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4.Your fellow-worker has got a letter from one of his colleagues abroad. He is supposed to answer it right away. However, he can't manage it by himself. He needs you to help him with the letter.

5.Prof. White of Oxford University arrived in Ekater­ inburg the day before yesterday and hasn't been much of the city yet. You meet him and tell him you'll take him round in the afternoon and show him some of the sights. Arrange to meet the professor in the afternoon and tell him what he will find the place like.

6.Discuss the menu for delegates of the conference who will have lunch right after they get back from their sightseeing tour.

7.You are a regular filmgoer and never miss a single new film that is on. But now you are busy vary much. You are a third-year post-graduate student.

8.Last night you were to a concert and had a most en­ joyable evening listening to the delightful music played by the orchestra. In the rapturous mood you didn't feel like getting straight home after the concert was over. You de­ cided to walk part of the way. Describe what was going on around you as you walked in die cold night.

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9. You are not much of a football fen. Yet the other day you had a temptation to go and see a football match that everyone said was going to be most exciting. You went and never once regretted you did so. Rather you were amused watching the football players and fans.

10. You are going on a holiday trip. Try to find out the best hotel. Make a telephone call to the manager of the ho­ tel. Perhaps, some catalogues will help you to make your choice.

11.You have come to a famous resort. You are looking for a place to stay at. You want maximum convenience and comfort, but you are economical and don’t like wasting money.

12.You are going to be interviewed about the enter­ tainment programme of your stay in London. Think of all possible questions.

13.Please write what arts you are interested in, so that an entertainment programme could be planned to your lik­ ing if you happen to be in Canada or Great Britain.

14.You are on a plane going to Boston. It's your first trip abroad. A passenger next to you happens to be an expe­ rienced traveller. He is kin(d and ready to help you in any way and give you any information you need. Have a talk with him.

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15.Prepare a memo for your colleague who is going to be present at the International conference.

16.Tell your colleague about the hotel you are going to stay at during your coming scientific mission.

17.You've come to the place of your scientific mission. You are going to stay there for a short period of time. Mr. Flower whom you know personally meets you. Exchange several remarks on your flight and the programme of your stay.

18.You have failed to reserve a room in advance. Try to make the receptionist understand your position and reg­ ister you at the hotel for several days. Find out how you can extend your stay if necessary.

19.You've just checked in. Ask the receptionist what services the hotel offers, where you can have meals, a newspaper to read, etc., and how you can get to different places in the city you need.

20.Your foreign colleague invites you for lunch to a restaurant where a table is reserved for you. You want to try some local food on your foreign colleague's recommen­

dations.

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PAPER. MONOGRAPH. THESIS

1. You've been working hard all day. You've been pre­ paring your paper for print and haven't finished yet work­ ing on it. You look tired-out and your wife (husband) is telling you so.

2. It's of interest for you to know whose paper they will be discussing first at three o'clock to-morrow when the committee gathers for the sitting. You would like your colleague to find it out for you.

3.When did you write your paper and send it to the Or­ ganizing Committee? How much time did it take you to write it? Your monograph took you much longer, didn't it? When did you give it to be printed?

4.Everyone could see that the reasons you had outlined in your paper were not good enough to initiate a study of die kind.

5.Your colleague has written a monograph and has given it to be published. Over a year and a halfhave passed and the book is not published yet. You would like to find out why.

6.You've written a paper, which is going to be presented at the coming symposium. Your scientific adviser has looked it through and found that the most important findings are omitted and the results are not all summarised in tables and presented in figures. He's trying to find out why.

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7. One of your colleagues in the laboratory is going to read theses for a candidate degree. Everybody in the labo­ ratory is very much concerned about the coming event. Say what the situation is like there now and what is being done.

8.Discuss with Professor the results of your experiment and the way to present them in the paper.

9.You are very much interested in the results Prof. Green’s research of Glasgow University. You have asked him to send you a reprint of his paper.

10.Tell your, friend about the number of parts (chap­ ters) your thesis (monograph, paper) you are going to write.

11.Discuss with your supervisor your attempt to clarify (demonstrate) something important in your thesis.

12.Discuss with your supervisor an account of changes (recent developments) in your field of science you are going to present in Chapter 2 of your thesis.

13.Discuss with your supervisor your attempt to set out briefly die existing views (conceptions, theories) on the problem in Introduction or Chapter 1.

14.Comfort your friend who seems rather pessimistic about the results of the experiment, which were presented in the paper.

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15.You refuse to go to the theatre because your wife (husband) is now working at a paper preparing it for print.

16.Discuss N's paper in the first reading at the sitting of the committee'.

17.You are going to be present at the International con­ ference in a month. But you can't read a paper in English at die conference.

18.1 wrote a paper and sent it to the Organizing Com­ mittee. However it was returned.

19.Reading up material for my paper, I hit upon some facts which seemed to me most extraordinary.

20.Ask your friend to help you to write down a letter to die Committee with the request to send you out booklets.

21.Papers concerned with the basic principles of wave mechanic were not presented at the symposium. Why?

27.Your colleague has written a monograph and has given it to be published. Over a year and a half have passed and the book is not published yet. You would like to find out why.

23.One of your colleagues in the laboratory is going to read a thesis for a candidate degree. Everybody in the labo­ ratory is very much concerned about the coming event. Say what die situation is like there now and what is being done.

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