| weekends 1997 years hours midnight Mondays yesterday week June now |
a) Anna got up at 5.30 _____! 
b) The movie starts at 10.30 p.m. and finishes at _____.
c) My mother’s birthday is in _____.
d) He takes guitar lessons after school on _____.
e) Look! The sun's shining _____!
f) I jog six miles every _____.
g) Rustam works in a hospital at _____.
h) A baby sleeps for about ten _____!
i) Princess Diana died in _____.
j) I lived in France for three _____.
Complete these sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Use short forms where possible.
England was once called “a nation of shopkeepers”. The main street (called “the high street”) in every town and city _____ (to have) small shops that _____ (to sell) items such as candy, newspapers, ice-cream, meats, bread and milk.
During the 1980s and 1990s, shopping in England _____ (to become) more like American shopping. Today, many people _____ (to buy) their groceries in supermarkets. Malls are now found on the outskirts of towns.
In 1999, Europe’s largest shopping center and recreation complex _____ (to open) in Greenhithe, in Kent. Called Bluewater, its park like setting, including a large lake, _____ (to cover) 240 acres (100 hectares). The mall has been attracting twenty seven million shoppers a year since it _____ (to open).
Answer the questions on the text.
a) What is the name of the Europ’s largest shopping center?
b) What is its area?
c) What was the street with small shops called in England?
d) How many shoppers come to Bluewater every year?
e) Explain the meaning of the word “mall”.
Questions on the topic
1. What time do you usually have your breakfast?
2. Do you live far from the University?
3. How many classes do you have a day?
4. Why do you need English?
5. When do you usually have lunch?
6. What do you have for lunch?
7. What do you prefer to do on Sunday?
8. What is your usual supper?
9. Do you often go to cafes?
10. Do you like tea of coffee?
11. What do you like for dessert?
12. Do you like fried potatoes?
13. How many meals do you have a day?
14. What fruits are your favorite?
15. What is your hobby?
16. Do you go in for sport?
17. What books do you like best?
18. What hobby do you find boring?
19. How often do you go shopping?
20. What do you buy every day?
21. Do you prefer small shops or big supermarkets?
22. What kind of meat do you prefer?
23. Did you buy any clothes last week?
24. Do you usually pay by cash or by card?
25. What is your favorite shop in Ufa?
26. Do you often go to the movies?
27. What films do you prefer?
28. What discos in Ufa do you visit?
29. How often do you go to the theater?
30. What music do you like? Why?
IV Our University
Unit 1 Our University
Read the following text and translate it into Russian.
Our University
My name is Renat Alimov. I am a first-year student of Bashkir State Agrarian University. It is one of the oldest in the city. Its history goes back to 1930, when it was founded as Bashkir Agricultural Institute. At that time there were only 2 departments at the Institute. In 1993 Bashkir Agricultural Institute got the status of Bashkir State Agrarian University.
There are 9 departments at the University now. They are the departments of Economics, Agronomy, Information Technologies and Management, Veterinary Medicine, Farm Mechanization, Energy, Land Management and Forestry, Food Technologies, and Biotechnology. I am at the department of Economics. I study such subjects as Mathematics, Economic Theory, Accounting, Audit and a lot of others. After 5 years of studies I will get the diploma of higher education and become a financier or a banker.
The University consists of six buildings. There are a lot of classrooms, laboratories and lecture halls at the University, also a computer centre and many computer classrooms. There is a good library and several reading halls where students can find many books and scientific journals on their specialty. Many students take up sport quite seriously. The University has several gyms, a swimming pool and a stadium.
Most students of our University are from different districts of our Republic. They live in 6 comfortable halls of residence of the University.
The course of studies at our University gives students a good opportunity of becoming well-trained specialists in different fields of agriculture. I think students can study, as well as live an interesting life during the years of education.
Vocabulary
| comfortable ['kÙmftəbl] | удобный |
| course [ko:s] | курс |
| department (AmE college) | факультет |
| hall of residence (AmE dormitory) | общежитие |
| laboratory [lə'borətəri] | лаборатория |
| lecture hall ['lektòə] | лекционный зал |
| opportunity [,opə'tju:nəti] | возможность |
| scientific [,saiən'tifik] | научный |
| speciality [,speòi'æləti] | специальность |
| stadium ['steidiəm] | стадион |
| to consist of | состоять из |
| to found | основывать |
| to take up | заниматься |
| well-trained | хорошо подготовленный |
Pronunciation
Listen and repeat.
[i] g y m, cons i st, s e riousl y, sw i mm i ng, opportun i t y
[Λ] st a ff, st u dy, am o ng, c o mfortable
[ei] tr ai n, st a tus, educ a tion
[ai] t i me, h i gher, l i brary, l i vestock, mechan i zation, sc i entific
[k] me ch anization, te ch nology, ch emistry
Oral exercises
