Exercise 1. Change the sentences by adding emphasis to the verb. Then translate the sentences with emphatic construction into Russian. 1. This had the undesirable effect of missing important events.
2. At present companies know how to pragmatically use big data.
3. Knowing how to pragmatically use big data helps to gain new insights.
4. Facebook handles a tsunami of photographs every day.
5. Facebook users upload more than 900 million photos a day.
6. Facebook stored roughly 250 billion images last year.
7. Some companies went to the enormous effort of analyzing data using the traditional tools.
8. Companies analyzed data in the past, but they were forced to work with snapshots of data.
9. The modern tools for data analysis produce results in a reasonable time frame.

Exercise 2. Use emphatic constructions in answers to the following questions about smartphones.

Example A: – Do you use headphones to listen to music? – I do use headphones to listen to music, but when I’m at home alone I prefer to use speakers.
Example B: – Do you use headphones to listen to music? – I do not use headphones to listen to music now, because they are broken, but I do want to buy new ones because I do need them!

1. Do you have a lot of applications on your phone? – I do have a lot of applications, but …
2. Did you make sense of all the functions/features that your phone has?
3. Does your friend sometimes take snapshots of you?
4. Does your phone measure your internet traffic automatically?
5. Do most of your friends have an Android operational system on their phones?
6. Did you think of buying a new phone for yourself?
7. Do you think your phone is a useful tool for your studies?
8. Does it require a lot of efforts to find and retrieve necessary information on your phone?
9. Do you know roughly the volume of free memory space on your phone?

There are many beautiful cities and towns in the world. i would like to visit some of them, to see with my own eyes what i have read or heard about. but there is no place like home. i love my native city. i was born here and live with my parents. it's not the capital, but it is a wonderful place to live. my city is old and modern at the same time. it is old because it was founded in the 11th century. at that time its streets were narrow, dark and dirty. now my city looks modern because of its architecture. almost all the buildings were built after the war. the streets and avenues are wide and clean. i live in the main street. it is the widest street in the city. a lot of cars, buses and trolley-buses run fast along it. if you want to see the places of interest in our city, you can walk along the main street. it leads to the main square. it will be a short trip, but you can see a lot: a cinema and a concert hall, an art gallery and museums, a stadium, a zoo and a large park. our art gallery is next to the main post office. opposite the post office there is a modern hotel. if you turn to the left, you can see a theatre. and in front of the theatre there is a museum of history and culture. walk two blocks and you'll come to a monument to our famous writer and a fountain in the park. if you want to visit our zoo, take a bus and get off on the third bus stop. not far from the traffic lights you will see the entrance to the zoo. near it there is a circus. children and tourists can't but visit it. they admire funny clowns, tamed animals, miracles and magic. there are only some churches in our city. every evening we can hear the sound of the bells. our city stands on the river. parks, lanes, bridges across the river, small water falls and man-made islands add much to the beauty of the city. just come and see everything with your own eyes. it is better to see than to hear.