The most popular games are football and cricket. Almost every Englishman plays these games. Tennis, golf, hockey, horse-racing are also very popular. Soccer is preferable in England than rugby. Rugby can be called hand football. It is more complicated. Englishmen are mad of cricket. Tennis has become popular of late, it is played all the year round-on hard courts, or grass courts, or covered courts, in parks and in special tennis courts. Every summer they hold a great international tournament in Wimbledon, near London. Tennis players from all over the world take part in it. It's very honourable to win it. Englishmen don't
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often have the chance of skiing or skating. But winter is the proper time for foxhunting if the ground is hard enough. Indoor games are chess, billiard, cards, table tennis
25, Speak on: 1) the sport activity at our University;
2) the last match that you saw at the stadium ;
3) famous sportsmen;
4) your favourite sport;
5) the last 18th Winter Olympic Games.
4 Our University
Language Practice. Pronunciation.
1. Pronounce the following words. Pay attention to the pronunciation of the letter
s ^
/z/ enterprise, as, because, these, theses, those, disposal, physics 7)
S:
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/s/ speciality, professor, university, some, research, student, study, industrial, assistant, physics;
2. Pronounce the following words. Pay attention to the pronunciation of the letter "c":
/k/ education, lecture, close, become, occupy, academic, electric, carry, 71 technological c:
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/s/ device, centre, place, society, facilities
3. Read the following words. Pay attention to the stress:
Ударение падает на слог:
первыйвторойтретий
institute research education different canteen academic
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subject attend speciality conference laboratory mathematics packing machine electronics marketing tutorial correspondence management economy automation faculty department polytechnic enterprise disposal engineering graduate allowance economics
4. Read the following groups of words paying attention to the pronunciation and stress:
study - student
economy - economist - economics - economic
specialist - speciality production - productivity - product - productive
industry - industrial
educate - education - educated - educational
graduate - graduation
5. A: Practice reading the ending "-s" in words:
/s/ workshops, specialists, lasts, students, credits, tests
71 s :-> /z/ tools, rooms, halls, laboratories, buildings, hostels
^1 /Iz/ devices, branches, classes, offices, enterprises, villages
B: Read the words and divide them into three groups according to the pronunciation of the ending "-s":
lectures, tutorials, studies, facilities, societies, occupies, cutters, economics, professors, hydrolics, pneumatics, terms, exams, machines, lectures.
6. Repeat the following words after the teacher:
Polytechnic, institute, higher educational institution, occupy, numerous, laboratory, facilities, research work, tutorial, branch, knowledge, faculty, department, automation, machine-building, electromechanics, speciality, supply, casting, heat-power, organization, allowance.
7. Read the following international words and translate them into Russian :
engineering, general, special subjects, specialist, theoretical, practical training, conference, report, thesis, course, credit, classes, industrial, computing centre, assistant-professor.
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8. Vocabulary Study the meaning and use of the new words:
1. academic - учебный год
In Great Britain the academic year begins in October.
2. higher educational institution - высшее учебное заведение
syn. educational establishment There are many higher educational institutions in our country.
3. to be situated - располагаться
Cambridge is situated at a distance of seventy miles from London.
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