Английский язык: самоучитель

1. Where are the airline tickets?

2. Where is the International department?

3. What is there in the drawer?

4. What is there behind the wastepaper basket?

5. Where is the reception area?

6. What is there in the next office?

7. How many rooms are there in your flat?

8. How many messages are there in the mail-box?

9. Where are the video recorders?

10. Who is there in the meetings room?

5. Change the sentences in the Singular into the Plural and the Plural into the Singular.

Поставьте глагол единственного числа во множественное, и наоборот.

Например:

There are five offices in this department. There is an office in this department.

There is a fax-machine on the table. There are fax-machines on the table.

There are some clients in the reception.

There is some water in the bottle.

There are seven sockets in the room.

There are three drawers in the desk.

There is a message in the mail-box.

There are some documents there.

There is some post on the boss’ desk.

There are some transparencies next to the overhead projector.

6. Make up interrogative and negative sentences.Give their translation.

Составьте вопросительные и отрицательные предложения. Переведите их на русский язык.

Например:

There are five computers in the office. Are there five computers in the office? There aren’t five computers in the office.

В офисе 5 компьютеров. В офисе 5 компьютеров? В офисе нет пяти компьютеров.

There is a chair behind each desk.

There is a video recorder in that department.

There are some sockets in the office.

There are three clients in the reception.

There are telephone lines in almost all the rooms.

There is some milk and some coffee in the fridge.

7. Look around. Answer the questions.

Посмотрите вокруг себя. Ответьте на вопросы.

1. Are there any sockets in your room?

2. Is there any paper on your table?

3. What is there next to the window?

4. How many drawers are there in your desk?

5. Are there any children in the room?

6. Where are your books?

7. Where is your food?

8. There is an extra word in each sentence. Find it.

Найдите лишнее слово в каждом из данных предложений.

1. There are not no drawers in the desk.

2. There is a some fax-machine in our department.

3. There is not some any paper in the laser printer.

4. Are there any an airline tickets in the reception?

5. There is not a any juice in the glass.

6. How many rooms are there are in this department?

7. Are there any not letters for our tenants?

READINGAND SPEAKING PRACTICE

1. Answer the questions.

Ответьте на вопросы.

1. What do you usually do at work?

2. What do you especially enjoy/are bored with/hate doing?

3. What are you doing now?

4. What are your secretaries/managers doing now?

5. What equipment is there in your office?

6. How many departments are there in your office?

7. How often do you organize meetings/discuss your problems/send letters/sign the documents?

8. How many people are there in the office today?

9. Who is using a phone now?

10. Who regularly brings new information to the office?

2. Complete the questions in The Present Continuous and Present Simple tenses with the words from the Active Vocabulary.

Дополните вопросы в Настоящем продолженном и Настоящем простом временах, используя слова Активного Словаря.

1. Are you...................................................................?

2. What is he...............................................................?

3. Am I.....................................................................?

4. Where is he..............................................................?

5. Why are the doctors.....................................................?

6. Does she..................................................................?

7. When does he............................................................?

8. Who.........................................................................?

9. Why do they...............................................................?

3. Read the dialogue and try to learn it.

Прочитайте диалог и постарайтесь его запомнить.

Boris: Julia, could you help me, please?

Julia: Yes, Boris. What is wrong?

Boris: Well. I would like Alice to type a letter. But there aren’t any secretaries in the department now.

Julia: I see. Can you type?

Boris: Yes. I think so.

Julia: There is a word processor on Alice ’s desk. Can you use a word processor?

Boris: Yes. And where is the disk?

Julia: It is in the top drawer of the desk.

Boris: Julia, there isn’t a dollar sign!

Julia: Yes, there is.

Boris: Well, I can’t see it.

Julia: Oh. Boris. That’s terrible. Would you like me to help you?

Boris: Oh, thanks. Can you read my writing?

Julia: Yes. I think so!