What is your typical day like? Describe it please.

PART III

GRAMMAR IN SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT

UNIT I. Tenses in the Active Voice

THE PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE

Exercise 1. Use the sentences to make questions. Begin your question with the word(s) in brackets.

Examples: Ann consults her scientific supervisor. (How often?) … How often does Ann consult her scientific supervisor?

1) He does experimental work. (How often?) How often....…………................

2) I participate in scientific conferences. (How often?)...........................………

3) We perform the work in cooperation with other departments. (Which departments /usually?)......…….........................................................................

4) George studies English. (Where?).......................................…………..............

5) They publish articles every year. (How often?)..........................……………..

6) He works at the candidate thesis. (Why?).........................………………....

7) You carry out interesting experiments. (How often?)..……...........................

8) He presents his paper to the conference. (When?).………….........................

9) Our department collaborates with many industrial enterprises. (Why?)............

Exercise 2. Put the verb into the correct form.

Examples: Water ….boils....(boil) at 100 degrees centigrade.

Bob... doesn’t go … (not/go) to the cinema very often.

How many languages … do you speak.... (you/speak)?

1) The library... (open) at 9.00.

2) What time … (libraries/close) in Britain?

3) He has a car but he … (not/use) it very often.

4) How many articles … (you/publish) a year?

5) ‘What … (you/do)? ’ ‘I’m an electrical engineer.’

6) ‘Where … (your mother/come) from? ’ ‘She … (come) from Saratov.’

7) If you need money, why... (you/not/get) a job?

8) I … (play) the guitar, but I... (not/play) very well.

Exercise 3. Read the sentences about Helen Smirnova and arrange them in the correct order.

1) Here is a typical day for Helen Smirnova.

2) She goes to work by bus.

3) She gets up at 7 30.

4) She works for an environmental agency in Moscow.

5) It takes her 40 minutes to get to the agency.

6) She usually has lunch in the agency canteen.

7) She starts work at 9 o’clock.

8) She has breakfast at 8 o’clock.

9) She goes to bed at about 11.

10) After dinner she watches TV or goes out with her husband.

11) She finishes work at 5.

12) Then she goes home and has dinner.

What is your typical day like? Describe it please.

Exercise 4. Peter Ivanov’s teacher of English is upset with her postgraduate. That’s what she says to him:

“Peter! I’m really upset. When you come to my classes, you always speak Russian and never speak English. When you translate texts, you make a lot of mistakes. When I explain grammar rules, you never listen to me. When I ask you questions, you seldom answer them. And you never do your home assignments. Sometimes I think you don’t like English at all.”

Now imagine that you are Peter Ivanov’s group-mate. Tell another group-mate why Peter’s teacher is upset with him.