4 Complete the examples in the Useful language box Useful language Prepositions of time and place Use the prepositions on with dates August 9th in with months and years: December, 2014 in with towns/cities and countries: ... London, Nigeria at with sports events and ages: ... the World Championships, ... the age of 12
1. Who is speaking English? What language are we speaking? 2. What is engineer speaking about? Who is speaking about a design? 3. Who is answering the teacher's question? What is the student doing? Whose question is the student answering? 4. Who is showing us a picture? What is the girl showing us? Who is the girl showing her picture to? 5. Who is writing on the blackboard? What is the teacher writing on the blackboard? Where is the teacher writing a sentence? What is the teacher writing on the blackboard with? 6. Who is listening to a lecture on physical culture? What are they listening to? 7. Where is she hurrying? 8. Where are you from? Who is from Moscow?
1)
1. Design and construction of roads, bridges, buildings - civil engineering
2. Science of very low temperatures - cryogenics
3. Science of communication and control in machines and brain - cybernetics
4. Study of work environments and conditions - ergonomics
5. Scientific study of the chemical nature and natural forces influencing stars - astrophysics
6. Study of the influence of a country’s position on its politics - geopolitics
7. Scientific study of space travel - astronautics
8. Scientific study of human races and their characteristics - ethnology
2)
1. machine
2. appliances
3. machinery
4. device
5. gadgets
6. motor