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12. Translate the sentences paying attention to different meanings of MAKE:

1. Make sure that the door is locked when leaving your apartment.

2. Let’s make it up.

3. As you make the bed, so you will lie in it.

4. What am I to make of your behavior?

5. Two and three make five.

6. You must make up your mind about this business till next Monday.

7. – Have you heard anything about John? – Yes, I know that he is in the start-up business now and is completely on the make.

8. Do you agree that a smiling boss makes for a happy and more productive employee?

9. Joineris a man who makes joinery.

12.1. Mind the difference between the use of the verbs “make” and “do”:

make certain a contribution a mistake sure a journey a complaint a charge money a discovery a bed a trip use of an inquiry room for smb. a choice an excuse

do good a sum an experiment harm one’s best a favour business one’s duty a test housework lessons damage the room the dishes work the washing-up

12.2. Insert the necessary verb:

1. If he … a mistake, he will have to… his lesson again.

2. It will only … you good.

3. Don’t worry; I will try to … my best to help you.

4. She would like to … a journey to Italy this summer.

5. Housewives usually … their washing-up on Saturdays.

6. He just … an excuse and disappeared.

7. We are to … choices pretty often in our lives.

8. It will not … you any harm.

9. If a person likes his or her business, he or she will … it thoroughly.

10. The earthquake … a lot of damage to the location.

11. Joseph …his test better than anybody else in the group.

13. Speaking practice. Discuss the topic “MY NATIVE TOWN (CITY)” with your partner using the following words and phrases:

native(s), citizen, inhabitant, city council, settlement, a fast-growing town, to be founded in … by, an advantage of living, to be situated (located), to stretch, to be surrounded by, to be hedged with, an ancient city, a relatively young town, a monument to, to be connected to, to be divided into…districts, residential area, to be noted for, places of interest, a centre (focus), outskirts, a suburb, a big commercial (cultural) centre, the biggest southern / northern international sea port, a convenient geographical position, a Hero City, to be proud of, to grow up around…, to dominate, to be the center of, to have one’s own infrastructure, sister city (twin city), to be (re)named after, to catch one’s eye, to attract tourists, to develop into, the total population, etc.

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14. Translate the sentences with the construction «there + to be»:

1. There are two new hotels under construction in this part of the city.

2. There exist at present different varieties of bricks.

3. There was a big transition in concrete during the times of Julius Caesar.

4. There are many ancient buildings made of concrete remaining in Rome till nowadays.

5. In the middle of the 20^th century there appeared some other new branches of engineering – nuclear engineering and space engineering.

6. Many thousands of years ago there were no houses such as people live in today.

7. There will be a need to make the remodeling of the flat in a year.

8. There are evidences that ancient Greeks also used concrete in the building purposes.

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