1. The city experiences four distinct seasons.
2. The Canadian capital is a high-technology centre, it can boast of more engineers, scientists and PhD graduates per capita than any other city in Canada.
3. It is endowed with a number of national museums, parks, squares, theatres, cinemas, large shopping centres, etc., making Ottawa a bright and beautiful landscape for all to enjoy.
4. Canada’s capital welcomes over 7.3 million visitors per year, who spend over $1.18 billion.
Задание № 5. Прочтите и письменно переведите предложения с грамматической конструкцией (оборотом) «thereis /thereare».
1. There will be much rain next autumn.
2. There is a computer in the room.
3. There were many students in the reading-hall yesterday.
Задание № 6. Следуя правилам словообразования, образуйте 5 слов, используя следующие суффиксы – «-ful»,«-able», «-ical», «-ship», «-tion». Переведите.
Demonstrate, profit, power, relation, economy.
Задание № 7. Образуйте степени сравнения следующих прилагательных и наречий – сравнительную и превосходную. Переведите.
Little, interesting, many, large, good.
Задание № 8. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
1. The children are playing table-tennis now.
2. It will be raining all day long on Sunday.
3. The postman brings them newspapers every morning.
4. The lecture had already begun when we came.
5. The student said he would pass his exams in January.
6. Yesterday our librarian advised me to read a new edition of the magazine.
Вариант № 4
Задание № 1. Прочитайте и письменно переведите текст.
The English language
English is the most popular language in the world. Nowadays it hasbecome the world’s most important language in politics, science, industry, education, culture, sport,radio, diplomacy, etc. In a number of speakers (400 million) it is second only to Chinese.
English is the official language in at least seventy-five countries with a total population of over two billion. English is spoken as a native language by around 375 million and as a second language by around 375 million speakers in the world. Speakers of English as a second language will soon outnumber those who speak it as a first language. According to the statistics, about 750 million people speak English as a foreign language. One out of every four persons of the world’s population speaks English to some level of competence.
Over two-thirds of the world’s scientists read in English. Three quarters of the world’s mail is written in English. Eighty per cent of the world’s electronically stored information is in English. Half of all business deals are conducted in English. Two thirds of all scientific papers are written in English.Most international tourism, aviation and diplomacy are conducted in English.
The main language used throughout the world on the Internet is also English. Some eighty per cent of people communicate in English online. Four factors explain the use of English on the Internet:
1. The number of users of the language.
2. The extent of its use as an official language.
3. The economic power of the language.
4. The volume of information disseminated in that language.
Today, English reigns supreme in all four respects. English is the language most often studied as a foreign language in the European Union.
Among some non-English speaking EU countries, a large percentage of the adult population can speak English – in particular: 85% in Sweden, 83% in Denmark, 79% in the Netherlands, and over 50% in Finland, Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, and Germany.
Books, magazines and newspapers written in English are available in many countries around the world.
Modern English contains a very large vocabulary. The Oxford English Dictionary lists over 250,000 words.
English is the primary language in such countries as, the United Kingdomof Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America,Australia, Canada, Ireland,New Zealand, and many others.
Each country has its own history, customs, traditions, national holidays, natureand the way of life. Buttheyallhaveacommonlanguage.
Vocabulary
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Задание№ 2. Дайте ответы на вопросы по тексту «TheEnglishlanguage» (задание № 1).
1. English is the most popular language in the world, isn’t it?
2. Is English the official language in seventy-five or eighty-five countries?
3. How many people speak English as a foreign language?
4. Does Modern English contain a very large vocabulary?
5. What foreign language is the primary language in such countries as, the United Kingdom, the United States,Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand?
Задание № 3. Задайте 5 вопросов к предложению (общий, альтернативный, разделительный и 2 специальных).
Modern English contains a very large vocabulary.
Задание № 4. Данные предложения из текста (задание№ 1) содержат слова с окончаниями «-s», «-es», «’s». В каждом предложении определите, какую функцию выполняет окончание («-s», «-es», «’s»), обращая внимание на его грамматические признаки, т.е. является ли оно:
a) показателем третьего лица единственного числа глагола в PresentIndefinite(Simple) Active;
b) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;