Present Simple or the Present Progressive.

1) Be quiet, please. We (work) with electropho- resis’s camera and you (make) a lot of noise. 2) He always (go) for a walk in the evening. 3) Where is Jack? — He (do) chromatography in the laboratory. 4) She (cry). Is something wrong? 5) In the morning I (have) little time, so I (plan) my experiment in the evening. 6) A decade (describe) a period of ten years.

7) Her brother-biochemists (work) in Canada at pre- sent. 8) She always (dream) but (do) nothing to realize her dreams. 9) He (be) so suspicious to me at the mo- ment. I wonder why. 10) Hurry up, Jane! We all (wait) for you in laboratory. 11) Turn off the gas. Don't you see water in the tube (boil)? 12) The rats are still ill after experiment but they (get) better gradually. 13) Don't bother her. She (take) her Immunology lesson: she always (take) it in the morning. 14) The living

standards (change). So, every month equipment (get) more expensive. 15) Tom and Mary (leave) for the Netherlands tomorrow. 16) I have just started Bio- chemistry courses. I (study) modification of proteins.

17) Mercury (boil) at 357.23 degrees Centigrade.

14. Define if the verb tenses in these sentences are correct.

1) I get up at seven in the morning.

2) I'm liking biochemistry.

3) He’s knowing interesting thing about bio- technology.

4) I think Mexico's a beautiful country.

5) Universities are staying open late in USA.

6) He's having a flat near the centre.

7) What are you thinking of Watson?

8) Peter's in the laboratory. He makes experi- ment.

9) What are you thinking about?

15. Translate the following sentences into Eng-

lish:

1) Дважды в неделю он ходит в лабораторию.

2) Студент проводит эксперимент. 3) Вся группа сидит за столом и обсуждает полученные резуль- таты. 4) Мы держим опасные вещества в вытяж- ном шкафу. 5) Иногда электрофорез идёт весь день. 6) Они редко ошибаются в расчётах. 7) Сту- дент едет в университет. 8) Они ходят в библиоте- ку каждый день. 9) Мальчик учится. 10)Все любят смотреть на фракталы.

16. Remind question formation. Form the gen- eral questions.

Example: My brother likes skating. — Does my brother like skating?

1) He translates a lot of letters into English. 2) I’m speaking on the phone. 3) Little children like to ask many questions. 4) Now we are carrying out the experiment. 5) She spends a lot of time on her Eng- lish.

Form the alternative questions.

Example: My brother likes skating (3). —Does your brother like skating or skiing? Does your or his brother like skating? Does your brother or Pete like skating?

1) The film is exciting (2). 2) Thousands of peo- ple visits this international exhibition (2). 3) He watches TV every day (3). 4) They are going to the country on Friday (3). 5) She is painting the walls (3).

Form the question tags.

Example: She comes home at 3 pm. — She

соmеs home at 3 pm, doesn't she?

1) They are returning home next month. 2) We are buying a loaf of bread. 3) She opens the window every morning. 4) There is a theatre in the centre of the city. 5) I am right.

Special questions and questions to the subject.

Correct the mistakes if any.

1) How often you have your English classes? 2) What you do at English lessons? 3) What you prepare for your lesson? 4) Who are absent from the previous lesson? 5) How many points you have for your exam?

6) Who you going home with? 7) Who knows this dis- trict well?

17. Read the text.

The secret of genius

She looks like any other girl in her first year at

school: a smart uniform, a happy smile and a bag of books. But Dineshi, a five-year-old from west London is so clever that she seems almost un- real. With an IQ* of

160, Dineshi knew the alphabet, the days of week and the months of the year when she was one and a half. She started reading just before her second birthday and writing just after it. ‘When she was a baby, I real- ized she was exceptionally bright,’ says Dineshi’s mother, ‘so I tried to provide an environment to help her develop intellectually. I started giving her lessons and she enjoyed them.’

By comparison with the others, such children seem to be incredible intelligent. But according to Professor Michael Howe, a psychologist at Exeter University, they do not have an inborn superhuman talent. Their

remarkable achievements are the result of practice, persistence, and an encouraging environment. The case of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seems to support Professor Howe’s theory. Mozart was composing mu- sic by the age of 5, and at 6 or 7 he was giving profes- sional concerts around Europe. Most people believe that that this was the result of inborn genius. But Pro- fessor Howe claims that Mozart’s childhood composi- tions are largely arrangements of other composers’ work. Most importantly, his father was an extremely ambitious music teacher who made his son practice more than three hours a day. By the time he was 6, he had probably spent 3,500 hours studying music.

Are geniuses happy? As a child in the early 1900s, Billy Sidis was described as ‘the most remarkable boy in the United States’. Brilliant at languages, he taught himself Latin at four and could read and speak 8 lan- guages when he was six. At seven, he gave lecture to the University of Harvard Mathematical Club. He was genius until everything began to go wrong. His par- ents had to push him to develop his exceptional intel- ligence, but had totally neglected other important skills. For example, Sidis did not know how to dress himself properly even by the time he was adolescent. Finally, he suffered a breakdown.

There are plenty of people who have high IQs but never achieve anything great. They are bright, but they lack the drive to get on: motivation. Thomas Edison, the inventor of electric light, said genius was 99% per- spiration, 1% inspiration. Thus, in conclusion it might be said, we should all be able to excel if we try hard

enough.

*IQ – Intelligence Quotient: a measure if intelli- gence.

18. Answer the following questions:

1) When did Daneshi start to write?

2) Why can Dineshi be called genius?

3) Who is Professor Howe?

4) How does the case of Mozart support Howe’s ideas?

5) What does the example of Billy Sidis show about genius?

6) What skills did Billy Sidis lack?

19. Make your own question of different types.

20. Translate the text in your words close to the original.