Negatives and question forms

23. Has your assistant decided to call you after all?

     a) ‘I don’t hope!’ b) ‘I hope not!’ c) ‘Not, I hope!’

24. … waiting long?

     a) Have been you b) You have been c) Have you been  

25. He replied that the price … by 3% in the last two weeks.

     a) had gone up b) has gone up         c) went up

26. He … his printer wasn’t working.

     a) said us that b) told that c) said that

Relative, participle and other clauses

27. Mr. Lynd was the businessman … our company.

     a) who he set up    b) who set up           c) which set up

28. We always find that the larger sizes are the first ones ….

     a) to sell b) that to sell   c) sell

29. … a job in a company, Jane was able to make lots of friends.

     a) Having got b) Have c) Not having got

 

Conjunctions and linking expressions

30. We will exchange products … they are returned within 7 days.

     a) if  b) as long as  c) when

31. The presentation took an hour. …, we had a two-hour discussion.

     a) After b) Then   c) Since

The passive

32. The goods … arrived at last.

     a) have been b) has c) have

33. Students like … when they do well at the university.

     a) to have been praised b) be praised c) to be praised

Word combinations

34. Are you looking forward …?

     a) to the negotiations b) the negotiations to c) the negotiations

35. We are depended … her timetable.

     a) at b) on    c) by

36. He … me.

     a) explained it b) explained c) explained it to

Word often confused

37. The minister … at the conference in Berlin.

     a) told b) talked c) spoke

The grammar of formal English

38. We didn’t complete the obstacle course as quickly as the other group ….

     a) did b) completed it c) completed

39. … they want is a second chance.

     a) All b) All / The only thing c) The only

The grammar of spoken English

40. Someone’s been taking my documents again, …?

     a) have they b) haven’t they c) haven’t it

 

 

 Read and render the text in English.

 

    В болонской модели от бакалавра требуется набор системных профессиональных знаний в определенной области и способность их применять для разработки и реализации проектов.

    Магистр согласно болонской модели должен обладать глубокими принципиальными знаниями, решать неизвестные ранее задачи, применять инновационные методы для решения задач, разрабатывать новые идеи, принимать неизвестные ранее решения, планировать и проводить исследования, интегрировать знания для решения комплексных производственных задач.

    Бакалавр и магистр должны уметь использовать знание иностранного языка в профессиональной деятельности и общении. Они обязаны знать иностранный язык в объеме, необходимом для получения информации профессионального содержания из зарубежных источников, а также владеть деловым профессионально-ориентированным иностранным языком.

Ž Scan through the passage. What is lifelong learning in your view?

 

In most countries the education of adults is a never-ending process going on in many places for many different reasons.

At least 76 million adults are enrolled in some type of classes, mostly as part-time students. Many employees take classes at their workplace. Some companies pay the tuition when an employee attends training courses to learn a skill that the company needs.

 

Reading

ΠScan through the text below.

 

BACK TO THE DESK

by Robert Wilson Lynd, Irish writer (1879–1949)

 

    There is something peculiarly restful in returning to work after a holiday. After the rigours of doing nothing for a month, how peaceful it seems to be sitting once more before a desk in an armchair!

    The first thing I do when I return to work after a holiday is to have breakfast sent up to me in bed. How different from all those miseries of early rising which are almost inseparable from a holiday! It may be retorted that it is perfectly easy to have one’s breakfast in bed in any seaside hotel in England; but the fact is, when I am on holiday, my conscience will not permit this. If I lay late in bed at the seaside, I should feel that I was wasting the best part of the day. In London, I am thankful to say, there is no such thing as a best part of the day – or, if there is, it occurs at a much later hour than at the seaside.

    Apart from this, the hotel breakfast is a much more formidable affair than breakfast at home. The menu which the waiter hands you, is an invitation to gluttony before you are quite awake. If you were in full possession of your senses you would wave the thing away and ask for a kipper or a boiled egg. As it is, your will is so weak as a result of the effects of early rising that you yield to temptation and go through a breakfast that would satisfy a heavyweight after a week’s fasting.

    From that point on, your troubles multiply. After breakfast, since you are on holiday, you cannot sit down in a chair, like a rational being, at work or otherwise enjoy yourself. Some demon inside you drives you out into the open air. The best view of the bay may be from a chair in a window of your hotel; but, when on a holiday, you cannot help believing that it is round the corner, and you set out for it, however steep the local hills may be. The bay was certainly extraordinarily beautiful, with white sails moving across its ruffled surface under the sun, but, as I trudged along its coast road on foot, I could not help wishing at times that some less strenuous form of exercise than walking had been discovered.

    Golf is an innocent-looking game; but I must say that if I felt as exhausted after a day’s work in the office as I did after a day’s golf in Cornwall I should denounce my employers as tyrants. I think the most exhausting part of golf, perhaps, is the stooping required to take the balls out of the hole. And the dreadful thing is that, when once one has begun, one cannot stop playing. There is no hope of relief except in a return to work.

    Yet there was plenty to occupy an indolent man, if one had had the strength of character to be indolent. There were buzzards mewing overhead and a raven croaking, but who with a wild and never-to-be-fulfilled dream of getting on to the first green in has time to pay much attention to buzzards and ravens?

    I used to be able to take a restful holiday when I was young, but, now that I am middle-aged and believe in the virtue of fresh air and exercise and all that sort of thing, I can no more take a restful holiday than I could fly the Atlantic.

    Now that I am back at work, I am beginning to feel much better. I am born lazily from place to place on the top of a bus instead of working like a navvy in pursuit of a small white ball. I can watch the pink clouds above the setting sun from the office window without regarding them as an invitation to take yet another unnecessary walk. I can do all my work sitting and even with my feet on the table. The only muscles that I need exercise are the muscles of my fingers and my wrist as I guide the pencil across the paper; and a great golfer or oarsman would think nothing of this. A lift is provided to save me from the drudgery of climbing, so common on a holiday. I can go home in the evening and not budge out of the house again till bedtime with a perfectly clear conscience. 

    Who can deny that there is much to be said for the working life? To have escaped from the tyranny of fresh air and exercise – is not this, perhaps, to have gained something? Once more I am my own master – more or less. More, at least, than during any holiday I have had for years.

The Linguistic Search Phase

ΠTranslate the following sentences.

 

    1. There is something peculiarly restful in returning to work after a holiday.

    2. There is no hope of relief except in a return to work.

    3. The only muscles that I need exercise are the muscles of my fingers and my wrist as I guide the pencil across the paper.

 

 Fill in the gaps according to the examples in each line.

 

to invite		to discover	to provide
invitation	′ permit			requirement

 

restful =
calming		goodness		tiresome		chase		ownership
to gain	something		to exercise				to take
to believe			to denounce				to yield

 

Ž Match the words to their Russian equivalents.

 

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
d

 

1. peculiarly (peculiar)	a) невинный
2. miseries [′mizəriz] = rigours	b) ленивый, вялый
3. inseparable = undivided	c) позволять, разрешать
4. innocent-looking	d) особенно, больше обычного
5. indolent [′ind(ə)lənt]	e) неотделимый
6. to permit = allow	f)гребец
7. oarsman [′o:zmən]	g) совесть, сознание
8. conscience	h) невзгоды, тяготы

 

 Match the phrases to their English equivalents used in the text.

 

тяготы безделья поддаться соблазну муки раннего подъема вид на залив покрытая рябью поверхность физическая нагрузка чистая совесть полный отдых напрягать мышцы предоставлять лифт быть на отдыхе недельный пост