Exercises

I . Transcribe the following words and practice them for pronunciation:

scientific, appreciable, reliable, efficient, environment, conscious_

ness, previously, eventually

II. Form nouns with -ist and adjectives with -ical from the nouns:

psychology, physiology, microbiology, biology, hystology, cardiol_

ogy, neurology

according to the pattern:

sociology — sociologist — sociological

III. Translate the following words into Russian and give similar Russian words:

behaviour, structure, individual, function, selection, identify, system_

atic, collection, test, universal, application, objective, subjective,

reaction, principle, concept, special, characteristic, basis, extremely,

speculation, accumulation, status, doctrine, discipline.

IV. Translate the following sentences and word combinations into Russian

(The exercise is to be done orally):

He behavedbadly at the lesson; Bill, behave yourself!; people

behave differently in this situation; to study the behaviourof man;

what can you say about his behaviour?

to deal withanimals; to deal with man’s behaviour; to deal with the

selection of animals for the experiment;

to applythe results of the experiment to practice; to apply a new

method; an applicationof new methods; the application of natural

selection; the application of a law;

good conditions;under difficult conditions; to study their life

conditions;

natural environment;artificial environment; to study the environ_

mental conditions;

the subjective approachto the problem; the objective approach; an

artificial approach;

the results will dependon our approach to the problems; we are

dependenton our environment; to study the dependenceof one’s

behaviour on the environmental conditions;

to study one’s past experience; our behaviour depends on our

experience;

to contributeto the investigation of a problem; to contribute to the

development of psychology; to make important contributionsto the

field of animal psychology;

randombehaviour; a random search for food; non randomselection;

class consciousness;to be consciousof the environment; to lose

consciousness;

to surviveunder unfavourable conditions; he was the only survivor

after the terrible storm; only the strongest among animals survive;

to adjustto the environmental conditions; his adjustmentto new

work conditions was very slow.

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