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Grammar:

The Present Simple Tense.

The Cardinal and Ordinal numerals

Exercise 1. Warm up: Discuss the following proverbs:

1. Live and Learn

2. Experience is the best teacher

Exercise 2. Topical words

Currently – қазіргі кезде

To be enrolled – студенттер тізімінде болу

Full-time-students – күндізгі бөлім студенттері

Part time-students – кешкі бөлім студенттері

To conduct – өткізу

Course of study – оқу курсы

Industrial automation – өндірістік автоматика

Plastics – пластмас

Machine tools – станоктар

Metalworking – металл өңдеу

Figure – фигура, сан

Noisy – шулы, шу

To chat – әңгімелесу

To be equipped with – жабдықталу

Up-to-date equipment – қазіргі заман жабдықтары

Carry on – жалғастыру

Research work – зерттеу жұмысы

One-storeyed – бір қабатты

Tasty – дәмді

Add to your active vocabulary:

classroom – дәрісхана lecture hall – лекция залы laboratory – зертхана gym (gymnasium) – спортзал semester – семестр school years – оқу жылы academy – академия university – университет institute – институт faculty, college, department – факультет

College of physics – физика факультеті

Department, chair of … – кафедра

Head of the department, chief of the department, chair (man, woman) – Кафедра меңгерушісі

Substitute – орынбасар teaching instructor (TI) – оқытушы professor – профессор dean – декан

Rector – ректор

Teaching staff, faculty members – ұстаздар құрамы student of distant education – сырттай оқу бөлімінің студенті student of preparatory courses – дайындық бөлімінің студенті undergraduate student – жоғары курс студенті graduate student – магистратура студенті, аспирант

Exercise 3. Read the text and answer the questions.

1. What is the name of your University?

2. Where is it?

3. How many floors has it?

4. What floor is the State and World languages department?

5. What languages do you study?

6. Why do you study them?

7. What faculties does your university have?

8. What is the name of your faculty?

9. What is your speciality?

10. What do you do in your free time?

11. What do you know about your teaching staff?

12. Who is your Rector?

13. How many students enter the University every year?

14. Do you think that your University is popular among youngsters?

15. Why do you think so?

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Our university is one of the important country’s higher institutions. It is situated on Al-farabi avenue 71, in the centre of the city. It has several buildings. The main building has 14 floors.

We study such languages, as Kazakh, Russian, Englisn, German and some students study Korean, Japanese and Turkish languages.

We are happy that we study here. Because the University has many modern faculties, which prepare many useful specialists for the different branches of industry.

The graduate students do not have any difficulties in finding jobs. Because all specialities are in need a time.

Our life is very interesting.

We have students’youth organizations, dancing groups, which are very popular among youngsters. The University also has sport teams. Our football team is very strong. It takes part in many competitions and often wins. Some sportsmen of our University take part in international matches.

Our teaching staff consists of about 2000 members. Professors, Doctors of Sciences, Candidates and teaching instructors are among them. Our university is closely connected with different higher institutions of our and foreign countries. Our Economics faculty is very popular. Every year about 5000 students enter the University. Its specialities are interesting and in need of time now. Our lecture halls, laboratories have up-to-date equipment.

I think that I’m lucky to be a student of this University.

Exercise 4. Read the text and translate the first passage.

The merry-go-round of university life is something that one never forgets. It's a fascinating, fantastic, fabulous experience, irrespective of the fact whether one is a full-time or a part-time student.

Who can forget the first day at the university when one turns from an applicant who has passed entrance exams into a first-year student? I did it! I entered, I got in to the university! A solemn ceremony is in front of the university building and serious people making speeches. Hey, lad, do you happen to know who they are? Who? The rector, vice-rectors, deans, subdeans… and what about those ladies? Heads of departments and senior lecturers? Okay. Some of them must be professors, some – associate or assistant professors, but, of course, all of them have high academic degrees. And where are our lecturers and tutors? Oh, how nice…

The monitors hand out student membership cards, student record books and library cards – one feels like a real person. First celebrations and then days of hard work. So many classes, so many new subjects to put on the timetable! The curriculum seems to be developed especially for geniuses. Lectures, seminars and tutorials. Home preparations a real avalanche of homeworks.

If one can not cope with the work load of college he or she immediately starts lagging behind. It is easier to keep pace with the programme than to catch up with it later. Everyone tries hard to be, or at least to look, diligent. First tests and examination sessions. The first successes and first failures: «I have passed!» or «He has not given me a pass!» Tears and smiles. And a long-awaited vacation.

The merry-go-round runs faster. Assignments, written reproductions, compositions, synopses, papers. Translations checked up and marked. «Professor, I have never played truant, I had a good excuse for missing classes». Works handed in and handed out. Reading up for exams. «No, professor, I have never cheated – no cribs. I just crammed».

Junior students become senior. Still all of them are one family – undergraduates. Students' parties in the students' clab. Meeting people and parting with people. You know, Nora is going to be expelled and Dora is going to graduate with honours. Yearly essays, graduation dissertations, finals…

What? A teacher's certificate? You mean, I've got a degree in English? I am happy! It is over! It is over… Is it over? Oh, no…

A postgraduate course, a thesis, an oral, and a degree in Philology. The first of September. Where are the students of the faculty of foreign languages? Is it the English department? Oh, how nice…

Exercise 5. Say a few words about your university: say what it is called, speak about its faculties and their specializations.

Exercise 6. Answer the questions.

1. Would you compare university life with a merry-go-round or with something else?

2. What do you think of the first months at the university?

3. Who is the University headed by?

4. When was your University or Academy established?

5. Were there any famous scientists, engineers, politicians, artists among the graduates of your University?

6. How many people are currently enrolled?

7. What is the most popular faculty in your univesity?

Exercise 7.

They say that it is a poor soldier who does not want to become a general. Name the steps of the social ladder which a student must pass to climb up to the position of the rector. Use the words from the list below, placing one word on one step.

Dean, assistant lecturer, head of department, vice-rector, associate professor, assistant professor, subdean, professor.

Exercise 8. Agree or disagree.

a) Larger schools are better than smaller ones.

b) It is impossible to enter the university if you haven’t attended preparatory courses.

c) The best professors are the oldest ones.

d) It is better to live in a dormitory or student’s hostel than to rent an apartment.

e) Professors always know more than students and teaching instructors.

S.S.W (Self Study Work)

Exercise 1. Write the sentences using the verbs in the correct form.

1. The mechanic (ask, asks) us a question. 2. The pupils (like, likes) to learn English. 3. The agronomist (know, knows) English very well. 4. Ann (want, wants) to write on the blackboard. 5. Kate (is, are) a good nurse. 6. Students (learn, leans) English, too. 7. We (keep, keeps) pieces of chalk in this box. 8. He (clean, cleans) the blackboard with the duster. 9. We (answer, anwers) our teacher’s questions. 10. We (read, reads) texts at our English lessons.

Exercise 2. Put prepositions: at, of, in, on, with, to.

1. The teacher writes with a piece … chalk … the blackboard. 2. We go … school. 3. They learn English … school. 4. We write … the blackboard. 5. His brother work … a hospital. 6. We write … pens and pencils. 7. … our English lessons we speak, read and write. 8.pupils clean the blackboard … a duster. 9. There is only one agronomist … that farm. 10. He is the only vet … the farm.

Exercise 3. Read and retell the text

WE LEARN ENGLISH

We learn English at school. We have three English lessons a week. At our English lessons, we speak, read and write. We read English texts and exercises. We write on the blackboard and in our exercise books. We like our English lessons/ we like to speak English. We want to know it very well.

Our teacher asks us questions and we answer them. Olga Ivanovna is our teacher. She teaches us English. She is a good teacher; she speaks only English to us.

Exercise 4. Ask all possible questions to the text.

Exercise 5. Ask general questions.

Model – They work very well. Do they work very well?

He speaks English well. Does he speak well?

1. Peter’s sister works in a hospital. 2. You read English books. 3. He writes exercise books. 4. She learns French at school. 5. Kate’s brother works on a farm. 6. Ann helps her mother at home. 7. They know German very well. 8. We live far from St. Petersburg. 9. Pupils carry books in bags. 10. Kate lives near school.

Exercise 6. Read and translate the sentences with next words: all, at all, lazy, sing , songs.

BOB AND ROSE

Bob and Rose are English children. Bob is fifteen. Rose is fourteen. They are brother and sister. They go to school. Bob goes to a boy’s school and Rose goes to a girl’s school. The children’s schools are not far from home. At school Bob learns English and German. Rose learns English and French. Bob and Rose have many books at home. They have English, German and French books.

Rose is a very good pupil. She always works hard. She reads many books. She always does all her exercises. She always helps her mother at home.

Bob does not work hard. He does not work at all. He does not like books and he does not like school. He does not like to help his mother at home. He is a lazy boy. He only likes to sing and dance. He knows some English songs, and he likes to sing them.

Exercise 7. Copy and translate the sentences with the following words.

All, at all, lazy, sing, songs.

Exercise 8. Give the plural forms of next nouns.

A man, a girl, a boy, a woman, a song, a road, a question, a text, a piece, a week, a child, a lesson, a box, a car.

Exercise 9. Translate into English.

1. Жүз килограмм. 2. Жиырма бес грамм. 3. Үш миллион тонна. 4. Жүздеген жәшік. 5. Мыңдаған кітап. 6. Екі жүз сексен бір доллар. 7. Үш мың теңге.

Exercise 10. Write down Cardinal Numerals.

1; 11; 21: 2: 12: 20: 4: 14: 40: 6: 16: 60: 9: 19: 90; 100: 103; 300: 425; 1000; 1,015

Exercise 11. Translate into your language:

1. Our office is on the third floor. 2. January is the first month of the year. 3. Sunday is the seventh day of the week in our country. 4. Nick was the first in the competition. Please, count from 1 to 7. 5. Our department is on the seventh floor of our university. 6. There are 25 computers in the office.