Answer the following questions.

1. How old is Aktobe?
2. What is the population of our town?
3. Where is it situated?
4. What are the largest enterprises?
5. What can you say about the communication in our town?
6. Is Aktobe really a large town in Kazakhstan?
7. What places of interest can you name?
8. Do you like this town? Why?
9. Where are you from?
10. What is the future of our town? Express your own thoughts.

Exercise 1. Write the transcription of these words and read them.

Model: traffic [‘tæ fik]

population

enterprise

unique

passenger

communications

microdistrict

products

industrial

service

deposit

Exercise 2. Put the right letter.

Model: se…vice- service.

A… iversary, co… unications, instituti…n, resi…ential, mon…ments, mi…rodistrict, muse…m, co… ege, re…ional, educa…ional.

Exercise 3. Answer the questions.

1.When did the history of the town begin?

2.Where is our region situated?

3.Can we say that Aktobe is a highly developed industrial center of the Western Kazakhstan?

4.How is Aktobe translated from Kazakh?

5.What establishments of higher education are there in the town?

6.What territory does our region cover?

7.What kind of center has Aktobe been for many years?

8. Do you like this town? Why?

9. Where are you from?

10. What is the future of our town? Express your own thoughts.

Exercise 4. Complete the sentences.

1. Not long ago it celebrated ….

2. Today Aktobe is an important … centre.

3 There are some big … here and some smaller ….

4 Aktobe is host to a number of … and … institutions of higher learning

5.Its … is about 300 000 people.

6. The largest … are: “Aktobemunaigas”, ….

7.Aktobe is one of the largest cities in ….

8. Beef, mutton, a dairy …. are major products in this area.

9. The military of Kazakhstan also maintains a … school in the city.

10. There are night … and … complexes in Aktobe city.

Exercise 5. Circle the correct alternative in each sentence.

0 My aunt lives in London, south of Thames / the Thames

1 He saw an accident when he was driving / drove home

2 I haven’t done my homework yet / already.

3 I need to have a bath / the bath first.

4 I didn’t see / haven’t seen my friend recently.

5 When my mother heard the news she was beginning / began to cry.

6 I won / have won three table - tennis tournaments when I was at school.

7 Fiona is very talented. She plays the piano / piano very well.

8 How many times have you traveled / did you travel by plane?

9 I don’t like going to a cinema / the cinema.

10 What did you do / were you doing when you got to school yesterday

Exercise 6. Write these sentences into the negative and interrogative form.

Model: I have n’t been writ ing a letter for my friend.

Have I been writ ing a letter for my friend?

1.Recently, I have been feeling really tired.2.She has been watching too much television lately.3.Have you been exercising lately? 4.Maryhas been feeling a little depressed.5.Lisa has not been practicing her English. 6.Whathave you been doing? 7.Theyhave been talking for the last hour.8.She has been working at that company for three years.9.What have you been doing for the last 30 minutes? 10.James has been teaching at the university since June.