LABORATORY EXERCISES (I) 1. Listen to the text "The British Isles", mark the stresses and tunes. Repeat the text following the model. 2. Paraphrase the sentences, using the suggested speech patterns. Check your sentences with the key (oral work). 3. Complete the sentences with geographical terms. Write these terms down and check them with the key (oral and written work). 4. Write a spelling-translation test: a) translate the phrases into English; b) check them with the key. 5. Do the suggested exercises and check them with the key (written work). 6. Listen to the text "Soil and Vegetation" or some other text on Geography: a) write it as a dictation; b) retell it.