Preliminary Exercises

Exercise 1. Transcribe and pronounce:

experience, experienced, boarding, enter, attend, comprehensive, primary, education, course, examination, demonstration, lecture, lecturer, department, practice, changing-room, assembly hall, psychology, shorthand.

Exercise 2. Read and translate the words formed by different suffixes and prefixes:

comparison, equipment, unmarried, lecturer, prehistorical, department, comprehensive, equipped, separation, librarian, cookery, musician, typing, optional, prenursery, external.

Exercise 3. Give three forms of the verbs:

to grow up, to find, to teach, to give, to feel, to lose, to hear, to know, to learn, to take.

Exercise 4. Form nouns by adding suffixes “er”, “or”, “tion” and translate them:

read, teach, write, test, listen, instruct, translate, educate, examine, demonstrate.

Words and word combinations to be remembered:

stranger (n) — незнакомец

train (v) — обучать

experience (n) — опыт

primary school — начальная школа

boarding school — школа с проживанием

comprehensive school — всеобщая школа

enter (v) — поступать

term / semester (n) — семестр

tutorial (n) — практическое занятие

psychology (n) — психология

course (n) — курс

equip (v) — оборудовать

well-equipped (a) — хорошо оборудованный

equipment (n) — оборудование

workshop (n) — цех, мастерская

science (n) — наука

curriculum (n) — учебная программа

compulsory (a) — обязательный

optional (a) — дополнительный

internal (a) — внутренний

external (a) — внешний

headmaster (n) — директор

staff (n) — преподавательский состав

Read and translate the text. Pay attention that it has a form of a letter.