Exercise 3. Revise the grammar rule.

Passive Voice (Страдательный залог)

To be + III Verb + by …

Present Simple (Indefinite)	The students are examined by the examining board
Past Simple	The University was established in 1929
Future Simple	The concert will be held in October.

 

Exercise 4. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1 On the 1-st of October 1929 the Rostov Mechanical Institute of Transport Communication Engineers was opened.

2 292 students were accepted to its three departments.

3 When transformation into the specialized industrial railway institution was completed it got the name of the Rostov Institute of Railway Transport Engineers.

4 During the years of the Great Patriotic War the Institute was evacuated to Tbilisi.

5 The status of the university was given to it in 1993.

6 In 2009 it was included into the list of 500 best universities of the world.

7 Our University is headed by professor Vladimir. I. Kolesnikov, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

8 Many popular conquests are conducted in the students’ club.