference to be very long but they to have no new ideas to offer. 12) The text of the contract to be ready in an hour. 13) They to have an unpleasant voyage from New York to Liverpool because of the storm. 14) In spite of the dense fog the train to be not late. 15) It to be such a narrow road that it to be difficult for two cars to pass each other. 16) All the railwaymen to have the right of free travel by train once a year. 17) The top speed of the first steam locomotive to be 13 miles per hour. 18) Large banks usually to have branches abroad.

Ex.10. Read and translate the following sentences paying attention to the construction there + to be.

1) There were several vacant seats in the bus when I got into it. 2) There are a lot of goods that can be transported by air. 3) There isusually a considerable increase in passenger traffic in summer. 4) There was no chance of getting tickets for this train. 5) There will beno trains today because the railroad workers are on strike. 6) Were thereany telephone calls while I was out?7) There weremany accidents on this section of the road when it was icy.8) How many stopswill there bebefore the train reaches its destination?9) There isa lot of snow therefore the trains might be late. 10) The bus pulled up at the stop but to the disappointment of the peoplethere wasno room for everybody in it. 11) There isnothing better than a sea trip if you need a good rest.12) In Britain you should always take your turn in the queue at a bus stop ifthere isone. 13) Whenthere wereno traffic-lights at this intersection,there werea lot of accidents there. 14)There wasa terrible rush[суматоха]at the station when I came there. 15) According to the weather forecastthere will besnow tomorrow. 16)There isa large garage on Seventh Street that provides work for eleven men.There isone man who meets the customers.There aretwo other men who take care of batteries.There isanother man who washes cars.There arethree other men who sell gas and oil.There isanother man who repairs wheels.There aretwo men who work with engines andthere isone man who sells tires.There isno better place for automobile service.

Ex.11. Fill in the blanks with the verb to be in the required tense form.

1) There ___ specialized schools where you can get secondary education as well as good knowledge of English or German.2) There ___ no bridge in this place and we took a boat to cross the river. 3) There ___ so many interesting excursions that he didn’t know which one to choose. 4) In Metro there ___ special pumps and fans that suck in the air from the street, purify it and make it warm or cool on its way to the station. 5) There ___ not enough time for us to catch the next train. 6) In the very first days of railways there ___ no signals and there ___ no need for them. 7) In Great Britain there ___ left-hand traffic and a foreign driver must be very attentive. 8) The construction of the first tunnels required much time, effort and money because there ___ no special equipment for it. 9) There ___ road works in the center streets of the city tomorrow that is why long traffic jams[дорожные пробки]are expected. 10) There ___ four pairs of sliding doors on each side of a Metro car. 11) The company closed down because there ___ not much demand for its products. 12) There ___ extra commuter trains at the next weekends.

Ex.12. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English, using the verbs to have, to be or the construction there + to be.

1) В этом журнале есть интересные статьи? – Да. Журнал очень интересный. Почитай его, если у тебя есть свободное время. 2) У Вас есть английский словарь? – Да, есть, но в нём только 1000 слов. 3) Наш институт находится недалеко от станции Метро. 4) Завтра лекции по физике не будет. Ваш преподаватель в Москве на конференции. 5) Вчера у нас была всего одна пара. 6) Какой экзамен был самым трудным для тебя? 7) В институтской библиотеке много новых книг. 8) У вас вчера был семинар по философии? 9) Тебе 20 лет? – Нет, мне будет 20 в следующем году. 10) Где ближайшая автобусная остановка? 11) В твоём диктанте было несколько ошибок. 12) У Ника есть телефон? – Да, есть. 13) Лондонский университет – самый большой ВУЗ Британии. 14) Он никогда не опаздывает на лекции и всегда очень внимательный.

Ex.13. Read and translate the following sentences paying attention to the tense form of the predicates in the Active Voice. Put general questions and special questions to the underlined words.

1) In Samara Metro trains run every 8 minutes. [How often...?] 2) Heavy snowstorms disorganized the movement of trains in this region. [Where…?] 3) The train will cover the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg in 3 hours if it moves at a speed of 250 km/h. [In what case…?] 4) At this railway station the stops of the trains last only five minutes. [How many…?] 5) Tomas Bouch designed the Tay Bridge in 1878 [When…?] and people called it as one of the wonders of the world. [How…?] 6) The last train arrives at midnight. [When…?] 7) If we drive at such a speed all the time, we shall get to the village before dark. [When…?] 8) Such engineers as Frolov, Yartsev, and Polsunov made great contribution to the development of railway transport in Russia. [Who…?] 9) The airplane crosses the Atlantic Ocean in about ten hours. [What…?] 10) It takes only 35 minutes to travel by train from Britain to France. [How long…?] 11) After the war the government granted great sums of money to renew railway equipment. [What…for?] 12) In England train passengers seldom converse with their fellow-travelers even on long journeys – this is more a national custom than a matter of etiquette. [Where…?] 13) The repair of railway track usually takes place in summer. [When…?] 14) Your train will leave from platform №2 in five minutes. [What…?]

Ex.14. Read the following text putting the verbs given in brackets in the required tense form in the Active Voice. Put 5 questions to the text.