Упражнение № 16. Write half a page about your studies at the Institute.

Урок 2. Экономика как наука и экономика страны

Тема для УР:  Экономика.

Грамматика:  1) будущее простое время,

             2)  артикли,

             3)  имя числительное.

Conversation: Teacher and students

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Grammar Revision: The Future Indefinite Tense(Read Grammar appendix: Lesson 2)

Упражнение № 1. Раскройте скобки, употребляя гла­голы в Present Simple или Future Simple  (все предложения относятся к будущему).

1. I (to see) you before you (to start)? 2. What he (to do) when he (to come) home? 3. Where they (to go) if the weather (to be) fine? 4. He (to ring) me up when he (to return) home. 5. If it (to rain), we (to stay) at home. 6. She (to walk) home if it (not to be) too cold. 7. I am sure he (to come) to say good-bye to us before he (to leave) St. Peters­burg. 8. Please turn off the light when you (to leave) the room. 9. If we (to be) tired, we (to stop) at a small village half-way to Moscow and (to have) a short rest and a meal there. 10. If you (to miss) the 10.30 train, there is another at 10.35. 11. She (to make) all the arrangements about it before she (to fly) there. 12. Before he (to start) for London, he (to spend) a day or two at a rest-home not far from here.

Упражнение № 2.  Read the following text and try to understand it.

Text 1 Economics

Economics is a social science studying economy. Like the natural sciences and other social sciences, economics attempts to find laws or principles.

Economics tries to find laws or principles by building models. The predictions of the models form the basis of economic theories. Then the predictions of the models are compared with the facts of the real world.

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Упражнение № 3. Choose the correct form of the verbs in brackets:

1) Economics (attempt, attempts) to find laws or principles. 2) Economists (build, builds) models. 3) The predictions of the models (form, forms) the basis of economic theories. 4) The figure (show, shows) the interrelation between models, theo­ries and reality. 5) Economists (make, makes) assumptions and predictions. 6) (Do, Does) they deduce implications? 7) (Do, Does) they test predictions? 8) Real facts often (contradict, contradicts) the theory. 9) Leonid Kantarovitch (be, is) a famous Russian economist.

Упражнение № 4. Combine two sentences by using the -ing forms, as in the ex­ample:

Economics is a social science. It studies economy. →

   Economics is a social science studyingeconomy.

1. Economics is a science. It attempts to find economic laws. 2. Economists make predictions. They form the basis of economic theories. 3. There is a figure. It shows the interrelations between models, theo­ries and reality. 4. It is a text. It speaks about economics. 5. It is a book. It speaks about some interesting observations.