EXERCISES. I. Read the text and speak on the topic.

I. Read the text and speak on the topic.

TIMES, DAYS, DATE

4 seasons or 12 months or 365 days make a year. A leap year has 366 days. 30 or 31 days make a month. 7 days make a week. The 1^st day of the week is Sunday. 6 days are week-days. They are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. If you are asked to name 5 days of a week but not to mention Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday you can do it. They are: today, yesterday, the day before yesterday, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Let us recall how to read the dates. We read the years in this way:

1215 – in twelve fifteen

1506 – in fifteen o [ou] six

1800 – in eighteen hundred

2000 – in (the year) two thousand

2001 – in twenty o one.

There are two different ways to read the exact dates. For instance:

22/VI 1941 – (1) June the twenty-second, nineteen forty-one; (2) the twenty-second of June nineteen forty-one.

If you want to know the time you look at your watch or at a clock. There are 2 hands on the face of the clock. One hand is long, it is the minute hand. The other one is short, it is the hour hand. The question “What time is it?” or “What’s the time?” may be answered: “It is 7 (o’ clock) sharp.” There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes make an hour, 30 minutes make a half an hour, 15 minutes make a quarter of an hour.

We name the time as follows:

7.05 – It is 5 (minutes) past 7

7.15 – It is a quarter / 15 (minutes) past 7

7.25 – It is 25 (minutes) past 7

7.30 – It is half past 7

7.40 – It is 20 (minutes) to 8

7.45 – It is a quarter to 8

7.55 – It is 5 (minutes) to 8

We make the arithmetic as follows:

3+4=7: three and (plus) four are seven

10-7=3: ten minus seven are three

30:3=10: thirty divided by three are ten

8x4=32: eight times (multiplied by) four are thirty-two.

II. Read the dates correctly.

1. Theodore Dreiser was born on the 27^th of August 1871. 2. George Bernard Shaw died on the 2^nd of November 1950. 3. Charles Dickens was born on the 7^th of February 1812. 4. John Galsworthy was born on the 14^th of August 1867. 5. Walter Scott died on the 21^st of September 1832. 6. John Reed was born on the 22^nd of October 1887. 7. Louis Armstrong was born on the 4^th of July 1900. 8. Ernest Hemingway died on the 2^nd of July 1961.

III. Answer the following questions.

1. When do you usually get up?

2. When do you have breakfast?

3. When do you come to the lessons?

4. When do you have dinner?

5. When do you consult your professor of History (Philosophy)?

6. When do you go home after classes?

7. When do you watch the latest news on TV?

8. When do you usually go to bed?

9. How long do you do your homework?

10. How long do you rest?

11. When were you born?

12. When was each member of the family born?

UNIT 6

GRAMMAR: CONJUGATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE VERB TO BE SUBJECT OF COMMUNICATION: MY FLAT, MY HOME

CONJUGATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE VERB TO BE

Основные формы: be - was/were -been

Present Indefinite l am we are you are you are hе, she, it is they are

Past Indefinite I was we were you were you were hе, she, it was they were

Вопросительное предложение с глаголом to be в качестве сказуемого или его изменяемой части образуется без глагола-оператора dо.

Ср.: Are these your notes?

When were you at the concert?

Отрицательное предложение также образуется без глагола-оператора do. Отрицательная частица not ставится непосредственно после глагола to be.:

Ср.: These are not my notes (aren' t).

I was not at the concert yesterday (wasn’t).

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