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GRAMMAR
SENTENCE STRUCTURE
Remember the word SVOMPT. It will help you to construct English sentences:
S
Subj
ect
I
verb
object
saw
Robert
He
passed
the exam
manner
place
time
at school
on Monday.
easily.
Questions:
(W)
V
S
(V)
O
M
||
what who when where why which how
1. Yes/No questions:
Inversion: a. verb to be:
b. modal verbs:
c. have got:
Auxiliary: other verbs:
2. Wh- questions (using what, who, when, where, why, which, how):
No auxiliary when asking about the subject:
Who made the cake? Rosie made it.
Auxiliary when asking about the object, manner, place or time:
Who did you meet? I met Paul.
Where does he work?
Preposition at the end of the sentence:
Who do you live with? What are you looking at?
Grammar
3. Alternative questions (choice):
Would you like tea or coffee? Tea, please.
4. Indirect questions:
Who are those people?
What does she want?
Can he help us?
Exercises:
1. Arrange these words in the right order.
a. in the lab / you shouldnt work / at night ...
b. this chapter / you should study / more carefully .
c. the project / when / finish / the students / did / ?
d. saw / the experiment / who / ? .
e. enjoyed / the lectures / have / the students .
f. decomposes / acid / at once / carbonic .
g. electricity / water power / can / make / cheap ..
h. smoke / students / in the lab / may / ? ..
2. Arrange these words in the right order.
a. your article / I / in / quickly / last night / bed / read
..................................................................................
b. till / afternoon / worked / 4 oclock / the students / this
...
c. gases / to / dioxide / allow / carbon / suns / and / enter / rays / other / the
......
d. climate / models / warming / indicate / computer / of / changes / consequences / of / some /
Earth / a
..
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e. oxide / released / in / coal / nitrous / of / burning / is / the
...
f. destroy / can / micro-organisms / cooking / the / only / completely
...
3. Make questions to ask about the underlined statements using who, what or where.
a. I met Dr Seusse last night. ..
b. The scientist has found a new chemical element.
c. David took the pictures. ..
d. This process occurs naturally under certain conditions. .
e. The researchers published their new findings..
f. We will have to redistill the compound...
g. The condensate flows down the column...
h. Distillation consists in vaporizing a substance.
4. Read the text, and then write questions for the answers.
The educational programme is divided into Academic Years, each year being divided into two
semesters, with the main vacation in July and August. The undergraduate studies take three years
for the Bachelor Degree and five for the Master Degree. In addition to these, the Institute provides
also postgraduate courses for PhD students.
All studies proceed on the basis of a curriculum of studies. At the end of each semester every
student must obtain a certain number of credits and pass several examinations.
Students may obtain certain scholarships. These may be granted either automatically for excellent
study results or on the basis of excellent research achievements, cultural or sports activities, and
also to aid in the cases of serious social problems.
Graduates of the Institute usually find employment in plants and research laboratories of chemical
and food industries as well as in various research institutes.
a. Academic Years ...
b. in July and August
c. three years
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d. postgraduate courses for PhD students
e. every student
f. excellent study results...
g. chemical and food
For more practice see:
(past
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According to the programme we are carrying out the experiment next Monday.
I am seeing the director tomorrow at 5 oclock.
Prbhov tvary tvo slovesa akce, innosti (action verbs), nap. sing, teach, study, talk,
listen, play, sit, write, speak, travel atd. Toto pravidlo plat tak pro vechny dal anglick asy
tj. minul, budouc, pedptomn, pedminul, pedbudouc.
Pozor! Non-action verbs prbhov asy netvo!
Jedn se o slovesa mylen (verbs of thinking), nap. know, remember, recognize, notice,
understand, forget; ctn, pocitu (verbs of feeling), nap. like, love, want, hate; slovesa
smyslovho vnmn (verbs of senses) see, hear, smell, taste; nkter dal slovesa, nap. include,
matter, cost, prefer, mean, fit, need.
Grammar
Why are you smelling the mixture?
b) neaktivn = netvo prbhovou formu: look = vypadat (he looks tired), taste = chutnat, feel =
ctit se, have = vlastnit, mt, think = myslet.
forma trpnho rodu je tvoena tvary slovesa have have/has + been + minulm
pestm (past participle) vznamovho slovesa
Grammar
Pedptomn prbhov as netvo trpn rod, pouv se trpn rod prostho pedptomnho
asu.
6.
Tento as popisuje minul dj, dj doasnho trvn, kter probhal v uritm minulm
okamiku nebo v dletrvajc dob minul. Tak vyjaduje dj minul opakovan. Velmi asto
tvo rmec i pozad pro hlavn dj vty. Pekldme do etiny nejastji minulm asem v
form vidu nedokonavho slovesa.
I was working on my thesis (for) several months.
Pracoval(a) jsem na sv diplomov (disertan) prci nkolik msc.
Forma: tvary slovesa be pro minul as - was/were + ing tvar vznamovho slovesa
Grammar
He started to carry on his experiment while I was still staying in the lab.
Fleming was studying influenza when he discovered penicillin.
forma trpnho rodu je tvoena tvary slovesa be - was/ were + being + minulm
pestm vznamovho slovesa
7.
Pedminul as vyjaduje a popisuje minul dj, kter skonil ped jinm djem minulm
nebo skonil i byl ukonen do urit doby v minulosti. Do etiny tento dj pekldme asem
minulm, piem pedasnost, kterou tento as vyjaduje v anglitin, zstv v estin formln
nevyjdena.
Na uritou pedminulou dobu lze odkazovat pouitm asovch uren v souvt, jako nap.
when, before, after, as, by the time, long, just, already, yet.
Pedminul as je asto pouvn ve strukturch nepm ei a souslednosti as.
Forma: pouvme tvar slovesa have pro minul as had + minul pest
vznamovho slovesa
After she had finished the experiment, she cleaned the entire laboratory.
Before he wrote the report, he had found out a lot of further information.
Everything was just as I had left it in the morning.
He showed me the latest issue of the periodical, which had just come out.
forma trpnho rodu je tvoena tvarem had + been + minulm pestm vznamovho
slovesa
8.
Before they started the new project, unfortunately, some known details had been omitted.
Before Columbus discovered America, people had believed that the Earth was flat.
By the time we got to the laboratory, the experiment had already started.
The whole place was deserted, but it was obvious that someone had been staying
there.
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While I had been preparing all the equipment, Jim had escaped.
It was more than a month until I realized what had been happening.
Pedminul as prbhov netvo trpn rod, pouv se pouze tvar trpnho rodu v prost form.
9.
Budouc as prost svoj formou vyjaduje dj, jen bude probhat v budoucnosti tzv. ist
budouc as (Pure Future) nebo stav budouc, oboj v tzv.neutrln budoucnosti. Lze tak vyjdit
jak budoucnost uritou, tak i neuritou.
Forma: tvome pomoc pomocnho slovesa will + infinitivu vznamovho slovesa
bez to
Will se pouv pro vechny osoby jednotnho i mnonho sla. Tvar shall byl a je
vyuvn pro vyjden budoucho asu pro 1.osobu jednotnho a 1.osobu mnonho sla; jeho
vyut zstv zejmna ve form otzek s modlnm zabarvenm.
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Ptomn as prost pro vyjden budoucho dje, jen je pesn uren, dn dle
programu, harmonogramu atd.
-
Ptomn as prbhov pro vyjden plnu i dje, kter je jist a pedem pipraven
-
vazba going to - pro vyjden tzv. blzk budoucnosti budoucnost, kter je zvisla na
vli i myslu mluvho; vyjaduje mysl, chystn se, zmr; souasn ji lze vyut pro
vyjden predikce
-
10.
We are going to carry out the experiment again to gain some better results.
Dont worry! The wound is going to heal.
Look! The glass is going to fall.
By the time we get to the classroom, the lecture will have started.
You will probably have heard the news.
forma trpnho rodu je tvoena pomocnm slovesem will + have + been + minulho
pest vznamovho slovesa
By the end of this year the new building of our university will have been finished.
We hope that by the end of this century a new drug against cancer will have been
found.
Grammar
Next year I will have been working at the Institute for fifteen years.
By the time I arrive there, they will have been waiting for me for two hours.
Grammar
b) angl. pedminul as ve vedlej vt se do etiny pekld minulm
asem
c)
He told them he had written the report the day before yesterday.
Pro peklad z etiny do anglitiny je tedy teba dbt na posun as podle nsledujcch pravidel.
Po ase minulm a pedminulm a po podmnkovm zpsobu relnm (skutenm) minulm
nebo nerelnm (neskutenm) v ptomnosti i v minulosti v hlavn resp. dc vt se
v anglitin ve vedlej vt (tj. po spojkch e, zda, kdy, kde) mn:
a) ptomn as v minul
-
Pokud se ovem jedn o stle i obecn platn tvrzen, k posunu dojt nemus, tzn. ve
vedlej vt meme ut jak as ptomn, tak minul (nap. He proved that the earth
is/was round; Tom said he wants/wanted to visit Paris next year.).
b) pedptomn as v pedminul
c) minul as v pedminul
-
K tomuto posunu dochz zejmna, pokud by mohlo dojt k nesprvnmu pochopen. Jinak
je mon vty v minulm ase ponechat v nepm ei beze zmny, nap.:
direct
Lucy said: I woke up feeling ill, so I didnt go to school.
reported Lucy said she woke up feeling ill, so she didnt go to work.
or
Lucy said she had woken up feeling ill, so she hadnt gone to school.
Grammar
Rozkaz nebo dost se uvd v nepm ei slovesy ask, tell, order apod.
Rozkazovac zpsob se pitom v nepm ei mn na infinitiv:
The teacher said to his students: Dont do it.
The teacher told (asked) his students not to do it.
Notice:
THERE
He said he would love to live there.
THAT
He said he hadnt liked that movie.
THEN, AT THAT MOMENT
He said he wanted to go there at that moment.
He said he didn't want to do it then.
THAT DAY, THAT MONTH
He said he hadnt seen him that day.
He said he enjoyed the classes that year.
AGO
BEFORE
Pm e (Direct speech):
Professor Green said: I was here, in this laboratory, yesterday.
Nepm e (Indirect/Reported speech):
Professor Green said that he had been there, in that laboratory, the day before.
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For more details see e.g. English Grammar in Use for intermediate students Raymond Murphy
Intermediate Language Practice - Michael Vince
First Certificate Language Practice Michael Vince
Exercises:
1. Choose the correct form of Present Tense. Give the reasons of your choice between
the simple and continuous forms.
1. Mary is working/work/ works in the laboratory with nitric acid every day. 2. George is busy
now, he test/tests/is testing the content of sugar in the specimen of a newly manufactured fruit
jam. 3. Are you regularly using/do you regularly use sweeteners in your morning tea or coffee?
4. Not all liquids boil/are boiling at 100C. 5. Antioxidants are playing/play an important role
in food preservation.
.
2. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense.
1. Look at Annes vessel! She .. (dye) the solution inside with an intense
colourant.. The solution was was white and now it is red.
2. I . (lose) my goggles. I cant find them anywhere.
3. And I (lose) my glasses yesterday.
4. .anything. (change) in the laboratory since I last (see) you?
5. The experiment with nitrate acid (not finish) yet. Ill have to work overtime.
3. Simple or Continuous tense?
1. Professor Black studies/had studied/has been studying food additives since he has
started/had started/started work at this College in 2007.
2. Earlier, any chemicals added to food either as pesticides in primary production or
additives in processing, were considering/were considered suspect.
3. The increasing awareness of problems with food allergy and intolerance was
leading/led/has led to the requirement to state the source of certain emulsifiers on food
labelling.
4. The amount of water we were adding/we added for half an hour to the mixture was
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dependent on the pressure of the distillation.
5. They prepared/were preparing synthetic salt and therefore were placing/placed a piece
of sodium in a flask with chlorine.
6. Carbon is occuring/occurs in two crystalline forms that differ in their properties.
7. Lecithin, an emulsifier, not suitable for individuals with an allergy to soya, is not being
produced/produced in this factory.
8. When was the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague being established/
established?
9. I prepared/was preparing the experiment with colouring foodstuffs the whole
afternoon yesterday.
10. Next year, Professor White will teach/will have been teaching/will be teaching at our
Institute for ten years.
4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct forms.
1. Fleming .( study ) influenza when he ( discover )
penicillin.
2. I (never do ) anything I ( feel ) is against my principles.
3. Matter ..( consist ) of small elements.
4. Watson and Crick ..( identify ) the structure of DNA in 1953.
5. These special mixtures ..(prepare ) for two hours and they ..( not
be ) ready yet.
5. Fill in the gaps with fitting expressions.
1. By the time I arrived at the laboratory
..
b) moderate consumption of
cola is completely safe
4. The pills .
might cut out chocolate
cravings altogether, the researchers
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said.
5. While excessive consumption of cola
e) a consuming love to
can lead to weakness and even muscle paralysis,
chocolate
, a Soft Drinks Association
spokesperson said.
6. Translate the sentences from exercise 5 above into Czech.
7. Translate into Czech (taking into account that Czech does not apply the
principles of the sequence of tenses used in English).
One of our teachers remarked that many people were not aware of the fact that the food industry
using the achievements of chemistry that had been reached, in particular, in the preservation of
food along with the manufacture of synthetic additives, had made significant progress as early as
in the latter part of the 19th century, not speaking of the first half of the 20th century. At the same
time, the progress in physics was very fast. Let us mention that when Thomson discovered the
electron, he proved that there were particles which were smaller than the smallest atom known.
Roentgen found that the X-rays would pass through solid substances. In 1932 Chadwick reported
that he had discovered the neutron. The Curies found that pitchblende was several times more
active than uranium oxide. Becquerel noticed that salts of uranium possessed the property of
emitting rays.
PASSIVE VOICE
The passive voice is widely used in scientific texts due to the fact that what goes first in the
English sentence is considered to be the most important. Scientific texts tend to use passive voice
structures almost everywhere to make sentences sound more objective and avoid using personal
pronouns. In Czech we use passive structures less frequently.
Structure:
subject
(which is not the agent)
The thesis
The thesis
verb to be in appropriate
tense form
is/was/has been/will be etc.
is/was etc. being
When the continuous form is needed, we insert being (-ing form of the verb to be) between the
verb to be and the content verb.
Structure of the passive voice in combination with the infinitive (which is not used
in Czech): subject + passive + infinitive
He is said to live here (it is said that he lives here the subject of the second sentence replaces it
from the first sentence and the rest is connected in the form of infinitive).
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The simple infinitive refers to the same time as that of the preceding verb:
This compound is expected not to react.
The perfect infinitive refers to a time before that of the preceding verb:
This decade is known to have been a decade of many discoveries.
Exercises:
1. Translate using the passive voice in the appropriate tense.
a/
b/
c/
d/
e/
f/
g/
h/
i/
j/
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For more practice see:
RELATIVE CLAUSES
1/ defining relative clauses
2/ non-defining relative clauses
1/ Defining relative clauses are an essential part of the message of the sentence (they clearly
identify which person or thing we are talking about) and therefore cannot be omitted and are
not separated with commas.
2/ Non-defining relative clauses bring additional but non-essential information (facts, opinions),
so they are marked with commas and could be easily left out without the main sentence losing
its meaning.
Sometimes, the decision if the clause is defining or not is up to the author only, because it is very
subjective and depends on what we want to say.
relative pronouns: who for people, which for things and that for both categories. However who
is preferred for people and in defining clauses that is usually used for objects. We can drop the
relative pronoun if it defines the object of the the clause (this applies to defining clauses only)
e.g. My friend (who) I visited on Saturday has just called me.
In non-defining relative clauses that is not used, so we stick to who for people and which
for objects and we do not leave the relative pronoun out of the sentence.
Possessive whose is used for people and for things.
.the student whose diploma thesis
the laboratory whose windows.
relative adverbs: where, when, why describe place, time or reason. They have a close
relationship with the pattern : preposition + relative pronoun. Instead of a relative adverb, we can
use a preposition + which.
That was a year when I graduated. / That was a year in which I graduated.
Notice:
which may also be used in non-defining clauses to refer to the whole of the main sentence (this
corresponds with the Czech relative pronoun co), e.g. He didnt call me, which was
disappointing.
Notice:
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what cannot be used as a relative pronoun. It is a pronoun that introduces object clauses.
He told me what he did. (what = the thing that, everything that, all that) - object clause
He told me everything (that) he did. - relative clause
Exercises:
1. a/ Explain the following words using relative pronouns or adverbs.
ex.: knife a knife is a tool which..... or: a teacher is a person who...
dean, inorganic chemistry, optional subject, chemist, library, oxygen, lecture hall
thermometer, researcher
b/ In pairs, think of any word and describe it to your friend without saying what it is,
your friend will try to guess what your word is, then change roles. For descriptions use
again relative clauses (it is a thing that... etc).
2. Join the following pairs of sentences using relative pronouns.
Make the underline sentence the relative clause.
a/ Peter speaks German. His wife is from Austria.
b/ The teacher is strict. He teaches chemistry.
c/ The new dean is very popular. He gets on well with students.
d/ It was 2005. I met him for the first time.
e/ The summers are hot. I enjoy them.
3. Decide which relative pronoun is correct and where it could be omitted.
a/ The man who/which called is our schoolmate.
b/ Have you found the books who/that I lent (to) you?
c/ It is the best news that/which came today.
d/ It is the best news that/which I have heard so far.
e/ I sent her all the notes that/what I had.
f/ I sent her that/what I had.
g/ I went to a place where/which/that I could work undisturbed .
h/ This is the student who/that/whose work has won the first place in our competition.
i/ I work for a firm which/that sells chemicals.
j/ I couldnt complete my research, who/that/which was a pity.
For more practice see:
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COMMON AFFIXES
Common noun suffixes:
-er
-or
-ist
-er
-or
-er
-ee
-ity
-ing
-ment
-ance
-ence
-ation
-ion
-age
-hood
-ness
researcher
director
chemist
stirrer
projector
employer
employee
purity, density
testing
measurement
appearance
difference
distillation
discussion
passage
childhood
bitterness
chemical, physical
dangerous
toxic, sulphuric
relative
milky
washable, visible
careful, useful
careless, hopeless
to solidify, to purify
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-ize
-ate
to specialize
to separate, to evaporate
Common prefixes
Meaning: not or opposite of
uniminilirdismisnonde-
unusual
impossible
invisible
illegal
irregular
to disappear
to misunderstand
non-metal
to decompose
to redestill, to recycle
Meaning: self
auto-
automatic
Meaning: between
inter-
international
Meaning: out of
ex-
to extract
maladjustment
to encapsulate
Meaning: one
monouniMeaning: two
bidiMeaning: three
tri-
monoculture
unicellular
bipolar, bivalent
divalent
tripod
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Meaning: many
multi- multivalent (having a valency of
3 or higher)
poly- polyvalent (having more than 1
valency)
Meaning: too much
over-
to overestimate
to underestimate
postgraduate
to predict
Meaning: half
semi-
semiconductor
subdivided
to transform
Excercises:
1. Form the words and fill the spaces
Grammar
Archimedes principle tells us about the of water by solid bodies (displace).
The of rain depends on the and of tiny droplets of
water in the cloud (form/condense/combine).
2. Fill in the following table and then use the words in short sentences
Verb
produce
analyse
develop
explore
research
manage
Adjective
Noun (person)
Noun (thing/process)
Grammar
e.g.: the condition to be controlled
Translation: podmnka, kter m bt/ bude sledovna
Zjistila, e je
Vme, e. objevil
Zjistilo se, e
O Roentgenovi je znmo, e ..
Exercises:
1.Translate
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
We know carbon to occur in two crystalline forms that differ in their properties.
To prepare synthetic salt place a piece of sodium in a flask with chlorine.
The amount of water to be added is dependent on the pressure of the distillation.
The solution of carbon dioxide in water is found to colour blue litmus red, showing it to be
a weak acid.
The reaction mixture must be brought to a sufficiently high temperature for the reaction to
occur.
The material to be weighed is transported to and from balance room in a desiccator.
We found the value to depend on many various factors.
The alloy was found to be composed of silver and gold.
Grammar
Notes
We often use the verb
go + -ing for sports
and activities:
I go swimming every
day.
I go shopping on
weekends.
Notes
doing
swimming
cooking
Notes
Help can be used
without to:
I helped him do the
dishes.
me
him
them
someone
to do
to go
to come
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need
order
remind
tell
want
warn
would like
Verbs + sb +
infinitive (not to)
help
let
make
her
us
Do
Notes
To is used with make
in the passive:
We were made to
work hard.
Let cannot be used in
the passive. Allowed
to is used instead:
She was allowed to
leave.
Verbs + -ing or to +
infinitive
(with little or no
change in meaning)
begin
continue
hate
like
love
prefer
start
intend
Verbs + -ing or to +
infinitive
(with a change in
meaning)
remember
stop
try
regret
forget
doing
to do
doing
to do
Notes
I remember posting
the letter.
(= I have a memory
of the past action.)
I remembered to post
the letter.
(= I didn't forget to
do it.)
I stopped drinking
coffee. (= I gave up
the habit.)
I stopped to drink a
coffee. (= I stopped
in order to have a cup
of coffee.)
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Clauses of Purpose
Conjunctions
Example
I tried counting
sheep. (a way of
getting to sleep.)
Translation
Slouenina mus bt
zahvna, aby se
rozloila.
Sms mus bt
zahvna, aby dolo
k reakci.
What is it?
Translation
Prepositional
phrases
by heating (m):
Steam is made by
heating water.
so that
zpodstatnl
sloveso
podstatnm jmnem
nebo infinitivem
Sms mus bt
zahvna, aby mohlo
dojt k reakci.
in purifying (pi
em): Chlorine is
used in purifying
water.
on (v dsledku eho):
Gases expand on
heating.
without (ani by):
Coal gives heat
without producing
much smoke.
Participle
What is it?
The air was
- pechodnk
exhausted, the result
being/thus creating a
vacuum. (Vzduch byl
vyerpn, a tak se
Translation
na zatku vty:
skrze spojky kdy,
protoe, jestlie)
na konci vty: a,
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vytvoilo vacuum.)
running water
(tekouc voda)
dealing with
(zabvajc se)
piem, a tak
-
pest
- pdavnm jmnem
http://www.learn-english-today.com/wordgames/hotpot-quizzes/verb-patterns1.html
http://www.learn-english-today.com/wordgames/hotpot-quizzes/verb-patterns2.htm
http://www.helpforenglish.cz/testy/intermediate/c2008110205-Test---Verb-patterns--2.html
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Exercises:
1. Choose the correct pattern for the word in the brackets
a) John wants (buy) a new catalytic converter.
b) Lucy enjoyed (eat) the bio-dinner last night.
c) Anne loves (drink) soya milk.
d) I planned (try) out my new research.
e) Pete had finished (work) on his project.
f) He started (clean) the laboratory immediately.
g) I will stop (work) in the lab when I am tired.
h) I needed (see) my advisor yesterday.
i) Joe will start (investigate) the reports this week.
j) Harry quit (smoke) for good last January.
k) I want (learn) (fly) an airplane.
l) John said he enjoys (practice) English.
m) Liza planned (discuss) (go) on her vacation in June.
n) Joan likes (discuss) her homework with a friend.
o) I used to like (study) every day.
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a) The students have begun to carry / carry / carrying out the experiment in the lab.
b) You have to avoid using / to used / use unknown chemicals and substances.
c) He insisted on detailed report / to report / reporting after finishing / to finish / finish
the survey.
d) The new programme will help detect / to detect / detecting whether the substance
is toxic or not.
e) I dont mind wait / to wait / waiting in the lab until the experiment is finished completely.
f) The teacher advised the students following / to follow / follow all the laboratory rules
really carefully.
g) Although Im good at physics I dont think Ill manage pass / passing /to pass the exam.
h) John refused break / to break / breaking anything in the lab during the experiment.
i) He asked her to let / letting / let him know / to know / knowing about all the changes.
j) They hope agree / to agree/ agreeing on ways of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide.
4. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given. Do not change the word given.
a) Im sorry but we have decided that we cant accept your offer.
regret
I regret your offer.
b) I tried not to make a mistake during the measuring.
avoided
I avoided .during the measuring.
c) The students have already stopped the distillation.
give
The students .... the distillation.
d) It is forbidden to smoke and eat in the laboratory.
allowed
Smoking and eating in the laboratory.
e) They finally made him decide to take part in the new research.
persuaded
They . in the new research.
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GRAMMAR
KEY
SENTENCE STRUCTURE
1. Arrange these words in the right order.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
3. Make questions to ask about the underlined statements using who, what or where.
a.
b.
c.
d.
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e.
f.
g.
h.
4. Read the text, and then write questions for the answers.
The educational programme is divided into Academic Years, each year being divided into two
semesters, with the main vacation in July and August. The undergraduate studies take three years
for the Bachelor Degree and five for the Master Degree. In addition to these, the Institute provides
also postgraduate courses for PhD students.
All studies proceed on the basis of a curriculum of studies. At the end of each semester every
student must obtain a certain number of credits and pass several examinations.
Students may obtain certain scholarships. These may be granted either automatically for excellent
study results or on the basis of excellent research achievements, cultural or sports activities, and
also to aid in the cases of serious social problems.
Graduates of the Institute usually find employment in plants and research laboratories of chemical
and food industries as well as in various research institutes.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
VERB TENSES
1. Choose the correct form of Present Tense. Give the reasons of your choice between
the simple and continuous forms.
1. works
2. is testing
3. do youuse
4. boil
5. play
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3. lost
4. Has anything changed .. I last saw you
5. has not finished
was studying
have never done
consists
identified
have been preparing
discovered
feel
2c)
3e)
4 a)
5b)
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7. Translate into Czech (taking into account that Czech does not apply the principles
of the sequence of tenses used in English.
Jeden z naich uitel podotkl, e mnoho lid si nen vdomo, e potravinsk prmysl
vyuvajc spch chemie, kter byly dosaeny zejmna v konzervovn potravin spolu s
vrobou syntetickch psad, doshl vznamnho pokroku ji ve druh polovin 19. stolet,
nemluv o 1. polovin 20.stolet. Zrove byl velmi rychl pokrok ve fyzice. Zmime se, e
kdy Thomson objevil elektron, dokzal, e jsou stice, kter jsou men ne nejmen
znm atom. Roentgen zjistil, e paprsky X projdou pevnmi ltkami. R. 1932 oznmil
Chadwick, e objevil neutron. (Manel)Curieovi zjistili, e smolinec je mnohokrt aktivnj
ne kyslink uranov. Becquerel zjistil, e soli uranu maj schopnost (=vlastnost) vyzaovn
paprsk.
PASSIVE VOICE
1. Translate using the passive voice in an appropriate tense.
a/
b/
c/
d/
e/
f/
g/
h/
i/
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3. Transform the following sentences into the passive+infinitive.
Ex. It is said he will return soon. He is said to return soon.
a/
b/
c/
d/
e/
f/
g/
h/
i/
RELATIVE CLAUSES
1. a/ Explain the following words using relative pronouns or adverbs.
ex.: knife a knife is a tool which..... or: a teacher is a person who...
dean, inorganic chemistry, optional subject, chemist, library, oxygen, lecture hall
thermometer, researcher
b/ In pairs, think of any word and describe it to your friend without saying what it is, your
friend will try to guess what your word is, then change roles. For descriptions use again
relative clauses (it is a thing that... etc).
2. Join the following pairs of sentences using relative pronouns.
Make the underline sentence the relative clause.
a/ Peter speaks German. His wife is from Austria.
Peter, whose wife is from Austria, speaks German.
b/ The teacher is strict. He teaches chemistry.
The teacher who teaches chemistry is strict.
The teacher, who teaches chemistry, is strict.
c/ The new dean is very popular. He gets on well with students.
The new dean, who gets on well with students, is very popular.
d/ It was 2005. I met him for the first time.
2005 was the year in which I first met him.
e/ The summers are hot. I enjoy them.
The summers, which I enjoy, are hot.
3. Decide which relative pronoun is correct and where it could be omitte d.
a/
b/
c/
d/
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e/
f/
g/
h/
i/
j/
COMMON AFFIXES
1. Form the words and fill the spaces
The passage of water through several filter-beds and the addition of traces of chlorine make the
water safe for drinking purposes (pass/add).
The evaporation and condensation can be observed in everyday life (evaporate/condense).
The content of a calcium compound increases the hardness of water (contain/hard).
Archimedes principle tells us about the displacement of water by solid bodies (displace).
The formation of rain depends on the condensation and combination of tiny droplets of water in
the cloud (form/condense/combine).
2. Fill in the following table and then use the words in short sentences
Verb
produce
analyse
develop
explore
research
manage
Adjective
producing/produced
analytical
developing/developed
exploring/explored
researching
managerial
Noun (person)
producer
analyst
developer
explorer
researcher
manager
Noun (thing/process)
product
analysis
development
exploration
research
management
Grammar
7. Zjistme, e hodnota zvis na mnoha rznch faktorech.
8. Zjistilo se, e slitina se skld ze stbra a zlata.
Grammar
e) I dont mind wait / to wait / waiting in the lab until the experiment is finished completely.
f) The teacher advised the students following / to follow / follow all the laboratory rules
really carefully.
g) Although Im good at physics I dont think Ill manage pass / passing /to pass the exam.
h) John refused break / to break / breaking anything in the lab during the experiment.
i) He asked her to let / letting / let him know / to know / knowing about all the changes.
j) They hope agree / to agree/ agreeing on ways of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide.
4. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given. Do not change the word given.
a) Im sorry but we have decided that we cant accept your offer.
regret
I regret not to accept your offer.
b) I tried not to make a mistake during the measuring.
avoided
I avoided making a mistake during the measuring.
c) The students have already stopped carrying out the distillation.
give
The students have already given up carrying out the distillation.
d) Smoking and eating is not allowed in the laboratory.
forbidden
It is forbidden to smoke and eat in the laboratory.
e) They finally made him decide to take part in the new research.
persuaded
They persuaded him to take part in the new research.
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