Сумський державний університет

МАШИНОБУДІВНИЙ КОЛЕДЖ

 

 

Косова Т.М., Коломієць Я.М.

АНГЛІЙСЬКА МОВА

Навчальний посібник

ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТІВ І КУРСУ

ВСІХ СПЕЦІАЛЬНОСТЕЙ

 

 

Суми - 2008

Укладачі: Косова Т.М. - викладач іноземної мови МК СумДУ

Коломієць Я.М. - викладач іноземної мови МК СумДУ

 

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Редакційна колегія:

Т.М. Косова – викладач вищої категорії Машинобудівного коледжу СумДУ

Д.М. Пінчук – викладач Сумського обласного інституту післядипломної педагогічної освіти

 

 

Даний навчальний посібник підготовлено у відповідності з Державним стандартом у оволодінні іноземною мовою та програмою для навчальних закладів, які здійснюють підготовку молодших спеціалістів на основі базової загальної середньої освіти.

Матеріал підібрано так, щоб забезпечити студентів базою для оволодіння всіма видами мовної діяльності – читанням, монологічним та діалогічним мовленням, письмом та аудіюванням. Уроки містять мовленнєві зразки, діалоги, варіанти мовних ситуацій, тексти для читання, граматичні вправи. Все це допоможе студентам засвоїти необхідні знання та виробити в них навички повсякденного спілкування.

 

Розглянуто і затверджено на засіданні

циклової комісії іноземної мови

Протокол № 10 від 05.06.08

Голова циклової комісіі іноземної мови_________Косова Т.М.

 

 

Рекомендовано до друку Методичною радою коледжу СумДУ

CONTENT

UNIT 1. ABOUT MYSELF. 4

UNIT 2. PARENTS AND CHILDREN 13

UNIT 3. MY RIGHTS AND DUTIES. 24

UNIT 4.HEALTHY WAY OF LIFE. 31

UNIT 5.SPORTS IN OUR LIFE. 40

UNIT 6.LEISURE TIME. HOBBIES. 47

UNIT 7.LEISURE TIME. THEATRE.CINEMA. 54

UNIT 8.LEISURE TIME. MUSIC. 61

UNIT 9 EDUCATION. 70

UNIT 10 Our COLLEGE. 77

UNIT 11 JOBS AND PROFESSIONS. 85

UNIT 12 INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS. 97

UNIT 13 MASS MEDIA.THE POWER AND DANGERS OF TELEVISION. 106

UNIT 14 MASS MEDIA.THE WORLD OF PRESS. 114

UNIT 15 THE WORLD OF BOOKS. 121

BIBLIOGRAPHY 131

 

Unit I

ABOUT MYSELF.

EXERCISES.

 

I Listen and repeat [ i:]

see feed feet feel being beef eat

fee bead beat field seeing sea heel

pea heed heat meal eager deep team

knee peas peace wheel easy meat meet

seed seat niece zeal teacher Pete seat

beam dean heal leap sheep

lean

1.Please, be seated.

2.Pleased to meet you.

3.A pea for a bean.

4.Greek meets Greek.

5.My niece feels seedy.

6.Keep your teeth clean.

7.Eve and Pete’s niece.

8.I see the beach and the sea and two people – Eve and Peter.

 

II Remember this proverb:

All doors are open to courtesy.

 

III Greetings, Enquiries About Health.

Hello! Fine! Thank you.

Hi! Ok! Thanks.

Good morning / afternoon / evening! All right! Thanks a lot.

How are you? Very well! Thank you very

How are you getting on? No complaints. much.

How are you doing? Can’t complain. Many thanks.

How’s life? Life is going its usual way.

How’s life treating you? Not bad.

How are things with you? So-so.

What’s the news? Fifty-fifty.

No news.

Not too good, I’m afraid.

 

IV. Illustrative Dialogues.

Read the dialogues, learn any of them. Reproduce it with another student.

1. Formal

Mr. Black: Good morning, Mr. Smith.

Mr. Smith: Good morning. How are you?

Mr. Black: Very well, thank you. And you?

Mr. Smith: Quite well, thank you.

2. Semi - formal

Ann: Hello, Nick.

Nick: Hello, Ann. How are you getting on?

Ann: Fine, thanks. What about you?

Nick: Oh, not too bad. Thank you.

3. Informal.

Susan: Hello, Mary. How’s life?

Mary: A bit hectic at the moment. I’m very busy at work.

Susan: I see. Well, don’t overdo things.

Mary: I’ll do my best. Thanks.

 

V. Choose the best answer.

1.When you meet someone whom you know only slightly (in the morning) you say:

a)How do you do? b)Good morning. c)Hello.

2.When you meet an acquaintance at about 3 p.m. you say:

a)Good morning. b)Good afternoon. c)Good day.

3.When a teacher asks “How are you?” you reply:

a)Thank you. b)Very well, thank you. c)Ok, thanks.

 

VI. Make up your own dialogues.

VII. Read the text and answer the questions.

Hi! This is Me.

My name is Lena Kovalenko. I was born on the 21 ^st of August, 1990 in Sumy.

I was born in the family of teachers. I am an only child in the family.

Now I’m a first-year student of Machine-Buildihg College. I find being a student great fun but also very stressful. I have just finished school and I still remember and miss my teachers and my school friends. I often go to see them and we speak about our new life and impressions.

I don’t have much free time because I should study hard. I’m going to become an accountant and I try to study as best as possible in order to become a good specialist.

There are 25 students in my group. We’ve come from different schools but we are good friends now. Our life is never boring because there is a great choice of amateur art activities and sports clubs and circles in our college.

As for me I don’t like sport very much and my favourite hobby is dancing.

My dream is to become a good specialist and to find a good job after graduating from the college.

I hope my dream will come true.

 

1.How old are you?

2.Where and when were you born?

3.What are you?

4.What are you going to be?

5.Why do you have to work very hard?

6.Is your life boring?

7.What is your favourite occupation at leasure?

8.Where would you like to work after graduating from the college?

 

VIII. Ask the questions to have the following answers.

1.My name is Ann.

2.I am 15.

3.I was born in Hlukhiv.

4.I’m going to become a builder.

5.I am fond of sport.

6.Yes, my life is interesting.

7.I have to study hard because I want to be a good specialist.

 

IX Speak about yourself.

 

Text for Supplementary Reading

THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS.

There is a wonderful fable about a young orphan girl who had no family and no one to love her. One day, feeling sad and lonely, she was walking through a meadow when she noticed a small butterfly caught in a thorn bush. The more the butterfly struggled to free itself, the deeper the thorns cut into its fragile body. The young orphan girl carefully released the butterfly. Instead of flying away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy. The young girl was very astonished.

“For your kindness”, the fairy said to the girl, “I will grant you any wish you would like”.

The little girl thought for a moment and then replied “I want to be happy”.

The fairy said “Very well”. She whispered something in her ear.

As the little girl grew up, there was no one in the land as happy as she was. Everyone asked her the secret of her happiness. She smiled and answered, “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to the fairy when I was a little girl”.

When she was very old and on her deathbed, the neighbours all gathered around her. They were afraid that her magic secret of happiness would die with her. “Tell us, please”, they begged. ”Tell us what the good fairy said.”

The old woman smiled and said, “She told me that everyone, no matter how secure they seemed, no matter how old or young, how rich or poor they were, they all had need of me”.

Mark True (+) or False (-)

1.There is a fable about a young blind girl who had no family.

2.One day she was working hard in the field.

3.The little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy.

4.When the girl saw a fairy she wasn’t surprised.

5.The little girl wanted to be happy.

6.Nobody knew the secret of the girl’s happiness.

7.There was no one in the world as happy as the little girl.

8.The little girl didn’t want to disclose her secret of happiness.

9.The neighbours were interested in the old woman’s secret of happiness.

10.The old lady didn’t tell them her secret.

11.The fairy told the little girl that the greatest thing was to love and to be loved.

What is Happiness for You

Do you consider yourself a happy person?

- Happiness is a sunny morning, a smell of flowers, a friendly smile.

- I’m happy to be me!

- In fact I think I am happy just because I am.

- My friend is my hope. I feel happy when I have someone to share my happiness with. Byron said: “Happiness was born a Twin”.

- Happiness is when you are understood. Happiness for me is understanding.

- Everybody has his or her own notion of Happiness. For me it’s my family and buying new things.

- Happiness depends much on myself. I feel happy when I help other people.

- Today I am a grown-up enough to see that Dostoyevsky had a good reason to say: “Happiness doesn’t lie in happiness but in the achievement of it” So it’s life.

Continue this list.

So happiness is something impossible to explain. Happiness consists of many things. The criterion of happiness is the joy of life.

 

Fill out the form

Personal Information Sheet

 

Date__________________________

Name________________________________________________________________

Permanent Address_____________________________________________________

Tel.№:Home:__________________________Business:________________________

Nationality ___________________________________________________________

Date of Birth_________________________________________________________

Place of Birth_________________________________________________________

Occupation___________________________________________________________

Sex: M_________________ F___________________

Marital Status: Married_____________Single________________

GRAMMAR EXERCISES.

The Pronoun.

I. Change the following sentences by using pronouns instead of the underlined nouns.

1. Mike likes to help his parents.

2. The newspaper is on the table.

3. Children like to spend their holidays with their parents.
4- Mary is our friend.

 

5. We haven't got new books.

6. She hasn't got money with her.

7. We have bought expensive things.

8. My brother and me work hard.

 

II. Fill in the blanks with personal and possessive pronouns.

1.... name is Ann. This is... family.

2. My family is large.... consists of three persons.

3. My father is abuilder,.., works in Kyiv.

4. We have... English classes once a week.

5. Our director is in... office now.

6. If I see my brother I shall tell about it.

7. The team is preparing for... big game.

8. Have... any relatives?

III. Choose the correct word.

1. Our parents worry about my brother more than about (myself, me).

2. If I see (him, his) I’ll tell him to call you.

3. It takes (me, myself) 20 minutes to go there.

4. This is a good picture of (he, his).

5. Thank you for (you, your) helping me.

6. Everyone did (its, his) best on the homework.

7. His son often get (oneself, himself) in trouble.

8. He is always talking to (oneself, himself).

IV. Complete the sentences with the correct pronoun.

1. I have a dog; that dog is...

2. You have a car; that car is...

3. They have a brother; that brother is...

4. We have a garden; that garden is...

5. She has a house; that house is...

 

The Noun.

V. Write the plural of the following nouns:

A country, a wolf, a tomato, a brush, a baby, a watch, a sheep, a postman, a day, a shelf, a sister-in-law, a text, a roof, a tape-recorder, a page, a mouse.