Do you know that...

· English has the largest vocabulary with approximately 500,000 words and 300,000 technical terms?

· 85% of the world’s mail and 90% of the world’s electronic systems are in English?

· one out of five of the world’s population speaks English with some degree of competence?

· the oldest written language is Egyptian?

· Cambodian has the most letters in its alphabet – 72?

· there are two million speakers of Esperanto (artificial language created in 1887) in the world?

· a big family of Indo-European languages includes the following groups: German (English, German), Roman (French, Italian, Romanian), Slavonic (Russian, Polish, Slovenian), Baltic, etc.

U N I T 2

Grammar: Possessive Case of Nouns

Articles

Imperative Sentences

Prepositions of Time and Place

Questions

Indefinite (Simple) Tense in the Passive

Modal Verbs Can, May, Must and their equivalents

Text: Railway Traffic Operation

Supplementary text: Railroading Begins

Word Building: -ure (-ture), -ment, -ness; -less, -ful, -ly

READING RULES

Exercise 1 a) Read the following words.

Car, north, her, bird, myrtle, turn, sport, verb, first, far, burn, short, stir, sir, thirst, star, merge, dirt, bar, arc, part, sharp, hard, third, harm, serve, service, shirt, skirt, nurse, darling, serf, fir, worker, dark, market, turbine, person, observe, eternal, surplus, surface, furnish, absurd.

b) Read the proverbs and think of the corresponding Ukrainian or Russian proverbs.

[ə:] An early bird catches the worm.

First come, first served.

As the workman, so is the work.

GRAMMAR

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