III. Grammar Exercises

Active Voice

5. Write down the following verbs in the form of Participle I.

1. to manage, to know, to include, to involve, to refer, to operate, to work, to select, to control, to plan, to determine, to explain, to finance, to get, to study, to write, to persuade, to increase, to die.

6. Translate the following sentences into Russian paying attention to the functions of Participle I:

1. Marketing concentrates primarily on the buyers, or consumers, determining their needs and desires, educating them, developing strategies to persuade them to buy.

2. For retailers, the use of catalogs makes it possible to do business considerably beyond their usual trading area.

3. The whole month I was working hard. We were auditing accounts of a joint venture.

4. The State Tax Service in Russia is a new organization but its role is becoming very important because more and more new businesses are appearing in the country.

5. The majority of corporations are small, differing little in their characteristics from other forms of business.

6. An Italian delegation arrived yesterday. At 9 we were meeting the delegation at the airport, at 12 we were having lunch, at 2 we were discussing the contract.

7. Those who interpret the voting incorrectly, producing too much or too little, or charging a price that is too low, do not earn profits.

8. At least half the nation’s 50 leading corporations have mail-order divisions.

9. You phoned at 9.15, didn’t you? We were discussing our business plan at that time.

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Also carving its own niche is telephone marketing.

sunny rainy frosty cloudy

and hot and foggy and snowy and windy

7. Look at the pictures. Ask and answer the question as in the model:

Model: A. What’s the weather like today?

B. It’s hot and dry.

8. Read the dialogue and make up your own dialogue:

A. Look, Ann, is it cold outside?

B. I think it’s not cold. It’s warm.

A. What’s the temperature today?

B. It’s 4 below zero.

A. Let’s go to the scating-ring.

B. I’m sorry, I’m busy.

A. What a pity!

Образование множественного числа существительных греческого и латинского происхождения.

9. Read the text and retell it in Russian:

Science and Technology in Britain

Since the first artificial splitting of the atom at Cambridge, in 1932, by Sir John Cockcroft and Dr. E. T. S. Walton, Britain's nuclear scientists have made continuous progress in harnessing atomic energy. Today eight commercial nuclear power stations are supplying electricity for factories and homes and others are being built. Some of Britain's top scientists are engaged in space research on projects such as upper atmosphere probes with British-built rockets at Woomera, Australia, and inwork on satellite communications. Others are making vital discoveries in the laboratory into the very nature of life itself.

Britain is pre-eminent in radio astronomy and in many fields of electronics including miniaturisation. one of the most important factors in the electronics revolution, and in radar for marine and aviation purposes. Much basic work was done in Britain on electronic computers. British advances in medicine include penicillin and other antibiotics, such as cephalosporins, heart-lung machines, a new anti-viral agent, Interferon, of great potential value and many other important developments in the treatment of disease.

British contributions to science include many great discoveries linked with famous names - Sir Isaac Newton (theory of gravitation), Robert Boyle ("the father of modern chemistry"), Michael Faraday (whose discoveries gave rise to the electrical industry), and Henry Cavendish (properties of hydrogen). In the present century - J. J. Thomson, Lord Rutherford and Sir James Chadwick (basic work on nuclear science), Gowland Hopkins (the existence of vitamins), Sir William Bragg (X-ray analysis), and many others. Medicine owes much to such pioneers as William Harvey (circulation of the blood), Edward Jenner (vaccination), Joseph Lister (antiseptics). Sir Ronald Ross (who proved the relation between malaria and mosquitoes).

Since 1945 there have been 27 British scientists who have received international recognition for their work by gaining Nobel awards. There are over 200 learned scientific societies in Britain. In ten years Britain has doubled her total number of qualified scientists.

10. Translate English jokes: