Texts for Supplementary Reading
Sort out the two jokes as quickly as you can. Be ready to retell them to the class.
THE SENSE OF HUMOUR/BE CAREFUL
1) Once Professor Thomson (Lord Kelvin) was unable to stay for the class, so he placed a sign on the door: "Professor Thomson will be unable to meet his classes today".
2) The chemistry professor wrote the formula HNO3 on the blackboard.
3) Addressing one of the students he said, "Identify that formula, please".
4) Some college student wanted to display his sense of humour and erased the letter "c" in the word "classes".
5) "Just a moment", answered the student, "I've got it on the tip of my tongue, sir".
6) The professor, noticing the laughing students came back.
7) He looked at the students, then at the sign which now read: "Professor Thomson will be unable to meet his lasses today".
8) "Then", said the professor softly, "you'd better spit it out. It is nitric acid".
9) Then the Professor calmly erased the letter "1", looked at the students and proceeded on his way.
10) Everybody was laughing seeing the sign which now read as follows: "Professor Thomson will be unable to meet his asses today".
THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR/THE PROFESSOR COULDN'T ANSWER IT
1) A very absent-minded professor was once travelling by a suburban train.
2) Old Mr Brompton was a very clever man.
3) At one of the stations the ticket-collector came to check the tickets, but the professor could not find his.
4) He was a professor and had a lot of degrees, yet the other day he could not answer his granddaughter's question.
5) "Never mind, sir", said the ticket-collector who knew the professor very well, "I'll come at the next station".
6) "Grandpa", she said, "I saw something so funny running across the kitchen floor without any legs. What do you think it was?"
7) The professor thought and thought, but at last he had to give up. "What was it?" he asked.
8) But at the next station there was the same difficulty: the professor could not find his ticket anywhere.
9) "Don't trouble about it, it really doesn't matter", said the ticket-collector kindly.
10) '"Water", replied the little girl triumphantly.
11) "No, no, I must find out where I am going to. I have forgotten
HIS REVENGE/ABOUT EINSTEIN
1) Niels Bohr (1885—1962), the Danish physicist, discovered many important laws concerning the structure of atomic nucleus.
2) It is the pride of many people never to have any time. It was Einstein's pride always to have time.
3) Once he agreed to meet a friend of his on a certain bridge.
4) He always worked hard. But once it so happened that he had not prepared for his seminar at the university.
5) The man said he could not promise to be there at the appointed time.
6) His report was very bad and the teacher was surprised.
7) "Oh", said Einstein, "it makes no difference, then I shall wait on the bridge".
8) The friend suggested that he might lose too much of his time.
9) Bohr, however, did not lose the presence of mind and finishing his report said in conclusion, "I have listened here to so many bad reports that I ask you to regard this one as my revenge".
10) "Oh, no", answered Einstein, "the kind of work I do can be done anywhere. I can think about my problems on the bridge as well as at home".
- Міністерство освіти і науки україни
- Content
- Unit I about myself. Exercises.
- II Remember this proverb:
- III Greetings, Enquiries About Health.
- Illustrative Dialogues.
- V. Choose the best answer.
- VI. Make up your own dialogues.
- VII. Read the text and answer the questions. Hi! This is Me.
- VIII. Ask the questions to have the following answers.
- IX Speak about yourself. Text for Supplementary Reading the secret of happiness.
- What is Happiness for You
- Grammar exercises.
- IX. Read quickly in the singular.
- The article.
- XV. Rewrite the sentences including the words in brackets.
- Question forms
- Unit II.
- IX. Give your own opinion about Max's family.
- X. Communicative activities.
- XI. Read and do the task below.
- XII. Generation gap.
- XIII. A Family Conflict
- XIV. How not to talk to your Mother.
- XVI. Write the answer to Helen's letter. Give them advice about the problem. Give reason for advice. Make predictions about how the situation will change. Text for Supplementary Reading.
- Vicky Samson.
- Grammar exercises. Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- VI. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the adjectives in brackets.
- VII. Translate into English.
- Unit III. My rights and duties.
- II. Remember these sayings.
- How do you understand them?
- III. Introductions. Read and learn.
- Informal:
- IV. Read the dialogues, learn any of them and reproduce it.
- Informal
- V. A team of volleyball players from Kyiv has come to Hlukhiv to take part in a competition. One of the players Peter Klymenko is getting acquainted with Victor Kovalenko.
- VI. Make up your own dialogue.
- VII. Read and translate the text.
- VIII. What are all these rights about? How do you understand them? Are they fair?
- IX. Agree or disagree. Use these expressions.
- X. Which rights seem the most important to you? Do you enjoy all these rights? And what about your duties?
- XI. Work in pairs. Make up a dialogue about your rights and duties. Text for Supplementary Reading.
- Grammar exercises. Present Simple
- I Open the brackets. Put the verbs in the Present Simple Tense.
- II Put these sentences into interrogative and negative forms.
- III. Transform these sentences according to the model. Give short answer to the questions.
- B.: … neither …
- VIII. The reasons of smoking.
- IX.What piece of advice can you give to a smoker who has made up his mind to give up this bad habit?
- X. Draw funny cartoons on smokers. Add some more sentences to help your friends to give up smoking.
- XII. Match the English sentences with their Ukrainian equivalents.
- XIV.Read these quotations and fill the table.
- XV. Food plays a very important part in our life. Read the text and learn how it all happens. Then retell the text. How it Happens.
- XVI. What should people do if they don’t want to be fat? Read the text and write a letter to your friend who likes to eat fast food. Fat Farmers.
- VXII. Read the text " Healthy Henry". " Healthy Henry".
- XVIII. What quotation illustrates this text best of all?
- XIX. Are you healthy?
- XX. Remember some good rules:
- Grammar Exercises. The Past Simple.
- Unit V. Sports in our life. Exercises.
- Cheerleaders.
- Recommend this man several kinds of sport which could be less dangerous.
- IX.Read the information and in not more than 25 words tell the main content of it. Olympic Games.
- X. Read the following texts and speak about the famous sportsmen of the world.
- XI. Study the table:
- XII. Read the composition below and write an essay reflecting the situation with sport in our country. Guiding questions will help you to cope with your work. The Importance of Sport.
- Guiding Questions.
- Grammar exercises Future Simple.
- Unit VI. Leisure Time. Hobbies. Exercises.
- Illustrative Dialogues.
- Looking for Names.
- Photography as a Hobby.
- Are You Completely Bananas?
- My Hobbies.
- My Hobby.
- My Hobby.
- XI.If you can’t choose any hobby ask your friend for advice. Make up a dialogue
- Text for Supplementary Reading. Hobbies.
- Unit VII. Leisure Time. Theatre. Cinema. Exercises.
- Invitations.
- Illustrative dialogues.
- Remember these words:
- Text for Supplementary Reading. A Miracle.
- Grammar tests.
- 1. Choose the correct variant of the verb :
- 2. Open the brackets :
- 3. You have an answer. What was the question?
- Unit VIII. Leisure. Time. Music. Exercises.
- The power of music.
- Do you like music?
- Text for Supplementary Reading. M. Lysenko.
- Whitney houston.
- Grammar tests.
- 1. Choose the correct variant of the verb :
- 2. Open the brackets :
- 3. You have an answer. What was the question?
- 5. You have an answer. What was the question?
- 6. Open the brackets :
- Unit IX
- IV.Match English words and their translations.
- V.Translate into English in written.
- VII. Decide which word is odd one in each group and give your reasons
- VIII. Anagrams. How quickly can you unscramble the following words?
- IX. Word formation Complete the chart:
- X. Read and say your opinion on the topic.
- XI.Write an essay about the necessity of education nowadays and what do you need to be an educated person. Text for Supplementary Reading. British universities and colleges
- Vocabulary:
- IV. Pair work. You are a student of our college. What does it mean to be a student?
- VI. Read and answer the questions. Our college
- VI. Say which activities at the lessons and after school give you opportunities:
- VIII. Write a letter to your friend about your college life. Grammar exercises
- 6. Translate into English.
- Unit XI jobs and professions Exercises
- V. Name at least 3 jobs for each item of the list below. Give reasons to explain your choice in written form.
- Vocabulary:
- IX. There are a number of terms and abbreviations that you need to know before you can make sense of want ads. Look through some abbreviations.
- X. These ads are from original foreign newspaper try to guess the meaning of them.
- XI. Read this help-wanted ad. Decide which of the three people is best qualified to do the job. Give reasons for your decisions.
- XII. Speak about your future profession using the plan:
- These questions will help you.
- XIII. Choose one of the quotations as a topic for your essay.
- Texts for Supplementary Reading My Future Profession
- Computer Programmer
- A Businessman / a Businesswoman
- Grammar exercises.
- 7.Open the brackets .
- Unit XII.
- IV.Comment on popular inventions using the following expressions:
- V. Read brief information about scientists
- Inventors and inventions
- Vocabulary.
- VI. Scanning brief information about scientists work in groups:
- VII. Illustrative dialogues.
- VIII. Arrange the words in a sentence:
- IX. Read the text. Put the verbs in brackets either in the Past Simple Active or the Past Simple Passive.
- Texts for Supplementary Reading
- Grammar exercises. Passive Voice
- 2. Translate in English using Past Simple Active або Past Simple Passive.
- 3. Translate in English using Future Simple Active або Future Simple Passive.
- 4. Use the Passive Voice.
- Unit XIII
- Mass media
- The power and dangers of television
- Exercises.
- The Influence of tv on Children
- Imagine that you were offered to run a youth channel on tv. Decide on the following:
- Grammar exercises. The sequence of tenses
- Unit XIV
- Mass media
- The world of press
- Exercises
- Newspapers and Magazines in Ukraine.
- Illustrative dialogues.
- Street Children.
- Supplementary Task
- Grammar exercises. The sequence of tenses
- Unit XV the world of books Exercises
- I.Listen and read. [ r]
- II.Remember these proverbs, and quotations. What do you think of them? How do you understand these words.
- III.What genres of books do you know? Complete the spider gram with the words concerning genres of books of types of publications.
- IV.Fill in the table:
- V.Match the words with their definitions:
- VI.Fill in the following sentences with the give prepositions:
- V.Which is the odd word in each group and why?
- VI.Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below: Bibliography, bookworm, reviews, illustrations, borrow, published
- VII.Match the following works to their authors. Use Passive Voice.
- VIII.What kind of writes were these people?
- IX.Speaking. Books teach us a lot of different things. What are your ideas about it? Fill in the chat.
- X.Literary heroes can teach you a lot, too. What do they teach you? Fill in the chat.
- XI.Read an example of book review. Harry Potter
- Useful Phrases
- I like to read
- Is it useful to read books?
- Grammar exercises. The sequence of tenses
- 3. Render the following texts in indirect speech.
- I. Mark twain and the game warden
- II. Time works wonders
- III. An automobile story
- IV. Bad manners
- V. The boy and the cakes
- VI. Too clever
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