Language acitivity

Exercise 1.

a) Study using “make” and “do”.

“Make” or “do”? In some contexts these two words have a similar meaning. However, there is a rule which says that “make” usually carries the idea of creation, construction.

Example: – Marry made this dress herself.

– This device was made by two students in one of the laboratories of the

University.

– Second-year students will make experiments next year.

As for “do”, it is usually associated with work, particular activity.

Example: – Have you done your homework?

– We don’t do aerobics this year.

– He plans to do business.

However, there are many exceptions to these rules and specific uses of these verbs:

– to make a decision

– to make a mistake

– to make entry

– to make a device

but:

– to do a service

– to do subjects

– to do a favour

– to do without

– to do one’s best

b) Now cross out incorrect variant.

1. My mother doesn’t do/make housework.

2. Did he do/make many mistakes?

3. Every child must do/make his room.

4. Will you do/make a cup of coffee?

5. I will do/make all my best to help you.

6. I’d like to do/make you an offer.

7. Will you do/make me a favour and pass the bread.

8. My mother is going to do/make a cake for your birthday.

9. Now I can’t do/make without my computer.

Exercise 2. Insert do, make, have into the gaps, in the their correct form.

1. We must … a decision at last - they are going to break the door!

2. I … lots of messages every day and most of them is just junk mail.

3. Dr. Smith, we should … an agreement at last. We accept your offer.

4. It’s terrible how many mistakes she … in her dictations. I don’t think she will pass an exam.

5. I … so much homework in math to … . I simply don’t know with what to start!

6. My brother … swimming professionally. He is excellent in it.

7. Though being quite young, about 5 years old, she always … her bed herself.

8. This film was … by a famous French producer, the author of many well-known films.

9. I wouldn’t be able to work as a babysitter. Children … so much noise!

Exercise 3. Translate the following sentences paying special attention to different meanings of “that” and “those”.

1. The distinguishing feature of a converging lens is that it is thicker at the center than at the edge.

2. We know that the telescope is an instrument that presents to the eye an enlarged image of distant objects.

3. A field of view afforded by a plane mirror is very similar to that of a simple window.

4. There are close analogies between the effects produced by a thin lens and those produced by a single spherical refracting surface.

5. That spherical aberration can be completely eliminated for a single lens by aspherising is a very important fact in optical design.

6. The diaphragm restricts the rays to those which pass through the central portion of the lens.

Exercise 4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.

1. Light (to travel) faster in empty space and (to slow) down upon entering matter.

2. Optics (to progress) rapidly by the early years of the 19^th century.

3. Since 1940 there (to be) a great resurgence in optics on the basis of information and communication theory.

4. If space (to be) empty, light (to travel) faster.

5. In 1841 Gauss (to publish) his classical book on geometrical optics, in which he (to expound) the concept of the focal length.

6. Before More Hall (to find) the correct combination of flint and crown lenses he (to experiment) with different types of glass.

7. The scientist (to invent) the form of the refracting telescope, which (to be) the basis for modern refractors.

8. How (to work) a transmitter?