25. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words from the list.

1. Earthquakes are a frequent daily ________ in many parts of Japan. 2. It is ________ from his playing that he was very nervous about this performance. 3. Recent studies reveal that the floral industry uses the highest level of pesticides of all agricultural ________. 4. Many carpets nowadays are produced using synthetic fibers made of petroleum ________. 5. One of the earliest U. S. passports on record was ________ in France in 1778. 6. Students can learn more quickly by ________ their own weaknesses in the subject they are studying and then taking steps to improve in those areas. 7. By the 19th century, Britain had ________ political control of virtually all of India. 8. I studied practical linguistics to become an ESL teacher, but some other people in my classes were studying ________ linguistics in order to do research. 9. Society can be viewed as a ________ in which human beings construct or negotiate social order. 10. Breaking the sounds of a word into their ________ parts can help students with the pronunciation of a new and difficult word.

26*. The following sentences contain mistakes regarding uncountable nouns that have mistakenly been used as if they were countable. Identify the mistakes and correct them.

1. As far as we know, there has only been one research in this field. 2. These money are collected once a month. 3. This may be an evidence for astrologists. 4. About 60% of the feedbacks were negative. 5. Several informations are now available. 6. The earthquake caused few damages and no fatalities. 7. Garbages represent a big problem in the process of urbanization. In fact, they cause. 8. They did a training during the course. 9. She was the only child of a blind father (he was struck by a lightning) and a mother who died of a cancer when she was a teenager. 10. The sheeps appeared to be in a good health and gained weight like the normal control sheeps.

27. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate indefinite pronoun: something, anything, someone, anyone.

1. Do call if you need ________ else. 2. Is there ________ you’re not quite clear about? 3. ________ has come up, so I’m afraid I can’t come. 4. Would you like me to go over ________ again? 5. Would you like a coffee, or________ stronger? 6. Could I leave a message with ________ from administration? 7. Has ________ else in the team looked at the manuscript? 8. Sorry, but ________ is waiting for me. 9. Sorry, I’ve just seen ________ I know. 10. Would ________ like anything else to eat or drink?

28. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate option: a little, little, a few, few.

1. ________ people came to the conference; it was a real disappointment. 2. You sounded ________ annoyed in your last mail. 3. Do you think you could speak up ________, please? 4. Have you got ________ minutes? I have ________ questions to ask. 5. He had ________ questions to ask, so it only took me a couple of minutes. 6. I have made ________ changes to the manuscript – don’t worry, it will only take you a second to check. 7. I have made ________ changes to the manuscript – would you mind taking a look at them? 8. OK I’ll send them to you in ________ minutes. 9. I am afraid we have ________ time left. So, no more questions please. 10. Would you like ________ more wine?

29. Choose a scientific article in English concerning your own field of science from any valid information source (10 000 printed characters) and prepare its oral translation into Russian.

30. Search the Internet and go to the libraries to find scientific and technical articles on the topics of Module 1. Analyze the gathered material, then prepare a 10-minute report on the chosen topic. Give a Power Point presentation in the group (see Appendix 1).