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.
- Министерство путей сообщения Российской Федерации
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- Mind the prepositions
- About after at [3] for [2] from in [3] into [2] of [7] on to [2] with [3]
- Grammar review
- Present, Past, Future Indefinite Active and Passive)
- Lilliputian train*
- Samara state railway academy
- A) The school I went to
- B) Entering the Academy
- C) You are a freshman now
- Cambridge
- Students' life
- 1) What are students “sconced” [штрафовать] for?
- 2) What do the so-called “Bulldogs” do if a student whom they come up to runs away?
- 3) In what case is “Boredom Button” pushed?
- Traveling by train
- Mind the prepositions
- 1) В час пик a) a four- or five-car set
- According to at [3] by [3] for [6] forward to from [3] in [5] on [6] of [3] to [4] with without
- Grammar review (Modal verbs and their equivalents; Present, Past, Future Continuous Active and Passive)
- On the platform
- Mistaken identity (after m. Twain)
- To arrive to catch to cost to get to go to leave to reach to take
- Dialogue 1
- Dialogue 2
- Dialogue 3
- Dialogue 4
- The man who took notice of all the notices
- How to avoid travelling (after g. Mikes)
- 4.50 From paddington (after a. Christie)
- From the history of railway transport
- Mind the prepositions
- According to [4] as far as [2] because of [2] by means of [3] due to in addition to [2] in front of in order to [3] on account of owing to in spite of [3]
- About at [2] before by [4] for from [3] on of [2] to [4] with
- Grammar review
- (Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs;
- Present, Past, Future Perfect Active and Passive)
- From the history of railway transport Part 1
- (A) начало строительства железных дорог в россии
- (B) the oldest railway in russia
- The stephenson family
- The brunels family
- George westinghouse (1846 – 191
- Casey jones (1864 – 1900)
- The trans-siberian mainline
- The rise and fall of the american rail system
- Underground railways
- Grammar review (Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect Active and Passive; Participle I, Participle II)
- 8) If ___ alone, the dog could spoil many things at home.
- 10) When ___ the street, be careful at the crossroads.
- 6) Having entered the room f) through the locked door.
- Underground railways
- London underground Part 1
- Moscow underground
- Метро в самаре
- Modern railways
- Mind the prepositions
- Against [2] at because of for [2] in [2] instead of of [3] on with grammar review (Gerund; attributive groups)
- To answer to change to finish to fly to go to help to install to lose to make to pass to pay to see to show to take part to take up to test to think
- After [3] before [3] by [2] for [3] instead of on [2] without [4]
- The analysis
- 1) Tractive stock a) курсы повышения квалификации
- Российские железные дороги
- Rio revives the commuter rail network
- India’s railway project
- Usa (Dallas) light rail* arrives in the lone star state
- Tunnels and bridges
- Движение исследование неудача оставаться [2] паром переходить приводить к проект следовать стоимость шум экстренный
- Grammar review (Infinitive; Complex Object; Complex Subject; attributive groups)
- Channel tunnel (Part 1)
- (Part 2)
- Progress in tunnel engineering
- Bridge construction
- Computers
- Access e-mail error fax machine file hard disk keyboard mouse processing remote control rewind screen screen saver sounded spread switch on
- Grammar review (Conditional Clauses. Different functions of the verbs to be and to have. Compound Conjunctions.)
- Computer systems
- Feed in english, print out in french
- Heartless unfeeling soulless indifferent inhuman liable to error/ subject to error to provide an enormous variety of choice to reduce the element of risk it depends
- Viruses and vaccines
- Mother should have warned you!
- Hackers of today
- Keep clicking!
- Surfing the net
- 10 Программистов
- How modern are you? (pop quiz)
- Add up your score and read the analysis
- The analysis
- Supplementary texts
- [1] Railways
- [2] Passenger transportation in the usa
- [3] The battle of the gauges Part 1
- [4] Development of american railroads
- [5] Sleeping cars in the usa
- [6] Monorail
- [7] Street railway*
- [8] Building the railroad
- [9] French transport
- [10] Australian transport
- [11] Сhinese railways
- [12] Japanese transportation
- [13] Railroad modernization
- [14] Advances in transportation
- [15] Bridges
- [16] Charles babbage (1792–1871)
- [17] Automation in transportation.
- Краткий грамматический справочник
- § 1. Глагол to be
- § 2. Глагол to have
- § 4. Функции глагола to be
- § 5. Функции глагола to have
- § 6. Основные формы глагола
- § 7. Времена групп Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect в действительном и страдательном залогах
- Спряжение глагола to ask в действительном залоге
- Перевод глагола to write в разных временах
- Спряжение глагола to ask в страдательном залоге
- § 8. Согласование времён (Sequence of Tenses)
- § 9. Модальные глаголы (Modal Verbs)
- § 10. Эквиваленты модальных глаголов (Equivalents of Modal Verbs)
- § 11. Порядок слов в утвердительных предложениях
- § 12. Порядок слов в вопросительных предложениях
- Порядок слов в вопросительных предложениях с простым сказуемым
- § 13. Порядок слов в отрицательных предложениях
- § 14. Притяжательный падеж имени существительного (The Possessive Case)
- § 15. Степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий (Comparison Degrees of Adjectives and Adverbs)
- § 16. Личные и притяжательные местоимения (Personal and Possessive Pronouns)
- § 17. Причастие (The Participle)
- Participle I
- 1) Часть составного глагольного сказуемого в Continuous.
- Participle II
- 1) Часть составного глагольного сказуемого.
- § 18. Герундий (The Gerund)
- Формы герундия
- Функции герундия в предложении и способы его перевода на русский язык
- § 19. Функции слов с окончанием -ing в предложении
- § 20. Функции слов с окончанием -ed в предложении
- § 21. Инфинитив (The Infinitive)
- Формы инфинитива
- Функции инфинитива в предложении и способы его перевода на русский язык
- § 22. Инфинитивная конструкция “Сложное дополнение” (The Complex Object)
- § 23. Инфинитивная конструкция “Сложное подлежащее” (The Complex Subject)
- § 24. Условные предложения
- § 25. Разные способы выражения определения в английском языке
- Список использованной литературы