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воскресенье, 14 декабря 2025 г.

Much and many

This video is for the first-year students.
We have started learning a new Unit, so we have to know some grammar material. 

This video is about differences between using of the words "much" and "many".The words to understand the video properly: countable - исчисляемое, uncountable - неисчисляемое.

воскресенье, 15 июня 2025 г.

Word building

We use suffixes -or/-er/-ist/-ician to form new words with meaning of a person who does something:
originate (v) давать начало - originator (n) автор, инициатор: Who is the originator of his plan?
create (v)  творить, создавать  - creator (n) творец, создатель (one who create): Einstein was the creator  of the theory of relativity.
biology(n) биология - biologist (n) биолог: The first biologist who saw a live cell with a microscope was Antony van Leeuwenhoek, in 1674.
reality (n) действительность– realist (n) реалист: I'm a realist – I knew there was no way I could win.
mathematics (n) математика – mathematician(n) математик: He worked as mathematician at this University.

1. Translate, paying attention to the suffixes:

lawyer, adviser, dreamer, thinker, teacher, doctor, investigator.

2. Give Russian equivalents to the following words:
criminologist, scientist, militarist, artist, biologist, idealist, theorist, terrorist.

3. Translate the following Russian words into English:

пианист, филолог, финалист, психолог.

суббота, 9 февраля 2019 г.

Possessive Pronouns

We already know about possesive adjectives: my, your,his, her,its, our, their. 
Possessive adjective describes a noun: My car is new.

Possesive pronouns are mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
Possessive pronoun takes place of a noun: This car is mine. 


Compaire pairs of sentences below:

My book is large. (adjective, describes book)
Yours is small. (pronoun, takes the place of noun)

Your car is green. (adjective, describes car)
Mine is red. (pronoun, takes the place of noun)


Practice using of possessive pronouns: